generationofswine Conan...I mean Thundarr!!!! So he wore fur and he was Conan but named differently and he rode around on strange looking horses long after a comet destroyed earth and left us in a new Hyborian Era...But, he also had a best friend who was like Chewie from Star Wars, but had a face kind of like that angry Timi thing from Space Ghost and they hung out this princess who was all legs.While they were fighting mutants who also cohabitant the earth and occasionally their adventures take them underground where they find the ruins of subways and realize that there once was a more advanced civilization.And if that doesn't convince you to watch it, then the fact that Thundarr has a lightsaber shaped like a hand-and-a-half should.And the little kid in me is drooling. DROOLING. Cartoon overload. Awesome.

triffid_98 The 1980's definitely had their fill of cheese, but this series was legitimately good. For those that call it a Conan knockoff, note that this came out several years -before- the Conan movie.It was essentially a mash-up of Conan-esque characters from Robert E. Howard's books in a post-apocalyptic setting. The most hilarious part has to be Thundarr's pathological hatred of wizards and his 'Princess' Ariel (Sorceress) companion.Like a lot of these morning adventure gems (I'd include the late 1970's Filmation Rotoscoping efforts like Tarzan and Buck Rogers) this one never made it to DVD, so your only legitimate source is to catch it on something like the Boomerang network. It's too bad this one only made it through a year and a half of production.PS. 'Lords of Light' makes an excellent drinking game. He has several signature phrases repeated throughout all the episodes but this is one is repeated multiple times in each 20ish minute episode.

HyperPup I'll never forget the first time I saw Thundarr. My mom actually watched it with me out of fear it my be some new wave of cartoon that would prove too mature for my still immature sensibilities. I won out and got to keep watching as the action proved not to much for me to indulge in. Thundarr was a fresh landscape for me. I hadn't really immersed myself in the "Post-Apocalptic" genre of scifi but this and a little Mad Max soon got me on my way. The stories were fantastic and though I am an animation snob now in my adulthood, back then I could really care less about the nuances in quality. It was just good ole fashion fun. I will say this though I remember very few of the actual episode story lines I remember a sense of sadness for the characters after the show ends. The idea that these rag tag warriors would be forever traversing the Earth, fighting for their lives and the lives of others and with the possibility of never knowing peace or true joy seemed very likely. I guess I was still too much the idealistic scifi dreamer to realize this was the only world Thundarr knew and would live in until society advanced beyond the means they existed in.

Brian Washington This had to be one of the best animated shows of the early 1980's. The plot was pretty simple; a barbarian, a witch and a mutant creature known as a mock travel across the United States a thousand years after a disaster destroys most of the world. They go around fighting wizards and other assorted creatures in hopes of bringing order back to the world. This main thing I loved about this show was the fact that it wasn't like most of the animated shows at the time that felt they had to give a weekly ethics lesson. This show was just pure action from start to finish and it was just great entertainment without any hidden messages. I think this show will always stand the test of time and will always be recognized as a great action/adventure series.