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| image = Hermanandkatnip.jpg

| caption = Title card

| starring = [[Arnold Stang]]<br>[[Sid Raymond]]<br>[[Allen Swift]]

| studio = [[Famous Studios]]

| distributor = [[Paramount Pictures]]

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[[File:Mice-Capades_1952.ogg|thumb|''Mice-Capades'', the first episode in the series.]]

'''''Herman and Katnip''''' is a series of theatrical [[cartoons]] featuring Herman the Mouse and Katnip the Cat, produced by [[Famous Studios]] in the 1940s and 1950s.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/90/mode/2up |pages=91–92}}</ref> [[Arnold Stang]] wasand [[Allen Swift]] were the regular voicevoices of Herman,<ref name="Herman voice">{{cite web|title=Famous Studios 1954-55|url=https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/famous-studios-1954-55/|website=cartoonresearch.com|access-date=22 October 2020}}</ref> while [[Sid Raymond]] was the regular actor for Katnip, although one or both of the characters would occasionally be voiced by [[Jackson Beck]] and [[Jack Mercer]], respectively.

==History==

From 1944 to September 1950, Herman, voiced by [[Arnold Stang]] and [[Allen Swift]],<ref name="Herman voice"/> (occasionally by [[Jackson Beck]]) was a solo star of theatrical animation shorts produced by [[Famous Studios]] and distributed by [[Paramount Pictures]]. Katnip, voiced by [[Sid Raymond]] (occasionally by [[Jack Mercer]]), made his first appearance in November 1950 with "Mice Meeting You".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Crump |first1=William D. |title=Happy Holidays—Animated! A Worldwide Encyclopedia of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and New Year's Cartoons on Television and Film |date=2019 |publisher=McFarland & Co |isbn=9781476672939 |page=191}}</ref> The two characters continued to star in animated cartoons until 1959.

In 1958, they and the other original Famous Studios characters were purchased by [[comic-book]] publisher [[Harvey Comics]], which continued to promote the characters under the name [[Harvey Films|Harveytoons]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Becattini |first1=Alberto |title=American Funny Animal Comics in the 20th Century: Volume Two |date=2019 |publisher=Theme Park Press |isbn=978-1683902218 |chapter=From Famous to Harvey}}</ref> The 1944 to 1950 Herman and the 1947 to 1950 pre-Katnip cartoons (originally released as part of the [[Noveltoons]] series) were sold by Paramount in 1955 to [[U.M. & M. TV Corporation]] for television distribution.<ref name="toonopedia-herman">[http://www.toonopedia.com/katnip.htm Herman and Katnip] at [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]]. [https://www.webcitation.org/6XizWyzor?url=http://toonopedia.com/katnip.htm Archived] from the original on April 11, 2015.</ref>

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==Video==

All "Herman and HenryKatnip" and some Herman solo shorts have been released on [[public ___domain]] [[VHS|videocassette]]s and [[DVD]]s. Some prints have the [[U.M. & M. TV Corporation|U.M. & M.]] or [[National Telefilm Associates|NTA]] logo at the start and end, masking the old [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]] title, but the [[UCLA Film and Television Archive]] restored these shorts to their original Paramount titles.{{Citation needed|date=December 2007}}

In 2011, Classic Media issued ''Herman and Katnip: The Complete Series'', a DVD collecting all of Herman and Katnip's appearances together. Also included were two Katnip solo shorts, ''Feast and Furious'' and ''City Kitty''. The cartoons were presented in shortened TV prints from the anthology series ''[[The Harveytoons Show]]'', with abbreviated opening titles, no end titles, and (in the case of ''Drinks on the Mouse'') some censorship.

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* [[Tom and Jerry filmography|List of Tom And Jerry cartoons]]

* [[Itchy and Scratchy]]

* [[FamousSqueak Studios|Famousthe studiosMouse]]

* [[Sylvester (Looney Tunes)|Sylvester the Cat]]

* [[Noveltoons]]

* [[HarveyLittle ComicsRoquefort]]

* Dingbat and Sylvester the Fox

* [[Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks]]

* [[Motormouse and Autocat]]

* [[Punkin' Puss and Mushmouse]]

* [[Krazy Kat]]

==References==