The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show (également connu sous le nom de The New Adventures of Tom and Jerry) est une série télévisée d'animation américaine produite par Filmation pour MGM Television, mettant en scène le duo de dessins animés Tom et Jerry. La série a été diffusée pour la première fois le 6 septembre 1980 sur CBS et s'est poursuivie jusqu'au 13 décembre de la même année[1]. Ses épisodes ont été intégrés ultérieurement aux packages syndiqués de Tom and Jerry en 1983[2]. La série a été diffusée au Royaume-Uni sur Pop en octobre 2013[3]. Des épisodes de la série ont également été occasionnellement diffusés sur Cartoon Network et Boomerang.
↑Hal Erickson, Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003, McFarland & Co, , 2nd éd., 858-862 p. (ISBN978-1476665993) :
« Tom and Jerry were rechanneled into "safe" rivalry: athletic events, competition at the workplace, and the like. Filmation also brought back from the Void several other MGM favorites of the 1940s and 1950s, who appeared in component cartoons: Droopy the Dog (see Droopy, Master Detective), his nemesis The Wolf, here named "Slick," and father-and-son canines Spike and Tyke. Tom and Jerry remained as silent as ever, while Frank Welker did the vocal honors on the remaining component characters (except during a 1980 industry strike, at which time all voices were provided by Tom and Jerry Comedy Show co-producer Lou Scheimer). Filmation chroniclers Michael Swanigan and Darrell McNeil have reported that the series generated an esprit de corps in the Filmation headquarters, with many artists developing unscripted sight gags right on the storyboards as part of a genial rivalry with the writing staff. This overall sense of euphoria carried over into the cartoons themselves: Though hobbled by stock footage, limited animation and network censorship, The Tom and Jerry Comedy Show was, for Filmation at least, a remarkably fast-moving and funny program. It wasn't the "true" Tom and Jerry, and never would be, but it was an acceptable bush league facsimile. As the many Tom and Jerry TV cartoons from both Hanna-Barbera and Filmation ran their network course, they were absorbed into Turner Television's MGM package along with the theatrical originals. »