Meeow!

Meeow! / Meusaidh
Meeow! Titles with Maisie Mac
Genre	Children's Television
Written by	Roland Moore, Les Brooksbank
Directed by	Les Orton
Narrated by	Stanley Baxter (English) Tony Kearney (Gaelic)
Composer(s)	The Singing Kettle
Country of origin	Scotland
Original language(s)	English / Gaelic
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	26
Production
Producer(s)	Robin Lyons
Running time	10 min
Production company(s)	Siriol Animation The Sleepy Kids Company Ltd STV Productions (Scottish Television)
Release
Original network	ITV Network (CITV)
Picture format	4:3
Original release	5 January 2000 – 2002
Chronology
Related shows	Maisie MacKenzie
External links
Production website

Meeow! (Gaelic version: Meusaidh) is a Scottish animated children's series based on the Maisie MacKenzie books by Aileen Paterson, and produced simultaneously in English and Gaelic versions. The series is about a young cat named Maisie Mac who lives with her grandmother in Morningside in Edinburgh as her explorer father is always away.

Scottish Television in association with The Gaelic Committee, decided to make the book into a cartoon series, with Siriol Animation doing the animation.^[1] The stories were narrated by Scottish comedian Stanley Baxter (English version) and by actor Tony Kearney (Gaelic), and the theme music (both versions) was produced by The Singing Kettle. Its first run was featured on ITV children's block, CITV.

The programme was re-aired in 2009 on wknd@stv - a children's television strand on Scottish television channel, STV. The Gaelic version still airs on BBC Alba. From March 2015, the series airs as part of the "Weans' World" block on STV Glasgow and STV Edinburgh.

The rights of the show was owned by The Sleepy Kids Company Ltd (who also produced Potsworth & Co. and Budgie the Little Helicopter) which was later changed to SKD Media and Entertainment Rights, then dissolved into Classic Media (now DreamWorks Classics, in turn owned by DreamWorks Animation, a subsidiary of NBCUniversal) and later became the property of Universal Television in 2016.

Characters

• Maisie "Maisie Mac" MacKenzie - A young Scottish cat who wishes to be an explorer like her father.
• Granny/Isabella MacKenzie - Maisie's grandmother. She looks after Maisie whilst Daddy is away.
• Mrs. Marjorie McKitty - Maisie and Granny's neighbour.
• Archie - Maisie's best friend.
• Lydia McSporran - Mrs McKitty's niece.
• Daddy - Maisie's father who travels the world as part of his job at Edinburgh University as a professor.
• Maureen and Doreen Purrdy - Maisie's twin friends from her ballet class.
• Tommy and Morag McTwirl - two snooty senior dancers from Maisie's ballet class.

Episodes

References

External links

• http://www.toonhound.com/meeow.htm