Well at least I can just purchase the uk set, have more short's and just put up with the cut's until I dust the old vhs off and convert them across to a more suitable format.ĭamn they even cut smoking out of it since 2006, and a list of cut's here though not complete: So your right, there is not a single set out there that is even close to the original's. However, that collection only has 113 episodes rather than 161, where the uk classics collection has 159, but been shredded. They did have a rocky start with volume's 1 and 2, but had a product recall and reinstated 2 shorts and had 'most' episodes uncut. Well I coulnd't find the old thread anywhere, but I have found that the spotlight collection from the state's has the most un altered. Television distributes the show.Isn't all this political correctness just grand, what a load of The Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly Show was produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, with the Tom & Jerry segments produced in association with MGM Television.
Mumbly would participate in the next season's Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics as the captain of the villainous Really Rottens team.Īfter the show ended in 1977, the Tom & Jerry segments were syndicated on their own under the title The Tom & Jerry Show (not to be confused with the 2014 animated series of the same name). Mumbly also liked to give his superior, Lt. Mumbly was a blue dog (looking a lot like Wacky Races canine Muttley) in a trenchcoat who, like Peter Falk's detective Columbo, frustrated villains by popping up when they'd least expect it.
The second season saw the addition of a third segment, The Mumbly Show.
Grape Ape would also participate on Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics as a member of the Yogi Yahooeys team. It returned on its own in the fall of 1977, where it ran Sunday mornings. This segment lasted through November of 1976 and was shelved after ABC expanded The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour to 90 minutes. Together, with Grape Ape atop their van and Beegle driving, they traveled hither and yon, seeking their fortune. purple ape with a childish nature and his sidekick, a canine named Beegle Beagle. Here as before they do not talk, but they did gasp and utter an occasional "Wow!" (noted on the cast list below). Early cartoons had them against each other as usual, but as time went on, they became buddies and did everything from side jobs to being involved in fairy stories.
Jerry was given a bow tie so as to provide animation short cuts on him and as the episodes went on, his size perspective with Tom had gone off, making him bigger. The Tom and Jerry segments were Hanna-Barbera's revival of their Oscar-winning cartoon cat and mouse.Īs it was 1975 and watchdog groups were clamping down on what they deemed needless cartoon violence, Hanna and Barbera watered down the cartoons with some atypical cartoon humor (under their budgets) but with none of the excessive violence. The Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape/Mumbly Show (also The Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape Show and The Tom & Jerry/Mumbly Show), was an animated series that aired on ABC. MGM Television (Tom & Jerry segments only)