"series ""Bagpuss"" was a striped pink cat. The puppet used for animation was originally supposed to be marmalade coloured, but was dyed pink accidentally during the manufacturing process. Another children's television series, ""Roobarb and Custard"" featured a pink cat, Custard. Creator Grange Calveley based Custard's mannerisms on Sid James. The Pink Panther is a cartoon character created by Friz Freleng. As well as featuring in the opening titles of the films starring Peter Sellers, he has appeared in spin-off cartoon series. Animation historian Jerry Beck has said the character is ""anti-authority – he's cool yet he's pink"". In 2014, Dutch"
"Dougal and the Blue Cat Dougal and the Blue Cat, called Pollux et le Chat Bleu in France, is a 1970 film based on ""The Magic Roundabout"". It was released in France in December 1970 and its English version, narrated by Eric Thompson, like the original series, was released in 1972. One morning in the magic garden, after a rude awakening from his cuckoo clock, Dougal the dog remembers a strange event that happened last night. After briefly conversing with Ermintrude, Brian, Dylan, and Mr. MacHenry, he takes the train to speak to Zebedee about it. After being awoken and"
"Cool Cat (film) Cool Cat is a 1967 animated cartoon that introduced its title character Cool Cat. It marked a major change of direction for the then recently reformed Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation, as the first cartoon in a long time to introduce a major new character (virtually every Looney Tunes cartoon made in the previous three years had been ones featuring Daffy Duck versus Speedy Gonzales, or Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, the latter were gone in 1966), who would go on to be the studio's most prolific character between then and the studio's final shutdown in"
"that Ella has run out of petrol, and begins the 2000-mile journey to the nearest gas station. Cool Cat then opens Ella's rear hatch and checks the engine, and then remarks that ""they're not making elephants like they used to."" Cool Cat (film) Cool Cat is a 1967 animated cartoon that introduced its title character Cool Cat. It marked a major change of direction for the then recently reformed Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation, as the first cartoon in a long time to introduce a major new character (virtually every Looney Tunes cartoon made in the previous three years had been"
"and Baby Pom is the smallest, green with pink stripes and generally follows the others like a toddler, whilst pushing Trundle Truck. Other characters, which are essentially large scale puppets, are a strange-looking blue tree frog called Rockit. a purple and green striped mole called Roly Mo, a plump and motherly pink bird called Bessie and her chick, Ribble. Originally Ribble was an almost featureless squeaking blob of orange fur with a beak; he was given eyes in later episodes. The three Fimbles have a special ""sixth sense"" - when the Tinkling Tree tinkles its bell-like blossoms, it makes the"
"Byner reprising the role of both characters; ""The Dogfather"" and his henchdogs Pugg and Louie, who were redesigned for this series; The Muscle Man from the 1968 cartoon ""Come On In! The Water's Pink""; The Witch from the 1969 cartoon ""Pink-A-Rella""; and ""The Little Man"", who like the Panther, was also designed to speak in the series, with Wallace Shawn providing his voice. The series also featured new characters, including a mask-wearing tribal witch doctor named Voodoo Man, a little red-headed girl named Thelma, and a sweet old lady named Mrs. Chubalingo and her pet parrot Jules. The Pink Panther"
"Catch as Cats Can Catch as Cats Can is a 1947 animated cartoon featuring caricatures of Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby as birds, and a cat that resembles Sylvester the Cat. It was only one of three non-Bugs Bunny cartoons from 1947 not to be reissued. The others were ""Mexican Joyride"" and ""A Pest in the House"". An emaciated canary, singing like Frank Sinatra and attracting the attention of all the admiring chicks, is getting on the nerves of a pipe-puffing parrot, who speaks like Bing Crosby. The parrot spots a cat, foraging through the trash. Telling the cat he"
"1969. It was also the first cartoon to feature the redesigned opening and closing titles with the ""W7"" logo, and a new version of the opening theme. A big game hunter named Colonel Rimfire is visiting an African jungle in his robotic elephant, Ella, but bemoans the fact that he hasn't seen anything worth shooting since he arrived. Shortly afterwards he comes across the title character, Cool Cat, a beret-wearing cool-looking tiger, who is walking through the jungle with a parasol. Seeing Cool Cat, Rimfire remarks ""I tawt I taw a puddy tat! A tiger-type puddy tat!"" and pursues him"
"Doggone Cats Doggone Cats (reissued as ""Dog Gone Cats""), is a 1947-released Warner Bros. cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series. It stars Sylvester, his brother Alan (his official debut, and his only appearance until ""The Looney Tunes Show"") and a dog named Wellington. It was officially released in Cinecolor, but was reissued in Technicolor. Wellington the dog is given a package to deliver to Uncle Louie, with strict instructions not to let go of it. Sylvester and his brother Alan (although not officially named), both of whom Wellington has been tormenting, see this as their chance to get even. They"
"James the Cat James the Cat was a British children's series created by Kate Canning and produced by Jan Clayton with Grampian Television. It chronicles the many events which take place at the Cornerhouse (number 104) between James and his new friends. Fellow characters include: Mrs. Lavender, a snail; Frida, a kangaroo; Citroen, a French frog; Rocky, a dimwitted rabbit; and Dennis, a pink fire-breathing Welsh-accented Chinese dragon. There is also a beehive in the garden at the Cornerhouse. Next door are Ma and Pa Rat, and their rat children. The program changes quite a bit between the two series."
"these cartoons. He assigned animator David Feiss to the storyboards to hilarious results, with the conventional wisdom that the cartoons had superior humor to the original, somewhat drab films. The reason to revive ""Secret Squirrel"" is because it was one of Cook's favorite Hanna-Barbera shows. These segments featured different artwork compared to the original 1960s cartoons. All the characters inhabiting the world were now animals. Double-Q (voiced by Tony Jay), now simply called ""the Chief"", is now a Cape buffalo with a cherry-scented calabash pipe. Yellow Pinkie (voiced by Jim Cummings) is now a sea lion renamed Goldflipper and, despite"
"Dog and Cat Dog and Cat is an American television series that aired on ABC on Saturday night at 10:00 p.m Eastern time in 1977. Lou Antonio played Sgt. Jack Ramsey, an undercover detective with the Los Angeles Police Department, who found himself teamed with a very green partner named J.Z. Kane (Kim Basinger). Together they formed a relationship based on friendship and trust (completely platonic) that led to them capturing many of L.A.'s criminals. Lieutenant Arthur Kipling (Matt Clark) was their boss. ""Dog and Cat"" is a slang term used by police officers to denote a male-female partnership. The"
"the mid-1970s. Spiff and Hercules Pif et Hercule is a French comic strip titled featuring an anthropomorphic brown-yellow dog (""Pif"") and a black-white cat (""Hercule"") who, despite being best friends, are constantly fighting in a friendship/hate relationship. The character of ""Pif"" was created by José Cabrero Arnal for the French Communist Party newspaper ""L'Humanité"" on 28 March 1948 and the cat ""Hercule"" was introduced two years later. The characters' nemesis is Krapulax, who despite his infant-like features always has a diabolical plot in store. Pif later got his own magazine (""Pif Gadget""), which was very popular as not only did"
"which, according to one reviewer in 1970, ""make the book the success it is."" The same reviewer likened the colors of Fix's illustrations to ""yesteryear's tintypes,"" which ""set the Victorian scene and show Alexander to best advantage."" Sanders created her own illustrations for ""Branwell Snit"", a comic strip that appeared between 1975 and 1977 in ""Wisdoms Child"", a pennysaver in New York City. The comic strip similarly featured a cast of talking animal characters: Branwell F. Snit, a cogitating prodigy feline named after Branwell Brontë and based on Sanders's actual cat of the same name; Monroe, an undifferentiated bird; and"
"September 1968 and the series of 78 episodes continued as a repeat cycle until 12 September 1975 for its 5-minute-long screenings on BBC 1 at 5:40 p.m. before the News. The main characters, affable Hector the Dog and cute Zsazsa the Cat, live in a house and beautiful garden. Kiki the Frog, dressed in a pink smock, is a constant and at times an intrusive visitor, through her hole in the wall. Despite Hector's willingness to endlessly help them out, Kiki and Zsazsa often play tricks on him to teach him a lesson, leading him to say his catchphrase at"
"and white films were almost worn out, and as BBC1 was by then transmitted in colour, 13 new episodes were produced and shown from 5 January 1970. The 13 episodes of the 1970 series are: Another set of 52 episodes was made in 2001, using the stop-motion technique instead of string puppeteering. The original nursery and garden were expanded to an entire village, with Andy, Teddy and Looby Loo now owning individual houses, and four new characters were introduced into the series: Missy Hissy; a snake, Tiffo; a teal-and-purple dog, Bilbo (vocals performed by David Holt); a sailor, and Orbie"
"Pet Show Pet Show! is a 1972 children's picture book by American author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats. In the cartoon film in 1972, Terry Alexander played the narrator and voice the characters. Archie wants to enter his cat in the neighborhood pet show—but where is the cat? Archie keeps on looking even after all the other kids have given up, but his pet is nowhere to be found. Ingenious Archie has a plan to enter the contest—with a most surprising creature and enters an empty jar which he says contains a germ named Al. ""Publishers Weekly"" stated that ""Pet"
"and the Aardvark"", ""The Tijuana Toads"" (a.k.a. ""The Texas Toads""), ""Hoot Kloot"", and ""Misterjaw"" (a.k.a. ""Mr. Jaws and Catfish""). There were also a series of animated shorts called ""The Inspector"", with the Clouseau-inspired Inspector and his sidekick Sgt. Deux-Deux, whom the Inspector is forever correcting. Other DePatie-Freleng series included ""Roland and Rattfink"", ""The Dogfather"" (a ""Godfather"" pastiche), with a canine Corleone family and two ""Tijuana Toads"" spinoffs, ""The Blue Racer"" and ""Crazylegs Crane"". The German television version which started airing in 1973 in ZDF was presented in 30-minute episodes, composed of one Pink Panther cartoon, one episode of The Inspector"
"concurrently with ""Cattanooga Cats"" until both met their demise at the end of the 1970–1971 season. ""Cattanooga Cats"" depicted the adventures of a fictitious rock band similar to The Archies and The Banana Splits populated by anthropomorphic hillbilly cats consisting of: A fifth member, a mouse keyboardist named ""Cheesie"", was storyboarded but cut out of the series. The group traveled around in a van, was chased by a female cat groupie named Chessie, the ""Autograph Hound"" (also voiced by Julie Bennett) and Kitty Jo owned a big blue dog named ""Teeny Tim"". The singing vocals for The Cattanooga Cats were"
"Jerry is smiling in the camera for the episode's conclusion as if it was all worth it. Calypso Cat Calypso Cat is a ""Tom and Jerry"" animated short film, produced in 1961 and released on June 22, 1962. It was the seventh of the thirteen cartoons in the series to be directed by Gene Deitch and produced by William L. Snyder in Czechoslovakia. While the Deitch shorts were generally negatively-received by the ""Tom and Jerry"" fans, this particular short is often considered as one of the best of the thirteen cartoons. This is due to its love triangle that harkens"
"world were, for the most part, dogs. The original title character Sniffy was named after Fett's own pet beagle. Other dogs included Caesar, Charley and Queenie. Clyde (a cat), Big John (a mouse) and other animals, birds, insects and plants were included in the strip as years went by. Eventually, Sydney and Cynthia (a boy and girl) were also included. Little No-No, the future Norbert, was left on Sniffy's doorstep in January 1966. A variety of marketing merchandise was created in the 1970s and early 1980s, including pencil cases, bags, T-shirts and beach towels, mainly for Japanese markets. Much of"
"puppets from television in the 50s, 60s and 70s. They are threatened by a Andy Pandy, Teddy and Looby Loo; Tim eats up a giant hybrid of Ernie, Oscar the Grouch, and the Cookie Monster (from Sesame Street); he and Graeme are challenged to a sword fight by Bill and Ben, the Flower Pot Men; and Bill is roughly beaten up by The Wombles (a sly nod to the chart rivalry between The Goodies and Mike Batt's Wombles singles). Having vanquished their foes, the Goodies relax... but charging up behind them is a Dougal, the dog from The Magic Roundabout."
"in appearance, appears along with Pepé Le Pew in ""Odor of the Day"" (1948). Doggone Cats Doggone Cats (reissued as ""Dog Gone Cats""), is a 1947-released Warner Bros. cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series. It stars Sylvester, his brother Alan (his official debut, and his only appearance until ""The Looney Tunes Show"") and a dog named Wellington. It was officially released in Cinecolor, but was reissued in Technicolor. Wellington the dog is given a package to deliver to Uncle Louie, with strict instructions not to let go of it. Sylvester and his brother Alan (although not officially named), both of"
"hiding in a tin can, smiles, but is then dragged along in the pursuit in the can by the magnet. The Framed Cat The Framed Cat is a 1950 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 53rd ""Tom and Jerry"" short directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby. It was animated by Ed Barge, Kenneth Muse, Irven Spence and Ray Patterson. Tom takes a chicken leg from the kitchen, but knocks over crockery. Just in time, Tom passes the leg onto Jerry, framing him as Mammy Two Shoes arrives. Tom then chases Jerry outside and steals"
"The Aristocats The Aristocats is a 1970 American animated romantic adventure musical comedy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by Buena Vista Distribution. The 20th Disney animated feature film, the film is based on a story by Tom McGowan and Tom Rowe, and revolves around a family of aristocratic cats, and how an alley cat acquaintance helps them after a butler has kidnapped them to gain his mistress's fortune which was intended to go to them. The film features the voices of Eva Gabor, Hermione Baddeley, Phil Harris, Dean Clark, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers, and Roddy Maude-Roxby. In"
"The Framed Cat The Framed Cat is a 1950 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 53rd ""Tom and Jerry"" short directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby. It was animated by Ed Barge, Kenneth Muse, Irven Spence and Ray Patterson. Tom takes a chicken leg from the kitchen, but knocks over crockery. Just in time, Tom passes the leg onto Jerry, framing him as Mammy Two Shoes arrives. Tom then chases Jerry outside and steals the chicken back to eat it. Jerry then sees Spike cuddling with his bone and exacts revenge by quietly stealing"
"caricatures of the Nazis, hunting down mice and marching them into concentration camp-like traps to what would otherwise be their doom. The Bat-cats, alien cats with bat wings and wheels for feet, appeared in two cartoons; in two others between 1949 and 1950 he faces a huge, dim-witted, but super-strong cat named Julius ""Pinhead"" Schlabotka (voiced by Dayton Allen) whose strength rivals Mighty Mouse's. In rare moments, he confronts non-feline adversaries such as human bad guy Bad Bill Bunion and his horse, or the Automatic Mouse Trap, a brontosaur-shaped robotic monster. In ""The Green Line"" (1944), the cats and the"
"Jolly, but they escape by tickling him. Scott unties Leonard and destroys Krank's machine by inserting the nickel that Krank had given him earlier into a slot on the machine marked ""Quarters Only"". The machine starts firing at random, turning Krank into a mouse and seemingly killing Scott, turning him into a pile of blue dust. Leonard angrily beats the machine and it fires at the blue dust and turns Scott back into his original dog form. Leonard and Spot reunite, and Spot decides that he is """"Proud to Be a Dog"""". The film was animated by Walt Disney Television"
"for 13 episodes; it has not been released on home video. Baggy Pants and the Nitwits Baggy Pants and the Nitwits is a 1977 animated series, produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and broadcast on NBC. Though the characters appeared together in the show's introduction, they each appeared separately in their own episodes. Each 30-minute episode of ""Baggy Pants and the Nitwits"" contained two segments: one for Baggy Pants and the other for The Nitwits. Baggy Pants is an anthropomorphic cat dressed as Charlie Chaplin's ""Tramp"" character, right down to the mustache and cane. Similar to Chaplin and the Pink Panther, Baggy"
"Kaj & Andrea Kaj and Andrea is a Danish children's television show about two puppet characters, a male frog named Kaj and a female parrot named Andrea. They sing, play and talk with the human presenters. The show ran on DR TV 1971–1975 (83 episodes) and again 1996–2007 (100 episodes). Andrea started out as a character on the children's programme ""Legestue"" and first appeared on March 8, 1971. Kaj was introduced to the show later on after Jimmy Stahr, the head of pre-school programmes at Danmarks Radio, had seen the American TV children's show ""Sesame Street"". He was generally unimpressed"
"robot cat called Doraemon. Doraemon was created on 3 September 2112 by the . He has a from which he produces gadgets, medicines, and tools from the future. The 1995 film shows his original appearance; when first created Doraemon had ears and was painted yellow, but he turned blue after sobbing because rats ate his ears. Later on, Disney XD and Fujiko Fujio collaborated to make a TV show for the Japanese icon. The show was called ""Doraemon: Gadget Cat from the Future"". The show's first episode aired on July 7, 2014. The show's last episode aired on September 1,"
"Flippity and Flop Flippity and Flop were a pair of short lived cartoon characters, an anthropomorphic cat and canary duo. They appeared in theatrical shorts from 1945 to 1947 by for Columbia Pictures. The antics of Flop, the cat and Flippity the canary, were similar to that of Tweety and Sylvester of Warner Bros. However unlike Tweety, Flippity had to rely on Sam the household Dog to protect him from Flop. Flippity and Flop only appeared in four cartoons before Screen Gems was replaced by United Productions of America in 1947. Their popularity never reached that of Columbia's biggest cartoon"
"and dances on a robotic scooter. Sakura comes with a robotic scooter, remote, key with keychain, and boquet. The 2007 release in the Tekno and Friends Pet line was a beagle. It was controlled by remote and comes with a magnetic ball or bone. The 2007 release in the Tekno and Friends Pet line were puppy, kitten, elephant, and monkey. The puppy comes with the bone, kitty comes with the mouse, elephant comes with the haystack, and the monkey comes with the banana. The 2015 release in the Tekno and Friends Pet line were only a puppy and a kitty."