Planet of the Dogs is the forty-first episode of The Tom and Jerry Show (1975).
Synopsis[]
While running from Spike, Tom and Jerry find themselves on a NASA rocket headed for the planet Dogstar, where the canine inhabitants of the planet are being brainwashed by a giant talking idol into believing that cats and mice are their enemies.
Plot[]
Characters[]
- Tom Cat
- Jerry Mouse
- Spike Bulldog (minor)
- Dogstarian Dogs
- The Great One (main antagonist)
Trivia[]
- A takeoff on the 1968 classic 20th Century Studios film, Planet of the Apes. (Coincidentally, NBC aired an animated adaptation of the film on its Saturday Morning schedule which came on a little after The New Tom & Jerry/Grape Ape Show on ABC in 1975-76: the short-lived DePatie-Freleng production Return To The Planet Of The Apes.)
- Joe E. Ross takes over for Don Messick as the voice of Spike in this episode.
- An important lesson about prejudice can be learned in this episode.
- Animation in this cartoon of Tom, Jerry and Spike jumping into and out of garbage cans resembles that in Episode #80-09, "Gopher Broke."
- The Great One is the only dog on the whole planet Dogstar with regular-color fur.
- "Planet Of The Dogs" recycles underscore first used in The Herculoids and Birdman.
- This cartoon is a parody of Planet of the Apes.
- Expect that Tom and Jerry really went to an alien planet inhibited by extraterrestrial dogs, while in Planet of the Apes at the end of the film, the planet revealed to be Earth 2000 years in the future with highly evolved apes and de-evolved humans.
- In this episode Spike is referred to as "Dogface" in this episode.
- This is likely a insulting nickname someone gave to Spike which he hates.
- Though despite this, he performs off a stop sign calling it the "Dogface Trampoline".
Gallery[]
Main article: Planet of the Dogs/Gallery