That's Cat

I'm SO glad that this show is finally being mentioned. I have never been able to find this show anywhere! This was a great children's show for those of you who grew up in Los Angeles in the 70's like I did. I used to get up every Sunday morning and watch this after Davy & Goliath. I remember Alice Playten & Grandpa (who was actually "Grady" on Sanford &Son). Sometimes they would go to different factories (I remember when they went to the Crayola factory) and show you how things were made. I would love to be able to see this show again or to at least hear the theme song again. It's been probably 20 yrs since I've seen it. My parents and I moved to the East Coast in the 80's and of course no one had ever heard of this show. To this day, My husband still doesn't believe that it ever existed. Thanks to IMDb I can now show him that it did indeed exist.

I wish knbc would dig these out of storage and put them up on YouTube. No one had VHS recorders back then, so I guess there is no way to see any of them again. My search led me here. It seems as though just about everyone involved with this show has passed away. I watched these as a child in the 70's in the Los Angeles area along with the likes of the new zoo review, captain kangaroo, mr. Rogers, davey and Goliath, fat Albert, Popeye and the Tom Hattan hour, electric company, Sesame Street and great space coaster. If anyone finds even just one episode of this somewhere, look up my profile and send me an email. Thanks. Oh, to review, if you find this to watch, watch it, record it, buy it, put it on YouTube. Very Nostalgic.

I remember this show with a lot of fondness, and yes, nobody believed me either this show existed. I remember getting up really early in the morning to see this show with my brother on our rinky dink black and white TV set. We also used to watch Whitney and the Robot. I have not looked it up yet, but this show is almost an impossibility to find anywhere, and there are a lot of off the wall things on the Internet.

At any rate, this show was a lot of fun to watch, and we would see things about like eating your vegetables, being nice to others, and other things that were "cat". One line I will never forget is: "Eat your vegetables!" and here is Me crinkling the chocolate wrapper with his friend saying "No candy!"

Of course, there was the segment of grandpa giving his nuggets of wisdom at the end of every show, and you would his granddaughter say in a "hall" reverb effect in the background, "Oh, grandpa!"

Oh yes, and I clearly remember "Can you find Me in this picture?" and they would show some painting and Me's face would flash on the screen. my brother and I would look and look for it and we would be so proud when we spotted Me's face.

I loved this show even though I was about 20 when it was on the air, Whitman Mayo as 'Grampa' was so sweet and such a surprise even in the 70's to see a African-American just portraying a paternal figure for all kids not just this or that group of children.

The music was also interesting and different for most children's shows in that it wasn't the typical sappy, saccharine type of music that many other shows for children had, This one deserves to take it's place next to other ground-breaking children's shows like 'Sesame Street' and the like. Possibly if 'That's Cat' had been on public television, it would have lasted longer and be better remembered by more people.

I have to admit though, every time I see Mr.Mayo in something, the memories of this little gem of a show just makes me smile and wish something like it was around today or at least release this on DVD. Hope springs eternal.

There are a few fan videos on YouTube now! Go check em out. If you come across this show, do let me (us) know. bretleduc in the way of yahoo.