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The Bugs Bunny Show Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1960 - 1961
Episode 1
Rabbit Every Monday/A Mouse Divided/Tree For Two
Tue, Oct 11, 1960
Bugs introduces many of his co-hosts individually: Pepe Le Pew, Yosemite Sam, Tweety, Sylvester and Speedy Gonzales. But Daffy Duck can't convince Bugs to introduce him as well, try as he might during the show.
Episode 2
Putty Tat Trouble/Wise Quackers/Speedy Gonzales
Tue, Oct 18, 1960
Rocky and Mugsy try to grab up some of the money from the sponsors of the show by going into the television business themselves, intruding on the proceedings in the process.
Episode 3
Wild Over You/Go Fly a Kit/Mouse-Warming
Tue, Oct 25, 1960
The midget gangster Baby Faced Finster dresses up as a baby to escape the police. To his dismay, he ends up in the hands of Bugs Bunny, who treats him as a baby.
Episode 4
To Itch His Own/Gee Whiz-z-z-z!/Whoa, Be-Gone!
Tue, Nov 1, 1960
Wile E. Coyote's chase of the Road Runner has extended into the studio where Bugs is trying to host his television show. Two Road Runner cartoons are thus featured, involving Wile E.'s schemes.
Episode 5
Canary Row/Knights Must Fall/For Scent-imental Reasons
Tue, Nov 8, 1960
Desperate to appear on the show as the guest, Daffy dresses as a Hawaiian, a musketeer, and a knight, but his costume is deemed inappropriate by Bugs for each cartoon about to commence.
Episode 6
Long-Haired Hare/Sandy Claws/Mouse Wreckers
Tue, Nov 15, 1960
In a musical competition between cartoon features of Bugs at war with an opera singer, Sylvester buffeted by tidal waves in his gastronomic quest for Tweety, and two mice conspiring to induce house cat insanity, Daffy plays the drums.
Episode 7
Bully For Bugs/Tweety's S.O.S./One Froggy Evening
Tue, Nov 22, 1960
Daffy disguises himself as Bugs to host the television show, but a sheepdog, on a day free from his work, walks into the studio, hoping to catch the bunny-rabbit (Bugs) that he saw on television on the previous week.
Episode 8
My Bunny Lies Over the Sea/Scaredy Cat/Scent-imental Romeo
Tue, Nov 29, 1960
Daffy wants to be host. So, he banishes all others from the stage, including Pepe, Elmer, and Bugs. Still, the cartoons proceed on schedule, with Bugs in Scotland, Porky and Sylvester in a spooky, mouse-infested house.
Episode 9
Bunker Hill Bunny/Each Dawn I Crow/Golden Yeggs
Tue, Dec 6, 1960
Tweety is host of an installment containing two psychological thrillers with birds seemingly doomed to death at a specified time. So that the little canary can be safe from Sylvester, Bugs hangs his cage from the stage ceiling.
Episode 10
Which is Witch/Mouse Mazurka/Kit For Cat
Tue, Dec 13, 1960
Yosemite Sam wants Bugs' hide. So, gun in hand, he comes to see The Bugs Bunny Show live as a spectator in the studio.
Episode 11
Two's a Crowd/All a Bir-r-r-d/The Hasty Hare
Tue, Dec 20, 1960
Bugs introduces Porky Pig as host. Porky is pestered by Charlie Dog, who is looking for a master. Charlie does his all-breeds-in-one routine and complicates Porky's introduction.
Episode 12
What's Up, Doc?/Early to Bet/Pop 'im Pop!
Tue, Dec 27, 1960
George P. Dog is introduced by Bugs as the emcee for the show, but Foghorn Leghorn decides that he would be a better emcee and pushes the dog aside.
Episode 13
A-Lad-in His Lamp/Dog Gone South/A Fractured Leghorn
Tue, Jan 3, 1961
Sylvester is introduced by Bugs as host, and he is joined on stage by his son, Sylvester Jr., who is underwhelmed at Sylvester's all-too-brief introduction of him.
Episode 14
Ant Pasted/The Fair-Haired Hare/I Gopher You
Tue, Jan 10, 1961
Elmer Fudd is host and tries to sing, but he is thwarted when the notes on his sheet music run off of their page and remind him of his July 4 picnic that became a harrowing confrontation.
Episode 15
Rocket Squad/Daffy Dilly/Drip-Along Daffy
Tue, Jan 17, 1961
Daffy finally receives recognition. Bugs hosts an all-Daffy Duck tribute, in which Mama Bear performs "I'm Just Wild About Daffy" and the mallard stars in cartoons as a far-future detective.
Episode 16
The Leghorn Blows at Midnight/His Bitter Half/Hot Cross Bunny
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
Foghorn Leghorn introduces Miss Prissy, who, Foghorn says, is an old-time actress.
Episode 17
Lovelorn Leghorn/Who's Kitten Who?/The Windblown Hare
Tue, Jan 31, 1961
An unseen animator sketches Foghorn Leghorn with Rock Hudson's body and then draws a broom's tail on Foghorn's backside. Foghorn retaliates by lassoing and pummeling the animator- Daffy Duck.
Episode 18
High Diving Hare/Don't Give Up the Sheep/Stooge For a Mouse
Tue, Feb 7, 1961
Two lame-brained Mexicali cats, Jose and Miguel, try to host an episode with Yosemite Sam plummeting again and again into a bucket of water, Ralph Wolf being continually stopped from obtaining mutton by the omnipresent Sam Sheepdog.
Episode 19
Mutiny on the Bunny/Punch Trunk/Fast and Furry-ous
Tue, Feb 14, 1961
Bugs demonstrates how to draw an animated cartoon character. He decides to use Daffy Duck as an example and draws Daffy from a dumbbell.
Episode 20
Rabbit of Seville/The Scarlet Pumpernickel/Stop! Look! And Hasten!
Tue, Feb 21, 1961
Bugs tries to indulge the audience in a bit of culture, such as in his own rendition of the opera, "The Barber of Seville", in spite of constant interruptions from Elmer Fudd.
Episode 21
Hillbilly Hare/Hippety Hopper/You Were Never Duckier
Tue, Feb 28, 1961
Mac and Tosh, the Goofy Gophers, are introduced by Bugs as the host. In the cartoons, Bugs orchestrates a square dance that very much pains two lame-brained men of the Ozark Mountains.
Episode 22
The Turn-Tale Wolf/Paying the Piper/Beanstalk Bunny
Tue, Mar 7, 1961
Sylvester is host and tells to his son, Junior, the Looney Tune-style fairy tales of the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Little Pigs- in which hero and villain roles are seemingly reversed.
Episode 23
Big House Bunny/Canned Feud/Home, Tweet Home
Tue, Mar 14, 1961
Mac and Tosh, the Goofy Gophers, are again hosts for the show. They spend their time politely arguing over who should introduce the jailed Bugs, house-imprisoned and in-need-of-food Sylvester, and Tweety-in-a-city-park.
Episode 24
Mississippi Hare/Terrier-Stricken/Cheese Chasers
Tue, Mar 21, 196130 mins
Yosemite Sam wants to be the show emcee this time around, but Bugs chooses Pepe Le Pew instead, much to Sam's chagrin.
Episode 25
Henhouse Henery/Curtain Razor/Devil May Hare
Tue, Mar 28, 1961
Bugs introduces Daffy Duck as this installment's host, but Daffy is backstage being chased by the Tasmanian Devil, who has broken out of a crate.
Episode 26
Hare We Go/The Foghorn Leghorn/Little Red Rodent Hood
Tue, Apr 4, 1961
Okay, rabbit. Grab a cloud. This is a stick-up." Gun-toting gangsters Rocky and Mugsy hijack the show. Mugsy escorts Bugs off of the stage, and Rocky introduces the cartoons.
