T.H.E. Cat

1966

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T.H.E. Cat is an American action drama that aired during the 1966-1967 television season on NBC, co-sponsored by R.J. Reynolds and Lever Brothers. The series was created by Harry Julian Fink, the creator of Dirty Harry . Robert Loggia starred as the title character, Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat. T. H. E. Cat is a forerunner of television characters such as The Equalizer, who skirt the edges of the law and bring skills from earlier careers on behalf of those needing more help than the police can offer. The series preceded the 1968-1970 ABC television series It Takes a Thief, which was also about a cat burglar who used his skills for good.

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Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.
Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
Roxie The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
sambiagio T.H.E. Cat is the lineal descendant of Peter Gunn as the King of Cool...no gadgets, no love drama, just a job well done each time. Both had background support, but ultimately came through on there own. I think Dave Grusin did the music, but cant find anything to support that, although Grusin and Lalo Shifrin were the two main sounders back in the day.... There were some of the usual themes, Bad Guy, not really a Bad Guy, gone Good...Peter Gunn had his continual spark Edie, but I cannot recall if Cat had one, but surely he did... they both had police nemeses/allies with RG Armstrong for CAT, and Herschel Bernardi for Gunn...
rijim2001 "Out of the night comes a man who saves lives at the risk of his own: Once a circus performer, an aerialist who refused the net... Once a cat burglar, a master among jewel thieves... And now, a professional bodyguard - primitive, savage, in love with danger - T.H.E CAT!"The episode list can be found at http://epguides.com/THECat/guide.shtml and the music can be found at this Sound America site link http://soundamerica.com/sounds/themes/Television/T-Z/ under thecat66.wav I believe the announcer is George Fennemen best known as the announcer in You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx (79 episodes, 1950-1961) , Dragnet (276 episodes, 1951-1959), Dragnet 1967 (33 episodes, 1967-1969)
pkwsbw I can't add much, but I want to echo the comments of the person below. I thought this was the coolest show ever when I was 12, and was disappointed when it was canceled. There was a drum rhythm that was played during each tense scene that I still play in my mind nearly 40 years later. And like the person below, I can't find anybody who remembers it! I liked the way the star answered when anybody asked his name: "Cat, T. Hewitt Edward Cat." That's all I can remember, other than how cool he was with his black turtleneck sliding down wires from one building to the next. How come I never see this on late night cable? I'm getting sick of the Munsters and Leave it to Beaver.
marko In his role as Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat, Robert Loggia was undoubtedly the coolest hero of the television 60's. A retired second-story man, Cat undertook missions in which he used his acrobatic skills to their best advantage. NBC advertised the program as a "high tension adventure series you can really sink your claws into," and it was just that.Probably drawing on his earlier portrayal of the cat-like Elfego Baca, an acrobatic western Disney character, the athletic Loggia apparently did a lot of his own stunts in the series. He was everything an adolescent boy of the time could aspire to: he wore a cool black outfit while on the prowl; he drove a cool black 'Vette; he carried a dagger-like knife referred to in one episode as "The Cat's Claw," which he could throw with unerring accuracy; he was, of course, irresistable to women; and he hung out between missions at the Casa del Gato (House of the Cat), a cafe owned by his gypsy friend Pepe, played to the suave hilt by Robert Carricart. The only other recurring character was the one-handed police Captain McAllister, played by the marvelous R.G. Armstrong.The original jazz score by Lalo Schifrin (sort of a flute- accoustic bass-drum trio number) set just the right mood for this dark series -- and Shifrin went on to compose for Mission Impossible!Television later picked up on the theme of using a reformed crook as a hero, notably with Robert Wagner in "It Takes a Thief" and "Switch." But Loggia was the original in this short-lived but lamented series.