The Cattanooga Cats

The Cattanooga Cats was a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for ABC. The show premiered on September 6 1969 and ran until September 4 1971, when it was cancelled. The show was a package program similar to the Hanna-Barbera/NBC show The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, except that it contained no live-action segments. The show was produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. Mike Curb was hired as musical director and he co-wrote all the songs performed by the Cattanooga Cats, including the show's theme song.

Epilogue

Hanna-Barbera had high hopes for The Cattanooga Cats to be a hit program, like The Banana Splits, but the show failed to attract a large audience during its original run. Mildew Wolf, the most popular character on the program, resurfaced six years after the cancellation of The Cattanooga Cats as the co-host, with Snagglepuss, of Laff-a-Lympics.

Related Topics:
Snagglepuss - Laff-a-Lympics

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Re-runs of The Cattanooga Cats were not seen until the program began airing as part of the Boomerang programming block on the Cartoon Network, which later became a spin-off network of its own. For several months the UK Boomerang channel ran the musical interludes from the show, all of which ran to exactly 1 minute 45 seconds, as short (and unidentified) fillers before closing down at midnight. When the channel expanded to 24 hours, these interludes were dropped. The complete show has not been seen in the UK in recent years.

Related Topics:
Boomerang - Cartoon Network - UK

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The cartoon and its music exist today as cult classics of the 1960s era.

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Cult classic - 1960s

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