Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats

Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats is an animated television series that debuted on September 5, 1984. It was the second series based on the Heathcliff comic strip and was produced by DiC Entertainment. It ran in syndication until 1988 with a total of 86 episodes. The first show based on the comic strip was Heathcliff and Dingbat / Heathcliff and Marmaduke, which debuted in 1980 and was produced by Ruby-Spears. The Catillacs Cats characters were created by Jean Chalopin and Bruno Bianchi. Animation was outsourced to many Japanese, Taiwanese, and Korean studios including TMS, Studio Korumi, Wang Film, Cuckoo's Nest, Mushi, Araki, and others for the first season before DiC utilized their own, private Japanese studio to avoid paying other companies.

Mel Blanc provided the voice of Heathcliff.

The first season ran for 65 episodes while the second season ran for 21. Each episode included an additional segment featuring The Catillac Cats. While the series was on the air, the movie Heathcliff: The Movie, was released which was a compilation of segments.

• The Catillac Cats

A gang of cats that played alongside Heathcliff. When Riff-Raff is not around, the Catillac Cats are sometimes helping Heathcliff in some adventures or sometimes tease him. They drive a slick Cadillac which could transform into an RV and a boat. They live in a junkyard.

Cast

Image	Character	USA	Ven	Jap	Jap(1996)	Fra	Pol	Hun	Nor	Por	Isr
	Heathcliff	Mel Blanc		Takeshi Aono	Ryusei Nakao	Roger Carel		Sándor Makay	Trond Teigen
	Riff Raff	Stan Jones			Yūko Saitō	Patrick Poivey
	Cleo	Donna Christie	Josefina Nuñez
	Hector	Danny Mann	JuanCarlos Vázquez							Paulo B.
	Wordsworth	Stan Jones			Takuma Suzuki						Yehoyachin Friedlander
	Mungo	Ted Zeigler				Alain Flick			Rune Alstedt
	Spike	Derek McGrath		Keiichi Sonobe							Ami Mandelman
	Leroy	Ted Zeigler					Zbigniew Konopka
	Iggy	Donna Christie