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ToonHeads is an American animation anthology series. It presented Hanna-Barbera, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros. Animation and Paramount's Popeye cartoon shorts with background information and trivia, prominently about animators and voice actors like: Mel Blanc, Tex Avery, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising, David H. DePatie, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, and Daws Butler. The program was narrated by Leslie Fram and Don Kennedy. Every half-hour episode had a different theme, usually centered on a character or director's work, but some episodes went for running themes, such as Christmas cartoons, cartoons that lampooned the myth of the stork bringing babies to expecting parents, sports cartoons, cartoons that parodied newsreels and travelogues; and even one episode centered on the allegations of plagiarism between Friz Freleng's "Rhapsody Rabbit" and Hanna and Barbera's "The Cat Concerto".
ToonHeads was originally broadcast on Cartoon Network from 2 October 1992, until 23 November 2003. The series ran for 102 episodes, including four hour-long specials. Two of the specials were never aired: one called "The Twelve Missing Hares"[1] centered on twelve Bugs Bunny cartoons that were banned for having an ethnic caricature as Bugs' antagonist during the 2001 June Bugs marathon and another "The Best of the Worst Cartoons Ever"[2] about the worst cartoons ever made. The ones that did air were one about rare and forgotten animated and live-action shorts called "ToonHeads: The Lost Cartoons", and another about World War II cartoons. As of August 2022, the two missing episodes have been found and uploaded to video sites.
There was also a special that aired 20 October 1996 called "A Night of Independent Animation", which featured independent student films, such as "Another Bad Day for Philip Jenkins" by Mo Willems and "The Wire" by Aaron Augenblick.
Episodes[]
Each episode lasted either 30 minutes or an entire hour. Some of these episodes in early seasons are undocumented and may or may not exist, though efforts are being made by lost media enthusiasts and those who consistently recorded television shows on their VCRs to upload either full episodes or parts of episodes considered lost to time or non-existent.
Only episodes that includes Looney Tunes or Merrie Melodies cartoons or their related media from the Warner Bros. cartoon studio are included.
| Episode No. | Episode Title | Cartoons Featured | Airdate | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 (1992-95) | ||||
| 5 | Hollywood | Slick Hare/Popeye's 20th Anniversary/Yankee Doodle Daffy | October 30th, 1992 | |
| 6 | The Old West | Hare Trigger/Homesteader Droopy/Wagon Heels | November 6th, 1992 | |
| 7 | Music | Me Musical Nephews/Rabbit of Seville/Johann Mouse | November 13th, 1992 | |
| 8 | Sports | Baseball Bugs/The Bowling Alley-Cat/The Football Toucher-Downer | November 20th, 1992 | |
| 9 | Mel Blanc | Rabbit Seasoning/Speedy Gonzales/Daffy Duck Slept Here | November 27th, 1992 | |
| 12 | Bugs Bunny In Fairy Tales | Little Red Riding Rabbit/Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears/Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk | December 18th, 1992 | |
| 14 | The Best Of Tex Avery | January 1st, 1993 | Shorts currently unknown | |
| 15 | Academy Award-Winning Toons | January 8th, 1993 | Shorts currently unknown | |
| 16 | Cartoon Sequels | January 15th, 1993 | Shorts currently unknown | |
| 18 | Valentine's Day | The Zoot Cat/The Stupid Cupid/Little 'Tinker | February 14th, 1993 | |
| 19 | St. Patrick's Day | The Huck Of The Irish/Droopy Leprechaun/The Wearing of the Grin | March 17th, 1993 | |
| 20 | Wobbert Cwampett: That Cwazy Diwector | June 18th, 1993 | Shorts currently unknown | |
| 21 | Don't Adjust Your Color: Black-and-White Cartoons | June 25th, 1993 | Shorts currently unknown | |
| 22 | Insomnia | August 20th, 1993 | Shorts currently unknown | |
| 23 | Forgotten Directors: Frank Tashlin | April 15th, 1994 | Shorts currently unknown | |
| 24 | Forgotten Directors: Arthur Davis | April 29th, 1994 | Shorts currently unknown | |
| Season 2 (1996) | ||||
| 31 | Gossamer | December 16, 1996 | Shorts currently unknown | |
| 32 | Blame It on the Stork! | December 23, 1996 | Shorts currently unknown | |
| 33 | The Economy According to Sylvester | By Word of Mouse/Heir-Conditioned/Yankee Dood It | December 30, 1996 | |
| Season 3 (1998-99) | ||||
| 34 | Travelogue Cartoons | Detouring America/Crazy Cruise/Fresh Fish | November 13, 1998 | |
| 35 | Emily the Chicken | Let It Be Me/A Star Is Hatched/Strangled Eggs | November 20, 1998 | |
| 36 | Baseball Cartoons | Gone Batty/Batty Baseball/Baseball Bugs | November 27, 1998 | |
| 37 | The Early Works of Chuck Jones | The Night Watchman/Dog Gone Modern/Toy Trouble | December 4, 1998 | |
| 38 | Southern Fried Cartoons | Southern Fried Rabbit/Backwoods Bunny/The Dixie Fryer | December 11, 1998 | |
| 39 | Midnight in the Bookstore | Speaking of the Weather/You're an Education/Book Revue | December 18, 1998 | Later reruns replaces "You're an Education" with an unofficial redrawn colorized version of "I Like Mountain Music". |
| 40 | The Many Faces of Robin Hood | Robin Hood Makes Good/Robin Hood Daffy/Robin Hoodwinked | December 25, 1998 | |
| 41 | Hollywood Nights | The CooCoo Nut Grove/Hollywood Steps Out/Slick Hare | January 1, 1999 | |
| 42 | Future Shock | Dog Gone Modern/House Hunting Mice/The House of Tomorrow | January 8, 1999 | |
| 43 | Movie Star Bugs | A Hare Grows in Manhattan/What's Up Doc? | January 15, 1999 | |
| 44 | Shut Eye | Good Night Elmer/Back Alley Oproar/Daffy Duck Slept Here | January 22, 1999 | |
| 45 | Egghead | Daffy Duck & Egghead/Count Me Out/A Day at the Zoo | January 29, 1999 | |
| 46 | The Dreams of Bob Clampett | The Old Grey Hare/The Great Piggy Bank Robbery/The Big Snooze | February 5, 1999 | |
| Season 4 (1999) | ||||
| 47 | The Goofy Gophers | The Goofy Gophers/I Gopher You/Tease for Two | May 14, 1999 | |
| 48 | Motor Heads | Streamlined Greta Green/One Cab's Family/L'il Johnny Jet | May 21, 1999 | |
| 49 | Fight Night | Let's You and Him Fight/To Duck .... or Not to Duck/Rabbit Punch | May 28, 1999 | |
| 50 | The Evolution of Tweety | A Tale of Two Kitties/Tweetie Pie/Canary Row | June 6, 1999 | |
| 51 | The Year Elmer Fudd Got Fat | Wabbit Twouble/The Wacky Wabbit/Fresh Hare | June 13, 1999 | |
| 52 | The Nice Mice of Warner Bros. | Ain't We Got Fun/A Sunbonnet Blue/The Mice Will Play | June 20, 1999 | |
| 53 | Toro! Toro! | Bulldozing the Bull/Bully for Bugs/Señor Droopy | June 27, 1999 | |
| 54 | Director Robert McKimson | Daffy Doodles/Easter Yeggs/Walky Talky Hawky | July 4, 1999 | |
| 55 | Our Man Sam | Hare Trigger/Along Came Daffy/Bugs Bunny Rides Again | July 11, 1999 | |
| 56 | The Musical Cartoons of Friz Freleng | Rhapsody in Rivets/Lights Fantastic/Rhapsody Rabbit | July 18, 1999 | |
| 57 | Night of 1000 Elves | Busy Bakers/Holiday for Shoestrings/The Peachy Cobbler | July 25, 1999 | |
| 58 | One Toon Wonders | Ghost Wanted/The Crackpot Quail/One Froggy Evening | August 1, 1999 | |
| 59 | Battle of the Bookworms | The Bookworm/Sniffles and the Bookworm/The Wacky Worm | August 8, 1999 | |
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