Katbot (partially found unreleased Disney Channel animated series; 2005)

Promotional artwork.

Status: Partially Found

Katbot was an animated series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and Funny Garbage that was set to premiere on Disney Channel in September 2005, but was never released. The show was based on a web cartoon of the same name, created by Angela Martini.

According to tv.com, Disney's Katbot is a comedy series about a curious, somewhat naïve, fun-loving cat robot named Katbot, from the planet Katatonia, who, as part of her schooling is sent to Earth to study tween culture. By using her Hypno-façade, she disguises herself as Katerina Botenski, a foreign exchange student from a small Eastern European country. The only person who knows her secret is her best friend, Junior Lebore, the son of her host family. Through her friendships with an eclectic group of earthlings, Katbot experiences life on Earth with a unique and comic perspective.

Cancellation

On June 18th, 2005, Angela Martini, creator of the Katbot comic, posted a (now deleted) entry on her blog in which she revealed her distaste with Disney working on the show. Stating,

"A few years ago Katbot was optioned by Disney. We made a pilot. It got shelved for a while, then resurrected into some horrid caricature of what it originally was. To top it off, I was pushed out of the picture. I got the shaft, while all these strangers came in to make my show. It was a very painful time for me."

Katbot was cancelled before its set release date of September 2005, and no episodes were ever aired. Besides 3 short clips, including a few minutes of the pilot, and the intro, no other footage has been released. It is very unlikely that any full episodes will ever surface, due to Angela Martini’s disapproval with the final production.

Episode List

All 42 episodes that were written for the show. It is unknown how many of them were actually produced.

#	Episode Title	Status
1	Party Animal	Partially Lost (Animatic)
2	First Day of School	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
3	Lowrider Bot	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
4	We Are Family	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
5	Kitbot	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
6	Sneaking Out Is Hard to Do	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
7	The Waiting-Dance Craze	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
8	Trying to Score	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
9	Kit and Kin (Special)	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
10	Flirty Dancing	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
11	Babysitting-Bot	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
12	Collection Purr-fection	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
13	The Mark of Curd	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
14	Katbot Fever	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
15	Rebel Without a Claw	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
16	Sign of the Katbot	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
17	Dude Time	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
18	Bad Fur Day	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
19	Junior's Math Problem	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
20	Mother's Day the Katbot Way	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
21	Katbot Plus Trevor	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
22	Parental Upgrade	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
23	Project Katbot	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
24	Night of the Living Squirrel	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
25	Picture Day	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
26	Logo Loco	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
27	Rocky's Game	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
28	Tough Enough	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
29	Cheerbot	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
30	Downloading Diva	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
31	Fraidy Kat	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
32	Kat Fight	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
33	Claw & Order	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
34	Overacheiver-Bot	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
35	Christmas on Katatonia (Special)	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
36	Dick's Biscuits	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
37	All About Eddie	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
38	Tell-Tale Katbot	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
39	On the Road Again	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
40	What's the Point?	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
41	H2Uh-Oh!	Partially Found (Script)^[1]
42	Make-Over Bot	Partially Found (Script)^[1]