The Tom and Jerry Show (2014 TV series)

Not to be confused with The Tom and Jerry Show (1975 TV series).

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 (2014-03-01) – 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:

1. Tom and Jerry's antics in a traditional sense.
2. Tom and Jerry being pets to two witches.
3. Tom and Jerry operating an agency called "The Cat and Mouse Detectives," complete with a narrator.
4. 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
			First aired	Last aired	First aired	Last aired
	1	26	March 1, 2014 (2014-03-01)	TBA	April 9, 2014 (2014-04-09)	August 4, 2014 (2014-08-04)

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."

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 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.

Home media release

Season 1

DVD Name	Ep #	Release Date
The Tom and Jerry Show - Season One Part One - Frisky Business	13	September 23, 2014
The Tom and Jerry Show - Season One Part Two - Funny Side Up	13	January 13, 2015

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. It premiered on April 21, 2014 on Cartoon Network.

See also

• Tom and Jerry
• Tom & Jerry Kids
• Tom and Jerry Tales

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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