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Josie & a Pussycats was the Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1970 for CBS. Around 1972, Hanna-Barbera produced a spin-by-product known as Josie & a Pussycats around Outer Space, which ran until 1974. Depending upon a Archie Comics series of the same name, Josie and a Pussycats featured an a lot-girl pop music b& that toured the world by owning their suite, sustaining mixed higher within unknown dangerous undertaking, spy capers, and mysteries. A indicate, additional similar to Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! than the original Josie comedian book, & is illustrious for its music, a girls' leopard print tights (replete using "long tails and ears for hats," when a theme song states), & for featuring a 1st African American Saturday morning cartoon character in history.

Characters
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Josie McCoy (speaking voice by Janet Waldo, singing voice by Cathy Dougher) Melody Valentine (speaking voice by Jackie Joseph, singing voice by Cheryl Ladd) Valerie Red (speaking voice by Barbara Pariot, singing voice by Patrice Holloway) Alan M. Mayberry (soft by Jerry Dexter) Alexander Cabot III (soft by Casey Kasem) Alexandra Cabot (soft by Sherri Alberoni) & Sebastian (soft by Don Messick) Bleep (lone around Josie & a Pussycats around Outer Space, soft by Don Messick)

Creation and development

Josie Gets a Band
In a period of the 1968 - 1969 television season, the number 1 Archie-based Saturday morning cartoon, The Archie Show,'' was a immense profits, nin lone in the ratings on CBS, but likewise on the Billboard charts: The Archies' song "Sugar Sugar" hit the #1 spot on the Billboard charts in September 1969. Animation studio Hanna-Barbera Productions wanted to duplicate the profits their competition Filmation were having sustaining The Archie Show. When the failing attempt at getting the teenage-music-band indicate of their have known as Mysteries 5 (which at length became Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!), they decided to return a source & contacted Archie Comics about possibly adapting one of their left properties into the indicate similar to The Archie Indicate. Archie Comics responded by offering to re-respond with their comical Josie into the comedian astir a adolescent music band, letting Hanna-Barbera to adapt it into an music-depending Saturday morning indicate.

The Music and the Controversy over Valerie
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Around preparatiin for the coming cartoon series, Hannthe-Barbera began working on together a real-life Josie and the Pussycats girl group, world health organization would provide a singing voices of the girls in the cartoons & besides cut an album. A songs on the album would become utilized in the cartoon too.

A Josie and the Pussycats recordings were produced by La La Productions, start by Danny Janssen & Bobby Young. It held a talent research to buy triad girls world health organization would match the 3 girls around the comedian book in two looks & cantabile ability, &, fallowing interviewing assibilate Five hundred finalists, settled upon casting Cathy Dougher when Josie, Cherie Moor as Melody, and Patrice Holloway as Valerie.

Janssen presented a new formed band to William Hanna and Joseph Barbera to finalize the production treat, however was inside for the major surprise. Hanna-Barbera wanted Janssen to recast Patrice Holloway, because it experienced decided to portray "Josie and the Pussycats" as an 100%-White trio & got altered Valerie, an African American in the comic book, to produce her Caucasian. Janssen refused to recast Holloway & threatened to walk off from a task. Fallowing the 3-week-long have-off between Janssen & Hanna-Barbera, Hanna-Barbera eventually relented & allowed Janssen to keep Holloway, & changed Valerie back to existence an African-Our contries.

Valerie was actually a super number 1 African-U.s. regular cast member around an alive television program (in 1969, Bill Cosby's Fat Albert appeared in the of these-shot alive prime-instance favorite, however would non make their way his have indicate until 1971). Interestingly plenty, Valerie simply holds this position within history thanks to the CBS scheduling department: Josie & a Pussycats debuted at 9:30 AM EST in September 12 1970, while an additional fresh Hanna-Barbera indicate, The Harlem Globetrotters (on which near one of its major person characters were African-Western) debuted on the equivalent day—but at 10:00 AM.

The Show Premieres
Josie & a Pussycats debuted on the CBS Saturday morning lineup on September 12 1970. A alive version of Josie was an amalgam of plot gear, villain types, settings, moods, & tones from either more Hanna-Barbera shows like Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, Jonny Quest, Space Ghost, and Shazzan.

Plot
Each episode of the indicate would buy the Pussycats on the way to perform the gig or even record a song around a few exotic location. Somehow (additional typically than does'nt due to something Alexandra did) it would inadvertently buy themselves mixed higher inside an adventure/mystery. the antagonist was universally a diabolical mad man of science, spy, or even outlaw world health organization wanted to choose on top the world applying a bit of hi-high-tech device. the Pussycats would normally locate themselves around possession of the plans for an invention, an item of interest to the villains, a secret spy message, etc., & a villains would tag.

Towards a prevent of a episode, a villainside would succeed in capturing the Pussycats & would start out executing their diabolical project to require across the world. A gang would break yours free! (normally thanks to Sebastian), & would proceed to "disconboomerate" (their word) a device/lab & capture a badness guys. This would effect around a final chase sequence, placed to one of the songs recorded for the Capital Records releases.

A Pussycats would succeed within capturing a villain & would develop back to their gig/recording session/etc. A final gag universally centered as much as one of Alexandra's tries to (the) interfere with/put an prevent to The Pussycats' performance, (b) steal Alan out of Josie, or even (c) achieve each at a equivalent instance. Extrthe typically than does'nt, she would enlist Sebastian to carry out her bemire act, & Sebastian would universally bumble a job witharound around some manner, which would effect in Alexandra catching in condition and/or existence manufactured a fool of.

Style and similarites
the art styling for the indicate was a cross between Dan DeCarlo's nontextual matter & Hanna-Barbera's late-1960s adventure shows like Space Ghost and The Herculoids. Josie & a Pussycats was somewhat less naturalistic & extra cartoony than Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, from which great deal of its tone, laugh track, pacing, & plot elements were derived; each shows too feature a equivalent Ted Nichols background score cues and Casey Kasem. Numbers of viewers world health organization come unaware of ''Josie's Archie Comics origins would argue that it is the complete rip-heist of Scooby. As well, a alive versions of Alex Cabot III & Alan look remarkably rather Shaggy & Fred, respectivly, from either Scooby-Doo, In which Come Smart shoppers!

Josie & a Pusycats was the ratings profits for the 1970-1971 TV season, & was run for the 1971-1972 season, with a final broadcast get on September 2 1972. There were Xvi episodes produced.

Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space

Within September 1972, the spin-by-product series known as Josie & a Pussycats inside Outer Space'' debuted in CBS. A gang was wasted within space (thanks--no surprise--to Alexandra's bumbling) & were trying to go to back to Globe. the average plot would require a gang encountering a few alien race, existence kidnapped by aforementioned alien race, escaping, solving a problems the aliens come getting (when performing a musical total or even ii), so exist as forward their way back to Globe per grateful aliens. Inevitably, but, Alexandra would call for how else (accidentally) to stand the children last off-course over again. A Xvi episodes of Josie & a Pussycats inside Outer Space was re-process for the 1973-1974 season until January 26 1974, when CBS cancelled it & ordered those days are gone newly Josie episodes from either Hanna-Barbera.

Afterlife

Josie & a Pussycats (but not Josie & a Pussycats around Outer Space) was re-begin in NBC Saturday morning for the 1975-1976 season. In the mid-1980s, both series, along by using the total of more Seventies Hanna-Barbera cartoons (including Jabberjaw, Jeannie, and ''Help! It's the Hair Bear Bunch''), were shown on the USA Network's USA Kids Club. It would next pop up in Cartoon Network in 1992 (where completely 32 episodes were do in the equivalent timeslot). Josie & a Pussycats & Josie & a Pussycats inside Outer Space come typically seen in todays world in Cartoon Network's spinoff channel Boomerang.

Josie & a Pussycats was adapted into the live action motion picture in 2001. A film was depending supplementary on a comedian than a cartoon, however a popular theme song from either the cartoon (written by Hoyt Curtin, William Hanna, and Joseph Barbera) is performed during a prevent credits.