List of Looney Tunes television specials

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

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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 Produced 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, 1978 \|Volume 6, Disc 1 \|Produced by Chuck Jones Enterprises.
Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales \|November 27, 1979 \|Volume 5, Disc 4 \|Three TV shorts later edited out of it. 1) "Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol" 2) Roadrunner: "Freeze Frame" 3) Bugs Bunny: "Fright Before Christmas" Produced by DePatie-Freleng and Chuck Jones Enterprises.
Daffy Duck's Easter Show \|April 1, 1980 \|Volume 6, Disc 1 \|Three TV shorts later edited out of it. 1) "Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement" 2) Daffy & Speedy Gonzalas: "The Chocolate Chase" 3) Daffy, Sylvester, Foghorn Leghorn: "The Yoke's On You" Produced by DePatie-Freleng.
Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over \|May 21, 1980 \|Volume 5, Disc 4 \|Three TV shorts later edited out of it. 1) Bugs Bunny: "Portrait of an 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 Prevention \|1982 \| \|Awareness video about burn prevention in the home
Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue \|April 21, 1990 \| \|Drug-abuse prevention television special, in collaboration with other franchises.

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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
Produced 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, 1978

|Volume 6, Disc 1

|Produced by Chuck Jones Enterprises.

Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales

|November 27, 1979

|Volume 5, Disc 4

|Three TV shorts later edited out of it.

1) "Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol"

2) Roadrunner: "Freeze Frame"

3) Bugs Bunny: "Fright Before Christmas"

Produced by DePatie-Freleng and Chuck Jones Enterprises.

Daffy Duck's Easter Show

|April 1, 1980

|Volume 6, Disc 1

|Three TV shorts later edited out of it.

1) "Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement"

2) Daffy & Speedy Gonzalas: "The Chocolate Chase"

3) Daffy, Sylvester, Foghorn Leghorn: "The Yoke's On You"

Produced by DePatie-Freleng.

Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over

|May 21, 1980

|Volume 5, Disc 4

|Three TV shorts later edited out of it.

1) Bugs Bunny: "Portrait of an 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 Prevention

|1982

|

|Awareness video about burn prevention in the home

Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue

|April 21, 1990

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|Drug-abuse prevention television special, in collaboration with other franchises.

Anniversary specials

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Title !Year !Notes
Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary Special \|January 14, 1986 \|Featuring interviews with celebrities
Happy Birthday Bugs!: 50 Looney Years \|May 9, 1990
'Hare's to Bugs! A Bugs Bunny Celebration \|July 27, 2024 \|Featuring 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.

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Title

!Year

!Notes

Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary Special

|January 14, 1986

|Featuring interviews with celebrities

Happy Birthday Bugs!: 50 Looney Years

|May 9, 1990

'Hare's to Bugs! A Bugs Bunny Celebration

|July 27, 2024

|Featuring 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

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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 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 Feature
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 \|Only released on VHS in 1992 by Warner Home Video under its original title. 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 \|Released as part of the Looney Tunes Holiday Triple Feature DVD.
The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special \|October 26, 1980 \| Baby Buggy Bunny Big House Bunny Bugs and Thugs Hare Lift Operation: Rabbit Compressed Hare Catty Cornered \|Only released on VHS in 1992 by Warner Home Video under its original title. \|
Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special \|November 20, 1980 \| The Scarlet Pumpernickel His Bitter Half Robin Hood Daffy Drip-Along Daffy \|Contains one all-new short; Released as part of the Looney Tunes Holiday Triple Feature
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 \|Only released on VHS in 1994 by Warner Home Video under its original title. \|
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? \|Only released on VHS in 1993 by Warner Home Video under its original title. \|
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.K. Wiley, TD, Allied Visual Artists 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 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 Ford and his crew reanimated this short for its inclusion in this special. Only released on VHS in 1994 by Warner Home Video under its original title.
Bugs Bunny's Creature Features \|February 1, 1992 \| Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers The Duxorcist Night of the Living Duck \|Contains 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 Tunes \|March 1, 1993 \| 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. It was later released on the DVD "Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes Marvin the Martian Space Tunes" Double Feature.

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Title

! Year

! Classic Clips From

! Notes

Bugs Bunny's Easter Special

|April 7, 1977

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|Released on DVD.

Bugs Bunny in Space

|September 6, 1977

|

| Only special with no new animation

Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special

|October 26, 1977

|

Featuring Witch Hazel

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 Feature

How Bugs Bunny Won the West

|November 15, 1978

|

|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

|

|Released on DVD as Bugs Bunny's Cupid Capers

The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special

|May 12, 1979

|

|Only released on VHS in 1992 by Warner Home Video under its original title.

Later retitled Bugs Bunny's Baby Boomers

Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet

|November 15, 1979

|

|Released as part of the Looney Tunes Holiday Triple Feature DVD.

The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special

|October 26, 1980

|

|Only released on VHS in 1992 by Warner Home Video under its original title.

|

Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special

|November 20, 1980

|

|Contains one all-new short;

Released as part of the Looney Tunes Holiday Triple Feature

Bugs Bunny: All American Hero

|May 21, 1981

|

|Only released on VHS in 1994 by Warner Home Video under its original title.

|

Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television

|January 11, 1982

|

|Only released on VHS in 1993 by Warner Home Video under its original title.

|

Bugs vs. Daffy: Battle of the Music Video Stars

|October 21, 1988

|

|One 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 Sports

|February 15, 1989

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|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

|

|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 Ford and his crew reanimated this short for its inclusion in this special.

Only released on VHS in 1994 by Warner Home Video under its original title.

Bugs Bunny's Creature Features

|February 1, 1992

|

|Contains 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 Tunes

|March 1, 1993

|

|Released 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.

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TV title !Home video 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 Valentine \|Bugs Bunny's Cupid Capers
The Daffy Duck Easter Show \|Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-citement

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TV title

!Home video 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 Valentine

|Bugs Bunny's Cupid Capers

The Daffy Duck Easter Show

|Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-citement

Notes

External links

The Big Cartoon DataBase entry for [https://archive.today/20121204170735/http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Warner_Bros_/Merrie_Melodies/index.html Merrie Melodies Cartoons] and for [https://archive.today/20121205000401/http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Warner_Bros_/Looney_Tunes/index.html Looney Tunes Cartoons]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20090706080219/http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/ Golden Age Cartoons' The Ultimate Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Website by Jon Cooke]
[http://www.conmicro.cx/~eocostello/wbcc/eowbcc-glossary.html "Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion", a wealth of trivia about the Warner cartoons]
[https://www.wbkidsgo.com/looney-tunes Official site]

Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies

List of Looney Tunes television specials

Original specials

Anniversary specials

Specials with reused footage

Home Video Retitling

See also

Notes

Further reading

External links