Talk:Heathcliff (1984 TV series)

Country of origin
Why remove the notion that France is one of the country of origin ? I put it back and added the creators of the Catillac cats characters. REmoved the info regarding the producer of the 1980 show which has nothing to do on this page. If a source is needed, only looke at the en generique of the show : www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KxR085keHg

Future of DVD
What I found on the Shout Factory web-site is that it did not sell enough to continue future years - but, this was on TV for at least two to three seasons. The theme song was switched with an alternate theme song on at least one episode where "Heathcliff" is replaced with "Cats & Company", otherwise the song is the same. I have no info on such, but it seemed to me that "Cats & Company" may have been a proposed cartoon that was combined into the well known "Heathcliff"?? Watching the show there is a different style to the "Heathcliff" cats vs. the "Cats & Company" cats. Only reference I ever had was back when the show was made in the 1980's there were two industry magazines "Broadcasting & Cable" magazine, and another similar magazine that the local college had a subscription. Looking at the web-sites of the current version of such magazine, nothing is available of back issues that far back. http://www.broadcastingcable.com/archive

If correct there would be about 24 x 3 years = about 75 shows total. Was a syndicated program sold to independent stations, later shown on cable on the Cartoon Network or similar... Kidsheaven 22:25, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

Theme Song
The entry on the theme song is deeply in error as to which version appeared first. The "Heathcliff, Heathcliff" version seemed.. frankly.. alien, when it first appeared on the Nickelodeon airings of the series. The "Cats & Company" version is, in fact, the original theme used for the sindicated package airings. That version was only retained for a single episode when the series was repackaged for Nickelodeon, and the "Heathcliff version has (,in my unencyclopedic opinion, unfortunately) been used ever since. Angel the Techrat 03:25, 25 September 2007 (UTC)


 * No, you're wrong. I used to watch the show in syndication, and have never watched it on Nickelodeon at all, and I'm quite familiar with both versions of the theme. The Heathcliff Heathcliff one came first, near as I can tell, but in any case it's not something Nick came up with.76.226.196.123 (talk) 20:17, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

The song's rhythm is based on the song "Who Put The Bomp" by Barry Mann from 61'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.178.134.142 (talk) 11:20, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

The Heathcliff Heathcliff... theme tune is the only one I remember being used on the UK BBC broadcasts. 88.107.121.170 (talk) 01:51, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

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Inspector Gadget Cameos
As I recall there were a couple of instances where Inspector Gadget made cameos on the tv sets shown in a couple or episodes of the cartoon as an easter egg, perhaps as a tribute to Jean Chalopin, Andy Heyword, and Bruno Bianchi being heavily involved in both shows (and the creators of Inspector Gadget)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.250.159.172 (talk) 21:38, 16 March 2013 (UTC)

Country of origin
The country of origin has changed numerous times in the past few weeks, bouncing between American and French–American, yet nobody's providing any quality references. According to the S1 credits (Can't use this as a reference, since it is possibly a copyright violation, but see 00:45) the series was clearly identified with the info:
 * ©1984 This is a DIC-ICC-FR3 co-production in cooperation with MacNaught Synd., Inc. and LBS
 * This program has been produced as an official Canada–France co-production

Now I don't know how long it was an official Canada–France co-pro, but it's clear that Canada should be included as a nation of origin. That said, I think "Canadian–French–American" is too bulky for the lead, and taking a page out of MOS:FILM it would probably be smart to omit it from the lead sentence and go into detail in a subsequent sentence. "The first season was a Canadian–French co-production between X, Y and Z, while subsequent seasons originated from the American companies, A, B and C." or whatever the case might be. I'll also note that while we cannot use the YouTube video above as a reference, we can cite individual episodes from each season as a source for the info. Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:11, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

Hello, I added the French info, but if you look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Gadget, ( same creators ) it is presented as a French-Canadian-American animated television series. Why not presenting this show the same way ? I think people may be mistaking it with the first show wich is indeed an all American show. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathcliff_(1980_TV_series). This could be a source regarding the origin of the creators of the show : Animation: A World History: Volume II: The Birth of a Style - The Three Markets Page 181.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:E35:8AAB:1C0:3D3B:5FC2:45E0:D0F0 (talk) 17:54, 25 February 2016 (UTC)

Characters in other series
French version of this page says that some characters from Heathcliff appears in some inspector Gadget's episode (from Jean Chalopin too). Maybe it would be interesting to add it as a section in this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:E35:8A8D:FE80:D39:A170:9054:127C (talk) 04:32, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

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