Counting Sheep

Counting Sheep
Dixie Wolf steals back the sheep after Tom & Jerry try to save it.
Premiere date	March 5, 2021
Run time	6:45
Starring	Gary Cole Stephen Stanton Rachael MacFarlane Kath Soucie
Music composed by	Vivek Maddala
Writer(s)	Mina Hess
Storyboard artist(s)	Scott O'Brien
Director(s)	Darrell Van Citters
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"Counting Sheep" is the third and final part of episode seven of The Tom and Jerry Show season four, and the two hundred and twenty-ninth episode overall. It aired on March 5, 2021 on Boomerang's SVOD service. It was written by Mina Hess, and directed by Darrell Van Citters.

As the cat and mouse detectives, Tom and Jerry investigate who's been rustling the missing sheep.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Narrator	Gary Cole
Tom Cat	Unavailable
Jerry Mouse	N/A
Dixie Wolf	Stephen Stanton
Mom	Unavailable
Dad	Unavailable
Brother	Unknown
Sister	Unavailable
Nanny	Unavailable
Therapist	Unavailable
Mother-in-law	Unavailable
Lil Bo Peep	Rachael MacFarlane
Tuffy	Kath Soucie
Missing sheep	Unavailable

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Tolucaville
      • Yarn Shoppe
      • Funfilled Toy Factory
      • Police station
• The Moon

Objects

• Joke sheep voice can

Vehicles

• Postal van

Production

Development

It was copyrighted in 2018.

Music

The theme song was composed by Andy Sturmer, adapted from Scott Bradley's original composition from MGM's Tom and Jerry theatrical shorts. The main music was performed by Vivek Maddala.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: March 5, 2021 on the Boomerang video subscription on-demand service
• United Kingdom and Ireland: On Boomerang; on CITV

Behind the scenes

• Dixie Wolf was an antagonist of Droopy in his series of MGM theatrical shorts, and also starred in his own spin-off short, Billy Boy. Dixie Wolf was originally voiced by the late Daws Butler.
• Lil Bo Peep's model was also based on the "Ma" character (Droopy's wife) in the another Droopy short called Homesteader Droopy.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• Not available. 😢