Space Monkey
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| Space Monkey | |
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| Premiere date | January 24, 1962 |
| Starring | Arnold Stang Maurice Gosfield Marvin Kaplan Leo De Lyon John Stephenson Allen Jenkins |
| Music composed by | Hoyt Curtin |
| Director(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Animation director(s) | Charles A. Nichols |
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"Space Monkey" is the seventeenth episode of Top Cat season one. It aired on January 24, 1962 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.
After learning about the luxuroius living conditions of a monkey awaiting to be launched into space, Top Cat's gang put themselves in a space program in the hopes of being put in the same lifestyle.
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Music
The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin, who was credited as musical director.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: January 24, 1962 at 8:30 on ABC
- United Kingdom and Ireland: July 18, 1962 at 5:10 on BBC TV (as The Boss Cat)
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Home availability
- 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.
- In the United Kingdom and Ireland:
