"The New Tom & Jerry Show" (1975) TV series 1975-1977

Director:

Charles A. Nichols

Writers:

Alan Dinehart (story) (1975)
Bill Ackerman (story) (1975)
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Release Date:

6 September 1975 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Family | Comedy

Plot:

The Hanna-Barbera-created Oscar-winning cat-and-mouse team of Tom & Jerry returned to TV in an hour-long stretch of new adventures...

Plot Keywords:

Cartoon Cat | Cat Versus Mouse | Mouse | Cartoon Mouse | Surrealism

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 / Jerry / Spike / Schnooker (voice)

Directed by
Charles A. Nichols

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Bill Ackerman		story (1975)
Larz Bourne		story (1975)
Tom Dagenais		story (1975)
Alan Dinehart		story (1975)
Don Jurwich		story
Joel Kane		story
Dick Kinney		story
Frank Ridgeway		story

Produced by
Joseph Barbera	....	executive producer
William Hanna	....	executive producer
Iwao Takamoto	....	creative producer

Film Editing by
Richard C. Allen		(1975) (as Richard Allen)
Pat Foley
Terry Moore
Joe Sandusky
Chip Yaras		(as James Yaras)

Production Design by
Bob Singer

Production Management
Jayne Barbera	....	production manager
Joed Eaton	....	post-production supervisor
Victor O. Schipek	....	production supervisor

Art Department
Tom Dagenais	....	storyboard director (1975)
Alex Lovy	....	storyboard editor
Iraj Paran	....	graphics (1975)
Howard Post	....	storyboard director (1975)
Art Scott	....	storyboard director (1975)
Don Sheppard	....	storyboard director (1975)
Paul Sommer	....	storyboard director (1975)

Sound Department
Bill Getty	....	sound director
Alex Lovy	....	recording director (1975)
Richard Olson	....	sound director

Camera and Electrical Department
Jerry Mills	....	camera operator (1975)
Ray Monahan	....	camera operator (1975)
Norman Stainback	....	camera operator (1975)
Roy Wade	....	camera operator (1975)

Animation Department
John Ahern	....	layout artist
Ed Barge	....	animation supervisor
Oliver Callahan	....	animator (as Oliver E. Callahan)
Lars Calonius	....	animator
Rudy Cataldi	....	animator
John Currin	....	background artist (1975)
Jaime Diaz	....	layout artist
Al Gmuer	....	background artist (1975)
Jack Huber	....	layout artist
Bill Hutten	....	animator (1975) (as Bill Hutton)
Raymond Jacobs	....	layout artist (1975) (as Ray Jacobs)
Homer Jonas	....	layout artist
Volus Jones	....	animator (1975)
Bill Keil	....	animation supervisor
Billie Kerns	....	ink and paint supervisor (1975)
Richard Khim	....	background artist
Lin Larsen	....	layout artist
Ed Love	....	animator (1975)
Tony Love	....	animator (1975)
Warren Marshall	....	layout artist
Fernando Montealegre	....	background supervisor (1975)
Kenneth Muse	....	animator (as Ken Muse)
Margaret Nichols	....	animator (1975)
Greg Nocon	....	layout artist (1975) (as Gregg Nocon)
Bill Proctor	....	background artist (1975)
Tom Ray	....	animator
Vive Risto	....	animator (1975) (as Veve Risto)
Jay Sarbry	....	animator (1975)
Evelyn Sherwood	....	checking and scene planning (1975)
Dave Tendlar	....	animator (1975)
Richard Thompson	....	animator (1975) (as Dick Thompson)
Carlo Vinci	....	animator
Robert 'Tiger' West	....	xerographer (1975)
Xenia	....	animator
Donna Zeller	....	layout artist
Mark Murphy	....	assistant animator (1975) (uncredited)

Editorial Department
Larry C. Cowan	....	supervising film editor (1975) (as Larry Cowan)
William E. DeBoer	....	negative consultant (1975)

Music Department
Hoyt Curtin	....	musical director (1975)
Paul DeKorte	....	music supervisor

Other crew
Frank Paiker	....	technical supervisor

Production Companies

• Hanna-Barbera Productions
• MGM Television

Distributors

• American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

Also Known As:

"The Tom & Jerry Show" - USA (syndication title)
"Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly Show" - USA (second season title)
"Tom & Jerry/Mumbly Show" - USA (last season title)

Runtime:

7 min (48 episodes)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:Atp

Company:

Hanna-Barbera Productions

Trivia:

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

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Vicious Circle (2009)

Tom and Jerry in name only

In the 1970s, a lot of do-gooders pushed to make cartoons non-violent. The thinking was that kids will imitate the toons and become violent themselves. While I applaud the idea of controlling what crap kids watch, cartoony violence doesn't equate to the same violence often seen on TV news, cop shows, or the average film marketed to kids--or watching 5 seconds of "The Jersey Shore". So, the cartoons were the scapegoats of this movement at that time. That is why, in this case, Tom and Jerry are friends and get along most of the time. If they do get upset, the most they'd do is shun the other! THe horror! That's like having a W. C. Fields movie where he is sober and likes kids, a Cowardly Lion who is filled with courage or Donald Duck after an operation and tons of speech therapy!! It just doesn't make sense and the change fundamentally destroys the chemistry and who the characters are. In this case, the show is left insipid and only of value to wussy kids and hippies.