TOM AND JERRY TALES

'''Tom and Jerry Tales''' is an animated television series, currently airing on The CW's Kids' WB block. As the title suggests, this series contains characters from the Tom and Jerry cartoons, and also is the first made for TV iteration of the cartoons to emulate the theatrical shorts. It grew from the direct-to-video movies '' (2001), ''Blast Off to Mars'' (2005) and '' (2005), ''The KarateGuard'' (2005) and '' (2006), the first Tom & Jerry cartoon co-directed by the characters' co-creator Joseph Barbera since the original MGM shorts.
Barbera also served as an Executive Producer before his death, as well as receiving story credit on some short cartoons, of the "Tom and Jerry Tales" show's first season, produced by Warner Brothers in 2005. The series had its international premiere on Boomerang in the UK on February 27, 2006, and premiered in the US on Kids' WB on The CW on September 23, 2006. Each episode consists of three short cartoons with approximately the same runtime as the original theatrical shorts. Also, each of the three shows that air in a 30 minute episode have some type of theme. For example, episode 1 (Tiger Cat/Feeding Time/Polar Peril) would have a theme of animals.
Recently at TV.com, it has been announced that the show will be getting a second season consisting of 13 new half-hour episodes (39 sub-episodes), starting in the fall of 2007.

Contents

Voice cast

Episode list

Season 1: 2006-2007

Season 2 and beyond: 2007-present

Video Game

DVD Releases

Trivia

External link

Voice cast

★ Don Brown as Tom

★ Sam Vincent as Jerry

★ Michael Donovan as Spike

Episode list

Season 1: 2006-2007

No.	Title	Theme	Air Date	Production Code
1	Tiger Cat / Feeding Time / Polar Peril	Animals	September 23, 2006	110
2	Joy Riding Jokers / Cat Got Your Luggage? / City Dump Chumps	Uban Settings	September 30, 2006	109
3	Way Off Broadway / Egg Beats / Cry Uncle	Music	October 7, 2006	108
4	Bats What I Like About the South / Fraidy Cat Scat / Tomb it May Concern	Halloween	October 28, 2006	102
5	Dino-Sores / Freaky Tiki / Prehisterics	Past	November 4, 2006	111
6	Digital Dilemma / Hi, Robot / Tomcat Jetpack	Electronics and Technology	November 11, 2006	104
7	Fire Breathing Tom Cat / Medieval Menace / The Itch	Middle-Ages	February 3, 2007	103
8	Ho, Ho Horror / Dog-Gone Hill Hog / Northern Light Fish Fight	Winter	February 10, 2007	101
9	Cat Nebula / Martian Mice / Spaced Out Cat	Space/Science Fiction	February 17, 2007	106
10	Octo Suave / Beach Bully Bingo / Treasure Map Scrap	Beach/Ocean Settings	February 24, 2007	107
11	Destruction Junction / Battle of the Power Tools / Jackhammered Cat	Building Sites	March 3, 2007	112
12	Tin Cat of Tomorrow / Beef Cat Tom / Tom Cat, Superstar		April 28, 2007	113
13	Piranha Be Loved (by You) / Spook House Mouse / Abracadumb	Boardwalk	May 5, 2007	105

Season 2 and beyond: 2007-present

'Coming Soon'

Video Game

In November 2006, a video game based on the show was released for the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance. You play as Jerry to get Tom in trouble. Many cameos from the show make appearances in the game such as the female robotic mouse from the short ''Hi, Robot''.

DVD Releases

"Tom and Jerry Tales: Volume One" was released on October 3, 2006. The cartoons include: ''Ho, Ho Horror'', ''Dog-Gone Hill Hog'', ''Northern Light Fish Fight'', ''Way Off Broadway'', ''Egg Beats'', ''Cry Uncle'', ''Joy Riding Jokers'', ''Cat Got Your Luggage?'', ''City Dump Chumps'', ''Tiger Cat'', ''Feeding Time'', and ''Polar Peril''.
"Tom and Jerry Tales: Volume Two" was released on May 15, 2007. The cartoons include: ''Octo Suave'', ''Beach Bully Bingo'', ''Treasure Map Scrap'', ''Fire Breathing Tom Cat'', ''Medieval Menace'', ''The Itch'', ''Digital Dilemma'', ''Hi, Robot'', ''Tomcat Jetpack'', ''Piranha Be Loved (by You)'', ''Spook House Mouse'', and ''Abracadumb''. This was then released later as Volume One in the UK!

Trivia

★ Tex Avery's character Droopy makes a cameo appearance as a doctor in ''Cat Nebula'', and in ''Tomcat Jetpack''.

★ Wolfie, a character from Tex Avery's Red Hot Riding Hood and Droopy cartoon shorts, appears as a ghost in ''Spook House Mouse''.

★ The very first part of the opening sequence homages the short ''Designs on Jerry''.

★ Jerry's Uncle Pecos, who appeared in the original ''Tom and Jerry'' short "Pecos Pest", is in ''Cry Uncle''.

★ So far, there are 16 shorts where Jerry triumphs, 1 where Tom wins, 16 where they both win, and 6 where they both lose. All together make approximatenly 39 shorts.

★ In ''Dog-Gone Hill Hog'', Spike makes a reference to King of the Hill.

★ Tuffy (Nibbles) makes an appearance in ''Cat Nebula'' as Jerry's space cadet sidekick.

★ Despite the frequent violence, the series is only rated TV-Y on Kid's WB.

External link

★ Official website on Kids' WB!