The Road Runner Show

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The Road Runner Show
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Genre Anthology
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes26
Production
Running time30 minutes
Production companies Warner Bros. Television
DePatie-Freleng Enterprises
Original release
Network CBS (1966–1968)
ABC (1971–1973)
ReleaseSeptember 10, 1966 (1966-09-10) –
September 2, 1972 (1972-09-02)

The Road Runner Show is an American Saturday morning animated anthology series which compiled theatrical Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner cartoons from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies , which were produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons between 1949 and 1964. Several of the shorts, especially the ones produced from 1965 onward, were produced by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises after Warner Bros. closed their animation studio. DePatie–Freleng Enterprises provided the animation for the show's intro, closing credits as well as the wrap-around bumpers. [1] [2]

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Background

From 1966 to 1968, The Road Runner Show initially ran for two seasons on CBS. [3] [4] From 1968 to 1969, CBS combined The Road Runner Show with The Bugs Bunny Show to produce The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour. The Road Runner and the Coyote more often shared at least an hour with Bugs Bunny on CBS. [5] In 1971, ABC picked up The Road Runner Show and ran for two seasons until 1973, when the network dropped the show due to its excessively aggressive scenes. Later on, CBS re-acquired the show and aired them as reruns under The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour until the mid-80s. [6]

Each show would feature one Road Runner/Coyote cartoon, with a Tweety and Sylvester cartoon in the middle segment, and other WB animated character(s) in the third segment (usually Elmer Fudd, Foghorn Leghorn, Speedy Gonzales, Pepé Le Pew and Hippety Hopper). The intro of every cartoon was replaced with a simple title card, along with the shortened version of William Lava's arrangement of The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down .

Internationally

The show aired in Albania on Bang Bang and Çufo, and in Hungary on M1 and RTL Klub. In Indonesia, The Road Runner Show was first aired on RCTI shortly after its launch in 1989 until 1990, and on TV7 (later rebranded as Trans7) between 2006 and 2008. In the Philippines, it was also formerly Aired on RPN 9 from 1988 to 1990.

Theme song

The theme song was written and performed by Barbara Cameron. In 1999, it was covered by the Mexican band Chicos de Barrio and was later parodied in Histeria! featuring Father Time and Big Fat Baby. It has also been covered by Barenaked Ladies, and Barbara Cameron re-recorded the theme with her son, Jazz violinist Doug Cameron (with Paul Julian's iconic Beep-Beep and other sound effects from the shorts used on the recording) for his Different Hats album in 2008. An instrumental version was used as the theme song for the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote segments of The Looney Tunes Show .

Episodes (Season 3)

NºWile E. and Road RunnerTweety and SylvesterOtherAir date
1 Zip 'N Snort The Jet Cage The Wild Chase September 4, 1971
2 Beep Prepared Putty Tat Trouble Cats and Bruises September 11, 1971
3 Ready, Set, Zoom! Hyde and Go Tweet Weasel While You Work September 18, 1971
4 Zoom at the Top Tree Cornered Tweety Hoppy DazeSeptember 25, 1971
5 War and Pieces Tweety's Circus A Sheep in the Deep October 2, 1971
6 To Beep or Not to Beep Trick or Tweet Birds of a FatherOctober 9, 1971
7 The Solid Tin Coyote A Street Cat Named Sylvester The Dixie Fryer October 16, 1971
8 There They Go-Go-Go! Dog Pounded Woolen Under Where October 23, 1971
9 Scrambled Aches Hawaiian Aye Aye Dr. Jerkyl's Hide October 30, 1971
10 Sugar and Spies A Bird in a Guilty Cage Cannery WoeNovember 6, 1971
11 Whoa, Be-Gone! Tweet Tweet Tweety Don't Axe Me November 13, 1971
12 Clippety Clobbered Greedy for Tweety Pop 'im Pop! November 20, 1971
13 Hopalong Casualty Tweet and Lovely Wild Over You November 27, 1971
14Hairied and Hurried Tugboat Granny Mother Was a Rooster December 4, 1971
15 Lickety-Splat Tweet and Sour Fish and SlipsDecember 11, 1971
16Tired and Feathered Fowl Weather A Mutt in a Rut December 18, 1971
17 Going! Going! Gosh! Gift Wrapped Mouse-Taken IdentityDecember 25, 1971
18 Rushing Roulette Ain't She Tweet The Mouse on 57th StreetJanuary 1, 1972
19 Stop! Look! And Hasten! Catty Cornered Chili Weather January 8, 1972
20Highway Runnery A Pizza Tweety-Pie Strangled Eggs January 15, 1972
21 Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z Trip for Tat What's My Lion? January 22, 1972
22Shot and Bothered Muzzle Tough Touché and Go January 29, 1972
23 Fast and Furry-ous A Bird in a Bonnet Claws in the Lease February 5, 1972
24Out and Out RoutTweet Dreams The Slick Chick February 12, 1972
25 Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner Snow Business To Itch His OwnFebruary 19, 1972
26Boulder Wham! Tweet Zoo The Slap-Hoppy MouseFebruary 26, 1972

Cast

Trivia

See also

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