Catch as Cat Can.

Hey kids (of all ages), it's Saturday Morning Cartoon time again! Continuing the 2020 New Year... Still no Saturday Morning TV cartoons from a century ago, but here's one from half that.

The high competition on Saturday Morning TV in the 1970s led the networks to try all sorts of package block shows, expanding or breaking them up into multiple shows trying to get just the right formula. In '69 Hanna-Barbera had done an hour-long block show called CATANNOOGA CATS (previously seen on this BitChute channel) for ABC. This was sort of an all-animated version of the BANANA SPLITS block concept they'd done for NBC the year before that.

For the 1970 season, the host characters were scrapped and the show cut to a half-hour retaining what was essentially TOM & JERRY on wheels as the titular segment and IT'S THE WOLF as a backup. New shorts of both segments were produced for the 1970 season, so MOTORMOUSE AND AUTOCAT qualifies as a debut show.

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