Saturday Morning TV from 60's and 70's by Warner Bros

Originally Posted by Charles Ellis

At least the 70s put in both Laff-a-Lympics and The Funky Phantom- two childhood faves not yet on disc! I'm also looking forward to seeing the Chan series- it was possibly the first time an Asian actor played the sleuth (here, it's Keye Luke, who played Number One Son in some of the feature films).

Originally Posted by Timothy E

I will pick up both of these sets.

I am surprised that the Filmation Tarzan is included. If Warner Brothers has the rights to this series, I am surprised that a Tarzan complete series set has never been released on DVD.

I hope this also precedes a Bugs Bunny Show set that includes all of the animation directed specifically for the TV show by Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, and Robert McKimson.

Originally Posted by Jeff-Wooten

Still these sets sound like a cool concept (at least from a potential first viewing), but if this is supposed to replicate a true representation of Saturday Morning viewing, does this mean that the BUGS BUNNY/ROADRUNNER SHOW cartoons will be the non-violent edits?

Originally Posted by chadHobbick

I'm curious as to how the video will be on the HB shows that they said were rough and thereby preventing their release on dvd at the time.

Originally Posted by Joe Tor1

A friend believes that the Tom and Jerry content on the Sixties Set to be from the seventies made-for-TV version!

Originally Posted by DeWilson

Have they ever turned up complete wrap around elements for the BUGS BUNNY show? Even in B&W?

Originally Posted by Jerry Beck

Matthew Hunter also recently asked:
I recently acquired copies of several vintage Bugs Bunny shows, each featuring the original ads and in black and white. However, I have seen some footage from this series in color, and even a color chart in an animation book. Obviously, the prints available now are old TV prints from station that didn't feature color at the time, I guess...because wasn't the "Bugs Bunny Show" produced in color? Do you know a good source for digging up some more of these, color or B/W?

No.

THE BUGS BUNNY SHOW (1960-62), the original 52 episodes, are the rarest of all the things listed in my book LOONEY TUNES & MERRIE MELODIES: A COMPLETE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE WARNER BROS. CARTOONS (co-written with Will Friedwald).
Like THE ADVENTURES OF THE ROAD RUNNER (which was dug up & patched together for my TOONHEADS: THE LOST CARTOONS special), Warner Bros. Animation chopped up the original negatives for the later Saturday morning BUGS BUNNY ROAD RUNNER SHOW broadcasts and subsequent Saturday Morning incarnations (of over 35 years!).
Since the show never went off network broadcast, and never sold in syndication,16mm prints of complete episodes, in color, were never struck. The complete prints that are around (in film collectors circles) are mainly black & white, created, as you point out, for distribution to local stations broadcasting in black & white in 1960-62.
Yes, THE BUGS BUNNY SHOW was produced in color. The few color prints I've ever seen are from the later 1960s reruns.
For years Warner Bros. has claimed that the complete original shows do not exist. I know two things, in all my years of research: that Warner Bros. does have black & white negatives of the complete shows - and that color negs may exist in Europe. Until Warner Bros. (or Cartoon Network) decide to revive these classic shows (with fresh bridging animation by Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng and Robert McKimson, voices by Mel Blanc, and additional classic animation footage of their famous characters including the Tasmanian Devil), we will be deprived of these historic episodes.
That the black & white negs exist, it would be a simple (but costly) matter to computer colorize the bridging material and completely restore them.
Recently, due to my involvement with the LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION DVD, I was able to dig out one episode - A STAR IS BORED - and cobble together the existing original materials (black & white & color) to recreate a sample of the bridging material. I hope to convince Warner Bros. to someday restore the entire series.
Researching those shows for my LOONEY TUNES book was the hardest thing I ever had to do! Sorry Matthew, I don't know a source for viewing THE BUGS BUNNY SHOW. I've been trying to convince anyone who'd listen for the last 15 years, that these shows are an endangered spieces!

Update: I've begun working with Warner Home Video to restore the bridging material for the BUGS BUNNY SHOW for their dvd series THE LOONEY TUNES GOLDEN COLLECTION. One set of bridges appear on each volume.

Originally Posted by MarcoBiscotti

Well it's encouraging to see the image of Squiddly Diddly being used on the press advert as that was originally a segment of The Atom Ant Show, which bodes well for the possibility of complete episodes.

Originally Posted by Mark Y

Apparently, B&W negatives do exist for all 52 of the original Season 1 and Season 2 shows, per Jerry Beck:

CARTOON RESEARCH FAQ-1



Note, however: Teletoon in Canada has aired some of the WB television shows, notably the old Road Runner show in its original format, with the opening, closing, interstitial clips, and the original versions of the short TV titles with the original audio (a short clip of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" from the late 1960s WB cartoons). I'm told at some point in the past, The Bugs Bunny Show was airing on Canadian TV well past the point where those segments would have been chopped up in the US. But if anyone would know, it would be Jerry Beck...and if that material was obtainable, it would have made the DVD collections.

Originally Posted by Mark Y

Teletoon in Canada has aired some of the WB television shows, notably the old Road Runner show in its original format, with the opening, closing, interstitial clips, and the original versions of the short TV titles with the original audio (a short clip of "The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down" from the late 1960s WB cartoons). I'm told at some point in the past, The Bugs Bunny Show was airing on Canadian TV well past the point where those segments would have been chopped up in the US. But if anyone would know, it would be Jerry Beck...and if that material was obtainable, it would have made the DVD collections.