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The New Tom & Jerry Show Episode Guide

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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!

  • Weirdbeard knows Tom's name, despite never having heard it.

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.

  • 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.

  • The scene of Jerry in this cartoon dancing up and down the piano's keys can be seen in this show's opening titles.

  • Some chase sequences use portions of the underscore of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (CBS, 1969-72/1974-76).

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.

  • Not to be confused with the 1956 MGM T&J cartoon of the same name!


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!

  • This is the first of 2 New Tom & Jerry cartoons narrated by John Stephenson, who also voiced Tom & Jerry; the second is Episode #80-46, "The Great Motorboat Race."

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.

  • Why Tuffy/Nibbles didn't appear here is anyone's guess!


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!

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • The captain from Episode 80-46's "Cruise Kitty" makes a cameo at the end as T&J fall into the loving cup.

  • 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).

  • 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.