Fraidy Cat is a 1975 American children's comedy cartoon show that originally appeared as a segment on Filmation's short-lived ABC series Uncle Croc's Block. 18 episodes were commissioned and planned for inclusion on Uncle Croc's Block; 12 were ultimately made. The remaining six were scrapped due to the show getting removed from Uncle Croc's Block when the latter was shortened to a half-hour. Episodes would be aired in short 6-7 minute story formats.
The premise revolves around a paranoid alley cat who is haunted by his eight past ancestors, all from different time periods. He tries to avoid saying any single-digit number (excluding zero), as doing so will cause one of the corresponding ghosts to appear and make the situation he is in worse. The ghosts depicted include a saber-toothed tiger with a caveman motif and a pet Brontosaurus, a befuddled wizard, a pirate who self-identifies as a buccaneer and habitually steals anything of value, a foppish nobleman and swordsman from the Elizabethan era, a cowboy from the Western frontier, a undertaker who keeps trying to expedite the main character's passing to the afterlife, a fighter pilot from World War I, and an unusually intelligent zoot-suited jive-talking street cat with a beatnik accent who serves as the intellectual of the group.
The show aired in the United States on ABC, Canal+ in France, Junior in Germany, TV2 in Portugal, Super Écran in French-speaking regions of Canada, and RTÉ2 in Ireland. It has also been translated into Spanish, French, Norwegian, and German.
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