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Firstly, the video clip above features a full episode entitled Mouse Trouble which is produced by Fred Quimby. This cartoon was a firm favourite in our household back in the 70s and never failed to leave our cheekbones aching from all the laughter. 

This cartoon was a firm favourite in our household back in the 70s and never failed to leave our cheekbones aching from all the laughter. 

Tom and Jerry was created by Hanna Barbera for MGM (the originals were created between 1940 and 1957) and won seven academy awards. Each cartoon involved lots of slapstick fun, with music and sound effects galore adding to the disorder.

My favourite cartoon episodes featured the infamous cat and mouse chase scenes, which usually involved Tom (the cat) trying to capture Jerry (although he rarely succeeded!) with a great deal of chaos being caused in the process. Jerry's retaliation methods were actually pretty brutal, with Tom often ending up with an iron in his face or his tail being plugged into an electric socket etc.

In some episodes the character Mammy Two Shoes would appear, only to find a trail of destruction through her house. She was a large-sized black woman who's face was never shown, although it was shown briefly in the episode Saturday Evening Puss before it was later edited out. Some versions of this episode show a white, teenage girl and others still show Mammy Two Shoes but with a re-dubbed voice. Indeed, many episodes were altered for later TV showings, with Mammy Two Shoes being either edited out or turned into a white girl to avoid being perceived as racist.