Plunder & Lightning
| Plunder & Lightning | |
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| Genre |
Action Adventure Comedy Drama Science fiction Crime |
| Written by |
Alan Burnett Len Uhley Mark Zaslove |
| Directed by |
Larry Latham Robert Taylor |
| Starring |
Ed Gilbert R. J. Williams Sally Struthers Janna Michaels Pat Fraley Tony Jay Jim Cummings |
| Theme music composer | Christopher L. Stone |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Larry Latham Robert Taylor |
| Editor(s) | Rich Harrison Cecil E. Broughton |
| Running time | 91 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Walt Disney Television Animation |
| Distributor | Buena Vista Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | Syndicated |
| Original release | September 7, 1990 |
Plunder & Lightning is an animated television movie, originally broadcast on September 7, 1990, that makes up the first four episodes of the Disney animated series TaleSpin. The film was broadcast in syndication on various local and regional channels at different times from Friday, September 7 through Sunday, September 9, 1990. In 1991, the film was the sole nominee for an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Animated Program (For Programming More Than One Hour). After its original airing, the film (which serves as the pilot episode of the TaleSpin series) was split up into four parts which were treated as episodes of the series itself, but with severe edits. This four-part version first aired from Monday, November 19 through Thursday, November 22, 1990 (airing one part per day for four days).
The series opens with Don Karnage and his band of air pirates hijacking and boarding a plane owned by Shere Khan to steal a box containing something that the pirates want. However, after Karnage and his men return with the box to their mothership, the Iron Vulture, a young bear-cub named Kit Cloudkicker steals the box and then leads the pirates through a chase sequence that results in him jumping off the ship and cloud-surfing out of the area with his trusty airfoil, hitching a ride over to a tavern owned by Louie, wherein he hides the box. Karnage and his men bust in, and Kit annoys them some more before escaping and following customer Baloo, who allows him to ride in his cargo plane, which he has named the Sea Duck. The air pirates give chase, with Baloo not understanding why they are after him. However, he manages to elude them by flying to the city of Cape Suzette, where the air pirates cannot enter because the people working the cliff guns (which are anti-aircraft artillery pieces) keep shooting at them.
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