Biker Mice from Mars is an American action animated series created by Rick Ungar. The series premiered in syndication the week of September 19, 1993.[1][2] It consists of three seasons of 65 episodes, with the final episode airing in syndication the week of February 24, 1996.[3] A 2006 revival series based on the original was also produced, consisting of one season of 28 episodes.
Series overview
editEpisodes
editSeason 1 (1993)
editNo. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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1 | 1 | "Rock and Ride!" | Tom Tataranowicz | Rick Ungar, Bob Forward & Tom Tataranowicz | September 19, 1993 | |
Throttle, Modo and Vinnie—The Biker Mice from Mars—escape their planet as it is devastated by the fish-faced Plutarkians. Crash landing in Chicago, the renegade rodents soon discover the Plutarkians have selected their next target for destruction: Earth. Led by his "supreme cheesiness", Lawrence Limburger and his devilish cohorts Greasepit and the fiendish Dr. Karbunkle, the Plutarkians are already undermining the Windy City. It's tail whippin' time 'cause the baddest motorcycle mammajammers in the universe are riding to the rescue. Their first mission has them fighting against X-Terminator. | ||||||
2 | 2 | "The Reeking Reign of the Head Cheese: Part 1" | Tom Tataranowicz | Bob Forward & Eve Forward | September 25, 1993 | |
Limburger gets a big blasting from his Supreme Leader Lord Camembert after the Biker Mice defeat Lectromag. To get back in the big cheese's good books, Limburger hatches a stinking plan—he kidnaps the Mayor of Chicago and frames the Biker Mice for the crime. | ||||||
3 | 3 | "The Reeking Reign of the Head Cheese: Part 2" | Tom Tataranowicz | Bob Forward & Eve Forward | October 2, 1993 | |
The Biker Mice have to work double time to clear their names in court to the judge and save the mayor before Chief of Police Greasepit jails them. Limburger then enlists the help of Tunnel Rat, a repulsive rodent who enjoys tearing mice and the ground to pieces. | ||||||
4 | 4 | "We Don't Need No Stinkin' City" | Tom Tataranowicz | Pamela Hickey & Dennis McCoy | October 9, 1993 | |
Limburger calls in the Loogie Brothers, also known as the "Scum of the Universe", to stink up Chicago badly enough to drive the citizens out. | ||||||
5 | 5 | "A Mouse and His Motorcycle" | Tom Tataranowicz | Bob Forward | October 16, 1993 | |
Limburger hatches a plan to use a toxic substance to help take Chicago's dirt- but he needs Modo's bike for the plan to succeed. Modo getting dipped in said toxic substance puts a slight dent in the Biker Mice's efforts to get his bike back. | ||||||
6 | 6 | "Test of Friendship" | Tom Tataranowicz | Julianne Klemm | October 23, 1993 | |
Limburger hires three villains: Evil Eye Weevil and his aides The Pukes of Hazzard. Evil Eye has the ability to induce hostility in people, and successfully drives the Biker Mice apart long enough for him and the Pukes of Hazzard to capture two of them. But one's still on the loose... | ||||||
7 | 7 | "The Masked Motorcyclist" | Tom Tataranowicz | Eve Forward | October 30, 1993 | |
A mysterious female biker helps out the Mice in battling against Corroder Cody who Limburger hired to purloin the oil refineries. | ||||||
8 | 8 | "The Pits" | Tom Tataranowicz | Bob Forward | November 6, 1993 | |
The Biker Mice realize that Limburger is not the only evil character in town when they attempt to stop a bank robbery. Throttle and Modo take a leap into the Pits, a crater filled with some of the baddest scum and villainy, and are condemned to slave life by the Pit Boss. Now it's up to Vinnie to save his two bros. | ||||||
9 | 9 | "Road Ravens" | Tom Tataranowicz | Pamela Hickey & Dennis McCoy | November 13, 1993 | |
Two of the Biker Mice are injured when a gang called the Road Ravens led by Jimmy Mac steal oil from tankers. Throttle and Charley must do a bit of undercover work to bust the gang up from within, while Modo and Vinnie recuperate to prevent more oil stealing. | ||||||
10 | 10 | "A Scent, a Memory, a Far Distant Cheese" | Tom Tataranowicz | Bob Forward | November 20, 1993 | |
When Limburger disappears after the teleporter is damaged during his attempts to recruit new monsters Munsterella and Gorgonzola to battle the Biker Mice, his unintentional replacements turn out to be increasingly more powerful and evil, forcing Charley to repair the teleporter to bring Limburger back in the hopes that he can reveal the new villains' weaknesses. Limburger and Karbunkle find themselves on the Black Rock Asteroid Station where the supervillains X-Terminator, Lectromag, Tunnel Rat, the Loogie Brothers, Evil Eye Weevil, and Corroder Cody confront them for not paying them. | ||||||
11 | 11 | "Steelfinger" | Tom Tataranowicz | Bob Forward | November 27, 1993 | |
In order to ensure his scheme to grab all the steel from Chicago, Limburger tempts Modo away from his bros with a new metal arm. | ||||||
12 | 12 | "Chill Zone" | Tom Tataranowicz | Eve Forward | December 5, 1993 | |
The Biker Mice must stop Limburger's plan to steal all of Earth's water using his giant snow suckers which would ruin not only Christmas, but the whole of winter too. They also must contend with Karbunkle's old friend Weathermeister. | ||||||
13 | 13 | "Hard Rock" | Tom Tataranowicz | Bob Forward | December 12, 1993 | |
Hard Rock, a rocker with a nasty guitar, is forced into working for Limburger. And it seems the Biker Mice remember this bad boy from when he was really working for Plutark... and decimated Mars. |
Season 2 (1994–95)
editNo. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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14 | 1 | "Steal of the Century" | Tom Tataranowicz | Eve Forward | September 20, 1994 | |
With the Pulverizer on his side, Limburger decides to steal the newest piece of military destructive weaponry, the Annihilator. | ||||||
15 | 2 | "We're Going to Cheesyland" | Tom Tataranowicz | Greg Blair | September 21, 1994 | |
Limburger decides to buy a theme park and to hide his mining operations there, so it's up to the guys to make sure that Cheesyland doesn't leave the Windy City full of holes. | ||||||
16 | 3 | "Stone Broke" | Tom Tataranowicz | Bob Forward | September 22, 1994 | |
After losing his funding, Limburger has a wonderfully devious plan to get back in the High Chairman's good graces. This leads the mice and Charley in a race to save Mount Rushmore from Limburger and his latest villain Stone Cutter. | ||||||
17 | 4 | "The Motor City Maniac" | Tom Tataranowicz | Bob Forward & Richard Mueller | September 26, 1994 | |
Limburger's old Plutarkian rival Napoleon Brie decides to try and take over Chicago. | ||||||
18 | 5 | "Upwardly Mobile" | Tom Tataranowicz | Greg Johnson | September 28, 1994 | |
Limburger's new plan is to literally cut the city free from the Earth and eject it to Plutark with the help of the villain Jet Blaster. | ||||||
19 | 6 | "Last Stand at Last Chance" | Tom Tataranowicz | Dennis O'Flaherty | September 29, 1994 | |
The mice and Charley must race to save the Last Chance when Limburger manages to get the building legally condemned with the help of the villain Catscan. | ||||||
20 | 7 | "Back to Mars: Part 1" | Tom Tataranowicz | Bob Forward & Eve Forward | October 3, 1994 | |
When the Biker Mice finally capture Limburger, they bring him to Mars for a trial and are thrown in prison for treason by General Carbine. While the Mice also contend with Slobber the Mutt and his Sand Raiders, Napoleon Brie moves in on Chicago. | ||||||
21 | 8 | "Back to Mars: Part 2" | Tom Tataranowicz | Bob Forward & Eve Forward | October 4, 1994 | |
The Mice must stop Limburger's latest machine from annihilating Mars. The machine attracts asteroids to the planet to bring complete destruction. | ||||||
22 | 9 | "Back to Mars: Part 3" | Tom Tataranowicz | Bob Forward & Eve Forward | October 5, 1994 | |
The Biker Mice must oust Napoleon Brie from Chicago where he's taken over in Limburger and the mice's absence. | ||||||
23 | 10 | "The Tribunal" | Tom Tataranowicz & Richard Trueblood | Greg Johnson | October 10, 1994 | |
In this clip show episode, the Biker Mice are put on trial for their crimes against Limburger. | ||||||
24 | 11 | "Motocross Trap" | Tom Tataranowicz | Ben Mattlin | October 12, 1994 | |
Limburger decides to lure the Biker Mice into a trap that will put them against Evil Eye Weevil, the Pukes of Hazard, and the Loogie Brothers with Vinnie's Motocross title on the line as the prize. Limburger also has a side mission to level Quigley Field. | ||||||
25 | 12 | "Unforgiven Cheese" | Tom Tataranowicz | Eve Forward | October 13, 1994 | |
A female bounty hunter named Billie Monnie is present in the Windy City and she's after Limburger... at first. | ||||||
26 | 13 | "Bleu Cheese Bros" | Tom Tataranowicz | Katherine Lawrence | October 17, 1994 | |
When Limburger takes over as warden for a prison, Charley and the Mice find out a way to stop him by trying to get into jail. | ||||||
27 | 14 | "The Inquisition" | Tom Tataranowicz & John Cataldi | Greg Johnson | October 19, 1994 | |
In this clip show, Lord Camembert and the other Plutarkian leaders are furious with Limburger for failing to capture the Last Chance Garage. Limburger must prove himself worthy. | ||||||
28 | 15 | "Stalkers" | Tom Tataranowicz | Bob Forward | October 22, 1994 | |
When intergalactic game hunters called Stalkers catch Modo's nephew Rimfire, he manages to escape in their ship and finds himself on Earth. | ||||||
29 | 16 | "I, Greasepit" | Richard Trueblood | Greg Johnson | October 24, 1994 | |
Limburger's incompetence finally lands him a demotion from Lord Camemberg. When the High Chairman appoints Greasepit in his place, he is actually able to capture The Last Chance garage. | ||||||
30 | 17 | "Villain of the Year" | Tom Tataranowicz | Greg Johnson | October 25, 1994 | |
In this clip show, Limburger invites a whole crapola of villains like Billie Monnie, Catscan, Corroder Cody, Evil Eye Weevil, Jet Blaster, Lectromag, Munsterella and Gorgonzola, Pit Boss, Pulverizer, Slobber the Mutt, Stone Cutter, Tunnel Rat, and Weathermeister to a convention to hold the Villain of the Year awards... and the prize is the Biker Mice. | ||||||
31 | 18 | "Cheeseloggers" | Tom Tataranowicz | Dennis O'Flaherty | October 27, 1994 | |
Limburger uses the gene scrambler to steal trees while Karbunkle and Fred are caught in the gene scrambler's rays and are scrambled together. | ||||||
32 | 19 | "Hickory Dickory Doc" | Tom Tataranowicz | Greg Johnson | October 31, 1994 | |
The mice must travel back to the time of the dinosaurs to keep Chicago from disappearing before it was ever built. | ||||||
33 | 20 | "Die Fledermice" | Tom Tataranowicz | Bob Forward | November 2, 1994 | |
The Mice and Charley must travel to Kansas to stop Limburger from stealing all the grain from the nation's breadbasket. | ||||||
34 | 21 | "Law of the Pits" | Tom Tataranowicz | Bob Forward | November 7, 1994 | |
A friend is framed for a crime he didn't do and Pit Boss captures Charley. | ||||||
35 | 22 | "Danger Is Our Business" | Tom Tataranowicz | Jess Winfield | November 15, 1994 | |
The Mice are cast as stuntmen for a film, shooting in the local area, but problems with the star and the director, and unhealthy plans for the filming locations make for a dangerous day on the job. | ||||||
36 | 23 | "Mad Scientist Wanted" | Bob Hathcock | Greg Johnson | November 17, 1994 | |
In this clip show, both Charley and Karbunkle get whisked away when execs for a galactic company try to convince their boss that their pick is the better scientist. | ||||||
37 | 24 | "Lake Michi-Gone" | Tom Tataranowicz | Jess Winfield | November 18, 1994 | |
Limburger decides to take all the water of Lake Michigan to pollute and send to Plutark as designer water. In order to pull it off, he enlists the Plutarkian trucker Mudfish Murdock. | ||||||
38 | 25 | "Seeds of Victory" | Tom McLaughlin, Jr. | Bob Forward | November 23, 1994 | |
General Carbine lands in Chicago to steal the last remaining specimen of a plant that is desperately needed for the Martian ecology to survive. | ||||||
39 | 26 | "Pwetty Wady" | Tom Tataranowicz | Bruce Shelly & Reed Shelly | December 1, 1994 | |
Limburger finds himself in an interesting situation when a run-in leaves him with an admirer....Napoleon Brie. | ||||||
40 | 27 | "My Cheese Is Quick" | Tom McLaughlin, Jr. | Pamela Hickey & Dennis McCoy | December 15, 1994 | |
Charley is thrown in jail for the supposed murder of Limburger. | ||||||
41 | 28 | "Verminator" | Richard Trueblood | Jess Winfield | December 23, 1994 | |
Modo's arm has to be replaced, but things get weird when Vinnie's plan backfires and Karbunkle creates an evil robot based on Vinnie, including his ego and knowledge. And Vinnie is forced to control the robot. | ||||||
42 | 29 | "Cheese Cadets" | Tom McLaughlin, Jr. | Greg Johnson | January 9, 1995 | |
Limburger's minions go on strike. | ||||||
43 | 30 | "So Life Like" | Tom Tataranowicz | Greg Blair & Greg Johnson | January 19, 1995 | |
Karbunkle has a machine that can remove comic book characters from their pages. After using the comic villains Saddle Sore and Deathmaster, Limburger decides that the best way to defeat the mice is with evil versions of themselves. | ||||||
44 | 31 | "Garbage Wars" | Tom Tataranowicz | Bruce Shelly, Reed Shelly & Greg Johnson | January 26, 1995 | |
Limburger disrupts Chicago's garbage service in order to bomb Chicago with stink bombs. He brings the Loogie Brothers back as his villains of choice for the task. | ||||||
45 | 32 | "Vicious Cycles" | Tom Tataranowicz | Bruce Reid Schaefer | February 9, 1995 | |
In Limburger's latest plot, he manages to infect the mice's bikes with help from the Mechanic, making them turn on their riders. | ||||||
46 | 33 | "Cycle Centaurs" | Tom Tataranowicz | Sean C. Derek | February 16, 1995 | |
Limburger produces villains using DNA from the Mice and combines it with material from their bikes, making mouse/motorcycle-like centaurs called Cycletaurs. | ||||||
47 | 34 | "Modo Hangs It Up" | Tom Tataranowicz | Mark Sarceni | February 22, 1995 | |
Limburger has the unpleasant task of baby-sitting his nephew whom he manages to figure into a plan that leaves Modo wondering if he should remain a hero or not. | ||||||
48 | 35 | "What Smells Worse Than a Plutarkian Lawyer?" | Tom Tataranowicz | Greg Johnson | March 1, 1995 | |
Provolone, a Plutarkian lawyer, is involved with getting the Mice's bikes impounded, while the Mice must stop a meltdown at the local nuclear reactor thanks to the lawyer. | ||||||
49 | 36 | "Below the Horizon" | Tom Tataranowicz | Greg Johnson | March 9, 1995 | |
The guys manage to mess up the launch of Limburger's satellite, but must race Limburger and the villain Icebreaker to the North Pole before Limburger retrieves it and relaunches it. | ||||||
50 | 37 | "Big Trouble" | Tom Tataranowicz | Greg Johnson | March 13, 1995 | |
Dr. Karbunkle creates an inflation machine which turns Greasepit into a giant. To make matters worse... Greasepit falls in love with Charley! | ||||||
51 | 38 | "Academy of Hard Knocks" | Tom Tataranowicz | Greg Johnson | April 20, 1995 | |
In this clip show, Limburger hires a whole new bunch of goons. Before he can send them after Brie, he has to have them trained first. | ||||||
52 | 39 | "High Rollin' Rodents" | Robert Hathcock | Robert McFadden, Alan Gibson, Bruce Shelly & Reed Shelly | June 23, 1995 | |
When Limburger opens a new casino island, the Biker Mice needs to travel there to beat him at his own game when he uses less than honest means to win the land from many Chicago citizens. |
Season 3 (1995–96)
editNo. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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53 | 1 | "Biker Knights of the Round Table: Part 1" | Tom Tataranowicz | Glenn Leopold | September 23, 1995 | |
The Biker Mice from Mars must travel back to King Arthur's time and stop Limburger from stealing half of England, and destroying Camelot with the help of Morgan le Fay and Mordred. | ||||||
54 | 2 | "Biker Knights of the Round Table: Part 2" | Richard Trueblood | Glenn Leopold | September 30, 1995 | |
Still trapped in the past, the Mice must race against time to not only thwart Limburger's scheme, but also to help Merlin come up with a gasoline substitute for their rapidly depleting fuel supplies. | ||||||
55 | 3 | "Virtual Unreality" | Tom Tataranowicz | Jess Winfield | October 7, 1995 | |
Jack McCyber, an old friend of Charley's arrive in Chicago, with an incredibly unique virtual helmet that Limburger is determined to take. | ||||||
56 | 4 | "Pitfall" | Tom Tataranowicz | Greg Johnson | October 14, 1995 | |
On the way to Earth with proof that Lord Camembert is embezzling Plutarkian funds, Provolone's ship malfunctions and he lands in the Pits where the mice meet up with Four-By to fight the Pit Boss and get rid of Provolone. | ||||||
57 | 5 | "Diet of Worms" | Tom Tataranowicz | Jess Winfield | October 21, 1995 | |
The Mice have to deal with a meeting in Chicago of several of the largest Plutarkian bosses like Gerald Guyere, Jack Monteray, and Gutama Gouda on Earth and stop a Plutarkian invasion that Lord Camenbert is leading. While Limburger covers for Brie who came down with salmonella poisoning, the other three Plutarkian bosses gain a supervillain to aid them: Gerard Gruyere gets Mechanic, Gutama Gouda gets a Cycletaur, and Jack Monteray gets X-Terminator. | ||||||
58 | 6 | "Rocketh and Rideth" | Tom Tataranowicz | Jess Winfield | November 4, 1995 | |
Limburger uses Karbunkle's newest machine to steal the land from fictional places in Shakespeare's plays. This resulted in the destruction of the plays, and they ceased to exist. So, the Biker Mice must enter the well-known stories to stop him, but first Charley must convince them that Shakespeare is worth saving. | ||||||
59 | 7 | "Too Many Limburgers Spoil the Cheese" | Tom Tataranowicz | Cynde Clark & Steve Granat | November 11, 1995 | |
Karbunkle's latest invention creates multiple clones of Limburgers. | ||||||
60 | 8 | "Hit the Road, Jack" | Tom Tataranowicz | Greg Blair & Glenn Leopold | November 18, 1995 | |
Asphalt Jack returns to Chicago to visit Charley and friends with his fiancé, but the visit turns sour when Jack and his new cyber bike are captured and the guys must rescue him while Limburger and Brie deal with a quadruple, triple, double agent who has deals with more than just the two Plutarkians. The agent in question is a Plutarkian known as Romana Parmesana. | ||||||
61 | 9 | "Caveat Mentor" | Tom Tataranowicz | Glenn Leopold | November 25, 1995 | |
While Rimfire and Stoker arrive on Earth with a typical Martian male landing, Limburger creates a new scheme to brainwash everyone using shampoo. But the Mice are in trouble when Stoker seems to have lost his fighting abilities to old age. | ||||||
62 | 10 | "Where No Mouse Has Gone Before" | Tom Tataranowicz | Jess Winfield | January 3, 1996 | |
The Biker Mice have been mysteriously transported to Plutark with a bunch of scrap metal from a local junkyard. This turns out to be a good thing for Limburger and he uses it to give himself a shot at being elected High Chairman. | ||||||
63 | 11 | "Once Upon a Time on Mars: Part 1" | Tom Tataranowicz | Greg Johnson, Glenn Leopold & Jess Winfield | February 10, 1996 | |
Limburger is ready to use a new device, a Tug Transformer, to bring Earth into Plutark's orbit. The Biker Mice recall when the Plutarkians tried the same tactic with Mars. | ||||||
64 | 12 | "Once Upon a Time on Mars: Part 2" | Tom Tataranowicz | Greg Johnson, Glenn Leopold & Jess Winfield | February 17, 1996 | |
Limburger is about to make Earth one of the newest moons of Plutark as the Biker Mice reveal to Charley about the time they dealt with the same problem back on Mars. | ||||||
65 | 13 | "Once Upon a Time on Mars: Part 3" | Tom Tataranowicz | Greg Johnson, Glenn Leopold & Jess Winfield | February 24, 1996 | |
The Biker Mice retell the stories of how Modo got his arm, Vinnie his mask, Throttle his eyes, and a betrayal that resulted in the disappearance of a friend named Harley. |
References
edit- ^ Perlmutter, David (2018). The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 80–81. ISBN 978-1538103739.
- ^ "Kids TV gets a toon up". San Francisco Examiner. August 31, 1993. p. 25. Retrieved September 11, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Crump, William D. (2019). Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film. McFarland & Co. p. 46. ISBN 9781476672939.