Looney Tunes Wiki
Advertisement
Robin Hood Daffy Lobby Card

Robin Hood Daffy ends Daffy and Porky's parody series on a high note

1485wb2

To Itch His Own concludes Carl W. Stalling's long work scoring the Looney Tunes shorts

Knighty-knight-bugs1-300x230

Knighty Knight Bugs finally earns Bugs Bunny an Oscar-winning short

1958 would mark the year where several staff members from the studio would retire or quit for other ventures. Carl W. Stalling would score his final set of cartoons, while a musician strike leads to six cartoons having stock music from the Capitol Hi-Q library. Meanwhile, Bugs Bunny would win his only Oscar in "Knighty Knight Bugs".

History[]

  • Eddie Selzer retires from producing cartoons and is succeeded by John W. Burton.
  • Michael Maltese leaves Warner Bros. Cartoons to work for Hanna-Barbera.[1][2]
  • All cartoons from this year had blue Color Rings with the WB zooming shield.
  • Carl W. Stalling retires from composing music for the series.
    • Shortly after Carl Stalling retired, due to a musicians strike later this year, Milt Franklyn was not able to compose music for 6 cartoons; he returned to compose the music in "Cat Feud". As a result, stock music was used from "Weasel While You Work" to "Hip Hip Hurry".

Theatrical Shorts[]

  1. Merrie Melodies "Don't Axe Me" (McKimson/January 4)
  2. Looney Tunes "Tortilla Flaps" (McKimson/January 18)
  3. Merrie Melodies "Hare-Less Wolf" (Freleng/February 1) Blue Ribbon
  4. Looney Tunes "A Pizza Tweety-Pie" (Freleng/February 22)
  5. Merrie Melodies "Robin Hood Daffy" (Jones/March 8)
  6. Looney Tunes "Hare-Way to the Stars" (Jones/March 29) Blue Ribbon
  7. Merrie Melodies "Whoa, Be-Gone!" (Jones/April 12)
  8. Looney Tunes "A Waggily Tale" (Freleng/April 26)
  9. Merrie Melodies "Feather Bluster" (McKimson/May 10)
  10. Looney Tunes "Now, Hare This" (McKimson/May 31) Blue Ribbon
  11. Merrie Melodies "To Itch His Own" (Jones/June 28)
  12. Looney Tunes "Dog Tales" (McKimson/July 26)
  13. Looney Tunes "Knighty Knight Bugs" (Freleng/August 23) Blue Ribbon Academy Award winner
  14. Merrie Melodies "Weasel While You Work" (McKimson/September 6)
  15. Merrie Melodies "A Bird in a Bonnet" (Freleng/September 27)
  16. Looney Tunes "Hook, Line and Stinker" (Jones/October 11)
  17. Looney Tunes "Pre-Hysterical Hare" (McKimson/November 1) Blue Ribbon
  18. Looney Tunes "Gopher Broke" (McKimson/November 15)
  19. Merrie Melodies "Hip Hip- Hurry!" (Jones/December 6)
  20. Merrie Melodies "Cat Feud" (Jones/December 20)

Blue Ribbon Reissues[]

1957-58 Season[]

  1. Merrie Melodies "Home, Tweet Home" (January 25)
  2. Looney Tunes "Mississippi Hare" (February 15)
  3. Looney Tunes "Caveman Inki" (March 1)
  4. Looney Tunes "It's Hummer Time" (March 22)
  5. Merrie Melodies "A Fractured Leghorn" (April 19)
  6. Looney Tunes "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" (May 17)
  7. Looney Tunes "All a Bir-r-r-d" (June 14)
  8. Merrie Melodies "Awful Orphan" (July 12)
  9. Merrie Melodies "Rebel Rabbit" (August 9)
  10. Merrie Melodies "Stooge for a Mouse" (August 30)

1958-59 Season[]

  1. Merrie Melodies "Bowery Bugs" (September 16)
  2. Merrie Melodies "An Egg Scramble" (October 4)
  3. Looney Tunes "Wise Quackers" (October 25)
  4. Looney Tunes "Two's a Crowd" (November 22)
  5. Merrie Melodies "Canary Row" (December 13)

Character Debuts[]

People[]

Deaths[]

Warner Club News Stories and Art[]

References[]


<< 1957 Timeline 1959 >>


Advertisement