List of Looney Tunes television specials

This is a list of television specials based on the Looney Tunes series of theatrical animated shorts

Completely original plots – 7 titles

Title	Year	LTGC availability (all as special features)	Notes
Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies	1972		Produced by Filmation, with the Looney Tunes characters on loan from Warner Bros. (otherwise a silent partner)
Carnival of the Animals	1976	Volume 5, Disc 4	Animation/live-action mix
A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court	1978	Volume 6, Disc 1
Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales	1979	Volume 5, Disc 4	Three TV shorts later edited out of it.
Daffy Duck's Easter Special	1980	Volume 6, Disc 1	Three TV shorts later edited out of it.
Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over	1980	Volume 5, Disc 4	Three TV shorts later edited out of it. Also available on The Essential Bugs Bunny (10/12/2010)
Ounce of Prevention, An	1982		Awareness video about burn prevention in the home

Anniversary specials – 2 titles

Title	Year	Notes
Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary Special	1986	Featuring interviews with celebrities
Happy Birthday Bugs!: 50th Looney Years	1990

Has reused cartoon clips – 14 titles

Title	Year	Classic clips from	Notes
Bugs Bunny's Easter Special	1977	* Knighty Knight Bugs * Hillbilly Hare * Bully for Bugs * Tweety's Circus * Birds Anonymous * For Scent-imental Reasons * Rabbit of Seville * Little Boy Boo * Robin Hood Daffy * Sahara Hare	Released on DVD.
Bugs Bunny in Space	1977	* Hare-Way to the Stars * The Hasty Hare * Mad as a Mars Hare With clips from: * Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century * His Hare-Raising Tale	The only special that doesn't contain new animation
Bugs Bunny's Howl-Oween Special	1978	* A-Haunting We Will Go With clips from: * Broom-Stick Bunny * Hyde and Hare * Hyde and Go Tweet * A Witch's Tangled Hare * Transylvania 6-5000 * Scaredy Cat * Claws for Alarm * Bewitched Bunny	Released on DVD
How Bugs Bunny Won the West	1978	Clips from: * Bonanza Bunny * Wild and Woolly Hare * Drip-Along Daffy * Barbary Coast Bunny * 14 Carrot Rabbit * Aqua Duck	Hosted in live action by actor Denver Pyle Included in The Essential Bugs Bunny DVD, released October 12, 2010 in the U.S.
Bugs Bunny's Valentine	1979	Clips from: * Hare Trimmed *The Grey Hounded Hare * Hare Splitter * Little Beau Pepe * The Super Snooper * Rabbit Romeo * Wild Over You * Of Rice and Hen * Devil May Hare	Released on DVD as Bugs Bunny's Cupid Capers.
The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special	1979	* Stork Naked * Apes of Wrath * Bushy Hare * Goo Goo Goliath * Mother Was a Rooster * Quackodile Tears
Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet	1979	* Rabbit Every Monday * Stop! Look! And Hasten! * Guided Muscle * Beep, Beep! * Tweet Dreams * Trip For Tat * Birds Anonymous * Canned Feud * Bedevilled Rabbit
Bugs Bunny Mystery Special, The	1980	* Big House Bunny * Bugs and Thugs * Hare Lift * Operation: Rabbit * Catty Cornered
Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special	1980	* His Bitter Half * Robin Hood Daffy * Drip-Along Daffy	Contains one all new Duck Dodgers short. Released On The Dvd Set The Essential Daffy Duck In November 2011.
Bugs Bunny: All American Hero	1981	* Yankee Doodle Bugs * Bunker Hill Bunny * Dumb Patrol * The Rebel Without Claws * Ballot Box Bunny * Southern Fried Rabbit
Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television	1982	* This Is a Life? With clips from: * The Ducksters * Wideo Wabbit * What's Up, Doc? * Past Perfumance * Tree Cornered Tweety
Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle of the Music Video Stars	1988	* Porky's Poppa * Porky's Poor Fish * Shake Your Powder Puff * Scrap Happy Daffy * Have You Got Any Castles? * Boobs in the Woods * The Fifth-Column Mouse * The Wearing of the Grin * Tweet Tweet Tweety * Tweety's Circus * A Scent of the Matterhorn * Hot Cross Bunny * Daffy Duck Hunt * Robot Rabbit * Yankee Doodle Daffy * Naughty Neighbors * Bosko's Picture Show * Polar Pals * The Fair-Haired Hare	One of the first specials produced by Warner Bros. where new animation was both traditionally and digitally inked and painted. Released on DVD with the Space Jam 2-disc DVD set.
Bugs Bunny's Wild World of Sports	1989	Clips from: * The Leghorn Blows at Midnight * Sport Chumpions * To Duck or Not to Duck * Bunny Hugged * High Diving Hare * My Bunny Lies Over the Sea * Frigid Hare * Lovelorn Leghorn * Bad Ol' Putty Tat * Little Boy Boo * ...and others	Included in The Essential Bugs Bunny DVD, released on October 12, 2010 in the U.S.
Bugs Bunny's Overtures to Disaster	1991	* What's Opera, Doc? * Rabbit of Seville * Baton Bunny * Daffy & Porky in the William Tell Overture * Back Alley Oproar***	***At time of release Warner Bros hadn't regained the rights to their pre-1948 cartoons yet, so Ford and his crew reanimated this short for its inclusion in this special.
Bugs Bunny's Creature Features	1992	* Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers * The Duxorcist * 'Night of the Living Duck
Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes	1992	* Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century * The Hasty Hare * Hare-Way to the Stars * His Hare-Raising Tale * Rocket-bye Baby * Martian Through Georgia * No Parking Hare * Boyhood Daze * Lighter Than Hare * There Auto Be a Law * Lumber Jerks * A Kiddy's Kitty * The Hole Idea	Released straight to VHS

VHS retitling

Several of these TV specials were given a new name when released on video.

TV title	VHS title
Carnival of the Animals	Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals
Bugs Bunny's Easter Special	Bugs Bunny's Easter Funnies
Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court, A	Bugs Bunny in King Arthur's Court
Bugs Bunny's Howl-Oween Special Bugs Bunny's Creature Features	Bugs Bunny's Halloween Hijinks
Bugs Bunny's Valentine	Bugs Bunny's Cupid Capers
Daffy Duck's Easter Special	Daffy Duck's Easter EGG-citment
Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special	Daffy Duck in Hollywood (renamed for TV rebroadcast)
Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary Special	Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Jubilee, The (renamed for TV rebroadcast)

Further reading

• Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons, by Jerry Beck and Will Friedwald (1989), Henry Holt, ISBN 0-8050-0894-2
• Chuck Amuck : The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist by Chuck Jones, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0-374-12348-9
• That's Not All, Folks! by Mel Blanc, Philip Bashe. Warner Books, ISBN 0-446-39089-5 (Softcover) ISBN 0-446-51244-3 (Hardcover)
• Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons, Leonard Maltin, Revised Edition 1987, Plume ISBN 0-452-25993-2 (Softcover) ISBN 0-613-64753-X (Hardcover)

See also

• Looney Tunes
• Merrie Melodies
• Looney Tunes Golden Collection

External links

• The Big Cartoon DataBase entry for Merrie Melodies Cartoons and for Looney Tunes Cartoons
• Golden Age Cartoons' The Ultimate Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Website by Jon Cooke
• "Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion", a wealth of trivia about the Warner cartoons
• Official site