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

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 production 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	production Chuck Jones Enterprises
Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales	November 27, 1979	Volume 5, Disc 4	Three TV shorts later edited out of it.
The Daffy Duck Easter Show	April 1, 1980	Volume 6, Disc 1	Three TV shorts later edited out of it.
Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over	May 21, 1980	Volume 5, Disc 4	Three TV shorts later edited out of it. 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

Anniversary specials

Title	Year	Notes
Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary Special	January 14, 1986	Featuring interviews with celebrities
Happy Birthday Bugs!: 50 Looney Years	August 15, 1990

Specials with reused footage

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
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	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
The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special	October 26, 1980	* Big House Bunny * Bugs and Thugs * Hare Lift * Operation: Rabbit * Catty Cornered
Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special	November 20, 1980	* His Bitter Half * Robin Hood Daffy * Drip-Along Daffy	Contains one all-new Duck Dodgers short
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
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?
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.[1] 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 * Daffy & Porky in the William Tell Overture * Back Alley Oproar***	***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.
Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes	1991	* 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
Bugs Bunny's Creature Features	February 1, 1992	* Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers * The Duxorcist * Night of the Living Duck

VHS retitling

Several of these TV specials were given a new name when released on video.

TV title	VHS 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 Howl-Oween Special Bugs Bunny's Creature Features	Bugs Bunny's Halloween Hijinks (two previous specials shown back-to-back)
Bugs Bunny's Valentine	Bugs Bunny's Cupid Capers
The Daffy Duck Easter Show	Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-citement
Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special	Daffy Duck in Hollywood (renamed for TV rebroadcast)
Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary Special	The Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes Jubilee (renamed for TV rebroadcast)

Notes

K. Wiley, TD, Allied Visual Artists

External links

The Big Cartoon DataBase entry for Merrie Melodies Cartoons and for Looney Tunes Cartoons
Golden Age Cartoons' The Ultimate Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Website by Jon Cooke
"Warner Brothers Cartoon Companion", a wealth of trivia about the Warner cartoons
Official site

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[1] K. Wiley, TD, Allied Visual Artists