Spike and Tyke

Spike & Tyke is a theatrical animated short subject series, based upon the American bulldog father-and-son team from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Tom and Jerry cartoons. The characters first appeared in the Tom and Jerry series, in 1942's Dog Trouble.[1]

For the MGM characters, see Spike and Tyke (characters).
Spike and Tyke
Title card of Spike and Tyke cartoons.
Directed byWilliam Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Produced byWilliam Hanna
Joseph Barbera
Written byHomer Brightman
StarringDaws Butler
William Hanna
Music byScott Bradley
Production
company
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
March 29 –
July 26, 1957
Running time
6 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Only two films were made in this spin-off series: Give and Tyke and Scat Cats, both finished in 1956 and released in 1957, and produced in CinemaScope and Technicolor, as the cartoon studio shut down the year the spin-off series was started.[2]

The cartoons were produced and directed by Tom and Jerry creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, and were among the last of the original MGM theatrical cartoons made. The studio was shut down in 1957, and Hanna and Barbera would move on to television animation production success with their own Hanna-Barbera Productions.[2]

Spike was voiced by Billy Bletcher, and later Daws Butler. Tyke did not talk in the theatrical shorts, but did speak on the FOX television series Tom & Jerry Kids, for which the duo appeared in their own segments, and occasionally in the Tom and Jerry segments. Spike and Tyke were voiced by Richard Gautier and Patric Zimmerman, respectively. Later, they appeared in the straight to video film Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring Spike was voiced by Maurice LaMarche and Tyke's barks were done by Frank Welker.

Spike & Tyke shorts
#TitleRelease Date
1Give and TykeMarch 29, 1957
2Scat CatsJuly 26, 1957
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See also

References
  1. Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 138–139. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  2. Maltin, Leonard (1980). Of Mice and Magic: History of American Animated cartoons.
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