Kitty Foiled

• E35
• 0 hrs 08 min
• 17th July 1948

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.

• E36
• 0 hrs 07 min
• 18th September 1948

Tom is briefly replaced by another cat, Lightning.

• E37
• 0 hrs 07 min
• 30th October 1948

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

• E38
• 0 hrs 07 min
• 11th December 1948

Mouse Cleaning is a 1948 one-reel animated cartoon and the 38th Tom and Jerry short. The title is a play on "house cleaning". It was produced in Technicolor and released to theatres on December 11, 1948, by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer and again on February 18, 1956. It was animated by Irven Spence, Kenneth Muse, Ed Barge and Ray Patterson, who were the usual animators for the Tom and Jerry cartoons in the early 1940s up until the late 1950s. It was directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, and produced by Fred Quimby; no writer has yet been credited. The music was scored by Scott Bradley and the backgrounds were created by Robert Gentle.

• E39
• 0 hrs 07 min
• 26th February 1949

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.