Cattanooga Cats (segments)

This article is about the segments. For other uses, see Cattanooga Cats.

Cattanooga Cats
On-screen title card.
Network	ABC
Production company	Hanna-Barbera
Original release	September 6―November 1, 1969
Starring	Jim Begg Julie Bennett Bill Callaway Casey Kasem
Producer(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Director(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera

Cattanooga Cats is a series of animated segments as part of the Cattanooga Cats television series, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for ABC's Saturday morning children's programming debuting. It ran in 1969, airing 9 episodes that spanned one season.

The segments depicted the adventures of a fictitious rock band similar to The Archies, which are populated by anthropomorphic cats consisting of lead singer/guitarist Country, singer/bassist Kitty Jo, bassists Scoots, and drummer Groove. In addition to their gimmick as an Appalachian band, they also traveled around in a van and Kitty Jo owns a big, blue dog named Teeny Tim.

The Cats also appeared in various bumpers between other cartoons of the series, some of which are musical segments containing strong psychedelic, pop art visuals.

Although the series never saw a home media release, the episode "Witch Whacky" was originally announced to be featured on the DVD, Best of Warner Bros. 25 Cartoon Collection: Hanna-Barbera, part of the Best of Warner Bros. series, but was removed for an unknown reason.

Production

An album collection of the songs was released to coincide with the series. It only contained eleven of the songs.

Music

The score was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Episodes

Episode	Original air date
1x01 "Witch Whacky"	September 6, 1969
1x02 "Geronihoho"	September 13, 1969
1x03 "The Big Boo-Boo"	September 20, 1969
1x04 "The Wee Greenie Goofie"	September 27, 1969
1x05 "Mummy's Day"	October 4, 1969
1x06 "Zoo's Who"	October 11, 1969
1x07 "Autograph Hounded"	October 18, 1969
1x08 "The Caribbean Kook"	October 25, 1969
1x09 "Ghosting A-Go-Go"	November 1, 1969

Cast

• Jim Begg as Scoots
• Julie Bennett as Kitty Jo and Chessie
• Bill Callaway as Country
• Casey Kasem as Groove

Legacy

Country, Kitty Jo, Scoots, Groove, and Teeny Tim appear in the Jellystone! reboot as animatronics, with their focus episode being "Catanooga Cheese Explosion."