| 释义 |
- Characters Henry's Cat and his friends His enemies Henry
- Episode list Series 1 (1983) Series 2 (1984–1985) Series 3 (1986) Series 4 (1986–1987) Series 5 (1993)
- Notes
- Credits Series 1 Series 2 Series 3 Series 4 Series 5
- References
- External links
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|show_name=Henry's Cat
|image=Henry's Cat.jpg
|caption=DVD cover
|genre=Kids, Family, Animation, Comedy
|runtime=5 minutes (Series 1 & 2)
15 minutes (Series 3 & 4)
13 minutes (Series 5)
|creator=Bob Godfrey
Stan Hayward
|director=Bob Godfrey
|executive_producer=
|producer=Bob Godfrey
|writer=Kevin Baldwin
Bob Godfrey
Stan Hayward
Mike Knowles
|starring=
|voices=Bob Godfrey
|narrated=Bob Godfrey
|theme_music_composer=Peter Shade
John Hyde
Rowland Lee
Jonathan Hodge
|opentheme=Henry's Cat Theme
|endtheme=Henry's Cat Theme (Instrumental)
|company=Bob Godfrey Films Ltd.
|channel=BBC (1983), BBC1 (1983–1985), Children's BBC (1985–1997), HBO (1986–1987), CBBC (1997), Channel 4 (1995–1997), The Children's Channel , Nick Jr.
|picture_format=3 480i (SDTV)
3 576i (SDTV)
|audio_format=Mono
Stereo
Dolby Stereo
Dolby Surround
|first_aired=12 September 1983
|last_aired=1993
|num_series=5
|num_episodes=51
|list_episodes=
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|website=http://www.henryscat.com/
}}Henry's Cat is a British animated children's television series, created by Stan Hayward and directed by Bob Godfrey,[1] who was also the producer of Roobarb and Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk. The show starred a laid-back, ponderous yellow cat, known only as Henry's Cat, and his many friends and enemies. Henry's Cat was first screened by BBC Television in the United Kingdom on 12 September 1983, and has enjoyed repeats since then. Five series were made in total.[2]You must have seen the movie You must have read the book He's a mellow yellow feline, so take a second look He knows everything about nothing and not too much about that but if you know someone who knows what he knows Then you must know Henry's Cat :Excerpt from Henry's Cat theme.[3]
CharactersHenry's Cat and his friends- Henry's Cat – laid-back, a daydreamer, with a great passion for eating.[4]
- Chris Rabbit – Henry's Cat's best friend, an ever-enthusiastic, highly energetic blue rabbit.
- Mosey Mouse – the opposite of Chris Rabbit, Mosey is dour and realistic.
- Douglas Dog, Sammy Snail, Pansy Pig, Denise Duck, Ted Tortoise, Philippe Frog – miscellaneous friends of Henry's Cat. They all mean well, but often overestimate their own abilities in various ways.
His enemies- Farmer Giles – a (human) farmer with a West Country accent, frequently inconvenienced by Henry's Cat's adventures.
- Constable Bulldog – a stern policeman (or police dog) who takes a very dim view of the gang's well-meaning escapades.
- Rum Baa Baa – a criminal mastermind, an evil sheep.
HenryHenry himself never appeared on screen; the name is thought by some to be an allusion to an earlier one-off Hayward/Godfrey collaboration, Henry 9 'til 5, about a bowler-hatted commuter who escaped his boring everyday life by indulging in daydreams, mostly of a sexual nature. Henry's Cat shared the earlier character's tendency toward wild flights of fancy and laid-back approach to life. Henry's Cat creator Stan Hayward included the official explanation for the character's lack of a name on the official Henry's Cat Special Edition DVD in 2000. The explanation was that Henry, an unseen character in the series, had been Henry's Cat's original owner. He had moved away, and Henry's Cat had forgotten to go with him. He had a terrible memory, and later even forgot his own name, and so became known simply as "Henry's Cat". Episode listSeries 1 (1983)Each episode in this series is 5 minutes long. | # | Title | Summary | Original air date |
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| 1 | The Race | Henry's Cat holds a race with all his friends racing with their own talents. | 12 September 1983 | | 2 | The Hypnotist | Henry's Cat is inspired by the TV to try out hypnotism to help his friends, but soon decides to undo his hypnosis. | 13 September 1983 | | 3 | The Hobby | Henry's Cat is inspired to find a hobby of his own and watches his friends doing theirs. | 14 September 1983 | | 4 | The Treasure | Henry's Cat and Chris Rabbit try to find treasure with a dividing stick. | 15 September 1983 | | 5 | The Whale | Henry's Cat goes fishing for a whale to get something new to eat. | 16 September 1983 | | 6 | The Diet | Henry's Cat takes the advice of a weighing machine to cut down on overeating and take exercise. | 19 September 1983 | | 7 | The Invention | Henry's Cat is inspired to invent a machine and ends inventing something for Captain McGregor. | 20 September 1983 | | 8 | The Circus | Henry's Cat sees a circus and sees this as an exciting opportunity. | 21 September 1983 | | 9 | The Holiday | Henry's Cat goes on holiday on a sailing boat at sea. | 22 September 1983 | | 10 | The Competition | Henry's Cat, Chris Rabbit and Mosey Mouse dress up as a one-man band for a competition. | 23 September 1983 | | 11 | The Film | Henry's Cat gets an old film cine camera to make a film starring his friends. | 26 September 1983 | | 12 | The Artist | Henry's Cat tries to learn about art and how artists see things differently. | 27 September 1983 | | 13 | The Moon Trip | Henry's Cat and Chris Rabbit go in a balloon for a journey to the moon. | 28 September 1983 | | 14 | The Fortune Teller | Henry's Cat goes to a fortune teller at a funfair with his future near at hand. | 29 September 1983 | | 15 | The Disco Dance | Henry's Cat takes his friends to a disco dance competition. When that does not work out, they join a carnival. | 30 September 1983 | | 16 | The Ill Wind | A sick Henry's Cat imagines himself dying and going to the afterlife. | 13 September 1984 | | 17 | The Dream | Henry's Cat falls asleep after eating a lot, dreaming about vivid things. | 20 September 1984 | | 18 | The Robbery | Henry's Cat becomes detective, but runs into Mosey Mouse's uncle. | 27 September 1984 | | 19 | The Explorer | Henry's Cat goes exploring to find the West Pole. | 4 October 1984 | | 20 | The Christmas Dinner | Henry's Cat helps Chris Rabbit prepare a Christmas Dinner but get themselves stuck. | 24 December 1984 |
Series 2 (1984–1985)Each episode in this series is 5 minutes long. | # | Title | Summary | Original air date |
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| 21 | The Secret Weapon | Henry's Cat dreams about himself and Chris Rabbit as scientists defending the earth from little blue men. | 11 October 1984 | | 22 | The Hot Day | On a hot day, Henry's Cat unknowingly finds himself joining the Foreign Legion in the hot desert. | 18 October 1984 | | 23 | The Invitation | Henry's Cat is invited to dinner party with Lady Snotgrove, but he feels unprepared without proper table manners. | 25 October 1984 | | 24 | The Magic Tummy Button | Henry's Cat and his friends search a museum for the lost temple of Aki-Kun-Bubu to find the magic tummy button. | 1 November 1984 | | 25 | The Actor | Henry's Cat decides to become a famous actor and does in the Theatre by accident. | 8 November 1984 | | 26 | The Ventriloquist | Henry's Cat enters a contest as a ventriloquist with Chris Rabbit as his dummy, but it all goes wrong. | 15 November 1984 | | 27 | The Hero | Henry's Cat imagines his Great Uncle Felix's adventure as an ace fighter pilot against Baron Von Baa Baa. | 22 November 1984 | | 28 | The Catseye Kid | Henry's Cat imagines himself as the cowboy Catseye who is out to stop the cattle rancher, Bandit Baa Baa. | 29 November 1984 | | 29 | The Clever Trick | Henry's Cat learns a trick to bend objects, which eventually makes him famous around the world. | 6 December 1984 | | 30 | The Abominable Snowman | Henry's Cat and Chris Rabbit go an expedition which winds them up in trouble. | 13 December 1984 | | 31 | Caveman Cat | Henry's Cat daydreams about being a cave cat with his inventing neighbour Chris Rabbit. | 20 December 1984 | | 32 | The New Year's Resolution | Henry's Cat is prompted to take exercise for New Year with a backwards running race with his friends. | 28 December 1984 | | 33 | The Good News Day | On a day when nothing happens, Henry's Cat dreams he is a heroic captain of a world cruising plane. | 3 January 1985 | | 34 | The Merry Men and Women | Henry's Cat dresses as Robin Hood and recruits his friend as his Merry Men and Women. | 10 January 1985 | | 35 | The Weatherman | Henry's Cat becomes weathermen to report good weather forecasts. | 4 December 1986 |
Series 3 (1986)Each episode in this series is 15 minutes long. | # | Title | Summary | Original air date |
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| 36 | The Treasure Hunt | Henry's Cat dreams of being a member of his own crew at sea after reading Treasure Island. | 8 January 1986 | | 37 | The Day of Terrible Jokes | Henry's Cat fascinated by Medieval Knights dreams that he is bold knight winning a jousting tournament against Sir Loin of Lamb. After that he is sent to capture a three-headed dragon. | 15 January 1986 | | 38 | The Case of the Pilfered Pearls | Henry's Cat imagines himself as Sherlock Holmes on the trail of Rum Baba (here operating under the name of Rumbini) who has been using his magic shows as a means to steal expensive jewellery from the rich. | 22 January 1986 | | 39 | The Lost World | Henry's Cat fascinated by a TV program called Tarzan dreams that he himself is a jungle man with the huge responsibility to take care of the Lost World. The next day Henry's Cat has to stop Rum Baa Baa from capturing the dinosaurs. | 29 January 1986 | | 40 | The Computer | Henry's Cat goes to a computer exhibition. There he rents a small computer robot he calls Puter. Trying to buy Puter is hard and keep his house orderly is difficult for Henry's Cat. | 5 February 1986 | | 41 | The Correspondence Course | Henry's Cat goes to Big Bob's Animation Studios to make a cartoon – and a Wibbles Wobbly Jelly advert. | 12 February 1986 |
Series 4 (1986–1987)Each episode in this series is 15 minutes long. | # | Title | Summary | Original air date |
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| 42 | Once Upon a Time | Henry's Cat imagines himself meeting various fairy tale characters – and a wolf who wants to eat Little Red Riding Hood's Granny. | 22 December 1986 | | 43 | The Birthday Caper | Fed up on his birthday, Henry's Cat decides to go to Hollywood. | 13 February 1987 | | 44 | The Funny Feeling | Mosey Mouse catches Clownitis, a disease a year on Mid-Summer's Day after he drank Moo-Moo Juice. Henry's Cat rushes to the Moo-Moo Juice factory to stop Rum Baa Baa (who is controlling the machine). | 20 February 1987 | | 45 | Out for the Count | Henry's Cat and Chris Rabbit are in a blowing gum match, but get lost and enter the creepy castle of Count Rum Baa Baa. Together they thwart his experiments. | 22 September 1987 | | 46 | The Jingle | Henry's Cat and Chris Rabbit go to Cyril Chipper to help in his advertising campaign becoming successful. | 1 December 1987 | | 47 | The Great Adventure | Henry's Cat and his friends go to space in a flying carrot, eat food tablets, and try to stop Rum Baa Baa. | 8 December 1987 |
Series 5 (1993)Each episode in this series is 13 minutes long. | # | Title | Summary | Original air date |
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| 48 | The Mystery of the Missing Santa | Henry's Cat and Chris Rabbit as detectives goes on a caper to find the a kidnapped Santa. They both break in the chateau, rescue Santa and get Count Baa Baa arrested. | 24 December 1992 | | 49 | When Time Went Wrong | After attempting to fix his cuckoo clock, Henry's Cat along with Chris Rabbit travel in time to the Prehistoric Times. As they try to go back to the Present, they travel from one Epoch into another. | 30 December 1992 | | 50 | The New President | Henry's Cat applies to be the new president of the United States of America so he can have his face carved into Mount Rushmore. Chris Rabbit tells him about the history of America featuring George Washington, Charlie Chaplin and the Seven Dwarfs. | | 51 | Valentine's Day | Henry's Cat has a brand new TV set (with so many channels), and sees Pansy Pig (with a paper bag on her head, thinking she is ugly), so he hosts "Blind Dates". With contestants: Rum Baa Baa, Sam Pig (Pansy's love interest) and Ted Tortoise.
Note: This episode coupled with 'The President's Day' won a Cable Ace Award in 1994 for Best Children's TV Series. Also Channel No. 5 on Henry's Cat's new TV resembles to the future TV channel, Channel 5. |
Notes- All of Henry's Cat episodes from Series 1 are dated 1983 and Series 2, 3, 4 and 5 are dated 1984 in the credits.
- Bob Godfrey Films' opening logo of this series was Henry's Cat meowing, in a direct parody of the MGM logo.
- The companies that released the videos were Guild Home Video, Castle Vision/Playbox Video, Children's Choice, and Screen Legends/Pickwick Video. Despite airing on Children's BBC, it was never licensed to home video by BBC Video. Family Home Entertainment, Live Entertainment, and Lionsgate Home Entertainment also had a USA release in 1987, 1990, and 2006.
- In January 2008, a promotional DVD containing all Season 1 episodes was distributed by The Times newspaper.
CreditsSeries 1- Created by: Stan Hayward
- Script: Stan Hayward
- Animation: Bob Godfrey, Paul Stone, Kevin Baldwin
- Music & Sound: Peter Shade
- Narrated by: Bob Godfrey
- Camera & Editing: Derek Phillips
- Production: Mike Hayes
- Produced & Directed by: Bob Godfrey
(c) Stan Hayward Bob Godfrey Films Ltd. 1983 Series 2- Created by: Stan Hayward
- Script: Stan Hayward
- Animation: Kevin Baldwin, Bob Godfrey, Malcolm Hartley, Drew Mandigo, Paul Stone
- Music: John Hyde / de Wolfe Ltd.
- Dubbing: John Wood Studios
- Editing: Sean Lenihan
- Camera: Derek Phillips
- Production: Mike Hayes
- Produced, Directed and Narrated by: Bob Godfrey
(c) Stan Hayward Bob Godfrey Films Ltd. 1984 (From Series 2 to Series 5) Series 3- Created by: Stan Hayward
- Script: Stan Hayward
- Animation: Kevin Baldwin, Bob Godfrey, Malcolm Hartley, Mark Oz, Paul Rosevear
- Music: John Hyde / de Wolfe Ltd
- Trace & Paint: Tancy Baran, Beryl Godfrey, Louise Unwin
- Camera: Derek Phillips
- Editing: John Daniels
- Production: Mike Hayes
- Produced, Directed and Narrated by: Bob Godfrey
Series 4- Created by: Stan Hayward
- Script: Stan Hayward
- Animation: Kevin Baldwin, Bob Godfrey, Neil Salmon
- Additional Animation: Steve Roberts
- Music: Jonathan Hodge
- Trace and Paint: Beryl Godfrey, Louise Unwin
- Camera: Julian Holdaway, Heather Reader
- Editing: Picture Head
- Production: Mike Hayes
- Narrated, Directed and Produced by: Bob Godfrey
Series 5- Created by: Stan Hayward
- Script: Stan Hayward, Mike Knowles, Kevin Baldwin, Bob Godfrey
- Storyboard, Layouts, Animation: Kevin Baldwin
- Additional Animation: Jeff Goldner, Neil Salmon, Bob Godfrey, Jody Gannon.
- Trace and Paint: Denise Hambry, Lisa Smith, Jazvinda Phull, Beryl Godfrey, Ricky Arnold
- Music: Rowland Lee
- Title Music: Jonathan P. Hodge
- Camera: Jeremy Moorshead
- Backgrounds: Bob Godfrey
- Editing: Picturehead
- Production: Mike Hayes
- Narrated, Produced and Directed by: Bob Godfrey
References1. ^80s cartoons website
2. ^BFI | Film & TV Database | HENRY'S CAT
3. ^Henry's Cat Theme Song @ Toonarific Cartoons
4. ^80s cartoons website
External links- {{official website|http://www.henryscat.com}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091027121222/http://geocities.com/TelevisionCity/4314/main.htm The Henry's Cat Page]
- Toonhound: Henry's Cat
- {{IMDb title|0084064}}
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