Having watched this about 20 years ago, I must say that it is one of the cartoon series that set itself apart from others through innovative thinking, a robust storyline and a "moral of the story" conclusion to an episode. Parents did not have to worry about a cartoon series having sexual reference, partial nudity or even cow udders for that matter.

1980 to 1990 was a time where transforming vehicles came into light, and the anime follows along that path with Saber Rider and his star sheriffs manning a huge Ship (plane) called Ramrod. Ramrod is able to transform into a battle-robot in an impressive animation sequence and takes on Renegades (enemy robots).

There are a lot of storylines into the 50 or so episodes but it mainly focuses on the outriders (vapour baddies) hatred towards the humans. As the story progresses there also exists a love rejected human who joins the Outriders and uses his knowledge as a human to assist the outriders.

I was so impressed with the series, that I noob developed a 3D transformation of the robot Ramrod, that can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUmw0xlhKpQ |

The original can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AutolRCZNGg

p.s. Peter Cullen, who does Optimus Prime, is also the voice of Ramrod (show less)