Other possible sources cited have been "Guys and Dolls" where actor Stubby Kaye played a short, stout street-wise gambler and a vertual Benny the Ball prototype. Even Arnold Stang's voicing of Top Cat strongly resembled Phil Silvers' voice. Maurice Gosfield, who played Private Duane Doberman on The Phil Silvers Show, also provided the voice for Benny the Ball in Top Cat (Benny's rotund appearance was based on Gosfield too). Many suggest it derived from a later 1950s military comedy, You'll Never Get Rich (later called The Phil Silvers Show), whose lead was a crafty con-man. Top Cat and his gang were inspired by characters from the popular 1940s B movies, "The East-End Kids". by his friends, is the leader of a gang of Manhattan alley cats living in Hoagy's Alley: Fancy Pants, Spook, Benny the Ball, Brain, and Choo Choo. The central character, Top Cat-called T.C. Originally broadcast on Wednesdays, Top Cat was co-sponsored by Kellogg's and Bristol-Myers (Bufferin).
In 2000, Top Cat began airing on Cartoon Network's sister channel Boomerang, where it remained until 2014.
Starting in 1992, reruns of the series aired on Cartoon Network until 2004. Status Ended Top Cat is a Hanna-Barbera Prime time animated television series which ran from Septemto Apfor a run of 30 episodes on the ABC network.
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