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[[File:TopCatsGangofCats.jpg|frame|From left to right: Officer Dibble, Fancy-Fancy, Benny, Top Cat, Choo-Choo, Spook, Brain]]
[[Hanna
Top Cat led his gang of alley cats through one [[Zany Scheme]] after another, keeping the cats ahead of Officer Charlie Dibble, the local beat cop. The series obviously took a page from ''[[The Phil Silvers Show]]'', with "T.C." (as his gang called him) based on Phil Silvers' Sgt. Ernie Bilko.
In the late 1980s, Arnold Stang reprised his Top Cat role in the syndicated series ''[[
A traditionally animated Top Cat movie has [https://web.archive.org/web/20120615040920/http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/mexican-top-cat-movie-in-3d.html been released] in 2011 in Mexico, where the show has been especially popular in the past decades
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* [[Animated Series]]
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: In one episode where Officer Dibble has been replaced by another, even more strict, cop, T.C. convinced said cop that city's mayor is Cha-cha Charlie, a gangster wanted by police for extortion, smuggling and leading a dance school without permission.
* [[Big Applesauce]]
* [[Black Bead Eyes]]: Benny. Also Dibble in the show, but he gained sclerae in modern depictions, as seen above.
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* [[The Charmer]]: TC, ''big time''.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Benny and Brain
* [[Coin
* [[Completely Different Title]]: ''Don Gato'' (kinda like ''Mr. Cat'') in Latin America
** The name "Don Gato" was probably to make him look like a ''Mafia Don''. Top Cat is the leader of a (small-time) criminal gang, after all.
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* [[Friendly Enemy|Friendly Enemies]]: TC and Dibble. The former will always find a way to humiliate the latter, while the latter is deliriously happy at every opportunity to arrest TC. But they'd give their lives for each other just as quickly.
* [[The Fettered]]: Officer Dibble. He's passionately devoted to his duty, even when his duty causes him great grief and makes him the butt of all jokes.
* [[Half
* [[Half
* [[Jerk
* [[Jive Turkey]]: Spook.
* [[Landmark Sale]]
* [[Laugh Track]]: Except in the Mexican dub.
* [[Lions and Tigers
* [[Meddlesome Patrolman]]: Officer Dibble
* [[Mistaken Identity]]: Benny is subject to a few of these.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: In the episode "The Tycoon", a millionaire in search of a needy person to give a million dollars to, learned from Benny how off the gang was, so he wrote out a check to Top Cat. As a result, when all the merchants found out, Top Cat and his bunch were treated like royalty. [[Easy Come, Easy Go|But in the end, they lost everything again]] because Top Cat tore up the check because he thought it was for a twenty-five cent raffle.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Fancy's voice is basically Cary Grant.
* [[Non
* [[On One Condition]]: In "The Missing Heir", a rich person's disappeared cat had a deadline to reappear or else the butler would get the inheritance. Benny [[Mistaken Identity|was mistaken]] for the missing cat, turning him into the target of the butler's ire. The real cat then appeared and got the money despite having missed the deadline. The viewers were left to assume it was because [[The Butler Did It|it was the butler]] who caused the disappearance in the first place.
** ''Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats'': With the disappearance of Mrs. Vandergelt's niece Amy Vandergelt, Benny was the next in line for the inheritance. (Mrs. Vandergelt had other relatives but [[Passed Over Inheritance|despised them all]] for unspecified reasons) Provided Amy didn't return and nothing bad happened to Benny into the next 48 hours, he'd get the inheritance. If something happened to him, the butler would get the money.
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* [[Writing Around Trademarks]]: Known in the United Kingdom as ''Boss Cat'', as there was a British cat food brand called Top Cat. Only the on-screen title was changed, the theme tune still used "Top Cat".
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: T.C. is a master at these, even when they devolve into [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]. Even when his plans go terribly wrong, he never ends up worse than when he started, and someone, whether Officer Dibble or one of his gang, ''always'' comes out better off.
** In the movie, {{spoiler|Top Cat makes [[The Big Bad]] self-destructs his entire system, after using a telephone he [[
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: The cats have interesting fur colors.
* [[Zany Scheme]]
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