"They're furry, they're friendly, they're housebroken!"

While a disembodied head and a bunch of cat puppets might seem like a recipe for a Stephen King novel, this strange pairing was simply fodder for a 1991 Saturday morning live-action/cartoon hybrid called Space Cats. Created by Paul Fusco, the man who brought the world Alf, nobody could accuse Space Cats of not having a unique premise.

The Space Cats hail from the distant Triglyceride-7, an all-kitty planet, ruled by a dismembered human head known as D.O.R.C. (Disembodied Omnipotent Ruler of Cats, of course.) The feline force of Captain Catgut, Tom, Scratch and Sniff carry out their duties on the faraway planet of Earth, in a secret underground only accessible via a garbage can.  While their primary mission consists of keeping the Earth’s inhabitants safe from the forces of evil, an equally important secondary goal is to find a cat food that doesn’t suffer from a fishy aftertaste. At the beginning of each show, D.O.R.C. briefed them on their current mission (the puppet portion of the show,) then they headed to earth to carry out their objectives (the animated part.)

Unfortunately, the dismembered human and his furry feline force couldn’t fend off the programming executives who decided that the comical and cosmic Space Cats would meet their demise after only 13 episodes.