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"I started doing cartoons when they were only made for movie theatres. Rounding out the vocal cast were popular character actor Marvin Kaplan as Choo Choo, Singer and pianist Leo De Lyon, who had already worked for Hanna-Barbera on The Flintstones was hired to provide the voices for both Brains and Spook, and John Stephenson, who had enjoyed a lengthy career in both television and films was cast as Fancy.Īrnold Stang recalled how he became associated with the show. Maurice Gosfield was hired to voice Benny The Ball, in a relationship to Top Cat that was very much akin to that of the one between Private Doberman and Sgt.Bilko.
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Veteran Allen Jenkins (Officer Dibble) was a former Warner Brothers contract player who'd appeared in over 100 films and had worked with performers such as Paul Muni, James Cagney, Abbott & Costello and Lucille Ball. Arnold was a seasoned and popular actor and comedian who had worked with the likes of Milton Berle and Steve Allen. Actor Maurice Gosfield, who had achieved world-wide fame for his role as Private Duane Doberman on The Phil Silvers Show, was hired to provide the voice of Benny The Ball - in what was essentially an animated re-working of Pvt.Doberman.įleshing out the talented vocal cast were Arnold Stang as Top Cat. The Bilko connections continued when former Bilko scriptwriter Barry Blitzer, who had also worked on The Flinstones, was draughted in to provide scripts. Transforming the wily Sergeant and his army cronies into a bunch of New York alley cats and their quick thinking leader TC, Hanna-Barbera produced one of their most sophisticated, adult-friendly and character-driven shows which still resonates with both children and adults today. TC and his gang were born, and it was on the strength of these initial ideas and sketches that the ABC Network gave the show the green light. Once again Barbera, realising the comic opportunities it would afford the show, came up with a bizarre twist in which the main characters were of the feline variety. Joseph Barbera produced two scripts and a host of character sketches. Turning once again to television sitcoms for inspiration, and on the back of a sketch for a proposed show called J.B & Company they developed Top Cat, using The Phil Silvers Show and in particular the character of Sgt.Bilko as their main influence. It proved to be a master- stroke and remains one of the series' enduring strengths.
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The Flintstones had been loosely based on comedian Jackie Gleason's hit 1950's sitcom The Honeymooners, in which Gleason played Ralph Kramden a New York bus driver forever inventing get-rich-quick schemes for him and his best friend, Ed Norton, played by Art Carney.īarbera, in a clever twist which would allow for a host of comic opportunities, transported the central characters back to the Stone Age.
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Following the huge success of their previous animated series The Flintstones, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera were looking to produce another hit animated series for primetime television aimed at the newly-named 'kidult' market.