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LatestTigerSharks is an American animated children's television series developed by Rankin/Bass and distributed by Lorimar-Telepictures in 1987. The series involved a team of heroes that could transform into sharks and other marine animals and resembled the series ThunderCats and SilverHawks, also developed by Rankin/Bass. The series lasted only one season with 26 episodes and was part of The Comic Strip show, which consisted of four animated shorts: TigerSharks, Street Frogs, The Mini Monsters, and Karate Kat. The animation was provided by Pacific Animation Corporation. Warner Bros. Animation currently owns the series, as they own the 1974-89 Rankin/Bass library, which was incorporated into the merger of Lorimar-Telepictures and Warner Bros.
Practical Effects
The toyetic character designs scream 'buy our action figures now.'
Production
Pacific Animation Corp reused assets across three Rankin/Bass shows. Efficiency!
Creator
Theodore Walter Wolf
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Warner Bros. now owns this but has never streamed it officially, making TigerSharks legally orphaned yet culturally preserved by bootleg YouTube uploads.
Rankin/Bass basically made the same show three times—ThunderCats, SilverHawks, TigerSharks—proving 1980s animation was just Mad Libs with animals and adjectives.
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