For 17 years from 1954 to 1971, tens of thousands — perhaps hundreds of thousands — of Houston children sat glued to their TV sets beguiled by a winsome woman attired in a cat costume: a black leotard ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- In the early 1950s, when KTRK was assigned the potentially unlucky Channel 13, station owners decided to embrace it! A black cat was named the station mascot, and incorporated ...

I've written about Kitirik, the longtime "mascat" for Channel 13, before. And when I did, I thought I had seen every photo of her we have here at 801 Texas. Here are two 1958 photos of Kitirik, real ...

Her name is Bunny, but at age 23, she became a cat. Bunny Orsak answered an ad in 1954 at a TV station that hadn't even gone on the air yet -- channel 13. Bunny Orsak/"Kitirik": "They said, 'We have ...

Dear TV Mailbag: Who played Kitirik and Cadet Don (Don Nelson?) on Channel 13's children's shows in the 1960s?-- T.J.C., Houston Bunny Orsak was Kitirik and Al ...

Today’s historical buffet — sampled from the free and paid sites published by Hearst Texas newspapers — includes: For 17 years from 1954 to 1971, tens of thousands — perhaps hundreds of thousands — of ...

Kitirik was a cat. A lady cat who had a Saturday morning TV show on KTRK in Houston. Could've been on weekday afternoons for all I know. Hey, I was just a kid. Kitirik had a real nice personality and ...

Bunny Orsak played Kitirik, the old Channel 13 mascot, from 1954 to 1971. Friends who worked with her, including Eyewitness News anchor Dave Ward, wished her a happy birthday at a party in southwest ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- All month long, ABC13 is celebrating 70 years of serving the Houston area. On November 20, 1954, KTRK signed on the air for the very first time. And the rest, as they say, is ...