The Looney Tunes Video Show

The Looney Tunes Video Show was the first Looney Tunes home video collection from Warner Home Video.http://www.pre-cert.co.uk/search.php?q=The+Looney+Tunes+Video+Show&t=Title&c=UK Many of the Warner Bros.-owned post-1948 Looney Tunes cartoon shorts made their home video debuts through this series, at least in the United States, even though some of them previously debuted on home video as bonus features on the A Night at the Movies tapes back in 1982. 19 volumes were released in total. 
Each tape features 7 cartoons (10 cartoons for the PAL-exclusive Volumes 8-19) arranged in no particular order or theme, and opens with a plain, static version of The Looney Tunes Video Show title card with the 1955-1964 Merrie Melodies opening music playing over it.
The Looney Tunes Video Show offers a wider range of the post-1948 cartoon shorts, ranging from 1948 to 1969. This was known to be the only Looney Tunes home video collection to include cartoon shorts from the lesser-known DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (1964-1967) and Warner Bros.-Seven Arts (1967-1969) eras, until the Bugs & Friends European VHS tapes came out in 1997, even though very few cartoons from both eras were selected for this collection. The quality of the prints in each tape is inferior comparing to later releases.
Time Life Video offered a mail-order set of Looney Tunes tapes during the early 1990s. It was called The Looney Tunes Library, and consisted of the Looney Tunes Video Show, Golden Jubilee and Cartoon Cavalcade tapes. Some of these tapes were packaged with different artwork than the versions offered in stores. Pictures of titles with different covers will soon be available below. Time-Life Video no longer offers these sets.
==Volumes ==
===First batch: Volumes 1-7===
These are the very first batch of The Looney Tunes Video Show VHS volumes. There are 7 volumes in total released in this batch, even though only Volumes 1-3 released in November 1982 were made available in the United States, while Volumes 4-7 never saw a US release; only in Canada and other countries.https://www.intanibase.com/gac/looneytunes/videoltvshow.aspx All 7 volumes were released in the UK in January 1983.http://www.pre-cert.co.uk/search.php?q=looney+tunes+video+show&t=Title&c=UK 
The prints used in this first batch exist in both NTSC and PAL formats, much like most of the later video transfers. These tapes would remain in print well into the mid 1990s.
Each tape has a total of 7 cartoons per volume.
Cover	Title 	Cartoons	
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 	Volume 4	
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 	Volume 5	
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 	Volume 6	
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 	Volume 7	
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===Second batch: Volumes 8-13===
While The Looney Tunes Video Show ended after Volume 7 elsewhere (particularly in Canada), over in the UK and other European PAL countries this VHS series is renewed for an additional 6 more volumes in January 1984, complete with an increase from seven to ten cartoons per tape volume. 
Due to this batch's more limited availability in only the PAL regions, the video transfers made for this second batch only exist in PAL format due to them originally mastered in 576p resolution, and therefore there is a slight difference in picture quality from the transfers used in the first batch, even though the quality of the prints in this batch are still inferior.
Unlike Volumes 1-7, The Looney Tunes Video Show opening title card is not used at all.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhWRPQYxkLg&ab_channel=dylanfagan2
Cover	Title 	Cartoons	
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 	Volume 9 	
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 	Volume 10	
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 	Volume 11	
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 	Volume 12	
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Three of these cartoons are double-dips from other sets. An asterisk (*) will be shown to describe which ones are double-dips.
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 	Volume 13	
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===Third batch: Volumes 14-19===
The Looney Tunes Video Show was renewed and ended with 6 additional volumes released in August 1984 in the UK and other countries. 
Like Volumes 8-13 preceding it, each tape had a total of 10 cartoons per volume and the video transfers made for this third batch only exist in PAL format due to them originally mastered in 576p resolution. 
Cover	Title 	Cartoons	
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 	Volume 15	
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 	Volume 16	
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 	Volume 17	
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 	Volume 18	
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==Notes== 
*The cartoons appearing on The Looney Tunes Video Show volumes 8-19 exist only in PAL format unlike volumes 1-7 where the cartoons exist in both NTSC and PAL formats, due to them originally mastered in 576p resolution.
*Most of these cartoons from this collection (along with cartoons coming from the Golden Jubilee and Cartoon Cavalcade tapes) are time-compressed to PAL speed when shown on Cartoon Network and Boomerang in USA and on Tooncast in Latin America (despite being in NTSC countries). This may have been for time, although the airings of pre-1948 cartoons air at NTSC speed despite pre-1948 cartoons generally running longer than post-1948 cartoons.
*Certain bundles would later be bundled again into certain PAL Special Bumper Collections. For example, volumes 15-16 and 18 were bundled together on Volume 3 of the PAL Special Bumper Collection and volumes 7-9 were bundled together on Volume 1 of the PAL Special Bumper Collection.
==Gallery==
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==See also==
*The Looney Tunes Spectacle Vidéo
*Fiesta de Comiquitas
==References==
Category:Cartoon compilations
Category:UK VHS and DVD Releases
Category:Video Series
Category:Videos and DVDs
Category:1982
Category:1983
Category:1984