The New Tom & Jerry Show, also known as The Tom & Jerry Show, is an animated television series produced for Saturday mornings by Hanna-Barbera Productions and MGM Television in 1975 for ABC based on the original series of Academy Award-winning theatrical animated shorts produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer featuring the Hanna-Barbera-created cat and mouse duo, Tom and Jerry. Here, in a much toned down, non-violent, Yogi Bear/Boo Boo-esque format , the long-popular Tom and Jerry, after years of rivalry, have become the best of friends , in episodes wherein they roamed the world competing in... sports, enduring on-the-job misadventures, running afoul of dastardly villains, solving mysteries and helping others. A total of 48 7-minute New Tom & Jerry cartoons were produced in 1975 and originally aired in these following formats on ABC Saturday morning: These cartoons were later edited within main and end title credits and added to run with theatrical-era MGM Tom & Jerry cartoons from 1940 to 1967 for syndication.
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