Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
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Title Card for Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats
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| Written by | Barry Blitzer |
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| Voices of | |
| Theme music composer | Hoyt Curtin (arranged by Sven Libaek) |
| Ending theme | "The Most Effectual Top Cat" (Instrumental) |
| Composer(s) | Sven Libaek |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Executive producer(s) |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Producer(s) |
Berny Wolf Jeff Hall |
| Editor(s) | Gil Iverson Robert Ciaglia |
| Running time | 92 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Hanna-Barbera Productions |
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| Original network | Syndication |
| Original release | January 9, 1988 |
| Chronology | |
| Followed by | Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School |
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats is a 1988 animated made-for-television film produced by Hanna-Barbera for syndication as part of the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 series.
The plot is essentially an extended remake of the original show's episodes, "The Missing Heir" and "The Golden Fleecing".
The movie opens on what appears to be another average day in Hoagie's Alley (which, for the purposes of this story, has apparently been relocated closer to Beverly Hills) for Top Cat and his gang, who are today posing as Boy Scouts, out doing good deeds in the hopes of getting rewards. During the course of this, Benny the Ball saves the life of a bag lady. Unbeknownst to Benny, it is revealed afterwards that she is actually a rich woman named Gertrude Vandergelt, who plans to leave her fortune to her missing niece, Amy. Meanwhile, Officer Dibble arrives to put an end to T.C.'s shenanigans after an unsuccessful attempt by Brain to wash his police car's windshield. Just when Dibble is about to arrest the gang, though, he gets a call saying that his application for retirement has been approved, so he can now retire from the police force, and thus he drops the charges against T.C. and the gang.
A few days later at a gypsy store, Benny receives fake news from Mrs. Vandergelt, disguised herself as Sid Buckman, that she has died and put his name in her will. Upon hearing of this, T.C. and the rest of the gang accompany Benny to the Vandergelt mansion, where Dibble is now working as a security guard. At the mansion, they meet the conniving butler Snerdly, and his Muttley-esque wolfhound Rasputin. Gertrude Vandergelt reads the will, which states that Benny inherits her fortune (seeing how the true heir to the fortune, Amy, is nowhere to be found), provided that nothing bad happens to him within the next two days. This upsets Snerdly, for he had hoped to obtain the fortune himself, so he and Rasputin plot to do away with Benny. T.C. and the gang move into the Vandergelt mansion with Benny.
After several failed attempts at murdering Benny, Snerdly realizes that to get to Benny, he'll have to get rid of the protective T.C. To do this, Snerdly calls up a femme fatale cat named Kitty Glitter, telling her that he has fixed her up a date with a handsome rich cat, as he describes T.C. Kitty is eager to have a rich cat for a husband (to the point that she puts on a wedding dress for the date), but this plan is foiled when she mistakes Brain for T.C. It's only when Snerdly calls her again, demanding to know where she is, that she realizes she's made a mistake.
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