The History of Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats & the Other Heathcliff Cartoon Also
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Right after Inspector Gadget, DIC was looking for its next American hit and settled on a cartoon starring Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats. But this wasn’t the first cartoon about Heathcliff and Heathcliff wasn’t the only popular orange cat out there, with Garfield blowing up the newstands.
SOURCES:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathcliff_(1984_TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathcliff_(1980_TV_series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathcliff_(comic_strip)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gately
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby-Spears
https://heathcliff.fandom.com/wiki/Heathcliff_%26_the_Catillac_Cats
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats
https://www.newspapers.com/image/137218376/?match=1&clipping_id=new
https://saturdaymorningrewind.podbean.com/e/36-donna-christie-interview-heathcliff-and-the-catillac-cats-dennis-the-menace-popples-real-ghostbusters/
https://www.newspapers.com/image/590816035/?match=1&terms=heathcliff
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@conbonesthevoid1448
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
im 46 and i remember watching this show in what had to be 83 or 84. memorys.
@slicklikebutternut
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
hahahahaha! 80stees is out of its 80s loving mind if they trying to charge $30+ for a low quality t-shirt, like bro . . .
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@niconestra
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
Queens Village NY !? Wow, I never thought I’d ever hear of that place mentioned in anything!
@Isaac_Moriah_TBoI
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
Heathcliff from Limbus Company?
@ladyrazorsharp
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
I loved Heathcliff, the Catillac Cats, and Garfield. I was not a fan of Dingbat and the Creeps!
@D.J.T.H
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
And if garfield switched places with heathcliff in the DIC series?
@ernestoosornoviquez2641
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
Dude! I am from Costa Rica, and we watched this show through repetition. I was not aware, until today, of the background of this cartoon!
@RalerKshar
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
Is there Erlking Heathcliff there?
@susanfit47
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
I watched Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats in reruns and Garfield and Friends when it was aired on CBS Saturday Mornings.
@WhispyWoods.
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
Nice 👍
@JonMalbrough
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
wow, I'm almost caught up!
@megatronous1857
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
The Heathcliff character always reminds of this kid i hated in elementary through highschool. Naturally, i hated this cat.
@harveymcelroy9332
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
Heathcliff was funny asf😅😅 im a 80s baby this was my shit 🎉😅😅
@FWACATA
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
Heathcliff was the delinquent, the cat doing STUFF. Garfeild was jsut fat and lazy. I always dug him more and thhought Garfield was lame. I think if they really messed with it, let maybe some other cartoonist mess with it, aother naimators they could find somehting cool.
@iseeyoup
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
I know this is a history about Heathcliffs TV run and not so much his comic run but I’m still a little disappointed that there was no touching on the way Heathcliff is currently with its weird and absurd humour that won’t make sense to anyone but Heathcliff fans and in my opinion is the main way it sets itself apart from Garfield nowadays
@MrBeardsley
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
Modern Healthcliff has been great under Peter Gallagher (no relation to the actor), it’s become this surreal series of one-panel non sequitur gags featuring Garbage Apes, Man-Eating Giants and a frog named Jimmy.
@hoodmistressreloaded
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
First, let me say that I never knew that Andy Heyward used to work for Hanna-Barbera before he went to DiC (he's synonymous with the latter studio in my eyes).
Second, I used to watch Heathcliff on local TV (shouts out to KCOP Channel 13 here in Los Angeles) way back in the day before Nickelodeon picked him. Didn't know about his Ruby-Spears show until Cartoon Network started airing it (never liked that one) because the DiC version, even with that catchy theme song, stayed imprinted on my brain since I was only a wee lil' baby back in 1984
@JFIn42
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
The guy was just working his way through the h's
@tompatchak8706
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
My friends have a podcast called super 80s podcast friend where they talk about and breakdown musically the theme songs from television shows of the 80s and a few months ago. They did this Heathcliff theme song and it was hilariously horribly bad but good at the same time.
@gezeo750
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
I LOVED watching Heathcliff! The Catillac Cats were cool too, but I always liked Heathcliff more. Plus yeah I knew him from the newspaper comics. Also yeah, I can't unhear Bugs Bunny now. Never noticed it as a kid. Though when I saw this and you said Mel Blanc as soon as I remembered Heathcliff's laugh it all made sense.
@jasbb2
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
Saban and Levi account for like 80% of my childhood memories when it comes to theme music
@ew1258
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
I always liked Heathcliff way more than Garfield. Still have my books of the collected strips.
@xq8152
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
My kids come home from school and watch random YouTubers doing the dumbest stuff. I tried to get them into 80's and 90's cartoons but they just prefer the brain rot 67. 🤦🏿♂️
@Sentry0
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
Worst show ever. We don't care about Garfield!!!!!!!! We only want Heatcliff!!!!
@andyphilipson6983
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
How did the creators of Heathcliff not sue Jim Davidson over Garfield? Even the name sounds similarly old-fashioned and grandiose.
@G2CondorJoe
January 20, 2026 at 7:51 am
Did I see Dan in Cambridge MA last Sunday or is there a doppelganger?
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