Top Cat (character)


 * This article is about the main title character. For the TV series, see Top Cat (TV series). For other uses, see Top Cat.

Top Cat, often abbreviated to T.C., is an anthropomorphic cat and the smooth-talking main title character of the Top Cat animated television series. His voice was originated by Arnold Stang, using a Phil Silvers impression as the basis.

Top Cat is often referred to as the most effectual, the intellectual, and the indisputable leader of his own gang. He uses his clever wit to devise various get-rich-quick schemes and to tricks others, mainly his foil Officer Dibble.

TV series

 * Top Cat
 * 1.1 "The $1,000,000 Derby"
 * 1.2 "The Missing Heir"
 * 1.3 "Hawaii, Here We Come"
 * 1.4 "Top Cat Falls in Love"
 * 1.5 "The Violin Player"
 * 1.6 "The Unscratchables"
 * 1.7 "All That Jazz"
 * 1.8 "Choo Choo's Romance"
 * 1.9 "A Visit from Mother"
 * 1.10 "Rafeefleas"
 * 1.11 "Sergeant Top Cat"
 * 1.12 "Naked Town"
 * 1.13 "The Maharajah of Pookajee"
 * 1.14 "The Long Hot Winter"
 * 1.15 "The Tycoon"
 * 1.16 "The Grand Tour"
 * 1.17 "Space Monkey"
 * 1.18 "T.C. Minds the Baby"
 * 1.19 "The Golden Fleecing"
 * 1.20 "The Case of the Missing Anteater"
 * 1.21 "Farewell, Mr. Dibble"
 * 1.22 "The Late T.C."
 * 1.23 "Choo Choo Goes Ga Ga"
 * 1.24 "King for a Day"
 * 1.25 "Dibble Breaks the Record"
 * 1.26 "The Con Men"
 * 1.27 "Dibble's Birthday"
 * 1.28 "Dibble Sings Again"
 * 1.29 "Griswald"
 * 1.30 "Dibble's Double"
 * Yogi's Treasure Hunt
 * The Powerpuff Girls
 * 3.8B "Catastrophe" (no lines)
 * Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
 * 3.10 "Mindless"
 * 4.17 "The Death of Harvey"
 * Wacky Races
 * 1.14 "Off Track" (no lines)
 * 2.22 "Super Wacky" (painting)
 * Jellystone!
 * 1.1A "Yogi's Tummy Trouble"
 * 1.1B "Gorilla in Our Midst" (no lines)
 * 1.4A "Must Be Jelly" (no lines)
 * 1.4B "Cats Do Dance"
 * 1.6A "Mr. Flabby Dabby Wabby Jabby"
 * 1.6B "Ice Ice Daddy" (no lines)
 * 1.7A "DNA, A-OK!"
 * 1.7B "Face of the Town!" (no lines)
 * 1.9A "Gotta Kiss Them All" (no lines)
 * 1.10A "A Fish Sticky Situation"

Movies

 * Yogi's Ark Lark
 * Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
 * Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon (poster)
 * Top Cat: The Movie
 * Top Cat Begins
 * SCOOB! (mentioned)

Specials

 * Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration (no lines)
 * The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo

Shorts

 * "Everyone" (no lines)
 * Halifax's "Top Cat" commercial

Comics

 * Top Cat (Dell Comics)
 * Top Cat (Gold Key Comics)
 * Top Cat (Charlton Comics)
 * Cartoon Network Presents
 * #16A "It's a Wonderful Strife"
 * #16B "Stray Pets"
 * #16C "Cops Cat"
 * Scooby-Doo! Team-Up
 * #29 "Reigning Cats and Dogs"
 * Adam Strange/Future Quest Special
 * #1B "Out of the Alley"
 * Superman/Top Cat Special
 * #1A "...The Kalien Among Us"

Video games

 * Hanna-Barbera's Turbo Toons

Harvey Birdman Represents
In the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "Mindless," Top Cat crashes at Harvey's place after being neutered. He was arrested for money laundering just outside Harvey's house.

Behind the Scenes

 * Top Cat bares some similarities to Hokey Wolf, who came the same year in 1961, because both create schemes to get what they want and both have similar voices, despite them being voiced by two different people.
 * Although interestingly enough, Daws Butler represented the voice of Top Cat in the TV movie Yogi's Ark Lark, pilot of the Yogi's Gang TV series, as Arnold Stang wasn't available at the time. Since Daws was using a similar-sounding voice to Hokey, Hokey had no dialogue in the film, and this issue could have also been the main reason Top Cat didn't appear for the series.
 * According to a 1982 calendar, he was born on May 29.
 * On British merchandising, he's called "Boss Cat" instead of "Top Cat" because of a popular British cat food with the same name as "Top Cat" during the time.
 * Top Cat is very popular in Mexico under the name "Don Gato y su pandilla" (Mr Cat and his Gang), so much so that both Top Cat: The Movie and Top Cat Begins were produced by Mexican animation companies and was distributed by Warner Bros. Mexico.

In popular culture

 * In The Simpsons episode "The Day The Violence Died", Roger Myers Jr says that animation has always plagiarizes existing properties and without Srgt Blinko from The Phill Silvers Show, we wouldn't have Top Cat (which is true btw).