The Porky Pig Show is an American

United States

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 (airing also in Australia) television

Television

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 anthology series hosted by Porky Pig

Porky Pig

Porky Pig is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his star power, and the animators created many critically acclaimed shorts using the fat little pig...

, that was composed of uncut Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros. animated cartoon series. It preceded the Merrie Melodies series and was Warner Bros.'s first animated theatrical series. Since its first official release, 1930's Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the series has become a worldwide media franchise, spawning several television...

and Merrie Melodies

Merrie Melodies

Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animated cartoons distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures between 1931 and 1969.Originally produced by Harman-Ising Pictures, Merrie Melodies were produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions from 1933 to 1944. Schlesinger sold his studio to Warner Bros. in 1944,...

cartoons made between 1935 and 1963.

The show first aired on ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 in 1964. Since Warner Bros. had closed their cartoon studio the year before, the opening and closing animation and bumpers were produced in New York by animator Hal Seeger

Hal Seeger

Harold "Hal" Seeger was an animated cartoon producer and director who owned his own studio the Hal Seeger Studio ....

, with Winston Sharples

Winston Sharples

Winston Singleton Sharples was a composer known for his work with animated short subjects, especially those created by the animation department at Paramount Pictures...

 composing the title song. It aired on ABC from 1964 to 1967.

The show moved to syndication

Television syndication

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 from 1971 to 1990 as Porky Pig and Friends. For this version, 78 black and white Porky Pig cartoons were hand-traced in color, resulting in a degradation of the animation style and timing. It wasn't until the early 1990's that Warner Bros. made computer-colorized versions available, which preserved the original animation techniques.

Porky Pig also aired on MTN-9 in Australia

Australia

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, as well as other stations worldwide.

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