The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat

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The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat
Title card of the series
Genre	Cartoon series
Directed by	Lynne Naylor
Voices of	Thom Adcox (Felix) John Astin Nancy Cartwright Elizabeth Daily
Theme music composer	Don Oriolo
Composer(s)	Club Foot Orchestra
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	31
Production
Executive producer(s)	Don Oriolo
Producer(s)	Timothy Björklund
Running time	30 min.
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS CITV Clan TVE Hero TV
Original run	9 September 1995 – 25 November 1997

The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat (called The New Adventures of Felix the Cat before release, which has led to it sometimes being referred to as The Twisted Adventures of Felix the Cat) is an animated series starring the classic animated character Felix the Cat, produced for television by Film Roman from September 9, 1995 to November 25, 1997, and broadcast on CBS. It starred Thom Adcox-Hernandez as the voice of Felix. Later on, he was replaced by Charlie Adler.

It was not the first Felix the Cat series produced for television; that title is claimed by one done in 1958 by Otto Messmer's former assistant, Joe Oriolo. Joe's son, Don Oriolo, also became part of the effort, and was involved in creation of this series as well.

This series, in many ways, reverts back to the silent era shorts, with surreal settings and offbeat character depictions. Felix is also more like his original mischievous adult form, rather than the young and innocent depiction from the 30's and 50's. It does, however, contain some elements from the 50's series such as Felix's Magic Bag of Tricks and the character Poindexter.

The executive producer of this series was Phil Roman and the producer was Timothy Berglund. It is reputed to have been one of the most expensive cartoons ever made by Film Roman.^[1]

The main theme was composed by Don Oriolo. The musical score and closing theme was composed and performed by the Club Foot Orchestra (Gino Robair, musical director; Deirdre McClure, conductor).

A number of the episodes have been released on video by BMG Video and Universal Studios Home Entertainment , and thirteen have been posted to YouTube.

[edit] 1995-1997 Episode titles

Producer Timothy Berglund oversaw the following episodes with his writing and directing staff:

[edit] Trivia

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• Producer Timothy Berglund, a director of Rocko's Modern Life for Nickelodeon, aka Timothy Bjorklund, and later executive producer of The Disney Channel's animated series Teacher's Pet and Brandy and Mr. Whiskers, also directed the Disney animated feature Teacher's Pet.
• Lynne Naylor, one of the show's directors, was the only female director on staff for Nickelodeon's notorious series Ren and Stimpy.
• The song "Noah's Nightclub," from the episode of the same name, was nominated for an Annie Award and written by writer-composer Martin Olson.
• Maxwell Atoms, animator, creator of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy worked on the show.
• In the show's title sequence, Felix is seen in his famous "pacing" pose as a CGI wireframe. It would also appear in the episode "The Sludge King (Part 1)".

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat at the Internet Movie Database
• The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat at TV.com
• Episode index at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Phony Phelix on YouTube