Garfield on the Town is a half-hour animated television special based on the Garfield comic strip. It once again featured Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield. The special was first broadcast October 28, 1983 on CBS. It has been released on both VHS and DVD home video.
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Jon becomes very concerned and angry about Garfield's behavior after he and Odie mess up his house. Somewhere in between being dragged out of the house and being driven to the vet, Garfield accidentally falls out from Jon's car and is lost in the inner city. Not losing his optimism, Garfield attempts to make the most of it until he runs into a gang of unfriendly alley cats that call themselves the Claws. Garfield confronts the gang leader, who then calls for the rest of his gang, for which Garfield runs away and ends up in an abandoned restaurant where he is reunited with his long lost mother. The building they are in used to be an Italian restaurant called "Mama Leone's", which is Garfield's birthplace and also where he discovered a love for lasagna. Meanwhile, Jon calls Garfield's vet, Dr. Liz Wilson to ask her about Garfield, but she just hangs up on him. Second, Jon calls Lost and Found and asks them to hang posters to find Garfield, but he has to make sentences shorter only because it costs him lots of money.
The next day, Garfield's mother takes him to see the rest of his extended family including his tough maternal grandfather, as well as his sickly half brother Raoul and his cousin Sly, who is the security guard on watch for the Claws. Garfield is appalled to learn that everyone in the family are mousers. The Claws have tracked Garfield down and are surrounded the building, demanding Garfield come out for offending them. The family decides to fight instead of giving up Garfield to the Claws. Garfield hides cowardly while the family fights and finally chases the Claws away. Garfield's grandfather calls him a "lardball" and demands that Garfield leave for showing cowardice during the fight. Reassured by his mother that they all envy his easy life at Jon's house, Garfield says goodbye and leaves. Garfield is out in the soaking rain until Jon was driving by and eventually chases Jon and collapses on the sidewalk, Odie was with Jon and they found Garfield and put him into the back seat of the car and drive home and Jon puts Garfield into bed. The next day, Garfield wakes up in Jon's house and presumed that his entire experience may have been a dream, but when he sees his mother departing Jon's front yard, Garfield knows that she is still looking out for him.
A story somewhat similar to the special ran in the comic strip beginning December 3, 1984 and ending on December 26. [1]
1984 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program
The animation for the first two Garfield specials came from the famous Peanuts cartoon team of Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson, giving them a look similar to the Peanuts cartoons. All future specials and the popular Garfield and Friends TV series were animated by Film Roman studios.
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