The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
Bugs Bunny and all his cartoon friends are stage performers entertaining audiences with 7 features per show, all of which are classic theatrical cartoons from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Brief interaction sequences on stage between characters was often intercut between the features. All shows began with Bugs and Daffy Duck singing "This is It" and a procession of cartoon stars marching across the stage. Then, a Road Runner song would play, accompanied by clips from his cartoons. All characters appeared at some point in the series, though the ones most frequently seen were Bugs, the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd, Tweety Bird, Sylvester Cat, Sylvester Junior, Hippety Hopper (the "Giant Mouse"), and Foghorn Leghorn.
- 1968-1978
- 3 seasons
- CBS
- Animation, Comedy
- TV-G
Bugs Bunny and all his cartoon friends are stage performers entertaining audiences with 7 features per show, all of which are classic theatrical cartoons from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Brief interaction sequences on stage between characters was often intercut between the features. All shows began with Bugs and Daffy Duck singing "This is It" and a procession of cartoon stars marching across the stage. Then, a Road Runner song would play, accompanied by clips from his cartoons. All characters appeared at some point in the series, though the ones most frequently seen were Bugs, the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd, Tweety Bird, Sylvester Cat, Sylvester Junior, Hippety Hopper (the "Giant Mouse"), and Foghorn Leghorn.
Season 1 Episode Guide
5 Episodes 1968
Episode 1
Show One
For this show with cartoons located on an ocean liner and in Scotland, Tasmania, a food processing factory, a forest, and a desert beset by a violently trembling coyote, Bugs introduces Daffy as emcee. Daffy, emerging from his broom closet dressing room, attracts the carnivorous wrath of the Tasmanian Devil, who escapes from a backstage crate.
Episode 2
Show Two
Mid-winter hunting season, the Battle of Bagel Heights, and late-1800s San Franciscan gambling are Bugs' predicaments of this episode, Sylvester contends with a bulldog on a train and fights against his son's bird friend, and Wile E. Coyote is plagued by a problematic catapult.
Episode 3
Show Three
Episode 4
Show Four
Sat, Oct 5, 1968
Episode 5
Show Five
Sat, Oct 12, 1968