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 TitleYearLTGC availability (all as special features)NotesDaffy Duck and Porky Pig Meet the Groovie GooliesDecember 16, 1972Produced by Filmation, with the Looney Tunes characters on loan from Warner Bros. (otherwise a silent partner)Carnival of the AnimalsNovember 22, 1976Volume 5, Disc 4Animation/live-action mixProduced by Chuck Jones Enterprises.A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court (retitled Bugs Bunny in King Arthur's Court for subsequent rebroadcasts)February 23, 1978Volume 6, Disc 1Produced by Chuck Jones Enterprises.Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas TalesNovember 27, 1979Volume 5, Disc 4Three TV shorts later edited out of it. 1) "Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol" 2) Road Runner: "Freeze Frame" 3) Bugs Bunny: "Fright Before Christmas"
Produced by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises and Chuck Jones Enterprises.Daffy Duck's Easter Show (retitled Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement)April 1, 1980Volume 6, Disc 1Three TV shorts later edited out of it. 1) Daffy, Sylvester, Foghorn Leghorn: "The Yolk's on You" 2) Daffy & Speedy Gonzales: "The Chocolate Chase" 3) "Daffy Flies North"
Produced by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises.Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All OverMay 21, 1980Volume 5, Disc 4Three TV shorts later edited out of it. 1) Bugs Bunny: "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny" 2) Road Runner: "Soup or Sonic" 3) Bugs Bunny, Marvin Martian: "Spaced Out Bunny"
Produced by Chuck Jones Enterprises.Also available on The Essential Bugs Bunny (10/12/2010)Ounce of Prevention1982Awareness video about burn prevention in the homeCartoon All-Stars to the RescueApril 21, 1990Drug-abuse prevention television special, in collaboration with other franchises.
Anniversary specials TitleYearNotesBugs Bunny/Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary SpecialJanuary 14, 1986Featuring interviews with celebritiesHappy Birthday Bugs!: 50 Looney YearsMay 9, 1990Hare's to Bugs! A Bugs Bunny CelebrationJuly 27, 2024Featuring interviews with Looney Tunes Alumni Billy West, Jeff Bergman, Candi Milo, Bob Bergen, Eric Bauza, Eric Goldberg, Animation Historian Jerry Beck & Many Others. It aired on MeTV Toons on Bugs Bunny's 84th Birthday.
Specials with reused footage Title Year Classic Clips From NotesBugs Bunny's Easter SpecialApril 7, 1977Knighty 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 HareReleased on DVD.Bugs Bunny in SpaceSeptember 6, 1977Hare-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 animationBugs Bunny's Howl-oween SpecialOctober 26, 1977Featuring Witch Hazel Bewitched Bunny Broom-Stick Bunny A Witch's Tangled Hare A-Haunting We Will Go Other shorts Hyde and Go Tweet (later used in Daffy Duck's Quackbusters) Hyde and Hare Claws for Alarm (later used in Daffy Duck's Quackbusters) Scaredy Cat Transylvania 6-5000 (later used in Daffy Duck's Quackbusters)Released on DVD separately and as part of the Looney Tunes Holiday Triple FeatureHow Bugs Bunny Won the WestNovember 15, 1978Barbary Coast Bunny Bonanza Bunny 14 Carrot Rabbit Aqua Duck Wild and Woolly Hare Drip-Along DaffyHosted in live action by actor Denver PyleIncluded 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 HareBugs Bunny's Valentine SpecialFebruary 14, 1979Hare Splitter The Grey Hounded Hare Little Beau Pepe Of Rice and Hen Devil May Hare Hare Trimmed The Super Snooper Rabbit Romeo Wild Over YouReleased on DVD as Bugs Bunny's Cupid CapersThe Bugs Bunny Mother's Day SpecialMay 12, 1979Bushy Hare Stork Naked Quackodile Tears Mother Was a Rooster Goo Goo Goliath Apes of WrathOnly released on VHS in 1992 by Warner Home Video under its original title. Later retitled Bugs Bunny's Baby BoomersBugs Bunny's Thanksgiving DietNovember 15, 1979Rabbit Every Monday Stop! Look! And Hasten! Guided Muscle Beep, Beep! Tweet Dreams Birds Anonymous Freudy Cat Canned Feud Trip For Tat Bedevilled RabbitReleased as part of the Looney Tunes Holiday Triple Feature DVD.The Bugs Bunny Mystery SpecialOctober 26, 1980Baby Buggy Bunny Big House Bunny Bugs and Thugs Hare Lift Operation: Rabbit Compressed Hare Catty CorneredOnly released on VHS in 1992 by Warner Home Video under its original title.Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving SpecialNovember 20, 1980The Scarlet Pumpernickel His Bitter Half Robin Hood Daffy Drip-Along DaffyContains one all-new short; Released as part of the Looney Tunes Holiday Triple FeatureBugs Bunny: All American HeroMay 21, 1981Yankee Doodle Bugs Bunker Hill Bunny Dumb Patrol The Rebel Without Claws Ballot Box Bunny Southern Fried RabbitOnly released on VHS in 1994 by Warner Home Video under its original title.Bugs Bunny's Mad World of TelevisionJanuary 11, 1982What's Up, Doc? Tree Cornered Tweety Past Perfumance The Ducksters Wideo Wabbit This Is a Life?Only released on VHS in 1993 by Warner Home Video under its original title.Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle of the Music Video StarsOctober 21, 1988Porky'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 ExposureOne of the first specials produced by Warner Bros. where new animation was both traditionally and digitally inked and painted.K. Wiley, TD, Allied Visual Artists Released on DVD with the Space Jam 2-disc DVD set.Bugs Bunny's Wild World of SportsFebruary 15, 1989My 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 BooIncluded in The Essential Bugs Bunny DVD, released on October 12, 2010 in the U.S.Bugs Bunny's Overtures to DisasterApril 17, 1991What's Opera, Doc? Rabbit of Seville Baton Bunny Back Alley Oproar*Contains one all-new Porky and Daffy short titled The William Tell Overture.*At the time of release Warner Bros had not regained the rights to their pre-1948 cartoons yet, so Greg Ford and his crew reanimated those shorts for its inclusion in this special. Only released on VHS in 1994 by Warner Home Video under its original title.Bugs Bunny's Creature FeaturesFebruary 1, 1992Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers The Duxorcist Night of the Living DuckContains three cartoons originally theatrically released in 1988 as a part of the Daffy Duck's Quackbusters compilation feature. The original individual shorts were released on the 2-disc DVD release of Space Jam.Bugs Bunny's Lunar TunesMarch 1, 1993Haredevil 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 StarsReleased straight to VHS. It was later released on the DVD "Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes Marvin the Martian Space Tunes" Double Feature.
Home Video Retitling Several of these TV specials were given a new name when released on video. TV titleHome video titleCarnival of the AnimalsBugs and Daffy's Carnival of the AnimalsBugs Bunny's Easter SpecialBugs Bunny's Easter FunniesA Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's CourtBugs Bunny in King Arthur's Court Bugs Bunny's ValentineBugs Bunny's Cupid CapersDaffy Duck's Easter ShowDaffy Duck's Easter Egg-citement
See also Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography Looney Tunes Merrie Melodies Looney Tunes Golden Collection
Notes
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, Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist, by Chuck Jones, published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, That's Not All, Folks! My Life in the Golden Days of Cartoons and Radio, by Mel Blanc, Philip Bashe. Warner Books, (Softcover) (Hardcover) Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons, by Leonard Maltin, Revised Edition 1987, Plume (Softcover) (Hardcover)
External links
The Big Cartoon DataBase entry for and for Golden Age Cartoons' The Ultimate Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Website by Jon Cooke