Top Cat aired on Wednesday nights in Prime Time from 8:30 to 9:00 pm. In some episodes, the flashback stops near the middle when the same scene plays. The story then continues from where it left off. Like The Flintstones, all the episodes feature a cold open, which is a small scene from the episode that takes place in medias res, and after that, a long flashback that leads to the scene begins with the series' theme song "The Most Effectual Top Cat" and features Top Cat's misadventures that happen before the scene from the beginning plays. The gang constantly hatch get-rich-quick schemes through scams but most of them usually backfire, and a frequent plot thread revolves around the local police officer, Charles "Charlie" Dibble (voiced by Allen Jenkins), ineffectually trying to either arrest them, evict them from the alley, get them to clean the alley, or stopping them using the policebox phone. During the original network run, the sponsor objected to the Silvers impersonation-insisting that he was buying Arnold Stang, not Phil Silvers-so in later episodes Stang modified the Top Cat voice, to a closer tone of his own voice.
Additionally, Arnold Stang's vocal characterization was originally based on an impression of Phil Silvers's voice. Maurice Gosfield, who played Private Duane Doberman in The Phil Silvers Show, provided the voice for Benny the Ball in Top Cat, and Benny's chubby appearance was based on Gosfield's. Top Cat and his gang were inspired by the East Side Kids, roguish, street-smart characters from a series of 1940s B movies, but their more immediate roots lay in The Phil Silvers Show (1955–59), a successful military comedy whose lead character (Sergeant Bilko, played by Silvers) was a fast-talking con artist. voiced by Arnold Stang impersonating Phil Silvers) is the leader of a gang of Manhattan alley cats living in Hoagy's Alley: Fancy-Fancy, Spook, Benny the Ball, Brain, and Choo-Choo. This was only the second cartoon series to premiere on prime time network television in the United States. Hanna-Barbera sold the cartoon to ABC based on a drawing of the main character. Top Cat was created as a parody of The Phil Silvers Show with Arnold Stang imitating Sgt Bilko's voice for the titular character. The show also became very popular in Latin American countries (especially Mexico), and the United Kingdom. The show was a ratings failure in prime time, but became successful upon its time on Saturday morning television.
It aired in a weekly evening time slot from September 27, 1961, to April 18, 1962, for a single season of 30 episodes. Top Cat is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and originally broadcast in prime time on the ABC network. Left to right: Benny the Ball (foreground) Brain Officer Dibble (behind fence) Fancy-Fancy Top Cat Spook (foreground) Choo-ChooĬolor (initially telecast in black and white)
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