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Tom and Jerry is an American animated franchise and series of comedy short films created in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera. ... After the MGM cartoon studio closed in 1957, MGM revived the series with Gene Deitch directing an additional 13 Tom and Jerry shorts for Rembrandt Films from 1961 to 1962.

Tom (named "Jasper" in his debut appearance) is a grey and white mute domestic shorthair cat. ("Tom" is a generic name for a male cat.) He is usually but not always, portrayed as living a comfortable, or even pampered life, while Jerry (named "Jinx" in his debut appearance) is a small, brown mute, house mouse who always lives in close proximity to Tom. Despite being very energetic, determined and much larger, Tom is no match for Jerry's wits. 

Jerry also possesses surprising strength for his size, approximately the equivalent of Tom's, lifting items such as anvils with relative ease and withstanding considerable impacts. Although cats typically chase mice to eat them, it is quite rare for Tom to actually try to eat Jerry, but only to hurt or compete with him as usual in a more intimidating strategy to just taunt Jerry (even as revenge), and even to obtain a reward from a human (including his owner(s)/master(s)) for catching Jerry, or for generally doing his job greatly as a house cat. By the final "fade-out" of each cartoon, Jerry usually gets the best of Tom.

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Cat-and-mouse duo Tom and Jerry have been entertaining viewers with cartoon violence for decades. In this series that originally aired in the 1990s, younger versions of the animals are featured with Tom, as in the classic cartoons, trying to catch naughty mouse Jerry. Since it is geared more to kids than adults, the violence level is toned down a bit compared to the original series. Episodes also include shorts featuring other characters, including Droopy, Dripple, McWolf, Miss Vavoom and Calaboose Cal.

First episode date: 8 September 1990

Final episode date: 4 December 1993