

Spike & Tyke cartoons generally consisted of Tyke doing something cute while Spike did something painful yet hilarious to Tom. Spike was a big, gruff bulldog, and Tyke was his adorable son.
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Spike and Tyke were voiced by Richard Gautier and Patric Zimmerman, respectively. Tyke Bulldog is a gray bulldog puppy and is the son of Spike Bulldog, appearing in Tom and Jerry cartoon series and is mostly seen with his father Spike. Thats where Spike & Tyke, stars of the last series the studio ever launched, came from. Tyke did not talk in the theatrical shorts, (possibly his barks were done by co-creator William Hanna) but did speak on the FOX television series Tom & Jerry Kids, for which the duo appeared in their own segments, and occasionally in the Tom and Jerry segments. Spike was voiced by Billy Bletcher, and later Daws Butler. The studio was shut down in mid 1957 and Hanna and Barbera would move on to television animation production success with their own Hanna-Barbera Productions. The cartoons were produced and directed by Tom and Jerry creators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, and were among the last of the original MGM theatrical cartoons made. This brings the attention of a hungry mountain lion who tries to take advantage of Tykes generosity.

Tykes first photo op is a squirrel, who does a dance, and then Tyke gives a carrot to a rabbit, but as he starts feeding the animals more and more show up. Only two films were made in this spin-off series: Give and Tyke and Scat Cats, both made and released in 1957, and produced in CinemaScope, as the cartoon studio shut down the year the spin-off series was started. Spike and Tyke are hiking through the woods for Tyke to take photos for his school project. The characters first appeared in the Tom and Jerry series in the 1940s. Spike and Tyke is a short-lived theatrical animated short subject series, based upon the American bulldog father-and-son team from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Tom and Jerry cartoons.
