Heads or Tails (Pilot episode of the SatAM series of Sonic the Hedgehog by) Debuted around 1993.
Synopsis by Mark Briggs (A.K.A max affiliation, Greatmax).
THE show opens with an overview of the smoggy city of Robotropolis. Robotnik, accompanied by his pet robot bird Cluck on his shoulder, travels in his personal hover craft over the city. He soon lands the hover unit on the platform to exit the craft to be greeted by a small bald man called Snively.
Whitish-gray Swatbots, robot guards of Robotropolis under the command of Robotnik, laugh as he enters the main chamber ignoring Snively who slams into the closing door. Then we end up in the main control room where a monitor comes on to reveal Tails, a two-tailed fox-like character, picking flowers for Sally, a squirrel, as Sonic the Hedgehog plays guitar in front of Rotor Walrus.
A small skirmish occurs between the robots and three Freedom Fighters of Sonic, Tails, and Rotor but the Freedom Fighters scramble back to knothole to find Princess Sally Acorn, Bunnie Rabbot, Nicole a hand-held computer; and finally, Antoine De Purdue a French coyote working on various tasks.
The plot is revealed when we learn from the group they need their catapult metal cotter pins. To keep it close to the game during the pilot, Sonic and Tails head to Robotropolis despite lack of training of Tails to FF.
In one of the many junkyards surrounding Robotropolis, Sonic runs into his robotisized* dog Muttski vowing to change him back while inferring about his Uncle Chuck. He doesn't want years of obedience school* to go down the drain like his current home planet.
Sonic and Tails proceed to loot the junkyard. After being discovered, the two avoid Swatbot patrols ending up on a roof. The two of them open a vent that leads awfully close to the new leader* of the planet, Robotnik.
Sonic falls through the vent to meet Robotnik literally face to face and escapes his grasping with the aid of a power ring*. Tails puts on golden eye glasses while riding on Sonic as the two make it back to Knothole with cotter pins. The first major battle of the series is about to begin.
*Robotisized-a person and/or animal enters a machine to be transformed into a robot except for maybe a few physical features like a beard. They are programmed to follow Robotnik's orders and are considered worker bots.
*Schooling-Muttski's schooling is put to the question because it is later known that the coup by Robotnik happens when Sonic is around 7 years young or less. It would be unlikely Sonic himself had anything to do with it but it might be possible at 4-7 years old. Most likely is Uncle Chuck did most of it and Sonic takes his uncles credit.
*Leader-Robotnik is a human character in a world of furries who took over the planet roughly a decade from the pilot episode. In the show he has an ominous voice by Jim Cummings. It is later found out what role he played in peace time and his origins.
*Power Ring-Like in the game it is a large ring Sonic can touch to get a sudden boost of power. Sometimes it simply glows and/or it can encompass him to make him faster. It also later on serves several other purposes.
If you buy the DVD or see the show at some point the battle is good for its abruptness. Before it begins Tails is actually a smart-butt to Sonic when asked what he can see from the a tree limb. Tails responds 'everything' like mountains and other trees.
The buzz bombers, bee-like flying robots and with a leader wasp, head into the Great Forest* to find working Catapults and water balloons. The assault is repelled but not before Tails is being chased by a bee. Sonic also uses many diversionary tactics and takes out the leader wasp himself.
The Freedom Fighters prove to be too much and the show ends.
: Notable Ideas:
Sonic's guitar is too floppy and sags.
Tails says into Robotnik's spy orb "Hi, mom" probably inferring she's not dead or captured. Or joking.
Princess Sally: "The only royalty is mother nature."
We learn Power Rings can only be used by Sonic at this point.
We see Tails flying uses his two tails.
Robotropolis is more colorful in the pilot episode here.
Again, Sonic exaggerates Muttski's four years of obedience school.
Muttski becomes aware of his owner Sonic after he speaks a few words to him.
*Great Forest-where Sonic the Hedgehog and the other renegade animals hide from Robotnik. They live there in huts deeper in the forest at a place called Knothole where they plan missions against Robotnik in the city of Robotropolis.