Space Cats Explained

Genre:Animation
Adventure
Comedy
Creator:Paul Fusco
Developer:Rowby Goren
Composer:Shuki Levy
Udi Harpaz
Theme Music Composer:Leslie Ann Podkin
Alf Clausen
Producer:Leslie Ann Podkin
Starring:Paul Fusco as Captain Catgut
Charles Nelson Reilly as D.O.R.C.
Voices:Rob Paulsen
Townsend Coleman
Pat Fraley
Narrated:Robert Ridgely
Company:Marvel Productions
Paul Fusco Productions
NBC Productions
Country:United States
Network:NBC
Executive Producer:Paul Fusco
Bernie Brillstein
Joe Taritero
Num Seasons:1
Num Episodes:13

Space Cats is a 1991–92 animated television series (with some live-action puppetry sequences) created by Paul Fusco, that aired on Saturday mornings on NBC.[1] It is a comedy show about alien felines helping mankind.

Charles Nelson Reilly made brief but memorable appearances in each episode as D.O.R.C.[2]

Plot

The Space Cats come from a planet called Trygliceride-7, ruled by a being named D.O.R.C. (short for Disembodied Omnipotent Ruler of Cats) which can be described as a disembodied, bespectacled, human head with a funny voice and green skin. The Space Cats station themselves on Earth in an underground base with a garbage can as its only access. A live-action segment is shown, where various Space Cats are seen on duty.[3]

D.O.R.C. describes each mission to the team's leader Captain Catgut. The animated segment is then shown where Captain Catgut sends the team of Tom, Scratch and Sniff out to work. At the end of each episode, the group gives the viewers a moral, then wrap up the episode vocalizing the Charge music and shouting out their team name. This was spoofed, when one Space Cat says the moral is for kids to stop watching TV and go read a book, the other two angrily remark that if that is taken seriously it would result in their own cancellation.

Cast

Principal voice actors

Live-action segment

Additional voices

Crew

Notes and References

  1. Book: Hyatt . Wesley . The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television . 1997 . Watson-Guptill Publications . 978-0823083152 . 22 March 2020. 406.
  2. Book: Perlmutter . David . The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows . 2018 . Rowman & Littlefield . 978-1538103739 . 568.
  3. Book: Erickson . Hal . Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 . 2005 . 2nd . McFarland & Co . 978-1476665993 . 772–773.