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Genre	Kids, Family, Animation, Comedy
Created by	Bob Godfrey Stan Hayward
Written by	Kevin Baldwin Bob Godfrey Stan Hayward Mike Knowles
Directed by	Bob Godfrey
Voices of	Bob Godfrey
Narrated by	Bob Godfrey
Theme music composer	Peter Shade John Hyde Rowland Lee Jonathan Hodge
Opening theme	Henry's Cat Theme
Ending theme	Henry's Cat Theme (Instrumental)
No. of series	5
No. of episodes	51
Production
Producer(s)	Bob Godfrey
Running time	5 minutes (Series 1 and 2) 15 minutes (Series 3, 4 and 5)
Production company(s)	Bob Godfrey Films Ltd.
Release
Original network	BBC1 (1983–1985), Children's BBC (1985–1993)
Picture format	4:3 480i (SDTV) 4:3 576i (SDTV)
Audio format	Mono Stereo Dolby Stereo Dolby Surround
Original release	12 September 1983 (1983-09-12) – 1993 (1993)

Henry's Cat is a British animated children's television series, created by Stan Hayward and directed by Bob Godfrey, who was also the producer of Roobarb and Noah and Nelly in... SkylArk. The show starred a yellow feline, known only as Henry's Cat, and his many friends and enemies. In every episode, narration and character voices were provided by Bob Godfrey.

Henry's Cat was first screened by BBC Television in the United Kingdom on 12 September 1983, and aired 51 episodes. Five series were made in total.

Characters
Episode list
Credits
- Series 1
- Series 2
- Series 3
- Series 4
- Series 5

Characters

Henry's Cat and his friends

Henry's Cat – laid-back, a daydreamer, with a great passion for eating.
Chris Rabbit – Henry's Cat's best friend, an ever-enthusiastic, highly energetic blue rabbit.
Mosey Mouse – the opposite of Chris Rabbit, Mosey is dour and realistic.
Douglas Dog, Sammy Snail, Pansy Pig, Denise Duck, Ted Tortoise, Philippe Frog – miscellaneous friends of Henry's Cat. They all mean well, but often overestimate their own abilities in various ways.

His enemies

Farmer Giles – a (human) farmer with a West Country accent, frequently inconvenienced by Henry's Cat's adventures.
Constable Bulldog – a stern policeman (or police dog) who takes a very dim view of the gang's well-meaning escapades.
Rum Baa Baa – a criminal mastermind, and the world's most evil sheep.

Henry

Henry himself never appeared on screen; the name is thought by some to be an allusion to an earlier one-off Hayward/Godfrey collaboration, Henry 9 'til 5, about a bowler-hatted commuter who escaped his boring everyday life by indulging in daydreams. Henry's Cat shared the earlier character's tendency toward wild flights of fancy and laid-back approach to life. Henry's Cat creator Stan Hayward included the official explanation for the character's lack of a name on the official Henry's Cat Special Edition DVD in 2000. The explanation was that Henry, an unseen character in the series, had been Henry's Cat's original owner. He had moved away, and Henry's Cat had forgotten to go with him. He had a terrible memory, and later even forgot his own name, and so became known simply as "Henry's Cat".

Episode list

Series 1 (1983–1984)

Each episode in this series is 5 minutes long.

#	Title	Summary	Original air date
1	The Race	Henry's Cat holds a race with all his friends racing with their own talents.	12 September 1983
2	The Hypnotist	Henry's Cat is inspired by the TV to try out hypnotism to help his friends, but soon decides to undo his hypnosis.	13 September 1983
3	The Hobby	Henry's Cat is inspired to find a hobby of his own and watches his friends doing theirs.	14 September 1983
4	The Treasure	Henry's Cat and Chris Rabbit try to find treasure with a dividing stick.	15 September 1983
5	The Whale	Henry's Cat goes fishing for a whale to get something new to eat.	16 September 1983
6	The Diet	Henry's Cat takes the advice of a weighing machine to cut down on overeating and take exercise.	19 September 1983
7	The Invention	Henry's Cat is inspired to invent a machine and ends inventing something for Captain McGregor.	20 September 1983
8	The Circus	Henry's Cat sees a circus and sees this as an exciting opportunity.	21 September 1983
9	The Holiday	Henry's Cat goes on holiday on a sailing boat at sea.	22 September 1983
10	The Competition	Henry's Cat, Chris Rabbit and Mosey Mouse dress up as a one-man band for a competition.	23 September 1983
11	The Film	Henry's Cat gets an old film cine camera to make a film starring his friends.	26 September 1983
12	The Artist	Henry's Cat tries to learn about art and how artists see things differently.	27 September 1983
13	The Moon Trip	Henry's Cat and Chris Rabbit go in a balloon for a journey to the moon.	28 September 1983
14	The Fortune Teller	Henry's Cat goes to a fortune teller at a funfair with his future near at hand.	29 September 1983
15	The Disco Dance	Henry's Cat takes his friends to a disco dance competition. When that does not work out, they join a carnival.	30 September 1983
16	The Ill Wind	A sick Henry's Cat imagines himself dying and going to the afterlife.	13 September 1984
17	The Dream	Henry's Cat falls asleep after eating a lot, dreaming about vivid things.	20 September 1984
18	The Robbery	Henry's Cat becomes detective, but runs into Mosey Mouse's uncle.	27 September 1984
19	The Explorer	Henry's Cat goes exploring to find the West Pole.	4 October 1984
20	The Christmas Dinner	Henry's Cat helps Chris Rabbit prepare a Christmas Dinner but get themselves stuck.	24 December 1984

Series 2 (1984–1986)

Each episode in this series is 5 minutes long.

#	Title	Summary	Original air date
21	The Secret Weapon	Henry's Cat dreams about himself and Chris Rabbit as scientists defending the earth from little blue men.	11 October 1984
22	The Hot Day	On a hot day, Henry's Cat unknowingly finds himself joining the Foreign Legion in the hot desert.	18 October 1984
23	The Invitation	Henry's Cat is invited to dinner party with Lady Snotgrove, but he feels unprepared without proper table manners.	25 October 1984
24	The Magic Tummy Button	Henry's Cat and his friends search a museum for the lost temple of Aki-Kun-Bubu to find the magic tummy button.	1 November 1984
25	The Actor	Henry's Cat decides to become a famous actor and does in the Theatre by accident.	8 November 1984
26	The Ventriloquist	Henry's Cat enters a contest as a ventriloquist with Chris Rabbit as his dummy, but it all goes wrong.	15 November 1984
27	The Hero	Henry's Cat imagines his Great Uncle Felix's adventure as an ace fighter pilot against Baron Von Baa Baa.	22 November 1984
28	The Catseye Kid	Henry's Cat imagines himself as the cowboy Catseye who is out to stop the cattle rancher, Bandit Baa Baa.	29 November 1984
29	The Clever Trick	Henry's Cat learns a trick to bend objects, which eventually makes him famous around the world.	6 December 1984
30	The Abominable Snowman	Henry's Cat and Chris Rabbit go an expedition which winds them up in trouble.	13 December 1984
31	Caveman Cat	Henry's Cat daydreams about being a cave cat with his inventing neighbour Chris Rabbit.	20 December 1984
32	The New Year's Resolution	Henry's Cat is prompted to take exercise for New Year with a backwards running race with his friends.	28 December 1984
33	The Good News Day	On a day when nothing happens, Henry's Cat dreams he is a heroic captain of a world cruising plane.	3 January 1985
34	The Merry Men and Women	Henry's Cat dresses as Robin Hood and recruits his friend as his Merry Men and Women.	10 January 1985
35	The Weatherman	Henry's Cat becomes weathermen to report good weather forecasts.	4 December 1986

Series 3 (1986)

Each episode in this series is 15 minutes long.

#	Title	Summary	Original air date
36	The Treasure Hunt	Henry's Cat dreams of being a member of his own crew at sea after reading Treasure Island.	8 January 1986
37	The Day of Terrible Jokes	Henry's Cat fascinated by Medieval Knights dreams that he is a bold knight winning a jousting tournament against Sir Loin of Lamb. After that he is sent to capture a three-headed dragon.	15 January 1986
38	The Case of the Pilfered Pearls	Henry's Cat imagines himself as Sherlock Holmes on the trail of Rum Baba (here operating under the name of Rumbini) who has been using his magic shows as a means to steal expensive jewellery from the rich.	22 January 1986
39	The Lost World	Henry's Cat fascinated by a TV program called Tarzan dreams that he himself is a jungle man with the huge responsibility to take care of the Lost World. The next day Henry's Cat has to stop Rum Baa Baa from capturing the dinosaurs.	29 January 1986
40	The Computer	Henry's Cat goes to a computer exhibition. There he rents a small computer robot he calls Pooter. Trying to buy Pooter is hard and keep his house orderly is difficult for Henry's Cat.	5 February 1986
41	The Correspondence Course	After seeing a cartoon advertisement on TV, Henry's Cat decides to become an animator himself. This episode features a character called Big Bob, who is a caricature of Bob Godfrey.	12 February 1986

Series 4 (1986–1987)

Each episode in this series is 15 minutes long.

#	Title	Summary	Original air date
42	Once Upon a Time	Henry's Cat imagines himself meeting various fairy tale characters – and a wolf who wants to eat Little Red Riding Hood's Granny.	22 December 1986
43	The Birthday Caper	Fed up on his birthday, Henry's Cat decides to go to Hollywood.	13 February 1987
44	The Funny Feeling	Mosey Mouse catches Clownitis, a disease a year on Mid-Summer's Day after he drank Moo-Moo Juice. Henry's Cat rushes to the Moo-Moo Juice factory to stop Rum Baa Baa (who is controlling the machine).	20 February 1987
45	Out for the Count	Henry's Cat and Chris Rabbit are in a blowing gum match, but get lost and enter the creepy castle of Count Rum Baa Baa. Together they thwart his experiments.	22 September 1987
46	The Jingle	Henry's Cat and Chris Rabbit go to Cyril Chipper to help in his advertising campaign becoming successful.	1 December 1987
47	The Great Adventure	Henry's Cat and his friends go to space in a flying carrot, eat food tablets, and try to stop Rum Baa Baa.	8 December 1987

Series 5 (1992–1993)

Each episode in this series is 13 minutes long.

#	Title	Summary	Original air date
48	The Mystery of the Missing Santa	Henry's Cat and Chris Rabbit as detectives goes on a caper to find the a kidnapped Santa. They both break in the chateau, rescue Santa and get Count Baa Baa arrested.	24 December 1992
49	When Time Went Wrong	After attempting to fix his cuckoo clock, Henry's Cat along with Chris Rabbit travel in time to the Prehistoric Times. As they try to go back to the Present, they travel from one Epoch into another.	30 December 1992
50	The New President	Henry's Cat applies to be the new president of the United States of America so he can have his face carved into Mount Rushmore. Chris Rabbit tells him about the history of America featuring George Washington, Charlie Chaplin and the Seven Dwarfs.	1993
51	Valentine's Day	Henry's Cat has a brand new TV set (with so many channels), and sees Pansy Pig (with a paper bag on her head, thinking she is ugly), so he hosts "Blind Dates". With contestants: Rum Baa Baa, Sam Pig (Pansy's love interest) and Ted Tortoise. Note: This episode coupled with 'The President's Day' won a Cable Ace Award in 1994 for Best Children's TV Series. Also Channel No. 5 on Henry's Cat's new TV resembles to the future TV channel, Channel 5.	1993

Credits

Series 1

Created by: Stan Hayward
Script: Stan Hayward
Animation: Bob Godfrey, Paul Stone, Kevin Baldwin
Music & Sound: Peter Shade
Narrated by: Bob Godfrey
Camera & Editing: Derek Phillips
Production: Mike Hayes
Produced & Directed by: Bob Godfrey

Series 2

Created by: Stan Hayward
Script: Stan Hayward
Animation: Kevin Baldwin, Bob Godfrey, Malcolm Hartley, Drew Mandigo, Paul Stone
Music: John Hyde / de Wolfe Ltd.
Dubbing: John Wood Studios
Editing: Sean Lenihan
Camera: Derek Phillips
Production: Mike Hayes
Produced, Directed and Narrated by: Bob Godfrey

Series 3

Created by: Stan Hayward
Script: Stan Hayward
Animation: Kevin Baldwin, Bob Godfrey, Malcolm Hartley, Mark Oz, Paul Rosevear
Music: John Hyde / de Wolfe Ltd
Trace & Paint: Tancy Baran, Beryl Godfrey, Louise Unwin
Camera: Derek Phillips
Editing: John Daniels
Production: Mike Hayes
Produced, Directed and Narrated by: Bob Godfrey

Series 4

Created by: Stan Hayward
Script: Stan Hayward
Animation: Kevin Baldwin, Bob Godfrey, Neil Salmon
Additional Animation: Steve Roberts
Music: Jonathan Hodge
Trace and Paint: Beryl Godfrey, Louise Unwin
Camera: Julian Holdaway, Heather Reader
Editing: Picture Head
Production: Mike Hayes
Narrated, Directed and Produced by: Bob Godfrey

Series 5

Created by: Stan Hayward
Script: Stan Hayward, Mike Knowles, Kevin Baldwin, Bob Godfrey
Storyboard, Layouts, Animation: Kevin Baldwin
Additional Animation: Jeff Goldner, Neil Salmon, Bob Godfrey, Jody Gannon.
Trace and Paint: Denise Hambry, Lisa Smith, Jazvinda Phull, Beryl Godfrey, Ricky Arnold
Music: Rowland Lee
Title Music: Jonathan P. Hodge
Camera: Jeremy Moorshead
Backgrounds: Bob Godfrey
Editing: Picturehead
Production: Mike Hayes
Narrated, Produced and Directed by: Bob Godfrey

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