Original Air Date: October 28, 1984

Directed by: Jack Shea

Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode!

Synopsis: A blackout on Halloween night finds Edward (Joel Higgins) suggesting Rick (Ricky Schroder) and his friends tell ghost stories.

Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): Edward begins the story with the boys Rick, Alfonso (Alfonso Ribeiro) and Freddy (Corky Pigeon) arriving at a scary house. Inside it looks like a haunted mansion with a coffin in the middle of the room. A top hat is on the floor beside the coffin and when the boys walks towards it the hat scoots across the floor in front of them. Freddy thinks it is a poltergeist and Alfonso thinks it’s a hat looking for its owner’s head. But Rick remains calm and a moment later the hat rolls over, revealing an adorable tabby and white kitten. The studio audience even gasps with delight at the sight of the tiny kitty.

The kitten does not appear again in the episode.

Final Mewsings: Have you ever seen an angry kitten? You should be afraid!

Many thanks to Stevie Holcomb for letting us know about the kitten in this episode.

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