Stars of Space Jam

Cover of the Stars of Space Jam Collection DVD reissue

Stars of Space Jam was the sixth Looney Tunes home video collection from Warner Home Video. It was released on 26 November 1996 to promote the release of Space Jam. A Japanese LaserDisc set was released around the same time. Each tape/side featured six cartoons, most of which had not been made available on home video before. This was also notably the first video series with a video featuring the Tasmanian Devil. The series was discontinued around the time the Looney Tunes Presents home video collection debuted.

Each tape in this series began with a short version of the Warner Bros. Family Entertainment logo, which was the same logo as shown on Warner Bros. Animation's cartoon shows (albeit with a short Merrie Melodies fanfare).

DVD editions were released on 9 October 2018, with some slight changes to the Bugs and Daffy releases. All five DVDs were reissued onto a single-disc called Stars of Space Jam Collection: Volume 1, released on 4 June 2019.

Volumes

Cover	Title	Featured cartoons
	Bugs Bunny	VHS order:  "Hot Cross Bunny"   "Barbary-Coast Bunny"  "Homeless Hare"   "Apes of Wrath"  "Forward March Hare"   "Hare Splitter"  DVD order:  "Hot Cross Bunny"  (unrestored)  "Ali Baba Bunny"  "Homeless Hare"   "Apes of Wrath"  "Forward March Hare"   "Hare Splitter"  (unrestored; PAL speed)
	Daffy Duck	VHS order:  "Fool Coverage"   "The High and the Flighty"   "Person to Bunny"  "Holiday for Drumsticks"  "Stupor Duck"  "Boston Quackie"  DVD order:  "Fool Coverage"   "The High and the Flighty"   "Person to Bunny"  "Daffy Duck Slept Here"  "Stupor Duck"  "Boston Quackie"  (unrestored; PAL speed)
	Sylvester and Tweety	"Canary Row"    "Putty Tat Trouble"   "Snow Business"   "Sandy Claws"   "Tree Cornered Tweety"  (unrestored on DVD release)  "Tweet Zoo"  (unrestored on DVD release)
	Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote	"Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z"   "Zoom and Bored"   "Fast and Furry-ous"   "Zip 'n Snort" (unrestored on DVD release)  "Hook, Line and Stinker"  "Hot-Rod and Reel!" (unrestored on DVD release)
	Tasmanian Devil	"Devil May Hare"  "Bedevilled Rabbit"  "Ducking the Devil"  "Bill of Hare"  "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare"  "Fright Before Christmas" (unrestored on DVD release)

Notes

• While most of the cartoons selected in the VHS collection were new-to-home-video, there are also several repeats of cartoons from previous Looney Tunes VHS releases. "Bedevilled Rabbit" and "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare" on the Tasmanian Devil tape originally appeared on the A Salute to Mel Blanc and Bugs Bunny: Truth or Hare tapes respectively. All Road Runner cartoons on the Road Runner tape, except for "Hot-Rod and Reel!", were repeated from the Road Runner vs. Wile E. Coyote: The Classic Chase tape. All three previously-released tapes were still in-print at the time this series came out.
  • Coincidentally, both the cartoons "Zip 'n Snort" and "Hook, Line and Stinker" were previously repeated on the (Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote) Chariots of Fur (and Five Other Cartoons) VHS release released three months earlier.
  • Similarly, for the 2018 DVD edition, most of the cartoons were previously released fully restored and remastered on previous DVD releases, while all the new-to-DVD cartoons in this DVD collection are unrestored.
• On the Tweety and Sylvester tape, "Snow Business" has its original ending card replaced with the 1959-60 Merrie Melodies ending card.
• On the Taz VHS tape, "Fright Before Christmas" is presented as the stand-alone version of the short (with recreated titles), which is also shown on TV airings.
• In Europe, there is an additional VHS tape in this Stars of Space Jam VHS compilation, called "Stars of Space Jam: Space Tunes". Unlike the other tapes in this collection, which mainly focus on only one specific Looney Tunes character, it features a variety of Looney Tunes shorts based on a theme of outer space, including some Marvin the Martian cartoons. It has been released on VHS in the United States as part of Looney Tunes Presents and is referred to as "Marvin the Martian: Space Tunes".
  • "Stars of Space Jam: Space Tunes" was originally planned to be released in this collection in the United States, much like the rest of the world, but the release was delayed until at least 1998 for unknown reasons.

VHS and DVD differences

• On the DVD version of this collection, "Barbary-Coast Bunny" is replaced by "Ali Baba Bunny" on the Bugs Bunny DVD collection, while "Holiday for Drumsticks" is replaced by "Daffy Duck Slept Here" on the Daffy Duck DVD collection. The inclusion of "Daffy Duck Slept Here" is the only cartoon from the a.a.p. package included in any format of the Stars of Space Jam collection. The two shorts were presumably replaced due to the presence of gunfire gags in both shorts, and the DVDs were intended for a family audience as opposed to adult collectors.
• On the DVD version of this collection, all cartoon shorts which had already been restored and remastered for DVD/Blu-ray have their previous unrestored prints from the original VHS version of this collection replaced by their latest restored DVD/Blu-ray transfers. The shorts that remained unrestored at the time of the DVD's release, such as "Hot Cross Bunny", "Hare Splitter", "Boston Quackie", "Hot-Rod and Reel!" and "Zip 'n Snort", still keep their previous unrestored transfers from the VHS collections. However, on the Sylvester and Tweety DVD, both "Tree Cornered Tweety" and "Tweet Zoo" are presented in their unrestored VHS transfers despite both shorts having been restored and remastered for the I Love Tweety: Volume 2 Japanese DVD for reasons unknown.
  • For unknown reasons, both "Hare Splitter" and "Boston Quackie" are presented time-compressed to PAL speed, unlike their previous 1996 VHS counterparts.
  • Both the restored transfers of "Apes of Wrath" and "Person to Bunny" are presented in their original correct 4:3 aspect ratios on this DVD set, as opposed to the cropped widescreen versions used on their respective Looney Tunes Super Stars DVD sets for which they were first restored.
  • Much like the original 1996 VHS collection, all the cartoons on the 2018 DVD collection are uncut and uncensored.
• The entire contents of the Tasmanian Devil DVD collection were previously released on Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1 set (consisting of all five fully restored Taz cartoons from the classic era, "Devil May Hare", "Bedevilled Rabbit", "Ducking the Devil", "Bill of Hare", and "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare", in their correct 4:3 formats, including "Fright Before Christmas" as a bonus feature on the Blu-ray version).
  • On the DVD version of the Tasmanian Devil release, "Fright Before Christmas" is presented as the last ten minutes of the Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales TV special, including the surrounding bridging sequences and the special's entire end credits, beginning with the part where Bugs and the gang are caroling to "Jingle Bells", as opposed to the stand-alone version of the short (with recreated titles) shown on past home video releases and on TV airings.

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