The Road Runner Show
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The Road Runner Show | |
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Genre | Comedy |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
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Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company | Warner Bros. Television |
Original release | |
Network | CBS (1966-1968) ABC (1971-1973) |
Release | September 10, 1966 September 2, 1972 | –
The Road Runner Show is a 1966-1972 animated anthology series which compiled theatrical Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner cartoons from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, which were produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons between 1949 and 1964. Several of the shorts, especially the ones produced from 1965 onward, were produced by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises after Warner Bros. closed their animation studio. DePatie–Freleng Enterprises provided the animation for the show's intro and closing credits.
Background
The Road Runner Show ran for two seasons on CBS (1966–68),[1][2] and then on ABC for two seasons (1971–73). Each show would feature one Road Runner/Coyote cartoon, with a Tweety and Sylvester cartoon in the middle segment, and other WB animated character(s) in the third segment (usually Elmer Fudd, Foghorn Leghorn, Speedy Gonzales, Pepe Le Pew and Hippety Hopper).
In 1968, CBS combined The Road Runner Show with The Bugs Bunny Show to produce The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour. The Road Runner and the Coyote more often shared at least an hour with Bugs Bunny on CBS during the late-1960s through the mid-1980s.
Theme song
The theme song was written and performed by Barbara Cameron. In 1999, it was covered by the Mexican band Chicos de Barrio and was later parodied in Histeria! featuring Father Time and Big Fat Baby. It has also been covered by Barenaked Ladies, and Barbara Cameron re-recorded the theme with her son, Jazz violinist Doug Cameron (with Paul Julian's iconic Beep-Beep and other sound effects from the shorts used on the recording) for his Different Hats album in 2008. An instrumental version was used as the theme song for the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote segments of The Looney Tunes Show.
See also
References
- ^ Shapiro, Mitchell E. (1992). Television Network Weekend Programming, 1959-1990. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-89950-682-1. Retrieved January 15, 2020.
- ^ McNeil, Alex (1991). Total Television: A Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948 to the Present. Penguin Books. p. 639. ISBN 978-0-14-015736-9. Retrieved January 15, 2020.
External links
- The Road Runner Show Page, by Kevin McCorry; retrieved 25 November 2018
- 1960s American animated television series
- 1966 American television series debuts
- 1973 American television series endings
- 1970s American animated television series
- American Broadcasting Company original programming
- CBS original programming
- Television series by Warner Bros. Television
- Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner
- American children's animated comedy television series
- Looney Tunes television series
- American animated television programs featuring anthropomorphic characters
- Looney Tunes stubs