Today begins the last full week of the Countdown to Halloween. The big night is a week from tomorrow. Get your last-minute spooky fix in while you can!
Today I offer the 1977 CBS special Bugs Bunny's Howl-Oween. This is a collection of classic Looney Tunes cartoons, each with a spooky theme and perfect for Halloween. There were several such Looney Tunes specials during the late 70s and early 80s made the same way for other holidays. They certainly weren't classics the way the Great Pumpkin and Witch's Night Out are, probably because Looney Tunes cartoons were much more accessible in those days than other cartoons, but they were still welcome additions to prime time children's viewing. For a fun cartoon fix, you usually can't go wrong with Looney Tunes!
Enjoy, Doc!
4 comments:
I think you hit why these never got the same level of The Great Pumpkin. The shorts included were seen over and over by kids on Saturday mornings. We knew them all by heart by the time they would air these compilations. But yeah, still great stuff. Always fun.
Exactly. The Great Pumpkin was a one-time-a-year event in those days; however, these cartoons aired pretty frequently. But in the days before 24-hour cartoon cable networks and streaming services, any time TV time slots were taken away from adults for the sake of kids was a blessing :)
The newly-animated segues that connected the vintage cartoons were always jarring to me. Even though they were animated under Chuck Jones and voiced by Mel Blanc, they just didn't look or sound right. But, you are correct, a chance to watch cartoons outside of Saturday morning was a bonus.
You could always tell which were the classics 'toons and which were the new ones. They could have just discarded the wraparound material and we would have been just fine :)
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