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The New Tom & Jerry Show
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Episode 1
Originally Telecast: September 6, 1975
80-03 "No
Way, Stowaways"
On the high seas,
Weirdbeard The Pirate displays his new invention: a
boomerang cannonball, as a way to cut down on using new
cannonballs, but it turns out to be a bust when, true to
boomerang form, it blasts into the ship, foundering it.
During lunch, Weirdbeard discovers Tom & Jerry have stowed
away on his ship! Weirdbeard decides to spare T&J from
walking the plank by offering a position as cabin boy;
whoever did the best job would stay aboard, with a
deep-six for the other. T&J compete against each other for
the job, with Tom continuoulsy sabotaging Jerry's efforts.
After many mishaps and plenty of damage done to the ship
(it sinks 5 times!), Weirdbeard decides that Tom is the
man (cat?) for the job, and orders him to make Jerry walk
the plank...but Tom fakes him out with a cannonball!
80-02
"
The Ski
Bunny"
A sexy female ski buff and a rougish bulldog are the two
elements that hamper Tom & Jerry's skiing trip in the
Swiss Alps.
-
A scene from this episode
featuring Tom & Jerry, in snow gear, being dumped on by a
blanket of snow (falling from the roof of the lodge
they're standing in front of) is seen in the show's
opening credits.
80-01
"Stay
Awake Or Else..."
Tom and Jerry are circus roustabouts with an exhausted Tom
in danger of losing his job should he fall asleep on the
job. Jerry tries all sorts of ways to make his sleepy pal
seem awake, including putting him on roller skates with a
broom in his paws.
- This was the first Tom & Jerry cartoon produced by
Hanna-Barbera in 10 years.
Episode 2
Originally Telecast: September 13, 1975
80-04
"No
Bones About It"
Tom and Jerry set out in search of a priceless toebone
missing from a priceless dinosaur in a museum where they
work. Then, they spot a bulldog carrying a bone in his
jaws; figuring it's the missing dinosaur bone, they try
every method of retrieving the bone from him: coaxing him
with a steak, lifting him up with a jack, scaring the dog
with a cardboard cutout of a lion, and tunnelling
underground. They sieze the bone and race back to the
museum with it, only to find out from their boss that he
had the original bone cleaned and forgot all about it!
Feeling falsely accused, Tom has Jerry yank out a bone
fron the dinasour, causing the entire skeleton to come
crumbling down--and T&J to lose their jobs. Nonetheless,
the cat and mouse leave victoriously--and are set upon by
the vengeful bulldog!
80-05
"An
Ill Wind"
Tom & Jerry are relaxing at The Palm Desert Inn, when an
old traveller comes along begging for water. After a sip
of Tom's refreshing Grape beverage, the traveller gives
Tom & Jerry a map to The Lucky Dutchman Gold Mine, but
warns them to beware of Black Bardy, whom they inevitably
run into. Black Bardy, it seems, is only the least of Tom
& Jerry's foibles; aside of the cat and mouse pitting
themselves against each other for the map (cats and mice
will be cats and mice!), various gusts of wind constantly
blow the map from their hands, bringing new meaning to
Shakespeare's phrase, "the ill wind which blows no man to
good" (hence the title of this very cartoon!). A final
gust of wind blows the map onto the street, where it is
immediately swept up by a streetcleaner, and dumped by
truck onto a garbage dump, where T&J spend the rest of the
night sifting through it in search of the map.
80-06
"Beach
Bully"
At the beach, Tom and Jerry's lives are made a living heck
by a muscular, megalomaniacal cat. But it isn't long
before Spike fixes his red wagon.
Episode 3
Originally Telecast: September 20, 1975
80-07
"Mammmoth
Manhunt"
While a scary shadow
lumbers outside, Tom and Jerry watch a TV news interview
with J. Grab Freely, a man who captured a live wooly
mammoth thawed out of the frozen arctic wastelands of
Alaska. The mammoth, according to Freely, is now at The J.
Grab Freely Science Show (admission for $5), and a very
scary picture of the mammoth is shown to the TV audience.
Just then, a breaking news bulletin reports that the
mammoth has escaped from its cage and is in large in the
city, with the police force and the ASPCA on full alert!
T&J learn it was last seen in the vicinity of Elm and
Walnut streets---their location! Then they hear a loud
bang on the door; thinking it's the scary mammoth, they
ready themselves with weapons, but when they open the
door, they find the "scary" mammoth is just a mere infant,
crying to go back home to Alaska. T&J agree to help him,
and from a shipping news report, they learn the steamship
Alaska Star leaves Pier 6 for Alaska that very
night, and they agree to take him there. But the three
must scheme to continuously bstay ahead of J. Grab Freely
and the police, both of whom are determined to recapture
the mammoth and return him to the exhibit! Freely leaves a
trail of peanuts for the mammoth to follow, step on a ramp
and be sprung in a trap....but instead of following the
trail, he manages to suck the entire trail into his snout!
They finally reach Pier 6 and deliver the mammoth to the
Alaska Star ...just as J. Paul Freely and the
policeman catch up with them! Freely tries to grab onto
the mooring rope to stop the ship from sailing off, but to
no avail. T&J waves goodbye to the mammoth, as the
Alaska Star carries him happily homeward.
- Influenced by the 1953 MGM T&J cartoon
Jerry And Jumbo.
The
voice of the cop is provided by none other than the late
Joe. E. Ross, best remembered for his role as Officer
Gunther "Ooh-Ooh!" Toody on Car 54 Where Are You!
(CBS, 1961-63), a capacity in which he also served as
the voice of Botch on Help! It's The Hair Bear
Bunch! (CBS, 1971-73) and Sgt. Flint on Hong
Kong Phooey (ABC, 1974-76). This episode reunites
Ross with his co-star from Help! It's The Hair Bear
Bunch!, John Stephenson, the voice of Eustace P.
Peevly on that show and of J. Grab Freely in this
episode.
80-08
"The
Wacky World Of Sports"
The first of the sports-themed New Tom & Jerries,
which pictured Tom as a dirty-tricks competitor always
willing to stop at nothing to trounce Jerry in any form of
sports competition. (For many diehard classic T&J fans,
this seems to be the '70s series' only saving grace!)
Here, the Olympics are mercilessly put to shame as Tom
tries to oust Jerry in all manners of sports competition,
from polevaulting to barbell lifting to karate.
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The first of the
sports-themed New Tom & Jerries, which pictured
Tom as a dirty-tricks competitor always willing to stop at
nothing to trounce Jerry in any form of sports
competition. (For many diehard classic T&J fans, this
seems to be the '70s series' only saving grace!) Here,
80-10
"Robin
Ho Ho"
As Robin Ho Ho teaches
his merry men to laugh, Littlejohn arrives to report
"interlopers": Tom and Jerry, who want to join up and
become merry men (merry cat and merry mouse??). First, Rob
sees how they do laughing; T&J fall all over themselves
guffawing and are initiated into The Merry Men Training
Academy. They succeed in accomplishing two further tests:
shooting bullseyes with a longbow and capturing a
fire-breathing dragon, but they find that the third and
last task, going to The Sherrif Of Nottingham's castle and
retrieving a red plume from The Sherrif's helmet, proves
to be the most challenging of them all, as they are
hindered every step of the way by a loudmouth crow and The
Sherrif's two wolfhounds! Tom & Jerry nevertheless tackle
the odds and succeed in their mission. The skeptical Robin
Ho Ho asks T&J to prove that the plume is really from The
Sherrif Of Nottingham, and he is immediately set upon by
The Sherrif's wolfhounds!
Episode 4
Originally Telecast: September 27, 1975
80-18
"Safe
But Not Sorry"
At 3400 Hilly Street, deliverymen Tom and Jerry make
several backbreaking attempts to shove a heavy safe up to
a house on a steep hill with disastrous results; time
after time the safe rolls part of the way and then running
down hill in front of them as it rolls backwards
(oftentimes destroying their truck!) and hindering their
every move is a mischievous yapping puppy dog. Finally,
after making use of a rocket with wings, a giant baloon, a
cannon, a seesaw, and a mailman, all with no success, they
tie one end of a rope to the house and the other to the
safe and they pull it up, but when that yapping pup
frightens them away, the safe rolls down yet again,
dragging the house, puppy and all down behind it. With the
safe finally delivered, and the house gone, Tom and
Jerry's worries are over.
80-09
"Gopher
Broke"
Ever the committed and alert gardeners, Tom and Jerry
attempt to flush a pesky gopher from their garden.
-
Check out the sequel,
Episode #80-39, "Son Of Gopher Broke."
80-11
"The
Super Bowler"
It's The National Bowl-Off at Al's Alleys, and Tom and
Jerry push their bowling mettle to the metal as they vie
for the bowling trophy! When every dirty trick Tom pulls
in order to trounce Jerry miserably fails, he makes good
use of a robotic bowling ball programmed to knock pins
down by whistle control. But the whistle proves to be his
tragic undoing when he accidentally swallows it; whenever
he hiccups and whistles, the ball chases him at every
turn! To make matters worse, in attempting to dodge the
wild ball, Tom unintentionally helps Jerry win the
Bowl-Off!
- The animation in this cartoon
depicting Tom handling and delivering the ball is heavily
based on that in the 1942 classic MGM Tom & Jerry short,
The Bowling Alley-Cat.
Episode 5
Originally Telecast: October 4, 1975
80-20 "Tricky
McTrout"
At a campsite by a lake,
Tom and Jerry are awakened from a sound sleep by Tricky
McTrout, a sly, wild, crafty and rather uncatchable fish!
"Betterfishermen than you two have tried to catch old
Tricky!" reports the ranger who greets T&J. Tom & Jerry
set out to succeed where scores of "better fishermen" have
failed, but all of their methods backfire, usually ending
with Tricky continuously getting T&J in dutch with the
ranger. With a Super Hypnotic Lure, they manage to
hypnotize Trikcy into thinking he is a duck, a beaver, a
seal, and Moby Dick the whale. A final attempt with a
fish-sensing sonar device proves to be the biggest bust of
them all, as Tricky uses it to his mischievous advantage;
he succeeds in luring T&J, sonar device, boat and all
right into the ranger station, completely demoilishing it.
Deciding that this is the straw that broke the ranger's
back, the ranger has T&J ejected from his forest. Back
home, the two diacard their Super Hypnotic Lure and take a
nap, when they hear water sloshing. They are surprised to
find Tricky McTrout bathing in their tub!
80-13
"The
Tennis Menace"
In a string of Tom-foolery hearking back to 1949's
Tennis Chumps, Tom
employs an arsenal of trickery in hopes of defeating Jerry
in a tennis match.
Production Note: The snippet from this cartoon
where Jerry delivers the ball and Tom does his best to hit
a hailstorm of balls thrown at him until he surrenders and
runs away can
be seen in the opening credits of the show.
Production
Notes:
-
The snippet from this
cartoon where Jerry delivers the ball and Tom does his
best to hit a hailstorm of balls thrown at him until he
surrenders and runs away can be seen in the opening
credits of the show.
-
A
retread of 1949's
Tennis Chumps.
80-15 "Cosmic
Cat And Meteor Mouse"
Because he wants peace and quiet, Spike bars Tom and Jerry
from watching their favorite TV show, Cosmic Cat And
Meteor Mouse. T&J disguise themselves as CC&MM to
throw a little scare into Spike until he uncovers their
ruse. But is he in for a shock when the real
Cosmic Cat and Meteor Mouse show up! Scatter-Zoom, Away!
Episode 6
Originally Telecast: October 11, 1975
80-14 " Castle
Wiz"
Some of the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! underscore
is heard in this episode, wherein Tom & Jerry must spend
the night in Castle Scarealotti in an attempt to win the
$20 prize money. Count Scarealotti makes things hauntingly
hectic for Tom & Jerry by conjuring up a pink ghost, which
hinders T&J throughout the night, chasing them through a
suit of armor, a dresser drawer, an upside down room, and
in and out of a painting. T&J eventually entrap the ghost
in a piano and torture it with Jerry tapdancing on the
keys, producing discordant notes. Morning arrives, the
ghost gives up and vanishes, and Scarealotti presents T&J
with the $20 for helping him test out his haunted house
tourist attraction! Tom & Jerry then strike back
with a little ectoplasmic surprise of their own.
80-16 "Grim
And Bear It"
Tom & Jerry attempt to become full fledged forest rangers,
but first must keep a sharp lookout for a mischievous bear
cub and be extra careful not to incur the wrath
of his mom, Old Bruinhilda. The bears and T&J intrude upon
the motor home of a camping couple, and cause such a
furor, that the couple are forced to drive home,
unwittingly bringing the uninvited guests with them. The
wife phones the police as Bruinhilda (cub under her arm)
chases T&J around the house.
80-19 "The
Flying Sorceress"
Tom and Jerry are unofficially adopted as mascots for a
wacky old witch, who has instituted her own private jet
airline.
Episode 7
Originally Telecast: October 18, 1975
80-27
"The
Kitten Sitters"
Tom and Jerry suddenly find themselves smitten with
kittens, and they must find ways to prevent Spike from
discovering them.
80-21 "Termites
Plus Two"
Tom and Jerry run afoul of a motorcycle gang of termites
with rotary sawblades for wheels!
80-24 "Planet
Pest"
A mischievous alien being, with the ability to
transmogrify into anything (or anyone) he comes
in contact with, lands on planet Earth and watches Tom &
Jerry build a footlong sadwich. THe tricks Tom into
letting him in by knocking on the door and, when Tom
answers, bouncing inside while Tom isn't looking. The
alien consumes the sandwich and, harrasses Tom by using
his gift of his constant metamorphoses and masquerades as
Jerry. While Tom dangles from a tree limb, the alien then
molests Spike by disguising himself as Tom & Jerry. Spike,
believing this is a dream, humiliates the real T&J while
the alien bounces inside the house to consume more
goodies. The chase continues from door to door in the
house, until finally, they all corner themselves inside a
closet, where the light switches on and off and reveals a
second self of the trio! Spike, Tom and Jerry then develop
a nervous breakdown. The doctor examines the three in bed
and diagnoses that they suffer from a cute (or not
so cute!) case of hallucination, and in showing them, he
trans forms into Spike, then Tom, then Jerry, and then his
old self again. The alien immediately dashes aboard his
mini space ship and heads back for his own planet.
Episode 8
Originally Telecast: October 25, 1975
80-23 "The
Hypochondriac Lion"
At the City Zoo, Rex, a lion, sustains a splinter in his
paw. The keeper offers to extricate the splinter, but Rex
insists on a "splinter specialist...2 of 'em! The first
one'll want a second opinion, even!" Pet veterinarians Tom
& JErry are called in to "give 1st, 2nd and 3rd aid to the
king of beasts." Dr. Tom and Dr. Jerry attempt to simply
use tweezers while blindfolding Rex, but he has a fear of
the dark! Drs. T&J make more tries to pull out the
splinter with the use of a rope, an eye chart, and a sexy
lioness nurse outfit, but they all backfire. The undaunted
docs then provide Rex with a treasure map sending him on a
hunt leading to a Grab Bag containing a "million dollars";
during Rex's hunt, Dr. Tom makes even more attempts to
relieve the splinter: from a tree, in a hollow stump, and
behind a zoo wall. Finally at The Grab Bag, Rex reaches
inside and Jerry, hidden within, plucks out the splinter.
So impressed is Rex by Drs. T&J's work that he tells all
his friends, and the 2 docs are inundated with even
more animal ailments: an elephant's steady tuskache,
a giraffe's sore throat, and so on. Drs. T&J see this as
the perfect opportunity to cut out!
80-31
"Give
'Em The Air"
Fritz Von
Spritz, The Purple Baron and his assistant, Otto Van
Blotto in their plane, The
Blue Max, and Tom and Jerry in their plane, The
Sad Slad, are the only
two remaining entrants in The International 500
Cross-Country Air Race; the other two contestants, Sir
Asthcot Cavely of England in his
Sopwith Squelcher and
Pierre Vous Cafe of Paris in his
Fillet Mignon, having
unfortunately dropped out. In their endeavours to sabotage
T&J's attempt to defeat them, Von Spritz and Van Blotto
use a brick wall carried on a wire by dirigible---which
unfortunately snaps. The Baron then climbs down a rope
ladder and attempts to saw off The
Sad Slad's rudder,
but, having passed through a cloudbank, Tom snatches the
saw. The Baron leaps off but forgets his parachute, and
manages to three-point land on a haystack. The twosome
then employ The Fritz Von Spritz Flip, which sends Tom &
JErry plummetting down through a tunnel, but manages to
dodge an oncoming train ahead of them. Next, Von Spritz
and Van Blotto try pouring quick-drying cement in their
propeller, but cover themselves in it. Just them, an
exhausted mother duck drops in opn T&J, who provide her
with a lift and refreshments. At the home stretch, Von
Spritz and Von Blotto make a final attempt at sabotaging
T&J's plane by syphoning its fuel! But, just their luck,
the mother duck has given birth to ducklings, who help
carry T&J and their plane to victory.
Production
Notes:
-
This is the first of
three occasions which find Tom & Jerry in racing
competition, preceding Episode #80-25, "The Super
Cyclists," and #80-48, "The Great Motorboat Race"
80-34
"The
Egg And Tom And Jerry"
A hawk's egg
falls out of her nest, and lands in the unsuspecting care
of Tom & Jerry. The baby hawk mistakes Tom for its mother,
while the mother hawk mistakes Jerry for her baby.
Episode 9
Originally Telecast: November 1, 1975
80-12"Watch
Out, Watch Dog"
Spike, a super-trained superduper watchdog, is hired to
mind a department store for the night. Thinking janitors
Tom & Jerry are prowlers, Spike begins a mad dash around
the entire store to catch them, through escalators, in
photography booths, into waterbeds, under hide-a-bed
sofas, and in toyrooms.
-
The
key word which is used to activate Spike, "Gazzot!," is
derived from the September 15, 1973 episode of
Yogi's Gang (ABC,
1973-75), "The Greedy Genie."
80-25
"The
Super Cyclists"
Tom utilizes every underhanded trick in the book to best
Jerry in a motorcycle race. Tom appears to be winning
until the front axle of his chopper snaps! There is a
photo finish, and Tom ties Jerry at the finish line on
foot carrying the cycle in both hands!
-
The scene from this cartoon of
T&J in their motor gear revving up on their choppers and
speeding off can be seen in the opening credits, with only
one difference: the colors of T&J's helmets are swapped!
In the cartoon, Tom's helmet is yellow and light green,
whereas in the opening credits, Jerry's helmet is yellow
and light green, and in the cartoon Jerry's helmet is
brown and red, the same color of Tom's helmet in the
opening titles!
80-28
"The
Police Kitten"
Cops-on-the-beat Tom and Jerry are given a statuesque
female kitty cop to supervise them for an evaluation. T&J
wind up being upstaged in every on-the-street assignment
that comes their way!
Episode 10
Originally Telecast: November 8, 1975
80-30
"The
Outfoxed Fox"
A fox masquerates himself as being chronically nervous,
and tries to get Tom & Jerry to give him food and shelter.
80-17
"Towering
Fiasco"
Tom and Jerry, dogwalkers, attempt to walk a lady's dog.
By the end, the dog is walking them.
80-37
"The
Lost Duckling"
A little duck lags behind his flock as they are migrating.
Tom & Jerry help him catch up.
-
The duckling bears a
striking resemblance to Little Quacker in the original
MGM Tom & Jerry thearticals.
Episode 11
Originally Telecast: November 15, 1975
80-22
"Beanstalk
Buddies"
In their abandoned,
run-down, boarded-up, ramshackle domicile, all
poverty-stricken Tom & Jerry can find to eat is one measly
green bean, which they decide to divide between them. But
as Tom attempts to cut it in half, it slips from the plate
and falls into a crack under the floor. T&J give up and
get some shut-eye. As they sleep, the bean, which proves
to be magic, sprouts into a beanstalk, wich carries T&J
and the bed in which they sleep up into the sky. The duo
wake up and find a castle; figuring there has to be some
kind of sustenance, they make a mad dash for and break
into the castle. There they discover a giant, who presides
over his food, his dog Houndmutt, his riches, a goose that
lays golden eggs, and a golden harp. With a "Fee-Fie-Fo..er,
Fum!", the giant sics Houndmutt on the miniscule Tom &
Jerry, and the three give chase all over the castle. After
a while, the big dog eventually defects to Tom & Jerry's
side, and, with the aid of the golden harp, they all fly
out of the castle away from the giant. Once back at T&J's
place, the harp conjures up a big 7-course meal for T&J!
-
As the camera pans from
T&J sleeping in the bed past the table to the crack in
the floor, notice a huge ax embedded in the table,
cracking the plate in half. Undoubtedly the original
script for "Beanstalk Buddies" called for Tom to use an
ax to split the bean in half, but was scrapped at the
last minute in fear of ABC Broadcast Standards and
Practices, who would fear it would be too simple for
juveniles to imitate!
-
As
the beanstalk sprouts and carries T&J up into the sky, a
cue from the movie
The Man Called Flintstone
(Columbia, 1966) can be heard.
-
The giant (voiced by
Henry Corden) speaks in a voice which sounds like
Charles Nelson Reilly, star of Filmation's Uncle
Croc's Block, which debuted on the same ABC
Saturday Morning schedule as The New Tom &
Jerry/Grape Ape Show in 1975.
80-29
"Two
Stars Are Born"
Tom and Jerry are unwittingly hired as stunt doubles for
the movie Catman.
80-39
"Son
Of Gopher Broke"
A sequel to the original "Gopher Broke." That pesky little
gopher is back, causing more harvest havoc for gardeners
Tom & Jerry, as they go to work as groundskeepers for a
rich old tycoon with their newest invention: a tractor
which mows grass, trims hedges, waters flowers, and
eliminates any and all garden pests, from gnats to
gophers! T&J eventually flush him out and dispose of him
in a nearby trash can and it appears they have gotten rid
of him, but they soon learn differently when the gopher
interrupts their soda break; he even goes so far as to
invade the mansion and eat flowers from wallpaper and
lampshades and shrubbery from a fishtank. When Tom &
Jerry's attempt to trap the gopher has them literally up
in the air, they chase him all over the lawn with their
tractor, wearing a very visible groove through the grass
as they go. T&J corner the gopher in his hutch and they
proceed to fill it with cement, but the gopher gains the
upper hand and covers them in concrete, and they
ring for James the butler to chisel them free. By the time
the tycoon returns with Miss Flashpot, a garden magazine
reporter/photographer, the entire lawn is in complete
chaos. But Flashpot nevertheless takes a surprising liking
to it, calling it "the perfect combination of
formal and casual!", and snaps a photo of it. T&J attampt
to get credit, but the gopher beats them to the draw, and
is taken by Flashpot to a flower show in New York. T&J end
by being neatly deposited into the trash can by James.
-
A sequel to the
original "Gopher Broke."
Episode 12
Originally Telecast: November 22, 1975
80-26 " The
Sorcerer's Apprentices"
An old wizard takes Tom & Jerry off the street and turns
them into his apprentices. The old apprentice doesn't like
this, and tries to get rid of them using the wizard's
magic wand.
80-38 "Hold
That Pose"
(narrated by John Stephenson)
Safari photographers Tom and Jerry probe the jungle and
encounter alligators, wild boars, eagles, man-eating
flowers and leopards as they set out in search for the
rare, never-before-photographed, fuzzy-feathered Pip
Squaker bird. They manage to trap the shy bird with a
carrot (a Pip Squaker's favorite food) and finally succeed
in getting a shot. The Pip Squaker apparently likes what
he sees, and wants another picture, but one is
enough for our intrepid duo. T&J recieve a hero's welcome
by the mayor, as well as a hefty reward for being the only
ones to see and photograph the rare Pip Squaker, when
suddenly, 1,000 Pip Squakers fly in from all parts of the
world to have their picture taken!
80-42 "The
Supercape Caper"
The Bowler, The Mustache, and The Fatwoman are dastardly
archcriminals who plunder and pillage the peaceful
populace - all on acount of Supercape, a fledgling
superhero, being out of action due to his overwhelming
shyness! So Tom and Jerry volunteer to be apprentice
superhero sidekicks to help Supercape boost his super
confidence and apprehend the crooks.
-
The third New Tom & Jerry
cartoon to deal with a superheroic theme, following
Episode #80-15, "Cosmic Cat And Meteor Mouse," and #80-29,
"Two Stars Are Born."
Episode 13
Originally Telecast: Noon (EST), Thursday,
November 27, 1975, as part of ABC's Thanksgiving Funshine
Festival
80-32 " Chickenrella"
(narrated by John Stephenson)
Tom and Jerry indulge in a little fowl play in this
retelling of the Charles Perrault 17th-century fairytale
classic. T&J fall asleep reading a book on Cinderella and
dream that they are actually in the story, as pets of the
fairytale heroine, complete with wicked stepmother and
stepsisters, Fairy Godmother, Prince Charming and all!
-
The second New Tom &
Jerry cartoon to use a fairytale as inspiration, following
Episode #80-22, "Beanstalk Buddies." A third is #80-35,
"See Dr. Jackal And Hide."
80-33 "Double
Trouble Crow"
Corn farmers Tom and Jerry match wits with Judd, a crafty
crow who is the continuous cause of a crisis in their
cornfield...but they can't seem to rid themselves of the
bird, no matter how hard they try! After a string of
unsuccessful methods, T&J finally surrender, and discover
to their dismay that they have been outnumbered all along;
Judd then introduces his lookalike cousins Fudd, Ed, Ted,
Ned, Ben, Len, and Ken. They all fly south for the winter
(Miami to be exact!), laughing at the futile farmers
behind their back all the way!
80-44 "Jerry's
Nephew"
Jerry's nephew comes for a visit, and causes all sorts of
trouble that Tom & Jerry try to extricate him from.
Episode 14
Originally Telecast: November 29, 1975
80-35 " See
Dr. Jackal And Hide!"
A hilarious send-up of the Robert Louis Stevenson tale.
Tom and Jerry are the hired apprentices of mad scientist
Dr. Jackal, and become involved with his experiments with
a secret formula designed to make short people tall, but
which transforms him into a hideous creature, instead. Dr.
Jackal transforms from monster to man to monster, while
the horrified cat and mouse run helter skelter in all
directions. After a long stretch of chases and
destruction, Dr. Jackal is convinced of his
transformation. He disposes of the formula by tossing it
out of the window...and, unwittingly, into the
water dish of his dog, who drinks the water spiked with
the formula and becomes a monster! As they celebrate with
tea and cookies, Tom, Jerry and the doc are set upon by
the monstrous mongrel, who chases Tom and Jerry around the
lab while Jackal attempts to mix up an antidote.
80-43 "Planet
Of The Dogs"
Tom and Jerry are chased by Spike into a rocket about to
take off. They travel into outer space and land on a
mysterious planet, where a voice from the planetary
headquarters warns the guards he has hypnotized, "They
must not learn of the secret of the Planet of the Dogs!"
When the cat and mouse arrive at the headquarters, they
discover the planet used to be inhabited by cats and mice
who later left and traveled to Earth, leaving only the
dogs, who hypnotically try to destroy Tom and Jerry
because "Cats and Mice are Enemies". After several
attempts on Tom and Jerry fail, the duo manage to reach
the central headquarters and permanently un-brainwash the
dogs into allowing their rocket to return to Earth. But
when they get back, Spike is as angry as ever!
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A take off on the 1968
20th Century-Fox classic, Planet Of The Apes.
80-45 "The
Campout Cutup"
The cutup in question is a single, persistent, mosquito
who makes havoc for Tom & Jerry while camping. T&J use
everything from flyswatters, to honey, to tennis rackets
to get rid of him. When T&J spritz the mosquito with DDT,
the bug strikes back by calling his battalion! In ducking
inside the tent, Tom accidentally triggers a raft with his
foot, inflating it and carrying the tent, Tom & Jerry and
all into the air. Tom punctures the raft with a stickpin,
the escaping air blowing the mosquito squadron askew, and
the direction of the deflating raft takes them straight
into the living room of their own home. As T&J sleep the
night away, the mosquito joins them in slumber.
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Uses cues from the
underscore of Hanna-Barbera's Dastardly And Muttley
In Their Flying Machines (CBS, 1969-71).
Episode 15
Originally Telecast: December 6, 1975
80-36 " Triple
Trouble"
A squirrell's quiet repose is disrupted when he becomes
"besieged with trespassers"; those "trespassers" being Tom
& Jerry, who plan to chop down his tree and use its logs
for a cabin. He foils their first two attempts, but
becomes netted by Tom. The squirrel pleads to the cat and
mouse to spare his tree, and a camraderie forms between
the trio, just in time to face a problem of a different
nature: Spike the bulldog, who is bulldozing trees to make
room for a freeway! Tom, Jerry and the squirrel each
sabotage Spike's plans by sabotaging his bulldozer; the
squirrel works out a deal with Spike by providing him with
alternate plans for the freeway to go around the tree
instead of through it.
80-41 "The
Bull Fighters"
Toro the Terrible, a bull getting in shape for his latest
bout in the bullring, chases Tom and Jerry for his
"morning roadwork," but slips off a pier into the brook!
After being saved from drowning by the duo, he rewards
them with free tickets to see him in the ring. In Tijuana,
T&J save the city from being ravaged by El Rotteno, and
they are slated to become matadors in the ring pitted
against Toro. But Toro says there's nothing to fear; the
first half goes speedingly well, with the bull signaling
to Tom which way he's going. But Toro sprains his ankle
executing his high-speed paso de muerte, and now
Tom must face the ruthless El Rotteno!
80-46 "Cruise
Kitty"
On an cruise liner en route to Hawaii, the Captain places
mascot Spike in charge of security and gives him a whistle
to blow whenever he spots something suspicious. Tom and
Jerry become unexpected stowaways on the ship, and when
Spike sees them in the 1st class section, playing
shuffleboard, in the captain's foot locker, and in the
kitchen, he blows his whistle to alert the Captain, but is
unable to prove his findings! As the Captain attempts to
ease his ship into port at Hawaii, Spike successfully
lures T&J into a trap and contacts his Captain by phone
and blowing his whistle into it; so startled is Captain by
the whistle he accidentally throws the ship into gear and
crashes it into a wharf! This proves to be the final straw
for The Captain, who tosses Spike into the brig to avoid
more harm. As Captain enjoys leisure time waterskiing,
Spike spots Tom and Jerry on a catamaran and blows his
whistle once more, which sends Captain leaping up onto
T&J's catamaran. He then offers T&J jobs on his cruise
ship, because "the one I have now is whistle-happy!"
Episode 16
Originally Telecast: December 13, 1975
80-40 " It's
No Picnic"
At the Insect Research Laboratory, Benny, an experimental
ant, accidentally gets a double dose of a new instant
growth serum, grows twice his size with a huge appetite,
breaks out of his ant farm case, and escapes with his
little ant friend George into the woods. During their time
on the lam, George is run constantly ragged with figuring
ways to satisfy Benny's ravenous cravings, until they
invade the picnic grounds of our heroes, Tom and Jerry.
There, George pilfers a sandwich, olives and apple pie for
Benny to scarf down. Even when T&J play baseball, Benny
consumes both Jerry's ball and Tom's bat! Later the
professor arrives from the IRL with an antidote for
Benny's condition: specially formulated apple and
sugarbread injected with a giant antidote serum. Benny
eats the bread and shrinks back to his original size; by
mistake, Tom also ingests the bread, and he shrinks, too!
The professor traps both cat and ant under a lab glass; on
noticing Tom's condition, he assures him that the serum's
effects on him will wear off in 2 days. Benny and Tom
watch in disgust as George and Jerry polish off some of
the picnic food.
80-47 "Big
Feet"
Oh no!! The dreaded Big
Feet has returned to terrorize the denizens of the
forests, forcing LaJacues' entire lumberjack staff to quit
and flee in terror! LaJacques enlists the aid of Tom and
Jerry in capturing the elusive Big Feet, but all of their
efforts, including a neat method involving 2 barrels, turn
belly-up. As T&J sleep, they are awakened and surprised by
a scary shadow outside their tent and assume it's the
dreaded Big Feet! The creature apparently trips on and
gets entangled in their tent, sending them dumbling
downhill right in front of LaJacques' door. He rescues T&J
and discover Big Feet's a harmless little creature with
big feet, who sadly reveals that, because people forever
laughed at his big feet, he ran away. Now he has ambitions
to become a forest ranger. He's given a pair of sneakers
and a test with a campfire, which he passes with flying
colors by stamping it out.
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This marks Tom & Jerry's
third encounter with a forest ranger on the series,
following Episode #80-20 "Tricky McTrout," and #80-16
"Grim And Bear It."
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LaJacques knows who Tom &
Jerry are, despite never hearing their names.
80-48 "
The Great Motorboat Race"
(officiated by John Stephenson)
Tom and Jerry compete in a boat race competition against
Commodore Crumley in his 18,000 horsepower boat The
Sea Splitter, Sir Nievel Evil in his powerful boat,
The Wave Whacker, and Daredevil Danny in his
exotic airboat. While everyone else has the advantage with
super-horse-powered boats, T&J are stuck with a small but
highly touted rowboat with an engine on the back, called,
of all things, The Dingy Dinghy...but are
nevertheless determined to overcome many obstacles--a
smoke screen provided by Commodore Crumley, Daredevil
Danny's devious tactics, a pier which falls on them, an
obstructive cruise ship, and getting swallowed by a
whale!--to ride the boat to victory.
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The captain from Episode 80-46's
"Cruise Kitty" makes a cameo at the end as T&J fall into
the loving cup.
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Uses cues from the
underscores of Hanna-Barbera's Wacky Races (CBS,
1968-70) and Dastardly And Muttley In Their Flying
Machines (CBS, 1969-71).
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This is the last New Tom
& Jerry cartoon to be produced and to air on ABC.
Hanna-Barbera would not make any more Tom & Jerry cartoons
until 1990, when they produced Tom & Jerry Kids
for Fox.
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