Thundarr the Barbarian is an American Saturday morning animated series, created by Steve Gerber (of Howard the Duck fame) and produced by Ruby-Spears Productions.

[2] Thundarr the Barbarian is set in a future (c. 3994) post-apocalyptic wasteland of Earth divided into kingdoms and territories, the majority of which are ruled by wizards, and whose ruins typically feature recognizable geographical features from the United States, such as New York City, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Seattle, the Badlands, Mount Rushmore, Denver, Atlanta, Boston, San Antonio and its Alamo, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Cape Canaveral, and the Grand Canyon.

The hero Thundarr (voiced by Robert Ridgely), a muscular warrior, and companions Princess Ariel, a formidable young sorceress, and Ookla the Mok, a mighty lion-like biped, travel the world on horseback, fighting injustice.

Their main adversaries are evil wizards who combine magical spells with reanimating technologies from the pre-catastrophe world.

New animals that existed include fire-shooting whales, a giant green snake with a grizzly bear's head, and mutated dragonflies and rabbits.

[citation needed] After writing several scripts, singly and in collaboration with Gerber, Pasko became a story editor on the second season.

Despite decent ratings, the show was cancelled, as Paramount wanted to make room in the programming schedule for Laverne & Shirley in the Army.

[14] All episodes of season 2 were directed by Rudy Larriva and John Kimball, with animation supervision by Milt Gray & Bill Reed.

[14] The debut episode of Thundarr the Barbarian was released on DVD as part of Warner Home Video's Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1980s compilation series.

On September 28, 2010, Warner Archive released Thundarr the Barbarian: The Complete Series to DVD in region 1[17] as part of their Hanna–Barbera Classics Collection.

[citation needed] On April 6, 2021, Warner Archive also released Thundarr the Barbarian: The Complete Series on Blu-ray.

In a November 2017 interview with Revolver, Morbid Angel guitarist Trey Azagthoth stated that the band's new album, Kingdoms Disdained, is based on Thundarr the Barbarian, "Thundarr the Barbarian [inspired the new album's title]...In the year 1994, a runaway planet hurdling between Moon and Earth unleashes cosmic destruction.