Tom & Jerry Kids
| The Tom & Jerry Kids Show | |
|---|---|
 The Tom & Jerry Kids Show Logo |
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| 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 |
| Running time | 21 Minutes 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 1940-2005 |
The Tom & Jerry Kids Show is an animated television series, co-produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Turner Entertainment, starring the world famous cat-and-mouse stars 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 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 Drippy went on to star in their own short-lived spin-off Droopy, Master Detective.
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History [edit]
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 [edit]
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 [edit]
List of Tom & Jerry Kids characters
Cast [edit]
Principal Voices [edit]
- Charlie Adler - Dripple
- William Callaway - Slowpoke Antonio
- Pat Fraley - Kyle the Cat
- Teresa Ganzel - Miss Vavoom, Cindy-Lou, Lieutenant Kitten, White Tabby
- Dick Gautier - Spike
- Phil Hartman - Calaboose Cal
- Don Messick - Droopy
- Frank Welker - Tom, Jerry, Wildmouse, McWolf
- Patric Zimmerman - Tyke
Additional Voices [edit]
- Brandon Adams -
- Joe Alaskey -
- Patricia Alice Albrecht -
- Lewis Arquette -
- René Auberjonois -
- Michael Bell -
- Gregg Berger -
- Susan Blu - Percy the Mouse
- Sorrell Booke -
- Charlie Brill -
- Nicole Brown -
- Scott Bullock -
- Arthur Burghardt -
- Greg Burson -
- Hamilton Camp -
- Nancy Cartwright -
- Marsha Clark -
- Selette Cole -
- Townsend Coleman -
- Danny Cooksey -
- Bud Cort -
- Jesse Corti -
- Peter Cullen -
- Brian Cummings - Clyde the Cat
- Jim Cummings -
- Tim Curry -
- Jennifer Darling -
- Mari Devon -
- Nancy Dussault -
- Maggie Egan -
- June Foray -
- Brad Garrett -
- Kathy Garver -
- Joan Gerber -
- Barry Gordon -
- Archie Hahn -
- Pamela Hayden -
- George Hearn -
- Dana Hill - Tim
- Jerry Houser -
- Tony Jay -
- Arte Johnson -
- Vicki Juditz -
- Zale Kessler -
- Kip King -
- Paul Krepple -
- Maurice LaMarche -
- David Lander - Bernie Bird
- Allan Lurie -
- Sherry Lynn -
- Tress MacNeille - Cleocatra
- Kenneth Mars -
- Chuck McCann - Fido
- Edie McClurg -
- Diane Michelle -
- Brian Stokes Mitchell -
- Alan Oppenheimer -
- Bibi Osterwald -
- Gary Owens - Narrator
- Patricia Parris -
- Rob Paulsen -
- Pat Pinney -
- Henry Polic II -
- Tony Pope -
- Hal Rayle -
- Clive Revill -
- Bob Ridgely -
- Kimmy Robertson -
- Stuart Robinson -
- Roger Rose -
- Neil Ross -
- Ronnie Schell -
- Susan Silo -
- Hal Smith -
- Kath Soucie - Sugar-Belle
- Sally Struthers - Jerry's Mother
- Barbara Stuart -
- Marcelo Tubert -
- Janet Waldo -
- B.J. Ward -
- Jimmy Weldon -
- Jane Wiedlin -
- Lee Wilkof -
- April Winchell -
- Jo Anne Worley -
- Jim Gummings -
- John Fiedler -
- Ken Sansom -
- Michael Gough -
- Peter Cullen -
- Hal Smith -
Episodes [edit]
Home media releases [edit]
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.
On April 30, 2013, Warner Home Video will release Tom & Jerry Kids Show- The Complete Season 1 on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time.[2]
Awards [edit]
This show was given a Daytime Emmy nomination in 1992 for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition.
Comic book [edit]
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.
International Broadcast [edit]
| Country | Station | Air Dates |
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 Chile |
Megavision | 1991–1995 |
| TVN | 1996–1998, 2006–2010 | |
 Czech Republic |
ČT 1 | 1994 - 2000 |
| TV NOVA | 2009–present | |
| TV Prima | 2008 - 2009 | |
 France |
Boomerang | |
 China |
CCTV | 1990s |
 Hong Kong |
TVB Pearl | 1992–1996 |
 India |
Cartoon Network | |
 Malaysia |
TV3 | |
| TV9 | ||
 Pakistan |
Cartoon Network (Pakistan) | 2004 |
 Poland |
TVP1 | 1990's |
| Polsat | ||
| TVN | 2000's | |
| TVN7 | 2011 | |
| Cartoon Network | ||
| Boomerang | ||
| TV Puls | 2011 - 2012 | |
| Puls 2 | 2012 | |
 Italy |
Rai 2 | |
| Italia 1 | ||
| Boing | ||
 UK |
ITV | |
| CBBC | ||
| Cartoon Network | ||
| Boomerang | ||
 Australia |
Seven Network | |
| Cartoon Network | ||
| Boomerang | ||
 Ireland |
RTÉ 2 | |
 Germany |
RTL | |
 Arab League |
OSN First | 1999 - 2000 |
| Spacetoon | 2005–Present | |
 Spain |
TVE1 | |
 Hungary |
MTV1 | |
| RTL Klub | ||
| Cartoon Network | ||
| Boomerang | ||
 Norway |
TV2 | 2012 - present |
| Boomerang | ||
 Sweden |
TV3 | |
| Boomerang | ||
 Finland |
MTV3 | |
 Indonesia |
SCTV (Indonesia) | 1996 - 1997 |
| antv | 1998 - 1999 | |
| MNCTV | 1999 - 2000 | |
| RCTI | ||
 Philippines |
GMA | |
 Croatia |
HRT | |
 Slovakia |
Markíza | |
| Dajto |
See also [edit]
- List of Tom & Jerry Kids episodes
- List of characters in Tom & Jerry Kids
- List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera
References [edit]
External links [edit]
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- 1990 American television series debuts
- 1994 American television series endings
- American children's television series
- BBC children's television programmes
- Hanna-Barbera series and characters
- Tom and Jerry television series
- Children's comedy series
- Child versions of cartoon characters
- 1990s American animated television series
- Fox Kids
- Fox network shows
- Television series by Warner Bros. Television
