Top Cat
Top Cat (also known for a while as Boss Cat in the United Kingdom) was a Hanna-Barbera cartoon which premiered in 1961 and ran for 30 episodes.
The show remains one of the studio's most enduring creations.
Its central character, Top Cat - his friends call him TC - is the leader of a gang of Manhattan alley cats: Fancy Fancy, Spook, Benny, Brain, and Choo Choo. There are distinct resemblances to the popular US sit-com The Phil Silvers Show (on which the cartoon is said to have been loosely based) in the relationships between the characters.
A frequent plotline revolved around the local patrolman, Officer Dibble, and his ineffective attempts to evict the gang.
In the United Kingdom, the show was renamed Boss Cat (by means of a crudely substituted title card) when it was first aired on BBC1 because Top Cat was the name of a brand of cat food. Of course, the dialogue still referred to the character by his original name.
Voice artists
- Top Cat: Arnold Stang
- Benny the Ball: Maurice Grossfeld
- Choo Choo: Marv Kaplan
- Fancy Fancy: John Stephenson
- Spook: Leo De Lyon) (This is obviously either a pseudonym or a jokey stage name)
- Brain: Leo De Lyon)
- Officer Dibble: Allen Jenkins
Lyrics to opening theme
- Top Cat
- The most effectual
- Top Cat
- [Who's or Whose] intellectual
- Close friends get to
- Call him TC
- Providing it's
- With dignity
- Top Cat
- The indisputable
- Leader of the gang
- He's the boss, he's a VIP
- He's a championship
- He's the most tip top
- Top Cat
- Yes, he's the chief, he's the king
- But above everything
- He's the most tip top
- Top Cat
See also: Cartoon Tunes Songbook
Referenced By
Animated series | Animated television program | Cartoon Tunes Songbook | Children's programming | Children's television | Children's television series | Children's television show | Fictional cat | Fictional cats | Hanna-Barbera | Hanna-Barbera Production | Hanna-Barbera Productions | Hanna Barbera | Known by the initials | List of fictional cats | List of people known by initials | List of television programs | List of theme songs which mention their show in the lyrics | TV shows | Voice actor | Voice actress
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