The Cat in the Hat (TV special) The Cat in the Hat. Here, The Cat in the Hat appeared in bridging sequences where he introduced animated adaptations of three other Dr. Seuss stories: "The Sneetches", "The Zax" and "Green Eggs and Ham". In 1982's "The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat", the character, now voiced by Mason Adams (Sherman had died shortly after "Dr. Seuss on the Loose" finished production), meets the title character of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" and sets out to reform his new green adversary. In 1995, the Cat appeared again, this time with the voice of Henry Gibson, to narrate "Daisy-Head
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