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Long-form pieces on SilverHawks. First-hand accounts from the people who made the show at Rankin/Bass and Pacific Animation Corporation, interviews, broadcast history, and documentation of the Kenner line. Written for this archive, not reprinted from it.

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Behind the scenes

Partly metal, partly real: making SilverHawks

The show runner and head writer of ThunderCats, and then of SilverHawks, on being handed Jules Bass's idea and a stack of Mike Germakian designs, and building the successor show around a galaxy with a fence, space with day and night, and characters who bordered on the ludicrous.

By Peter Lawrence

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Behind the scenes

Making the show

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First-hand accounts from the people who wrote, drew, scored and recorded SilverHawks at Rankin/Bass and Pacific Animation Corporation.

Partly metal, partly real: making SilverHawks

The show runner and head writer of ThunderCats, and then of SilverHawks, on being handed Jules Bass's idea and a stack of Mike Germakian designs, and building…

By Peter Lawrence

Made by fans

Fan projects

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Things built for this site for the show, starting with Bounty Hunters of Limbo, the fan-made SilverHawks arcade game.

Bounty Hunters of Limbo: the SilverHawks game the arcades never made

Forty years on, SilverHawks has a video game: a fan-made 16-bit brawler built for this site, with fifteen missions and a ladder of Mon*Star's lieutenants that…

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Making the show

Partly metal, partly real: making SilverHawksby Peter Lawrence

Fan projects

Bounty Hunters of Limbo: the SilverHawks game the arcades never made