Josie & The Pussycats

1 9 7 0 - 1 9 7 2  (USA)
104 x 30 minute episodes

Long-running cartoon series from Hanna Barbera in the style of The Archies. - The Pussycats are a singing group reluctantly involved in espionage during their whirlwind travels. Janet Waldo (Penelope Pitstop) provided the voice of Josie, and Cheryl Ladd (Charlie's Angels) provided the singing voice of Melody, the very cute blonde drummer.

Josie was a redhead (well, orange-head really!) and played guitar, while Valerie (the requisite token African American girl) played tambourine.  

For cartoons these ladies looked very sexy, and the mind boggled at the thought of the girls in those leopard skin leotards in their hot  pink minibus . . . Wait! Repeat after me, "they were only cartoons"!

Josie and the girls were accompanied on their adventures by their manager, Alan, and their mischievous pet cat, Sebastian. The series was followed later by Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space. 

Josie and the Pussycats
long tails and ears for hats
guitars in sharps and flats
neat, sweet and groovy song
everybody come along . . .