Description:  Ring Raiders is a 1989 animated television series based on a Matchbox toy line. In the show, a villainous group of time-traveling pilots called the Skull Squadron threatens the world in 1998, prompting a global coalition to create an air carrier that can travel through time. This carrier recruits history's greatest pilots to form the Ring Raiders, elite pilots who use special signal rings to unite and power up their planes for battle against the Skull Squadron.

Premise: The show is set in a futuristic 1998 where the villainous Skull Squadron uses time travel for global domination.

Protagonists: The Ring Raiders are a team of history's best pilots, time-traveled and assembled by the world's nations to fight the Skull Squadron.

Key technology: The Ring Raiders and Skull Squadron both use time travel. The Ring Raiders use special signal rings to unite and power up their aircraft, a temporary state called a "Super Mode".

Catchphrase: The show's catchphrase is "The command is in my hand!" when pilots activate their power-up rings.