The BEST episodes of Tom and Jerry

Every episode of Tom and Jerry ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Tom and Jerry!

This is all the Tom and Jerry shorts, from 1940 to 1967. The first 114 are from the Hanna-Barbera era (1940 – 1958), the next 13 are from the Gene Deitch era (1960 – 1962), and the last 34 are from the Chuck Jones era (1963 – 1967).

Last Updated: 9/24/2024Network: CBSStatus: Ended
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The Missing Mouse
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9.58
125 votes

#1 - The Missing Mouse

Season 1950 - Episode 27 - Aired 1/10/1953

The radio reports that a white mouse, having swallowed enough explosives to blow up the city, has escaped from a lab.

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Advance and Be Mechanized
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9.54
82 votes

#2 - Advance and Be Mechanized

Season 1960 - Episode 46 - Aired 8/29/1967

Another Space Adventure, this time Tom is a security guard. He spots Jerry's robot sneaking cheese from the Mining Facility. He sends his robot after him and gets the cheese back. The two robots end up injured, and put a controlling device on Tom & Jerry while the two robots operate the controls.

Directors: Ben Washam
Writer: Bob Ogle
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Catty-Cornered
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9.53
45 votes

#3 - Catty-Cornered

Season 1960 - Episode 37 - Aired 9/10/1966

This episode takes place in a duplex. Tom lives in one house, another Cat lives in the other, and Jerry lives between them. Both cats try to catch Jerry, but when one cat tries, the other cat gets hurt, and both think Jerry is the strongest mouse ever. They decide to get away from the damaged house, and Jerry comes with them, since he had so much fun.

Directors: Abe Levitow
Writer: John W. Dunn
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The Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R.
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9.47
83 votes

#4 - The Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R.

Season 1960 - Episode 43 - Aired 5/7/1967

The Mouse From H.U.N.G.E.R. sets out to find the food guarded by The Cat From T.H.R.U.S.H.. He tries to stop the mouse, but the traps backfire and the mouse hauls away a refrigerator full of food.

Directors: Abe Levitow
Writer: Bob Ogle
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Little School Mouse
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9.43
60 votes

#5 - Little School Mouse

Season 1950 - Episode 37 - Aired 5/29/1954

After being chased by Tom once again, Professor Jerry escapes into his classroom (mouse hole). Once there, he proceeds to teach his only student, Nibbles, how to outwit a cat. And the subject for the lesson is none other than Tom.

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Filet Meow
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9.41
46 votes

#6 - Filet Meow

Season 1960 - Episode 34 - Aired 4/18/1966

Another episode with a shark. This time, Jerry is rescuing a fish from Tom. Tom tries to bring the fish back, only to run into a shark, instead.

Directors: Abe Levitow
Writer: Bob Ogle
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Feedin' The Kiddie
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9.38
50 votes

#7 - Feedin' The Kiddie

Season 1950 - Episode 61 - Aired 6/7/1957

This is a CinemaScope remake of the 1949 episode, The Little Orphan.

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Smarty Cat
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9.38
50 votes

#8 - Smarty Cat

Season 1950 - Episode 49 - Aired 10/14/1955

Tom and his alley cat palls are going through home movies, and Jerry wants to watch them, too. But Tom and his buddies don't want him around and toss him out the window. Annoyed, Jerry decides to get back at them by waking up Spike and angering him by showing him how he's depicted as a big goof in those movies.

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Cat and Dupli-Cat
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9.37
46 votes

#9 - Cat and Dupli-Cat

Season 1960 - Episode 38 - Aired 1/16/1967

Jerry is again the victim of Two cats, and at first neither realize that there is another cat, they think they are each others reflection. They both cause trouble for Jerry, who is tired of it and ties the two cats up.

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Timid Tabby
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9.34
50 votes

#10 - Timid Tabby

Season 1950 - Episode 60 - Aired 4/19/1957

George, Tom's fraidy-cat-look-alike cousin, comes for a visit. Jerry has no knowledge of this, however, so when he sees George freak out upon seeing him, he decides to scare him some more, but not always working as he sometimes gets Tom.

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Guided Mouse-ille
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9.33
48 votes

#11 - Guided Mouse-ille

Season 1960 - Episode 40 - Aired 2/3/1967

It's the year 2565, and Tom and Jerry are scientists who blow themselves back in time.

Directors: Abe Levitow
Writer: John W. Dunn
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Mucho Mouse
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9.29
52 votes

#12 - Mucho Mouse

Season 1950 - Episode 62 - Aired 9/6/1957

Taking place in Spain, Meathead the Cat is ordered by his owner to catch El Magnifico (Jerry) at once, but Meathead says that's impossible because of El Magnifico's world-renowned escaping skills. So the owner decides to call up Tom, the "Olympic, U.S. and World Champion Mouse Catcher", confident that he will be able to do the job.

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Sleepy-Time Tom
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9.28
99 votes

#13 - Sleepy-Time Tom

Season 1950 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/26/1951

Tom and his friends come back from partying all night early in the morning at the crack of dawn. Mammy caught Tom sleeping on the window, and she's mad at Tom, because she had to keep Jerry away from the food. Tom is very tired and can do nothing but sleep, but Mammy says if she catches Tom sleeping on the job, he will be thrown out. Jerry overhears this, and tries to make Tom fall asleep every time.

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Jerry-Go-Round
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9.28
47 votes

#14 - Jerry-Go-Round

Season 1960 - Episode 31 - Aired 1/20/1966

When Jerry helps out an injured elephant at the circus, the elephant repays Jerry by helping him to stop Tom from bothering them.

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The Brothers Carry-Mouse-Off
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9.27
48 votes

#15 - The Brothers Carry-Mouse-Off

Season 1960 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/22/1965

Tom is by a pool, trying to lure Jerry with food. Jerry wants the food, but takes it by using a fishing rod, avoiding Tom altogether. Tom tries to get Jerry by dressing up as a mouse that attracts a bunch of other mice, but also ends up getting chased by a bunch of cats in the process.

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The A-TOM-iNABLE Snowman
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9.26
46 votes

#16 - The A-TOM-iNABLE Snowman

Season 1960 - Episode 36 - Aired 6/20/1966

Tom tries to catch Jerry, who is hiding in a cuckoo clock, but ends up eating a tiny bomb, instead. He chases after Jerry wearing skis, and Jerry is safe inside with a Saint Bernard. Tom places his skis in snow to distract the dog so he can get Jerry. He gets knocked unconscious many times and gets rescued and intoxicated over and over again by the Saint Bernard. He pours Tom some water to soak his feet in, but it ends up burning Tom. He almost forgets Jerry, as he jumps so high because of the water that he lands in a tropical island, where the dog is waiting to rescue Tom when he bumps his head.

Directors: Abe Levitow
Writer: Bob Ogle
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I'm Just Wild About Jerry
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9.26
47 votes

#17 - I'm Just Wild About Jerry

Season 1960 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/5/1965

After Tom gets run over by a train, he follows Jerry into a department store. They battle by using toy fire engines, bowling balls, ping-pong, clay pots, mail chutes, elevator shafts, and Jerry by stretching Tom's tail hundreds of feet in length. Tom ends up on the track again and blindfolds himself for the second time, only this time, a kind and angelic Jerry switches the tracks so Tom doesn't get hit.

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Love Me, Love My Mouse
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9.24
50 votes

#18 - Love Me, Love My Mouse

Season 1960 - Episode 32 - Aired 2/14/1966

When Tom falls in love with another female cat and offers her Jerry as a gift, Jerry screams and then tells her about the incident. Turns out that Tom planned it out, and she feels sympathetic for Jerry, and decides to take care of him. Jerry keeps trying to get into Tom's mouth on purpose, which gets Tom into trouble with the female cat. She eventually kisses Jerry, but upon tasting him, she smacks her lips with a devilish look on her face, teams up with Tom, and chases Jerry, with the intention of eating him, until the end of the episode.

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The Year of the Mouse
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9.23
47 votes

#19 - The Year of the Mouse

Season 1960 - Episode 27 - Aired 5/17/1965

Being it's the Year of the Mouse, Jerry and another mouse decide to celebrate by pulling pranks on Tom.

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Of Feline Bondage
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9.19
47 votes

#20 - Of Feline Bondage

Season 1960 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/26/1965

A fairy princess gives Jerry a magical potion to make him invisible. Jerry gets some scissors and chases Tom with them and starts cutting his fur off. When Jerry is visible again, Tom gets the scissors and begins cutting Jerry's fur off. They look in a mirror and laugh until the end of the episode.

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Pecos Pest
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9.19
96 votes

#21 - Pecos Pest

Season 1950 - Episode 50 - Aired 11/11/1955

Jerry gets a telegram from his Uncle Pecos that says that he's going to spend the night with him before his big debut on TV. Arriving quickly, he gives Jerry a demonstration of his guitar skills. But when one of his guitar's strings snap, he fearlessly walks up to Tom and pulls one of his whiskers to replace it. Annoyed at first, Tom soon becomes afraid of Uncle Pecos, whose guitar strings are always snapping, and it's always Tom's whiskers that he targets to replace them.

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Is There a Doctor in the Mouse?
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9.16
56 votes

#22 - Is There a Doctor in the Mouse?

Season 1960 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/22/1964

In order to eat all of Tom's food without being noticed, Jerry comes up with a potion mixture to make him invisible. Tom eventually finds out, however, and ends up pulling a giant Jerry out of the wall.

Directors: Chuck Jones
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The Vanishing Duck
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9.16
50 votes

#23 - The Vanishing Duck

Season 1950 - Episode 66 - Aired 5/2/1958

Quacker, in his last Tom and Jerry film, plays a singing duck who becomes Jerry's partner in crime when the tow of them discover the delights of vanishing cream.

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Rock 'N' Rodent
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9.14
51 votes

#24 - Rock 'N' Rodent

Season 1960 - Episode 41 - Aired 3/22/1967

Tom is trying to sleep but can't because Jerry's Band is playing too loudly. He tries to block out their music but that disrupts the sleep of a nearby bulldog. But when Jerry is finished and comes home, Tom's alarm clock goes off and he jumps out the window, and Jerry has no idea what's gotten into Tom.

Directors: Abe Levitow
Writer: Bob Ogle
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Tom's Photo Finish
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9.13
54 votes

#25 - Tom's Photo Finish

Season 1950 - Episode 63 - Aired 11/1/1957

Tom frames Spike for stealing food from the fridge only to be caught on film by Jerry. Jerry makes several copies of the photo to try to get Tom in trouble.

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