As a
young adult, when I would get into conversations with others about TV shows
that we watched as children, I mentioned a show titled “T.H.E. Cat.” Invariably I would be met with blank stares,
looks of concern, lots of deep sighs and comments like this: “I don’t remember that one, Dan. Perhaps it’s time for you to take some
medication, huh?”
In
fact, I almost started to think that maybe I did, somehow, make up memories of
watching the show and it never really existed in the first place. (After all, I made up those memories of Bruce
Lee and I going to ninja school together.)
But
then came the Internet and all of the world’s most obscure information was now
just a few keystrokes away. With great
joy—and a touch of relief—I discovered that a TV show titled “T.H.E. Cat” did,
in fact, exist!
YES!!!! I didn’t make it up, after all!
T.H.E.
Cat aired on NBC during the 1966-1967 television season. The star of the series was Robert
Loggia. There are clips from the show that
can be viewed on YouTube.
You
say, “For crying out loud, so what, Dan?
Who cares? Why are you even
writing about this?!?”
Here’s
why: There is a section on each person’s
Facebook page, which lists favorite TV shows and I’m fairly certain I am the ONLY
person, of the hundreds of millions of Facebook users, who lists T.H.E. Cat as
a favorite TV show.
In
fact, you know what? I’m just going to
come right out and boldly put it here in writing: I’m positive—absolutely positive—I have to be
the ONLY person in the entire realm of Facebook who lists “T.H.E. Cat” as a
favorite TV show!
Okay,
that’s pretty much all I needed to report, at this time. You may now return to your regularly
scheduled online activities.
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