T. H. E. Cat was a 1966-1967 half-hour television show on NBC starring Robert Loggia as a cat burglar, Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat ("T. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Robert Loggia (born January 3, 1930) is an American Academy Award - and Emmy Award -nominated Film and Television H. E. Cat"), a retired circus aerialist and former cat burglar who became a bodyguard. A circus is most commonly a traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, Clowns trained animals trapeze acts Hoopers, tightrope walkers A bodyguard (or "close protection officer" is a type of Security guard or government agent who protects a person—usually a famous wealthy or politically Cat carries out clandestine tasks such as thefts and assassinations for the government or private clients. Shot in color, the series was considered to be ahead of its time. A detail of interest to musicians was Cat's hangout, a bar in which a jazz band played with the instrumentation of bongos, string bass and bass flute, a rarely seen woodwind curved like the letter J.
T. H. E. Cat often appeared in an all black outfit carrying rope and grappling hook to scale walls and cross buildings to rescue someone in peril or get to the bad guys. While he might on rare occasion use a gun, his most frequently employed weapon was a dagger, kept up his sleeve (referred to as his cat's claws), which he can throw with great accuracy. Other regulars on the show were R. G. Armstrong who played Capt. Robert Golden "RG" Armstrong (born April 7, 1917) is an American actor and playwright MacAllister (San Francisco Police Department) whom T. The San Francisco Police Department, also known as the SFPD, is the police department of the City and County of San Francisco California. H. E. Cat sometimes would work with. Also was Robert Carricart as Pepe Cordoza who was T. H. E. Cat's friend and occasional informant who ran a jazz club called "Casa del Gato" (House of the Cat). The cool introduction jazz theme is by Lalo Schifrin. Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States The phrase theme music usually refers to that of a radio program, Television program, or Movie. Lalo Schifrin (born June 21, 1932) is an Argentine pianist and Composer.
T. H. E Cat was one of the first TV series to feature martial arts as the type of fighting system used by the "Hero", as opposed to a boxing style of street fighting. Whilst the fight sequences were not in the same league as those on The Green Hornet, starring Bruce Lee, it did feature martial arts style kicking and punching. The Green Hornet (also referred to as simply Green Hornet) is a masked fictional Crime fighter Bruce Lee ( November 27 1940 – July 20 1973 was an American-born Martial artist, Philosopher, instructor, Martial arts actor and the In this sense the show was ahead of its time. The martial arts style of fighting on TV shows in the 1960's was rare until Bruce Lee became well known and then every "Hero" had to be a martial arts expert.
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