1965

Friz Freleng concludes his career on the series with a double-pairing and cheater cartoon The Wild Chase

Moby Duck, one of the first pairings of both Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales

The infamous "Larriva Eleven" begins with Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner

1965 is another year in the Golden Age of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. Production of the series continued in DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, with a final set of characters being established, most rather notoriously with the Speedy Gonzales and Daffy Duck pairings. With a smaller budget to regularly produce another series of Road Runner cartoons, the studio would further outsource the production of eleven Road Runner cartoons to Format Films.

Twenty-one cartoons were released this year.

History

• Blue Ribbon Reissues continued to use all original titles during this year.
• 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 works. 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 and directed by Rudy Larriva.

Theatrical Cartoons

1.  "Zip Zip Hooray!" (Jones/January 1)
2.  "It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House" (Freleng/January 16)
3.  "Cats and Bruises" (Freleng/January 30)
4.  "Roadrunner a Go-Go" (Jones/February 1)
5.  "The Wild Chase" (Freleng/February 27)
6.  "Moby Duck" (McKimson/March 27)
7.  "Assault and Peppered" (McKimson/April 24)
8.  "Well Worn Daffy" (McKimson/May 22)
9.  "Suppressed Duck" (McKimson/June 18)
10.  "Corn on the Cop" (Spector/July 24)
11.  "Rushing Roulette" (McKimson/July 31)
12.  "Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner" (Larriva/August 21)
13.  "Tease for Two" (McKimson/August 28)
14.  "Tired and Feathered" (Larriva/September 18)
15.  "Boulder Wham!" (Larriva/October 23)
16.  "Chili Corn Corny" (McKimson/October 23)
17.  "Just Plane Beep" (Larriva/October 30)
18.  "Hairied and Hurried" (Larriva/November 13)
19.  "Go Go Amigo" (McKimson/November 20)
20.  "Highway Runnery" (Larriva/December 11)
21.  "Chaser on the Rocks" (Larriva/December 25)

Blue Ribbon Reissues

1964-65 Season

1. "Rabbitson Crusoe" (January)
2. "Too Hop to Handle" (January)
3. "Zoom and Bored" (March)
4. "The Hole Idea" (April)
5. "Napoleon Bunny-Part" (May)
6. "By Word of Mouse" (June)
7. "Half-Fare Hare" (July)
8. "The Unexpected Pest" (August)

1965-66 Season

1. "What's Opera, Doc?" (September)
2. "Wideo Wabbit" (November)
3. "Snow Business" (December)

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