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- Original specials
- Anniversary specials
- Specials with reused footage
- VHS retitling
- See also
- Notes
- Further reading
- External links
{{refimprove|date=November 2013}}This is a list of television specials based on the Looney Tunes series of theatrical animated shorts Original specialsTitle | Year | LTGC availability (all as special features) | Notes |
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Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies | December 16, 1972 | Produced by Filmation, with the Looney Tunes characters on loan from Warner Bros. (otherwise a silent partner) | Carnival of the Animals | November 22, 1976 | Volume 5, Disc 4 | Animation/live-action mix production Chuck Jones Enterprises | A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court (retitled Bugs Bunny in King Arthur`s Court for subsequent rebroadcasts) | February 23, 1978 | Volume 6, Disc 1 | production Chuck Jones Enterprises | Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales | November 27, 1979 | Volume 5, Disc 4 | Three TV shorts later edited out of it. | Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement | April 1, 1980 | Volume 6, Disc 1 | Three TV shorts later edited out of it. DFE Films | Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over | May 21, 1980 | Volume 5, Disc 4 | Three TV shorts later edited out of it. Also available on The Essential Bugs Bunny (10/12/2010) | Ounce of Prevention | 1982 | Awareness video about burn prevention in the home |
Anniversary specialsTitle | Year | Notes |
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Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary Special | January 14, 1986 | Featuring interviews with celebrities | Happy Birthday Bugs!: 50 Looney Years | August 15, 1990 |
Specials with reused footage Title | Year | Classic Clips From | Notes |
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Bugs Bunny's Easter Special | April 7, 1977 | * Knighty Knight Bugs * Hillbilly Hare * Bully for Bugs * Tweety's Circus * Birds Anonymous * For Scent-imental Reasons * Rabbit of Seville * Little Boy Boo * Robin Hood Daffy * Sahara Hare | Released on DVD | Bugs Bunny in Space | September 6, 1977 | * Hare-Way to the Stars * The Hasty Hare * Mad as a Mars Hare * Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century * His Hare-Raising Tale | Only special with no new animation | Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special | October 26, 1977 Featuring Witch Hazel - Bewitched Bunny
- Broom-Stick Bunny
- A Witch's Tangled Hare
- A-Haunting We Will Go
Other shorts - Hyde and Go Tweet (later used in Daffy Duck's Quackbusters)
- Hyde and Hare
- Claws for Alarm (later used in Daffy Duck's Quackbusters)
- Scaredy Cat
- Transylvania 6-5000 (later used in Daffy Duck's Quackbusters)
| Released on DVD | How Bugs Bunny Won the West | November 15, 1978 | * Barbary Coast Bunny * Bonanza Bunny * 14 Carrot Rabbit * Aqua Duck * Wild and Woolly Hare * Drip-Along Daffy | Hosted in live action by actor Denver Pyle Included in The Essential Bugs Bunny DVD, released on October 12, 2010 in the U.S.The end where Bugs is singing "Home on the Range" is an audio clip from the 1951 short The Fair-Haired Hare | Bugs Bunny's Valentine Special | February 14, 1979 | * Hare Splitter *The Grey Hounded Hare * Little Beau Pepe * Of Rice and Hen * Devil May Hare * Hare Trimmed * The Super Snooper * Rabbit Romeo * Wild Over You | Released on DVD as Bugs Bunny's Cupid Capers | The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special | May 12, 1979 | * Bushy Hare * Stork Naked * Quackodile Tears * Mother Was a Rooster * Goo Goo Goliath * Apes of Wrath | Later retitled Bugs Bunny's Baby Boomers | Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet | November 15, 1979 | * Rabbit Every Monday * Stop! Look! And Hasten! * Guided Muscle * Beep, Beep! * Tweet Dreams * Birds Anonymous * Freudy Cat * Canned Feud * Trip For Tat * Bedevilled Rabbit | The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special | October 26, 1980 | * Big House Bunny * Bugs and Thugs * Hare Lift * Rabbit * Catty Cornered | Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special | November 20, 1980 | * His Bitter Half * Robin Hood Daffy * Drip-Along Daffy | Contains one all-new Duck Dodgers short | Bugs Bunny: All American Hero | May 21, 1981 | * Yankee Doodle Bugs * Bunker Hill Bunny * Dumb Patrol * The Rebel Without Claws * Ballot Box Bunny * Southern Fried Rabbit | Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television | January 11, 1982 | * What's Up, Doc? * Tree Cornered Tweety * Past Perfumance * The Ducksters * Wideo Wabbit * This Is a Life? | Battle of the Music Video Stars | October 21, 1988 | * Porky's Poppa * Porky's Poor Fish * Shake Your Powder Puff * Scrap Happy Daffy * Have You Got Any Castles? * Boobs in the Woods * The Fifth-Column Mouse * The Wearing of the Grin * Tweet Tweet Tweety * Tweety's Circus * A Scent of the Matterhorn * Hot Cross Bunny * Daffy Duck Hunt * Robot Rabbit * Yankee Doodle Daffy * Naughty Neighbors * Bosko's Picture Show * Polar Pals * The Fair-Haired Hare * What Price Porky * Daffy's Southern Exposure | One of the first specials produced by Warner Bros. where new animation was both traditionally and digitally inked and painted.[1] Released on DVD with the Space Jam 2-disc DVD set. | Bugs Bunny's Wild World of Sports | February 15, 1989 | * My Bunny Lies Over the Sea * Sport Chumpions * 14 Carrot Rabbit * High Diving Hare * Upswept Hare * Muscle Tussle * To Duck or Not to Duck * Frigid Hare * Bad Ol' Putty Tat * Rabbit Fire * Bunny Hugged * Gone Batty * Lovelorn Leghorn * The Leghorn Blows at Midnight * Little Boy Boo | Included in The Essential Bugs Bunny DVD, released on October 12, 2010 in the U.S. | Bugs Bunny's Overtures to Disaster | April 17, 1991 | * What's Opera, Doc? * Rabbit of Seville * Baton Bunny * Daffy & Porky in the William Tell Overture * Back Alley Oproar*** | ***At the time of release Warner Bros had not regained the rights to their pre-1948 cartoons yet, so Ford and his crew reanimated this short for its inclusion in this special. | Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes | 1991 | * Haredevil Hare * Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century * No Parking Hare * Lighter Than Hare * Boyhood Daze * There Auto Be A Law * The Hole Idea * Lumber Jerks * Rocket-bye Baby * Martian Through Georgia * A Kiddies Kitty * The Hasty Hare * Hare-Way to the Stars
| Released straight to VHS | Bugs Bunny's Creature Features | February 1, 1992 | * Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers * The Duxorcist * Night of the Living Duck |
VHS retitlingSeveral of these TV specials were given a new name when released on video. TV title | VHS title |
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Carnival of the Animals | Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals | Bugs Bunny's Easter Special | Bugs Bunny's Easter Funnies | A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court | Bugs Bunny in King Arthur's Court | Bugs Bunny's Howl-Oween Special Bugs Bunny's Creature Features | Bugs Bunny's Halloween Hijinks (two previous specials shown back-to-back) | Bugs Bunny's Valentine | Bugs Bunny's Cupid Capers | Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special | Daffy Duck in Hollywood (renamed for TV rebroadcast) | Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary Special | The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Jubilee (renamed for TV rebroadcast) |
See also - Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography
- Looney Tunes
- Merrie Melodies
- Looney Tunes Golden Collection
Notes 1. ^K. Wiley, TD, Allied Visual Artists
Further reading - Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons, by Jerry Beck and Will Friedwald (1989), Henry Holt, {{ISBN|0-8050-0894-2}}
- Chuck Amuck : The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist by Chuck Jones, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, {{ISBN|0-374-12348-9}}
- That's Not All, Folks! by Mel Blanc, Philip Bashe. Warner Books, {{ISBN|0-446-39089-5}} (Softcover) {{ISBN|0-446-51244-3}} (Hardcover)
- Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons, Leonard Maltin, Revised Edition 1987, Plume {{ISBN|0-452-25993-2}} (Softcover) {{ISBN|0-613-64753-X}} (Hardcover)
External links - The Big Cartoon DataBase entry for Merrie Melodies Cartoons and for Looney Tunes Cartoons
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090706080219/http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/ Golden Age Cartoons' The Ultimate Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Website by Jon Cooke]
- "Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion", a wealth of trivia about the Warner cartoons
- Official site
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