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I have faced alot of saiyans in my life. I even killed the saiyan king but this one is amazing.
-FrizeaDragon Ball Z
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 Aired: 1975 - 1976
Show Type: Animated
Country of Origin: US
The 60-minute New Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape Show (sandwiched between Hong Kong Phooey repeats and The Lost Saucer, a new sci-fi sitcom from Sid & Marty Krofft, and airing opposite The Bugs Bunny/Roadrunner Hour on CBS and Sigmund And The Sea Monsters [another Krofft vehicle] and The Secret Lives Of Waldo Kitty on NBC), wherein each hour-long telecast was split into five segments in a specific format: alternating with three 7-minute New Tom & Jerry segments were two 10-minute ones concerning a 40-foot purple ape, Grape Ape (voiced by the late Bob Holt) and his fast-talking beagle buddy, a carnival hustler answering to the unlikely moniker of Beegle Beagle (voiced by Marty Ingels), or "Beegley Beagley," as G.A. would lovingly refer to him.
This marked Tom & Jerry's return to Saturday Morning TV, after a 7-year run of their classic animated shorts on CBS Saturday (and Sunday) Morning (September 25, 1965 - September 17, 1972), as well as the first new T&J cartoons produced by Hanna-Barbera since 1958 (their producing credit for the mid-1960s MGM Tom & Jerry compilation cartoons Matinee Mouse [1966] and Shutter-Bugged Cat [1967], both of which were directed by NT&J animator Tom Ray and featured classic MGM/Hanna-Barbera T&J footage, was merely a homage to T&J's creators, as their wraparound segments were made in Chuck Jones' Sib Tower-12 studios). The only new series put out by Hanna-Barbera Productions for the fall of 1975 (T&J's 35th anniversary year), The New Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape Show introduced a technique that would become a standard in many HB comedies: the "theater marquis logo" main title card. It also kicked off a trend of new Saturday Morning animated shows spawned from Golden Age-era cartoons (What's New, Mr. Magoo?, The All-New Popeye Hour, The New Adventures Of Mighty Mouse With Heckle And Jeckle, etc.). A total of 48 7-minute New Tom & Jerry cartoons were made exclusively for TV and networkcast firstrun on ABC Saturday Morning over a 15-week period.*
*Although there were 16 New Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape Shows in all, the reason that it aired first run for 15 weeks can be attributed to the fact that, in late November 1975, 2 firstrun New Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape Shows were telecast on ABC on 2 different days in the same week. One was shown @ a special day and time: Noon (EST), Thursday afternoon, November 27, 1975, a Thanksgiving, as part of ABC's Thanksgiving Funshine Festival; the other was shown at its regularly scheduled time 48 hours later.
(Courtesy of The New Tom & Jerry Info Site @ http://www.1975tomjerry.50megs.com/ )
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