Cattanooga Cats

Cattanooga Cats is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera which aired on ABC from September 6, 1969 to September 4, 1971.[1]

Cattanooga Cats
GenreComedy
Written byNeal Barbera
Larz Bourne
Directed byWilliam Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Voices ofJim Begg
Julie Bennett
Daws Butler
William Callaway
Dick Curtis
Marty Ingels
Paul Lynde
Casey Kasem
Allan Melvin
Don Messick
Janet Waldo
Bruce Watson
Country of originUnited States
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes17
Production
Producer(s)William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Running time60 minutes
Production company(s)Hanna-Barbera Productions
DistributorTaft Broadcasting
Release
Original networkABC
Original releaseSeptember 13, 1969 –
September 5, 1971

The show was a package program similar to the Hanna-Barbera/NBC show The Banana Splits, except that it contained no live-action segments. During the 1969–1970 season, Cattanooga Cats ran one hour and contained four segments: Cattanooga Cats, Around the World in 79 Days, It's the Wolf! and Motormouse and Autocat.[2] During the 1970–1971 season, It's the Wolf! and Motormouse and Autocat were spun off into a half-hour show.[3] Around the World in 79 Days remained as part of Cattanooga Cats, which was reduced to a half-hour. Motormouse and Autocat ran concurrently with Cattanooga Cats until both met their demise at the end of the 1970–1971 season.[4]

Voice cast

Epilogue

Hanna-Barbera had high hopes for 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 Cattanooga Cats as co-host (with Snagglepuss) on Laff-A-Lympics, this time voiced by John Stephenson impersonating Paul Lynde. Lambsy appeared in the television film Yogi's Ark Lark. Sky One occasionally broadcast Cattanooga Cats shorts in the UK in 1990, the segments were shown in complete isolation, broadcast neither as part of the original show or a new compilation.

Reruns of the show were not seen until the program began airing as part of the Boomerang programming block on Cartoon Network, which later became a spin-off network of its own. For several months, Boomerang UK 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.

Mildew Wolf will appear in the upcoming HBO Max original series Jellystone![8]

Home media

Warner Archive has yet to release the entire complete series to DVD.

Soundtrack
Cattanooga Cats
Soundtrack album
Released1969
GenreSoundtrack, Bubblegum pop
LabelForward Records
ProducerMike Curb, Michael Lloyd

A soundtrack album for the series was released in 1969, containing eleven of the show's songs with the lead vocals performed by Michael Lloyd and Peggy Clinger. The songs "Mother May I" and "Merry-Go-Round" were also released as singles to coincide with the series and album, with "Johnny Johnny Jump-Up" and "Country Carnival" as their respective b-sides. The songwriters were uncredited on the album but were credited on the accompanying singles. Curb Records, the eventual successor to Forward Records (owned by noted record producer Mike Curb), most likely owns the master tapes of the Cattanooga Cats album. Curb likewise has not expressed plans to re-release the Cattanooga Cats album.

Track listing

Side 1

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Mother May I"
2:20
2."How Did I Ever Get So Lucky"Lloyd2:00
3."Wait A Minute For Country"
1:55
4."My Group Has Too Many Cavities"Harley Hatcher2:00
5."Alle Alle Oxen Free"
2:20

Side 2

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Cattanooga Cats Theme"
1:15
2."Country Carnival"
1:50
3."Johnny Johnny Jump-Up"
  • Curb
  • Hemric
2:00
4."My Girlfriend Is A Witch"Lloyd1:55
5."My Birthday Suit"Hatcher1:40
6."Merry Go Round"
  • Johns
  • Hemric
2:30

Other songs

In addition to the album, other songs were featured in the series that were not released in any format.

  • "Cash Register Romance" (Michael Lloyd)
  • "Children Understand" (Valjean Johns, Guy Hemric)
  • "Cold Wisconsin Night" (Lloyd)
  • "Come and Play with the Cattanooga Cats" (Mike Curb, Hemric)
  • "Come Back, Baby, Come Back" (Lloyd, Hemric)
  • "Daydream" (Lloyd)
  • "The Day When Love Won't Stay Away" (Lloyd, Shaun Harris)
  • "Do You Dig the Music" (Johnny Cymbal)
  • "Honey" (Lloyd, Hemric)
  • "Hoot Owl" (Harley Hatcher)
  • "I Want to Sleep Tonight" (Hatcher)
  • "I Wish I Was a Fire" (Lloyd)
  • "It's Summertime" (Cymbal)
  • "Love Could Be" (Lloyd, Peggy Clinger)
  • "Magic Machine" (Lloyd)
  • "Pretty as a Picture" (Lloyd, Curb)
  • "She Sure Got Soul" (Jerry Styner, Roger Christian)
  • "She's the Right One" (Curb, Christian)
  • "Sing a Song of Sixpence" (Lloyd, Styner, Hemric)
  • "Stop Right There" (Lloyd)
  • "The Story of My Life" (Lloyd)
  • "Super Love" (Styner, Christian)
  • "Up, Down, And on the Ground" (Lloyd, Clinger)
  • "We're Incompatable" (Lloyd, Christian)

References
  1. Woolery, George W. (1983). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981. Scarecrow Press. pp. 67–68. ISBN 0-8108-1557-5. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  2. Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 191–192. ISBN 978-1476665993.
  3. Woolery, George W. (1983). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981, Part 1: Animated Cartoon Series. Scarecrow Press. pp. 192–193. ISBN 0-8108-1557-5. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  4. Hyatt, Wesley (1997). The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television. Watson-Guptill Publications. pp. 299–300. ISBN 978-0823083152. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
  5. Sennett, Ted (1989). The Art of Hanna-Barbera: Fifty Years of Creativity. Studio. p. 158. ISBN 978-0670829781. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  6. "It's the Wolf" at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on January 20, 2015.
  7. Sennett, Ted (1989). The Art of Hanna-Barbera: Fifty Years of Creativity. Studio. p. 175. ISBN 978-0670829781. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  8. Hipes, Patrick; Hipes, Patrick (October 29, 2019). "HBO Max Sets New Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Robert Zemeckis Hybrid Series 'Tooned Out', More For Kids & Family Slate". Retrieved March 13, 2020.
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