[Neil Jones]

Tom and Jerry has been on British tv for decades. It was used as a filler by the BBC ether before or after the news in the (I think) 1970's and 1980's. Im guessing that the violence has been seen so many times viewers became either "immune" or de-sensitised by it although compared to the violence on Japanese "anime" T and J et al seems rather tame. The thought occurs that I probably watched T and J as part of "Rolf's Cartoon Time" (that's a chilling thought)

We're going off on a tangent here but Cartoon Time was primarily IIRC Warner Bros material as that's what the BBC had available (and occasionally some Disney stuff) as that's what Rolf's programme was made for IIRC to use. Tom & Jerry of course was an MGM property (though it became moot anyway in due course) and used under a different agreement (the duo being on the BBC until the early 2000's).