1975 Tom & Jerry Returns To The Air!

[AarHan3]

Cartoon Network has re-added the 1975 Hanna-Barbera New Tom & Jerry TV cartoons to their daily rotation of T&J shorts. :tomcat: :jerry:

I just found this out today! I flipped on CN to view T&J, saw "Two Stars Are Born"...and immediately pushed the record button on my VCR and taped the very last half hour of it! :cool:

[Dub]

While watching TV today, Tom and Jerry started off the hour with one of the Saturday Morning "Red Bowtie" Tom and Jerry toons from the Tom And Jerry show (sadly the catchy themesong was nowhere to be seen).

The cartoon seemed to have been one with T&J taking place in numerous sports mostly with Tom cheating the entire way through.

It might have just been a one time thing but I haven't seen any these toons in YEARS. At first I didnt have a clue WHAT they were airing. It certainly wasnt classic Tom and Jerry by any means but it was nice to see something different scattered in the lineup. Have they aired any of these before?

EDIT: And they seem to be airing more of them. I'm guessing they're going through the whole gamut...

[TnAdct1]

Someone has already started a thread about it:

http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?t=141020

[Jave]

Threads merged.

[Kreth]

whoo. hoo. :sad:

[Lord Dalek]

Why? This particular era of Tom and Jerry cartoons is generaly regarded as rubbish.

[Nelson]

Because the pair was friends in the new episodes and this series is generally canned by T&J fans, cause this verison totally sucks.

[Chris Wood]

Isn't this known as the crappy years? See also the appalling Mighty Mouse cartoons from this era.

[Tom & Jerry Fan]

I just watched a couple episodes this morning and my gosh...they're absolutely horrible...

[Dub]

Curiosity is what killed the cat and I've been curious over the red bowtie T&J episodes for years (I try not to judge things just cause everybody else joins the bandwagon in saying things suck) but HOT DANG these things are awful waffle awful.


And here I thought Chuck Jones made Tom and Jerry too buddybuudy. Its amazing that Hanna Barbera - the same people responsible for what are considered the DEFINITIVE Tom and Jerry are also responsible for how - under every circumstance - NOT to do Tom and Jerry. Never have I seen such a polarized version of a cartoon from its very own creator...cept maybe the eventual bland mellowing of Mickey Mouse but even thats not this stark.

Really the only good thing about the 1975 T&J's seem to be the insanely catchy and memorable theme song which sticks in your head and just wont go away. Otherwise thats really just about all there is isn't there? Its interesting at best from an animation perspective to see what it was that brought on the "sudden death" of T&J up until the Tom and Jerry Kids revival of the 90's. But yeah - a steady stream of this could pretty much do it.

I can imagine (considering the studios reputation) the 80's Filmation T&J's must be ten times worse if thats even possible. Horrors indeed...

[AarHan3]

Really the only good thing about the 1975 T&J's seem to be the insanely catchy and memorable theme song which sticks in your head and just wont go away. Otherwise thats really just about all there is isn't there?
Not really; there are also 4 of the "sports-themed" episodes: #80-08, "The Wacky World Of Sports", #80-11, "The Super Bowler," #80-13, "The Tennis Menace," and #80-25, "The Super Cyclists," which pictured Tom as a dirty-tricks competitor always willing to stop at nothing to trounce Jerry in any form of sports competition. Many diehard classic T&J fans deem these to be the only saving grace of the '70s series, the ones which revived the thrill of the chase in the MGM T&J shorts of yore. T&J were also pitted against one another in "No Way, Stowaways" (80-03) and "An Ill Wind" (80-05). :tomcat: :jerry:

[Chris Wood]

I can imagine (considering the studios reputation) the 80's Filmation T&J's must be ten times worse if thats even possible. Horrors indeed...


Wait a minute, Filmation did a Tom and Jerry series too?? Now I'm confused. How is it different from the 70s HB show?

[Jave]

Wait a minute, Filmation did a Tom and Jerry series too?? Now I'm confused. How is it different from the 70s HB show?Yeah, Filmation did Tom & Jerry too. It was a half-hour shows with three stories, first and last were T&J, middle segment was with Droopy. There were also bumper sequences between shorts. Spike, Nibbles, Tex's Wolf and Barney Bear also appeared in this show.

While this show did in fact try to put T&J in their old style by having them as enemies, the animation alone was a turn-off (like pretty much any Filmation cartoon).

[Startrekman700]

remember these were the products of 70's tv censorship. In 1975, ABC told the creators there couldnt be NO violence. I actually heard that "Superfriends" on ABC was actually hard to write because there couldnt be no physical fights.

[Caffeine King]

remember these were the products of 70's tv censorship. In 1975, ABC told the creators there couldnt be NO violence. I actually heard that "Superfriends" on ABC was actually hard to write because there couldnt be no physical fights.
so that's why Tom & Jerry were acting like friends.

I caught several of these on Friday.

Does anyone know the name of this one...

it had Tom (the cat) and another cat (a black & white one) fighting over a white girl cat and they were at the beach.

Anybody know the name of that one. I was (for some strange reason) laughing my ass off when Jerry started to dance with a banana peel.

[AarHan3]

so that's why Tom & Jerry were acting like friends.

I caught several of these on Friday.

Does anyone know the name of this one...

it had Tom (the cat) and another cat (a black & white one) fighting over a white girl cat and they were at the beach.

Anybody know the name of that one. I was (for some strange reason) laughing my ass off when Jerry started to dance with a banana peel.
That would be Muscle Beach Tom (1956).