Thundercats was an
American animated television series developed by Rankin/
Bass. It aired 1985-1990 & then had a run on cable television's Cartoon Network 1997-2002. Thundercats were a race of
cat-like humans, each named according to what type of
cat it represented: Liono was lion-like, Cheetarah was cheetah-like, Pumara was
puma-like, etc... They were from a planet called "Thundera" which was destroyed. Only a handfull of their race survived & travelled to a new planet they called "New Thundera", but it was also sparsely populated by half animal, half man creatures such as beastman, monkeyman, hyenaman, etc... The thundercats arch nemesis however, was an evil humanoid mummy called "
Mum-ra". Their catch-phrase was "Thundercats, HO!"
