Heathcliff (1984 TV series)
Heathcliff ( Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats, known as Les Entrechats in French) is a children's animated television series that debuted on September 3, 1984. Produced by DIC Audiovisuel, it was the second animated series based on the "Heathcliff" comic strip (after Ruby-Spears' "Heathcliff and Dingbat/Heathcliff and Marmaduke")"." 65 half-hour episodes aired in first-run syndication in the fall of 1984, followed by a second season of 21 episodes in 1986. The Catillac Cats characters (identified in the end credits as "Cats and Co.") were created by Jean Chalopin and Bruno Bianchi. Mel  Blanc, who provided the voice of Heathcliff in the Ruby-Spears series, reprised his role as the titular cat. Premise. Each episode featured two segments, one being about Heathcliff and his friends, while the other featured The Catillac Cats. While the series was on the air, the film "" was released, which consisted of a compilation of segments. Episodes. Season 2 (1985). NOTE: These episodes are listed in production order. This season was aired out of order. Theme song. The theme was composed and written by Shuki Levy and Haim Saban and sung by Noam Kaniel. Broadcast history. In the United  States, the series was aired in national first-run syndication from September 3, 1984 until September 30, 1985 and reruns of the series were then aired on Nickelodeon from 1988 until 1993. It was rerun on Family Channel from 1993–1998 and Fox Family Channel from 1998 until 1999. From September 27, 2010 until September 23, 2011, reruns of the series were aired in the United States on the This Is for Kids block on This TV. Outside of Canada and United States, the series was broadcast on KidsCo, Fox Kids, and Jetix. In the United Kingdom, the series aired on  CBBC during the late 1980s and early 1990s, then it was repeated on Channel 4 until 1997, then in the early 2000s it was aired on Toon Disney. In the early 2000s, the show was aired in syndication on North American local stations in 2000, and was usually billed under the title "Heathcliff Cats & Co." The series also aired in Japan. The series was aired weekdays on Starz Encore Family (as of 2016) and Light TV (as of October 6, 2018). It was also broadcast in Colombia through the digital channel Tacho Pistacho until the channel's shutdown in 2019 . According to an interview with Donna Christie, the voice for Iggy Nutmeg and Cleo, the series did not continue because of Mel Blanc's failing health. Home media. In the 1980s, the series was released on VHS from RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video and Golden Book Video, with releases from the latter being released through the DIC Video label. In February 2004, Sterling Entertainment released two VHS/DVD released titled "Terror of the Neighborhood" and "Fish Tales", each featuring six Heathcliff segments and a Catillac Cats segment. The DVD versions featured two additional Catillac Cats segments. On May 25, 2004 , Sterling released "Heathcliff: The Movie" on DVD. In 2004, General Mills offered free DVDs in select cereals with assorted cartoons, some of which had Heathcliff episodes on them. In the UK, Maximum Entertainment released two volumes of the series in 2004. The first DVD/VHS contained 5 episodes, while the other DVD contained 3. A third one, released in 2008, contained 5 more episodes. On September 20, 2005, Shout! Factory and Sony BMG Music Entertainment released "Heathcliff and The Catillac Cats" in a 4-disc boxset featuring the first 24 episodes of the series in its original, complete and uncut  television broadcast form. Shout! Factory has lost the rights to the series. Throughout 2007–2009, NCircle Entertainment released eight Heathcliff DVDs. On February 21, 2012, Mill Creek Entertainment released "Heathcliff- Season One, Volume 1" on DVD. This 3-disc set features the first 32 episodes from the Season 1 which includes a bonus episode of "The Get Along Gang" (originally "The Busy World of Richard Scarry" was meant to be the bonus episode). They also released a 10 episode best-of collection on that same day. "Heathcliff- Season 1, Volume 2" was released on October 1, 2013, which contains the remaining  33 episodes from Season 1. On August 2, 2016, Mill Creek released "Heathcliff – The Complete Series" on DVD in Region 1. The 9-disc set contains all 86 episodes of the series, including the final 21 episodes which were previously unreleased. The episode "Going Shopping / Cat in the Fat" was included as a bonus in the DVD release of the first half of the "Beverly Hills Teens" series. In France, two more 4-disc sets were released under the French title of the series, "Les Entrechats". Streaming. In August 2019, CBS announced that it had signed a deal to add  Heathcliff along with other DHX Media programming to its CBS All Access streaming service. Movie. "" was released to theaters on January 17, 1986, and subsequently on VHS in 1988 by Paramount Video. It includes seven segments from the original show: