Editing Top Cat (section)

==Premise==
The title character, Top Cat (T.C.), is the leader of a gang of [[Manhattan]] [[Feral cat|alley cats]] living in Hoagy's Alley: Benny the Ball, Brain, Choo-Choo, Fancy-Fancy and Spook.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/13723/top-cat-the-complete-series/ |title=Top Cat – The Complete Series: DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video |publisher=Dvdtalk.com |access-date=August 24, 2013}}</ref>

The gang constantly hatch [[get-rich-quick scheme]]s through [[scam]]s but they usually backfire, and a frequent plot thread revolves around the local [[police officer]], Charles "Charlie" Dibble (voiced by [[Allen Jenkins]]), ineffectually trying to either arrest them, evict them from the alley, get them to clean the alley, or stop them using the policebox phone.<ref>Sennett pp. 116 & 118–9.</ref>

Like ''[[The Flintstones]]'', all the episodes feature a [[cold open]], which is a small scene from the episode that takes place ''[[in medias res]]'', and after that, a long [[flashback (narrative)|flashback]] that leads to the scene begins with the series' theme song "The Most Effectual Top Cat" and features Top Cat's misadventures that happen before the scene from the beginning plays. The story then continues from where it left off. In some episodes, the flashback stops near the middle when the same scene plays.