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  • ABC
  • Nov 1, 1960
  • ABC
  • Nov 1, 1960
The Bugs Bunny Show

Summary The Bugs Bunny Show was ABC's second prime-time animated series, along with The Flintstones and aired at 7:30 pm on Sundays. Not only was it one of the earliest broadcasts of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies on televsion, it was popular for kids since it was a cartoon. Each episode was directed by a handful of senior Warner staffers, inc...

Directed By: Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones

Written By: Michael Maltese, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones

  • ABC
  • Nov 1, 1960
  • ABC
  • Nov 1, 1960
The Bugs Bunny Show
S1 • Episode 4
To Itch His Own/Gee Whiz-z-z-z!/Whoa, Be-Gone!
Air Date: Nov 1, 1960
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Summary The Bugs Bunny Show was ABC's second prime-time animated series, along with The Flintstones and aired at 7:30 pm on Sundays. Not only was it one of the earliest broadcasts of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies on televsion, it was popular for kids since it was a cartoon. Each episode was directed by a handful of senior Warner staffers, inc...

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Episode 1 • Oct 11, 1960
Rabbit Every Monday/A Mouse Divided/Tree For Two
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 • Oct 18, 1960
Putty Tat Trouble/Wise Quackers/Speedy Gonzales
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 • Oct 25, 1960
Wild Over You/Go Fly a Kit/Mouse-Warming
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 • Nov 1, 1960
To Itch His Own/Gee Whiz-z-z-z!/Whoa, Be-Gone!
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 • Nov 8, 1960
Canary Row/Knights Must Fall/For Scent-imental Reasons
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 • Nov 15, 1960
Long-Haired Hare/Sandy Claws/Mouse Wreckers
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 • Nov 22, 1960
Bully For Bugs/Tweety's S.O.S./One Froggy Evening
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 • Nov 29, 1960
My Bunny Lies Over the Sea/Scaredy Cat/Scent-imental Romeo
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 • Dec 6, 1960
Bunker Hill Bunny/Each Dawn I Crow/Golden Yeggs
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 • Dec 13, 1960
Which is Witch/Mouse Mazurka/Kit For Cat
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 • Dec 20, 1960
Two's a Crowd/All a Bir-r-r-d/The Hasty Hare
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 • Dec 27, 1960
What's Up, Doc?/Early to Bet/Pop 'im Pop!
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 • Jan 3, 1961
A-Lad-in His Lamp/Dog Gone South/A Fractured Leghorn
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 • Jan 10, 1961
Ant Pasted/The Fair-Haired Hare/I Gopher You
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 • Jan 17, 1961
Rocket Squad/Daffy Dilly/Drip-Along Daffy
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 • Jan 24, 1961
The Leghorn Blows at Midnight/His Bitter Half/Hot Cross Bunny
Foghorn Leghorn introduces Miss Prissy, who, Foghorn says, is an old-time actress.
Episode 17 • Jan 31, 1961
Lovelorn Leghorn/Who's Kitten Who?/The Windblown Hare
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 • Feb 7, 1961
High Diving Hare/Don't Give Up the Sheep/Stooge For a Mouse
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 • Feb 14, 1961
Mutiny on the Bunny/Punch Trunk/Fast and Furry-ous
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 • Feb 21, 1961
Rabbit of Seville/The Scarlet Pumpernickel/Stop! Look! And Hasten!
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 • Feb 28, 1961
Hillbilly Hare/Hippety Hopper/You Were Never Duckier
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 • Mar 7, 1961
The Turn-Tale Wolf/Paying the Piper/Beanstalk Bunny
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 • Mar 14, 1961
Big House Bunny/Canned Feud/Home, Tweet Home
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 • Mar 21, 1961 • 30 m
Mississippi Hare/Terrier-Stricken/Cheese Chasers
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 • Mar 28, 1961
Henhouse Henery/Curtain Razor/Devil May Hare
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 • Apr 4, 1961
Hare We Go/The Foghorn Leghorn/Little Red Rodent Hood
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.
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