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Heathcliff is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series based on the Heathcliff comic strip created by George Gately and produced by Ruby-Spears Productions. It was broadcast on ABC from October 4, 1980 to September 18, 1982 with a total of 26 episodes under two different names (see next paragraph).
The first season, called Heathcliff and Dingbat, ran for 13 episodes and included backup segments with Dingbat and the Creeps, who were created for the show. Dingbat and the Creeps revolved around the adventures of three monstrous characters who were self-employed as "Odd Jobs, Inc." which consisted of Dingbat, a vampire dog who used a bat-shaped novelty straw to eat most foods, Sparerib, a strangely rotund skeleton with the ability to change himself into useful items (such as a floor lamp, which he did in the opening credits), and Nobody, a gravelly-voiced jack-o-lantern who led the team and often found them various work.
The second season, called Heathcliff and Marmaduke, ran for 13 episodes and featured backup segments with fellow comic strip character Marmaduke (although the Marmaduke segments are actually the first to be seen in each half-hour show).
Actors: Wyatt Cagle (editor), Nicholas Urbano (actor), Nicholas Urbano (writer), Adam Backman (actor), Adam Backman (writer), Debbie Miller (miscellaneous crew), Dutch Doscher (writer), Dutch Doscher (director), Joel Love (composer), Christine Chen (miscellaneous crew), Margaux Mann (miscellaneous crew), Carl Mann (miscellaneous crew), Casey Redmon (actor), William Grant (producer), Greg Ferris (producer),
Plot: Frieda Gilroy is a woman who has ostensibly obtained all the trappings of socially accepted success. But as the potential for even greater theoretical rewards presents itself, she subtly and inconspicuously challenges her basic assumptions and the fundamental premises that have shaped her perspective. The resulting choices that she faces are imbued with life-altering implications.
Genres: Drama, Short,Actors: Debi Mazar (actress), Chiara Mastroianni (actress), Shannen Doherty (actress), Christina Applegate (actress), Jordan Ladd (actress), Traci Lords (actress), Beverly D'Angelo (actress), James Duval (actor), Guillermo Díaz (actor), Ryan Phillippe (actor), John Ritter (actor), Heather Graham (actress), Scott Caan (actor), Charlotte Rae (actress), Rose McGowan (actress),
Plot: A group of teenagers try to sort out their lives and emotions while bizarre experiences happen to each one, including alien abductions, bad acid trips, bisexual experiences, suicides, bizarre deaths, and a rape by a TV star. All of this happens before "the greatest party of the year".
Keywords: adolescence, aerobics-class, aids, alien, alien-abduction, alienation, american-flag, anorexia, apocalypse, armageddonActors: Henry Corden (actor), Russi Taylor (actress), Charles A. Nichols (director), Mel Blanc (actor), Frank Welker (actor), Paul Haggis (writer), Dean Elliott (composer), Joe Ruby (producer), Ken Spears (producer), Paul Winchell (actor), June Foray (actress), Don Messick (actor), Bill Perez (miscellaneous crew), Mark Jones (writer), Tony Benedict (writer),
Plot: An animated series based on George Gately's daily comic strip. Heathcliff, a bad-tempered cat, gets into various battles and adventures with Spike, the neighborhood bulldog, and with a gang of alley cats led by Heathcliff's rival, Riff-Raff.
Keywords: based-on-comic, based-on-comic-strip, cartoon-cat, cat, dog, one-word-title, surrealismActors: Vera West (costume designer), Hal E. Chester (actor), Kernan Cripps (actor), Gabriel Dell (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), Charles R. Moore (actor), Bernard W. Burton (editor), Edward Pawley (actor), Joe May (director), Charles Sullivan (actor), Evelyn Ankers (actress), Eily Malyon (actress), Ken Goldsmith (producer), John Harmon (actor), Shemp Howard (actor),
Plot: Tommy ('Billy Halop' (qv)), "Pig ('Huntz Hall' (qv))," "String('Gabriel Dell (I)' (qv))," and "Ape ('Bernard Punsly' (qv))" are all inmates of a reform school, along with little "Pesky" ('Bobs Watson' (qv)),and they are orphan sons of deceased members of the Valentine Gang which was wiped out by Spike the Butcher (edward Pawley') and his gang a few years earlier. The only survivor of the Valentine gang was Valentine and he was sent to prison. Later the boys are paroled to the custody of a man using the name of James J. Ryan ('Barton MacLane' (qv)), but Ryan is really Valentine, who has served his sentence, and is living quietly on a stock ranch with his wife Mary Ryan ('Gladys George' (qv)). Ryan (now reformed) is trying to raise $50,000 to build a trade school to help unfortunate boys. But Tom isn't all reformed yet and meets up with a stranger who enlists him in a conspiracy to steal the money. The stranger turns out to be none other than Spike the Butcher, the man responsible for killing Tom's and the other four boy's fathers. Tom raises a stink when he learns who Spike the Butcher really is, but Spike locks Tom and the others in a basement and goes off to kill Valentine/Ryan and steal the trade-school money.
Keywords: 1940s, adoption, b-movie, basement, benefit, california, chauffeur, conspiracy, criminal, crookThe sassiest, frassiest, classiest cat, Heathcliff, jumps from the comic strip to the TV screen in the first of his animated adaptations and is joined by the silliest trio of monsters ever seen, the aptly named Dingbat and the Creeps. The feline half of the show is pure classic Heathcliff high jinks, with the highfalutin' low-livin' tomcat living the life while romancing Sonja, avoiding the dog-catcher and tormenting Spike. And as an added soupcon of catnip, Heathcliff is voiced by the legendary man of 1,000 voices, Mel Blanc! Meanwhile, a dog heads up the second half, but this is no common canine. Dingbat is a vampire dog, who with fellow Creeps the fat skeleton Sparerib and teamleader Nobody, a talking jack-o-lantern, makes up the strangest service biz ever seen, Odd Jobs, Inc. So grab a...
The sassiest, frassiest, classiest cat, Heathcliff, jumps from the comic strip to the TV screen in the first of his animated adaptations and is joined by the silliest trio of monsters ever seen, the aptly named Dingbat and the Creeps. The feline half of the show is pure classic Heathcliff high jinks, with the highfalutin' low-livin' tomcat living the life while romancing Sonja, avoiding the dog-catcher and tormenting Spike. And as an added soupcon of catnip, Heathcliff is voiced by the legendary man of 1,000 voices, Mel Blanc! Meanwhile, a dog heads up the second half, but this is no common canine. Dingbat is a vampire dog, who with fellow Creeps the fat skeleton Sparerib and teamleader Nobody, a talking jack-o-lantern, makes up the strangest service biz ever seen, Odd Jobs, Inc. So grab a...
From heathcliff and dingbat show & Swiftfur Beaumont
The Heathcliff and Dingbat Show: http://bit.ly/RRkkRA The sassiest, frassiest, classiest cat, Heathcliff, jumps from the comic strip to the TV screen in the first of his animated adaptations and is joined by the silliest trio of monsters ever seen, the aptly named Dingbat and the Creeps. The feline half of the show is pure classic Heathcliff high jinks, with the highfalutin' low-livin' tomcat living the life while romancing Sonja, avoiding the dog-catcher and tormenting Spike. And as an added soupcon of catnip, Heathcliff is voiced by the legendary man of 1,000 voices, Mel Blanc! Meanwhile, a dog heads up the second half, but this is no common canine. Dingbat is a vampire dog, who with fellow Creeps the fat skeleton Sparerib and teamleader Nobody, a talking jack-o-lantern, makes up the ...
The sassiest, frassiest, classiest cat, Heathcliff, jumps from the comic strip to the TV screen in the first of his animated adaptations and is joined by the silliest trio of monsters ever seen, the aptly named Dingbat and the Creeps. The feline half of the show is pure classic Heathcliff high jinks, with the highfalutin' low-livin' tomcat living the life while romancing Sonja, avoiding the dog-catcher and tormenting Spike. And as an added soupcon of catnip, Heathcliff is voiced by the legendary man of 1,000 voices, Mel Blanc! Meanwhile, a dog heads up the second half, but this is no common canine. Dingbat is a vampire dog, who with fellow Creeps the fat skeleton Sparerib and teamleader Nobody, a talking jack-o-lantern, makes up the strangest service biz ever seen, Odd Jobs, Inc. So grab a...
The first season, called Heathcliff and Dingbat, ran for 13 episodes and included backup segments with Dingbat and the Creeps, who were created for the show. Dingbat and the Creeps revolved around the adventures of three monstrous characters who were self-employed as "Odd Jobs, Inc." which consisted of Dingbat, a vampire dog who used a bat-shaped novelty straw to eat most foods, Sparerib, a strangely rotund skeleton with the ability to change himself into useful items (such as a floor lamp, which he did in the opening credits), and Nobody, a gravelly-voiced jack-o-lantern who led the team and often found them various work.
From heathcliff and dingbat show & SwiftFur Beaumont
She's a dingbat
Always walking in to trees
Wakes me up to ask if I'm asleep
Sits around stares in to space
Oh God I hate her face cause she's a dingbat
Her dumbness really bothers me
Brainless questions constantly
I wish shut her mouth, give me a break
Oh God I hate her face
She lives alone in her own world
Naive wide-eyed little girl
Dosen't care that the world's a mess