The "Tom and Jerry" shorts have now been converted to episodes of a TV series

Strange. It’s pretty clear that the first TV series was released in the 1970s:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_T...

This is very frustrating. Why would anyone try to convert these theatrical cartoons into episode of a TV series, and why would the IMDb staff accept those submissions? I submitted a deletion for a supposed TV series of "Tom & Jerry" that supposedly debuted in 1940 years ago, and that deletion was accepted. (See https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/tom_and_jerry_cartoon_is_missing_from_imdb.)

If contributors don't know that these cartoons were made for theatrical release, why would they assume that they know better than everyone else and decide to convert them into TV episodes? And doesn't the IMDb staff know that these cartoons were made for theatrical release, and there was only limited television broadcasting going on anywhere until after World War II?

Thanks for the problem report. We have opened a ticket with the appropriate team.

In my opinion,  I believe that this should be a series (as with Looney Tunes as well), because it will help users find the episodes easier and these actually did air on TV. I have always thought of Tom and Jerry and Looney Tunes as a series cause they did air on TV.)

Unknown1000, IMDb doesn’t work like that, so the current discussion is pretty much irrelevant. Theatrical shorts cannot be bundled together as a ”TV series”.

"Looney Tunes" (1930)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8889974/reference

Has Gromit already addressed this one? Happily, none of the "Looney Tunes" or "Merrie Melodies" shorts have been converted into episodes.


"The Little Rascals" (1955)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278213/reference

This is a real TV series, but each episode consists of two edited theatrical shorts from the "Our Gang" series. Someone is adding the titles of the shorts as if each one is an episode. Also: the cast members should either be deleted or marked with the attribute, "archive footage."

The Three Stooges (1933)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3572530/reference

Apparently, this "short" is supposed to represent the entirety of the theatrical series. The cast includes Joe Besser, Joe DeRita, and Shemp Howard, who starred in the series much later than 1933.

"The Woody Woodpecker Show" (1957)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0184175/episodes

This is a real series, hosted by Walter Lantz. It includes both original animation and footage from the theatrical Walter Lantz cartoons.

Yet someone has added fake episodes to it. These fake episodes are duplicates of episodes from the 1999 series, also called "The Woody Woodpecker Show." Each 6-minute segment from the 1999 show is added as a full episode to the 1957 show!

For reference three other threads about this problem: https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/tv-series-looney-tunes-1930-ongoing (about a Looney Tunes and, thanks to Gromit, a Tom and Jerry series that has since been deleted), https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/tv-series-looney-tunes-1930-ongoing-part-2 (again about a Looney Tunes series that has since been deleted) and https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/blocking-tv-shows-that-cant-be-that-old, where the following list might be useful for the clean-up ticket Col mentioned upthread: https://www.imdb.com/search/title?title_type=tv_series&release_date=,1924-01-01

Hi all, 

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We have now rectified the title types for all of these Tom & Jerry movies and taken internal steps to avoid this happening again.

Regarding other threads that Marco has referenced, these are being handled separately and we will update you when we have more information. 

Please allow 24 hours for these title changes to update across all platforms of the site and if any further issues are identified with these, do let us know. 

Best wishes, 
Josie.