The Tom and Jerry Show | |
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Genre |
Comedy slapstick |
Format | Animated series |
Created by | Based on the characters created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera |
Directed by | Darrell Van Citters |
Voices of |
William Hanna (archive sound) Jason Alexander Grey DeLisle Rick Zieff Rene Mujica Cree Summer Rachael MacFarlane Joey D'Auria Chris Parnell |
Theme music composer | Scott Bradley (re-composed by Andy Sturmer) |
Composer(s) |
David Ricard John Van Tongeren |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 26 (52 segments) (List of episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Sam Register |
Editor(s) | Michael D'Ambrosio |
Running time | 11 minutes |
Production company(s) |
Renegade Animation Warner Bros. Animation |
Distributor | Warner Bros. Television |
Broadcast | |
Original channel | Cartoon Network (US) |
First shown in | Canada |
Original airing |
Canada: March 1, 2014 – present U.S.: April 9, 2014 – present |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Tom and Jerry Tales |
The Tom and Jerry Show is a 2014 American animated television series produced by Warner Bros. Animation and Renegade Animation, based on the Tom and Jerry characters and theatrical cartoon series created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera in 1940. It had its world premiere on the Canadian channel Teletoon on March 1, 2014, and premiered on Cartoon Network in the United States on April 9, 2014.
The sound effects used for Tom & Jerry are from the original recordings that William Hanna made for the characters in the original Tom and Jerry cartoons from the 1940s and 1950s.[citation needed]
Plot[]
The series normally follows the antics of a cat named Tom in his pursuit of a mouse named Jerry. However episodes can follow many themes. They are:
- Tom and Jerry's antics in a traditional sense.
- Tom and Jerry being pets to two witches.
- Tom and Jerry operating an agency called "The Cat and Mouse Detectives," complete with a narrator.
- Jerry living in a lab, and Tom being an alley cat.
Episodes[]
- Main article: List of The Tom and Jerry Show (2014 TV series) episodes
Season | Episodes | Canadian air date | U.S. air date | |||
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First aired | Last aired | First aired | Last aired | |||
1 | 26 | March 1, 2014[1] | TBA | April 9, 2014 | August 4, 2014 |
Cast[]
- Jason Alexander - Rick
- Grey DeLisle-Griffin - Ginger
- Rick Zieff - Spike, Barkley the Dog, Skid, Dutch
- Rene Mujica - Newt, Bear, Tom's 7th Life
- Cree Summer - Beatie
- Rachael MacFarlane - Hildie, Mummy
- Joey D'Auria - Butch, Meathelda
- Gary Cole - "The Cat and Mouse Detectives" Narrator
- Chris Parnell - "The Great Outdoors" Narrator
- Tom Kenny - Detective, Dr. Bigby, Hamster, Wilfred, Tom's 1st Life, Tom's 4th Life, Tom's 5th Life, Tom's 8th Life, Ronnie the Rabbit, Percy
- Nika Futterman - Polly
- Charlie Adler - Polly's Mother
- Alicyn Packard - Toodles, Madame Beta, Dove
- Simon Helberg - Napoleon
- Kath Soucie - Tuffy
- Sam Kwasman - Quacker
- Dave B. Mitchell - Tom's 2nd Life, Tom's 3rd Life, Tom's 6th Life, Petey, Mummy's Spellbook, Rat
- Eric Bauza - Skunk
- Phil Lollar - Monkey
- Julie Wittner - Bunny, Roxie, Misty
- Robin Atkin Downes - Marvin
- Charlie Schlatter - Grayson
- Kari Wahlgren - Toots
Production[]
Cartoon Network announced that a new show, which consists of 52 11-minute shorts, "will preserve the look, core characters and sensibility of the original theatrical shorts."[2]
Entitled The Tom and Jerry Show, the series is produced by Warner Bros. Animation and Renegade Animation, with Renegade handling the actual production work under the supervision of Darrell Van Citters and Ashley Postelwaite. Darrell Van Citters is also the director of the series. The Tom and Jerry Show was originally intended to be a 2013 Cartoon Network premiere[3] before being pushed back to April 9, 2014. This is the second Tom and Jerry television series produced in the 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio and the first to be animated in Adobe Flash. This show is rated TV-PG, a first for the Tom and Jerry series.[4]
Home media release[]
Season 1[]
DVD Name | Ep # | Release Date |
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The Tom and Jerry Show - Season One Part One - Frisky Business | 13 | September 23, 2014[5] |
The Tom and Jerry Show - Season One Part Two - Funny Side Up | 13 | January 13, 2015[6] |
Broadcast[]
The series originally premiered on March 1, 2014 on Teletoon in Canada. It premiered April 9, 2014 on Cartoon Network in the United States. Boomerang premiered on the series on April 12, 2014.[7] It premiered on April 21, 2014 on Cartoon Network.[8]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ Press Release - March 2014 Programming Highlights TELETOON, TELETOON at Night, TELETOON RETRO. Corusent.com (February 19, 2014). Retrieved on April 2, 2014.
- ↑ "The Tom and Jerry Show Coming to Cartoon Network". Big Cartoon News. October 8, 2012. http://blog.bcdb.com/tom-jerry-show-coming-cartoon-network-4850/.
- ↑ Cartoon Network Upfront Presentation 2013. About.com. Retrieved on March 10, 2014.
- ↑ New Tom and Jerry Show - The Tom and Jerry Show Videos â€" Cartoon Network. Cartoonnetwork.com. Retrieved on 2014-04-02.
- ↑ http://www.amazon.com/Tom-Jerry-Show-Season-Part/dp/B00KH57ULA/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1412512799&sr=1-1&keywords=the+tom+and+jerry+show
- ↑ http://www.blu-ray.com/dvd/The-Tom-and-Jerry-Show-Season-One-Part-Two-Funny-Side-Up-DVD/95686/
- ↑ First Images: Boomerang’s ‘Tom & Jerry’ Reboot. tvwise.co.uk. Retrieved on May 30, 2014.
- ↑ Tom & Jerry return Monday 21 April. businessofcinema.com (19 April 2014).
External links[]
- The Tom and Jerry Show (2014 TV series) at Internet Movie Database
- The Tom and Jerry Show at the Big Cartoon DataBase
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