1965

1965 marked a turning point in the history of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, with production of the series continuing under DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. Speedy Gonzales and Daffy Duck begin to be paired, and the studio would further outsource the production of eleven Road Runner cartoons to Format Films, a company helmed by Herbert Klynn.

Twenty-one cartoons were released this year.

History[]

Blue Ribbon Reissues continued to use all original titles during this year.^[1]^[2]
For the 1965-67 seasons, only Bugs Bunny cartoons were reissued in the Blue Ribbon program.
Daffy Duck makes his first pairings with Speedy Gonzales, which would be the norm for majority of the cartoons during this period due to executive and budget demand to concurrently star the two together instead of continuing their series individually.
Friz Freleng retires from directing the series to focus on working on other DePatie-Freleng Enterprises cartoon series, namely the new The Inspector series for United Artists. Robert McKimson would assume all future in-house cartoons at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises from this point.
Eleven Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote cartoons are outsourced to Format Films, who had previously produced the 1960s Alvin and the Chipmunks TV series; all would be directed by Rudy Larriva, who had previously worked as an animator for Chuck Jones from 1938 to 1943. Seven would be released this year, and the remaining four in 1966.

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