Tom & Jerry Kids

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The Tom & Jerry Kids Show

The Tom & Jerry Kids Show Logo
Genre Slapstick comedy
Absurd humor
Format Animated series
Directed by Carl Urbano
Don Lusk
Paul Sommer
Robert Alvarez
Jay Sarbry
Voices of Charlie Adler
William Callaway
Teresa Ganzel
Dick Gautier
Phil Hartman
Don Messick
Frank Welker
Patric Zimmerman
Theme music composer Tom Worrall
Gary Lionelli
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 5
No. of episodes 65 (whole)
195 (segments) (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s) William Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Paul Sabella
Producer(s) Don Jurwich
Running time 21 Minute
7 minutes per short
Production company(s) Hanna-Barbera Productions
Turner Entertainment
Distributor Warner Bros. Television Distribution (1996-present)
Broadcast
Original channel FOX (Fox Kids)
Audio format Stereo
Original run 8 September 1990 – 27 November 1994
Chronology
Preceded by The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show
1980-1982
Followed by Droopy, Master Detective
1993-1994
Related shows Tom and Jerry
1940-1958

The Tom & Jerry Kids Show is an animated television series, co-produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Turner Entertainment, starring cat-and-mouse duo Tom and Jerry as children (kitten and baby mouse). The show premiered in 1990 and continued airing until 1994. The series is about Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse in their childhood or Tom and Jerry's sons and their friends Droopy and Dripple and Spike and Tyke. It began airing as the first program of the Fox Broadcasting Company's children's block, Fox Kids on September 8, 1990.

The series is somewhat similar to the "older" version of the original 1940-58 theatricals, partly akin to being produced by creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. In terms of violence level, they are far closer to the classic cartoons than previous television adaptions such as Filmation's The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show although somewhat milder than Hanna and Barbera's original series. Part of it is similar to Pink Panther and Pals and Garfield and Friends. Droopy and Dripple went on to star in their own short-lived spin-off Droopy, Master Detective.

History

The series was a co-production of Hanna-Barbera Productions and Turner Entertainment, which had bought the Tom and Jerry franchise in 1986 from MGM. Parent company Turner Broadcasting System would buy Hanna-Barbera in late 1991 stating with Season 3. Perhaps the most notable differences from the classic shorts are Tom and Jerry's appearances (and ages).

The young Tom wore a red baseball cap with a blue stripe on his head, and the young Jerry had a spiky clump of hair on his head and sported a red bow tie (a symbol of the 1975 Hanna-Barbera Tom and Jerry cartoons). The show consists of three seven-minute shorts.

The earliest (1990–1993) episodes contained two Tom and Jerry shorts, and one short that either features Droopy & Dripple or Spike & Tyke. Besides the wolf from the Droopy cartoons being featured as McWolf, other characters introduced are Calaboose Cal, Slowpoke Antonio, Kyle the Cat, Clyde the Cat, and Miss Vavoom.

However, the later episodes that begun airing in 1993 had become more variant in terms of featured characters. Characters that starred in their own segments include Slowpoke Antonio, Kyle the Cat, and Wildmouse. Many times, there was only one Tom and Jerry short featured in the 1994 episodes. Also, there was an episode that featured Blast-Off Buzzard and Crazylegs (in which they actually spoke here) from CB Bears.

Cartoon Network airings

In 1994, Fox canceled the series, it soon began airing in reruns on the Cartoon Network channel (which Turner launched to showcase its large animation library, including Tom and Jerry) in 1995 and ended in 2006 when the show was removed from the Cartoon Network schedule and instead moved over to its sibling network Boomerang where it currently shows with the start and end titles. [citation needed] Cartoon Network TOO removed the show from their lineup in 2009.

In certain countries, the Tom & Jerry Kids shorts have aired separately on Boomerang. Separate shorts for "Droopy & Dripple" and "Spike & Tyke" have also aired in their own half-hour shows.

Characters

List of Tom & Jerry Kids characters

Cast

Additional Voices

Episodes

Main article: List of Tom & Jerry Kids episodes

Home media releases

In 1991, 12 episodes were put on two VHS cassettes in the United States, although only a few million copies were made and these two cassettes are hard to find. Eleven VHS cassettes were released in the United Kingdom.

The series was released on DVD in Germany by Kinowelt Home Entertainment on 11 July 2008, as the first official DVD release.[1]

In 2010, the episode Flippin' Fido was included in the Deluxe Anniversary Collection DVD set.

In the United Kingdom, Season One will be released into 2 separate DVDs on August 12th 2013, under the titles Baby Tom and Jerry, as part of WB's Big Faces range. like the US release of Season, Baby Tom[2] will include the first seven half-hour episodes, while Baby Jerry[3] will include the remaining 6 episodes.

DVD Name Ep # Release Date
The Complete Season 1 13 April 30, 2013
The Complete Season 2 13 June 20, 2014

Awards

This show was given a Daytime Emmy nomination in 1992 for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition.

Comic book

In Mexico, Editorial Vid made a comic book based on Tom & Jerry Kids in 1990, Also worth noting is that, here, Tom and Jerry (the original adult versions) have their own comic book, and the Tom & Jerry Kids comic book is followed by Tom and Jerry.

See also


References

  1. ↑ http://www.amazon.de/dp/B001AAKEV4
  2. ↑ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Baby-Tom-and-Friends-DVD/dp/B00CP1ZQRE
  3. ↑ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Baby-Jerry-and-Friends-DVD/dp/B00CP1ZQWO

External links

Characters
Theatrical shorts
DVD releases of shorts
Television shows
and theatrical films
Television specials
and direct-to-video films
Other formats
Related
See also: List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera
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