Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats

There's a new arrival in the neighborhood. A highbrow English couple, and their equally-arched cat - Reginald. From the start, Reginald and Heathcliff don't see eye-to-eye. And Heathcliff's anger reaches the boiling point when Reginald steals Sonja away, taking her on a date. Heathcliff trails them, with constant unfortunate results - for Heathcliff. Still, Heathcliff's impressed when Reginald has the fortitude to admit Sonja's really Heathcliff's girl. A twist of fate has locked Reginald out of his house, and he goes in search of shelter. This leads to a tangle with the Alley Cats; a near-capture by the Dog Catcher; and a tussle with Spike - with Reginald being saved each time by Heathcliff. In the end it's tit-for-tat. Heathcliff's learned a little about how to treat Sonja like a lady; so he sets out to teach Reginald how to survive - Heathcliff-style. / After Riff Raff saves Mungo from a bad fall, Mungo becomes Riff Raff's servant in gratitude and slowly drives Riff Raff crazy. When he can't even get a kiss from Cleo because Mungo is ever-present, Riff Raff decides to set up a situation where Mungo saves him. While boating on the lake, things don't go Riff Raff's way and he ends up saving Mungo from drowning. On dry land, however, Mungo rescues Riff Raff twice, thus paying him back; but at the last minute Cleo saves Mungo and Riff Raff from a runaway car and it starts all over again!

While browsing through a magazine, Heathcliff dreams of what it would be like to be a rich Beverly Hills cat. He soon finds out, slipping off into dreamland. But once in Beverly Hills, Heathcliff finds out it's not the land of milk and honey he imagined. Lacking status, clothes and manners, he is soon pursued by an angry mob who feels he doesn't fit in. Heathcliff awakens to find he's safe in the Nutmeg household, which beats Beverly Hills any day. / Mungo's giant creation of a metal moving cat is ridiculed by the gang. Mungo overhears Mangle's plans to destroy the junkyard then buy it cheap. The Cats make hasty plans to defend their home, but Mangle's forces are overwhelming. It looks like all is lost until Mungo brings his Super-Cat on the scene to drive them away.

Heathcliff's really been in a mood lately - a virtual 'Heathcliff reign of terror.' He's nailed the milkman, Spike, the Fishmonger, etc.. It's gotten so bad that every time Grandpa puts down the phone, it rings again - and somebody else complains. So, the Nutmegs take Heathcliff to a "Shrink" the famous Dr. Hans Headfixer. After a few sessions, Heathcliff's cured all right. In fact, he's not the same cat. He's docile...serene...kind of stupid-acting actually. It doesn't take long for the Alley Cats and Spike to begin to take advantage. At last, THEY can terrorize HEATHCLIFF. The Nutmeg aren't exactly happy with the 'new' Heathcliff, and the whole matter magnifies when a burglar comes calling. Heathcliff actually helps the intruder out. BUT - finally - a twist of fate brings our old friend, the REAL Heathcliff back. / Mungo looks into the garbage can in Screwloose's painting and literally falls into the painting. Not realizing this, Hector adds a lid to the can trapping Mungo inside. Rex Snob, the art critic loves it and Screwloose arranges for the painting to be taken to the art gallery before heading out on a ten year world exhibit. Riff Raff swipes it and puts his imagination to work to get Mungo out.

Grandpa accidentally feeds Heathcliff some Super doggy Vitamins. Gradually, Heathcliff undergoes a startling transformation which includes barking at trucks and passing up fish in favor of bones. Worst of all, he finds himself feeling friendly toward Spike. Heathcliff eventually sets things straight by taking a massive dose of cat vitamins, with Iggy's help. / The cats put a new engine into the Catillac not realizing it is a time machine engine of Professor Craziloon. Before they know it they're back in the old West. After a few close calls with some rough and tough characters and a wild stagecoach chase in pursuit of their stolen caddy, they get the car back in the nick of time to be transported back to the future.

When Mugsy is bragging to the neighborhood kids about how tough Spike is, Heathcliff makes an appearance and proceeds to beat up on the hapless pooch. Mugsy's had enough. He kicks Spike out of his life. With nowhere left to go, Spike hits the streets. It's not an easy life for a dog who's known only living in a home. Spike has a hard time when he runs up against dogs who live in the alleys. He can't even get himself picked up by the dogcatcher, in hopes of finding a new master. Things take a turn in Spike's favor, however, when Heathcliff and Iggy see him. Heathcliff delights in Spike's plight, but Iggy feels sad for him, offering to take him in. Heathcliff, of course, is horrified. With Spike living in the Nutmeg household, Heathcliff's life is turned topsy-turvy. Everything from sleeping to eating dinner is a nightmare for Heathcliff, who has the lumbering Spike to contend with. Desperate to get rid of him, Heathcliff hatches a plot. He sets up a situation where Mugsy will be able to see Spike beat up on Heathcliff. It isn't easy to goad Spike into a fight, but he finally succeeds and Mugsy witnesses it. Proud of his dog, Mugsy takes him back, much to Heathcliff's relief. / Mungo sees the feline of his dreams, Lulu, (who looks just like him), but doesn't know how to ask her out. Everyone has advice - play hard to get; be athletic; act like a rock star; etc, etc. Lulu is intrigued but thinks he's mixed up. Nothing works until Lulu suggests she'd love to go out with the real Mungo which is a great relief to him!

Heathcliff changes places with his royal cat double - Sir Beetcliff. Each has a hard time adjusting to the other's life. Heathcliff finally has his fill of the good life. He breaks loose from his gilded cage, returns home, and evicts Beetcliff. / Mungo becomes King of the Mungo Bungolese and does not recognize his buddies after their harrowing trip through the jungle to save Mungo from the life of a King. After showering the prisoners, Mungo realizes who they are just as he is about to boil them in chocolate. Mungo helps them escape to the fury of the Bungolese. They are reunited and friends again as they sail away sharing Mungo's lunch-to-go.

Heathcliff shows up at Sonja's place to take her out for their anniversary. In turn, each of them recants the story of their first date. Heathcliff's memory is filled with gallantry and expensive restaurants. Sonja remembers it quite a different way. In the end, Heathcliff points out that what's important is that he did remember it was their anniversary. Sonja counters, telling him their anniversary isn't until tomorrow...and that's when he can take her out exactly the way he recalls that first date as having been! / If Runt can beat Mungo in just one Catlympic event, Riff Raff must give up control of the junkyard; but if Mungo wins, the Catillac Cats get all of Louie's cat food. Mungo wins easily despite the opposition's tricks, until the boxing match where Runt appears to be much bigger. Mungo does his best against his awesome opponent, but it looks like he'll lose the match until Riff Raff discovers the boxer isn't Runt. Mungo wins and the fish is delicious!

While laid up with a broken leg, Heathcliff thinks he has witnessed the dog napping of Spike. He sends the Alley Cats on a detecting misadventure. Finally he takes the investigation into his own paws, but the Alley Cats leave him dangling. Spike returns and sends Heathcliff flying - to another broken leg. / Raiding a sushi bar, the Catillac Cats come up against the ninja cat-watcher and are soundly beaten and thrown out. Riff Raff challenges the ninja cat to a meeting in the junkyard and trains to be a ninja himself, but is again soundly beaten. After reverting to junkyard cat rules, the ninja has a taste of defeat.

When Heathcliff's fish thievery gets too carried away, Grandpa takes him to aversion therapy. Heathcliff is forced to look at fish in frightening situations and soon develops a fear for fish, thanks to the diabolical doctor running the clinic. The plan backfires, however, when Heathcliff channels his appetite to gourmet foods and the family refrigerator instead of fish. Emergency anti-aversion therapy returns him to being a fish-lover. As the family sets a fish feats in front of him, Heathcliff winks to camera, letting viewers know it's all been a ploy to get special treatment at home. / The Cats throw a birthday party for Leroy and they reminisce about how they all first met. It was Christmas Eve and they were all separately wandering about trying to get out of the snow and find something to eat. They were a snarly bunch at first until Cleo happened on the scene and they worked together to get by Leroy to get in the junkyard. A nearly frozen Leroy got a helping hand from them, so he allowed them in and the Catillac Cats were born.

Heathcliff's thrilled to learn his mom is coming to visit, but terrified she'll discover he's been fibbing about living with a wealthy family. Enlisting Sonja's aid, Heathcliff pretends to live in her mansion. Between dodging Marcy and Iggy in the neighborhood and the maid and butler inside the mansion, Heathcliff has his hands full keeping up a fat-cat front. Finally, Heathcliff confesses to Mom. After meeting the Nutmegs she wonders why Heathcliff bothered fibbing when he lives with such a wonderful family. Giving Mom a goodbye kiss, Heathcliff suggests that maybe he lives with a good family because he came from a good family. / Riff Raff and the Catastrophe Cats compete in a hockey game. The loser has to stay away from Cleo. Despite dirty tricks and cheating by the Catastrophe Cats, the Catillac Cats pull out all the stops and skate to victory.

Heathcliff watches Grandpa as he trims the rose bushes, cutting them back way too much. Our hero jumps to wild conclusions when he learns the city plans on trimming the trees on city streets. Heathcliff spreads the news to the neighborhood pets and kids that the trees are going to be chopped down. Soon the kids and pets have mobilized into protest, blocking the path of the city workers. Things quickly escalate out of hand with riot police and helicopters being called in. The mayor finally negotiates an agreement to allow Heathcliff to personally supervise the trimming of the trees, and the crisis passes. / Hector is hired as bodyguard to Monty Manx - star of stage and screen - and gets a case of cat food as pay. Riff Raff works out a scam with Hector Riff Raff will threaten Monty and Hector will save the day. They earn a lot of fish until Monty catches on and hires some real bodyguards!

Out-of-weight, out-of-shape HEATHCLIFF is coerced into a crash course at the local cat health emporium - Feline Good. After going through the wringer at the unmerciful hands of the spa manager, Biff Biceps, Heathcliff has had enough. Together with the alley cats, he turns the tables (and the Nautilus Machines) on Biff. / Cleo is "Miss Off Road" and will present the trophy and kiss the winner of the Big Race. Riff Raff enters the Race so no one else will kiss his girl. Billy Bob uses nothing but dirty tricks to win until it backfires on him. The caddy ends up being pulled by Mungo but still another car wins. But to their surprise the winner is a girl who will be kissed by "Mr. Off Road." Riff Raff needn't have worried after all!

After seeing Spike beat up by Heathcliff, a small canine newcomer to the neighborhood tells Spike he should be ashamed to call himself a dog. He tells him no dog should get beat up by a cat. Spike agrees, but tells the mutt that Heathcliff is no ordinary cat. The new pooch tells Spike that between the two of them they'll be able to lick Heathcliff. Spike's coach helps him set up an elaborate series of traps to catch Heathcliff, all of which backfire and cause more damage to Spike. Finally having had enough, Spike turns on the pooch and gets him caught in one of his own traps. / A local car dealer, Nevada Worthless, is offering a free smorgasbord to come in and look around the lot - any car taken as a trade in. The Cats decide this free food is for them, but Nevada's various pets keep chasing them out. With the help of Leroy the cats hide in the caddy and get onto the lot where they get busy swiping the food while Leroy talks trade-in. They make a good getaway, but to Leroy's disgust he has made a conquest of Checkers, the bulldog!

A new cat tries to move in on Heathcliff's 'operation.' But Heathcliff quickly shows him who's boss. The angry new cat decides the only way to dispose of Heathcliff is to make it look like he's gone on a rampage, causing all sorts of trouble. Donning a cat costume that resembles Heathcliff, the villain terrorizes the neighborhood, causing even Grandpa and Grandma to turn against Heathcliff. But Heathcliff and Iggy spot the impostor and turn the tables on him. / While Riff Raff is away, the Catillac Cats are distracted by some beautiful felines and the former owner of the Catillac reclaims it from the junkyard. Led by a furious Riff Raff, the cats find the car but are foiled from getting it back by an alarm system and repeatedly being sent to the pound where Riff Raff has to keep springing them loose. The cats finally scare the owner into thinking the car is haunted by feline ghosts. He gladly gives the car up to the cats delight.

Heathcliff is romping through the fish market, the fish monger in pursuit, when he comes face to face with the skeleton of the jaws of a shark. The shock creates a state of amnesia for Heathcliff. He wanders aimlessly about town, trying to remember who he is. The alley cats and Spike take full advantage of the situation, telling Heathcliff he's their butler. Eventually, Heathcliff wanders to a mission for down and out pets. Iggy, broken-hearted, puts up reward posters for Heathcliff's return. Grandpa and Grandma come across Heathcliff at the mission as they're making a donation, but he doesn't remember them. Everyone works together to create a scene in which Sonja appears to be in grave danger, thus shocking Heathcliff's memory back to normal. / Elsie, a bag cat and friend of the Catillac Cats is still love-sick over Top Hat Cat. They were in love years ago and planned to elope even though Elsie was from the wrong side of the tracks, but their plans fell through. Riff Raff wrangles an invitation to Top Hat Cat's birthday party and give Elsie a make-over. Everyone at the party exclaims over her and after talking to her, Top Hat Cat recognizes her as the love of his life and they are reunited. Meanwhile the Catillac Cats teach these uppity cats how to loosen up and have a good time.

Heathcliff is getting heat from everyone at home. He departs to join the French Cat legion, deciding the neighborhood would be better off without him. But he learns that the life of a legionnaire is not all it's cracked up to be. He is tortured, overworked, imprisoned, and sent on impossible missions. Heathcliff escapes dressed as a belly dancer and returns the old neighborhood to normal - Heathcliff style! / The Cats play one trick too many on Leroy and get him fired. Thinking they have the junkyard to themselves, they are surprised and horrified to meet Brutus, the new guard dog. The Cats find down-on-his-luck Leroy and get him involved in getting his job back. After trapping Brutus in his own cage (where he had Wordsworth locked up), Brutus pleads with the cats to let him out. His shady business practices are overheard by the supervisor who reinstates Leroy. He'd rather have a lousy honest guard than a good crook.

Iggy is intent on inventing a revolutionary plant food. When Heathcliff manages to spill some of the potion on himself, he begins to undergo a strange transformation. His hair grows longer and bushier and thicker by the minute. At first Heathcliff enjoys this new image, feeling his long locks will attract the attention of female felines. He proudly struts his stuff down the streets as his hair continues to grow. But finally Heathcliff turns into a gigantic walking fur ball. Buried deep within his own mass of hair, Heathcliff is rolled back home where Iggy manages to concoct an antidote. / While the junkyard is supposedly being fumigated, the Cats head for the hills for a camping trip and get more than they bargained for when a bunch of raccoons make their lives miserable. The Cats finally get back at them, while driving the ranger crazy, but receive a thorough and unplanned water cleaning of their own in the process.

A pair of con artist cats decide to burglarize the Nutmeg home, but they have to get Heathcliff out of the way first. The female cat poses as a fortune teller and makes a number of predictions for Heathcliff, ending with one that will get him out of the house at midnight so they can rob it. As the predictions appear to come true, Heathcliff grows increasingly excited about the final prediction that he will receive ten cases of fish if he's in the garage at midnight. Heathcliff is where he's supposed to be at the appointed time, and the male con artist ties him up. Spike comes to the rescue, freeing Heathcliff, and the two of them join forces to send the villains running. / The Easter Bunny tells the Cats how eggs became colored for Easter. Poor Henrietta Hen could not lay any eggs and was fired from her job at the hen house. Four kind cats tried to help her, but the advice of Peter Cottontail to eat vegetables is what did the trick. And most incredible of all - the eggs she laid were colored! Henrietta couldn't keep up with the demand, though, so she was reinstated in the hen house and put in charge of colored eggs to be distributed by Peter only at the beginning of spring.

Iggy's having trouble finding his baseball cap, when Grandma suggests he see if Heathcliff can locate it; after all, Heathcliff did find that Golden egg. We dissolve to the Easter story about the golden egg. It's Easter, and Heathcliff's picking up the eggs for the egg hunt. At the same time, a pair of thieves are stealing a valuable golden egg from the museum. Heathcliff and the crooks collide and the eggs are switched. Later, the criminals realize what happened and they track down Heathcliff. Posing as chickens, they tell Heathcliff they're looking for their missing golden egg. In the meantime. Pops learns of the stolen egg and busts out of jail to try to recover it. The thieves realize the egg is hidden among the others in the egg hunt and a mad chase scene takes place when everyone tries to get the golden egg. Heathcliff very nearly gets the egg when two cops show up and relieve him of it. Depressed that the egg got away from him, Heathcliff is at least buoyed by Sonja's praise of his bravery. Back to the present and Iggy nods in remembrance. He calls for Heathcliff, just as our hero walks into the house, solving the mystery of Iggy's missing baseball cap. It's perched on Heathcliff's furry head. / Mungo writes a letter to his Granny which tells the story of how Riff Raff felt he was being betrayed. Thinking Hector was trying to take over, Riff Raff barricades himself in his airplane and suspects everyone of trying to do him in. At the same time Wordsworth is preparing for the big art show. Mungo hears Hector and Cleo plotting and is afraid to tell Riff Raff. Turns out all the secrecy was a surprise for Riff Raff in honor of Boss' Day. And to top it off, Wordsworth wins first prize.

In what may well be Heathcliff's most bizarre adventure (or anyone else's for that matter!) the Nutmeg travel to New York for a vacation. Grandpa spins a yarn about how it's rumored there are alligators living in the sewer system and whoever could capture one would be a hero. While visiting a museum, Grandpa leaves Heathcliff with the hatcheck girl...but not for long. Heathcliff soon escapes and before long he's down in the sewers beneath the Big Apple, searching for an alligator. When he actually runs into one the episode turns into a wild chase in the sewers as cat and reptile clash in a titanic battle. Heathcliff emerges victorious, capturing the alligator and gaining the applauds of the Gotham citizenry. / Riff Raff tells the story of how he met Cleo in a rough-neck bar. He says he was one "cool cat." Cleo happens on the scene and tells the real story of how Riff Raff was about to be pulverized by Goon when a chandelier fell on the brute, giving Riff Raff and Cleo a chance to get away. Goon is now back in town and looking for Riff Raff which has him terrified. He screws up his courage and meets him to find out Goon is in town to congratulate Riff and Cleo and to apologize for his previous bad behavior.

When the postman mentions that Iggy's letter to Santa is being returned, Heathcliff is concerned that Santa may be retiring. There's only one thing to do. With Spike's help, Heathcliff mounts a north pole expedition. Polar Bears and arctic weather are only a few of the obstacles faced by Heathcliff and his dog sled...pulled, of course, by Spike. But their biggest problem comes in the form of a renegade elf who used to work at Santa's toy factory but was laid off. Angry at Santa, the elf tries to stop Heathcliff from reaching him. But eventually he sees the light and the three of them go to Santa. The elf confesses to having returned the letters and begs forgiveness. Santa takes him back, deciding to let the elf ride on the sleigh this Christmas. Santa asks Heathcliff and Spike if they've been good, and of course they say they have. A somewhat skeptical Santa tells them to try and get along better with each other and they promises to make the effort. Santa drives Heathcliff and Spike back home in his sleigh, a real treat for both of them. / Mungo's kid brother, Mingo, is running with a bad crowd so Granny sends him to Mungo to straighten him out. But bad behavior isn't cured so easily and Mingo joins up with Mad Cat Mel as they try to take over the junkyard. Mingo and Mungo are the last to be paired together in a joust winner-take-junkyard. But Mungo won't fight his brother and Mingo finally comes to his senses and they chase Mad Cat Mel and his gang away.