Topcat

[Wolfcruiser]

I remember a few years ago Cartoon Network had this show on. Before Boomerang came into existence. I liked the toon. Anyone else did? Topcat was pimpin.

Chooch I remember being one of my other faves.

They should bring this back with new episodes somehow.

[Brainatra]

I remember a few years ago Cartoon Network had this show on. Before Boomerang came into existence. I liked the toon. Anyone else did? Topcat was pimpin.

Chooch I remember being one of my other faves.

They should bring this back with new episodes somehow.

"Top Cat" (two seperate words) was a fairly amusing, if short-lived, early Hanna-Barbara cartoon (originally produced in the early sixties as a ripoff of the late 50's sitcom "Sgt. Bilko").

Top Cat sporadically popped up in various H-B cartoons over the years in cameo roles (including a recurring role in "Yogi's Treasure Hunt" in the 80s), along with having a TV-movie produced in the 80's ("Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats").

-B.

[Jack]

I loved Top Cat, it lasted for only 26 episodes, but was really quite funny. I think it had some of the best misunderstanding dialogue I've heard from a cartoon series (you know, where two characters think they are talking about the same thing, but really are not.) One of the funniest examples was, IMO, when Top Cat visits a maternity ward to see a nurse he's got the hots for. He starts talking about his "baby" to the expecting fathers in the waiting room. The other fathers start talking about thier fussy, bald, babies who are always on the bottle. Top Cat thinks these men are talking about thier wives/girlfriends :p

I would only want to see it revived if they could match the style and humor of the original.

[Wolfcruiser]

Yeah,IMO,I think 26 episodes is pretty good,by today's standards. Shows don't last long most of the time. >_<

Yeah,I loved the dialogue. Funny stuff for something out of the early 60's.

[Numbuh 4]

I remember watching reruns of that when I was 9........... I suppose I liked it then, but I can't remember.
As for new episodes, some shows should be brought back. Others... well people just need to learn when its dead *coughscoobydoocough*

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[DemonKrowno]

thing with Scooby is it's the same thing everytime,cept with different location and ghost/monster/alien. so,if it worked so great the first time,a million more times with different moving pictures won't change a thing in popularity,sadly.

Now TopCat. I love TopCat. Such a great show. I remember my granmother bought me a Hanabarbera tape with mix cartoons on ii when I was little,and I would keep rewinding it to the TopCat part.
I had the episode when what's his name's mistaken for being this famous rich cat or something and hilarity insues.

bringing back this show with keeping the same great taste is impossible. I'd be "hip-ified" like crazy,just like DuckDodgers and ScoobyDoo and XMen and others. And,no,it doesn't always work out.....though,I must admit,with Xmen it worked out farely well.

[shoujoaifan]

Man, this was definitely one of my favorite shows back when CN was on. Along with classics such as the Josey and the Pussycats in Space :cool:

I know that its impossbile to show every cartoon ever on CN ( although they really had alot of obscure Hanna-Barbara toons late at night, like the Funky Phantom and the Gary Coleman show where he's an angel) but its still sad to see that only Tom and Jerry and Scooby, even if I like them (even a Pup Named Scooby) but you would think there would be a least a few more Looney Tunes compared to what they have.

[Teknomancer]

Top Cat rules! The best HB cartoon ever IMO, it beats Scooby Doo to a pulp :D

Biggest TopCat fan here perhaps... does CN still air Top Cat?

[Toonlover]

Is it true the rumor that each Cat´s color represents diferents racial ethnics?

[JCorey3rd]

Do yourself a favor and pick up the DVD set that has all the episodes plus great bonus features including interviews with Arnold Stang and other cats.

[Teknomancer]

Is it true the rumor that each Cat´s color represents diferents racial ethnics?
I don't think so, i strongly feel it's strictly a rumour that's false :)

[STARTOUNZ]

To correct a couple of the above statements, Top Cat had a run of 30 episodes. :)

[Steve Carras]

Top Cat was originall premiered October 4,1961.



Hanna-Barbera made a very unusual chocie with this odd motley crew of BILKO inspired csts, with diversly DIFFERENT, and in some cases, oddly chosen (though one, Benny's, made PURRFECT sense..it was a "Prvt.DOberman"--think BILKO--regular) vocies.


Arnold Stang as TC

Maurice Gosfield as Benny the Ball



Marvin Kaplan as Choo Choo

Leo DeLyon as Spook and Brain

John Stephenson as Fancy Fancy and nememses Pierre



Allen Jenkins as thier USUAL nemesis, Officer Dibble.

[Eric Brown]

Don't forget about Daws Butler as Top Cat's one episode nemisis, A.T. (All That) JASS.

[STARTOUNZ]

That's JAZZ, not Jass!

[Teknomancer]

Choo Choo rocks!! So does Benny ... the most funny episode was probably the one where Benny was mistaken as a great violinist Lazlo Lazlo or something :) LOL ah, what great memories....

[sdp]

i used to watch it every day before school, so it seems weird that it only had 20 some episodes, i never felt i had seen allt he episodes,
i really liked the show a lot, it entertained me, and the spanish dub was very well done, with regional accents to each cat.

[Teknomancer]

You're almost right, there are only 30 episodes of TC :( I wish they had made atleast 200... I'm trying to get the TC DVD with all the 30 episodes some time soon.

[Brettfern]

They should bring this back with new episodes somehow.
That probably won't happen.

In response to another question, it aired in Syndication for many years, as well as on Saturday mornings on ABC sometime in the 1960s as well in the mid-to-late 1980s/early-1990s on USA Network's Cartoon Express.