The Tom & Jerry Show (1975 TV series)
The Tom & Jerry Show is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions in association with MGM Television. Based on the Tom and Jerry theatrical cartoon series, which was created by H-B co-founders and former MGM cartoon studio staff William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the show originally aired on ABC from September 6 to December 13, 1975 as the first half-hour of The Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly Show, with The Great Grape Ape Show representing the series' second half-hour and The Mumbly Cartoon Show representing the series' third half-hour. This series marked the first time that Tom and Jerry appeared in animated installments produced specifically for television.
Premise
Unlike other incarnations, Tom and Jerry are shown as friends instead of enemies and this series did not use the slapstick chases and the violence central to the theatrical shorts due to concerns at the time regarding such material on children's programming.Most episodes either have them either dealing with different hi-jinks at home, working different jobs, and contending with Spike.
Voice cast
- John Stephenson – Tom, Jerry, Macho Cat, Cosmic Cat, Rex the Lion, Spike, Pierre LeChoppe, various
- Henry Corden – Giant
- Kathy Gori – Katy O'Kitty, Fairy Godmother, Short Stepsister
- Don Messick – Spike, Quacker, Meteor Mouse, Zookeeper, Giant Watchdog, Big Feet, various
- Alan Oppenheimer – Ringmaster, Sapstone
- Joe E. Ross – Spike
- Hal Smith – Black Barney
- Jean Vander Pyl – Evil Stepmother, Fairy godmother
- Janet Waldo – Yvonne Jockalong, Cindy, Tall Stepsister
- Lennie Weinrib – Dinky, Squirrel
- Frank Welker –
Broadcast history
A total of 48 seven-minute Tom and Jerry shorts were produced in 1975 and originally aired in these following formats on ABC Saturday morning:The New Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape Show The Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly Show The Tom & Jerry/Mumbly Show The Tom & Jerry ShowImmediately following the end of the original ABC run, these cartoons were edited within the main and end title credits and added to run with theatrical-era MGM Tom and Jerry cartoons from 1940 to 1967 for syndication by MGM until 1986. Some independent television stations in the 1980s have aired the Tom and Jerry segments without the Mumbly and Grape Ape segments in their syndicated Tom and Jerry package as part of some stations' lineup, such as WFLD in Chicago and WYAH in Portsmouth, Virginia.
Since 1986, it has been rebroadcast on TBS, Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Canada's Teletoon and Teletoon Retro.
The cartoons have been shown with the main and end title credits intact on TBS, the Boomerang streaming service, and Cartoon Network.
From 1985 until 1995, ATN, later Seven Network aired the show in Australia.