History WesternAnimation / Fantomcat

''Fantomcat'' ran for two seasons with the last episode broadcast on CITV in 1996. In recent years, it has been repeated on POP, a children's channel in the UK, and on CITV itself. Overseas, it has been broadcast on TV3 in New Zealand, Creator/NetworkTen in Australia and Happy TV in Serbia.

* InterruptedBath: In Episode 4, "The Aeroship", Vile the Bluebottle accidentally uses the aeroship's claw to grab a German dog who is having a bath.

** In Episode 4, "The Aeroship", the [[Creator/{{ITV}} ITN News at Ten]] theme can be heard on a television that a couple are watching before the German dog in the bathtub crashes through their flat.

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''Fantomcat'' ran for two seasons with the last episode broadcast on CITV in 1996. In recent years, it has been repeated on POP, a children's channel in the UK, and on CITV itself.

** Fantomcat: "M'lady Tabs...", "To me, Touché!"
** Tabs: "Yipes!"
** Marmagora: "Shut up, Vile!", "You fool, Vinnie!"
** Vile: "Um, my lady...I don't want to worry you unnecessarily, but..."

* HomeVersionSoundtrackReplacement: In Episode 8, "Great Balls of Fire", parts of ''Carnival of the Animals: Aquarium'' by Camille Saint-Saëns can be heard in the scenes set in space. This was changed in the VHS release to Franchise/StarTrek-esque music.

''Fantomcat'' ran for two seasons with the last episode broadcast in 1996.

** Bonus points in that her voice actress, Lorelei King, was born in America.

* HopelessSuitor: [=MacDuff=]. He is ''hopeless'' at getting a girlfriend, until Episode 21, "The Lonely Hearts Club", where he starts going out with a lady mouse called Leandra.
* HeelFaceTurn: Vile the Bluebottle does this in the final episode, "One Good Deed", where he tries to prove to the Detective Team that he can be a good guy.

* [[LastOfHisKind Last of His Family]]: Fantomcat.
* LiterallyShatteredLives: At the end of episode 8, "Great Balls of Fire", Tabitha tests to see if the petrified Mina Tiger is invulnerable. He isn't.
* ManEatingPlant: Gloria, Marmagora's pet, is one of these.

* [[UsefulNotes/{{Liverpool}} Scouse]]: [=MacDuff=], his girlfriend Leandra and his brother Bunty speak like this.

* ShrinkRay: Marmagora uses one of these in Episode 25, "The Incredible Shrinking Fantomcat", to shrink Fantomcat to the size of an ant.

** Fantomcat: "M'lady Tabs..."

* IncrediblyObviousBug: One episode had Tabs stick [[VisualPun a literal bug]] on The Scorpion's shoulder. [[RealityEnsues It's spotted effortlessly]] by Marmagora's second-in-command, Vile the Blutebottle... through a videophone.

** In Episode 5, "Asteroid Adventure", there are many references to famous sci-fi movies, like Franchine/StarWars, Franchise/StarTrek, Film/Alien and Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes.

* TheNightThatNeverEnds: Marmagora's plan in Episode 9, "The Chameleons of Death", is to suck all the light out of Metrocity with a machine called the SpectroVac.

This series has a distinction as being the last Cosgrove Hall production to be animated with traditional ink-and-paint methods. From [[Series/TheSootyShow Sooty's Amazing Adventures]] onwards, the studio would use computers for the ink-and-paint process, with the animation drawings scanned in beforehand and then digitally coloured.

** Marmagora: "Shut up, Vile!"

* HypnoPendulum: In Episode 7, "Lady Gobbling's Gems", Heudini the Hypnotist uses one of these on his audience to hand over their jewels.

''Fantomcat'' ran for two seasons with the last episode broadcast in 1996. Despite being made in the UK, it was animated in Spain by Alfonso Productions.

* AndIMustScream: Baron Von Skelter specifically allows Fantomcat to think when trapped in the portrait, claiming that he's being "merciful".
* AristocratsAreEvil: Fantomcat obviously averts this while his nemesis, Baron Von Skeltar, plays it straight.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Fantomcat came from the seventeenth century so his (understandable) ignorance about the modern day world often caused problems.

* IncrediblyObviousBug: One episode had the good guys stick one on the evil henchman du jour's shoulder. [[RealityEnsues It's spotted effortlessly]] by the BigBad's second-in-command... through a visiophone.

* SpeciesSurname: Most of the characters had one.

The series centres on the character [[AwesomeMcCoolName Phillipe L'Entrique Elan de Chanel]], Count Givenchy and the Duke de Fantom, a masked swashbuckling hero who thrived in 1699, in mortal combat with his nemesis [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron Von Skeltar]]. Fantom was treacherously cast into a painting within the halls of his house, Castle Fantom, and became trapped for 3 centuries. As the years passed, the area around Castle De Fantom became a bustling metropolis called Metro City, a city submerged in crime rings led by the fiendish arachnid Marmagora. It's then Fantomcat is freed from his prison and joins up with Tabitha "Tabs" Wildcat, a stern detective, [=MacDuff=], a timid mouse who hates holes, and Lindberg, a bumbling, acrophobic pigeon, to fight the evil that has grown in modern times.

* AndIMustScream: Von Skeltar specifically allows Fantomcat to think when trapped in the portrait, claiming that he's being "merciful".

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Our hero is named Phillipe Lentheric Guerlain de Givenchy, Duke of Fantom. The Detective Team opt to just call him "Fantomcat".

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: When Vile screws up in Episode 6, "The Mind Leech", Marmagora feeds him to her giant [[ManEatingPlant Fly Trap]].

* ManEatingPlant: Gloria, Marmagora's pet, was one of these.

''Fantomcat'' is a 1995 animated series by Creator/CosgroveHall.

The series centres on the character [[AwesomeMcCoolName Phillipe Lentheric Guerlain de Givenchy]], the Duke of Fantom, a masked swashbuckling hero who thrived in 1699, in mortal combat with his nemesis [[AristocratsAreEvil Baron Von Skeltar]]. De Fantom was treacherously cast into a painting within the halls of his house, Castle De Fantom, and became trapped for centuries. As time passed, the area around Castle De Fantom became a bustling metropolis called Metro City, a city submerged in crime rings led by the fiendish arachnid Marmagora. It's then Fantomcat is freed from his prison and joins up with Tabitha "Tabs" Wildcat, a stern detective, [=MacDuff=], a timid mouse, and Lindberg, a bumbling, acrophobic pigeon, to fight the evil that has grown in modern times.

''Fantomcat'' ran for two seasons with the last episode broadcast in 1996. Despite being made by a British studio, it was animated in Spain.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: When Vile screws up, Marmagora feeds him to her giant ManEatingPlant.

* CowardlyLion: [=MacDuff=] was timid by nature but always came through when the other members of the Detective Team needed him.

* FantasyKitchenSink: We've got magic, ghosts, cyborgs, aliens, evil computers, mutant plants...all living in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals.

* GiantSpider: Marmagora is a giant widow spider.

* MundaneSolution: After Fantomcat manages to narrowly defeat the Mina Tiger, and the rest of the Detective Team heads inside, Tabs decides to try something no Duke of Fantom has tried before: she smashes the now-petrified Mina Tiger to pieces, speculating whether that will end the curse.

* WhenTreesAttack: Aside from Marmagora's pet Gloria, also invoked by the Monk, a preying mantis assassin from the second episode who disguises himself as a plant in order to ambush his victims.

* {{Expy}}: Fantomcat has been called a cross between ''Franchise/{{Zorro}}'' and Creator/ErrolFlynn, with a dash of the French AntiHero Franchise/{{Fantomas}} for flavor, and a backstory that owes something to ''Series/AdamAdamantLives''.

* {{Expy}}: Fantomcat has been called a cross between ''Franchise/{{Zorro}}'' and Creator/ErrolFlynn, with a dash of the French AntiHero Fantomas for flavor.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Our hero is named Phillipe Lentheric Guerlain de Givenchy. The Detective Team opt to just call him "Fantomcat".

* CoolSword: Fantomcat had one called "Touché" that could respond to his beck and call.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Fantomcat looks like he should be the show's villain but is unquestionably heroic.
* {{Expy}}: Fantomcat has been called a cross between ''Franchise/{{Zorro}}'' and Creator/ErrolFlynn.
* FantasyKitchenSink: We've got ghosts, cyborgs, aliens, evil computers, mutant plants...all living in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals.

'''''Fantomcat''''' is a 1995 animated series by Creator/CosgroveHall.

* ManEatingPlant: Gloria, Marmagora's pet was one of these.

* WorldOfFunnyAnimals

The series centres on the character [[AwesomeMcCoolName Phillipe Lentheric Guerlain de Givenchy]], the Duke of Fantom, a masked swashbuckling hero who thrived in 1699, in mortal combat with his nemesis Baron Von Skeltar. De Fantom was treacherously cast into a painting within the halls of his house, Castle De Fantom, and became trapped for centuries. As time passed, the area around Castle De Fantom became a bustling metropolis called Metro City, a city submerged in crime rings led by the fiendish arachnid Marmagora. It's then Fantomcat is freed from his prison and joins up with Tabitha "Tabs" Wildcat, a stern detective, [=MacDuff=], a timid mouse, and Lindberg, a bumbling, acrophobic pigeon, to fight the evil that has grown in modern times.