The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat

The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat
Series Title Card
Genre	Animation Comedy
Created by	Pat Sullivan Otto Messmer Joe Oriolo (characters)
Directed by	Lynne Naylor Milton Knight Doug Lawrence Timothy Björklund
Creative director(s)	Timothy Björklund
Voices of	Thom Adcox-Hernandez Charlie Adler
Theme music composer	Don Oriolo Nathan Wang
Composer(s)	Club Foot Orchestra
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	21
Production
Executive producer(s)	Don Oriolo Phil Roman
Producer(s)	Timothy Björklund
Running time	25 min.
Production company(s)	Felix the Cat Productions Film Roman
Distributor	NBCUniversal Television Distribution (current)
Release
Original network	CBS (U.S.)
Picture format	4:3
Audio format	CBS Stereosound Dolby Surround
First shown in	September 16, 1995

The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat is an animated series starring the character Felix the Cat, produced for television by Film Roman. The series first aired on September 16, 1995 on CBS. The first season consists of 13 episodes and the second season consists of 8 episodes.

The show was a modern take on the original 1958-62 series produced by Otto Messmer's former assistant, Joe Oriolo. His son, Don Oriolo, was involved in the creation of this series as well. In many ways, the show reverts to the silent era of shorts with surreal settings and offbeat character depictions. Felix is also more like his original mischievous adult form, rather than the young and innocent depiction from the 1930s, 1950s and the 1988 film Felix the Cat: The Movie. It does, however, contain some elements from the 1950s series such as Felix's Magic Bag of Tricks and the character Poindexter. The series used Fleischer Studios style.

The series starred Thom Adcox-Hernandez as the voice of Felix the Cat. In Season 2, he was replaced by Charlie Adler for unknown reasons. It was produced by Phil Roman and Timothy Berglund and is reputed to have been one of the most expensive cartoons ever made by Film Roman. Martin Olson and Jeremy Kramer, two comedy writers known for pushing the envelope into the bizarre, wrote both outlines and scripts for the series. The main theme was composed by Don Oriolo, while the musical score and closing theme were composed and performed by the Club Foot Orchestra.

A number of episodes have been released on VHS by BMG Video and Universal Studios Home Entertainment, and several DVD releases of episodes were available in Hong Kong under the title "The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat II". A 3-DVD box set of the entire series was released on April 26, 2013 containing 21 episodes or 58 individual segments, this release being the first complete collection with an English soundtrack.