Planet of the Dogs is the forty-first episode of The Tom and Jerry Show (1975).
Synopsis[]
Plot[]
Running from Spike, Tom and Jerry find themselves on a NASA rocket headed for the planet Dogstar; the canine inhabitants of the planet are being brainwashed by a giant talking idol into believing that cats and mice are their enemies.
Characters[]
- Tom Cat
- Jerry Mouse
- Spike Bulldog (minor)
Trivia[]
- A takeoff on the 1968 20th Century-Fox classic, 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.
- In this episode Spike is referred to as "Dogface" in this episode.
- Probably an insulting nickname someone gives to Spike which hates.