Samurai Pizza Cats is a cartoon series produced by Saban as an English adaption of the anime series Kyatto Ninden Teyandee (Cat Ninja Legend Teyandee), produced by Tatsunoko Productions and Sotsu Agency. Saban picking up the North American rights to the series, which originally aired in Japan on TV Tokyo from 1 February 1990 to 12 February 1991 for a total of 54 episodes, in 1991, and produced an English adaption for a total of 52 episodes. Saban's rights to the series expired in 2002. Discotek Media currently holds the North American home video license to the series.