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'''Kitty Cats''' (aka ''Pacha et les Chats'') was a french-Canadian children's puppet show that originally aired on Radio-Canada in 1991 for an estimated 250 to 263 episodes. The show also found success worldwide, receiving dubs in English, Spanish, and other languages. It revolved around teaching children ways to entertain themselves through the backyard adventures of a pair of house cats named Tango (Cali) and Ricky (César), and a puppy named Charlie (Pacha) who lives in a shed by the house. Various other characters also made regular appearances, including a bird known as Flap (Igor), and a fox named Rosie.
'''''Kitty Cats''''' (also known as '''''Pacha et les Chats''''') was a French-Canadian children's puppet show that was created by Kristine Rosen and originally aired on Radio-Canada in 1991 for an estimated 250 to 263 episodes.


==Availability==
The show found success worldwide, receiving dubs in English, Spanish, and other languages. It revolved around teaching children ways to entertain themselves through the backyard adventures of a pair of house cats named Tango (Cali) and Ricky (César) along with a puppy named Charlie (Pacha) who lives in a shed by the house. Various other characters also made regular appearances, including a bird known as Flap (Igor) and a fox named Rosie.
Despite it's popularity, the show only received a 4-volume VHS release in English and French produced by PolyGram Video. Each 55 minute volume featured 4 episodes from the series, some of which have been uploaded to YouTube.


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This show should not be confused with the French dub of Hanna-Barbera's animated series ''Top Cat'', which was localized as ''Le Pacha'' (exploiting the "chat" - French for cat - pun).
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<p align="center">Tome 1 &ndash; Birthday Party (La f&ecirc;te),
1994</p>
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==Availability==
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Despite its popularity, the show only received a 4-volume VHS release in English and French produced by PolyGram Video. Each 55-minute volume featured four episodes from the series, some of which have been uploaded to YouTube.
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<p>Le restaurant de Pacha</p>
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<p><br/>
 
</p>
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<p>Cesar ne veut pas grandir</p>
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<p><br/>
 
</p>
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<td width="50%" style="border-top: none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; padding-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in">
<p>L'anniversaire d'Igor</p>
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<p><br/>
 
</p>
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<td width="50%" style="border-top: none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; padding-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in">
<p>Un anniversaire sans cadeau?</p>
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<p align="center">Tome 2 &ndash; Sharing (Le partage), 1994</p>
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<p>The Chocolate Bunny</p>
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<p>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B7O8oOVN0A&amp Le Lapin aux Chocolats]</p>
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<td width="50%" style="border-top: none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; padding-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in">
<p>Flap&rsquo;s Postcard</p>
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<td width="50%" style="border-top: none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; padding-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in">
<p>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_OtuVH2Z_Y&amp La Carte Postale d'Igor]</p>
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<td width="50%" style="border-top: none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; padding-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in">
<p>The Biggest Balloon in the World</p>
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<p>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV9LRO0zR20&amp Le Plus Gros Ballon du Monde]
</p>
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<p>Charlie and the Jar of Honey</p>
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<p>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnufiUHRa2Q&amp Pacha et le Pot de Miel]
</p>
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<p align="center">Tome 3 &ndash; Bedtime (Le dodo), 1994</p>
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<p><br/>
 
</p>
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<p><br/>
 
</p>
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<p><br/>
 
</p>
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</p>
===Volume 1 (Birthday Party)===
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|-
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! style="background-color:lightblue" | #
<td width="50%" style="border-top: none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; padding-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in">
! style="background-color:lightblue" | Episode Title (English/French)
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! style="background-color:lightblue" | Status (English)
! style="background-color:lightblue" | Status (French)
|-
|1||Charlie's Restaurant/Le restaurant de Pacha||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''
|-
|2||Ricky Doesn't Want to Grow Up/Cesar ne veut pas grandir||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''
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|3||Flap's Birthday/L'anniversaire d'Igor||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''
|-
|4||A Birthday With No Present/Un anniversaire sans cadeau||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''
|}


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===Volume 2 (Sharing)===
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
<td width="50%" style="border-top: none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; padding-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in">
|-
<p><br/>
! style="background-color:lightblue" | #
! style="background-color:lightblue" | Episode Title (English/French)
! style="background-color:lightblue" | Status (English)
! style="background-color:lightblue" | Status (French)
|-
|1||The Chocolate Bunny/Le Lapin aux Chocolats||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||[https://youtu.be/6B7O8oOVN0A<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|2||Flap's Postcard/La Carte Postale d'Igor||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||[https://youtu.be/n_OtuVH2Z_Y<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|3||The Biggest Balloon in the World/Le Plus Gros Ballon du Monde||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||[https://youtu.be/zV9LRO0zR20<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|4||Charlie and the Jar of Honey/Pacha et le Pot de Miel||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||[https://youtu.be/AnufiUHRa2Q<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|}
===Volume 3 (Bedtime)===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! style="background-color:lightblue" | #
! style="background-color:lightblue" | Episode Title (English/French)
! style="background-color:lightblue" | Status (English)
! style="background-color:lightblue" | Status (French)
|-
|1||The Cuckoo/Unknown||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waDggxxDBkA<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC2FyFWjhOk<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|2||It’s Tango’s Dream/Unknown||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v671EbMKb6Y<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC2FyFWjhOk<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|3||Not Bedtime Yet/Unknown||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQFzd1rRbkk<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC2FyFWjhOk<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|4||Ricky The Sleepwalker/Unknown||[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a_KGocQSgU<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC2FyFWjhOk<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|}


</p>
===Volume 4 (Games)===
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
</tr>
|-
<tr valign="top">
! style="background-color:lightblue" | #
<td width="50%" style="border-top: none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; padding-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in">
! style="background-color:lightblue" | Episode Title (English/French)
<p><br/>
! style="background-color:lightblue" | Status (English)
! style="background-color:lightblue" | Status (French)
|-
|1||Flap the Homing Pidgeon/Igor, le Pigeon Voyageur||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||[https://youtu.be/UacqiIVvkDU<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|2||Chameleons/Les Caméléons||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||[https://youtu.be/yMLAZd_mp5k<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|3||Ricky's Rocket/La Fusée de César||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||[https://youtu.be/kyxgjpWzm6w<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|-
|4||The Wounded Dinosaur/Le Dinosaure Blessé||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||[https://youtu.be/mUDQSBPJ1Sw<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']
|}
==Video==
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{{Video|perrow  =2
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  |description1 =The complete Bedtime VHS in french.
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==External Links==
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*[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Cats The Wikipedia page on ''Kitty Cats''.] Retrieved 18 Jul '18
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*[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0355118/ The IMDb page on ''Kitty Cats'' (labeled as ''Pacha et les Chats'').] Retrieved 08 Jan '19
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<p align="center">Tome 4 &ndash; Games (Les jeux), 1994</p>
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<p>Flap the Homing Pidgeon</p>
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<td width="50%" style="border-top: none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; padding-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in">
<p>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UacqiIVvkDU&amp Igor, le Pigeon Voyageur]
</p>
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<td width="50%" style="border-top: none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; padding-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in">
<p>Chameleons</p>
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<td width="50%" style="border-top: none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; padding-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in">
<p>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMLAZd_mp5k&amp Les Cam&eacute;l&eacute;ons]</p>
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<td width="50%" style="border-top: none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; padding-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in">
<p>Ricky&rsquo;s Rocket</p>
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<td width="50%" style="border-top: none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; padding-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in">
<p>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyxgjpWzm6w&amp La Fus&eacute;e de C&eacute;sar]
</p>
</td>
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<td width="50%" style="border-top: none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: none; padding-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0in">
<p>The Wounded Dinosaur</p>
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<td width="50%" style="border-top: none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: 1px solid #000000; border-right: 1px solid #000000; padding-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.04in; padding-left: 0.04in; padding-right: 0.04in">
<p>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUDQSBPJ1Sw&amp Le Dinosaure Bless&eacute;]</p>
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Revision as of 17:26, 15 March 2022

Pacha et les chats.jpg

Still frame of Tango, a calico cat, and her younger brother Ricky, a tabby cat.

Status: Partially Found

Kitty Cats (also known as Pacha et les Chats) was a French-Canadian children's puppet show that was created by Kristine Rosen and originally aired on Radio-Canada in 1991 for an estimated 250 to 263 episodes.

The show found success worldwide, receiving dubs in English, Spanish, and other languages. It revolved around teaching children ways to entertain themselves through the backyard adventures of a pair of house cats named Tango (Cali) and Ricky (César) along with a puppy named Charlie (Pacha) who lives in a shed by the house. Various other characters also made regular appearances, including a bird known as Flap (Igor) and a fox named Rosie.

This show should not be confused with the French dub of Hanna-Barbera's animated series Top Cat, which was localized as Le Pacha (exploiting the "chat" - French for cat - pun).

Availability

Despite its popularity, the show only received a 4-volume VHS release in English and French produced by PolyGram Video. Each 55-minute volume featured four episodes from the series, some of which have been uploaded to YouTube.

Volume 1 (Birthday Party)

# Episode Title (English/French) Status (English) Status (French)
1 Charlie's Restaurant/Le restaurant de Pacha Lost Lost
2 Ricky Doesn't Want to Grow Up/Cesar ne veut pas grandir Lost Lost
3 Flap's Birthday/L'anniversaire d'Igor Lost Lost
4 A Birthday With No Present/Un anniversaire sans cadeau Lost Lost

Volume 2 (Sharing)

# Episode Title (English/French) Status (English) Status (French)
1 The Chocolate Bunny/Le Lapin aux Chocolats Lost Found
2 Flap's Postcard/La Carte Postale d'Igor Lost Found
3 The Biggest Balloon in the World/Le Plus Gros Ballon du Monde Lost Found
4 Charlie and the Jar of Honey/Pacha et le Pot de Miel Lost Found

Volume 3 (Bedtime)

# Episode Title (English/French) Status (English) Status (French)
1 The Cuckoo/Unknown Found

Found

2 It’s Tango’s Dream/Unknown Found

Found

3 Not Bedtime Yet/Unknown Found

Found

4 Ricky The Sleepwalker/Unknown Found

Found

Volume 4 (Games)

# Episode Title (English/French) Status (English) Status (French)
1 Flap the Homing Pidgeon/Igor, le Pigeon Voyageur Lost Found
2 Chameleons/Les Caméléons Lost Found
3 Ricky's Rocket/La Fusée de César Lost Found
4 The Wounded Dinosaur/Le Dinosaure Blessé Lost Found

Video

A few minutes of footage from an unknown episode.

The complete Bedtime VHS in french.

External Links