Cartoon Alley is an American animated children's animated anthology series which aired on Turner Classic Movies on Saturday mornings from 2004 to 2007. It featured classic animated shorts.

Originally broadcast at 11:30 AM ET, it was hosted by Ben Mankiewicz and usually featured three classic animated shorts from the 1930–1950s per episode. Most shorts were from The Golden Age of American animation. Each of the three shorts focused on a common theme. Most shorts came from Warner Bros., MGM, Paramount (the latter studio provided the Popeye cartoons; these were in Turner's hands by this point), but during the show's first season Cartoon Alley featured shorts from Gaumont. Many recognizable characters were featured in at least one episode such as Bugs Bunny, Popeye, Porky Pig, Tom and Jerry, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, Barney Bear, Spike, George and Junior, and others not so famous such as Goopy Geer and The Captain and the Kids. Also included were animated feature films. The shorts often appeared uncut and uncensored (a few cartoons utilized cuts for content), and the more controversial cartoons (such as Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt and Half-Pint Pygmy) were often introduced with a brief warning by Mankiewicz about the ethnic stereotypes being portrayed. The network's logo was only featured for a brief time, usually during the last short featured.

From November 2004 to September 2005, the series was featured just once a month but after popular demand the series became a weekly feature. Cartoon Alley usually did not air in February because of TCM's 31 Days of Oscar programming. The series was cancelled in Autumn of 2007.

Episode list

Season 1 (2004–2005) # Episode Title Shorts Featured Original Air Date 1 Clark Gable The Coo-Coo Nut Grove Malibu Beach Party Hollywood Steps Out 11/5/2004 2 Christmas The Pups' Christmas Peace on Earth Night Before Christmas 12/4/2004 3 Oscar Nominated Shorts Blitz Wolf Life with Feathers Hatch Up Your Troubles 1/1/2005 4 Tom & Jerry Professor Tom Old Rockin' Chair Tom The Cat Concerto 3/5/2005 5 Tex Avery Red Hot Riding Hood Batty Baseball Swing Shift Cinderella 4/2/2005 6 The Early Days of Warner Brothers Cartoons Honeymoon Hotel Beauty and the Beast I Haven't Got a Hat 5/7/2005 7 The Captain and the Kids Cleaning House Petunia National Park Mama's New Hat 6/4/2005 8 Popeye Adventures of Popeye The Anvil Chorus Girl Abusement Park 7/2/2005 9 Animaland Series (1) The Platypus The Cuckoo The Lion 9/3/2005 10 Animaland Series (2) The Ostrich It's A Lovely Day The House Cat 9/10/2005 11 Animaland Series (3) Ginger Nutt's Bee Bother Ginger Nutt's Christmas Circus Ginger Nutt's Forest Dragon 9/17/2005 12 Barney Bear The Bear That Couldn't Sleep Goggle Fishing Bear Heir Bear 9/24/2005 13 Sniffles Naughty But Mice Little Brother Rat Sniffles and the Bookworm 10/1/2005 14 Droopy Dumb-Hounded The Shooting of Dan McGoo Wild and Woolfy 10/8/2005 15 Tweety Bird A Tale of Two Kitties Birdy and the Beast A Gruesome Twosome 10/15/2005 16 Cinemascope Cartoons Millionaire Droopy The Egg and Jerry Tops with Pops 10/22/2005 17 Peter Lorre Caricatures Horton Hatches the Egg Hair-Raising Hare Birth of a Notion 10/29/2005

Season 2 (2005–2006) # Episode Title Shorts Featured Original Air Date 18 Happy Harmonies The Discontented Canary The Old Pioneer Tale of Vienna Woods 11/5/2005 19 Elmer Fudd Elmer's Candid Camera Confederate Honey The Hardship of Miles Standish 11/12/2005 20 Benny Burro Little Gravel Voice The Prospecting Bear Half-Pint Palomino 11/19/2005 21 WB Cartoon Character Debuts Walky Talky Hawky Goofy Gophers Haredevil Hare 11/26/2005 22 Popeye II Baby Wants a Bottleship A Balmy Swami Beaus Will Be Beaus 12/3/2005 23 Two Curious Puppies Dog Gone Modern The Curious Puppy Snowtime For Comedy 12/10/2005 24 Christmas II The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives Bedtime for Sniffles Good Will To Men 12/17/2005 25 Nursery Rhymes and Bedtime Stories Little Red Walking Hood The Bear's Tale The Trial of Mr. Wolf 12/31/2005 26 Homer the Flea The Homeless Flea What Price Fleadom The Cat That Hated People 9/2/2006 27 Black and White Warner Brothers I've Got to Sing a Torch Song Pettin' in the Park Gold Diggers of '49 9/9/2006 28 Tex Avery's Screwball Classics Lucky Ducky Bad Luck Blackie Symphony in Slang 9/16/2006 29 Hubie & Bertie Aristo-Cat Roughly Squeaking House Hunting Mice 9/23/2006 30 Popeye III Can You Take It Child Psykolojiky Car-azy Drivers 9/23/2006 31 Warner Brothers Egghead Rides Again The Bashful Buzzard Boulevardier from the Bronx 10/7/2006 32 CinemaScope Tom & Jerry Mucho Mouse Tom's Photo Finish Royal Cat Nap 10/14/2006 33 CinemaScope Droopy Blackboard Jumble One Droopy Knight Sheep Wrecked 10/21/2006 34 Conrad Cat The Bird Came C.O.D Porky's Café Conrad the Sailor 10/28/2006

Season 3 (2006–2007) + # Episode Title Shorts Featured Original Air Date 35 George and Junior Henpecked Hoboes Hound Hunters Half-Pint Pygmy 11/4/2006 36 Early Bugs Bunny A Wild Hare Elmer's Pet Rabbit Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt 11/11/2006 37 Spike The Counterfeit Cat Ventriloquist Cat Garden Gopher 11/18/2006 38 Bugs And Cecil Tortoise Beats Hare Tortoise Wins By a Hare Rabbit Transit 11/25/2006 39 Happy Harmonies II When the Cat's Away The Lost Chick The Calico Dragon 12/2/2006 40 Porky Pig Porky's Picnic Porky's Baseball Broadcast Porky's Snooze Reel 12/9/2006 41 Bing Crosby Spoofs Let It Be Me Bingo Crosbyana The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos 12/16/2006 42 Christmas III Toyland Broadcast Alias St. Nick Captain's Christmas 12/23/2006 43 Goopy Geer Goopy Geer Moonlight for Two The Queen Was in the Parlor 12/30/2006 44 The Bear Family Goldilocks and the Three Bears A Rainy Day Papa Gets the Bird 1/6/2007 45 Beans The Fire Alarm The Phantom Ship Boom Boom 1/13/2007 46 Adolph Hitler WB Caricatures Daffy – The Commando Russian Rhapsody Herr Meets Hare 1/20/2007 47 Screwy Squirrel Screwball Squirrel The Screwy Truant Lonesome Lenny 1/27/2007 TCM Strolls Down Cartoon Alley-Animation MagazineTCM Gets Animated-TimeWarner.com

Featured directors These people directed original shorts featured in the series. Tex Avery Joseph Barbera Robert Clampett Arthur Davis Earl Duvall David Hand (Animalland) Max Fleischer Dave Fleischer Friz Freleng William Hanna Hugh Harman Rudolph Ising Chuck Jones Seymour Kneitel Dick Lundy Robert McKimson Isadore Sparber Cartoon Alley December 2005-TCM.comCartoon Alley September 2006-TCM.com

See also The Tex Avery Show ToonHeads The Bob Clampett Show The Popeye Show Toon In with Me

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