Looney Tunes: The Collector's Edition

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Looney Tunes The Collector's Edition is a fifteen-volume collectors' series of Looney Tunes videos first released in November 1999 by Warner Home Video. These videos were sent through the mail by Columbia House each month. The videos are listed in the order they were shipped when someone subscribed.

Since Turner was bought by Time Warner in 1996, all three packages of cartoons are in this set, enabling this VHS collection to offer a wider range of cartoons shorts, ranging from Warner Bros. Cartoons' heyday years to the modern revival years. The program was ended in October 2001.

Unlike previous Looney Tunes home video releases, except the LaserDisc releases, the black & white cartoons are presented in their said original presentation.

Volumes

Key

(*): 1995 Turner dubbed versions (for pre-1948 shorts)

(#): 1997 Warner Bros. dubbed versions, without dubbed notice (for post-1948 shorts)

(##): 1998 Warner Bros. dubbed versions, without dubbed notice (for post-1948 shorts)

(B&W): Black & white presentation (for pre-1944 shorts)

First wave: Volumes 1-10

The first wave of volumes began in November 1999.

Cover	Title	Shorts	Release Date
	Vol. 1: All-Stars	"Rabbit Seasoning" (##)  "Tweety's S.O.S."  (##)  "The Cats Bah"  "Tabasco Road"    "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" (*)  "Bowery Bugs"   "The Slap-Hoppy Mouse"  "Bugs Bunny Rides Again" (*)  "The Foghorn Leghorn"  (##)  "Kitty Kornered" (*)  "Bedevilled Rabbit"  "Wild About Hurry"  "The Hasty Hare"	November 1999
	Vol. 2: Running Amuck	"Super-Rabbit" (*)  "Duck Amuck"  "Scaredy Cat"  (##)  "Feed the Kitty"  (##)  "For Scent-imental Reasons"    "Bedtime for Sniffles"  (*)  "Hair-Raising Hare" (*)  "The Scarlet Pumpernickel"   "The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall"  (*)  "Boyhood Daze" (##)  "My Bunny Lies over the Sea"  (##)  "Often an Orphan"   "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century"	December 1999
	Vol. 3: The Vocal Genius	"Awful Orphan"  (##)  "The Stupor Salesman" (##)  "Devil May Hare"  "Past Perfumance"  "Robin Hood Daffy"  "A Fractured Leghorn"  (##)  "Mutiny on the Bunny"   "Golden Yeggs"  (##)  "Speedy Gonzales"   "Tree Cornered Tweety"   "Hillbilly Hare"  "Daffy Dilly"  (not listed but included in the volume)  "Curtain Razor"  "Rabbit Fire"  (##)	January 2000
	Vol. 4: Daffy Doodles	"A-Lad-In His Lamp"  "Boobs in the Woods"   "Lovelorn Leghorn"  (##)  "Daffy Doodles"  (*)  "Big Top Bunny"  (#)  "Pop 'Im Pop!"   "French Rarebit"   "Daffy Duck Hunt"   "Bill of Hare"  "Easter Yeggs" (*)  "The Windblown Hare"  "Daffy Duck Slept Here" (*)  "Little Boy Boo"  "What's Up Doc?"	February 2000
	Vol. 5: Musical Masterpieces	"Baton Bunny"  (##)  "Rhapsody in Rivets"   (*)  "A Corny Concerto"  (*)  "Notes to You"  (B&W)  "Mouse Mazurka"  (##)  "Long-Haired Hare"  "How Do I Know It's Sunday" (B&W)  "Pigs in a Polka"    (*)  "Rabbit of Seville"   "High Note"   "Rhapsody Rabbit" (*)  "One Froggy Evening"   "What's Opera, Doc?"	March 2000
	Vol. 6: Supporting Players	"Mouse Wreckers"    "Rabbit's Kin" (#)  "Little Brother Rat"  (*)  "A Bear for Punishment"   "I Gopher You" (##)  "The Lion's Busy"   "Terrier-Stricken"  "Porky's Double Trouble" (B&W)  "Tree for Two"  "Cinderella Meets Fella" (*)  "Bosko's Dizzy Date" (B&W, as unfinished "Bosko and Honey")  "Don't Give Up the Sheep"  (##)  "Water, Water Every Hare" (##)	April 2000
	Vol. 7: Welcome to Wackyland	"Tortoise Wins by a Hare" (*)  "Book Revue"  (*)  "An Itch in Time"  (*)  "Falling Hare"  (*)  "Horton Hatches the Egg"  (*)  "Eatin' on the Cuff or The Moth Who Came to Dinner"  (B&W)  "The Wacky Wabbit"  (*)  "Draftee Daffy" (*)  "Buckaroo Bugs" (*)  "Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid" (*)  "Porky in Egypt" (B&W)  "The Old Grey Hare" (*)  "Porky in Wackyland" (B&W)	May 2000
	Vol. 8: Tex-Book Looney	"The Heckling Hare" (*)  "Daffy Duck in Hollywood" (*)  "Dangerous Dan McFoo"  (*)  "The Blow Out" (B&W)  "The Cagey Canary"  (*)  "The Crackpot Quail" (*)  "The Bear's Tale"  (*)  "The Haunted Mouse"  (B&W)  "Holiday Highlights" (*)  "Egghead Rides Again" (*)  "Hollywood Steps Out"  (*)  "Tortoise Beats Hare" (*)	June 2000
	Vol. 9: A Looney Life	"High Diving Hare"  (##)  "Ain't She Tweet"   "Cracked Quack"   "Kit for Cat"  (##)  "Baseball Bugs" (*)  "Here Today, Gone Tamale"  "Bunker Hill Bunny" (##)  "Back Alley Oproar"  (*)  "Rabbit Transit" (*)  "A Mouse Divided" (##)  "Hare Do"  "Gift Wrapped"   "You Ought to Be in Pictures" (B&W)	July 2000
	Vol. 10: Canine Corps	"A Hound for Trouble"   "All Fowled Up"   "Porky's Pooch"  (B&W)  "Of Fox and Hounds"  (*)  "Hare Ribbin'" (*)  "Buddy and Towser" (B&W)  "Feline Frame-Up" (##)  "Hollywood Canine Canteen" (*)  "Hare Force" (*)  "Fresh Airedale"  (*)  "Bosko and Bruno"  (B&W)  "Sheep Ahoy"  "Muzzle Tough" (##)  "Tree for Two"	August 2000

Second wave: Volumes 11-15

The second wave of volumes began in June 2001.

Cover	Title	Shorts	Release Date
	Vol. 11: Wabbit Tales	"Wabbit Twouble" (*)  "Hold the Lion, Please" (*)  "Gorilla My Dreams" (*)  "Knight-Mare Hare"  "Compressed Hare"  "Mad as a Mars Hare" (#)  "Box Office Bunny"  "Ali Baba Bunny"  "Elmer's Candid Camera" (*)  "Acrobatty Bunny" (*)  "Wackiki Wabbit"  (*)  "Elmer's Pet Rabbit" (*)	June 2001
	Vol. 12: Porky and Daffy	"Porky & Daffy" (B&W)  "Plane Dippy" (B&W)  "You Were Never Duckier"   "Porky's Bear Facts"  (B&W)  "Rocket Squad"  "Naughty Neighbors" (B&W)  "Porky's Prize Pony"  (B&W)  "Stupor Duck"  "Porky's Cafe"  (B&W)  "To Duck .... or Not to Duck"  (*)  "Tick Tock Tuckered"  (*)	July 2001
	Vol. 13: Comic Cat-Tastrophies	"Catch as Cats Can" (*)  "Bell Hoppy"   "Kiddin' the Kitten"   "Touché and Go"  "Mouse-Placed Kitten"  "Birds Anonymous"    "It's Hummer Time"   "Cats A-weigh!"  "The Aristo-cat"  (*)  "A Peck o' Trouble"   "The Pied Piper of Guadalupe"   "Really Scent"  "Snow Business"	August 2001
	Vol. 14: Cartoon Superstars	"Haredevil Hare" (*)  "Yankee Doodle Daffy"  (*)  "Little Orphan Airedale"  (*)  "Dog Pounded"  (#)  "Louvre Come Back to Me!"  "Fastest with the Mostest"  "The High and the Flighty"   "The Million Hare" (#)  "Odor of the Day"  "Steal Wool"   "The Squawkin' Hawk"  (*)  "Home, Tweet Home"   "The Hare-Brained Hypnotist" (*)	September 2001
	Vol. 15: A Battle of Wits	"Hare Tonic" (*)  "Tweetie Pie"   (*)  "Daffy's Southern Exposure"  (B&W)  "A Fox in a Fix"   "Zoom at the Top"  "A Witch's Tangled Hare"  "Thumb Fun"   "Tweet and Sour"  "Woolen Under Where"  "Crockett-Doodle-Do"  "A Scent of the Matterhorn"  "Bewitched Bunny"	October 2001

Notes

• Each volume in this VHS collection features cartoons based on a certain theme.
  • Vol. 1: All-stars, featuring a variety of Looney Tunes characters
  • Vol. 2: Cartoons directed by Chuck Jones
  • Vol. 3: Cartoons prominently featuring the voice talent of Mel Blanc
  • Vol. 4: Cartoons directed by Robert McKimson
  • Vol. 5: Musical cartoons
  • Vol. 6: Various supporting characters from the Looney Tunes franchise
  • Vol. 7: Cartoons directed by Bob Clampett
  • Vol. 8: Cartoons directed by Tex Avery
  • Vol. 9: Cartoons directed by Friz Freleng
  • Vol. 10: Cartoons featuring dogs from the Looney Tunes franchise
  • Vol. 11: Bugs Bunny cartoons
  • Vol. 12: Cartoons featuring Porky Pig, Daffy Duck or both
  • Vol. 13: Cartoons featuring cats from the Looney Tunes franchise
  • Vol. 14: Same as for Vol. 1
  • Vol. 15: Cartoons featuring battles of wits between various Looney Tunes characters
• As of June 2025 most of the cartoons on the Collector's Edition VHS Tapes have been released - restored and uncut - on DVD and Blu-ray, with the following exceptions:
  • "A-Lad-In His Lamp" (Volume 4)
  • "Bosko's Dizzy Date" (Volume 6)
  • "The Haunted Mouse" (Volume 8)
  • "Buddy and Towser" (Volume 10)
  • "Fastest with the Mostest" (Volume 14)
  • "Zoom at the Top" (Volume 15)
  • "Tweet and Sour" (Volume 15)
  • "Woolen Under Where" (Volume 15)
• In addition, while twelve shorts on these VHS tapes are available on DVD and Blu-ray, they have not yet been released in restored form:
  • "Tree Cornered Tweety" (on Volume 3) was released in restored form on the I Love Tweety: Volume 2 DVD set in Japan; a restored version has not yet been released in the United States. The short was released in unrestored form on the Stars of Space Jam DVD in the U.S.
  • "Mouse Mazurka" and "How Do I Know It's Sunday" (both on Volume 5) were released as unrestored extras on Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection and Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 6 respectively.
  • "I Gopher You" (Volume 6) was released as an unrestored extra on the DVD version of the film His Majesty O'Keefe.
  • "Holiday Highlights" (Volume 8) was released unrestored on the Bugs Bunny's Cupid Capers DVD, and a restored version was released as an extra on the Blu-ray release of the 1941 film Mr. and Mrs. Smith. This restored version has not yet been made available on an official Looney Tunes DVD or Blu-ray release.
  • "The Crackpot Quail" (Volume 8) was released restored and uncut - with its original "raspberry" soundtrack (whereas the VHS used the "whistle" soundtrack) - as an extra on the Tex Avery Screwball Classics: Volume 3 DVD and Blu-ray set. It has not yet been made available on an official Looney Tunes DVD or Blu-ray release.
  • "Bosko and Bruno" (Volume 10) was released as an unrestored extra Blu-ray version of the film The Beast of the City.
  • "The Blow Out" (Volume 10), "Porky & Daffy", "Plane Dippy", "Porky's Bear Facts", "Naughty Neighbors", "Porky's Prize Pony" and "Porky's Cafe" (all on Volume 12) were released on the Porky Pig 101 DVD box-set. While they were remastered from 35mm vault prints, they were not restored from the original camera negatives, and the latter three contain the wrong intro music.

Gallery

Warner Home Video-re-tv Video Library Intro-Warner Bros. (1999-1943)

The intro for Running Amuck.