Plot
It stars Fraidy Cat (voiced by Alan Oppenheimer), an unlucky and miserable cat who like all cats has nine lives, but has used up eight of them and is on his ninth and last life. The main joke of the series is that as if Fraidy's life wasn't miserable enough, every time Fraidy inadvertently or accidentally says any single-digit number (from one to eight) or any word that sounds like the number, a ghost from one of his former lives will appear and tend to make things even worse for the hopeless cat.
The ghosts are:
- Elephunt: A prehistoric Saber-Toothed Tiger with his huge pet Apatosaurus named "Ant".
- Kitty Wizard (voiced by Lennie Weinrib): A befuddled magician whose wand was often on the wrong setting.
- Captain Kitt (voiced by Lennie Weinrib): A Pirate who is the self-proclaimed "buccaneer's buccaneer".
- Sir Walter Cat (voiced by Lennie Weinrib): A foppish Elizabethan nobleman who is also an expert swordsman.
- Billy the Kit (voiced by Lennie Weinrib): A western cowboy. He is a small guy with big ("Yee-haw!") voice.
- Jasper Catdaver (voiced by Lennie Weinrib): An undertaker who actually prefers to expedite Fraidy's passing to "The Other Side" though not out of spite.
- Captain Eddie Cattenbakker (voiced by Lennie Weinrib): A pilot who is a very erratic flier.
- Hep Cat: A zoot-suited, jive-talking street cat.
- Cloud Nine: As saying a number from one to eight gets Fraidy a ghost, as if to fill the void towards his last life, saying "nine" calls forth an ominous, malevolent storm cloud (shaped like a number nine) which immediately gives chase after Fraidy, attempting to blast him with bolts of lightning until Fraidy manages to either outrun the cloud, or its (supposedly) limited time it can stay expires.
Each short begins with all 8 ghosts appearing around Fraidy, who talks about his life: "Every kitty has nine lives. But eight of mine went fast. Now there's only one life left, and I want to make it last!" The nine cloud appears and he starts running. Then the nine cloud morphs into "Fraidy Cat", whose name can be heard at the end of the intro.
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