LigiaMontoya Similar to the Archies or Scooby-Doo, with a notable distinction: really good music. Led by the vocals of Motown Artist Patrice Holloway (Brenda Holloway's sister, who actually played Valerie on the concert tours) and backed by the vocals of future Charlie's Angel Cheryl Ladd as Melody, the producers used ace studio musicians and ace singers to produce real soul music - in a cartoon.I wonder how many people who like this show were aware that there was a live band that went on tour with the songs as "Josie and the Pussycats" to promote it?It was also funnier than either the Archies or Scooby-Doo. Although Alex annoys me - he's exactly the same character and Shaggy on Scooby-Doo. But Alexandra is hysterical.Valerie was also the first regular black character on a children's cartoon show.

comixfreek This cartoon is great! While many people look at it as a poor man's version of Scooby Doo, this series was more urban, more hip & more fun. Prior to "Where in the world is Carmen San Diego?" this cartoon introduced me to geography and history and got me interested in learning about other places in the world. There was definitely more of an adult sense of humor and some interesting characters. The stories varied and often had a few surprises (unlike Scooby Doo). This series was good enough to spawn a spin-off series (Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space). Unfortunately, like many spin-offs, it wasn't as good as the original. If you get a chance to see the original Josie & the Pussycats, enjoy!

Brian Washington When I was a kid, I used to enjoy looking at this show. However a few years after the show went off the air, I read the cartoon series, which is radically different from the television version. For instance, the comic book plays as more of a collegiate version of Archie (coincidentally, the Josie and the Pussycats comic book is published by the same company as the Archie comics) in which they are just your average girls with a rock band and they do not go all over the world fighting the wild villains as they do in the animated version of the series. However, the characters personalities are more or less the same, except for Alex. In the cartoon he is a lily livered coward, while in the comic book he is an ego-maniacal weasel much like Reggie Mantel is in the Archie series. I think I would have preferred to see that version of the show rather than this show, which plays like a combination of Scooby Doo and a juvenile version of The Avengers.

cfc_can Josie and the Pussycats was sort of like Scooby Doo in that a gang of young people travelled from place to place and always ran into trouble. The difference is that here, instead of monsters, the gang ran into spies and megalomaniacs wanting to take over the world. Like Scooby though, each episode had a wild chase and as the Pussycats were a musical group, the chase always featured music, like the classic song I'm Gonna Do Some Voodoo on You Baby. The humor was pretty dopey, even for a cartoon but there was always some fun to be had thanks to Alexander Cabot, the group's shades wearing manager who, like Scooby, was always the first one to panic. The show is interesting in that it featured Valerie, one of the first black characters to appear on a major cartoon. The music that the Pussycats played was sometimes quite good, but unlike the Archies, they did not become a hit. The cartoon didn't have much to do with the comic book which was basically a female version of the Archie comic books. The Josie series didn't last that long, probably due to the fact that so many episodes copied each other with minor changes in locale and the way in which the villains planned to take over the world. Looking at it today is amusing in that despite the fact that three girls and two guys spend all their time travelling together, there is no hint of anything going on, (even though Josie and Allan M. are supposed to be involved) and none of the males ever seem to show much interest in Melody who was among the first of the dumb blondes on TV. For people who grew up in the 70s, this cartoon is fun to look back on but it simply is too tame and dated for today's kids to enjoy.