Created by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera in 1940 the animated cat-&-mouse team of TOM & JERRY had had a long theatrical-film run before its first reincarnation as a TV-cartoon property in 1975 This & subsequent TV versions tended to dampen the gloriously violent & slapsticky tone of the original TOM & JERRY cartoons usually bowing to whatever was considered to be Politically Correct at the time Happily CW's half-hour TOM & JERRY TALES were produced by Warner Bros Animation restored the old knockabout pizzazz of the vintage TOM & JERRY short subjects As a bonus the three short cartoons per episodes were fully animated just as the team's glory days Joining the indestructible cat & mouse was their perennial enemy Spike the dog who likewise joined in the spirit of things with no holds barred