The Road Runner Show
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The Road Runner Show was an 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 1948 and 1966. Several of the shorts, especially the ones produced from 1965 onward, were produced specifically for television by Format Films after Warner Bros. closed their animation studio. The Road Runner Show also ran for two seasons on CBS (1966–68), and then on ABC for two seasons (1971–73) and Toon Disney (1998–99). There were two Road Runner/Coyote cartoons during each episode, with another WB animated character(s) in the middle segment (usually Tweety and Sylvester).
CBS combined The Road Runner Show with The Bugs Bunny Show in 1968. 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 to the early-1990s.
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.
References in popular culture
The character Danny Torrance watches The Roadrunner show in the movie The Shining.[1]
See also
References
External links
- The Road Runner Show Page, by Kevin McCorry; retrieved 19 September 2013
- 1960s American animated television series
- 1966 American television series debuts
- 1973 American television series endings
- 1970s American animated television series
- American Broadcasting Company network shows
- CBS network shows
- Television series by Warner Bros. Television
- Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner
- American children's television series
- Looney Tunes television series
- Looney Tunes stubs