Tom & Jerry Kids

Tom & Jerry Kids
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Genre	Slapstick comedy Absurd humor
Format	Animated series
Directed by	Carl Urbano Don Lusk Paul Sommer Robert Alvarez Jay Sarbry
Starring	Tom Cat Jerry Mouse
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
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	65 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	William Hanna Joseph Barbera
Running time	21 Minutes 7 Minutes Per Short
Production company(s)	Hanna-Barbera Turner Entertainment
Distributor	Warner Bros. Television Distribution (1996-present)
Broadcast
Original channel	FOX (Fox Kids)
Original run	September 8, 1990 (1990-09-08) – 1994
Chronology
Preceded by	The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show
Followed by	Droopy, Master Detective Tom and Jerry Tales
Related shows	Tom and Jerry

Tom & Jerry Kids is an animated television series, featuring the 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 the adventures of Tom Cat and Jerry Mouse in their childhood and their friends Droopy and Dripple and Spike and Tyke.

The series is somewhat similar to the "older" version of the original 114 theatricals, partly akin to being produced by Tom and Jerry 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 The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show although somewhat milder than Hanna and Barbera's original series.

History

The series was a co-production of 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. 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 1993-1994 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) between 1995 and ended in 1999. Cartoon Network showed it again in 2000 through 2002.

In 2006, the show was removed from the Cartoon Network schedule and instead moved over to its sibling network Boomerang where it currently shows occasionally without the start and end titles.^{[citation needed]}

Cartoon Network TOO removed the show from their lineup in 2009.

Awards

This show was given a Daytime Emmy nomination in 1994 for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition.

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 the two cassettes are hard to find. Eleven VHS cassettes were released in the United Kingdom. However, Warner Home Video has no plans to put the series onto a season set DVD and/or Blu-ray in Region 1, though the series was released on DVD in Germany by Kinowelt Home Entertainment on July 11, 2008.^[1] In 2010, the episode Flippin' Fido was included in the Deluxe Anniversary Collection DVD set.

Episodes

Main article: List of Tom & Jerry Kids episodes

Characters

Main article: List of characters in Tom & Jerry Kids

Principal Cast

• Charlie Adler - Dripple
• William Callaway - Slowpoke Antonio
• Brian Cummings - Clyde
• Pat Fraley - Kyle the Cat
• Teresa Ganzel - Miss Vavoom
• Dick Gautier - Spike
• Phil Hartman - Calaboose Cal
• Don Messick - Droopy
• Frank Welker - Tom, Jerry, Wildmouse, McWolf
• Patric Zimmerman - Tyke

Additional Voices

• Brandon Adams -
• Joe Alaskey -
• Patricia Alice Albrecht -
• Lewis Arquette -
• René Auberjonois -
• Michael Bell -
• Gregg Berger -
• Susan Blu -
• 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 -
• 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 -
• Jerry Houser -
• Tony Jay -
• Arte Johnson -
• Vicki Juditz -
• Zale Kessler -
• Kip King -
• Paul Krepple -
• Maurice LaMarche -
• David Lander -
• Allan Lurie -
• Sherry Lynn -
• Tress MacNeille -
• Kenneth Mars -
• Chuck McCann -
• Edie McClurg -
• Diane Michelle -
• Brian Mitchell -
• Alan Oppenheimer -
• Bibi Osterwald -
• Gary Owens -
• 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 -
• Sally Struthers -
• Barbara Stuart -
• Marcelo Tubert -
• Janet Waldo -
• B.J. Ward -
• Jimmy Weldon -
• Jane Wiedlin -
• Lee Wilkof -
• April Winchell -
• Jo Anne Worley -

Comic book

In Mexico, Editorial Vid made a comic book based on Tom & Jerry Kids in 1990, Also worth noting is that here that 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

• Chile
  • Megavision (1991–1995)
  • TVN (1996–1998, 2006–2010)
• Czech Republic
  • TV Prima
• Hong Kong
  • TVB Pearl (1992-1996)
• Pakistan
  • Cartoon Network (Pakistan) (2004)
  • Wikkid Plus
• Poland
  • TVP1 (1990s)
  • Polsat
  • TVN (2000s)
  • TVN7 (2011)
  • Cartoon Network
  • Boomerang
  • TV Puls (2011)
• Italy
  • Rai 2
  • Italia 1
  • Boing
• UK
  • CBBC
• Ireland
  • RTÉ 2
• Germany
  • RTL
• Arab League
  • Spacetoon (2005-present)
• Spain
  • TVE1
• Hungary
  • MTV1
  • RTL Klub
• Sweden
  • TV3
  • Boomerang
• Finland
  • MTV3

See also

	Animation portal
	United States portal

• List of Tom & Jerry Kids episodes
• List of characters in Tom & Jerry Kids
• List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera

References

1. ^ http://www.amazon.de/dp/B001AAKEV4

External links

• tom ve jerry izle
• Tom & Jerry Kids at the Internet Movie Database
• Tom & Jerry Kids Show at TV.com