The Cat in the Hat (TV special) Mayzie", a special based on a posthumously published Dr. Seuss book. In 1997, a puppet version of the Cat starred in "The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss", where he was voiced by Bruce Lanoil and Martin P. Robinson. "The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!", an educational animated series based on the "Random House Library" series, premiered in September 2010; the Cat is voiced by Martin Short. The production began at Chuck Jones' MGM Animation Studio in the late 1960s after the studio had finished "The Phantom Tollbooth" and another Dr. Seuss special, "Horton Hears a Who!".
The Cat in the Hat for the series, including "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back" (1958), "Green Eggs and Ham" (1960), "Hop on Pop" (1963), and "Fox in Socks" (1965). He initially used word lists of limited vocabularies to create these books, as he had with "The Cat in the Hat", but moved away from the lists as he came to believe "that a child could learn any amount of words if fed them slowly and if the books were amply illustrated". Other authors also contributed notable books to the series, including "A Fly Went By" (1958), "Sam and the Firefly" (1958), "Go, Dog.