The Cat in the Hat (TV special) as part of the "Dr. Seuss Sing-Along Classics" release from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment with CBS Video and Fox Kids Video in the mid 90's. It was later released on DVD by Universal Studios Home Entertainment on October 7, 2003. Warner Home Video released the special on Blu-ray and DVD on August 7, 2012. Although the original book's sequel "The Cat in the Hat Comes Back" did not receive an animated adaptation, the character went on to appear in several more Dr. Seuss specials. In 1973, there came "Dr. Seuss on the Loose", where Sherman reprised his role as
The Cat in the Hat According to the story Geisel told most often, he was so frustrated with the word list that William Spaulding had given him that he finally decided to scan the list and create a story out of the first two words he found that rhymed. The words he found were "cat" and "hat". Near the end of his life, Geisel told his biographers, Judith and Neil Morgan, that he conceived the beginnings of the story while he was with Spaulding, in an elevator in the Houghton Mifflin offices in Boston. It was an old, shuddering elevator and was operated by a