ToonHeads

ToonHeads is an American animation anthology series. It presents 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"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHNTv3oQoE8 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"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihTFjBD8_KQ 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)	Season 1 (1992-95) 	Season 1 (1992-95) 	Season 1 (1992-95) 	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) 	Season 2 (1996) 	Season 2 (1996) 	Season 2 (1996) 	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)	Season 3 (1998-99) 	Season 3 (1998-99) 	Season 3 (1998-99) 	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) 	Season 4 (1999) 	Season 4 (1999) 	Season 4 (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 	
== See also ==
* Toon In With Me
==References==
Category:TV Shows
Category:1992