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This is a list of television specials based on the Looney Tunes series of theatrical animated shorts. Note all specials were originally aired in prime-time unless otherwise noted.
Original specials
Title
Year
LTGC availability (all as special features)
Notes
Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie Goolies
December 16, 1972
Produced by Filmation , with the Looney Tunes characters on loan from Warner Bros. (otherwise a silent partner)
Carnival of the Animals
November 22, 1976
Volume 5, Disc 4
Animation/live-action mix production Chuck Jones Enterprises
A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court (retitled Bugs Bunny in King Arthur`s Court for subsequent rebroadcasts)
February 23, 1978
Volume 6, Disc 1
production Chuck Jones Enterprises
Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales
November 27, 1979
Volume 5, Disc 4
Three TV shorts later edited out of it.
The Daffy Duck Easter Show
April 1, 1980
Volume 6, Disc 1
Three TV shorts later edited out of it.
Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over
May 21, 1980
Volume 5, Disc 4
Three TV shorts later edited out of it. Also available on The Essential Bugs Bunny (10/12/2010)
Ounce of Prevention
1982
Awareness video about burn prevention in the home
Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue
April 21, 1990
drug-abuse prevention television special
Anniversary specials
Title
Year
Notes
Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary Special
January 14, 1986
Featuring interviews with celebrities
Happy Birthday Bugs!: 50 Looney Years
August 15, 1990
Title
Year
Classic Clips From
Notes
Bugs Bunny's Easter Special
April 7, 1977
* Knighty Knight Bugs * Hillbilly Hare * Bully for Bugs * Tweety's Circus * Birds Anonymous * For Scent-imental Reasons * Rabbit of Seville * Little Boy Boo * Robin Hood Daffy * Sahara Hare
Released on DVD
Bugs Bunny in Space
September 6, 1977
* Hare-Way to the Stars * The Hasty Hare * Mad as a Mars Hare * Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century * His Hare-Raising Tale
Only special with no new animation
Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special
October 26, 1977
Featuring Witch Hazel
Other shorts
Released on DVD
How Bugs Bunny Won the West
November 15, 1978
* Barbary Coast Bunny * Bonanza Bunny * 14 Carrot Rabbit * Aqua Duck * Wild and Woolly Hare * Drip-Along Daffy
Hosted in live action by actor Denver Pyle Included in The Essential Bugs Bunny DVD, released on October 12, 2010 in the U.S. Included in Looney Tunes Parodies Collection DVD, released on February 4, 2020 in the U.S.
The end where Bugs is singing "Home on the Range" is an audio clip from the 1951 short The Fair-Haired Hare
Bugs Bunny's Valentine Special
February 14, 1979
* Hare Splitter *The Grey Hounded Hare * Little Beau Pepe * Of Rice and Hen * Devil May Hare * Hare Trimmed * The Super Snooper * Rabbit Romeo * Wild Over You
Released on DVD as Bugs Bunny's Cupid Capers
The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special
May 12, 1979
* Bushy Hare * Stork Naked * Quackodile Tears * Mother Was a Rooster * Goo Goo Goliath * Apes of Wrath
Later retitled Bugs Bunny's Baby Boomers
Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet
November 15, 1979
* Rabbit Every Monday * Stop! Look! And Hasten! * Guided Muscle * Beep, Beep! * Tweet Dreams * Birds Anonymous * Freudy Cat * Canned Feud * Trip For Tat * Bedevilled Rabbit
The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special
October 26, 1980
* Big House Bunny * Bugs and Thugs * Hare Lift * Operation: Rabbit * Catty Cornered
Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special
November 20, 1980
* His Bitter Half * Robin Hood Daffy * Drip-Along Daffy
Contains one all-new Duck Dodgers short
Bugs Bunny: All American Hero
May 21, 1981
* Yankee Doodle Bugs * Bunker Hill Bunny * Dumb Patrol * The Rebel Without Claws * Ballot Box Bunny * Southern Fried Rabbit
Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television
January 11, 1982
* What's Up, Doc? * Tree Cornered Tweety * Past Perfumance * The Ducksters * Wideo Wabbit * This Is a Life?
Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle of the Music Video Stars
October 21, 1988
* Porky's Poppa * Porky's Poor Fish * Shake Your Powder Puff * Scrap Happy Daffy * Have You Got Any Castles? * Boobs in the Woods * The Fifth-Column Mouse * The Wearing of the Grin * Tweet Tweet Tweety * Tweety's Circus * A Scent of the Matterhorn * Hot Cross Bunny * Daffy Duck Hunt * Robot Rabbit * Yankee Doodle Daffy * Naughty Neighbors * Bosko's Picture Show * Polar Pals * The Fair-Haired Hare * What Price Porky * Daffy's Southern Exposure
One of the first specials produced by Warner Bros. where new animation was both traditionally and digitally inked and painted.[ 1] Released on DVD with the Space Jam 2-disc DVD set.
Bugs Bunny's Wild World of Sports
February 15, 1989
* My Bunny Lies Over the Sea * Sport Chumpions * 14 Carrot Rabbit * High Diving Hare * Upswept Hare * Muscle Tussle * To Duck or Not to Duck * Frigid Hare * Bad Ol' Putty Tat * Rabbit Fire * Bunny Hugged * Gone Batty * Lovelorn Leghorn * The Leghorn Blows at Midnight * Little Boy Boo
Included in The Essential Bugs Bunny DVD, released on October 12, 2010 in the U.S.
Bugs Bunny's Overtures to Disaster
April 17, 1991
* What's Opera, Doc? * Rabbit of Seville * Baton Bunny * Daffy & Porky in the William Tell Overture * Back Alley Oproar ***
***At the time of release Warner Bros had not regained the rights to their pre-1948 cartoons yet, so Ford and his crew reanimated this short for its inclusion in this special.
Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes
1991
* Haredevil Hare * Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century * No Parking Hare * Lighter Than Hare * Boyhood Daze * There Auto Be A Law * The Hole Idea * Lumber Jerks * Rocket-bye Baby * Martian Through Georgia * A Kiddies Kitty * The Hasty Hare * Hare-Way to the Stars
Released straight to VHS
Bugs Bunny's Creature Features
February 1, 1992
* Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers * The Duxorcist * Night of the Living Duck
VHS 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
A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court
Bugs Bunny in King Arthur's Court
Bugs Bunny's Howl-Oween Special Bugs Bunny's Creature Features
Bugs Bunny's Halloween Hijinks (two previous specials shown back-to-back)
Bugs Bunny's Valentine
Bugs Bunny's Cupid Capers
The Daffy Duck Easter Show
Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-citement
Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special
Daffy Duck in Hollywood (renamed for TV rebroadcast)
Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary Special
The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Jubilee (renamed for TV rebroadcast)
See also
Notes
^ K. Wiley, TD, Allied Visual Artists
Further reading
Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons , by Jerry Beck and Will Friedwald (1989), Henry Holt, ISBN 0-8050-0894-2
Chuck Amuck : The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist by Chuck Jones, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0-374-12348-9
That's Not All, Folks! by Mel Blanc, Philip Bashe. Warner Books, ISBN 0-446-39089-5 (Softcover) ISBN 0-446-51244-3 (Hardcover)
Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons , Leonard Maltin, Revised Edition 1987, Plume ISBN 0-452-25993-2 (Softcover) ISBN 0-613-64753-X (Hardcover)
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