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Top Cat is a Hanna-Barbera Prime time animated television series which ran from September 27, 1961 to April 18, 1962 for a run of 30 episodes on the ABC network. Starting in 1992, reruns of the series aired on Cartoon Network until 2000. In 2000, Top Cat began airing on Cartoon Network's sister channel Boomerang. Top Cat is a Hanna-Barbera prime time animated television series which ran from November 26, 1961 to April 18, 1962 for a run of 30 episodes on the ABC network. Reruns were formerly played on Cartoon Network, but are now shown on its sister network Boomerang. Title and short intro here. Top Cat may refer to: * Top Cat (series) * Top Cat (character) I remember when me and James used to wish Meowth would evolve. Oh, how I regret it... It was two weeks ago when Meowth finally got over his hatred and evolved into a Persian, simply to help us get out of trouble, and because of this we finally caught that twerp's Pikachu. These two events combined made me think that it would be the greatest day of our lives, and that we would finally, finally have good luck. I was wrong. Dead wrong. Of course, me nor James had said anything to him about it, since we knew he would only use his more-powerful Fury Swipes on us, but we both agree... For the boat class, see Topcat. Top Cat is an animated television series made by the Hanna-Barbera studios which ran from November 25, 1961 to April 18, 1962 for a run of 30 episodes on the ABC network. Originally broadcast on Wednesdays (8:30–9pm Eastern), Top Cat was co-sponsored by Kellogg's and Bristol-Myers (Bufferin). The central character, Top Cat—called T.C. by close friends, "pro-vid-ing it's with dignity" according to the lyrics of the theme song—is the leader of a gang of Manhattan alley cats: Fancy-Fancy, Spook, Benny the Ball, Brain, and Choo Choo, living in Hoagie's Alley. Top Catis a Hanna-Barbera prime time animated television series which ran from September 27, 1961 to April 18, 1962 for a run of 30 episodes on the ABC network. Reruns are played on Cartoon Network's classic animation network Boomerang. Top Cat use to air on CBBC.

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T.C. Minds the Baby Rafeefleas The Grand Tour The Long Hot Winter Choo-Choo's Romance Dibble Sings Again The $1,000,000 Derby All That Jazz The Case of the Absent Anteater Choo-Choo Goes Ga-Ga Top Cat Falls in Love Sergeant Top Cat Griswald Dibble's Double The Maharajah of Pookajee The Golden Fleecing The Late T.C. The Unscratchables The Con Men A Visit from Mother King for a Day The Tycoon The Violin Player Space Monkey Dibble Breaks the Record Naked Town Hawaii, Here We Come Farewell, Mr. Dibble The Missing Heir Dibble's Birthday

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3.15576E8 During the cold winter in the alley, Top Cat and the gang scheme to find a way into Officer Dibble's house in an attempt to keep warm. Once inside the house, Dibble struggles to live with the gang. In the end, the gang stay for several months until spring and the warmer weather arrives. Credited Animators: Edwin Aardal, Jerry Hathcock. Dibble attempts to break a record as the longest serving police officer on the beat, which had been set years ago by his idol, policeman, "Iron Man" Muldoon; if he beats the record, he wins a holiday which allows him to escape the gang for a while. With this information, Top Cat does everything he can to help Dibble win and have the gang watch over him so he doesn't have an accident. Credited Animators: Kenneth Muse, Jerry Hathcock. Dibble gets a new partner on the beat: a dog named Griswald. Top Cat and the gang attempt to outwit him, but the dog always seems to be one step ahead. T.C. manages to get the dog removed from duty after he bites the police commissioner. Credited Animators: Ed Love, Tony Love. Benny gets a new pet, a devoted camera-loving nag. Top Cat tries everything to get rid of the horse, but changes his mind when he sees the horse's shock-induced superior racing abilities. Credited Animator: Carlo Vinci. "Naked Town", a TV crime show, will be shooting a warehouse robbery scene in Top Cat's alley. Officer Dibble offers his cooperation, but is unaware that some crooks will be using the TV filming as a cover for a real robbery. Credited Animator: Don Patterson. Choo-Choo threatens to commit suicide unless he can get a date with a Hollywood movie star, named Lola Glamour . Top Cat trys getting him that date by visiting her at her penthouse, but Officer Dibble was given complaints from other people who live there.Top cat eventually escapes from Officer Dibble,but soon find out Lola would only date rich men,so Choo Choo once again trys to commit suicide.This annoys Top cat so he tries to get Lola to think Choo Choo is a rich count named Count Chooch. Credited Animators: George Goepper, Harry Holt. Mr. Gutenberg, the musical director of Carnegie Hall, mistakes a recording of violin virtuoso Laszlo Laszlo for the playing of Benny the Ball, who has just taken up the instrument. He approaches Benny with an offer to perform and Top Cat negotiates a deal for $50,000 for a Saturday night performance at the Hall—an offer that is withdrawn when Carnegie's Board of Directors really hear Benny play. When Gutenberg offers a $10,000 reward to find the true violinist, the gang discovers that it's their neighborhood street cleaner, Laszlo Laszlo. Credited Animators: Carlo Vinci, Irv Spence, Kenneth Muse. Officer Dibble takes a job at Cape Canaveral, and the gang discover about the luxurious treatment a Chimpanzee receives while in the space program. The group decides to join up in attempt to access the same luxurious facilities, however wants out when they discover they will be going into space. It is not known, who did the voices of the Space Shuttle Doctor and his assistant Bernie. Correction: Daws Butler provides the voices of the Space Shuttle Doctor and his assistant Bernie. Credited Animator: Kenneth Muse. Benny is a double for the missing heir to a millionaire's fortune; Top Cat and the gang get Benny to the mansion in time to claim the money, but this is bad news to the scheming Butler Chutney and dog Griswald who hoped to claim the fortune for themselves. Credited Animator: Ed Love. Officer Dibble's birthday is coming up and he begins to feel he is getting too old. To help cheer him up, the gang decide to throw him a birthday party, with gifts from everybody in the neighborhood. Credited Animators: Edwin Aardal, Jerry Hathcock. After Top Cat upsets Officer Dibble one time too many, he and the gang decide to lie low for a while. After spending the night in a department store, the gang go on the "King for a Day" show which offers a number of prizes, after writing to the show's producers about the gang being a "poor family". Instead, Dibble wins the prizes and offers to take T.C. and the gang for a ride to show no hard feelings. Credited Animators: Edwin Aardal, Jerry Hathcock. Top Cat and the gang are struggling to make money. However, T.C. comes up with a new get-rich-quick scheme which involves creating a fake "historical" tour of New York. Choo-Choo begins selling "phony" maps, however it is later found that the maps point to a real treasure in a dilapidated house. Credited Animator: Carlo Vinci. Benny has written to his mother that he's the Mayor of New York. Now Benny's mother is coming for a visit, and Top Cat and the gang must do everything they can to convince Mrs. Ball that her son really is the Mayor. Credited Animator: Ed Love. Jazz , the new cat in town , takes over the pool hall, steals Top Cat's girlfriend, sways the gang and cleans up the alley. This sparks a contest between the pair. However, when both Jazz and Top Cat are offered a part in a Hollywood film, they assume that it is another trick. The offer turns out to be legitimate, and Benny is cast in the starring role in The Thing from the Alley. He leaves for Hollywood in a limo, accompanied by Top Cat and the gang in the guise of Benny's manager, valet, vocal coach, tailor and chauffeur. After that, Officer Dibble catches Jazz using the police phone, now declaring that Jazz "is just as bad as Top Cat". Jazz and his companion Beau are forced to keep the alley clean for 30 days. Credited Animators: George Goepper, Tony Love, Dick Lundy. After Benny spends the night sleeping inside a museum, T.C. discovers a scarab attached to his back. The jewel is later found to be an expensive antique, and the gang attempts to return it. Once the scarab is returned, a jewel thief arrives and takes a number of jewels. Dibble arrives and mistakes T.C. as the thief, however the thief is caught when he runs into the rest of the gang. Credited Animator: Kenneth Muse. Officer Dibble is replaced by a new recruit named Ernest Prowler . Prowler intends to be more forceful in his duty than Dibble and intends to stop the trouble that Top Cat and the gang cause. Due to the new regime, the gang hatch a plan to have Dibble return to his old beat in the alley. Credited Animators: Carlo Vinci , Don Williams. Benny wins a trip to Hawaii, leading to Top Cat joining him on his trip by stowing away. Things take a drastic turn as Officer Dibble also ends up aboard the ship, and the discovery of a suitcase containing counterfeit money leads to Top Cat and the gang being thrown into the brig as suspect counterfeiters. However, with Top Cat's assistance, Officer Dibble is able to catch the actual counterfeiter and verify the gang's innocence. Credited Animators: Kenneth Muse, Jerry Hathcock, Ed Aardal. Note: This is the series premiere. Top Cat is injured when hit in the head by a baseball; from the resulting injury, a misunderstanding leads Officer Dibble to believe Top Cat only has a week left to live. T.C. and the gang take advantage of Dibble and his kindness during the week. Credited Animators: Ed Love, Tony Love. When a missing diamond ends up in Benny the Ball's stomach, it's up to Top Cat and the gang to find a way retrieve him from gangsters who've kidnapped him and are attempting to retrieve the diamond the hard way. Credited Animators: George Goepper, Harry Holt, Carlo Vinci. While visiting tonsillectomy patient Benny in the hospital, Top Cat falls for the pretty cat nurse, Miss LaRue . T.C. decides to attract her attention by pretending to come down with a rare illness, which will need a lot of nursing care. Don Messick provides the Voice of Dr. Dawson While Jean Vander Pyl Provides the Voice of the Nurse. Credited Animator: Kenneth Muse. Choo-Choo has fallen in love with a beautiful French cat, Goldie ; Top Cat and the gang help Choo-Choo to court her, but they've reckoned without Goldie's jealous boyfriend, Pierre . Credited Animator: Carlo Vinci. Top Cat owes money to a loan shark named Big Gus, and after hearing Officer Dibble singing, he convinces him that under his management, he could become a big singing star. Leo De Lyon doubles as the voices of Brain, Spook and Big Gus' gorilla. Credited Animators: Harry Holt, George Goepper, Carlo Vinci. Benny gets a new pet; a hungry, brown giant anteater which followed him into the alley. Top Cat attempts to get rid of the animal until it is revealed that the anteater has escaped from the zoo and a large reward is on offer for its return. Credited Animators: George Goepper, Harry Holt. A Tycoon decides to give away $1,000,000 to the most unfortunate person he finds, which ends up being Top Cat. He gives the check to Benny, who tries to show it to Top Cat , so he tries to cash it himself. A merchant overhears him and tells all his associates. Everybody gives things to Top Cat thinking he is a millionaire, and that he'll pay them back. Credited Animator: Ed Love. An abandoned baby is found by Top Cat and the gang, who intend on looking after it. However, they find parenthood much more difficult than they thought it to be. In the end, the mother is found and the baby is safely returned. Credited Animator: Irv Spence. A friendly hot dog vendor is swindled out of $1,000 by con men who pretended to have an oil well in Nova Scotia. Top Cat disguises himself as a wealthy Texan in an attempt to get the money back, by convincing the crooks that the oil well really does exist. Credited Animators: Ed Love, Tony Love. Benny receives an insurance payment of $2,000, giving T.C. ideas about how to spend it. The first spend is made on visiting a local nightclub to visit Honeydew Mellon , a showgirl who also happens to be part of a gang of poker-playing con-artists, who will do everything they can to separate Benny from his money. Credited Animators: Edwin Aardal, Jerry Hathcock. Top Cat impersonates the Maharajah of Pookajee and lives the good life at a swank hotel with his cronies... until a pair of gangsters show up. Credited Animators: Carlo Vinci, Don Williams, Ed Love. After overhearing Officer Dibble suggesting ways to improve conditions for the police force, Top Cat passes off Dibble's ideas to the Chief as T.C.'s own. This leads to Top Cat's being made an honorary police sergeant . Credited Animator: Irv Spence.

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Top Cat may refer to: * Top Cat (series) * Top Cat (character) Title and short intro here. Top Catis a Hanna-Barbera prime time animated television series which ran from September 27, 1961 to April 18, 1962 for a run of 30 episodes on the ABC network. Reruns are played on Cartoon Network's classic animation network Boomerang. Top Cat use to air on CBBC. For the boat class, see Topcat. Top Cat is an animated television series made by the Hanna-Barbera studios which ran from November 25, 1961 to April 18, 1962 for a run of 30 episodes on the ABC network. Originally broadcast on Wednesdays (8:30–9pm Eastern), Top Cat was co-sponsored by Kellogg's and Bristol-Myers (Bufferin). The central character, Top Cat—called T.C. by close friends, "pro-vid-ing it's with dignity" according to the lyrics of the theme song—is the leader of a gang of Manhattan alley cats: Fancy-Fancy, Spook, Benny the Ball, Brain, and Choo Choo, living in Hoagie's Alley. Top Cat and his gang were inspired by characters from the popular 1940s B movies, "The East Side Kids", but many suggest it derived from a later 1950s military comedy whose lead was a crafty con-man (The Phil Silvers Show). Maurice Gosfield, who played Private Duane Doberman on The Phil Silvers Show, also provided the voice for Benny the Ball in Top Cat (Benny's rotund appearance was based on Gosfield too). Even Arnold Stang's voicing of Top Cat strongly resembled Phil Silvers' voice. Other possible sources cited have been Guys and Dolls where actor Stubby Kaye played a short, stout street-wise gambler and a virtual Benny the Ball prototype. Lastly, an unlikely contender (as it also came from Hanna Barbera) was the character Hokey Wolf, from a segment on The Huckleberry Hound Show, which also had parallels to The Phil Silvers Show. A frequent plot-line revolved around the local beat cop Charles "Charlie" Dibble, NYPD, and his ineffective attempts to evict the gang from the alley due to them constantly attempting to earn a quick dollar — usually through an illegal scam. Dibble's appearance was modeled on Allen Jenkins, who voiced the part. The word dibble, previously used only for an implement for making holes to plant seeds, acquired a second meaning in the vernacular as slang for police officers. Top Cat is a Hanna-Barbera prime time animated television series which ran from November 26, 1961 to April 18, 1962 for a run of 30 episodes on the ABC network. Reruns were formerly played on Cartoon Network, but are now shown on its sister network Boomerang. Top Cat is a Hanna-Barbera Prime time animated television series which ran from September 27, 1961 to April 18, 1962 for a run of 30 episodes on the ABC network. Starting in 1992, reruns of the series aired on Cartoon Network until 2000. In 2000, Top Cat began airing on Cartoon Network's sister channel Boomerang. I remember when me and James used to wish Meowth would evolve. Oh, how I regret it... It was two weeks ago when Meowth finally got over his hatred and evolved into a Persian, simply to help us get out of trouble, and because of this we finally caught that twerp's Pikachu. These two events combined made me think that it would be the greatest day of our lives, and that we would finally, finally have good luck. I was wrong. Dead wrong. We're losing Meowth. The scratching cat James and I were used to stopped being himself. He's no longer as snarky nor as quick to talking back, and as annoying as those things were, they were major parts of his personality. He's more of a loner than before, and much, much more quiet, with that stupid smug grin plastered on his face. He rarely walks on two legs since he evolved as well, only doing it to reach something, and it looks more like a regular pet trying to get a can of food from the shelf than actual, human standing. And his talking? Only gotten worse. Yes, it was never perfect, but I can't even count the times where he commands us only using meows and growls, as if expecting us to understand. He's not the same old, snark-with-a-heart-of-gold I've been used to. It's as if Giovanni replaced Meowth and put his Persian in his place, which would be more preferable, since at least I'd know Meowth would be the same as always. Of course, me nor James had said anything to him about it, since we knew he would only use his more-powerful Fury Swipes on us, but we both agree... Whoever this Persian is, he's not our Meowth.