"The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour."
(curtain rises)
"Overture, curtain, lights!
This is it. The night of nights.
No more rehearsing or nursing a part.
We know every part by heart!
(cane flip)
Overture, curtain, lights!
This is it. We'll hit the heights!
And oh, what heights we'll hit!
On with the show, this is it!
(character procession)
Tonight what heights we'll hit!
On with the show, this is it!"
"Starring the Oscar-winning rabbit, Bugs Bunny."
"And also starring my fast-feathered friend, the Road Runner!"
(Road Runner zips forward on film projector screen)
"Beep, beep!"
"Road Runner, that Coyote's after you!
Road Runner, if he catches you, you're through!
Road Runner, that Coyote's after you!
Road Runner, if he catches you, you're through!
That Coyote is really a crazy clown!
When will he learn that he never can slow him down?
Poor little Road Runner never bothers anyone.
Just running down the road is his idea of having fun!"
"Beep, beep!"
"The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour."
Warner Brothers' cartoons (with Bugs Bunny, the Road Runner, Daffy Duck, Tweety Bird, Sylvester Cat, Elmer Fudd,
Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote, Foghorn Leghorn, Porky Pig, Pepe Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, and other highly enjoyable
personages) received their best network television treatment on CBS' The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour.
Although classic Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons first aired on prime-time network television in 1960-2 on The Bugs Bunny Show, each of the 52 installments of that television series was only a half-hour long. Only three theatrical cartoons were in each installment, and some were seen twice over the television show's two-year run. For each episode, Warner Brothers' animation directors Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, and Robert McKimson created new sequences to bridge the transition between cartoons. Bugs Bunny and the above-mentioned other characters appeared as "showmen" on a stage in these interstitial sequences, often with Bugs lecturing on such subjects as dogs, cats, birds, men, and crime, using footage from classic theatrical cartoons to illustrate his comments.
CBS' The Road Runner Show, also of a 30-minute length, premiered on September 10, 1966 and was telecast for two
years until September 7, 1968. Its episodes consisted of three cartoons, one with the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote,
one with Tweety and Sylvester, and one with a rather eclectic selection of Warner Brothers cartoon characters.
In 1968, when CBS acquired the network broadcast rights to Bugs Bunny's television show, it decided to merge the two television programs into one, and The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour was born. For the opening to The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, the "This is It" song from The Bugs Bunny Show, performed by Bugs and Daffy and written by Jerry Livingston and Mack David, was joined by most of the song written by Barbara Cameron for The Road Runner Show. Stage scenes from The Bugs Bunny Show, with Bugs and the other characters, introduced some of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour cartoons- and between-cartoon gag vignettes with the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, animated specially for The Road Runner Show, were also coopted into this newfangled cartoon assembly television series.
The initial season of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, transmitted on CBS on Saturdays at 9:30 A.M. Atlantic Time, was the definitive one. Many of the cartoon shorts that would be staples of Saturday morning cartoon viewing for more than 20 years, appeared on The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour in its earliest season.
The first season of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour premiered on CBS on September 14, 1968 and ran for 26 weeks
until March 8, 1969, and the same episodic sequence was rerun from March 15, 1969 to September 6, 1969. This initial season
of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour was then released into syndication and made available in other countries. Canada's
CBC television network purchased the rights to broadcast Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour- Season 1 in 1969 and ran these
26 hour-long installments on a national, full-network basis on late Saturday afternoons, year after year, until September,
1975. Then, the Global television network in central and western Canada aired these 26 installments continually at the same
late afternoon airtime, first on Saturdays, then in later years on Sundays, until the early 1980s.
Between 1969 and 1973, while The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour was on the CBC, it was usually seen at either 5 or 5:30 P.M. Atlantic Time. Then, from 1973 to 1975, in autumn, winter, and early spring, it tended to be shown at 6 P.M. Atlantic Time, though in summer, it hopscotched around the afternoon schedule, sometimes shown at 5 P.M., or at 4:30, or at 4, or at 3, depending on live sports broadcasts. Prior to 1973, it was scheduled at 5 or at 5:30- immediately after baseball or football games, which were only allotted a scheduled airtime of two and a half hours and always exceeded that length, cutting into The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, which was joined already in progress. On some weeks, more than half of an installment was missed. In September, 1973, the CBC decided to schedule an hour's worth of other programming at 5 P.M., between sports and The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, so that Bugs Bunny could be depended upon to start his show on time, at 6 P.M., with no unseemly disruptions. On weeks when golf or some other late-afternoon sport was shown, the CBC obligingly moved Bugs' television show ahead a couple of hours to air in its entirety before the sport broadcast.
The CBC stopped its broadcasts of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour on August 30, 1975 and issued an announcement to this effect during the closing credits of installment 25, which aired on that day. The Global network promptly acquired the television show and began broadcasting it in the same Saturday airtime.
Each of the 26 syndicated episodes of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour started as they originally did on CBS in 1968-9, with Bugs and Daffy singing "This is It" and a procession of cartoon celebrities marching across a stage. The procession consisted of Tweety, Speedy Gonzales, Hippety Hopper, Yosemite Sam, Sylvester, Elmer Fudd, Pepe Le Pew, Wile E. Coyote, and Foghorn Leghorn. After this, Bugs was introduced as, "...the Oscar-winning rabbit," who then introduced his "co-star", "...my fast-feathered friend, the Road Runner." The classic song from The Road Runner Show then played, accompanied by clips from various Road Runner cartoons.
Following this, the first cartoon feature began, sometimes preceded by brief stage interaction between Bugs and Daffy, or
between the special emcee for the particular episode and his usual foe.
Seven cartoon features, 6 to 7 minutes in length, composed each hour-long installment. The cartoons started with a stylized card, showing the title and the regular "star" characters featured in the particular cartoon. For most of Bugs' cartoons, he was posed next to the title, dressed in his emcee "suit", with the Road Runner standing beside him, and with the familiar stage backdrop and a theatrical spotlight on the title, which was printed in Dom Casual font.
In the titles for his cartoons with Yosemite Sam, with exception of the title cards for "Bunker Hill Bunny", "14 Carrot Rabbit", and "Rabbit Every Monday", Bugs was posed with Sam looking up at him menacingly, and the title shown beside them on stage shone upon by the spotlight. For the Tasmanian Devil cartoons with Bugs, a similar duo pose was seen. For some cartoons that featured none of the regular characters (e.g. "One Froggy Evening", "Mouse Wreckers", "Terrier Stricken", "Two's a Crowd", and "Cheese It- the Cat!"), the title card showed Bugs and the Road Runner standing alongside the lighted title.
Most cartoons featuring Sylvester and Tweety had their titles accompanied by a scene of Sylvester peeking from around a
tree and Tweety fleeing on some grass to the right of the tree. "Tweet, Tweet, Tweety", "Ain't She Tweet", "Fowl Weather",
"Gift Wrapped", "A Bird in a Bonnet", "Catty Cornered", "Tweet and Sour", "Muzzle Tough", "Tweet Zoo", "The Jet Cage",
"Putty Tat Trouble", "Tweet and Lovely", "Tree Cornered Tweety", "Tugboat Granny", "Snow Business", "A Bird in a Guilty
Cage", "Hawaiian Aye Aye", "Tweety's Circus", "Hyde and Go Tweet", and "A Street Cat Named Sylvester" were all titled in
this way. Other cartoons with Sylvester and Tweety (e.g. "Tweety's S.O.S.", "All Abir-r-rd", "Canary Row", "Sandy Claws",
and "Tweety and the Beanstalk") were titled with them on stage and Sylvester salivating while holding Tweety in his hand.
However, the title card for "Home Tweet Home" showed Bugs and the Road Runner, not Sylvester and Tweety.
Cartoons featuring Sylvester without Tweety (i.e. Sylvester with Sylvester Jr., Hippety Hopper, Elmer Fudd, etc.) tended to
be titled with Sylvester posed on stage next to the spotlit title, and for "Claws For Alarm", the title card showed
Sylvester together with Porky Pig on stage. The Sylvester-on-stage cartoon titling system had several notable exceptions,
in that several cartoon shorts, including many with Sylvester, some with Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog, and most with Foghorn
Leghorn, or with Speedy Gonzales, or with Pepe Le Pew, were titled beneath the faces of five characters (Foghorn Leghorn,
Pepe Le Pew, Speedy Gonzales, Yosemite Sam, and Elmer Fudd) arranged in a semi-circle, even if none of those characters
were
in the cartoon (e.g. Sylvester's battle against his son's avian chum, "Birds of a Father", the Sylvester/Hippety Hopper
cartoons, "Mouse-Taken Identity", "The Slap-Hoppy Mouse", "Hoppy Daze", and "Pop 'im Pop!", the Sylvester/Spike/Chester
cartoon short, "Dr. Jerkyl's Hide", and Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog's "A Sheep in the Deep" and "Woolen Under Where"). Some
cartoons had no title cards, among them "Fish and Slips", "Trick or Tweet", "A Pizza Tweety Pie", "Trip For Tat", "Dog
Pounded", and "Greedy For Tweety", all of which did have title cards when they were included in The Road Runner Show.
"Now Hare This" was also untitled on The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour until it reappeared on CBS in the late 1970s
with a blue title card minus character pose.
Road Runner cartoons, except for "The Wild Chase", were titled on red background and had Wile E. to the left of the title and looking schemingly at the Road Runner on the right side.
Every installment had an approximate half-time television station identification interval, returning for part two with a
scene showing the procession of characters marching across the stage again, and then with Wile E. chasing the Road Runner on
that same stage, the Road Runner sprightfully hiding behind Bugs from Wile E.'s sight and grasp, and the adversarial pair
(the Road Runner and Wile E.) conflating in a kerfuffle that includes the unwitting rabbit. Dust rises to reveal Bugs and
Wile E. on the stage floor, while the Road Runner runs off-stage to activate some lights. And hereafter would commence the
first cartoon of part two.
The closing credits to each episode began with Bugs driving a tiny car and tooting its horn at Wile E., who fires himself and a cannonball through a futuristic slingshot and collides with and demolishes Bugs' car. The Road Runner runs past the dazed Bugs and Wile E. while Bugs honks the horn of his wrecked automotive vehicle. A full credit listing followed this. McKimson directed all of the new animation for the television show, for which he received direction billing above Jones and Freleng, and designed all of the title cards with character poses. The credited producers were William L. Hendricks, Peter Morales, and Andrew Stein of Warner Brothers-Seven Arts Incorporated, the assigned name to Warner Brothers' movie and television production facilities from 1967 to 1972.
The musical phrase utilized for all of the titles of all Bugs Bunny cartoon shorts, the Tweety-and-Sylvester cartoons with
them posed on stage and Sylvester holding Tweety in his hand, and most cartoons with characters other than the regulars,
went as follows:
"Da-da-da... da-da. Da-da-da... da-da. Da-da-da-da-da-da. Da."
This was also the musical accompaniment used from 1985 to 1989 for titles of all cartoons on the ABC television network's
Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour and Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show.
Music with the tree-oriented title cards of Tweety-and-Sylvester cartoons, all cartoons titled with the semi-circle of Foghorn, Pepe, Speedy, Yosemite Sam, and Elmer, and all Road Runner cartoons, was a variation on the phrase opening the original theatrical Looney Tunes from the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, combined with the closing motif from post-1964 cartoon shorts. First used for cartoons shown on The Road Runner Show, it sounded like this:
"Da. Da-da-da... da-da... da. Da. Da-da-da... da-da-da. DAAA! Da."
The following is an episode guide for the initial season of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour that first aired on CBS in 1968-9 and was run year after year in Canada through the 1970s and into the 1980s.
Season 1
With all of the flourishes mentioned above, such as the "This is It" song beginning each installment, the on-stage character
interaction before cartoons and always initiating part two, the between-cartoon-feature Road Runner and Coyote segments, and
the episode-ending scene of Bugs in the tiny car and Wile E. with the elaborate slingshot apparatus, Season 1 of The Bugs
Bunny/Road Runner Hour defined itself in its first episodes as the best conceivable amalgamation of its predecessors,
The Bugs Bunny Show and The Road Runner Show. And through this 26-installment season, there are many intriguing
facets to its construction. Foghorn Leghorn would be in cartoons in five consecutive episodes, then vanish outside of his
march across stage with other characters, have no presence in Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour cartoon features for two
months, before another successive five episodes in which his cartoons would be included. The second cartoons of part two
were those with Tweety and Sylvester for several installments in a row in January and February, and each time following a
Bugs Bunny outing that was first featured cartoon in part two. Toward the end of the season, the Road Runner and Wile E.
Coyote were rather at home at cartoon number seven of the episodes. Appearances of Daffy Duck, rather infrequent apart,
of course, from his singing with Bugs of "This is It", were clustered in consecutive episodes in rather the same way as were
Foghorn Leghorn's cartoons. And Pepe Le Pew's scarce manifestations in cartoons in this television series happened to
be in two episodes, one after the other, by way of his own cartoon, "Touche and Go", in Show 9 and his cameo part in Tweety
and Sylvester's "Dog Pounded" of Show 10.
Yes, the initial season of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour is quite interesting in the way that its content cartoons were arranged in its 26 installments. And this is not only with regard to character appearances. Whether or not the compilers of Season 1 of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour deliberately placed cartoons with similar elements in same or consecutive episodes, close examination of the cartoons in each of the 26 installments of the initial Bugs Bunny/Road Runner season yields some compelling observations on the cartoon-positioning work of the production team for this television classic. The following is an episode-by-episode analysis of the 1968-9 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour season, with comment on notions, motifs, or gags shared by cartoons in same episodes or in preceding or following ones.
Show 1 contained "My Bunny Lies Over the Sea", "Tweety's S.O.S.", "I Gopher You", "Hairied and Hurried", "Bedevilled Rabbit",
"Tweet, Tweet, Tweety", and "Hopalong Casualty". "My Bunny Lies Over the Sea" refers to a sea in its title, and a
transoceanic journey is implied in Bugs' arrival in Scotland. Correspondingly, the events of "Tweety's S.O.S." transpire on
a passenger ship! Further, there is predominently red plaid dressing to furnishings in Granny and Tweety's cabin on the
passenger ship, connecting as imagery with a particular clothing taste of the people of the land visited by Bugs in this
episode's first cartoon feature. And red is quite the outstanding color of "I Gopher You", for much of the food cannery
equipment is red, as too are the food cannery trucks and the tomato on the can in which one of the Goofy Gophers is sealed.
Sylvester's seasick condition in "Tweety's S.O.S." causes him to pivot to and fro with nausea rather like the Goofy Gopher
who falls into a pickling vat does in his intoxicated condition in "I Gopher You". "Bedevilled Rabbit" shows the rampaging
Tasmanian Devil shearing through trees. When Bugs stops him as he is in the process of cutting through the trunk of a tree,
the tree sandwiches him between its trunk and remaining body. Same happens to Sylvester in "Tweet, Tweet, Tweety" when he
tries to chop through the trunk of a tree. The Goofy Gophers in "I Gopher You" are deluged with water mechanically released
from a tap, and Tweety uses a water flow control knob to "save" Sylvester from a waterfall in "Tweet, Tweet, Tweety".
Volatile substances are swallowed by Sylvester in "Tweety's S.O.S." and by Wile E. Coyote in "Hopalong Casualty".
Show 2 included "All Abir-r-rd", "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!", "To Beep or Not to Beep", "Bunker Hill Bunny", "Shot and Bothered", "Barbary Coast Bunny", and "Birds of a Father". The chase in Show 1's "Tweety's S.O.S." causes Sylvester to run into the furnace powering the passenger ship. In Show 2's "All Abir-r-rd", Sylvester is thrown forward into a railway train's engine when Tweety causes the train to abruptly stop. In both cases, Sylvester's backside is ablaze from his exposure to fire. "Bunker Hill Bunny" and "Birds of a Father" both involve an explosives shed. Yosemite Sam tunnels into one, and Sylvester seeks refuge in one from his out-of-control miniature airplane. Sylvester's use of mechanization in "Birds of a Father" rather aptly follows the machinery misadventure of the Goofy Gophers in Show 1's "I Gopher You". The playing of poker in "Barbary Coast Bunny" is reminiscent of the scene in Show 1's "My Bunny Lies Over the Sea" in which Bugs suggests that he and Scotsman McCrory play cards. Respective collision with trash can and manhole covers results in an "accordion-head" for Sylvester in "All Abir-r-rd" and for Sir Pantsalot of Dropseat Manor in Show 3's "Knights Must Fall".
Show 3 featured "What's Up, Doc?", "The Hole Idea", "Stop, Look, and Hasten", "Canary Row", "You Were Never Duckier", "Knights Must Fall", and "Red Riding Hoodwinked". "Canary Row" ends with Sylvester fleeing electrocution on a power wire by a streetcar. Streetcars are most commonly associated with San Francisco, which, in its 1880s period, is the setting of "Barbary Coast Bunny" in Show 2. Streetcars move along railroad tracks, a fact notable because Show 2's "All Abir-r-rd" occurs on a train. Moreover, Bugs is shown alone in a train's baggage car, deciding to change his vaudeville act with Elmer Fudd, in a scene in Show 3's "What's Up, Doc?". "The Hole Idea" and "Stop, Look, and Hasten" both also contain a scene with a train. Portable holes are elements of "The Hole Idea" and Show 4's "Beep Prepared". Marquee of a theatre is a shared motif of "What's Up, Doc?", "The Hole Idea", and "You Were Never Duckier". Granny, with Tweety beside her, is at the controls of public transit vehicles at the end of both "Canary Row" and "Red Riding Hoodwinked".
Show 4 contained "Shiskabugs", "Beep Prepared", "Mouse-Taken Identity", "A Fractured Leghorn", "Prince Violent", "Ain't She
Tweet", and "Fast and Furry-ous". "Shiskabugs" has Yosemite Sam attempting to cook Bugs in an oven, which parallels the
plight of Daffy in George K. Chickenhawk's home in Show 3's "You Were Never Duckier". "Shiskabugs" and "Prince Violent",
plus Show 3's "Knights Must Fall", are all set in England during the time of castles, knights, and absolute monarchs.
Sylvester crashes into a knight's armor in the museum in which he and his son, Sylvester Jr., are chasing mice in
"Mouse-Taken Identity". The jet-powered bat-wing contraption worn by Wile E. Coyote in "Beep Prepared" may be seen as
correspondent to the Batman suit in which Wile E. will dress himself in Show 5's "Gee Whiz-z-z-z!". Said two Road Runner
cartoons will be in consecutive episodes again later this Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour season, Shows 22 and 23 to be
precise.
Show 5's cartoons were "Lovelorn Leghorn", "Gee Whiz-z-z-z!", "Bill of Hare", "Fish and Slips", "Hare We Go", "Trick or Tweet", and "Hare-Way to the Stars". A pier is shown in "Bill of Hare", "Fish and Slips", and "Hare We Go". Show 4's "A Fractured Leghorn" involves a feline fishing endeavor, as does Show 5's "Fish and Slips"! Sylvester Jr. also meets a worm in "Fish and Slips", and the story in "A Fractured Leghorn" in Show 4 is predicated on Foghorn Leghorn and a cat vying for possession of a worm. "Gee Whiz-z-z-z!" has a Batman costume gag that accords with a similar one in "Trick or Tweet", and these sequences echo the Superman costume attempted by Wile E. in Show 4's "Fast and Furry-ous". "Hare We Go" is a cartoon with a pre-modern period-locale, as are Show 4's "Shiskabugs" and "Prince Violent" and Show 6's "Knighty Knight Bugs". Seagoing vessels are elements of "Bill of Hare" and "Hare We Go". A shark is traumatized by the Tasmanian Devil in "Bill of Hare", and Sylvester encounters ferocious fish in the aquarium setting of "Fish and Slips". Further noteworthy is that Show 5, with Bugs Bunny joining Chris Columbus for a trans-oceanic journey in 1492 in "Hare We Go", was rather appropriate for Columbus Day weekend on October 12, 1968.
Show 6 included "Tweet Dreams", "Knighty Knight Bugs", "Zip N' Snort", "Mother Was a Rooster", "One Froggy Evening", "Wild
and Woolly Hare", and "Hare-Less Wolf". Sylvester talks about his frustrating chase of Tweety as he undergoes psychoanalysis
by an animal psychiatrist in "Tweet Dreams", and a construction worker in "One Froggy Evening" is committed to mental
rehabilitation in a psychopathic hospital. Plus, the barnyard dog in "Mother Was a Rooster" says that Foghorn Leghorn is
nutty as a fruitcake and ready for the loony bin because of the blustery rooster's belief of being a mother. Foghorn and the
baby ostrich play baseball, which accords with Bugs' throwing of a baseball around the world in Show 5's "Hare We Go". Beer
is referred to in "One Froggy Evening" and consumed in "Wild and Woolly Hare". "Hare-Less Wolf" features a slow-witted
character quite like Sylvester's goony friend, Sam, in Show 5's "Trick or Tweet". In Show 5's "Hare-Way to the Stars" and
Show 6's "Knighty Knight Bugs", characters (Bugs in the former cartoon and Yosemite Sam and the dragon in the latter) are
rocketed into space. The "Singing Sword" in "Knighty Knight Bugs" and the singing frog in "One Froggy Evening" both have a
fantastic, enchanted tuneful quality. Bugs shoots Sam in the face with a gun during a tin-can-target exercise in "Wild and
Woolly Hare", and Charles M. Wolf undergoes the same indignity in "Hare-Less Wolf". Railroad mishaps happen to Sam and to
Charles M. in these two cartoons.
Show 7's cartoons were "The Rabbit of Seville", "Fowl Weather", "Hen House Henery", "Highway Runnery", "Gift Wrapped", "No Parking Hare", and "Ready, Set, Zoom!". Operatic music is an essential element of "The Rabbit of Seville" as it is for Show 6's "One Froggy Evening". Construction workers are characters of "One Froggy Evening" and "No Parking Hare". Marriage between Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in "The Rabbit of Seville" is similar to the ludicrous predicament of Sylvester in a rooster's den in "Fowl Weather". Explosive egg-hatching occurs in two of Show 7's cartoons, "Fowl Weather" and "Highway Runnery", drastically echoing the crack-opening of the ostrich egg in Show 6's "Mother Was a Rooster". Sylvester and Wile E. disguise themselves as female birds in "Fowl Weather" and "Ready, Set, Zoom!" respectively. A mother bird with her brood is seen in both "Fowl Weather" and "Hen House Henery". And a fire escape ladder prank is part of the antics of Foghorn Leghorn against the barnyard dog in "Hen House Henery" and of the teasing of Foghorn by Junior in Show 8's "The Slick Chick".
Show 8 included "The Slap-Hoppy Mouse", "Now Hare This", "The Slick Chick", "Tree For Two", "Hoppy Daze", "Lickety-Splat!", and "A Bird in a Bonnet". "The Slap-Hoppy Mouse", "Now Hare This", and "Tree For Two" all feature an admiring, little sidekick (Sylvester Jr., Big Bad Wolf's nephew, and Chester) to a larger character with aggressive aims. Balloons are utilized in "The Slick Chick", "Lickety-Splat!", and "A Bird in a Bonnet". Bugs, while pretending to be Little Red Riding Hood in "Now Hare This", wears a headdress, a hint to the coming position of Tweety in "A Bird in a Bonnet".
Show 9's contents were "Catty Cornered", "Cannery Woe", "Stupor Duck", "Touche and Go", "Don't Axe Me", "Wet Hare", and
"Hare-Breadth Hurry". "Stupor Duck" features Daffy's inept heroics as the costumed, flying super-mallard, and Show 10
contains "Claws in the Lease", in which Sylvester dresses as "Super-Puss", thinking that he will rid a fat lady's house of
the legions of mice that he has installed therein. Bugs attains the ability to run at tremendous speed with the use of
vitamins, and Daffy has super-powers of a different sort as "Stupor Duck"- and as Cluck Trent is shown swallowing
one of Dr. Pierce's Mild-Mannered Pills, which, too, are performance-altering tablets. Crime is a theme common to "Catty
Cornered" and "Stupor Duck". There is water, water everywhere in "Touche and Go", and water from a stream is the issue of
contention between Bugs and Blacque Jacque Shellacque in "Wet Hare". In Show 10's "A Pizza Tweety Pie", Tweety and Granny
are in the water-inundated city of Venice, which is reminiscent of the watery setting of "Touche and Go", and Tweety's
comment about a dam having broken recalls the dams of "Wet Hare". So too does the title of Show 10's sole Road Runner
cartoon, "Boulder Wham!", alluding to Boulder Dam. Sylvester and Blacque Jacque Shellacque bring a cannon into their
conflict with a foe in "Cannery Woe" and "Wet Hare", respectively.
Show 10's cartoons were "A Pizza Tweety Pie", "The Unmentionables", "Trip For Tat", "Boulder Wham", "Dog Pounded", "Lighter
Than Hare", and "Claws in the Lease". A recurring theme in Show 10 is world travel, in that this episode contains both "A
Pizza Tweety Pie" and "Trip For Tat". A junk yard motif connects "Lighter Than Hare" and "Claws in the Lease". Hypnosis
is performed in "Dog Pounded" and "Boulder Wham". Rocky the gangster appears in a cartoon ("The Unmentionables") in this
installment and in its immediate forebear ("Catty Cornered", Show 9). One of Rocky's criminal cohorts in "The Unmentionables"
is named Pizza-Puss Lasagna, alluding to Italy, which is the setting in "A Pizza Tweety Pie" and one of the places visited
in "Trip For Tat". Sylvester attaches a rocket to his back in "Dog Pounded", and alien Yosemite Sam similarly dons a jet to
pursue Bugs in "Lighter Than Hare". A trampoline is an element to Wile E. Coyote's pursuit of the Road Runner in "Boulder
Wham" and in Show 11's "Whoa Be-Gone".
Show 11 featured "Pre-Hysterical Hare", "Tweet and Sour", "Whoa Be-Gone!", "Hot Cross Bunny", "Muzzle Tough", "Bugs Bonnets",
and "Out and Out Rout". "Hot Cross Bunny" and "Bugs Bonnets" both propose a scientific study of behavior by a change of
headgear, only in "Hot Cross Bunny", the change is that of the entire psyche into another head. An electric shock is
experienced in "Hot Cross Bunny" (in the scientific mind-switching experiment) and in "Muzzle Tough" (when Tweety sticks
Sylvester's tail into an electric socket). Show 11 contains two cartoons with reference to Boy Scouts: "Hot Cross Bunny" and
"Bugs Bonnets". A jail sentence is imposed by Judge Bugs upon Elmer in "Bugs Bonnets", and Bugs tunnels into a prison in
Show 12's "Big House Bunny". The question of man's evolution is raised in the sign on the hospital in "Hot Cross Bunny"
(Hardly a Man is Now Alive) and obliquely in the hat experiment of "Bugs Bonnets", and man's primitive origins are viewed in
"Pre-Hysterical Hare". "Tweet and Sour" features a cat similar to the one inside a trash can that Sylvester encounters at
the start of Show 10's "Dog Pounded", and the cat in "Tweet and Sour" is first seen emerging from a trash can. The
electrically charged headgear involved in the experiment in Show 11's "Hot Cross Bunny" is similar to the one on
the electric chair in Show 12's "Big House Bunny". In "Pre-Hysterical Hare", Bugs witnesses his distant ancestor, the
Sabre-Toothed Rabbit, a situation curiously relevant to "Mad as a Mars Hare" in Show 12, wherein Marvin Martian regresses
Bugs through time to become a Neanderthal Rabbit. Tornadoes are common to "Whoa Be-Gone!" and Show 12's "Hairied and Hurried".
And it was rather apt for Show 11, with "Bugs Bonnets" and Elmer Fudd's imitation of a Pilgrim wishing to procure turkey meat,
to be telecast on the Saturday, November 23, 1968, preceding Thanksgiving Day that year in the United States.
Show 12 included "Mississippi Hare", "Duck Amuck", "Tweet Zoo", "Hairied and Hurried", "Shot and Bothered", "Big House
Bunny", and "Mad as a Mars Hare". A cage motif is shared by "Tweet Zoo" and "Big House Bunny". "Mad as a Mars Hare" involves
Bugs being reverted by Marvin's Time Projector Gun into a Neanderthal Rabbit, while Show 13's "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare"
alludes in its title to the story of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (the story of a civilized man being reverted into a brute).
This would have been a suitable place to insert "Hyde and Hare", because Show 13 also has the Liberace imitation scene in
"Wideo Wabbit" that is "akin" to Bugs' reference in "Hyde and Hare" to the entertainer and his brother, George. Daffy becomes
an aviator in "Duck Amuck", a precursor to Tweety's act of piloting a flying bird cage in Show 13's "The Jet Cage". Daffy
wears goggles during the airplane sequence in "Duck Amuck"; Wile E. Coyote also dons the eye protectors for his sky diving
endeavor in "Hairied and Hurried". A parachute also factors into gags in both "Duck Amuck" and "Harried and Hurried". Wile E. uses a skateboard
in "Shot and Bothered" and Show 11's "Out and Out Rout". These two cartoons will again be in consecutive episodes of The
Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, Shows 24 and 25.
Show 13's cartoons were "This is a Life?", "The Jet Cage", "Mouse Wreckers", "Wideo Wabbit", "Stop, Look, and Hasten", "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare", and "There They Go-Go-Go!". Both "This is a Life?" and "Wideo Wabbit" involve television show spoofs. Bugs activates a television in "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare" to show to the Tasmanian Devil, via cowboy and Indian footage, how Taz's hormones are fighting with his capillaries. Elmer's suggestion in "This is a Life?" that Bugs recount the beginning of his life corresponds to the suggestion by Bugs as a Freudian psychologist in "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare" that Taz tell about his "id vhen he vas a kid". Also, Claude Cat reads a book on psychology written by Freud in "Mouse Wreckers"! An explosive liquid is imbibed by the Tasmanian Devil in "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare" and by Yosemite Sam in Show 14's "The Fair-Haired Hare". Wile E. Coyote literally "burns up" the road after he swallows ACME's Muscle-Building Vitamins to chase the Road Runner in "Stop, Look, and Hasten", and the Road Runner has a similar fiery effect on roads in "There They Go-Go-Go!".
"14 Carrot Rabbit", "Beep Prepared", "Bewitched Bunny", "Hare Trimmed", "War and Pieces", "A Sheep in the Deep", and "The
Fair-Haired Hare" were the cartoons of Show 14. Yosemite Sam believes that he has dug through the Earth to China in "14
Carrot Rabbit", and Wile E. Coyote accidentally tunnels to the Orient by means of a rocket in "War and Pieces". Bugs calls
his opponent, wicked Witch Hazel, "granny" in "Bewitched Bunny", and the kindly old-lady character, Granny, is the focus of
Yosemite Sam's nefarious scheming and of Bugs' righteousness in "Hare Trimmed". "Bewitched Bunny" and "Hare Trimmed" are two
of Bugs most salient missions of mercy. Property rights are the focus of conflict between Bugs and Sam in "The Fair-Haired
Hare", and the tussle between the two in "14 Carrot Rabbit" is also based on property rights- the rights to gold deposits.
Witch Hazel and Sam attempt to poison Bugs in "Bewitched Bunny" and "The Fair-Haired Hare" respectively. This is undeniably
Sam's episode. He appears with Bugs in three cartoons.
Show 15's featured cartoons were "From Hare to Heir", "Highway Runnery", "Greedy For Tweety", "Mutiny On the Bunny", "Ready, Set, Zoom!", "Woolen Under Where", and "Compressed Hare". Sam and Bugs as reluctant domestic partners in Show 14's "The Fair-Haired Hare" is similar to the situation in Show 15's inaugural cartoon, "From Hare to Heir", in which both must co-exist under the same roof, in this case in order for Sam to receive a monetary reward. Ralph Wolf/Sam Sheepdog cartoons are featured in Shows 14, 15, and 16. Ralph Wolf's knight outfit in this show's "Woolen Under Where" connects with the identical manner of dress of Sam, Duke of Yosemite in a scene in "From Hare to Heir". The leg cast condition of Tweety, Sylvester, and the bulldog in "Greedy For Tweety" accords with that of Foghorn Leghorn at the close of Show 16's "Little Boy Boo".
Show 16's contents were "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!", "Little Boy Boo", "Horse Hare", "Putty Tat Trouble", "Don't Give Up the Sheep", "The Solid Tin Coyote", and "Scrambled Aches". Snowy surroundings aesthetically connect "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!" and "Putty Tat Trouble", and Foghorn Leghorn in "Little Boy Boo" expresses concern about the coming of the "coldest winter". "Putty Tat Trouble" and Tweety's statement while removing snow from his bird nest that this condition was a result of his wish for a "white Twistmas", was a rather timely inclusion for a Bugs Bunny/Road Runner installment airing on December 28, 1968. "The Solid Tin Coyote" involves the use of a robot and is followed in Show 17 by Sylvester's robot dog in "Tweet and Lovely". A cannon is involved in Wile E.'s misbegotten schemes in Show 16's "Scrambled Aches" and in Show 17's "Rushing Roulette". Bugs pretends to have become a winged, angelic spirit descending to Earth in "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!"; Sylvester experiences the "real thing" in "Tweet and Lovely". Wile E. utilizes a water-dropper to prematurely rehydrate a boulder in "Scrambled Aches". Sylvester in "Tweet and Lovely", with the same instrument, extracts drops of storm cloud fluid from his chemical mixture. Stormy weather continues as a motif in Show 18's "The Dixie Fryer" and in Show 19's "Hairied and Hurried" (tornadoes).
Show 17's seven cartoons were "Devil May Hare", "Rushing Roulette", "Tweet and Lovely", "Piker's Peak", "Strangled Eggs",
"Apes of Wrath", and "Going! Going! Gosh!". An out-of-control boulder flattens Yosemite Sam in "Piker's Peak", rather like
one does to Wile E. in the same installment's "Going! Going! Gosh!". Sylvester's occupancy and use of an inventor's laboratory in
"Tweet and Lovely" is reminiscent of Egghead Jr.'s mixing of chemicals in Show 16's "Little Boy Boo". Foghorn Leghorn goes
courting to stay warm in "Strangled Eggs", as he also does in "Little Boy Boo". Both Road Runner cartoons in this episode
contain a ploy by Wile E. Coyote to drop an anvil on the Road Runner from a position aboard a flying contraption (helicopter
in "Rushing Roulette", hot-air balloon carriage in "Going! Going! Gosh!") in the air above the speedy fowl.
Show 18 contained "The Windblown Hare", "Tree Cornered Tweety", To Beep or Not to Beep", "The Dixie Fryer", "Tugboat Granny", "Bonanza Bunny", "Hopalong Casualty". Show 17's "Tweet and Lovely" and Show 18's "Tree Cornered Tweety" have a common premise, that of Sylvester and Tweety in high rise buildings (a bird house in Tweety's case in "Tweet and Lovely"), and Sylvester unsuccessfully trying to cross the gap. Foghorn Leghorn loses his feathers to a tornado in Show 18's "The Dixie Fryer", and a tornado "turns up" in Show 19's "Hairied and Hurried". "The Dixie Fryer" involves two hillbilly chicken hawks chasing Foghorn into an explosive shed, and Foghorn obligingly lends to them a match to see in the dark. Boom!!! With a lighter, Bugs does practically the same thing to two lame-brained hillbillies in Show 19's "Hillbilly Hare".
Cartoons included in Show 19 were "A-Lad-in His Lamp", "The Foghorn Leghorn", "Hillbilly Hare", "Hairied and Hurried", "War and Pieces", "Kit For Cat", and "Snow Business". Show 18 opened with a Bugs cartoon with a storybook premise, "The Windblown Hare", as does Show 19 with "A-Lad-in His Lamp". Beard-pulling is practiced by Bugs upon his Arab antagonist, Caliph Hassan Pheffer, in "A-Lad-in His Lamp" and between the two Ozarks yokels whom Bugs induces to violently square dance in "Hillbilly Hare". Connected to the square dance in "Hillbilly Hare" is mention of calling of square dances as one of the misdeeds listed on Blacque Jacque Shellacque's 'wanted' poster in Show 18's "Bonanza Bunny". The Martin brothers becoming caught in the hay bailer in "Hillbilly Hare" seems to connect with Wile E. Coyote being sucked into the mechanism of his snow-making machine in "Hairied and Hurried". In "War and Pieces", Wile E. paints himself invisible, and in "The Leghorn Blows at Midnight" in Show 20, Foghorn Leghorn fools Henery Hawk into believing that Foghorn has rubbed vanishing cream on him. Further, Show 20's "Clippety Clobbered" contains a scene with Wile E. chemically creating an invisible paint. "Kit For Cat" and "Snow Business" have wintery settings, and Sylvester is desperate in both cartoons, to keep warm and fed by Elmer Fudd in the former, to find some food to avoid starvation in a snowbound mountain cabin in the latter. Sylvester pretends to revert to a kitten in "Kit For Cat" to persuade Elmer Fudd to adopt him (Fudd's response: "What a widicuwous way for a gwown-up cat to behave!), and in Show 20's "Dr. Jerkyl's Hide", he reverts in another way, regressing to the wildcat due to his mistaken consumption of Hyde formula. Bugs encounters a harem in Caliph Hassan Pheffer's palace in "A-Lad-in His Lamp", and one of Wile E.'s failed Road Runner catch ploys in "War and Pieces" is a rifle disguised as a peep show, "Secrets of a Harem".
The cartoons of Show 20: "Robot Rabbit", "Dr. Jerkyl's Hide", "The Leghorn Blows at Midnight", "Transylvania 6-5000", "A Bird
in a Guilty Cage", "Lickety-Splat!", and "Clippety Clobbered". "Robot Rabbit", a cartoon involving applied technology- a
product of science- to farmer Fudd's conflict with carrot-snatching Bugs, concludes with this statement by Bugs: "Someday,
these scientists are going to invent something that'll outsmart a rabbit." Science is an element in "Dr. Jerkyl's Hide" (Dr.
Jerkyl's laboratory) and in "Clippety Clobbered" (Wile E.'s chemical set). Monstrous flying things, a Hyde-formula-transformed
fly and Count Bloodcount in bat form, figure in "Dr. Jerkyl's Hide" and "Transylvania 6-5000". Bugs and Henery Hawk use the
word, "nincom-poop", in "Robot Rabbit" and "The Leghorn Blows at Midnight". Sylvester swallows trouble in both "Dr. Jerkyl's
Hide" (Hyde formula) and "A Bird in a Guilty Cage" (a stick of dynamite).
Show 21's cartoons were "Beanstalk Bunny", "Double or Mutton", "The Wild Chase", "Bugsy and Mugsy", "Hawaiian Aye Aye", "Chili Weather", and "Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner". Rainfall occurs in "Double or Mutton" and "Bugsy and Mugsy", and Wile E. does an Indian dance to effect rain in "Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner". Sylvester is reduced in size in "Chili Weather", which thematically accords with the proportions of Bugs and Daffy in Elmer's giant realm in "Beanstalk Bunny". The fake female Road Runner decoy used by Wile E. in Show 21's "Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner" corresponds with Sylvester's final scheme in Show 22's "Home Tweet Home", to lure Tweety into his grasp with application of a tree and nest disguise and a female bird call.
In Show 22, the featured cartoons were "The Hasty Hare", "Beep Prepared", "Claws For Alarm", "Roman Legion-Hare", "Home Tweet
Home", "Terrier Stricken", and "Sugar and Spies". Bugs is abducted into space by Marvin Martian and K-9 in "The Hasty Hare",
and the final gag in "Beep Prepared" involves Wile E. being rocketed into space and becoming a constellation after the rocket
explodes. In "Sugar and Spies", the Road Runner sends Wile E. to the Moon with the use of a rocket device that Wile E. built
with a spy kit. In "Home Tweet Home", bubble gum is involved when one of Sylvester's attempts to catch Tweety goes awry, and
Yosemite Sam becomes "all stuck-up" by bubble gum in Show 23's "Rabbit Every Monday"! Show 22 contains "Roman Legion-Hare";
Show 23 has "Tweety's Circus". Suffice to say that Yosemite Sam and Sylvester are both lion-fodder. Claude Cat plunges into a
waterless pool in "Terrier Stricken", and in Show 23, Sylvester high-dives into a bucket from which Tweety had an elephant
extract all of the H2O- and both of these are suitably succeeded by the high-diving prospectus of "High Diving Hare" of Show
25. Moreover, the music accompanying Claude's pool scene is circus-oriented. The gag with the un-whoa-able Roman horse in
"Roman Legion-Hare" is very much like that with the camel in "Sahara Hare" in Show 23. Tweety bathes in "Home Tweet Home",
and a hot bath is prepared for Frisky Puppy in "Terrier Stricken". Bugs refers to Halloween when he is confronted by Marvin
Martian and K-9 in "The Hasty Hare", and spooks are rather the order of the day (or rather, night) for Sylvester in "Claws
For Alarm". Marvin's headgear is like that of an ancient Roman soldier, which is precisely the role of Yosemite Sam in "Roman
Legion-Hare", Sam being indeed a wearer of a distinctive Roman helmet. The forsaken Dry Gulch Hotel of "Claws For Alarm"
whose only remaining occupants, several mice, create suspicion and fractious division among two comers, Porky Pig and
Sylvester, unto their premises, recalls the condemned building of Show 21's "Bugsy and Mugsy" and the effort of its current
resident, Bugs, to generate distrust and animosity in the criminal duo of Rocky and Mugsy, who have selected that building as
their hideout. Bugs and later his two antagonists in "The Hasty Hare" are put into straitjackets, and in "Claws For Alarm",
Porky inquires as to whether there is any insanity in Sylvester's family.
The contents of Show 23 were "Rabbit Every Monday", "Gee Whiz-z-z-z!", "Pre-Hysterical Hare", "Sahara Hare", "Tweety's
Circus", "Pop 'im Pop!", and "Tired and Feathered". An elephant is seen in "Pre-Hysterical Hare", "Sahara Hare", "Tweety's
Circus", and "Pop 'im Pop", the latter two cartoons involving circuses. Wile E. Coyote, in Show 23's "Tired and Feathered",
grabs two of the Road Runner's feathers and tries to use them to fly, like Sylvester does with two of Tweety's feathers in
Show 24's "Hyde and Go Tweet". Wile E. peers through binoculars at the start of "Tired and Feathered", as he also does in
Show 24's "Out and Out Rout".
In Show 24, the cartoons were "Cats and Bruises", "Long-Haired Hare", "Whoa Be-Gone!", "Bully For Bugs", "Hyde and Go Tweet",
"Who's Kitten Who?", and "Out and Out Rout". Sylvester builds a hot rod to chase Speedy Gonzales in "Cats and Bruises", and
Wile E. does the same to try to catch the Road Runner in "Out and Out Rout". An advertisement for a bullfight can be seen
on a fence in "Cats and Bruises", which foreshadows "Bully For Bugs". A wind storm in "Out and Out Rout" is not as strong as
the one generated by Wile E.'s ACME Tornado Seeds in "Whoa Be-Gone!", but as both cartoons are in Show 24 (and were
together also in Show 11), it is an interesting correspondence! Sylvester standing at ground level with mouth open to ingest
the falling Tweety in "Hyde and Go Tweet" summons recollection of the lion poised to swallow Sylvester plummeting from the
high wire in Show 23's "Tweety's Circus". Third cartoon of part two in Show 23 and Show 24 is a vehicle for the trio of
Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., and Hippety Hopper, and both "Pop 'im Pop!" and "Who's Kitten Who?" start with Hippety escaping
captivity, bouncing through a community, and coming upon the two generations of Sylvester. The upstanding-looking man in
"Who's Kitten Who?" disposing of a bottle marked, "XXX" (an implicit alcoholic beverage), after witnessing Hippety Hopper
still in crate skipping up and down along a sidewalk, is somewhat reminiscent of Dr. Jekyll and his drink of disagreeable
portent in "Hyde and Go Tweet". Finally, Wile E. uses a hunting bird in "Out and Out Rout", which is quite apt after Tweety
becomes a monstrous bird of prey in the same episode's "Hyde and Go Tweet".
Show 25 was comprised of "Two's a Crowd", "Rabbit Romeo", "Cheese It- the Cat!", "High Diving Hare", "Shot and Bothered",
"Sandy Claws", and "Zoom at the Top". Frisky Puppy is a spouse's birthday present in "Two's a Crowd", and Ralph Crumden and
Ned Morton act in "Cheese It- the Cat!" to attain an object of birthday celebration (in their instance, a cupcake) for Ralph's
beloved Alice. Crumden rides a projectile champagne cork in "Cheese It- the Cat!", as too does Sylvester in "Tweety and the
Beanstalk" in Show 26. "High Diving Hare" contains traces of gags in "Tweety's Circus" two shows earlier. Sylvester is gulped
whole by a giant fish in "Sandy Claws"; the lion in "Tweety's Circus" and the Tweety monster in "Hyde and Go Tweet"
respectively did the same to Sylvester in the previous two installments. Bugs dons a bathing suit in "High Diving Hare" and
also wears such a garment in "Frigid Hare" in Show 26. Granny, too, garbs herself in bathing dress (of sorts) in "Sandy
Claws". Yosemite Sam and Sylvester endure repeated, unpleasant exposure to quantities of water in "High Diving Hare" and
"Sandy Claws".
Finally, Show 26's contents were "Frigid Hare", "Tweety and the Beanstalk", "Weasel While You Work", "Big House Bunny",
"War and Pieces", "A Street Cat Named Sylvester", and "Going! Going! Gosh!". "Tweety and the Beanstalk" and "War and Pieces"
respectively send Sylvester and Wile E. through the Earth to the Orient. Snowy settings connect "Frigid Hare", "Weasel While
You Work", "A Street Cat Named Sylvester", and Show 25's "Rabbit Romeo". Tweety mixes an unhealthy cocktail in Sylvester's
medicine bottle in this episode's "A Street Cat Named Sylvester" and Show 1's "Tweety's S.O.S.". Sylvester chops down the
beanstalk in "Tweety and the Beanstalk" and tries to do the same to a tree containing Tweety's nest in "Tweet, Tweet,
Tweety" in Show 1.
If this analysis does not summon visions of a group of people standing around a schedule and arranging cartoons to run in a compellingly peculiar fashion, it at the very least suggests that the people behind the initial season of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour had a semi-conscious or unconscious awareness of how strikingly correspondent the phenomena of particular cartoons are and communicated this awareness by arranging cartoons in a coincidentally suggestive manner in a weekly television series. Indeed, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour was truly a classic and fascinating television show!
Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 1 (Sept. 14, 1968) For this show with cartoons located on an ocean liner and in Scotland, Tasmania, a food processing factory, a forest, and a desert beset by a violently trembling coyote, Bugs introduces Daffy as emcee. Daffy, emerging from his broom closet dressing room, attracts the carnivorous wrath of the Tasmanian Devil, who escapes from a backstage crate. PART ONE "My Bunny Lies Over the Sea" with Bugs Bunny and Angus McCrory "Tweety's S.O.S." with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny "I Gopher You" with the Goofy Gophers PART TWO "Hairied and Hurried" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote "Bedevilled Rabbit" with Bugs Bunny and Tasmanian Devil "Tweet, Tweet, Tweety" with Tweety and Sylvester "Hopalong Casualty" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 2 (Sept. 21, 1968) Mid-winter hunting season, the Battle of Bagel Heights, and late-1800s San Franciscan gambling are Bugs' predicaments of this episode, Sylvester contends with a bulldog on a train and fights against his son's bird friend, and Wile E. Coyote is plagued by a problematic catapult. PART ONE "All Abir-r-rd" with Tweety and Sylvester "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!" with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd- oddly shown with full original title sequence "To Beep or Not to Beep" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote PART TWO "Bunker Hill Bunny" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam "Shot and Bothered" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote "Barbary Coast Bunny" with Bugs Bunny and Nasty Canasta "Birds of a Father" with Sylvester and Sylvester Jr. Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner play tennis, with hand grenades! One of the hand grenades becomes entangled in Wile E.'s tennis racket and explodes in Wile E.'s face. Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 3 (Sept. 28, 1968) Foghorn Leghorn uses Harry Houdini's magic hat to cause Henery Hawk to seemingly vanish, and thus begins a show depicting Bugs' rise to stardom and Bugs' performance in a medieval jousting tournament, Sylvester's chase of Tweety in San Francisco and in the story of Little Red Riding Hood, and Daffy's quest- as a rooster- for a $5,000 prize. PART ONE "What's Up, Doc?" with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd "The Hole Idea" with Calvin Q. Calculus "Stop, Look, and Hasten" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote PART TWO "Canary Row" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny "You Were Never Duckier" with Daffy Duck and Henery Hawk "Knights Must Fall" with Bugs Bunny and Sir Pantsalot of Dropseat Manor "Red Riding Hoodwinked" with Tweety, Sylvester, Granny, and the Big Bad Wolf Wile E. Coyote shovels through sandy ground to construct a pit-trap with which to capture the Road Runner but plunges through the bottom of his hole and into the path of a train emerging from a tunnel. Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 4 (Oct. 5, 1968) Granny's bulldog-filled yard confounds Tweety-craving Sylvester, who also engages in a struggle with Hippety Hopper in a museum- during an installment containing further adventures for Bugs in medieval times. PART ONE "Shiskabugs" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam "Beep Prepared" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote "Mouse-Taken Identity" with Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., and Hippety Hopper PART TWO "A Fractured Leghorn" with Foghorn Leghorn "Prince Violent" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam "Ain't She Tweet" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny "Fast and Furry-ous" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 5 (Oct. 12, 1968) Foghorn Leghorn introduces hostess Miss Prissy, who performs with him in the first cartoon- and following it are Wile E. Coyote's ill-fated Batman costume, Sylvester's pursuit of fishy food in an aquarium, a friendly war over canary possession between Sylvester and an orange-furred pal, and Bugs' inadvertent rocketing to a Martian space platform. PART ONE "Lovelorn Leghorn" with Foghorn Leghorn and Miss Prissy "Gee Whiz-z-z-z!" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote "Bill of Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Tasmanian Devil PART TWO "Fish and Slips" with Sylvester and Sylvester Jr. The Road Runner drinks from a water cooler, above which Wile E. Coyote drops a boulder from a cliff. The Road Runner zips away from the water cooler before the boulder completes its fall, and Wile E. is startled by the Road Runner's sudden beeping behind him and stupidly "runs for cover" under the water cooler. The boulder hits ground on top of Wile E. directly next to the water cooler, with Wile E.'s head becoming sealed and "pickled" inside of the water container. "Hare We Go" with Bugs Bunny and Chris Columbus "Trick or Tweet" with Tweety and Sylvester "Hare-Way to the Stars" with Bugs Bunny and Marvin Martian Wile E. Coyote hides beneath a manhole cover with the expectation of surprising and grabbing the Road Runner, only to be struck by a beep-beeping truck. Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 6 (Oct. 19, 1968) For this show of psychiatrics, singing sword and frog, mother rooster of an ostrich, a "chicken run" of two locomotives, and a forgetful wolf, Daffy dresses as Bugs to be emcee but is pursued backstage by a sheepdog who thinks that Daffy really is a rabbit. PART ONE "Tweet Dreams" with Tweety and Sylvester "Knighty Knight Bugs" with Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, and the Dragon "Zip N' Snort" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote PART TWO "Mother Was a Rooster" with Foghorn Leghorn "One Froggy Evening" with Michigan J. Frog "Wild and Woolly Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam "Hare-Less Wolf" with Bugs Bunny and Charles M. Wolf Wile E. Coyote sketches a picture on an easel. The picture consists of Wile E., rifle in hand, with the Road Runner at his side, and when Wile E. turns his back from the easel to grab the real Road Runner, who has stopped behind him to look at the drawing, the Wile E. on the easel fires his rifle into the real Wile E.'s back. Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 7 (Oct. 26, 1968) As the stage is prepared for "The Rabbit of Seville", Bugs introduces the first cartoon in an installment with Sylvester disguised as a scarecrow and as a hen, Foghorn Leghorn wilfully stepping into Henery Hawk's lasso trap, and Bugs competing against a brawny freeway builder. PART ONE "The Rabbit of Seville" with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd "Fowl Weather" with Tweety, Sylvester, Granny, and Hector Bulldog "Hen House Henery" with Foghorn Leghorn and Henery Hawk PART TWO "Highway Runnery" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote "Gift Wrapped" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny "No Parking Hare" with Bugs Bunny and the Construction Worker "Ready, Set, Zoom!" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 8 (Nov. 2, 1968) A variety of experience for Sylvester in his attempt to tutor his son in catching mice, in his unwitting victory, by means of mistaken identity with a fierce black panther, against two canine foes, in his desire to be the prevailing sparring partner against a "giant mouse", and in his effort to snatch Tweety from the chapeau donned by Granny. PART ONE "The Slap-Hoppy Mouse" with Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., and Hippety Hopper "Now Hare This" with Bugs Bunny and the Big Bad Wolf A mischievous artist draws Foghorn Leghorn with Rock Hudson's body and a broom tail. "The Slick Chick" with Foghorn Leghorn PART TWO "Tree For Two" with Sylvester, Spike, and Chester "Hoppy Daze" with Sylvester and Hippety Hopper "Lickety-Splat!" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote "A Bird in a Bonnet" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny Wile E. Coyote disguises himself as a Road Runner, and the Road Runner conceals his speedy body inside a coyote costume. Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 9 (Nov. 9, 1968) Clips from "Hare-Breadth Hurry" begin this show in which Bugs substitutes for the absent Road Runner, Tweety is captive of Rocky the gangster, Daffy as super-hero fights a non-existent criminal, and Speedy contends with Sylvester to gain admittance to a cheese store. PART ONE "Catty Cornered" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Rocky "Cannery Woe" with Speedy Gonzales and Sylvester "Stupor Duck" with Daffy Duck PART TWO "Touche and Go" with Pepe Le Pew "Don't Axe Me" with Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, and Mrs. Fudd "Wet Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Blacque Jacque Shellacque "Hare-Breadth Hurry" with Bugs Bunny and Wile E. Coyote Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 10 (Nov. 16, 1968) Around the world with Granny, Tweety, and Sylvester, Wile E. Coyote cannot cross a chasm to reach the Road Runner, and Bugs acts as a 1920s crime-buster and is also the champion of Earth against Yosemite Sam of Outer Space. PART ONE "A Pizza Tweety Pie" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny "The Unmentionables" with Bugs Bunny, Rocky, and Mugsy "Trip For Tat" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny PART TWO "Boulder Wham!" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote "Dog Pounded" with Tweety and Sylvester "Lighter Than Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam "Claws in the Lease" with Sylvester and Sylvester Jr. Wile E. Coyote's scheme to drop an explosive rocket atop the Road Runner is a failure. Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 11 (Nov. 23, 1968) A film of pre-history, a planned experimental swapping of psyches between Bugs and a chicken, a study of the behavioral effects upon Elmer and Bugs of various hats, and a chicken farm and an intercity brownstone as places for Sylvester and Tweety's hijinks are what distinguish this installment. PART ONE "Pre-Hysterical Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd "Tweet and Sour" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny "Whoa Be-Gone!" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote PART TWO "Hot Cross Bunny" with Bugs Bunny and the Bespectacled Doctor "Muzzle Tough" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny "Bugs Bonnets" with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd "Out and Out Rout" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 12 (Nov. 30, 1968) This episode's phenomena includes music, poker, a prankish animator, caged but not harmless zoo animals, Wile E. Coyote riding a skateboard, an irritable prison warden, and Marvin Martian's Time-Projector gun. On stage, Bugs impersonates Elvis and awakens Yosemite Sam, who ruins Bugs' guitar. Sam later knots the trumpet that Bugs tries to play. PART ONE "Mississippi Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Colonel Shuffle "Duck Amuck" with Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny "Tweet Zoo" with Tweety and Sylvester PART TWO "Hairied and Hurried" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote "Shot and Bothered" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote "Big House Bunny" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam "Mad as a Mars Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Marvin Martian Wile E. Coyote rides a motorcycle to chase the Road Runner up a steep rock formation and finds himself on the underside of a precipice, from which he falls, demolishing the motorcycle. Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 13 (Dec. 7, 1968) Television programs are parodied, Tweety becomes pilot of a flying birdcage, Wile E. Coyote swallows many vitamins to move as rapidly as the Road Runner, and Bugs plays doctor to the Tasmanian Devil in a jungle medical outpost. PART ONE "This is a Life?" with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, and Granny "The Jet Cage" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny "Mouse Wreckers" with Claude Cat, Hubie, and Bertie PART TWO "Wideo Wabbit" with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd "Stop, Look, and Hasten" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Tasmanian Devil "There They Go-Go-Go!" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 14 (Dec. 14, 1968) In this show, Bugs contests Yosemite Sam's claims to land ownership and the greedy villain's illicit aim to marry wealthy Granny, and combats wicked Witch Hazel and her scheme to feast upon Hansel and Gretel. PART ONE "14 Carrot Rabbit" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam "Beep Prepared" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote For 'Reading Out Loud Night', Bugs selects a book from a shelf and walks into a backdrop, demonstrating how one can, "...get away with nearly anything in an animated cartoon." "Bewitched Bunny" with Bugs Bunny and Witch Hazel PART TWO "Hare Trimmed" with Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, and Granny "War and Pieces" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote "A Sheep in the Deep" with Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog "The Fair-Haired Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam Wile E. Coyote underestimates the recoil force of his corked "bingo cannon". Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 15 (Dec. 21, 1968) More conflict between Bugs and Yosemite Sam, in a Middle Age castle owned by Sam, Duke of Yosemite, and on the Sad Sack, formerly the Jolly Roger. Also in this episode: Sylvester and Tweety hospitalized, Wile E. Coyote the victim of an exploding robot infant Road Runner and of his super-magnet directed at Bugs' new, desert abode, and Ralph Wolf attempting, with an armored unicycle, to outwit Sam Sheepdog. PART ONE "From Hare to Heir" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam "Highway Runnery" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote "Greedy For Tweety" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny PART TWO "Mutiny On the Bunny" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam "Ready, Set, Zoom!" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote "Woolen Under Where" with Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog "Compressed Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Wile E. Coyote Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 16 (Dec. 28, 1968) Bugs introduces dancing pens Penelope and Penbroke, who write the title of the first cartoon, containing Bugs and Daffy's encounter with hunter Elmer Fudd. A boy chick with a high IQ, Bugs and Yosemite Sam in a duel at Fort Lariat, Sylvester and an orange cat chasing Tweety in a snowy city, a robot coyote, dehydrated boulders, and a steam roller are other elements of this distinctive installment. PART ONE "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!" with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd "Little Boy Boo" with Foghorn Leghorn, Miss Prissy, and Egghead Jr. "Horse Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam PART TWO "Putty Tat Trouble" with Tweety and Sylvester "Don't Give Up the Sheep" with Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog "The Solid Tin Coyote" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote "Scrambled Aches" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 17 (Jan. 4, 1969) Eluding a Tasmanian Devil, mountain climbing, and playing baby monkey to an ill-tempered gorilla comprise Bugs' exploits of this show- and Sylvester becomes inventor, the Road Runner a pianist, and Foghorn Leghorn a chicken hawk. PART ONE "Devil May Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Tasmanian Devil "Rushing Roulette" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote "Tweet and Lovely" with Tweety and Sylvester PART TWO "Piker's Peak" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam "Strangled Eggs" with Foghorn Leghorn, Henery Hawk, and Miss Prissy "Apes of Wrath" with Bugs Bunny and the Drunken Stork "Going! Going! Gosh!" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 18 (Jan. 11, 1969) A forgetful Big Bad Wolf and a French-Canadian Klondike outlaw are Bugs' foes in a show with diverse cartoon locations including a metropolis, a tugboat, a Yukon saloon, and the Deep South. PART ONE "The Windblown Hare" with Bugs Bunny and the Big Bad Wolf "Tree Cornered Tweety" with Tweety and Sylvester Daffy thinks that Bugs is going to introduce him, but Bugs instead honors the sponsor. "To Beep or Not to Beep" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote PART TWO "The Dixie Fryer" with Foghorn Leghorn, Pappy, and Elvis "Tugboat Granny" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny "Bonanza Bunny" with Bugs Bunny and Blacque Jacque Shellacque "Hopalong Casualty" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 19 (Jan. 18, 1969) Adventures in Baghdad and in the Ozark Mountains for Bugs, Sylvester is desperate for winter shelter and food, and Henery Hawk hunts a chicken, not a "loud-mouthed schnook". PART ONE "A-Lad-in His Lamp" with Bugs Bunny and Smoky the Genie "The Foghorn Leghorn" with Foghorn Leghorn and Henery Hawk "Hillbilly Hare" with Bugs Bunny and the Martin Brothers PART TWO "Hairied and Hurried" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote "War and Pieces" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote "Kit For Cat" with Sylvester and Elmer Fudd "Snow Business" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny Wile E. Coyote attempts and fails to ride atop a rocket in his pursuit of the Road Runner. Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 20 (Jan. 25, 1969) Bugs selects Sylvester as emcee for this episode wherein the lisping cat is transformed into a wildcat by Hyde formula and pursues Tweety in a department store, Bugs confronts a robot and a vampire, and Wile E. Coyote releases explosive darts from a balloon and mixes chemicals to produce invisibility and a bouncing skin. Sylvester is applauded by Sylvester Jr., who is seated atop a crate containing Hippety Hopper. PART ONE "Robot Rabbit" with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd "Dr. Jerkyl's Hide" with Sylvester, Spike, and Chester "The Leghorn Blows at Midnight" with Foghorn Leghorn and Henery Hawk PART TWO "Transylvania 6-5000" with Bugs Bunny and Count Bloodcount "A Bird in a Guilty Cage" with Tweety and Sylvester "Lickety-Splat!" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote "Clippety Clobbered" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 21 (Feb. 1, 1969) With gunpoint, Rocky and Mugsy commandeer the show and appear in one of the cartoons. An exotic show of storybook, fielded, Hawaiian, and Mexican locations- and with a tussle over who among a rabbit and duck is named Jack, a race, and an Indian rain dance. PART ONE "Beanstalk Bunny" with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd "Double or Mutton" with Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog "The Wild Chase" with Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Sylvester, and Speedy Gonzales PART TWO "Bugsy and Mugsy" with Bugs Bunny, Rocky, and Mugsy "Hawaiian Aye Aye" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny "Chili Weather" with Sylvester and Speedy Gonzales "Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 22 (Feb. 8, 1969) Outer space, a hotel in a ghost town, Emperor Nero's Rome, a city park, and a desert visited by a hunted espionage agent provide the settings for this show's hilarity. PART ONE "The Hasty Hare" with Bugs Bunny, Marvin Martian, and K-9 "Beep Prepared" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote "Claws for Alarm" with Porky Pig and Sylvester PART TWO "Roman Legion-Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam "Home Tweet Home" with Tweety and Sylvester "Terrier Stricken" with Claude Cat and Frisky Puppy "Sugar and Spies" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 23 (Feb. 15, 1969) Bugs finds a party in Yosemite Sam's oven and a desert where he expected Miami Beach to be, elephants and other circus animals complicate the lives of Sam and Sylvester, and Wile E. Coyote builds a phoney bird sanctuary to entrap the Road Runner in a dynamite-primed telephone booth. PART ONE "Rabbit Every Monday" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam "Gee Whiz-z-z-z!" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote "Pre-Hysterical Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd- oddly shown with full original title sequence PART TWO "Sahara Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam "Tweety's Circus" with Tweety and Sylvester "Pop 'im Pop!" with Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., and Hippety Hopper "Tired and Feathered" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 24 (Feb. 22, 1969) An opera music auditorium, a bullfight ring, Dr. Jekyll's high-rise laboratory, and a windy desert are the locales for this installment with such images as Tweety as a monster, Sylvester Jr. with a paper bag over his head, and Sylvester and Wile E. Coyote at the controls of hot rods. PART ONE "Cats and Bruises" with Speedy Gonzales and Sylvester "Long-Haired Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Giovanni Jones "Whoa Be-Gone!" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote PART TWO "Bully For Bugs" with Bugs Bunny and the Bull "Hyde and Go Tweet" with Tweety and Sylvester "Who's Kitten Who?" with Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., and Hippety Hopper "Out and Out Rout" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 25 (Mar. 1, 1969) Emcees Mac and Tosh, the Goofy Gophers, argue about who should introduce the cartoons in a show with these featured events: Bugs is pursued by an amorous but unattractive female bunny and is ordered by gun-toting Yosemite Sam to perform a high diving act, Claude Cat is determined to rid his happy home of a newcomer boisterous puppy, mice Ralph Crumden and Ned Morton are opposed by a cat in their aim to obtain a refrigerated cupcake, Sylvester chases Tweety on a beach, and Wile E. Coyote is dynamited, bear trapped, frozen, and boomeranged. PART ONE "Two's a Crowd" with Claude Cat and Frisky Puppy "Rabbit Romeo" with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd "Cheese It- the Cat!" with the Honey-Mousers PART TWO "High Diving Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam "Shot and Bothered" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote "Sandy Claws" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny "Zoom at the Top" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour # 26 (Mar. 8, 1969) Icy shenanigans are included in the content of this episode, as are a giant Tweety, Sylvester with a broken arm and leg, Wile E. Coyote in China, and Bugs in jail. PART ONE "Frigid Hare" with Bugs Bunny and the Penguin "Tweety and the Beanstalk" with Tweety and Sylvester "Weasel While You Work" with Foghorn Leghorn and the Weasel PART TWO "Big House Bunny" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam "War and Pieces" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote "A Street Cat Named Sylvester" with Tweety, Sylvester, Granny, and Hector Bulldog "Going! Going! Gosh!" with Road Runner and Wile E. CoyoteOn CBS, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, having premiered on September 14, 1968, ran for 3 seasons until September 4, 1971. Then, starting on September 11, 1971, CBS aired a half-hour Bugs Bunny Show (not the 1960-2 version, though quite close to it in format) until September 1, 1973. Next, ABC gained possession of this half-hour Bugs Bunny Show on September 8, 1973 and ran it for 2 years until August 30, 1975. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour returned on CBS on September 13, 1975.
The 1975-6 season of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour on CBS contained several cartoons that were not in the initial, 1968-9 season. "A Star is Bored", "The Abominable Snow Rabbit", "Rabbit's Feat", "The Million-Hare", "Robin Hood Daffy", "Quackodile Tears" (without a title card), "Aqua Duck", "Cats A-Weigh", "Lighthouse Mouse", "Satan's Waitin'", "Birds Anonymous", "Half Fare Hare", "Canned Feud", and "A Mouse Divided" all appeared on The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour on CBS in the mid-1970s. Beginning in autumn of 1975, very short scenes from cartoons were used by CBS to segue to and from commercial intervals within The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour. Among the many sponsors of Bugs Bunny/Road Runner broadcasts on CBS from 1975 onward were Alpha Bits, Cap'n Crunch, and Honey-Comb breakfast cereals, McDonald's restaurants, Chips Ahoy cookies, Lifesavers candy, and Kenner Toys. Notable cartoons in the February 21, 1976 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour on CBS, which was rerun by CBS on August 21, 1976, were "Rushing Roulette", "Robot Rabbit", "Claws For Alarm", and the last cartoon feature of that episode, "Rabbit's Feat". Closing credits in the seasons of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour from 1975-6 onward started with a fade from black into a stage over which were superimposed letters in Dom Casual font, with production positions and persons specified. And the cartoon directors listed in order were Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, and Robert McKimson. Before the fade to black at end of credits sequence, Bugs and the Road Runner would be shown in still poses beside the Warner Brothers logo commonly used during the late 1970s.
In September, 1976, CBS decided to expand its coverage of Warner Brothers' classic cartoons to 90 minutes by complementing
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour with The Sylvester and Tweety Show, which aired at 9 A.M. Atlantic Time,
immediately before The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour. All Tweety-and-Sylvester and most Sylvester-without-Tweety
cartoons were moved from The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour to this new cartoon compilation television series, enabling
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour to add other cartoon shorts to its new season of installments. "Cheese Chasers",
"To Itch His Own", "Daffy Dilly", "Fast Buck Duck", and many other delightful cartoons were added to The Bugs Bunny/Road
Runner Hour.
Unfortunately, circa this time, CBS was under increasing pressure from animal rights groups, child psychologists, and concerned parents to reduce the amount of violence in its Saturday morning programming, and the Warner Brothers cartoons received the most attention in this regard.
By the 1977-8 season of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, several cartoons had been spliced, their violent content removed, often clumsily. One memorable cut was to "Putty Tat Trouble", which, along with other Tweety cartoons, had been reincorporated into The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour after The Sylvester and Tweety Show was canceled in 1977. Scenes around the pipe where Sylvester gun-shoots a bullet through the orange cat's body and then initiates a head-clobbering fight using rifle and long-neck ashtray, were deleted by a film splice. So, the cartoon jumped abruptly from the orange cat falling down stairs in an earlier scene to Tweety running in the snow toward a mailbox, with the two cats in pursuit of him.
"The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show."
(curtain rises)
"Overture, curtain, lights!
This is it. The night of nights.
No more rehearsing or nursing a part.
We know every part by heart!
(cane flip)
Overture, curtain, lights!
This is it. We'll hit the heights!
And oh, what heights we'll hit!
On with the show, this is it!
(character procession)
Tonight what heights we'll hit!
On with the show, this is it!"
"Starring Bugs Bunny- and the Road Runner."
(Road Runner zips forward on film projector screen)
"Beep, beep!"
"Road Runner, that Coyote's after you!
Road Runner, if he catches you, you're through!
Road Runner, that Coyote's after you!
Road Runner, if he catches you, you're through!
That Coyote is really a crazy clown!
When will he learn that he never can slow him down?
Poor little Road Runner never bothers anyone.
Just running down the road is his idea of having fun!"
"Beep, beep!"
"The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show."
-1978-84 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show opening
Having provided to Saturday morning television beholders a sum total of 90 minutes of Warner Brothers cartoons in 1976-7,
CBS, in 1978, ventured back to that precedent, and Bugs and his comrades of animated cartoondom basked again in 90 minutes
of televisual glory.
Yes, in 1978, CBS re-expanded Warner Brothers' cartoon coverage to an hour and a half. Rather than add another television series, CBS decided to extend the airtime for The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour. And so, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour became The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show. Twenty-six 90-minute installments ran from September 9, 1978 to March 3, 1979, and were repeated from March 10 to September 1, 1979. Some cartoons were shown multiple times, among them "A Pizza Tweety Pie", "Shiskabugs", and "Highway Runnery", while others appeared only once in the 26 shows. "Dumb Patrol", "False Hare", and "Snow Excuse" were new to CBS in the 1978-9 season.
The installment shown on December 9, 1978 and rerun on June 9, 1979, contained "Hot Cross Bunny", "Hyde and Go Tweet", "To
Beep or Not to Beep", "Piker's Peak", "D' Fightin' Ones", "Tweety's S.O.S.", and "A Bird in a Bonnet", among others. Also
memorable was "Barbary Coast Bunny" and "Cheese Chasers" being in the episode shown on September 23, 1978 and repeated on
March 24, 1979. "A Witch's Tangled Hare" was the concluding cartoon of Show 13 on December 2, 1978 and June 2, 1979. An
installment that ran on January 27 and July 28, 1979 contained "Rabbit Romeo", "Fish and Slips" (with a Sylvester-and-Tweety
title card), "Out and Out Rout", "Dr. Jerkyl's Hide", and "Road Runner A-Go-Go", among others.
Curiously, most of the Foghorn Leghorn cartoon shorts that had been on The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour vanished at
this point in time. "The Dixie Fryer" was to never again appear on CBS, and it would not be until the 1982-3 season that
"The Foghorn Leghorn", "The Leghorn Blows at Midnight", "Strangled Eggs", "A Fractured Leghorn", "Hen House Henery", and
"The Slick Chick" would be seen again with Bugs and the Road Runner on Saturday morning.
By the 1978-9 season, most cartoons that appeared on The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show for the very first time were not assigned a title card comparable with those of the more established cartoons on the television show. No character poses accompanied titles for several new-to-Saturday-morning cartoons. Instead, the titles were printed on an otherwise blank background that was colored brown, blue, or rusty red. "The Rebel Without Claws", "False Hare", "The Iceman Ducketh", "Dumb Patrol", and "Prince Varmint" (which was originally titled "Prince Violent" when released theatrically in 1961) were all given a Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show title card devoid of character poses.
When, exactly, was the title of "Prince Violent" changed to "Prince Varmint"? Difficult to say. It was not a newcomer to the television show in 1978. It had been aired in 1968 in episode 4 of the initial season of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour. Considering that its title card (as "Prince Varmint") for The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show in 1979 was on blank, brown background, like those of other cartoons added to the show's selections as late as 1978, its title was probably changed from "Prince Violent" to "Prince Varmint" sometime in the late 1970s. This would have coincided with other editorial changes to cartoons to reduce violent content, a policy which began at CBS sometime around 1977.
Also worth noting was the inexplicable changing of title cards of certain cartoons which had been running on The Bugs
Bunny/Road Runner Hour since 1968, not to alter the spellings of the titles, but to change the poses of the characters.
In the 1968-9 season of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, "Tweet and Sour" and "Hyde and Go Tweet" were titled with
a behind-a-tree Sylvester eyeing a fleeing Tweety. However, when these two 
cartoons were
seen in the 1978-9 season of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show, they were titled on a red background, with Sylvester
posing to the left of the title and looking amicably ahead to the camera (in the same way as in the title cards for several
of his cartoons without Tweety), while Tweety was situated on the lower-right part of the screen, facing the camera but
glancing warily at Sylvester.
Music accompanying cartoon title cards had altered from the days of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, with the phrase first used on The Road Runner Show and then on the initial season of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour for select Tweetys, Road Runners, and cartoons titled with the group pose of Fudd, Sam, Speedy, Pepe, and Foghorn, dropped and replaced with an extension of the standard Bugs Bunny cartoon title music from The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour, which was, from 1975 to 1984, used for all but an occasional Bugs Bunny cartoon short which retained its initial Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour title tune.
In the 1979-80 season, no memorable changes occurred in the television show's 90-minute format, and cartoons transmitted were the same as those from the previous year. But in 1980-1, CBS added to its offering a number of new-to-Bugs-Bunny/Road-Runner-Show cartoons, including "Ant Pasted" and "Good Noose".
1981-2 was the season in which CBS acquired the rights of broadcast to the late-1960s' Daffy Duck/Speedy Gonzales cartoons. NBC had previously transmitted these cartoons in its Saturday-morning Daffy Duck Show (1978-81), and the only Daffy-and-Speedy cartoon that CBS had run during that period had been "Snow Excuse". For the 1981-2 season, however, CBS had obtained virtually every Daffy Duck/Speedy Gonzales cartoon! With the increase in the number of cartoons in its possession, CBS expanded its coverage of Warner Brothers cartoons to 2 hours, and its 90-minute Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show was now accompanied by the half-hour Sylvester & Tweety, Daffy & Speedy Show.
The Tweety-and-Sylvester series of cartoons (with "The Last Hungry Cat" added, after the telecast rights to it had passed
to CBS from NBC along with those of all the Daffy-and-Speedies) moved from The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show to join
Daffy and Speedy in a 26-installment series consisting of four cartoons per show, two with Sylvester and Tweety, and two
with Daffy and Speedy. Meanwhile, additional cartoons appeared on The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show for the first
time. "Curtain Razor" was retitled "Show Stopper" and added to the selection. "Hyde and Hare" and an edited "Which is
Witch?" also appeared. So too did cartoon shorts initially produced for 1979-81 prime-time television specials, including
"Soup or Sonic", "Freeze Frame", "Daffy Flies North", and "Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24 1/2th Century". Two hours
constituted the maximum airtime ever allotted for Saturday morning network broadcast of Warner Brothers' cartoons, and this
continued for the 1982-3 season.
In the 1982-3 season, The Sylvester & Tweety, Daffy & Speedy Show was canceled, and all of the Tweety-and-Sylvester and Daffy/Speedy cartoons were incorporated into The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show, which was expanded to two hours and split into two hour-long segments! The first hour was shown from 10:30 to 11:30 Atlantic Time, and the second hour aired from noon to 1 P.M. Atlantic Time.
In September, 1983, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show was cut back to a 90-minute length, and there was no companion
television series of the likes of The Sylvester and Tweety Show or The Sylvester & Tweety, Daffy & Speedy Show.
With reduction of airtime from two hours to 90 minutes, less cartoons could be run over a 26-week season. Thus, a number of
cartoon shorts from the previous Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show season were redistributed by Warner Brothers to other
markets (i.e. syndication to individual television stations). If this was not a demonstration of the CBS television
network's decreasing interest in broadcasting Warner Brothers' animated cartoons, perhaps the fact now to be stated was.
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show, for many years a central part of CBS' Saturday morning line-up, was bumped by
CBS' current crop of cartoon television series off of the morning schedule and moved to 12:30 P.M. Atlantic Time. Such
left the television show vulnerable to preemption by network affiliate stations that often preferred to run their own
programming, including college sports, at 12:30 or at 1 o'clock.
Diminishing interest on CBS' part in airing the Warner Brothers cartoons was ostensibly a result of the many years, dating back to 1968 and consecutive since 1975, of Bugs Bunny/Road Runner broadcast on that television network, and of the package of cartoons to be shown changing only somewhat peripherally from television season to television season- and of a belief, correct or no, that audiences were tiring of the Warner Brothers cartoons due to overexposure on television in a way of presentation possibly having become "old hat". And indeed, with the 1983-4 season of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show, there did come a modification in format. Vaudevillian staging and dress motifs inherited from the original Bugs Bunny Show and from Season 1 of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour were jettisoned; stage scenes hailing from the 1960-2 Bugs Bunny Show and longtime key ingredients to Bugs Bunny/Road Runner custom, were dropped from use after September, 1983; and Bugs and Daffy's "This is It" song and the attendant character procession were now on a stage with neon lights and purple, grey-purple, sky blue, and light green colors, and all characters dressed in black attire. The revised version here described of "This is It" has been reported to have been created for prime-time television broadcasts of Bugs Bunny Shows on CBS in summer of 1977. And it would later be incorporated into the opening of The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show (1986-2000), specifically in that television show's third to sixth seasons inclusive. In the 1983-4 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show opening, Bugs, still garbed in black attire after "This is It", announced the Road Runner, with a camera panning to a rectangular televisual monitor bordered by neon and more purples and grey-purples, a televisual monitor on which quick cuts from Road Runner cartoons could be seen to the familiar accompaniment of Barbara Cameron's Road Runner song. However, several of the cuts from Road Runner cartoons were different from what had been known to be in the rapid montage of Road Runner cartoon extracts in previous Bugs Bunny/Road Runner seasons and in The Road Runner Show. Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Part 2 and Part 3 introductions of pre-1983 style were dropped, and the end credits to each installment were printed in the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner-traditional Dom Casual font against a turquoise background with a scattered array of musical symbols. However, the title cards to a large number of the cartoon shorts were still in 1968 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner style showing characters in their Bugs Bunny Show and Season 1 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour garments.
"It's cartoon gold, for young and old.
It's the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show.
The Bugs is hot. The Coyote's not.
And Road Runner's go, go, go!
And they go beep-beep-beep-beep-oom-bapa-mao-mao-bubba-bubba-bub-a-Bugs!
There's Porky Pig. 'Th-Th-Th-The name's P-Porky Pig.'
And Daffy Duck. 'You're dispicable!'
There's Tweety Bird. 'I tawt I taw a putty tat.'
Bugs Bunny's luck. 'Eh, what's up, Doc?'
And Elmer Fudd. 'Be vewy, vewy quiet.'
Sylvester the Cat. 'Sufferin' succotash!'
Speedy Gonzales. 'Ariba, ariba, ariba!'
That Sam in the hat. 'It's Sam, you varmint.'
And they go beep-beep-beep-beep-oom-bapa-mao-mao-bubba-bubba-bub-a-Bugs!
The famous cartoon show's the only way to go.
It's the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show!"
-1984-5 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show opening
In 1984, with a Golden Jubilee celebration of the Warner Brothers' cartoons soon to come and with the emergence of
sophisticated computer graphic movement techniques, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show underwent a major overhaul,
changing much more profoundly than it did in 1983. For what would be their final season (1984-5) on CBS, Warner Brothers'
cartoons were presented with an entirely new, different introduction and a renovated, upgraded titling style on the
90-minute Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show, whose airtime moved ahead to a slightly more agreeable 11:30 A.M. (Atlantic).
In 1984, John Klawitter left the employ of Walt Disney Productions, whereat he had been working as producer of
short promotional advertisement montages, on film or videotape, for movies, television programs, television specials,
and whatever else of which the Walt Disney executives desired the public to be keenly aware. Klawitter, whose
previous work had been in television commercials for products of the Kellogg's and Nestle companies, had pulled together
teams to write and produce those Walt Disney Productions advertisement montages (for which he became known as "the
trailer guy") and himself had been lyricist of several jingles and theme songs for movie and television programs of
Walt Disney Productions. Almost immediately after his departure from the establishment that had spawned Mickey Mouse,
Klawitter and his own production company (Happyfeets) were hired by Warner Brothers' cartoon animation division to
create a newfangled opening to The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show for 1984-5. Klawitter's Warner Brothers contact was
Steven S. Greene, later one of the credited producers of The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Comedy Hour and The Bugs
Bunny & Tweety Show. Salty Dog Studios in Van Nuys, California was to be the location where "It's Cartoon Gold",
the opening song to The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show's 1984-5 season, was born, Klawitter penning the lyrics
and Steve Zuckerman composing the music. Greene was rather less than enamored with "It's Cartoon Gold"; he thought
it rather too "bubble-gum", of appeal mostly to pre-teenagers, not to the "older crowd" whom pre-teenagers admire
and wish to be like. And thus, Greene hired another production team to work rivalling Klawitter's, its remit being
to devise something "more hard-edge". Countless test audiences of juveniles and teenagers, to whom the two
prospective new opening songs were presented, resoundingly favored "It's Cartoon Gold". No contest. A happy
victory for Happyfeets.
Klawitter remembers having considerable problems in producing the visuals for the opening to the 1984-5 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show. The freelance cartoon animator whom Warner Brothers hired to work with Klawitter, did quite fancy tinkering with the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies concentric circles that were a trademark of the cartoons of Bugs Bunny, etc., and Greene was quite displeased in those cases about the results, meaning that it was back to the proverbial and the literal drawing board.
Work eventually came to fruition, though, and the catchy output of this superlative collaboration was seen and heard Saturday mornings to the delight of people of all ages for twelve months, in long form at start of every episode and in a substantially shortened rendition at start of Parts 2 and 3. And with the closing credits to every installment was an instrumentals-only variation of "It's Cartoon Gold", alas seldom heard without the CBS announcer's voice drowning it out for most of its play.
The titles for the cartoon shorts in the 1984-5 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show installments became rather "busy" in their new fashion. Words would enter the screen from various directions, as did character poses, leaving a blurry trail before settling into a position comparable to that on the former, entirely stationary title cards. Not all cartoons were modified in this way. Cartoons such as "Ain't She Tweet", "The Wild Chase", "False Hare", and several with Daffy and Speedy, retained their pre-1984 title cards, and it was not until it was shown on ABC's Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show in January, 1988 that "Ain't She Tweet" attained mobile-graphic titling.
The title card for "Home Tweet Home", with Bugs and the Road Runner posed therein, was modified to this new, moving-graphic
format, without a change to poses of Sylvester and Tweety. Conversely, the new titling for "A Mouse Divided" showed
Sylvester and Tweety- despite the fact that Tweety never appears in the cartoon. Further, the post-September, 1984, CBS
film print of "Canned Feud"- a Sylvester cartoon short- had Bugs standing aside the title. "Beanstalk Bunny"'s title card
had, since 1968, always had a solo pose of Daffy, and this remained true for the titling of "Beanstalk Bunny"
post-September, 1984.
The cartoons in the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner installment transmitted on February 2 and August 3, 1985 were "The Hasty Hare", "Daffy's Inn Trouble", "Muzzle Tough", "Gee Whiz-z-z-z!", "Prince Varmint", "A-Haunting We Will Go", "Tweet and Sour", "Shot and Bothered", "False Hare", "Fast Buck Duck", "Hyde and Go Tweet", and "Zoom at the Top".
The December 14, 1984 and June 15, 1985 Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show contained "Spaced-Out Bunny", "Fiesta Fiasco", "Freudy Cat",
"Gee Whiz-z-z-z!", "Transylvania 6-5000", "Tweet and Lovely", "Muchos Locos", and "Going! Going! Gosh!", among other cartoon shorts. On
December 21, 1984 and June 22, 1985, the cartoons shown on The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show included
"The Windblown Hare", "A Message to Gracias", "Woolen Under Where", "The Solid Tin Coyote", "Mad as a Mars Hare", "Double or Mutton",
"Cannery Woe", and "Whoa Be-Gone!". Some of the cartoons in the January 5 and July 6, 1985 episode were "Lighter Than Hare", "Mexican
Mouse-Piece", "Touche and Go", "Rushing Roulette", "The Iceman Ducketh", "Weasel While You Work", "Putty Tat Trouble", and "Chaser On the
Rocks".
"Frigid Hare" was one of the cartoons featured in the February 23 and August 24 installment. An unscheduled news broadcast interrupted "Gift Wrapped" on August 10, 1985. The final Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show that aired on September 7, 1985 had "Apes of Wrath", "Satan's Waitin'", "Aqua Duck", "To Beep or Not to Beep", "Beanstalk Bunny", "A Street Cat Named Sylvester", "Rodent to Stardom", "The Wild Chase", and others.
In a 1984-5 mid-season episode, "Bully For Bugs" was the first cartoon of Part Two, and it was immediately followed by "A Bird in a Guilty Cage". Both of these cartoons had been part of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour's first season in 1968-9 as first and second cartoons of Part Two in their respective episodes. The bulk of the Bugs Bunny and the Tweety and Sylvester series of cartoon shorts, including the two cartoons referenced in this paragraph, had their Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show titles rendered in 1984-5 in the then new cartoon titling format. Only the Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales cartoons were the ones most consistently still sporting their previous standard title cards. Lack of work on revamping the Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales cartoon titles was perhaps a portent of what was to become of those cartoons, i.e. that they were not long for the Saturday morning network television world.
Cartoons Shown On The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show (1984-5)
"Beanstalk Bunny" with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd
"Duck! Rabbit! Duck!" with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd
"The Rabbit of Seville" with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd
"Long-Haired Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Giovanni Jones
"A-Lad-in His Lamp" with Bugs Bunny and Smoky the Genie
"Bunker Hill Bunny" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam
"High Diving Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam
"Rabbit Every Monday" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam
"From Hare to Heir" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam
"Compressed Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Wile E. Coyote
"Hare-Less Wolf" with Bugs Bunny and Charles M. Wolf
"Piker's Peak" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam
"The Fair-Haired Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam
"Hare-Way to the Stars" with Bugs Bunny and Marvin Martian
"Prince Varmint" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam
"Knighty Knight Bugs" with Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, and the Dragon
"Roman Legion-Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam
"Rabbit's Feat" with Bugs Bunny and Wile E. Coyote
"Mississippi Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Colonel Shuffle
"The Million-Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck
"Devil May Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Tasmanian Devil
"Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Tasmanian Devil
"Shiskabugs" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam
"To Hare is Human" with Bugs Bunny and Wile E. Coyote
"Lighter Than Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam
"What's Opera, Doc?" with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd
"My Bunny Lies Over the Sea" with Bugs Bunny and Angus McCrory
"The Windblown Hare" with Bugs Bunny and the Big Bad Wolf
"Bewitched Bunny" with Bugs Bunny and Witch Hazel
"This is a Life?" with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, and Granny
"Rabbit Romeo" with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd
"Wideo Wabbit" with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd
"Pre-Hysterical Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd
"Hare We Go" with Bugs Bunny and Chris Columbus
"Robot Rabbit" with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd
"Knights Must Fall" with Bugs Bunny and Sir Pantsalot of Dropseat Manor
"What's Up, Doc?" with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd
"A Witch's Tangled Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Witch Hazel
"Mutiny On the Bunny" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam
"Frigid Hare" with Bugs Bunny and the Penguin
"Bedevilled Rabbit" with Bugs Bunny and Tasmanian Devil
"Hare Trimmed" with Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, and Granny
"Hot Cross Bunny" with Bugs Bunny and the Bespectacled Doctor
"Bugs Bonnets" with Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd
"A Star is Bored" with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, and Yosemite Sam
"Dumb Patrol" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam
"Big House Bunny" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam
"14 Carrot Rabbit" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam
"Bully For Bugs" with Bugs Bunny and the Bull
"The Abominable Snow Rabbit" with Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and the Abominable Snowman
"The Iceman Ducketh" with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck
"Transylvania 6-5000" with Bugs Bunny and Count Bloodcount
"Barbary Coast Bunny" with Bugs Bunny and Nasty Canasta
"Now Hare This" with Bugs Bunny and the Big Bad Wolf
"Devil's Feud Cake" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam
"Sahara Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam
"Wild and Woolly Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam
"Half Fare Hare" with Bugs Bunny, Ralph Kramden, and Ed Norton
"False Hare" with Bugs Bunny and the Big Bad Wolf
"Hare-Abian Nights" with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam
"Bonanza Bunny" with Bugs Bunny and Blacque Jacque Shellacque
"Wet Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Blacque Jacque Shellacque
"Bill of Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Tasmanian Devil
"Mad as a Mars Hare" with Bugs Bunny and Marvin Martian
"The Hasty Hare" with Bugs Bunny, Marvin Martian, and K-9
"Spaced-Out Bunny" with Bugs Bunny, Marvin Martian, and the Abominable Snowman
"Hillbilly Hare" with Bugs Bunny and the Martin Brothers
"Apes of Wrath" with Bugs Bunny and the Drunken Stork
"Stop, Look, and Hasten" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Ready, Set, Zoom!" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Hopalong Casualty" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Going! Going! Gosh!" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Scrambled Aches" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Rushing Roulette" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"The Solid Tin Coyote" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"There They Go-Go-Go!" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Just Plane Beep" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Fast and Furry-ous" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Gee Whiz-z-z-z!" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Tired and Feathered" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Beep Prepared" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Whoa Be-Gone!" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Road Runner A-Go-Go" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Lickety-Splat!" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Zoom at the Top" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Freeze Frame" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Out and Out Rout" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Highway Runnery" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Sugar and Spies" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Clippety Clobbered" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Chaser On the Rocks" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Hairied and Hurried" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Zip N' Snort" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Zip Zip Hooray" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Boulder Wham!" with Road
Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Shot and Bothered" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"War and Pieces" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"To Beep or Not to Beep" with Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
"The Wild Chase" with Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Sylvester, and Speedy Gonzales
"Nuts and Volts" with Sylvester and Speedy Gonzales
"Cannery Woe" with Speedy Gonzales and Sylvester
"A Message to Gracias" with Speedy Gonzales and Sylvester
"Gonzales' Tamales" with Speedy Gonzales and Sylvester
"Cats and Bruises" with Sylvester and Speedy Gonzales
"The Pied Piper of Guadalupe" with Speedy Gonzales and Sylvester
"Claws in the Lease" with Sylvester and Sylvester Jr.
"Pop 'im Pop!" with Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., and Hippety Hopper
"Who's Kitten Who?" with Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., and Hippety Hopper
"Lighthouse Mouse" with Sylvester and Hippety Hopper
"A Mouse Divided" with Sylvester and the Drunken Stork
"Hippety Hopper" with Sylvester and Hippety Hopper
"Freudy Cat" with Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., and Hippety Hopper
"Fish and Slips" with Sylvester and Sylvester Jr.
"Dr. Jerkyl's Hide" with Sylvester, Spike, and Chester
"Birds of a Father" with Sylvester and Sylvester Jr.
"Hoppy Go Lucky" with Sylvester, Benny Cat, and Hippety Hopper
"Cats A-Weigh" with Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., and Hippety Hopper
"Tree For Two" with Sylvester, Spike, and Chester
"Mouse-Taken Identity" with Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., and Hippety Hopper
"Canned Feud" with Sylvester
"Kit For Cat" with Sylvester and Elmer Fudd
"Claws For Alarm" with Porky Pig and Sylvester
"D' Fightin' Ones" with Sylvester and Bulldog
"Hoppy Daze" with Sylvester and Hippety Hopper
"The Slap-Hoppy Mouse" with Sylvester, Sylvester Jr., and Hippety Hopper
"Tweet Zoo" with Tweety and Sylvester
"Trick or Tweet" with Tweety and Sylvester
"Putty Tat Trouble" with Tweety and Sylvester
"Hawaiian Aye Aye" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny
"Sandy Claws" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny
"A Pizza Tweety Pie" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny
"The Last Hungry Cat" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny
"Birds Anonymous" with Tweety and Sylvester
"Tweety's S.O.S." with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny
"Tugboat Granny" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny
"Canary Row" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny
"Fowl Weather" with Tweety, Sylvester, Granny, and Hector Bulldog
"Tweety and the Beanstalk" with Tweety and Sylvester
"Tweet, Tweet, Tweety" with Tweety and Sylvester
"Red Riding Hoodwinked" with Tweety, Sylvester, Granny, and the Big Bad Wolf
"Dog Pounded" with Tweety and Sylvester
"The Rebel Without Claws" with Tweety and Sylvester
"The Jet Cage" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny
"Home Tweet Home" with Tweety and Sylvester
"All Abir-r-rd" with Tweety and Sylvester
"Ain't She Tweet" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny
"A Bird in a Bonnet" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny
"A Bird in a Guilty Cage" with Tweety and Sylvester
"Tweet and Sour" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny
"Hyde and Go Tweet" with Tweety and Sylvester
"Tweety's Circus" with Tweety and Sylvester
"Gift Wrapped" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny
"Catty Cornered" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Rocky
"Snow Business" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny
"Tree Cornered Tweety" with Tweety and Sylvester
"Satan's Waitin'" with Tweety and Sylvester
"Trip For Tat" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny
"Tweet and Lovely" with Tweety and Sylvester
"Tweet Dreams" with Tweety and Sylvester
"Muzzle Tough" with Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny
"A Street Cat Named Sylvester" with Tweety, Sylvester, Granny, and Hector Bulldog
"Good Noose" with Daffy Duck
"Aqua Duck" with Daffy Duck
"You Were Never Duckier" with Daffy Duck and Henery Hawk
"Quackodile Tears" with Daffy Duck
"Duck Amuck" with Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny
"Daffy Dilly" with Daffy Duck
"Fast Buck Duck" with Daffy Duck and Bulldog
"Stupor Duck" with Daffy Duck
"Suppressed Duck" with Daffy Duck
"Tease For Two" with Daffy Duck and the Goofy Gophers
"Daffy's Inn Trouble" with Daffy Duck and Porky Pig
"Corn On the Cop" with Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and Granny
"Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24 1/2th Century" with Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Gossamer, and Marvin Martian
"Daffy Flies North" with Daffy Duck and the Laughing Horse
"Robin Hood Daffy" with Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
"A Taste of Catnip" with Daffy Duck, Speedy Gonzales, and Sylvester
"It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House" with Daffy Duck, Sylvester, Speedy Gonzales, and Granny
"Music Mice-Tro" with Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales
"Swing Ding Amigo" with Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales
"Daffy's Diner" with Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales
"Chili Corn Corny" with Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales
"Skyscraper Caper" with Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales
"Quacker Tracker" with Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales
"Assault and Peppered" with Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales
"Snow Excuse" with Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales
"The Spy Swatter" with Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales
"Speedy Ghost to Town" with Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales
"Rodent to Stardom" with Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales
"Fiesta Fiasco" with Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales
"Moby Duck" with Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales
"See Ya Later, Gladiator" with Daffy Duck
and Speedy Gonzales
"Feather Finger" with Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales
"Daffy Rents" with Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales
"Mexican Mouse-Piece" with Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales
"The Astroduck" with Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales
"Go Go Amigo" with Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales
"A-Haunting We Will Go" with Daffy Duck, Speedy Gonzales, and Witch Hazel
"Muchos Locos" with Daffy Duck, Speedy Gonzales, and Porky Pig
"Go Away Stowaway" with Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales
"Weasel While You Work" with Foghorn Leghorn and the Weasel
"Hen House Henery" with Foghorn Leghorn and Henery Hawk
"Little Boy Boo" with Foghorn Leghorn, Miss Prissy, and Egghead Jr.
"The Slick Chick" with Foghorn Leghorn
"The Leghorn Blows at Midnight" with Foghorn Leghorn and Henery Hawk
"The Foghorn Leghorn" with Foghorn Leghorn and Henery Hawk
"Lovelorn Leghorn" with Foghorn Leghorn and Miss Prissy
"Mother Was a Rooster" with Foghorn Leghorn
"Strangled Eggs" with Foghorn Leghorn, Henery Hawk, and Miss Prissy
"A Fractured Leghorn" with Foghorn Leghorn
"The Cat's Bah" with Pepe Le Pew
"For Scent-imental Reasons" with Pepe Le Pew
"Touche and Go" with Pepe Le Pew
"A Scent of the Matterhorn" with Pepe Le Pew
"Wild Over You" with Pepe Le Pew
"Little Beau Pepe" with Pepe Le Pew
"Heaven Scent" with Pepe Le Pew
"Scent-imental Romeo" with Pepe Le Pew
"Ant Pasted" with Elmer Fudd
"What's My Lion?" with Elmer Fudd and Rocky the Mountain Lion
"A Mutt in a Rut" with Elmer Fudd and Rover the Dog
"A Sheep in the Deep" with Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog
"Double or Mutton" with Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog
"Woolen Under Where" with Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog
"Don't Give Up the Sheep" with Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog
"Terrier Stricken" with Claude Cat and Frisky Puppy
"Two's a Crowd" with Claude Cat and Frisky Puppy
"One Froggy Evening" with Michigan J. Frog
"Mouse Wreckers" with Claude Cat, Hubie, and Bertie
"To Itch His Own" with Angelo the Mighty Flea and Bulldog
"I Gopher You" with the Goofy Gophers
"Cheese It- the Cat!" with the Honey-Mousers
"Cheese Chasers" with Claude Cat, Hubie, and Bertie
"Dog Gone South" with Charlie Dog and Colonel Shuffle
And such was the hefty amount of Warner Brothers cartoons available to CBS in the months leading to the finale for Bugs and his fellows, friends, and foes on the CBS television network on A.M. Saturdays.
"'Dis has been a Warner Brothers-Seven Arts--"
"Beep, beep!"
"Heh-heh-heh. Like the boid says, 'dis has been a Warner Brothers-Seven Arts television presentation."
-First season closing "remarks" by Bugs and the Road Runner
Despite positive viewer response to the changes for Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show for 1984-5, CBS opted in 1985 to waive the
broadcast rights to the Warner Brothers cartoons. Thus, on September 7, 1985, Bugs and the Road Runner appeared for the last time
in compilations of their cartoon shorts on Saturday morning on CBS. Members of the generations who watched Bugs Bunny/Road Runner
telecasts on CBS in the United States and/or on CBC or Global in Canada would look fondly upon the bygone days when Bugs and the Road
Runner shared billing in the title of a Saturday morning, afternoon, or evening television attraction. Sadly, all that exists on
commercial videocassette, laser videodisc, or digital videodisc (DVD) that is unique, arguably, to The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
is the opening to episodes of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour's 1977-8 season, or rather the audio to that opening mated with
visuals for the opening to 90-minute installments within the 1978-9 season. The announcer's identification of The Bugs Bunny/Road
Runner Hour is therefore not entirely congruous with the words shown overlain on spotlights before "This is It" and after the
Barbara Cameron Road Runner song. He says, "...Hour," while the word on the lowermost spotlight reads "Show". This bizarre creation
may be found as a bonus item within the second volume, released by Warner Home Entertainment in 2004, in the LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN
COLLECTION DVD range.
IN MEMORIAM
Cartoon directors Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, and Robert McKimson
Voice characterization performers Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan, Daws Butler, Hal Smith, and Bea Benaderet
Musicians Carl W. Stalling, Milt Franklyn, John Seely, Bill Lava, and Walter Greene
Title song writers Jerry Livingston and Mack David
Producer William L. Hendricks
Cartoon Clips On The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show
Full CBC Broadcast History (1969-75)
Stage Scene Transcripts
Exclusive Interview With John Klawitter
"It's Cartoon Gold" Music Studio Recording Session
Spotlight Article: Nuance and Suggestion in the Tweety
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