The Tom & Jerry Show
EPISODE 8

BROADCAST NUMBER:TJGA-8
ORIGINAL ABC AIRDATE:October 25, 1975

80-23"THE HYPOCHONDRIAC LION"


At the City Zoo, Rex, a lion, sustains a splinter in his paw. The keeper offers to extricate the splinter, but Rex insists on a "splinter specialist...2 of 'em! The first one'll want a second opinion, even!" Pet veterinarians Tom & Jerry are called in to "give 1st, 2nd and 3rd aid to the king of beasts." Dr. Tom and Dr. Jerry attempt to simply use tweezers while blindfolding Rex, but he has a fear of the dark! Drs. T&J make more tries to pull out the splinter with the use of a rope, an eye chart, and a sexy lioness nurse outfit, but they all backfire. The undaunted docs then provide Rex with a treasure map sending him on a hunt leading to a Grab Bag containing a "million dollars"; during Rex's hunt, Dr. Tom makes even more attempts to relieve the splinter: from a tree, in a hollow stump, and behind a zoo wall. Finally at The Grab Bag, Rex reaches inside and Jerry, hidden within, plucks out the splinter. So impressed is Rex by Drs. T&J's work that he tells all his friends, and the 2 docs are inundated with even more animal ailments: an elephant's steady tusk ache, a giraffe's sore throat, and so on. Drs. T&J see this as the perfect opportunity to cut out!

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80-31"GIVE 'EM THE AIR"


Fritz Von Spritz, The Purple Baron and his assistant, Otto Van Blotto in their plane, The Blue Max, and Tom and Jerry in their plane, The Sad Spad, are the only two remaining entrants in The International 500 Cross-Country Air Race; the other two contestants, Sir Athscot Paisley of England in his Sopwith Sloucher and Pierre Vous Cafe of Paris in his Fillet Mignon, having unfortunately dropped out. In their endeavors to sabotage T&J's attempt to defeat them, Von Spritz and Van Blotto use a brick wall carried on a wire by dirigible---which unfortunately snaps. The Baron then climbs down a rope ladder and attempts to saw off The Sad Spad's rudder, but, having passed through a cloudbank, Tom snatches the saw. The Baron leaps off but forgets his parachute, and manages to three-point land on a haystack. The twosome then employ The Fritz Von Spritz Flip, which sends Tom & Jerry plummeting down through a tunnel, but the two manage to dodge an oncoming train ahead of them. Next, Von Spritz and Van Blotto try pouring quick-drying cement in their propeller, but cover themselves in it. Just them, an exhausted mother duck drops in on T&J, who provide her with a lift and refreshments. At the home stretch, Von Spritz and Von Blotto make a final attempt at sabotaging T&J's plane by siphoning its fuel! But, just their luck, the mother duck has given birth to ducklings, who help carry T&J and their plane to victory.

TRIVIA & NOTES:

  • This is the first of three occasions which find Tom & Jerry in racing competition, preceding Episode #80-25, "The Super Cyclists," and #80-48, "The Great Motorboat Race."
  • Also, it's the first of 2 sports-themed New Tom & Jerrys in which T&J aren't pitted against each other, aside from "The Great Motorboat Race."
  • The Purple Baron is based upon Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, The Red Baron (1892-1918), just as his plane, The Blue Max, is named after the same-named military decoration (a.k.a. The Order Pour le Mérite) which was Prussia's highest military order until the end of World War I. (Richthofen was also a notable recipient of The Blue Max.) The Blue Max also served as the title of a 1966 20th Century Fox World War I film, directed by John Guillermin, filmed in Ireland, and starring George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress and Jeremy Kemp.
  • A different kind of Purple Baron (not Fritz Von Spritz) was the antagonist of a 1967 Hanna-Barbera/RKO-Jomar Abbott & Costello Cartoon of the same name. And yet another Purple Baron would be the antagonist of future NT&J component co-star Lt. Mumbly, in the November 20, 1976 episode, "The Perils Of The Purple Baron".
  • "Give 'Em The Air" appears to contain quickly inserted footage of the Baron and Otto dashing from their grounded plane out of the way out of a falling brick wall. After the impact, the screen stays on the crushed plane and the offscreen Baron is heard saying "Dumbkopf!" in a 'pained' tone-making it appear as if the wall was supposed to have landed on them, while still seated in the plane. Could the quick insert be a result of network anti-violence standards?
  • "Spad," by the way, is British slang for a person whose job is to give political advice to government ministers. Also, the abbreviation SPAD is acronymed as Signal Passed At Danger, known in America as a stop signal overrun and in Canada as passing a stop signal, an event on a railway where a train passes a stop signal without authority.


80-34"THE EGG AND TOM AND JERRY"
LOST EPISODE


On the tree top Mother Eagle put her egg in the nest, then he put the blanket on her egg and the mother eagle flys away. However, the egg hops off the nest and lands onto the branch like a catapult and rolls onto the branch and goes into the hole and goes down and rolls out the tree and it rolls onto the cliff and lands onto the stream and the egg roll down onto the water fall and rolls off the stream. Tom and Jerry goes for a walks however they see the egg rolling by but the egg hops itself so Tom and Jerry sees the van passes by but Tom grabs the egg on the road avoiding the van and sees the van passing by causing the egg let go from Tom but Jerry catches the egg with his hands so Tom shakes Jerry hands. Mother Eagles flew back to the nest and sees the egg is missing so she pulls out the nest and see inside but the egg is missing causing the mother eagle to cry. The egg hops itself causing the egg to breaks and reveals the baby eagle but he climbs onto Tom and called him mummy.

The mother eagle is flying to look for her baby, the baby eagle called him mummy but Tom shook his head while Jerry laugh. The the baby eagle calls him mummy three times but Tom shook his head. Jerry is laughing but he falls into the egg causing the egg closes, the mother eagle is looking for her baby but she found the egg and she flew down until Tom hide behind the tree and the mother eagle grab the egg, Tom comes out from the tree and see the egg missing and he looks up and see the mother eagle carrying her egg with her claw. Tom whistles to call mother eagle and he point to the baby eagle. Mother Eagle flew back to the nest and she put her egg back on the nest. However when the egg shakes, Jerry comes out from the egg and he looks at the mother eagle and he run away but he look down and he is going to fall and he runs back to the nest until mother eagle pick him up and she calls him a baby but Jerry calls her mummy and she hug him. The baby eagle is flying while Tom chases the baby bird but the baby eagle flew upside down until Tom catches the baby eagle with his hand and the baby eagle call him mummy but Tom think he is mother so Tom flaps his arm like a bird and he jumps up until it lands onto the ground but the baby eagle laughs.

The Mother Eagle teaches Jerry how to fly, but Jerry giggles while he is flapping his wings, hopping onto the nest and running down the tree. The Mother Eagle stops Jerry from running away, picking him up and throwing him up into the sky. Jerry flaps his arm like a bird until it reaches to the nest. Tom holds two leaf branches to teach Baby Eagle how to fly. Tom flaps his arm like a bird, causing the leaves to come off from the branches and fall into the lake. Baby Eagle lands onto Tom's hand, with Tom pointing to the tree which has Mother Eagle on top of the nest. Jerry hops around the nest flapping his arm while Mother Eagle watches him. Tom arrives to the tree, puts the Baby Eagle inside the hole, whistles for Jerry's attention and gets to jump in the net he's holding. Jerry flaps, jumps off the nest and lands in the net. Tom and Jerry both shake hands until the Mother Eagle catches him in the net, ties it up and hangs him up through the hole as the Baby Eagle comes out of hiding. The Mother Eagle comforts Jerry, throws him up high again then he begins his flap as she does it again until he gets back to the nest. Tom strikes a cross arrow under the nest with his bow and climbs up the rope but the Mother Eagle sees him coming and holds Jerry tightly as the nest slips off the branch sending Tom into the mud puddle.

The Mother Eagle takes her nest back as the Baby Eagle calls Tom its mommy again and the cat keeps telling him he is not his mother and points to the real one then gets another idea. Tom grabs the Baby Eagle, runs up the tree, sneaks over the branch and holds him up through the nest showing The Mother Eagle who now sees her real son, hugs and kisses him. The Mother Eagle squawks at Jerry who falls off the nest with Tom but she and her baby save them both. They all shake hands/feathers. The Baby Eagle climbs up to Tom one last time and hugs him while The Mother Eagle kisses Jerry 4 times. Now The Mother and Baby Eagle fly off into the sky together as Tom and Jerry both bid them goodbye. Just then, another van drives down the road and drops a box of 12 eggs which hatch into baby chicks and said "Mommy". Tom and Jerry run away with the baby chicks chasing after them on the road.

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