Ring Raiders

1989
Ring Raiders

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EP1 Ring of Fire Sep 16, 1989

Cub Jones, a novice US Navy pilot from World War II, is recruited by the Ring Raiders when the Skull Squadron emerges in his era.

EP2 The Best Man for the Job is a Woman Sep 23, 1989

Jenny Gail must focus on rescuing the other Ring Raiders when they are in trouble and prove she is a capable pilot.

EP3 Scorch's Revenge Sep 30, 1989

Vector reveals that Scorch's real name is Stanley Smith. He attended the Top Flight Academy with Victor Vector, who scarred Scorch's face after a challenge to see who was the better pilot. Seeking revenge, Scorch kidnaps Jenny Gail and challenges Vector to discover who is the better pilot and stop Jenny from being sent to the Jurassic Period.

EP4 All the Right Stuff Oct 07, 1989

Scorch time travels to 2020 to steal a satellite that will enable him to take over the world. The Ring Raiders escape to Kansas in the year 1860 in order to prevent the Skull Squadron from attacking them. Yinsu suggests that the Ring Raiders travel to Edwards Air Force Base in the year 2023 to get a Gamma 2 Space Fighter to help defeat Scorch.

EP5 A Pilot's Faith Oct 14, 1989

A mysterious plague is striking the world and the Ring Raiders have been asked to deliver a cure for it. "Cub" Jones learns he must rely on his pilot's instincts rather than technology when the Justice air carrier autopilot is out of commission.
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Ring Raiders is an animated television series based on a 1980s toy line made by Matchbox.

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Stephen Bierce (FPilot) "Ring Raiders" is very much like other toy-license-based cartoons of its time (the late 1980s). It shares the same production staff of "COPS"/"CyberCOPS" and "Phantom:2040" and doesn't fall too far conceptwise from the premises of "COPS", "G. I. Joe", and the like.The plotline is also very standard: a band of airborne pirates have discovered time travel and are using this knowledge to cause havoc in both the past and the future. The governments of the future react by recruiting the best fighter pilots in history to hunt down the pirates. The pirates are known as the Skull Squadron (fans of "Robotech" know where this came from, of course) and the government's team is the Ring Raiders--called this for the cybernetic rings they wear.Cub Jones, a novice American Navy pilot from World War Two, is recruited by the Ring Raiders when the Skull Squadron emerges in his era. The plot of the first episode is Cub's rescue from peril at the hands of the Skulls and initiation into the Raiders--and the subsequent mission as the Skulls' delayed-reaction weapon sets off volcanoes all around the world.Good and evil are sharply defined by Peter Chung's character designs. There is no doubt that Wraither, Hubbub, Mako, Syren and Chiller are through and through villainy, willing to accomplish Scorch's nasty plans with the utmost ruthlessness. As well, Vector, Yakamura, Miles, Jenny Gale, Kirkov, Thundercloud, Cub and Von Klaudeitz would not look out of place among the heroic G. I. Joe team characters. I'm sure if the show had been more successful in getting syndication, we would have seen these characters in action-figure form.I once showed the "Ring of Fire" tape to some friends and we came to the agreement that it substantially showed much that was wrong with American-concept cartoons...in particular the commercialism and black-and-white moralizing. It didn't help that the tape included adverts for the myriad merchandise related to the show--from lunchboxes to bed linen.But never before and never again in American cartoons was the theme of aviation covered in so much visual detail. The planes, which in many other cartoons would just be rendered in generic designs, would be easily recognizable to airplane fans: the Grumman Wildcat, Mikoyan Foxbat, SAAB Viggen, Northrop Tiger II, and Fokker Triplane are among the featured machines. The Japanese cartoon "Area 88" appeared at about the same time and shares the same subject matter...it would make a good counterpoint to "Ring Raiders".There were less than 10 episodes of the show made, judging from material I found in books and on-line. Only the first one saw any public release that I know of. I'm looking for the rest myself. Even though "Ring Raiders" wasn't a great show, it was a satisfactory one for me.