Official television debut of Tom and Jerry (discounting the preceding CBS run), and it's just as well, what with all-new installments of the cat-and-mouse duo. The New Adventures Of Mighty Mouse With Heckle And Jeckle, etc.).
Off a trend of new Saturday Morning animated shows spawned from Golden Age-era cartoons ( What's Productions for the fall of 1975 (T&J's 35th anniversary year), The New Tom & Jerry/ Grape Ape Show kicked
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The only new series put out by Hanna-Barbera Matinee Mouse and Shutter-Bugged Cat, both of which were directed by NT&JĬlassic MGM/Hanna-Barbera T&J footage, was merely a homage to T&J's creators,Īs their wraparound segments were made in Chuck Jones' Sib Tower-12 studios). Producing credit for the mid-1960s MGM Tom & Jerry compilation cartoons Saturday (and Sunday) Morning (September 25, 1965-September 17, 1972), as wellĪs the first new T&J cartoons produced by Hanna-Barbera since 1958 (their This marked Tom & Jerry's return to Saturday Morning TV, after a 7-year run of their classic animated shorts on CBS Moniker of Beegle Beagle (voiced by Marty Ingels), or "Beegley Beagley," as On CBS and Sigmund And The Sea Monsters and The SecretĮach hour-long telecast was split into five segments in a specific format:Īlternating with three 7-minute New Tom & Jerry segments were twoġ0-minute ones concerning a 40-foot purple ape, Grape Ape (voiced by the late Bob Holt)Īnd his fast-talking beagle buddy, a carnival hustler answering to the unlikely Hong Kong Phooey repeats and The Lost Saucer, a new sci-fi sitcom fromĪnd airing opposite The Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Hour Was the 60-minute New Tom & Jerry/ Grape Ape Show The late Xerographer Robert "Tiger" West worked for MGM as an assistant on the T&J cartoons between 19.ĭebuting at 8:30/7:30 Central Time, Saturday Morning, Septemon ABC-TV Trivia footnote: New Tom & Jerry's animation director, Ed Barge, and key animator Ken Muse had a history with Hanna-Barbera and Tom and Jerry: they animated the bulk of the classic Hanna-Barbera MGM T&J shorts in the 1940s and '50s Win 7 Oscars, didn't they? It's the least they could do!) And Spike (seen right), a recurring regular in the T&J theatrical releases, was also brought back by HB to be a recurring regular on New Tom & Jerry. "Jerry" Mouse were entitled to their right to remain silent. Gasp, pant, shriek and mumble provided by veteran Hanna-Barbera voice actor John Stephenson, Newfound careers, H&B refused to cure Tom and Jerry of their all-too familiar trait:
But, out of respect for the characters who helped them pave the way for their Rule out such violence on Saturday Mornings, and thus begat The New Tom & Jerry Show. They laughed heartily at the antics of T&J then sighed because it was a shame that network Broadcast Standards and Practices William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, T&J's brainchildren, screened some of their best MGM theatrical-era T&Js for ABC execs. Having purchased rights from MGM to produce new Tom & Jerry cartoons for TV,
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