NEW TOM & JERRY SHOW
EPISODE 1

 BROADCAST NUMBER:TJGA-1
ORIGINAL ABC AIRDATE:September 6, 1975

80-03"NO WAY, STOWAWAYS"

On the high seas, Thomas Cat & Gerald Mouse stow away in the crow's nest of the ship of Weirdbeard the Pirate, who displays his new invention: a boomerang cannonball, as a way to cut down on using new cannonballs, But it turns out to be a bust when, true to boomerang form, it comes right back and blasts into the ship, foundering it.

During lunch, Weirdbeard calls for his cook, Cookie, who quickly brings his captain a plate of squabs before retreating. Captain Weirdbeard prepares to chow down on his afternoon snack, but his lunch is stolen by fishooks after he pulls out a eating cloth. It turns out Tom and Jerry are eating the meal in the crow's nest. but they carelessly throw out the bone down to Weirdbeard's nose. The pirate soon discovers T&J have stowed away on his ship! The captain threatens to make them walk the plank, but then he remembers he needs a cabin boy; the one who does the best job stays aboard, with a deep-6 for the other!

Tom and Jerry are sent into feverish competition with each other for the job, starting a chain reaction of blunders and misadventures, with Tom usually sabotaging Jerry's efforts as they lower the anchor, swab the deck, paint the cabin, and stack cannonballs in a neat pile next to the cannon. After many mishaps and plenty of damage done to the ship (with it sinks 5 times!), Tom wins the job, but when the captain orders him to make little Jerry walk the plank, Tom protects his friend by hiding him under his new pirate hat...and faking Weirdbeard out with a cannonball!

TRIVIA & NOTES:

The third New Tom & Jerry cartoon to be produced but the first to air on ABC, "No Way, Stowaways" had its origins in the 1954 MGM T&J classic Pet Peeve, in which the owner declares to Spike and Tom that the one who catches Jerry can stay, sending the cat and dog into a fierce battle against each other for their quarry.

Weirdbeard knows Tom's name, despite never having heard it.

Henry Corden (as Weirdbeard) speaks the only lines of dialogue throughout the entire cartoon.

Numerous musical stings first heard in these first 3 New Tom & Jerry cartoons would be repeated throughout future episodes of the entire series. They were also used in episodes of later Hanna-Barbera series The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour (ABC, 1976), Clue Club (CBS, 1976), and Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics (ABC, 1977).

These first 3 New Tom & Jerry shorts were shown during this first telecast in the exact reverse order of production.

The animation of Tom swinging on a rope from this cartoon is also used in the show's syndicated opening titles.

Throughout most of "No Way, Stowaways," Weirdbeard has only one precious tooth, yet towards the end, where he makes his decision on who should be his cabin boy, he has a full mouth of teeth!

Weirdbeard The Pirate is named after The Weird Beard, a very popular nightttime disc jockey (real name: Carl Burton Markert [1945-95]) on WAKY (790 AM) in Louisville, Kentucky, one of the most influential and highly-respected secondary market Top 40 stations in America, where he served from November 1966 to September 1971.

ORIGINAL ANIMATION:

Jerry snapping his shoepolishing rag

Tom riding the mop on the deck

80-02"THE SKI BUNNY"

In the Swiss Alps, Tom, Jerry and Spike enjoy a leisure day of skiing as they come out of the ski lodge which they end up slamming the door on each other, they take a deep breath then ski. Tom then skis down the snowy mountain to perform tricks.Tom is executing his latest moves on his skis when suddenly he catches glimpse of Jerry with a female feline ski buff...causing him to fall head over heels in love! Tom then heads to her and in the process buries Jerry under snow. Tom then skiies with the female cat, Yvonne then ask him to show her a few pointers, Tom obliges and performs many stunts, as she is watching, Jerry returns to her. Tom successfully impresses Yvonne, as she compliments him. The huffing and puffing Spike then skiing passes by Tom causing the cat to spin out becoming dizzy. Yvonne is skiing with Jerry awhile talking about how she needs to learn how to ski. Tom whistles to them getting both of their attention, Tom hops on skis and slides on the snow passing by Yvonne and Jerry in the process clashes into Spike, Tom is knocked over and Spike is catapulted into trash bin. Yvonne asking Tom for a few pointers. Jerry mentors Yvonne, how to master skiing as she understanding. Tom's second attempt to win the female cat is removing his competition, he does so by skiing down from the mountain to push Jerry for Tom to be with Yvonne. The mouse is send moving into a tree and up through and branch throws him back and unintentionally shoves Tom and gets back with the ski bunny.

Tom spots Yvonne and Jerry from a tree, digs up a hole with a snow shovel, places logs underneath and covered it with snow for Jerry to fall in. However the trap does not work as planned when they pass through it. Tom looks at the trap himself, he tests if the trap would triggered however it doesn't, he then stomps on it repeatedly, despite that, it's still still stable. Tom is left puzzled, he leaves it but instead falls through underneath the snow leaving his snow cap. Jerry and Yvonne are seating on the ski lifts, with Tom behind them attempting on their lift but misses and plummets on top of Spike. The bulldog confused finds Tom on his head, as the cat smiles nervously. Spike turns Tom's skis and spins them causing the cat to getting propel away. Jerry and Yvonne continue skiing together, as she says that she is getting the hang of skiing and calling it easy after a couple hours of practice. As she does, Tom is waiting on top of a tree holding one of his skis to catch Jerry. As they pass by Tom scoops Jerry away, which this attempt went successfully and gets back with Yvonne. Jerry then decides to roll up a big snowball up a hill pushes it down towards Tom. While Tom is with Yvonne, the cat soon spots the large snowball approaching him and retreats from the giant ball of snow. However he clashes Spike again. Spike is angered and chases Tom around until the cat manages to escape him. Tom taunts Spike as he is unaware he is sliding into a edge, and dangling on a branch, Jerry soon discovers and comes to the rescues him from the ski lifts by using a lasso to rescue his feline foe. When Tom and Jerry both find the ski bunny has hooked up with Spike, they combine forces and attempt to foil the bulldog with a snowball...which unfortunately backfires when the dog dodges it by jumping over the passing by snowball. The duo retreat to avoid the snowball successfully unfortunatly the snow from the roof falls on them. As Spike is with Yvonne, Tom and Jerry are angered at this predicament.

TRIVIA & NOTES:

A scene from this episode featuring Tom & Jerry, in snow gear, being dumped on by a blanket of snow (falling from the roof of the lodge they're standing in front of) is seen in the show's syndicated opening credits.

Tom's penchant for falling head over heels in love with the ladies is no surprise. You devout classic T&J buffs will notice he's done it many times before in several classic T&J theatricals as Puss 'N' Toots (1942), Casanova Cat (1951), and Blue Cat Blues (1956).

The gimmick of Tom opening the door on Jerry and inhaling deeply of the fresh air is borrowed from Salt Water Tabby (1947).

The "ski bunny" seen here closely resembles that of Tom's kitten girlfriend in 1956's Muscle Beach Tom. Voiced by Janet Waldo, she speaks the only lines of dialogue throughout this entire cartoon.

"The Ski Bunny" is itself basically a rehash of both Springtime for Thomas (1946) and Casanova Cat.

Spike (in his first appearance on the show) was originally not to be a featured participant in "The Ski Bunny".

John Stephenson provides the huffing and puffing Spike makes when he skis. He is the first of 3 voice actors to voice the bulldog, the other two are Don Messick and Joe E. Ross.

Some of the "love" underscore first heard here was later recycled for the syndicated October 1985 special Pound Puppies (a.k.a. City Pound), which of course gave rise to Hanna-Barbera's 1986-88 ABC Saturday Morning series of the same name.

80-01"STAY AWAKE OR ELSE..."

On the circus grounds, the ringmaster searches for circus roustabout Tom, who at the same time is being driven by milk truck from an all-night party which has left him exhausted so the milkman tell Tom to wake up as soon Tom get out from the milkvan and he blow the noise maker to the milkman and the milkvan drive away so Tom goes under the tent however Jerry shushes him to keep quiet so Tom is about to sleep but the bucket is stuck on his left foot causing making loud noise so Jerry shushes him again. Tom shakes his left foot but the bucket is free causing the bucket lands onto Jerry. Tom is sleeping on the hay stack until The ringmaster appears but Jerry hides inside the bucket and The ringmaster goes to Tom and catches him asleep and shouts for him to wake up, sending him bouncing off the roof of the circus tent! The ringmaster warns Tom he will lose his job if he falls asleep on the job and the ringmaster tell him to clean up the tent. So, it's up to co-roustabout Jerry to wake him up. When applying loud alarm clock headsets to his ears, filling him up with piping hot coffee until it comes out of his ears, and jacking him up and tickling him with his party streamer all bomb out. So the ringmaster tell everyone the show goes on about 10 minutes.

Jerry decides the best he can do is make his sleepy pal seem awake with a pair of eyeglasses painted white. First Jerry put on the eyeglasses on him and he ties strings to Tom's arms and legs and manipulates him in the manner of a marionette, making him appear to dust the carnie wagons. When the ringmaster arrives and orders Tom not to sleep however Jerry is too tired but the ringmaster arrives and he orders him to sweep the ring, Jerry puts him on roller skates with a broom in his paws and pushes him to the center ring to help him do his job...and loses control of him! The Strongman lift the piano up, but Tom accidentally knocks the strongman causing the piano to drop, so Jerry runs and grabs Tom's legs but he crashes into some elephants causing them to sit, a crocodile open its mouth until Tom passes by and the crocodile snaps. The somnolent Tom unwittingly goes on to delight the crowd and the ringmaster with his stunts. The show is an instant success, and the ringmaster then presents Tom (still asleep!) with a contract stipulating he repeat his "act" every night, and he "signs" it...courtesy of Jerry, who manipulates his paw with a pen tied to his finger!

TRIVIA & NOTES:

"Stay Awake Or Else..." was the first New Tom & Jerry cartoon to be produced, as well as the first Tom & Jerry cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera in 17 years.

The basis for this cartoon was Sleepy-Time Tom (1951).

The circus seal and elephants which appear during Tom's sleepskating act reference those in Little Runaway (1952) and Jerry And Jumbo (1953), respectively.

In the scene where Jerry makes a fast-asleep Tom appear to dust the carnie wagons, the ringmaster sternly admonishes him that he'd "better not catch you cat napping!", thus referring to the same-named 1951 MGM Tom and Jerry short.

The strongman's design was later reused for Muscles McMulligan of the "Busting Boomerino” episode of Posse Impossible, a segment of CB Bears, which aired on NBC November 5, 1977.

The scenes in this episode of Tom streaking through the air and continuously bouncing off the roof of the circus tent and bouncing off a trampoline can be seen in the show's syndicated opening credit sequence. The opening credits also boast a scene of Jerry stopping in front of fast-asleep Tom and opens his left eye to read a "Do Not Disturb" sign, also from "Stay Awake Or Else...". (The only difference is that Tom roller skates up a teeter-totter in the cartoon, whereas in the opening titles, he merely runs up one.)

A deleted scene finds Tom gliding out of the tent and down the freeway with a policeman in pursuit, then back to the circus, where he inadvertently performs a series of tricks. The cartoon originally ended with the same policeman arriving with a speeding ticket and T&J skate out of the circus as fast as they can!

The scene of Jerry manipulating Tom with strings making him appear to dust the carnie wagons was incorporated into the original New Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape Show main titles.

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