Heathcliff (aka Heathcliff and The Catillac Cats) is a French-American animated television series that debuted on September 5, 1984. It was the second series based on the Heathcliff comic strip and was produced by DIC Entertainment. It ran in syndication until 1988 with a total of 86 episodes. The first show based on the comic strip was Heathcliff and Dingbat, which debuted in 1980. The Catillacs Cats characters were created by Jean Chalopin and Bruno Bianchi. Mel Blanc provided the voice of Heathcliff. Animation was outsourced to many Japanese, Taiwanese, and Korean studios including TMS, Studio Korumi, Wang Film, Cucoo's Nest, Mushi, Araki, and others for the first season before DIC utilized their own, private Japanese studio to avoid outsourcing. TMS produced much higher quality episode