Shows that people forget or get lost in time

Tom & Jerry was also pulled up for depictions of smoking about 10 years or so ago now and Boomerang decided to edit them all out where appropriate. The amazing thing about Tom & Jerry is that it gets pulled up for every possible reason under the sun but in the best part of 75 odd years as far as I am aware it has never been officially pulled up for violence despite it being one of the most violent cartoons ever made. It was never ultimately aimed at children in the first place - it was made for viewing prior to the main film in cinemas, though that's long out of fashion and replaced by trailers and adverts.

Wasn't there a similar show of cartoons with Mark Speight? Seem to remember him sharing a few interesting facts about them that you wouldn't normally get in a kids show.

Mammy's been redubbed several times over the years, as I recall. At one point they gave her a very stereotypical Irish accent, which was arguably as bad as her original voice. The current runs on Boomerang use a redub performed by a black actress, but more "natural" and considerably toned down from the original 1950s performance.

Though it's not that the "entire soundtrack's been redone from scratch"- all the original non-Mammy voices are still there. You can quite easily hear the difference in audio fidelity between them and the redone Mammy.

I'm sure I've read there's DVD releases in some countries with the original Mammy sountrack though, so they haven't ever been "lost". The UK releases aren't brilliant anyway, and they only have the 4:3 pan/scan versions of the cinemascope shorts from the 50s. It's like they dug out the first copies they had to hand rather than tried to do it properly (which probably is the case).

The 2002-03 VHS releases were similar, some cartoons being the standard redubbed Cartoon Network prints at the time and others scratchy, jittery old prints that were uncut but with faded colours and covered in film grain. Seemed completely random as to which version got picked.

Wouldn't be suprised if the DVDs came from the same masters as the VHS.

Fortunately, the Blu-ray (and Amazon Prime ) versions are full CinemaScope and HD versions.

Are there uncut?

Here is why I think what I think now: https://youtu.be/QIM6S7FIp0c?t=127

Smoking might be, but Mammy Two Shoes has never appeared past academy ratio cartoons, so mostly uncut, if no blackface.

I had a copy of an old Tom and Jerry on tape once, which had a scene that originally had Mammy in it re-done to feature a young white woman instead. Strangely enough, they kept in the original Mammy voice for her brief speaking scene (where she takes a phone call at her Bridge Club and tells Jerry that's exactly where she is, despite the remake featuring the young lady dancing with friends)!

I've got a few Stay Tooned episodes on tape, only digitised one so far though, and it's not great quality. There's one where Tony takes a look at different animation types, dismissing CGI animated short films as being lifeless and dull to watch! Also got another one where he takes a look at non-PC cartoons.

I distinctly remember Tony saying that. It was during a "best of" or "requests" special around 1992 or 1993. The same episode went on to show The Butterfly Ball cartoon which was one of the most-requested films that viewers wanted to see again.

Tony's wording went something like: "ITV hold the rights to the entire Disney catalogue and we can't show anything, not even a still image, without Disney's expressed permission. So, for the time being at least, I'm afraid there'll be no Disney."