Like many kids who grew up in the 80′s, I never could understand what was going on on the Heathcliff cartoon. I mean, who were those cats who were in the junk yard? Was Heathcliff one of them? Today, the answer!

The Heathcliff cartoon had 2 segments. The first was Heathcliff. The second was called “The Catillac Cats.” Best I can tell from the wikis, they actually created 3 cats, Hector, Wordsworth, and Mungo, to be in both segments (which lead me to much confusion).

So the Heathcliff segment had Heathcliff “playing pranks on everyone” and the second segment had Riff-raff, the shorter cat who wore the hat and scarf, being in a gang in a junk yard.

Also notable is that Heathcliff was the last original character voiced by Mel Blanc.

Lastly, bad news…

In May 2009, it was revealed that Heathcliff will be adapted for a motion
picture. Magic Lantern Entertainment and rights holder FitzRoy Media will work
together with a planned release in 2011.