Hives
- Studio
- Ruby-Spears Productions
Synopsis
The animated adventures of this comic cat.
Characters
Heathcliff, Spike, Muggsy, Iggy, Mr. Shultz, Milkman, Clem, Digby, Dogsnatcher
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Charles Nichols (as Charles A. Nichols)
Producing
- Producer
- Jerry Eisenberg
- Executive Producers
- Joe Ruby, Ken Spears
Writing
Animation
- Animator
- Brenda Banks, Tom Barnes, Carl Bell, Jim Davis, Zeon Davush, Daniel De La Vega, Marcia Fertig, Gail Finkeldei, Mark Glamack, Milt Gray, John Howley, Norm McCabe, Ken O'Brien, Don Parmele, Virgil Raddatz, Bill Reed, Joe Roman, Joanna Romersa, Don Ruch, John Shook, Mike Stribling, Neal Warner
- Animation Supervisor
- Ed Solomon
- Assistant Animation Supervisor
- William K. Exter
- Assistant Animation
- Alfred Abranz, Tom Cook, Vince De Francis, John Filardo, Holly Forsyth, Brad Frost, Sandy Henkin, Mike Houghton, Karlis Smiltens, Leonard Johnson, Simon Praamsma, Ginny Parmele, Lester Pourier, Mary Robertson, James Steel, Allen Wade, Sue Wasem, Richard Williams
Voices
- Voice
- Mel Blanc (Heathcliff, Spike, Muggsy, Iggy, Mr. Shultz, Milkman), Henry Corden (Clem, Digby, Dogsnatcher), June Foray
- Additional Voices
- Takayo Doran, Clare Peck, Marilyn Schreffler, Judy Strangis, Janet Waldo
Music
- Music
- Dean Elliott
Crew
- Location Director
- Bill Reed
- Supervising Story Direction
- John Dorman
- Story Direction
- Gordon Kent, Lew Marshall, John Bruno, Ron Campbell, Kurt Conners
- Voice Direction
- Alan Dinehart
- Model Supervision
- Ric Gonzalez
- Models
- Alan Huck, Michael Mitchell, Edgar Soller
- Character Design
- Jerry Eisenberg
- Layout Supervisor
- Larry Huber
- Unit Supervisor
- Jim Willoughby
- Layout
- Pete Alvarado, Wayne Becker, John Bruno, Kurt Conner, Hak Ficq, Bob Givens, Lin Larsen, Todd Hoff, William Lignante, Jack Manning, Aaron F. St. John, Desmond Serratore, Wallace Sides, Edgar B. Soller
- Background Layout Supervisor
- David High
- Background Layout
- Kathleen Vaslett, John F. Guerin, Bruce Zick
- Background Supervisor
- Eric Semones
- Backgrounds
- Gary Conklin, Bill Lorencz, Monte, Bob Schaefer, Gary Selvaggio, Peter Van Elk, Gloria Wood, Thomas Woodington
- Color Key
- Bunny Semones
- Production Supervisor
- Natalie Shirpser
- Animation Checking
- Brenda Brummett, Myrna Bushman, Rena Cappas, Lisa Lydon
- Xerography Supervisor
- Robert "Tiger" West
- Ink and Paint Supervisor
- Laura Craig
- Assistants to the Executive Producers
- Jodi Berman, Janie Fields
- Assistant to the Producer
- Erika Grossbart
- Production Assistants
- Madlyn Goldberg, Loretta High, Kayte Kuch
- Studio Manager
- Jeff Cooke
- Production Controller
- Jerry Goldman
- Unit Auditor
- Henriette Pacile
- Animation Stock
- Sandra Benenati
- Cel Service
- Jim Stocks
- Titles
- Bill Perez
- Lettering
- Robert Schaefer
- Music Supervision
- Dean Elliott
- Editorial Supervisor
- Chip Yaras
- Effects Editors
- Bob Birchard, Dave Stone
- Music Editors
- Mark Shiney, Mark Green
- Post Production
- Lenore Nelson
- Negative Cutting
- Mary Nelson
- Camera
- Take One
- Laboratory
- C. F. I
- Recording
- Heider Scoring Service
- Dubbing
- T. V. Recorders
- Crew
- Heathcliff - Created By George Gately, A Comic Strip Of McNaught Syndicate
Companies and other credits
- © Ruby-Spears Productions
- Inc
- 1980
- A Filmways Company
- All Rights Reserved
- Heathcliff Is The Trademark And Is Copyrighted By McNaught Syndicate
- Inc
- All Rights Reserved
- Inc
Production notes
Originally a comic strip created by George Gately in 1973, Heathcliff's TV debut came in the form of the 1980 weekly Heathcliff and Dingbat. Here, television audiences were introduced to the pugnacious kitty, his well-meaning owners the Nutmegs, girlfriend Sonja, and father Pops (always in convict stripes, undoubtedly suggesting the origin of Heathcliff's predisposition to fish theft and other petty crime). Everyone worked together in a determined battle against numerous neighborhood adversaries (Spike the bulldog, milkmen, dogcatchers, etc.)