Top Cat: The Maharajah of Pookajee (1961) (TV)

Synopsis [spoilers]: Top Cat is selling tickets to a trapeze act starring Brain and Choo-Choo, but it goes awry: Brain hits Dibble while on his trajectory. They all have to scram. They overhear that Dibble is in charge of the security of a maharajah who is coming to town for a visit, and is famous for his generosity -- he hands out rubies for those who happen to pass near him. Top Cat tricks Dibble into telling him the name of the hotel the maharajah is staying at; he and his gang head there. They all disguise as maharajahs in order to enter the hotel; in there, Top Cat is mistaken for the real maharajah, whose arrival has been postponed. The cats profit from the mistake and lodge themselves in the most expensive suite in the hotel. They bought glass beads which they use to tip the hotel employees, pretending they are rubies. When they run out of beads, Top Cat sends Benny to buy some more. On his way out, Benny meets a jeweler who is supposed to deliver some jewels to the maharajah; Benny thinks the hotel service is so efficient that they went to buy beads for him so he doesn't have to go to the drugstore. He receives the jewels and gives them to Top Cat. Their party is over sooner than they expect, though: the real maharajah arrives, and they must leave in a hurry through the laundry chute. When they reach the street, they meet Dibble, who thinks T.C. is the maharajah; T.C. gives Dibble the jewels (which he thinks are beads) in appraisal of the excellent security job he is doing. Farther ahead Top Cat bumps into the real maharajah who gives him a bag of jewels; Top Cat thinks he is just another impostor like himself and throws the jewels in the ocean. The next day, Dibble shows up driving a brand new automobile, which he says he bought with the jewels Top Cat gave him. Benny shows Top Cat the maharajah's photo in the paper, and T.C. realizes it's the same man he bumped into the day before; he also realizes he threw real jewels in the ocean. They decide to dive for them; Top Cat is supervising the search but gets impatient for results and dives himself. Benny is perplexed: "Why did he do it if he can'tswim?"