The Origin Story

First broadcast

Monday, 8 September 1986

Written by

Peter Lawrence

Running time

Approximately 23 minutes

Speaking and seen

18 characters

When intergalactic criminal Mon*star breaks out of prison and is transformed into an android monster, Earth sends biomechanical androids called Silverhawks to fight him and his army of android monsters in Limbo Galaxy.

In this episode

Cast, in order of appearance18

• Commander Stargazer
• The Penal Planet 10 Guards
• Mon*Star
• Sky-Runner
• Mo-Lec-U-Larshown in visual materials only
• Melodiashown in visual materials only
• Mumbo Jumboshown in visual materials only
• Hardwareshown in visual materials only
• Windhammershown in visual materials only
• General Rawlings
• Professor Ghemakain
• Mabis
• Quicksilver
• Steelheart
• Steelwill
• The Copper Kidd
• Bluegrass
• The High Ranking Officer

Places6

• The Galaxy of Limbo
• Hawk Haven
• Penal Planet 10
• The Moon*Star
• Earth
• Federal Interplanetary Force 1 Headquarters

Craft3

• The Mirage
• The Hot-Seat
• The Combat Drone

Weapons and equipment7

• The Light-Star
• The Frisbeeshown in visual materials only
• The Sound Smashershown in visual materials only
• The Six-Barrel Blastershown in visual materials only
• The Roll-Up Bagshown in visual materials only
• The Tuning Forkshown in visual materials only
• Holograph Projector

Appearance lists compiled from the episode articles on the ThunderCats wiki, checked against this site's encyclopedia. Names we have no entry for are shown without a link rather than left out.

The writer credit and the one-line synopsis come from this site's legacy SilverHawks episode guide and have not been checked frame by frame against the broadcast. The studio summary, where shown, is quoted as written.