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Gary, by the way, why are we wearing bras on our heads?
-WyattWeird Science
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Aired: 1987 - 1991
Show Type: Live Action
Country of Origin: US
From what I can remember, it aired during the mid 80's ( I think from 1986- maybe '87 or '88) on Sunday mornings before the Cartoon Express, on the USA Network. D J Kat was this cat puppet who wore a black leather jacket, had a female( human) co-host, and introduced cartoons. While showing one episode of popeye every show, he introduced every cartoon as "Popeye". He occasionally had special guests on his show, such as wrestler Jake "The Snake" Roberts
Edit: the female co-host was the dutch Linda de Mol.
It was also shown on a UK sat channel in the early 90`s. Mon-fri from 3.45pm-5pm. Which hosted a call in game called Kat's Alley.
This seies actually began as an American kids comedy tv series on
WNYW TV Ch.5 in NYC(Formerly WABD TV Ch.5 Dumount and WNEW TV
Ch.5 Metromedia TV)in October,1987.
Set against the backdrop of a makeshift clubhouse in the basement of
an inner city apartment building.
The series focused on the misadventures of a wisecracking alley
cat puppet"DJ Kat" and his comedy asistant:Elizabeth Rose.
Along with the comedy skits..the pair read viewers mail and
introduced reruns of old MGM Harmon/Issling/Tex Avery Movie
cartoons.
Jim Martin was the series first puppeteer..he would leave the
series after working on the program briefly.
(Elizabeth Rose would also departure from the show)
Craig Marin and "Jennifer Davis"(played by actress Carmen De
LaPaz)would become the series second and last puppeteer and comedy
asistant.
The cartoon reruns were dropped to give more time to comedy
skits,reading viewers mail and playing games with kids in the studio.
Marin and De La Paz would also play other characters on the show.
(Marin would also use his own puppet characters:"Mr.Midas G.Merkle",
"Baby Mouth","Poopsey The Dog","Mr.Chimps",etc on the program)
"The DJ Kat Show"would move to Sunday mornings..where it remained
on the air..until Sunday December 24,1989.
"DJ"would mc "The Fox Five Kids Club"weekday afternoons on
WNYW TV Ch.5 in NYC Beginning on Monday December 25,1989.
The puppet would perform comedy skits,read viewers mail
and engage his viewers in toy give aways inbetween the reruns
of"The Dick Tracy","Alvin & The Chipmunks" and"Woody Woodpecker"
cartoons.
"The Fox Five Kids Club"would also be the first NYC based kids
tv program to air "The Super Mario Brothers Super Show"tv cartoons.
"DJ" and his puppet friends would continue to mc"The Fox Five Kids
Club"..until the series finally went off the air on Friday March 15,1991.
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