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Tom and Jerry team tamed for TV By LEE MARGULIES Flintstones," "Yogi Bear" and the current hit, "Scooby-Doo." What they proposed instead was making new "Tom and Jerry" cartoons the first they'd done in 18 years. There would still be that marvelous friendship between natural adversaries, but they would be put in more "socially acceptable" situations. That idea appealed to ABC, and it ordered 48 seven-minute cartoons for a new Saturday morning "Tom and Jerry" series beginning next Saturday. Hanna and Barbera are personally involved in the production. "They're not chasing each other anymore," Barbera says of his old friends.

"It used to be that Tom would pick on Jerry at the beginning, which would give Jerry the right to defend himself. Now they work together." A sample viewing indicates Tom and Jerry haven't lost their, charm or their ability to create laughs. Since they don't talk they never did the emphasis is on action and sight gags and 'those crazy things that can only happen in cartoons. In one of the new cartoons, for instance, Tom and Jerry are on a pirate ship. Their misadventures cause the boat to sink at least five times, but come the next scene, it's always right back afloat.

"I'm just as enthusiastic about Tom and Jerry as I was 20 years ago," Barbera says. "Unless people went back and saw the old ones, I don't think they'll know there's a difference." LOS ANGELES (AP) Question: What seven-time Academy Award winner is considered too controversial for television? Answer: You won't believe this, but it's "Tom and Jerry." William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, who created the forever feuding cat and mouse 35 years-ago, regained rights to the cartoon characters not long ago from MGM and hotfooted it over to the networks. "We ran into a stone wall," Barbera reports, "because some citizens for the protection of the children of the world have decided cartoons are evil, that they're violent and full of mayhem. "We showed them (the network folks) five of the old -Torn and they laughed so hard they had tears in their Then they said, 'We can't use them. If we put those on, we'll get The reason is that the "Tom and Jerry" cartoons, with their classic slapstick antics in which characters often knock each other silly, are too violent by today's television standards which were instituted a few years ago in response to pressure by parents' activist groups.

Never mind Tom and Jerry's seven Oscars and their worldwide popularity that spawned 147 cartoons between 1940 and 1947. Hanna and Barbera weren't surprised the old ones wouldn't go, having had more than a little experience in the field. Since departing MGM in 1957 to form their own animation studio, they have turned out more than 100 cartoon series for "television, including "The 381975 Drum Corps National Midwest Championships 3:30 p.m. 9 Green Acres 11 NFL Championship Games 13 Book Beat 4:00 p.m. 3-5-12-World Series of Golf 9-11 Wide World of Sports Events are the.

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