All That Jazz (Top Cat)

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All That Jazz
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Premiere date	November 8, 1961
Starring	Arnold Stang Maurice Gosfield Marvin Kaplan Leo De Lyon John Stephenson Allen Jenkins Don Messick
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Director(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Animation director(s)	Charles A. Nichols
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"All That Jazz" is the seventh episode of Top Cat season one. It aired on November 8, 1961 on ABC. It was produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the creators of the series and the founders of Hanna-Barbera Productions.

Top Cat's title is challenged by newcomer Jazz.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Narrator (voice only)	Don Messick
Bo	Unavailable
Jazz	Daws Butler
Choo Choo	Marvin Kaplan
Benny the Ball	Maurice Gosfield
Spook	Leo De Lyon
Fancy Fancy	John Stephenson
Brain	Leo De Lyon
Top Cat	Arnold Stang
Officer Dibble	Allen Jenkins
Trella	Unavaialable
Choo Choo's mother
Airport clerk	John Stephenson
Sportscaster (voice only)	Don Messick
J.C. Crowflies	Don Messick
Miss Caruthers (voice only)	Unavailable
Director	Unavailable
Mr. Derringer	Unavailable
Bruno	Unavailable
Sergeant Flanagan

Organizations

• New York City Police Department
• United Nations (mentioned)
• The Giants (mentioned)

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • New York
      • New York City
        • Manhattan
          • Hoagy's Alley
          • Metropolitan Opera House (mentioned)
          • Pool room
          • Movie theater
        • Syracuse (mentioned)
    • California (indirectly mentioned)
      • Los Angeles (indirectly mentioned)
        • Hollywood (mentioned)
  • South Pacific (indirectly mentioned)
    • Fuji (mentioned)

Objects

• Nothing of importance

Vehicles

• Taxi

Music

The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin, who was credited as musical director.

Song

• "A Wandering Minstrel, I" - Allen Jenkins

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: November 8, 1961 at 8:30 pm on ABC
• United Kingdom and Ireland: July 4, 1962 at 5:10 pm on BBC TV (as The Boss Cat)

Errors

• At the clerk's station, it has "Super Airways" written above it, but on the president's door, the window says "Super Airlines."

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United Kingdom and Ireland:
  • May 19, 1986: The Video Collection releases Top Cat: Volume 2 on VHS.
  • November 3, 1986: The Video Collection releases Top Cat: Volume 2 on VHS.
  • September 4, 1989: The Video Collection releases Top Cat: Volume 2 on VHS.
  • March 27, 2000: Warner Home Video releases Top Cat: Volume 1 on VHS.
  • October 8, 2007: Warner Home Video releases Top Cat: The Complete Series (HMV exclusive) on DVD.
  • October 8, 2007: Warner Home Video releases Top Cat: Volume 1 on DVD.
  • April 1, 2008: Warner Home Video releases Top Cat: The Complete Series on DVD.
  • May 28, 2012: Warner Home Video releases Top Cat and Friends on DVD.
  • 2019: Warner Home Video releases Top Cat: The Complete Series (Hanna-Barbera Diamond Collection edition) on DVD.
• In the United States:
  • December 7, 2004: Warner Home Video releases Top Cat: The Complete Series on DVD.
  • January 10, 2017: Warner Archive Collection releases Top Cat: The Series on DVD.
  • June 6, 2017: Warner Home Video releases Top Cat: The Complete Series (Hanna-Barbera Diamond Collection edition) on DVD.
  • September 17, 2024: Warner Archive Collection releases Top Cat: The Complete Series on Blu-ray Disc.