Texas Tom is a 1950 one-reel animated cartoon and is the 49th Tom and Jerry short directed by William Hanna and Joesph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby. It was animated by Kenneth Muse, Ray Patterson, Irven Spence and Ed Barge and released to theaters on March 11, 1950. Excerpts of this cartoon are seen in two other shorts: Smitten Kitten and Cruise Cat.