In 1961 came the TV show top cat
The central character, Top Cat — called T.C. by close friends — is the leader of a gang of Manhattan alley cats: Fancy Fancy, Spook, Benny the Ball, The Brain, and Choo Choo and the local policeman, Officer Charlie Dibble. Tags: Added: 11th July 2007 Views: 539 Rating: Posted By:konifur
Wikipedia says: In the United Kingdom, the show was renamed Boss Cat shortly after it premiered in 1962 (by means of a crudely substituted title card) when it was first aired on BBC television (now called BBC One) because Top Cat was also the name of a brand cat food. The dialogue and theme tune still referred to the character by his original name. By the 1990s the original title was used in repeats and this continues on Boomerang and on BBC Two.
But I'm sure I remember it as Top Cat in the '60s and Boss Cat in the '80s.