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{{InfoboxFound |title=<center>Cathy (animated specials)</center> |image=Cathy890210.jpg |imagecaption="Valentine" ad featured in the TV guide magazine (Feb. 4-10, 1989). |status=<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''</span> |datefound=02 Apr 2012 / 13 Jul 2015 |foundby=[https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCdRcGAk4F9t0Q_PgcDrrbAA OhSo80s], and [https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC2fEnzXBvAYVhZ6rouEHt8w ThingsIFoundInMyBasement] }} '''''Cathy''''', '''''Cathy's Last Resort''''', and '''''Cathy's Valentine''''' are three animated specials that aired in 1987, 1988 and 1989,<ref>Terrace, Vincent (2013). ''Television Specials: 5,336 Entertainment Programs, 1936-2012'' (second ed.). McFarland & Company Publishers. p. 83.</ref> based on the comic strip ''Cathy'' by Cathy Guisewite.<ref> https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/238/mode/2up </ref> It was produced by Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson, known for producing the ''Peanuts'' specials.<ref> https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1291&dat=19881111&id=5D1UAAAAIBAJ&pg=4715,3328364 </ref> They received critical acclaim and the first special won Guisewite an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program,<ref> https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/doc/306133154.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current </ref> but they've never been broadcast again since their initial airings or released on VHS and DVD. ==Availability== All that existed of ''Cathy's Valentine'' until 2015 were two very short clips featured in a recorded commercial break from the day it aired, three screenshots, and a TV Guide advertisement from the week it aired on the blog [http://www.vintagetoledotv.com Vintage Toledo TV] that specifically mentioned airings on Ohio CBS affiliates WTOL-TV 11 Toledo, WHIO-TV 7 Dayton and WBNS-TV 10 Columbus as well as on WANE-TV 15 Fort Wayne, Indiana. The first special was the first to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYXhFRyJm10 resurface on YouTube] (in two different qualities) by OhSo80s and later on, user ThingsIFoundInMyBasement uploaded the two remaining "Cathy" specials---[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKqxMPVqbUCZXi6yhsoTVUHn7vTrj7A8a "Cathy's Last Resort"] and [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKqxMPVqbUCZZyd2NpS1sc3Lr0BdjHv9G "Cathy's Valentine"]---to YouTube. ==Gallery== <gallery mode="packed" heights="125px"> Cathy'sLastResort1.png|Screenshot #1 from ''Valentine''. Cathy'sLastResort2.png|Screenshot #2 from ''Valentine''. Cathy'sValentine5.jpg|Screenshot #3 from ''Valentine''. cathyresort.JPG|''Last Resort'' press photo. </gallery> ==References== {{reflist}} ==External Links== *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_(TV_special) *https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0352235/ *https://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/cartoon.cgi?film=54898 [[Category:Found animation]] [[Category:Found media]] [[Category:Found TV]]
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