Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era (1940–1958)

Tom and Jerry's first cartoon. Tom (here named Jasper) tries to stop the mouse Jerry (here unnamed) from breaking plates and glasses before the maid can kick Jasper out.

Jerry attempts to outsmart Tom so he can get a snack from the refrigerator.

Tom gets to know the spirit of giving when he begins to feel guilty after blockading the front door, trapping Jerry outside in the cold on Christmas Eve.

Jerry plays tricks to scare the fur off of Tom.

Tom and Jerry team up to stop a Bulldog from mauling both of them.

Tom tries to woo a female cat.

Tom and Jerry chase each other around a bowling alley.

Jerry flees from Tom by hiding with a chicken family.

Tom competes with an alley cat (Meathead) to see who can catch Jerry first.

When the housekeeper kicks Tom out of the house after Jerry frames him, the mouse enjoys his freedom without Tom until he gets lonesome. They work together to prove Tom's worth as a mouse-catcher to the housekeeper.

Jerry wages war with Tom from his "cat raid shelter" in the basement.

Nancy dresses up Tom like a baby, prompting Jerry and Tom's feline friends to make fun of him.

Tom and Jerry try to impress Toots by wearing a zoot suit.

Tom inherits a million dollars on one condition: He must avoid causing harm to any animal, which Jerry uses to his advantage.

Jerry frees Spike the bulldog from the dog-catcher's truck. Spike promises to protect Jerry from Tom by responding to the sound of a whistle.

When Jerry hides in the dog pound, Tom disguises himself as a dog.

Tom reads a book consisting of tips for catching mice.

Tom invites Toots to a dinner party.

Jerry takes a trip to Manhattan.

Tom attempts to play golf, but Jerry ruins his fun.

Tom disguises himself as a female bird to trick an eagle who also wants to eat Jerry, which works too well.

Spike threatens Tom to keep quiet during his nap, but Jerry is constantly making noise.

Tom falls in love with a new female cat, Toodles. Jerry tries to break them up by sending Tom's friend/enemy Butch to her.

Nibbles visits one night and wants some milk, so Jerry tries to steal some from Tom.

Tom calls a mouse exterminator (Butch) to get rid of Jerry.

Tom sneaks up to Toodles' house to sing love songs to her at night.

Tom goes fishing using Jerry as bait and deals with watchdog Spike.

The housekeeper warns Tom to keep Jerry out of the refrigerator or she'll throw him out, but Tom accidentally becomes repeatedly drunk and befriends Jerry.

Pianist Tom performs Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt until Jerry breaks up his act.

Tom tries to prevent Jerry from drinking his milk by poisoning it, but his plan completely backfires when the poison transforms Jerry into a monster.

Tom woos Toodles on the beach.

Tom and Butch compete against each other to catch Jerry on the housekeeper's orders, but she ends up kicking out all three animals.

Jerry uses "invisible ink" to turn invisible and outsmart Tom.

Cuckoo saves Jerry from Tom.

Tom, Jerry, and Spike (here called Butch) are fed up of fighting each other and call a truce, but the peace falls apart when they fight over a steak.

Tom is briefly replaced by another cat, Lightning.

Tom tries to teach his kitten student (Topsy) how to catch mice.

After a muddy Tom chases Jerry through the house, the housekeeper forces the cat to clean the house. While she is gone, Jerry sabotages Tom's efforts.

Tom convinces the housekeeper that he is too sick to go outside. He stays in the house until Jerry paints red dots all over Tom's face to trick him into thinking he has caught the measles.

Jerry protects a baby woodpecker from Tom until it finds its mother.

In this Thanksgiving short, Jerry and Nibbles dine on Thanksgiving treats until Tom tries to stop them.

After a piano flattens Tom while he attempts to catch Jerry, Tom is refused entry to cat heaven due to his record of trying to harm Jerry. To save himself from Hell, Tom must have Jerry sign a certificate of forgiveness within one hour.

Tom chases a mermaid mouse who looks like Jerry.

Jerry hides with Spike and Tyke so Tom will get in trouble if he tries to catch him.

Tom reads through Jerry's diary.

Tom and Butch compete against each other in a game of tennis.

Jerry protects a little duckling named Quacker from Tom.

After the housekeeper goes out with her friends, Tom invites three of his feline friends: Butch, Lightning, and Topsy over for a party with loud music, which disturbs Jerry, who is trying to sleep.

Tom tries to woo a cowgirl cat.

Jerry promises to return an escaped circus lion to the African jungle.

Jerry and Nibbles celebrate Independence Day. Nibbles wants to set off firecrackers, but Jerry would rather play it safer.

Tom conducts the overture of Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II at the Hollywood Bowl, but Jerry also wants to conduct.

When Tom steals a chicken drumstick and frames Jerry, Jerry gets even by stealing Spike's bone and framing Tom.

Tom and Jerry duel in a billiard hall.

Tom offers Jerry as a gift to a wealthy and attractive female cat (Toodles). Jerry attracts the attention of another cat (Butch) who also becomes interested in her, resulting in a fight between Tom and the other cat for her affection.

Jerry must save a goldfish from Tom.

After staying out all night with his alley cat friends, Tom attempts to catch Jerry on housekeeper's orders, but he gets sleepy in the process.

Jerry enlists help from his tough cousin Muscles to deal with Tom.

Tom becomes a castaway on an island and chases Jerry to a native village, but Jerry tricks the cat by disguising himself as a blackface native.

Tom and Jerry fight over who is going to sleep in the hammock.

Spike threatens Tom to keep Tyke clean while he is gone. Jerry dirties Tyke to get Tom in trouble.

The housekeeper accidentally knocks Tom out with a blow to the head which causes him to forget who he is and think that he is a mouse, and Jerry finds Tom more obnoxious as a fellow rodent.

Tom chases Jerry and Cuckoo by devising an aerial plan of attack.

Tom shoots down a wild duckling while hunting. Jerry helps him get airborne again.

The housekeeper adopts three kittens who torment Tom and Jerry, so the two team up to have their revenge.

Tom intends to give an escaped seal pup back to the circus, but Jerry wants to help the seal pup escape.

When Tom falls in love, Jerry's devil recalls the times when Tom fell in love and caused problems for Jerry.

Jerry and Nibbles are hungry Mouseketeers, and Tom is a guard in charge of protecting the king's banquet.

Fed up with Tom's laziness, the housekeeper buys a new mouse-catching robot cat.

After the passing of a new leash law, Tom torments Spike and uses the opportunity to chase Jerry, but Jerry has Spike protect him from Tom.

Tom is hired as a sailor tasked with keeping Jerry off a cruise ship.

Spike decides to build his dream dog house, but Tom and Jerry's antics constantly destroy it.

After Jerry is covered in white shoe polish, he scares Tom into thinking that he is an explosive white mouse that escaped from a lab.

Jerry befriends a baby elephant named Jumbo and disguises him as a large mouse to mess with Tom.

As the pet owned by Johann Strauss in Vienna, Tom becomes an accomplished pianist himself after his master goes away in order to lure dancing Jerry out with piano music.

Spike strikes an "agreement" with Tom for the feline to act scared whenever Tyke barks at him.

After Quacker hatches, Jerry befriends him and teaches him how to swim so he can find his family, but Jerry must also protect him from Tom.

Jerry is a scoutmaster who is taking two young mice (both resembling Nibbles) on a hiking trip.

Jerry writes an autobiography titled Life with Tom, which Tom has mixed emotions reading.

A litter of puppies are thrown into a river, but Jerry saves them and has to deal with one that will not leave him and Tom alone.

Tom is a cat owned by a western rancher living near the La Sal Mountains, who rules that, going forward, Tom's dinner will depend on him keeping Jerry out of the shack from stealing their food. Tom and Jerry eventually reach a truce that allows Tom to earn the meal.

Tom's usual antics of chasing Jerry wake Tyke up, and the puppy gets the hiccups. This annoys Spike, who threatens Tom to keep quiet, while Jerry tries to frame him but it backfires when Tom accidentally helps Spike to cure Tyke's hiccups, forcing Jerry to flee to the South.

Jerry is a professor with a certified degree in outwitting cats, and tries to teach Nibbles how to do so, with very little success.

Butch disguises himself as a baby to steal food from Tom and Jerry's household, aggravating both of them.

Jerry and Nibbles flood the kitchen and freeze it, turning it into a skating rink, causing Tom to use unusual tactics to catch them.

Tom and Jerry vacation in Naples and encounter a local mouse named Topo.

After reading the story of "The Ugly Duckling", Quacker is persistent with the idea of his being ugly, and even resorts to being eaten by Tom rather than to live with his "ugliness".

After the cost of dog and cat food increase, George and Joan (Tom and Spike's owners) decide they must get rid of one of them before they are eaten out of their home. Tom and Spike must compete to catch Jerry so they can stay, but both get kicked out in the end and Jerry stays.

Captain Jerry tries to teach eager Nibbles how to become a Mouseketeer.

Quacker is determined to fly south for the winter, which Jerry objects since farm ducks do not fly south, while Tom tries to catch the duck.

Spike and Tyke are having a picnic, but several inconveniences occur.

Tom sells Jerry disguising him as a white mouse after seeing an ad in the newspaper. But his plan to get rich backfires when the house owner finds the money and buys Jerry back.

Tom and his pals watch old footage of Spike's misery while the owners are not home.

Stick figure versions of Tom and Jerry come to life when Tom creates a very detailed blueprint of a mousetrap.

Mouseketeer Nibbles gets frustrated when Captain Mouseketeer Jerry repeatedly asks him to deliver his love letters despite Mouseketeer Nibbles's continually encountering troubles with Tom along the way.

Jerry's uncle Pecos comes to the city with his guitar for his television singing debut. Tom is terrified of Pecos because he keeps using Tom's whiskers as replacement guitar strings.

Quacker hatches near Tom and imprints on him, thinking Tom is his mother, despite Jerry's multiple pleas to show him otherwise.

A mother woodpecker leaves for lunch leaving her egg behind, but the egg ends up in Jerry's home and hatches. The baby woodpecker thinks Jerry is his mother and saves him from Tom.

Tom sees an advert wanting an intelligent cat as a travel companion. He leaves his home for the new job, only to find a creepy house occupied by a witch, who wants a cat to take on broomstick rides.

When Jeannie the babysitter is too busy on the phone to look after the baby who is constantly crawling away, Tom and Jerry collaborate to make sure the baby does not get hurt.

Tom arrives at the beach with a female cat to spend some quality time. But instead, he is competing with Butch by lifting weights to impress her.

A dancing bear escapes from the zoo and arrives at Tom and Jerry's house, so Jerry keeps playing music to make him dance with Tom and prevent Tom from calling to collect the reward.

Jerry, narrating, recounts the tragic love story that led to Tom's depression.

Spike shows his son Tyke how to barbecue, but they have to deal with constant interruptions.

Jerry hides with Spike and Tyke so Tom will get in trouble if he tries to catch him.

Tom's cousin George comes to visit, and he is afraid of mice.

Jerry and Tuffy dine on Thanksgiving treats until Tom tries to stop them.

When Tom eats his owner's chicken and frames Spike, Jerry takes a picture to expose him, spreading copies around the house for his owners to see them. Tom goes to extreme measures to destroy or otherwise hide the photos from his owners, but ultimately fails.

Royal guard Tom must get rid of Mouseketeers Jerry and Tuffy without waking up the king from his nap.

Tom is a mouse-catching world champion and arrives in Spain to catch Jerry, known as El Magnifico, but he miserably fails to catch him.

The Easter Bunny leaves an Easter egg for Tom and Jerry, which hatches into Quacker who thoroughly annoys them.

In a plot reminiscent of 1947's The Invisible Mouse, Jerry and Quacker become invisible using vanishing cream and play pranks on Tom.

After Robin Hood gets locked up, Jerry and Tuffy attempt to save him, but first they must get past Tom.

Due to Jeanine the babysitter's carelessness, Tom and Jerry must once again keep the baby from harm every time it gets loose.