The New Tom & Jerry Show (1975–1977)

The Hanna-Barbera-created Oscar-winning cat-and-mouse team of Tom & Jerry returned to TV in an hour-long stretch of new adventures. Here, T&J, after years of rivalry, have become the best ... See full summary »

Stars:

Henry Corden, Kathy Gori, Don Messick

Cast

Credited cast:
Henry Corden	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Kathy Gori	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Don Messick	...	Mumbly (voice)
Alan Oppenheimer	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Joe E. Ross	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Hal Smith	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Jean Vander Pyl	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Janet Waldo	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Lennie Weinrib	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Frank Welker	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bob Holt	...	Grape Ape (voice)
Marty Ingels	...	Beegle Beagle (voice)
John Stephenson	...	Tom (voice)

Storyline

The Hanna-Barbera-created Oscar-winning cat-and-mouse team of Tom & Jerry returned to TV in an hour-long stretch of new adventures. Here, T&J, after years of rivalry, have become the best of friends (and Jerry dons a red bow tie, so the animators would be able to "fragment" his movements), in episodes wherein they roamed the world competing in sports, enduring on-the-job misadventures, running afoul of dastardly villains, solving mysteries and helping others. In the first season, three 7-minute New Tom & Jerry segments alternated with two 10-minute ones concerning a 40-foot purple ape, Grape Ape (voiced by Bob Holt) and his fast-talking beagle buddy, a carnival hustler answering to the unlikely moniker of Beegle Beagle (voiced by Marty Ingels), or "Beegley Beagley," as G.A. would lovingly refer to him. The second season ushered in 16 6-minute segments of The Mumbly Cartoon Show, a new Hanna-Barbera comedy/mystery concerning a snickering plainclothes man detective hound named Lt. ...

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Plot Keywords:

cartoon cat | cat versus mouse | mouse | cartoon mouse | surrealism | 

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Genres:

Animation | Family | Comedy

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 September 1975 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Tom & Jerry Show

Company Credits

Production Co:

Hanna-Barbera Productions, MGM Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

7 min 7 min (48 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The character of Mumbly, the detective dog, was based on Peter Falk's Columbo.

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Connections

Followed by Tom and Jerry Tales (2006)

User Reviews

Despite not being the "MGM Classics",It was still a great show.

This incarnation of Tom & Jerry debuted when I was 7 and ran in reruns through the early 1980s. So for me it wasn't gone when it wrapped in 1977. Needless to say i hadn't seen the original MGM's at the time (1975-76) so this was the only Tom and jerry I knew for awhile.

So,them being friends in this version was simply how the show was and how they were introduced to me. It had nothing to do with toned down cartoon violence (which I hadn't much of yet). it was just a funny show where sometimes T & J team up to help someone out trouble they're in.

Like one show where a baby mammoth has been found and just wants to go home to it's mother. While being pursued by the resident villain who wants to cage it and make a fortune. Similar show where they find a new baby eagle hatching out of a misplaced egg and they try to raise it. Turning their lives upside down.

There were shows where Tom & Jerry competed against each-other and "surprise" Tom tries to cheat (like in running a track race). Tom hooks up a motor to his back but then he can't shut it of. He gets loose of it and it chases after him.

What also has stuck with me to this day is it's catchy theme song:

"Set the dial for awhile have a laugh and smile, it's the Tom and jerry Show!"

You'll be skimmed with a grin when you first tune us in, it's the Tom and jerry Show!" (Announcer introduces T & J,music plays)

"Lot's of zing,lots to sing. Everything's gonna swing, so get ready here we go-o-o-o!" "Big or tall,short or small...we'll all have a ball, on the Tom - and - Jer-r-ry show!~"

Whoever said kids who watched this were wusses,you were wrong. it has nothing to do with non-violence at all.

We just liked the show and watched it with all the rest of what Saturday morning in the '70s offered. More simply,we just liked to laugh. 10 stars,because nothing beats a good child-hood memory...that's something no one can change.

Oh..and if you want lame Tom & Jerry cartoons,try the ones made in Europe,in the 1960s,they're boring and flat out annoying.