Felix the Cat (intro | tv series 1) 1959 a.k.a. The Adventures of Felix the Cat

«Felix the Cat» is the first television series featuring the original Felix the Cat character of the silent film era in 1919. PRODUCTION NOTES: In 1954 Otto Messmer retired from the Felix daily newspaper strips, and his assistant Joe Oriolo (the co-creator of Casper the Friendly Ghost) took over. Oriolo struck a deal with Felix's new owner to begin a new series of Felix cartoons on television. Oriolo went on to star Felix in 260 television cartoons distributed by Trans-Lux. Like the Van Beuren studio before, Oriolo gave Felix a more domesticated and pedestrian personality, geared more toward children, and introduced now-familiar elements such as Felix's «Magic Bag of Tricks», a satchel that could assume the shape and characteristics of anything Felix wanted. Those cartoons were divided into two parts, because when Felix was in distress, or in a jam, the announcer would intone before the concluding episode: «What will happen to Felix , in the next exciting episode, in the adventures of Felix the Cat?» Note: This series introduces Felix's magic bag.