Top Cat is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and originally broadcast in prime time on the ABC network.
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13 Facts About Top Cat
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Top Cat was created as a parody of The Phil Silvers Show with Arnold Stang imitating Sgt Bilko's voice for the titular character.
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Top Cat and his gang were inspired by the East Side Kids, roguish, street-smart characters from a series of 1940s B movies, but their more immediate roots lay in The Phil Silvers Show, a successful military comedy whose lead character was a fast-talking con artist.
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In Canada, Top Cat premiered on the CTV Television Network on October 9,1961.
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The name change came about because "Top Cat" was the name of a then-popular British brand of cat food, and the BBC, on which the show aired, does not carry advertising.
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Top Cat was conceived along the lines of a traditional, live-action situation comedy, and Hanna-Barbera recruited top sitcom writers of the day to furnish scripts, including Barry Blitzer, Harvey Bullock, and Kin Platt.
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Each volume shows a group picture of Top Cat using Dibble's phone with his gang beside him, but the colour-coding is:.
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Unlike the cartoon, Top Cat is from a world where cats are the dominant species.
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Top Cat was one of the first American cartoons premiered on Hungarian television channels in 1969.
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Top Cat first aired on TV Asahi back in 1963 under the title translating to Stray Cat Boss.
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Top Cat was one of the most popular cartoon shows in Sri Lanka and it has been repeated several times on the national television channel "Rupavahini".
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Similarly, the Top Cat name was edited from the final section of the show's closing credits, causing another slight jump .
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