FORTHCOMING ALLEY CAT STORIES

LIBERTY HALL

ALLEY CATS open up at renovated downtown theatre owned by Horace.  The night before their first performance, the theatre is burned tot he ground by Wonton and Tom Cat.  Horace is horribly depressed, and Kristy and the group vow to use the money from their first recording to get the theatre reopened.

TOO COLD

As the winter sets in, the ALLEY CATS look for new lodging.  The church they move into is scheduled to be torn down for one of Mr. Big's new crooked housing developments.  The cats band together and turn City Hall against Mr. Big.

SOLO FLIGHT

Kristy has a recording contract with a large company but she has to betray Horace, Billy and Darlene and leave them all behind.  In the end, she decides her friends are more important than the money and fame.

ON VACATION

The ALLEY CATS go to the Jersey shore and meet up with some real wild surfing cats.  The surfers' outdoor skateboard park is being closed by city officials.  The ALLEY CATS perform a benefit show and get the park donated permanently to the skateboarders.

HOMECOMING

Kitty, having made a name for herself in movieland, returns to town only to find out Mr. Big has swindled her out of all her money.  She turns to Billy for help.  Darlene befriends Jimzy and they find how Mr. Big has managed to keep Kitty penniless and dependent on him.

NO HOME FOR DONNA

Mr. Big is angered that Juliana won't move her home for unwanted kittens and allow him room for a new skyscraper.  He gets the city officials to issue her an eviction notice.  All her kittens are forced out of the house by Tom Cat.  The ALLEY CATS receive their first royalty check and decide to use it to buy a new place for the kittens.

STONE SOUP

The ALLEY CATS are scheduled to perform for an outdoor art show benefit to get Horace's theatre opened.  Wonton and Jimzy steal their equipment van and hide it in an empty warehouse owned by Mr. Big down by the river.  Their friends in the neighborhood come through and donate new equipment.  The benefit is a success.  Kitty overhears Mr. Big discussing things with Tom Cat and sneaks a message to Billy that their equipment is recovered.

PRODUCER'S COUCH

A bigtime movie producer comes to town scouting for talent.  He catches the ALLEY CATS show at Horace's restaurant and wants them for a part in his new film.  Kristy finds out that he is interested in her being his girlfriend.  Billy steps in and asserts his right blowing the whole deal.  They are upset until they realize that with the video he made of them, they could get on Catvision.

COMING OF AGE

Darlene joins a gang of local street cats who are stealing, mostly from stores owned by Mr. Big.  Wonton and Jimzy catch her when all the other cats get away.  She is in big trouble until Horace finds out Mr. Big had an extortion scam going with many of the shopkeepers.

CAT UNIVERSE

A quick talking promoter makes friends with Billy and persuades him to spend lots of money turning Kristy into a contender in the Cat Universe Contest.  She arrives at the contest and finds that the judges are more interested in her breeding than her talent.  The other cats ostracize her for her lack of breeding.  Mr. Big has entered a new cat who is extremely mean to her.  Her dance costume for grande finale is stolen and she has to borrow Billy's tuxedo.  Her tap dance performance of New York, New York brings down the house.

BAD MEMORIES

Angela Catright comes in to town with her three teenage kittens fathered by Billy.  She is looking for help to raise them and to get money.  She has been jilted by her millionaire boyfriend after jilting Billy years ago.  Kristy sees through her scam and exposes her for being a taker.  The teenagers are given a good thrashing by Horace when they are caught smoking.  Angela meets someone equally as insincere and leaves.

FOR HONOR AND JUSTICE

Mr. Big decides to run for mayor against the people's candidate, Hooper, who has been an honest politician for years.  Wonton and Tom Cat bully people into throwing their support behind Mr. Big.  Kristy and Darlene set up a secret surveillance of Mr. Big's bullying techniques and manage to get it on television.  They also perform a series of street shows to get support up for Hooper.

THE GHOST OF ELROY

In Horace's Victorian mansion, mysterious things happen.  Doors open by themselves, items disappear and noises come from the attic.  Horace thinks seriously about selling his house.  The ALLEY CATS come in to investigate and uncover a plot by Mr. Big to get Horace out of town.

FREE FOOD

Mr. Big puts on a free charity dinner.  Everyone believes that he has turned a new leaf until Darlene discovers he plans to feed spoiled food hoping that all the homeless will get sick and leave town.  Kristy and the other ALLEY CATS try to talk people out of going and are labeled as killjoys.  Billy has a friend that's a scientist and at the last minute, gets a report of the food poisoning.  Mr. Big is arrested along with Tom Cat, Jimzy and Wonton.  The cats solicit donations from local film people and feed everybody anyway.

SOMETHING'S FISHY

Many of the ALLEY CATS who find day labor at the fishing docks find themselves out of work as more and more fishing boats return with no edible fish.  The cats investigate and find that Mr. Big owns a plant that is dumping toxic chemicals into the bay.  The plant is shut down and Mr. Big is forced to pay for a new water treatment plant.

HISTORICAL MOMENT

After Mr. Big sends in crooked city inspectors, Horace's Club is slated for demolition to make way for a new business center, Rat Way.  Their only chance to save it is to have it declared a historical site.  As it happens, they uncover documents in the basement that show it was the oldest building in the city.  The club is saved and the development is forced to move elsewhere.

BRIDGE OF TROUBLE

Mr. Big lobbies to get their historic bridge shipped off to a resort by a man-made lake in the desert.  It means a whole group of people will only be able to get into town on Big Ferries, which plan on tripling the price after the bridge is gone.  The deal is set and work begins on the demolition until Horace convinces the buyer that another bridge is available at a fraction of the cost right next to the railroad tracks.

BREAKOUT

Three notorious cat burglars escape from prison and set up shop in the alley.  There are a rash of items disappearing.  Billy overhears them discussing their next job which is knocking off Horace's Theatre after an ALLEY CAT concert.  A carefully woven plan is laid to catch them in the act and send them back to prison.

UP IN SMOKE

One of Mr. Big's tenements catches on fire.  Investigators are paid off not to let anyone know that the cause of the fire was unsafe wiring.  Kristy's step-sister and brother are both in the hospital with lung damage.  Kitty overhears Mr. Big paying off the inspector and tells Billy.  Mr. Big is forced to pay for all the damages.

THE CLOTHING DRIVE

The city sets up a clothing drive to keep all the homeless cats warm through the winter.  Mr. Big donates a riverfront warehouse, but makes a deal to sell the clothes to a paper company for rags.  Tom Tom silences a warehouseman whose conscience gets the best of him and wants to report them.  Darlene puts the puzzle together when her boyfriend doesn't return home.  They follow Jimzy and Wonton to the riverfront, set the cat loose and divert the shipment intended to go to the paper company to the empty downtown building where the clothes are distributed before Mr. Big finds out.

NINE LIVES

The Cat Show comes to town and Darlene meets a fast talking ringmaster who wants her to become partners in the show.  He doesn't tell her how much in debt they are, and he tries to skip town with her money.  Kristy and Horace find him at the bug station, his suitcase full of receipts.  They make him return everything.

LOST AND FOUND

Several neighborhood cats complain about their missing kittens.  Mr. Big has had them kidnapped and they are warehoused to be shipped to one of Wonton's cousins in Hong Kong where they will be put to work as slaves in a garment factor.  Kristy poses as a waitress in a Chinese cat restaurant and overhears Wonton's bragging to his cousin.  The kittens are found.

TOM TOM - Mr. Big's main enforcer.

KITTY - Purebred, seductive, yet innocent.

WONTON - Oriental muscle cat with mean disposition.

HORACE - Older Alley cat who produces shows and gives wisdom.

JIMZY - Surfer cat works for Mr. Big.

DARLENE - Alley Cat drummer, a bit goofy.

BILLY - Talented piano player Alley Cat.

KRISTY - Spunky Alley Cat wants to make it big.