NEWS AND COMMENT - KANSAS CITY, USA: I don't have much information about this but it caught my eye. A hospice patient, Clara Burnett, 83, had a lifelong wish fulfilled last week when she received a Sylvester the Cat cartoon to her forearm.
Hospice patient gets Sylvester the Cat tattoo as a final wish. Photo: Opera News.
Clara is a resident of Harbor Hospice in Johnson County. That's all I know! The reason is because the website is barred to me because I live in Europe and the website owner does not want to comply with European website regulations on privacy.
Quite a lot of people have Sylvester the Cat tattoos! Incidentally, I have a page on cartoon cats (click here to see it).
Here is a little bit of information about Sylvester. He is a Warner Bros cartoon star. His biography would include the fact that he has a lisp and is a bird-craving, black-furred, white-bellied cat who began his screen career in Life with Feathers in 1945. He had a saying which is very well known for this cartoon cat: "Sufferin' succotash".
He starred in 104 cartoons and was animated by Friz Freleng who said that the cat was designed "subtly to like a clown with a big red nose and a very low crotch to look like he was wearing baggy pants". Mel Blanc provided the voice. Click here to read more about Sylvester.
Back to Clara. When you are dying, it is a moment when you really must do the things that you thought about doing for the previous decades of your life. We tend to look to the future and tell ourselves that we will do 'that' in the future, whatever it is. And then suddenly the future arrives and 'that thing' has not been done.
I think this scenario applies to this lady so she decided to go for it. She had to travel across the state line to Midtown Tattoo for the procedure. It took commitment and no doubt it has made her happy.
Garfield is an enormously popular fictional cat from the imagination of Jim Davis. But that isn't the complete story in my opinion. I believe that Garfield is a ginger tabby cat. Ginger tabby cats are very real. Garfield is real in the sense that there are real versions of him everywhere. Ginger tabbies are normally considered to be savvy and leaders of other cats in colonies. They are sometimes called red tabbies.
Garfield. Picture now in the public domain. Disagree? Please comment.
It is interesting to note that Davis named Garfield after his grandfather whose name was James A. Garfield Davis. Before he created Garfield, Davis tried a comic strip about a gnat. It didn't work out and decided to choose a cat as a cartoon character because he "noticed there were a lot of comic strip dogs who were commanding their share of the comic pages but precious few cats."
I have no record of this, but I suspect that Davis looked at pictures of cats to choose a suitable coat colour and pattern as a basis for his character. Or he may have seen a stray cat or his neighbour may have had a red tabby cat. He must have known about the red tabby because Garfield is certainly one. Garfield is orange but then sometimes red tabby cats are also called orange tabbies! And even yellow tabbies! You get the drift.
A ginger tabby cat called Garfield. Photo: his human guardian.
Wikipedia says that Garfield is a Persian purebred cat. I would argue that that is unlikely because Garfield's personality is almost the opposite to that of the Persian which is rather sensitive and genteel. Garfield was always playing cruel tricks and was selfish and hedonistic. Wikipedia describes him as lazy, smug, sarcastic with a passion for human food. Not a Persian :) .
Davies drew the cartoon strips 8 to 10 weeks in advance of publication. In 2021 this comic character is still running daily which is remarkable considering his continued popularity and the fact that he was launched on June 19, 1978.
Benedict Cumberbatch is playing Louis Wain because he was an oddball and the actor wants society to accept oddballs. And perhaps he feels that Wain was treated unfairly as some believe that he did not suffer from schizophrenia. It may have been a misdiagnosis.
You may have heard that Benedict Cumberbatch is playing Louis Wain in a new film about this internationally recognised artist who anthropomorphised cats and who entertained millions. Wain suffered from schizophrenia and lived the last years of his life in a mental hospital near St Albans, Hertfordshire, which incidentally I visited as a photographer many years ago. No, I was not in the hospital as a patient!
It has been developed and is now a housing estate as I understand it. At the time it was quite dour and inhospitable but there is an argument that there is a place for mental hospitals but nowadays they believe that it is better to assist people with mental health issues in the community. I don't know whether that has failed or not. Wain died at the hospital in 1939.
Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy in the Louis Wain film. Image: Album/Alamy.
But to get back to Louis Wain and Benedict Cumberbatch. Cumberbatch has said that people should be more sensitive to outsiders and oddballs in society. It seems that he has assessed Louis Wain as an oddball after studying him so that he could play him accurately. And if this is true, Cumberbatch is clearly a sensitive and decent person. I would certainly agree with his sentiments.
Society tends to reject outsiders. I think it goes back to an ancient tribal instinct. Anybody who is different is dangerous. If they are dangerous, they should be shunned. It's a rather crude mental process but that's my assessment. Although Louis Wain was very popular. H G Wells, observed that Louis Wain "invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world. English cats that do not look and live like Louis Wain cats are ashamed of themselves."
The film about Louis Wain is called The Electrical Life of Louis Wain. I believe that it is to be released quite soon. I wonder if Cumberbatch decided to take part because he wanted to support outsiders.
Louis Wain was prolific artist. He had a strict upbringing in a Victorian family and has been described as a sickly child with a harelip. Dr. Desmond Morris says that his upbringing led him to become rebellious in later life which took the "form of a sentimental, infantile sense of humour". This led to his "cloyingly sweet pictures". But it was this that gave them their strength and attractiveness. Dr. Desmond Morris says that in his drawings he was able to "unleash his own, hitherto suppressed childhood".
Louis Wain designed the badge of the National Cat Club and he was invited to become its second President. He was probably the most famous feline Illustrator of all time.
Creepy cat was a bungling cartoon cat who appeared in two issues of Film Funnies from 1949-1950). This was the golden era of Marvel Comics.
Creepy cat has a similar role to Tom in the famous Tom and Jerry series. Creepy had to catch a smart mouse in the home where he lived.
Unfortunately for Creepy, the mouse was smarter than him so his task ended in failure. Creepy studies the art and science of catching a mouse. He reads How to Catch Mice. The mouse looks over his shoulder!
In another episode, the smart aleck mouse puts a lobster in Creepy's bath. Creepy is scared and tries to run out of the house. Mr Mouse tells him to jump out of the window which Creepy fails to do because it is shut. He would have been hurt less if he had jumped into the bath with the lobster.
I think you can get the drift of this cartoon character's exploits. Creepy cat was a large orange cat with visibly sharp teeth. It is rare for cartoon cats to show sharp teeth.
Note 1: in real life orange cats tend to be smart and alpha types. I guess orange is a good color for a cartoon cat.
Note 2: I couldn't find pictures or videos of this forgotten cartoon cat. However, you will find a cat called 'Creepy Cat' on the internet but I don't think it is the original cat that I am writing about. Creepy cat is a generic type term so it can be used somewhere else.
2nd June 2012: This is a quick review of Top Cat: The Movie 3D. I have included a video trailer below. I have a page on the cartoon character Top Cat, based on the savvy television character Sergeant Bilko who was popular on both sides of the Atlantic.
The movie was released on 1st June 2012 in the UK. I believe the movie was released earlier in other countries - in 2011.
It was directed by Alberto Mar. He is either Argentinian or Mexican! I have failed to find out which (I think Mr Mar is Argentinian). What I think has happened is that the film was made in Spanish and distributed in Argentina and has then made its way to England having been dubbed in English and the titles changed to English. If I am incorrect please tell me! That transformation would account for the time difference between making it and its release in the UK.
Apparently, this is a poor film. The video trailer on YouTube gets more dislikes than likes (129 to 101), which is unusual and Kate Muir in the Times newspaper of June 2nd says that the 3D element of this movie is of poor quality, "the worst....I have seen".
The film is partly about criticizing the modern surveillance culture (disliked by many people) but the screenplay fails in this respect. Police Chief Strickland replaces Officer Dibble from the original television cartoon series. Strickland is a tech savvy cop presenting new challenges to Top Cat and team.
Kate Muir awards the film a single star out of five and says it is not fit "to be used as kitty litter"! Strong stuff.
Casual T. Cat was a brown cat that walked upright (anthropomorphized). He was the cartoon cat who was electrocuted to death when a baby grabs his tail and stuffs it into a wall electrical socket. The baby had been playing with an electrical cord beforehand.
This grizzly scene was in a public service announcement safety commercial produced for American television by the American Academy of Pediatricians.
The title of the commercial was: The Shocking Adventurer of Casual T. Cat. The lesson was: "Childproof your home".
It was first seen on television in 1989. The characters in the animated short film were made of plasticine clay, using Claymation or clay animation. In this form of animation the characters are photographed, adjustments made to their positioning etc. and then re-photographed and so on. The still images are then pieced together and played as a movie creating the illusion of moving characters with a sense of three dimensions as these are three dimensional objects.
Sadly, as far as I can tell, there is absolutely nothing on the Internet that shows us what the characters looked like. Sorry!
Boo Cartoon cat with Mudsy and Skip, April and Augie
Boo is a cartoon cat and companion of Jonathan Wellington "Mudsy" Muddlemore. They are both ghosts from the American War of Independence (1775–1783) - American Revolutionary War.
They featured in a Saturday morning cartoon called The Funky Phantom, which had 17 episodes. The Funky Phantom was made by an Australian production company called Air Programs International and was first aired on television in 1971. It was made for Hanna-Barbera Productions who I presume were in contract with ABC television in the USA.
Johnathan Muddlemore (together with his companion cat) was fighting in the American War of Independence, when they bumped into a couple of British soldiers in an old house that had a large free-standing clock in the hall. It was one of the old fashioned grandfather clocks you see in antique shops. They hid in the clock where they unfortunately met their demise as they couldn't get out .
Moving to the time the cartoon was made, some 230 years later, we see that Skip, April and Augie, three teenagers and their irritable, bulldog Elmo enter the same old house near midnight to get out of a storm and on seeing the clock and noticing the time was wrong (at 6:30pm), reset the time to midnight. The clock chimes midnight...
That set things going...it released the captives inside the clock, now the ghosts of Johnathan Muddlemore and his cat Boo. They were known henceforth as the benevolent Funky Phantom and Boo - Mudsy and Boo. Mudsy and Boo joined and supported Skip, April and Augie becoming a quintet righting wrongs across the nation. They battled evil ghosts as well as an apparition called the Headless Horseman.
Don Messick did the voice of Boo and Daws Butler did the voice of Mudsy. The first episode airing on 9th November 1971 was Don't Fool With a Phantom. The last episode was Ghost Grabbers which was on television on 1st January 1972.
Associated: Cartoon Cats - lots of cartoon cats and videos etc.
Sylvester the Cat Cartoon is one of the most popular. He is a Warner Brothers cartoon star. He is well known for his lisping and bird craving! In fact, it is his lisping that makes us remember him. He's a black and white cat, a very commonly encountered type of mixed breed or random bred cat in the real world. Sylvester made his debut in 1945 in Life with Feathers. One of the visitors to YouTube summarizes the plot quite well:
Life with Feathers is a 1945 Merrie Melodies cartoon starring Sylvester and an unnamed love bird. A love bird is kicked out of the cage by his wife and decides to kill himself by getting a cat to eat him. But the cat refuses, believing him to be a poisonous bird. But when the cat finally decides to eat him, the bird changes his mind.
It is not possible to show that video here. Many or nearly all of the YouTube videos of Sylvester the Cat have been removed by YouTube for breach of copyright. There has been a cleanup! However, here is one that remains for an unknown reason:
The now famous Sylvester the cat cartoon phrase, "Sufferin' succotash" is used for the first time when the cat sees the love bird. At the time Sylvester is strolling down a line of trash cans selecting tasty morsels of waste food and placing them on an upturned trash can lid as if he was at a buffet in a restaurant. In this first cartoon short, the usual order of things, cat chasing bird, is turned upside down. The bird, "a henpecked parakeet"1 wants to commit suicide and the cat refuses to oblige and eat the bird.
In the next film things go back to normal, when Sylvester chases a woodpecker. The cartoon film is called, Peck up Your Troubles and was made in 1945. Sylvester gets into trouble in this one as the woodpecker is very resourceful. The woodpecker chips away at the branch that Sylvester is on and his stilts get pecked at. Sylvester eventually blows himself up using the dynamite intended for the woodpecker.
There followed, Kitty Kornered (1946) and Tweetie Pie (1947). In Tweetie Pie the cat is called Thomas, in fact (strange). The plot and style of the Sylvester cartoon character in the Tweetie Pie cartoon is repeated in 44 further adventures. This was a very successful relationship. Tweety Bird is a placid but sadistic1 canary battling it out with Sylvester. Tweety Bird is rescued from the cold by Sylvester's "owner". Sylvester spends the entire cartoon trying to get into the bird's cage to eat it. Tweety is very resourceful and saws the furniture that Sylvester has staked up and unplugs the electric fan that the cat is using as a propeller.
F1 Savannah cat wanting to hunt caged bird. Photo: Michael.
The Tweety Bird -v- Sylvester cat battle continued throughout 44 episodes including these cartoon shorts:
Home Tweet Home (1950) - park fight
All Abir-r-d (1950) - train battle
Canary Row (1950) - hotel mayhem
Tweety's SOS (1951) - cruise sheep battle
Bird in a Guilty Cage (1952) - the title is a nice play on "gilded cage" - fight in department store
Sandy Claws (1955) - beach fight
A Pizza Tweetie Pie (1958) - Venice, Italy, more mayhem
An elderly human occasionally appears in the cartoons, the female (Granny) owner of Sylvester. She reprimands him and hits him with a broom for chasing Tweety Bird. Sylvester the cat cartoon also has his work cut out dealing with another adversary, Hippety Hooper, a baby kangaroo. This relationship lasted for 12 films. Sylvester thinks the kangaroo is a large mouse. One of these cartoons is called, Pop 'Em Pop (1950) in which Sylvester the Cat is accompanied by his son, Sylvester Junior who encourages his dad to fight, when he really shouldn't as the cause if hopeless. The son uses emotional blackmail to make him fight and to chase his adversaries. Sylvester's foes were:
Tweety Bird
Hippety Hooper
Wellington Bulldog in Doggone Cats (1948)
Another (nameless) mouse in Mouse Mazurka (1949)
Mike the bulldog a friend of Sylvester who is "shamed into fighting Sylvester"1 in Stooge for a Mouse (1950)
Timmy Mouse in Little Red Rodent Hood (1952). Sylvester plays a wicked wolf in this cartoon.
Spike the Bulldog in Tree for Two (1952). Spike is goaded by Chester into attacking Sylvester and fails but ends up fighting an escaped panther instead.
Speedy Gonzales in Speedy Gonzales and Oscar winning film of 1955.
Sam the Cat in Trick of Treat (1959)
Sylvester the cartoon cat starred in 104 cartoons in all. The animator was Friz Freleng. Friz designed him to be a little like a clown with baggy trousers and the red nose. The voice was Mel Blanc.
Bill the cat cartoon is the star of the comic strip "Bloom County". Bill is a flea ridden orange cat (see a real orange cat - Orange Persian Cat) that was introduced into the comic strip by Milo Bloom. Milo had seen a popular trend for cartoon cats and thought, it seems, that it would be a good idea to introduce one. Milo described Bill the cartoon cat as being "raised in the green gentle hills of Dubuque, Iowa".
Image: Wikipedia.
Seeking fame Bill left his home and went to the Big Apple, New York. He was turned down by a number of high profile comic strips but accepted by Bloom County where he became wealthy. His fame got the better of him reducing him to a drug taking wreck but he was saved by friends.
Opus the Penguin is also a star of Bloom County. It seems that Bill was involved in a car accident, on the famous route 66 in a ferrari, in which he was killed, DNA recovered from his tongue and then recreated to then run for president of the United States -- what a star. Bill the cartoon cat also ran off to be a Rajaneeshee culturist in Oregon. He called himself, Bhagwan Bill! This was the time I guess when such movements were popular.
Eventually Bill became a Republican upsetting his democratic friends. In the comic strip Bill consistently choaked in his hairballs. His dialogue being reduced to "Ack, ack, ack". He starred in a film called: Orangestoke: The Legend of Bill, Lord of the Monkeys and Terms of Bills Endearment and a slasher flick.
Garfield cartoons feature a hedonistic, food loving and selfish cat. Garfield is both a comic strip and TV cartoon cat. Garfield lives with a cartoonist (a person) called Jon Arbuckle. Garfield's favorite food is lasagna (yeh, I can chime with that) and he also likes damn strong coffee, so strong that it can sit up and bark, to use his language. He also nibbles Jon Arbuckle's fern as a snack. He's a pretty smart cat because he dislikes cat food. I can chime with that too as my cats tend to be picky about cat food - it has to be premium to really get their attention.
Garfield's extreme love of food in a nightmare.
Garfield's love of food leaves him chubby, weighing in at 15 lbs. This is heavier than the average cat, about one and a half times heavier in fact (see largest domestic cat breed). As a matter of interest his weight at birth was that of a slightly light human baby at 5 pounds 6 ounces (average weight is about 7.5 pounds). That is obviously an extraordinary weight. Garfield seems to be in denial or very self assured when he says that he is not fat just "undertall". Like all cats he suffers from "nap-attacks" (cat naps) as he describes them. Cats sleep 70% of the time in real life. Typical of working humans, he dislikes Mondays.
In the Garfield cartoons his dislike (hatred) of dogs and other animals (or at least his desire to chase and get 'em) is often featured. Here are some examples:
Odie --- Garfield humiliates and plays cruel tricks on a dog, Odie. Odie belonged to Jon's friend Lyman. Lyman brought Odie to Jon's house and Odie stayed. This gave Garfield plenty of opportunities to display his hatred of dogs. While Odie just barks at Garfield, Garfield does nasty things to Odie such as dribbling him (like a ball) and then punting (kicking) him, shoving him off the edge of a table, startling him to make him run into something, riding him like a horse and bombarding him with objects such as light bulbs and flower pots.
Nadine --- Nadine is (was) a chicken who ends up in noodle soup.
Hondo --- A puppet belonging to Jon was destroyed by Garfield after insulting him.
Hebie --- A pet frog was eaten by Garfield.
Slippers --- A pet rabbit got caught in a mouse trap with the help of good old Garfield.
Lyle --- Garfield's pet ant was looking interestingly at Garfield's precious lasagna and that was the end of Lyle. Garfield is frightened of spiders, incidentally.
Nermal --- a gray "midget" cat. Nermal is a very cute kitten, which annoys Garfield no end. As Nermal belongs to Jon's parents he is out of bounds in terms of harassment by Garfield instead tries to get Nermal attacked by some feral cats - pretty nasty behavior.
Squeak --- He is a mouse in the Garfield cartoons and he is treated differently by Garfield. This, though, in true Garfield style is due to self-interest. Garfield wants to make sure there are mice to catch in the house in order that he is seen as useful to his owner, Jon.
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Although a confirmed bachelor Garfield has a girlfriend called Arlene, with whom he acts real cool. The problem with him and Arlene is that she likes conversation and he doesn't, which means he tries to avoid her! Not a great relationship then.
Typical of cats Garfield does have a scratching post (a Gucci one no less) but prefers sometimes to destroy Jon's furniture and curtains. His other possessions are a rubber chicken called Stretch and a teddy bear called Pooky. His pastimes include singing while sitting on the fence, which is unappreciated by others, chasing the postman (mailman in USA), swimming in the bird bath, scuba-diving in the punch at parties, swinging on vines pretending to be Tarzan, chasing ice cream trucks - all pretty naughty stuff.
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Garfield's secret identities are:
Amoeba Man --- this is Garfield under a white sheet. When he is Amoeba Man he absorbs, yes, you guessed it, food.
Caped Avenger --- this is Garfield playing a person who "searches out evil wherever it may lurk". What he means is chasing Odie the dog or the mailman!
Orange Beard --- this is a pirate, a Halloween disguise.
Wonder Cat Cadet --- after the television show Wonder Cat.
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Garfield's friends and relatives are:
--- Mother
--- Aunt Evelyn
--- Aunt Reba
--- Uncle Barney who went to the vet one day and came back as Aunt Bernice. This is why Garfield hates vets. This is despite the fact the Jon Arbuckle's vet, Liz, is a Jon's friend.
--- Guido - one of Garfield's cat friends.
--- Fluffy - another of his cat friends.
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Garfield first appeared on 18th June 1978 and appears in at least 2,000 newspapers worldwide. He was created by Jim Davis who named this cartoon cat after his grandfather's name, James A. Garfield Davis. Davis chose a cat for the Garfield cartoons because he thought that there were enough comic strip dogs around. The Garfield cartoons were seen on television in the show Garfield and Friends (1988). These popular and award winning shows included: Here Comes Garfield, Garfield in the Rough (camping with Jon and Odie), Garfield in Paradise, The Garfield Halloween Adventure, Babes and Bullets (a Garfield cartoon with him as a private eye), Garfield Thanksgiving, Garfield on the Town and Garfield: His Nine Lives (Garfield plays a range of characters).
Here are a couple:
Garfield's Halloween Adventure (Part 1)
Garfield's Halloween Adventure (Part 2)
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In the TV Garfield cartoons, Lorenzo Music provides the voice. Garfield's voice is in fact his thoughts as he does not speak. The Garfield cartoons have featured in books (12 at least). Apparently Jim Davis's wife is allergic to cats and so he didn't keep a cat.
Found this nice video on drawing Chester Cheetah. The artist is a young guy (girl?) who has talent. he wants sponsorship for college. Give him the money! Anyway back to Chester. First, he's a cat and we do cats on this website. Yes sir. Chester Cheetah is (was?) an advertising mascot for Cheetos cheesy snacks. I don't think I've ever tried them. Maybe I have once or twice -- nice!
In the adverts, Chester Cheetah insists that other cheese snacks "ain't nothin' but fluff" and is constantly doing his utmost to get hold of a bag of those cheesy Cheetos. He has chased a lorry full of 'em on a motorcycle and failed once again (a manhole got in the way). The single minded Chester is massively hip, which comes across very clearly in the drawing in the video. The cool dark glasses. Chester also wears red trunks and white sneakers with an orange spot on the side.
Chester Cheetah began appearing in adverts in January 1989. In the real world Cheetahs generally have a rough time and the population is falling year by year.
Here's some more on the Top Cat Cartoon. This is an expansion of the Cartoon Cats page on the main website.
The Inspiration
You can tell that this cartoon cat was inspired by Phil Silvers playing Sergeant Bilko by Top Cat's voice. It is very reminiscent of Sergeant Bilko. He is pretty bossy too. In fact in the UK (when shown for the first time in 1962) he was called Boss Cat because the name Top Cat was the name of a brand of cat food.
The Creators
The Top Cat cartoon was created by that talented duo of cartoonists, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, or do we call them animators; I am not sure. Together they worked as Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc., and Hanna-Barbera Enterprises, Inc. They won many awards and created other well known cartoon characters. When Hanna and Barbera formed the company in 1944 they were working as animation directors at MGM.
The Characters
Top Cat is a bicolor cat technically, at least. He is white and yellow. I don't know of any yellow cats in real life but some approach it. He is a bad boy really, a con cat but has a likable side to his character. He is laid back and is the leader of this motley gang of anthropomorphic feral cats. He is though simply surviving under difficult circumstances and uses all the ploys he can to get on. He tends to overdo the motivational talk, "Go like the wind boy, go, go, go, Mercury -- fly, fly!"
Benny the Ball is Top Cat's chief aide and right hand man. He is rotund of shape, a little slow but thinks straight. He is based (quite closely, it seems) on the actor who provided Benny's voice, the actor Maurice Gosfield (see photo and see rationale for publishing it here at base of post), who played opposite Phil Silvers in Sergeant Bilko.
Choo Choo is a tall pink cat with the eyes of a Siamese cat. He is sometimes second in command. He is also stupid (no criticism meant).
The Brain is not actually brainy. He is in charge of the little money they might briefly possess and he is orange (see a great Orange Persian cat).
Fancy-Fancy is a smooth talking cat who likes to chat up the girls. His character and voice is based on Gary Grant.
Spook look like Fancy-Fancy and is a sweet talking cat with a "beatnik" character.
Office Dribble is the poor policeman who has to deal with Top Cat and his gang as their home area in within the officers beat.
The Series
The Top Cat cartoon series started in September 27, 1961 and ran until April 18, 1962. There were 30 episodes of the Top Cat cartoon on the ABC network:
"Hawaii Here We Come" 1961 -- see episode 3 of this above.
"Maharajah of Pookajee" Oct 4, 1961
"All That Jazz" Oct 11, 1961
"The $1,000,000 Derby" Oct 1961
"The Violin Player" (Oct 25, 1961)
"The Missing Heir" (Nov 1, 1961)
"Top Cat Falls In Love" (Nov 8, 1961)
"A Visit From Mother" (Nov 15, 1961)
"Naked Town" (Nov 22, 1961)
"Sergeant Top Cat" (Nov 29, 1961)
"Choo-Choo's Romance" (Dec 6, 1961)
"The Unscratchables" (Dec 13, 1961)
"Rafeefleas" (Dec 20, 1961)
"The Tycoon" (Dec 27, 1961)
"The Long Hot Winter" (Jan 3, 1962)
"The Case of the Absent Anteater" (Jan 10, 1962)
"T.C. Minds the Baby" (Jan 17, 1962)
"Farewell, Mr. Dibble" (Jan 24, 1962)
"The Grand Tour" (Jan 31, 1962)
"The Golden Fleecing" (Feb 7, 1962)
"Space Monkey" (Feb 14, 1962)
"The Late T.C." (Feb 21, 1962)
"Dibble's Birthday" (Feb 28, 1962)
"Choo-Choo Goes Ga-Ga" (Mar 7, 1962)
"King for a Day" (Mar 14, 1962)
"The Con Men" (Mar 21, 1962)
"Dibble Breaks the Record" (Mar 28, 1962)
"Dibble Sings Again" (Apr 4, 1962)
"Griswald" (Apr 11, 1962)
"Dibble's Double" (Apr 18, 1962)
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