Yesteryear's Imagination

By Kevin McCorry



Bugs Bunny wishes to be at once virtuous and carefree and must repel antagonists (e.g. Elmer Fudd, Yosemite Sam, Daffy Duck, et al.) intending his demise or the usurping or undermining of his property or principles. Wile E. Coyote and Sylvester Cat have carnivorous desires for, respectively, the rapid Road Runner and the clever Tweety Bird. Rooster Foghorn Leghorn enjoys his fun and his bachelorhood, an existence complicated by a tiny chicken hawk, a barnyard dog that wants revenge for Foghorn's playfully violent attacks on his posterior, and a lovelorn hen. Daffy Duck vainly aims for fame and fortune. Pepe Le Pew seeks romance, despite his skunk's stench. Speedy Gonzales strives to provide nourishment for himself and his fellow Mexican mice, often in conflict with a mice-craving or cheese-defending Sylvester. Etc..

Available here are information articles and episode guides for the television series by which Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies and their anthropomorphized animal characters have been seen and enjoyed by several generations of people by the millions, with Spotlight Articles on specific cartoons or on cartoon personalities.

Televised Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies

The Bugs Bunny Show
(1960-2; 1971-5) Page

The Road Runner Show
(1966-8; 1971-2) Page

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour
(1968-71; 1975-85) Page

The Bugs Bunny & Tweety Show
(1986-2000) Page

The Looney Tunes On Nickelodeon (1988-99) Page, co-written with Jon Cooke

The Merrie Melodies: Starring Bugs Bunny and Friends
(1990-4) Page

The That's Warner Bros.!/Bugs N' Daffy Show (1995-8) Page, co-written with Jon Cooke

The Other Television Shows Starring the Warner Brothers Cartoon Characters


Of course, Warner Brothers does not have a monopoly on vividly imaginative animation. As with the Warner Brothers cartoon compilation television series, format of treatment here for the following consists of articles and episode guides.

                Other Animated Cartoon Television Programs                

The Flintstones
(1960-6) Page

The Rocket Robin Hood
(1966-9) Page

The Spiderman
(1967-70) Page

The Pink Panther Show
(1969-81) Page

The Star Blazers
(1979-80) Page


Live-action film and television has offered many imaginative opuses, too.

Live-Action Fanciful Entertainments

The Prisoner
(1967-8) Page

The Space: 1999
(1975-7) Page

The Littlest Hobo
(1979-85) Page

The Last Place On Earth
(1985) Page

Dr. Jekyll's Many Hydes: The Film and Television Versions of the Horror Tale

The James Bond
Films


From Big Screen to Small Screen: Earthquake and
Superman

Sci-Fi Soap: Dallas' "Dream Season"
or Pamela Ewing: "Sleeper of the Year"

The Alien Savior: Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still

Dystopic Future: The Set Design of Alien

Examining
Movie Trilogies

The Dream That Died: The Late 1980s Television Show Reunion Movies



All images involving Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies and Superman image (c) Warner Bros.
Spiderman and Rocket Robin Hood images (c) Krantz Films
Flintstones image (c) Hanna-Barbera
Pink Panther Show image (c) United Artists/DePatie-Freleng Enterprises
Star Blazers image (c) Jupiter Films/Sunwagon Productions/Voyager Entertainment Inc.
The Littlest Hobo images (c) Glen-Warren Productions
The Prisoner and Space: 1999 images (c) ITC Entertainment/Carlton Communications
The Last Place On Earth image (c) Central Productions/Renegade Films
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde image (c) Paramount Publix Corp. and Warner Bros.
James Bond montage image (c) United Artists
Dallas image (c) Lorimar Pictures
The Day the Earth Stood Still and Alien images (c) Twentieth Century Fox
The Empire Strikes Back image (c) Lucasfilm Ltd.
Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman image (c) Universal Television
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