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Samurai Pizza Cats, known as Cat Ninja Legend Teyandee (キャッ党 忍伝 てやんでえ Kyatto Ninden Teyandee?) in Japan, is an anime series produced by Tatsunoko Productions and Sotsu Agency.[3] The series first aired from February 1, 1990 to February 12, 1991, containing a total of 54 episodes. The series is directed by Kunitoshi Okajima and music done by Kenji Kawai. Saban introduced the show to western audiences in 1991 and held the license to the series until 2002. As of 2012, Discotek Media currently holds the license to the English Dub.

In 1991, Tecmo published a video game based on the original Japanese version, Kyattou Ninden Teyandee,[9] for the Famicom. It was released as a Japanese-only release, but was bootlegged outside Japan under the title Ninja Cat. Players take the role of the three main cats and otasuke (Rescue Team) members, of whom can be switched to at any time and have their own special abilities to progress through the game. The game features most of the characters in the series as well as an additional villain, a mysterious scientist named Dr. Purple (Dr. パープ) who shows up later on in the game and "appears" to team up with Ko'on-no-kami (the Big Cheese). Also noted, the creators (of the KNT) stated that that the new villain Dr. Purple (Dr. パープ) was going to appear in the KNT TV series and meant to replace Ko'on-no-Kami (Seymour Cheese) as the new main villain. However, it never happened since the show only ran for one season and was cancelled soon after. Although the game was never officially released in the West, an English translation of the full game plot is available via a fan-made patch.[10] A standalone handheld LSI game (similar to Nintendo's Game&Watch) was also made.

The characters of the series were also supposed to appear in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars.[11] But according to an interview with the game's producer, Ryota Niitsuma said that "One of the main anime we got more requests for than any others was Samurai Pizza Cats," he said. "There were a lot of people who wanted to see that. I wanted to see that, but we couldn't reach an agreement."