Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection#Volume 1

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| name = Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection

| image = Looney Tunes Spotlight .JPG

| caption =

| writer =

| starring = Mel Blanc (voice)

| director = {{ubl|Chuck Jones|Bob Clampett|Friz Freleng|Tex Avery|Robert McKimson}}

| producer = {{ubl|Leon Schlesinger|Eddie Selzer|John Burton, Sr.}}

| distributor = Warner Home Video

| released =

| runtime = 789+ minutes

| music = {{ubl|Carl Stalling|Milt Franklyn|Norman Spencer}}

| editing =

| cinematography =

| country = United States

| language = English

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The Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection is a series of DVDs released by Warner Home Video compiling Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies animated shorts. It was created as a more family-friendly, affordable companion to the higher-priced Looney Tunes Golden Collection sets aimed at collectors. Many of the cartoons included on these sets were already available in the Golden Collection sets.

Volume 1

Volume 1, released on October 28, 2003, contains Discs 3 and 4 of Golden Collection: Volume 1.

=Disc 1=

Shorts 1-12 directed by Chuck Jones, 10 co-directed by Abe Levitow, 13 and 14 by Robert Clampett

class="wikitable sortable"

!No.

!Title

!Characters

!Release date

!Series

1

|Elmer's Candid Camera

|Elmer, Prototype-Bugs

|{{start date|1940|03|02}}

!MM

2

|Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears

|Bugs, The Three Bears

|{{start date|1944|02|26}}

!MM

3

|Fast and Furry-ous

|Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner

|{{start date|1949|09|17}}

!LT

4

|Hair-Raising Hare

|Bugs, Gossamer

|{{start date|1946|05|25}}

!MM

5

|Awful Orphan

|Charlie, Porky

|{{start date|1949|01|29}}

!MM

6

|Haredevil Hare

|Bugs, K-9, Marvin

|{{start date|1948|07|24}}

!LT

7

|For Scent-imental Reasons

|Pepé, Penelope

|{{start date|1949|11|12}}

!LT

8

|{{start date|1949|10|07}}

!MM

9

|The Hypo-Chondri-Cat

|Claude, Hubie and Bertie

|{{start date|1950|04|15}}

!MM

10

|{{start date|1959|01|10}}

!LT

11

|Feed the Kitty

|Marc and Pussyfoot

|{{start date|1952|02|02}}

!MM

12

|Don't Give Up the Sheep

|{{start date|1953|01|03}}

!LT

13

|Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid

|{{start date|1942|07|11}}

!MM

14

|Tortoise Wins by a Hare

|{{start date|1943|02|20}}

!MM

=Disc 2=

Shorts 1-9 directed by Friz Freleng, 10-14 by Robert McKimson

class="wikitable sortable"

!No.

!Title

!Characters

!Release date

!Series

1

|Granny, Sylvester, Tweety

|{{start date|1950|10|07}}

!MM

2

|Bunker Hill Bunny

|{{start date|1950|09|23}}

!MM

3

|Elmer, Sylvester

|{{start date|1948|11|06}}

!LT

4

|Putty Tat Trouble

|Sylvester, Tweety

|{{start date|1951|02|24}}

!LT

5

|Bugs and Thugs

|Bugs, Rocky and Mugsy

|{{start date|1954|03|02}}

!LT

6

|{{start date|1951|02|03}}

!LT

7

|Lumber Jerks

|{{start date|1955|06|25}}

!LT

8

|Speedy Gonzales

|Speedy, Sylvester

|{{start date|1955|09|17}}

!MM

9

|Tweety's S.O.S.

|Granny, Sylvester, Tweety

|{{start date|1951|09|22}}

!MM

10

|The Foghorn Leghorn

|Barnyard, Foghorn, Henery

|{{start date|1948|10|09}}

!MM

11

|Daffy Duck Hunt

|Barnyard, Daffy, Porky

|{{start date|1949|03|26}}

!LT

12

|Early to Bet

|{{start date|1951|05|12}}

!MM

13

|A Broken Leghorn

|Foghorn, Prissy

|{{start date|1959|09|26}}

!LT

14

|Devil May Hare

|{{start date|1954|06|19}}

!LT

Volume 2

Volume 2, released on November 2, 2004, contains Discs 3 and 4 of Golden Collection: Volume 2.

=Disc 1=

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!No.

!Title

!Characters

!Release date

!Director

!Series

1

|Bad Ol' Putty Tat

|Sylvester, Tweety

|{{start date|1949|07|23}}

!MM

2

|All a Bir-r-r-rd

|Sylvester, Tweety

|{{start date|1950|06|24}}

!LT

3

|Room and Bird

|Granny, Sylvester, Tweety

|{{start date|1951|06|02}}

!MM

4

|Tweet Tweet Tweety

|Sylvester, Tweety

|{{start date|1951|12|15}}

!LT

5

|Gift Wrapped

|Granny, Hector, Sylvester, Tweety

|{{start date|1952|02|16}}

!LT

6

|Ain't She Tweet

|Granny, Sylvester, Tweety

|{{start date|1952|06|21}}

!LT

7

|A Bird In A Guilty Cage

|Sylvester, Tweety

|{{start date|1952|08|30}}

!LT

8

|Snow Business

|Granny, Sylvester, Tweety

|{{start date|1953|01|17}}

!LT

9

|Sylvester, Tweety

|{{start date|1947|05|03}}

!MM

10

|Kitty Kornered

|Porky, Sylvester

|{{start date|1946|06|08}}

!LT

11

|Baby Bottleneck

|{{start date|1946|03|16}}

!LT

12

|{{start date|1939|07|01}}

!MM

13

|The Great Piggy Bank Robbery

|{{start date|1946|07|20}}

!LT

14

|Duck Soup to Nuts

|{{start date|1944|05|27}}

!LT

15

|Porky in Wackyland

|{{start date|1938|09|24}}

!LT

=Disc 2=

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!No.

!Title

!Characters

!Release date

!Director

!Series

1

|Back Alley Oproar

|Elmer, Sylvester

|{{start date|1948|03|27}}

!MM

2

|{{start date|1946|01|05}}

!LT

3

|A Corny Concerto

|Bugs, Daffy, Elmer, Porky

|{{start date|1943|09|18}}

!MM

4

|Have You Got Any Castles?

|

|{{start date|1938|06|25}}

!MM

5

|Hollywood Steps Out

|

|{{start date|1941|05|24}}

!MM

6

|I Love to Singa

|

|{{start date|1936|07|18}}

!MM

7

|Katnip Kollege

|

|{{start date|1938|06|11}}

|Cal Howard and Cal Dalton

!MM

8

|{{start date|1942|10|03}}

!LT

9

|Three Little Bops

|

|{{start date|1957|01|05}}

!LT

10

|One Froggy Evening

|Michigan J. Frog

|{{start date|1955|12|31}}

!MM

11

|Rhapsody Rabbit

|{{start date|1946|11|09}}

!MM

12

|Show Biz Bugs

|{{start date|1957|11|02}}

!LT

13

|Stage Door Cartoon

|{{start date|1944|12|30}}

!MM

14

|What's Opera, Doc?

|{{start date|1957|07|06}}

!MM

15

|You Ought to Be in Pictures

|{{start date|1940|05|18}}

!LT

Volume 3

In place of a regular Volume 3, released on October 25, 2005, is the Looney Tunes Movie Collection, which serves as the third volume of the Spotlight Collection. It contains new-to-DVD content; consisting of The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie and Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales on separate discs.

Volume 4

Volume 4, released on November 14, 2006, contains Discs 1 and 4 of Golden Collection: Volume 4, removing Southern Fried Rabbit due to racially offensive content, and The Sour Puss due to a suicide gag.

=Disc 1: Bugs Bunny Favorites=

All cartoons on this disc star Bugs Bunny.

class="wikitable sortable"

!No.

!Title

!Co-stars

!Year

!Director

!Series

1

|Roman Legion-Hare

|1955

!LT

2

|The Grey Hounded Hare

|

|1949

|Robert McKimson

!LT

3

|

|1949

!MM

4

|Operation: Rabbit

|1952

!LT

5

|Knight-mare Hare

|

|1955

!MM

6

|Mississippi Hare

|Colonel Shuffle

|1949

!LT

7

|Hurdy-Gurdy Hare

|Gruesome Gorilla

|1950

|Robert McKimson

!MM

8

|Forward March Hare

|

|1953

!LT

9

|1955

!LT

10

|Barbary Coast Bunny

|1956

!LT

11

|To Hare Is Human

|1956

!MM

12

|8 Ball Bunny

|1950

!LT

13

|Knighty Knight Bugs

|1958

!LT

14

|Rabbit Romeo

|1957

|Robert McKimson

!MM

=Disc 2: Kitty Korner=

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!No.

!Title

!Characters

!Year

!Director

!Series

1

|The Night Watchman

|

|1938

!MM

2

|Conrad the Sailor

|1942

!MM

3

|The Aristo-Cat

|Claude, Hubie and Bertie

|1943

!MM

4

|Dough Ray Me-ow

|Louie and Heathcliff

|1948

!MM

5

|Pizzicato Pussycat

|

|1955

!MM

6

|Marc and Pussyfoot

|1953

!LT

7

|Marc and Pussyfoot

|1958

!MM

8

|The Unexpected Pest

|1956

|Robert McKimson

!MM

9

|Go Fly a Kit

|1957

!LT

10

|Kiddin' The Kitten

|1952

|Robert McKimson

!MM

11

|A Peck o' Trouble

|1953

|Robert McKimson

!LT

12

|Mouse and Garden

|1960

!LT

13

|Porky's Poor Fish

|1940

!LT

14

|Swallow the Leader

|

|1949

|Robert McKimson

!LT

Volume 5

Volume 5, released on October 30, 2007, consists of Discs 1 and 2 of Golden Collection: Volume 5.

=Disc 1: Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck=

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!No.

!Title

!Bugs, Daffy, or Both?

!Co-stars

!Year

!Director

!Series

1

|14 Carrot Rabbit

|1952

!LT

2

|Ali Baba Bunny

|Both

|

|1957

!MM

3

|Buccaneer Bunny

|1948

!LT

4

|Bugs' Bonnets

|1956

!MM

5

|A Star Is Bored

|Both

|1956

!LT

6

|A Pest in the House

|1947

!MM

7

|Transylvania 6-5000

|Count Bloodcount

|1963

!MM

8

|

|1952

|Robert McKimson

!MM

9

|

|1956

|Robert McKimson

!LT

10

|The Stupor Salesman

|

|1948

!LT

11

|The Abominable Snow Rabbit

|Both

|1961

!LT

12

|The Super Snooper

|

|1952

|Robert McKimson

!LT

13

|The Up-Standing Sitter

|

|1948

|Robert McKimson

!LT

14

|Hollywood Daffy

|

|1946

|Friz Freleng - uncredited

!MM

15

|You Were Never Duckier

|1948

!MM

=Disc 2: Fun-Filled Fairy Tales=

class="wikitable sortable"

!No.

!Title

!Characters

!Year

!Director

!Series

1

|Bewitched Bunny

|Bugs, Witch Hazel

|1954

!LT

2

|Paying the Piper

|1949

|Robert McKimson

!MM

3

|The Bear's Tale

|

|1940

!MM

4

|Foney Fables

|

|1942

!MM

5

|Goldimouse and the Three Cats

|Sylvester and Son

|1960

!LT

6

|Holiday for Shoestrings

|

|1946

!MM

7

|Little Red Rodent Hood

|1951

!MM

8

|Little Red Walking Hood

|1937

!MM

9

|Red Riding Hoodwinked

|Sylvester, Tweety

|1955

!LT

10

|The Trial of Mr. Wolf

|

|1941

!MM

11

|The Turn-Tale Wolf

|

|1952

|Robert McKimson

!MM

12

|Tom Thumb in Trouble

|

|1940

!MM

13

|Tweety and the Beanstalk

|Sylvester, Tweety

|1957

!MM

14

|A Tale of Two Kitties

|1942

!MM

15

|Porky's Pooch

|Porky, Prototype-Charlie Doghttps://chuckjones.com/characters/charlie-dog/ Charlie Dog | Chuck Jones.com

|1941

!LT

Volume 6

Volume 6, released on October 21, 2008, is based on Discs 1 and 4 of Golden Collection: Volume 6.

=Disc 1: Cartoon Superstars=

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!No.

!Title

!Characters

!Director

!Year

!Series

1

|Baby Buggy Bunny

|1954

!MM

2

|Broom-Stick Bunny

|Bugs, Witch Hazel

|1956

!LT

3

|To Duck or Not To Duck

|1943

!LT

4

|Birth of a Notion

|Barnyard, Daffy

|Robert McKimson

|1947

!LT

5

|Crowing Pains

|Barnyard, Foghorn, Henery, Sylvester

|Robert McKimson

|1947

!LT

6

|Raw! Raw! Rooster!

|Robert McKimson

|1956

!LT

7

|My Favorite Duck

|1942

!LT

8

|Jumpin' Jupiter

|Porky, Sylvester

|1955

!MM

9

|Satan's Waitin'

|Sylvester, Tweety

|1954

!LT

10

|Hook, Line and Stinker

|Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner

|1958

!LT

11

|A Ham in a Role

|Robert McKimson

|1949

!LT

12

|Heaven Scent

|1956

!MM

13

|Often an Orphan

|Charlie, Porky

|1949

!MM

14

|Dog Gone South

|Charlie, Colonel Shuffle

|1950

!MM

15

|By Word of Mouse

|1954

!LT

==Special features==

===Bonus cartoons===

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!Title

!Characters

!Director

!Year

!Series

Heir-Conditioned

|Elmer, Sylvester, Tweety (cameo)

|1955

!MM

Rabbit Rampage

|Bugs, Elmer (cameo)

|1955

!LT

Sniffles Takes a Trip

|1940

!MM

Yankee Dood It

|Elmer, Sylvester

|1956

!MM

=Disc 2: One-Hit Wonders=

All cartoons are one-shots, except for A Cartoonist's Nightmare, which features Beans.

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!No.

!Title

!Director

!Year

!Series

1

|Rocket-bye Baby

|1956

!MM

2

|Fresh Airedale

|1945

!MM

3

|It's Hummer Time

|Robert McKimson

|1950

!LT

4

|Much Ado About Nutting

|1953

!MM

5

|Goo Goo Goliath

|1954

!MM

6

|The Draft Horse

|1942

!MM

7

|Lights Fantastic

|1942

!MM

8

|Rookie Revue

|1941

!MM

9

|The Weakly Reporter

|1944

!MM

10

|Robert McKimson

|1954

!MM

11

|The Hole Idea

|Robert McKimson

|1955

!LT

12

|Page Miss Glory

|Tex Avery (uncredited)

|1936

!MM

13

|Now Hear This

|1963

!LT

14

|Norman Normal

|1968

!CS

15

|A Cartoonist's Nightmare

|1935

!LT

==Special features==

===Bonus cartoons===

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!Title

!Director

!Year

!Series

Wild Wild World

|Robert McKimson

|1960

!MM

Punch Trunk

|1953

!LT

Bartholomew Versus the Wheel

|Robert McKimson

|1964

!MM

Sleepy Time Possum

|Robert McKimson

|1951

!MM

Volume 7

Volume 7 was released on October 13, 2009, not concurrently with a Golden Collection; instead, it is a compilation of shorts from Golden Collections 1, 2, and 3.

=Disc 1: The Best of Bugs Bunny and Road Runner=

class="wikitable sortable"

!No.

!Title

!Characters

!Director

!Year

!Series

1

|Baseball Bugs

|1946

!LT

2

|Rabbit Seasoning

|Bugs, Daffy, Elmer

|1952

!MM

3

|Long-Haired Hare

|1949

!LT

4

|High Diving Hare

|1949

!LT

5

|Bully for Bugs

|1953

!LT

6

|Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner

|1952

!MM

7

|Going! Going! Gosh!

|Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner

|1952

!MM

8

|Zipping Along

|Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner

|1953

!MM

9

|Stop! Look! And Hasten!

|Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner

|1954

!MM

10

|Ready, Set, Zoom!

|Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner

|1955

!LT

11

|Guided Muscle

|Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner

|1955

!LT

12

|Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z

|Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner

|1956

!LT

13

|There They Go-Go-Go!

|Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner

|1956

!LT

14

|Scrambled Aches

|Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner

|1957

!LT

15

|Zoom and Bored

|Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner

|1957

!MM

=Disc 2: All-Star Cartoon Party=

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!No.

!Title

!Characters

!Year

!Director

!Series

1

|Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur

|1939

!MM

2

|Super-Rabbit

|1943

!MM

3

|Draftee Daffy

|1945

!LT

4

|Falling Hare

|1943

!MM

5

|1957

!LT

6

|Birds Anonymous

|Sylvester, Tweety, Clarence Cat

|1957

!MM

7

|Claude, Frisky Puppy

|1954

!MM

8

|Rabbit Punch

|Bugs, The Crusher

|1948

!MM

9

|Odor-able Kitty

|1945

!LT

10

|Walky Talky Hawky

|Foghorn, Henery

|1946

|Robert McKimson

!MM

11

|To Beep or Not to Beep

|Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner

|1963

!MM

Volume 8

Volume 8, released on May 13, 2014, is a compilation of shorts from Golden Collections 2, 3, 4, and 5. It is the last volume released to date.

=Disc 1=

All cartoons on this disc star Bugs Bunny.

class="wikitable sortable"

!No.

!Title

!Co-stars

!Year

!Director

!Series

1

|The Big Snooze

|1946

!LT

2

|Bugs Bunny Rides Again

|1948

!MM

3

|Bunny Hugged

|1951

!MM

4

|French Rarebit

|

|1951

|Robert McKimson

!MM

5

|Gorilla My Dreams

|Gruesome Gorilla

|1948

|Robert McKimson

!LT

6

|The Hare-Brained Hypnotist

|1942

!MM

7

|Hare Conditioned

|

|1945

!LT

8

|The Heckling Hare

|1941

!MM

9

|Little Red Riding Rabbit

|

|1944

!MM

10

|Tortoise Beats Hare

|1941

!MM

11

|Rabbit Transit

|1947

!LT

12

|1947

!MM

13

|Homeless Hare

|

|1950

!MM

14

|Hyde and Hare

|

|1955

!LT

15

|The Windblown Hare

|

|1949

|Robert McKimson

!LT

=Disc 2=

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!No.

!Title

!Characters

!Year

!Director

!Series

1

|The Wise Quacking Duck

|1943

!LT

2

|Claws for Alarm

|Porky, Sylvester

|1954

!MM

3

|Whoa, Be-Gone!

|Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner

|1958

!MM

4

|Cheese Chasers

|Claude, Hubie and Bertie

|1951

!MM

5

|The Dover Boys at Pimento University

|

|1942

!MM

6

|A Bear for Punishment

|The Three Bears

|1951

!LT

7

|The Pied Piper of Guadalupe

|Speedy, Sylvester

|1961

!LT

8

|The Last Hungry Cat

|Sylvester, Tweety

|1961

!MM

9

|The Honey-Mousers

|The Honey-Mousers

|1956

|Robert McKimson

!LT

10

|An Egg Scramble

|1950

|Robert McKimson

!MM

11

|Cat-Tails for Two

|1953

|Robert McKimson

!MM

12

|Bye, Bye Bluebeard

|1949

!MM

13

|Booby Hatched

|

|1944

!LT

14

|Now That Summer is Gone

|

|1938

!MM

15

|Pigs in a Polka

|

|1943

!MM

See also

Looney Tunes Golden Collection

References

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