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The TV series ToonHeads is an animation
Animation
Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. The effect is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in several ways...

 anthology series consisting of uncut Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio
The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio was the in-house division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer motion picture studio in Hollywood, California during the Golden Age of American animation, responsible for producing animated short subjects to accompany MGM feature films in Loew's Theaters...

 & Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...

 cartoon shorts, with interesting background information and trivia, prominently by animator
Animator
An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an...

s and voice actors like: Mel Blanc
Mel Blanc
Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc was an American voice actor and comedian. Although he began his nearly six-decade-long career performing in radio commercials, Blanc is best remembered for his work with Warner Bros...

, Tex Avery
Tex Avery
Frederick Bean "Fred/Tex" Avery was an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. He did his most significant work for the Warner Bros...

, Hugh Harman, Rudy Ising, David H. DePatie, Friz Freleng
Friz Freleng
Isadore "Friz" Freleng was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros....

, Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones
Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio...

, William Hanna
William Hanna
William Denby Hanna was an American animator, director, producer, and cartoon artist, whose film and television cartoon characters entertained millions of people for much of the 20th century. When he was a young child, Hanna's family moved frequently, but they settled in Compton, California, by...

, Joseph Barbera
Joseph Barbera
Joseph Roland Barbera was an influential American animator, director, producer, storyboard artist, and cartoon artist, whose film and television cartoon characters entertained millions of fans worldwide for much of the twentieth century....

, and Daws Butler
Daws Butler
Charles Dawson "Daws" Butler was a voice actor originally from Toledo, Ohio. He worked mostly for Hanna-Barbera and originated the voices of many famous animated cartoon characters, including Yogi Bear, Quick Draw McGraw, Snagglepuss, and Huckleberry Hound.Daws Butler trained many working actors...

. The program was narrated by Leslie Fram
Leslie Fram
Leslie Fram is an American radio personality on commercial radio.Her first professional job was at WABF in Fairhope, Alabama. One of the weekend shows she hosted was called "Platter Ladder"...

 and Don Kennedy
Don Kennedy
Donald Kennedy, , , is a radio, film and television actor whose career began in the late 1940s with a radio announcer spot on PA station WPIC....

. Every half-hour episode would have a different theme.

It was originally broadcast on Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network is a name of television channels worldwide created by Turner Broadcasting which used to primarily show animated programming. The channel began broadcasting on October 1, 1992 in the United States....

 from October 1992 to November 23, 2003 (the Christmas special was shown on December 24, 2005). The series composed over 82 additional episodes, two one-hour specials, and one half-hour special of which, never aired.

Season 1

The following is a list of episodes that have aired on season 1 of the show
  1. El Kabong (cartoons about Hanna-Barbera character Quick Draw McGraw and his alter ego, El Kabong)
  2. Barney Bear
    Barney Bear
    Barney Bear was a series of animated cartoon short subjects produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. The titular character was an anthropomorphic cartoon character, a sluggish, sleepy bear who often is in pursuit of nothing but peace and quiet....

     (cartoons about MGM character Barney Bear)
  3. Tom and Jerry
    Tom and Jerry
    Tom and Jerry are the cat and mouse cartoon characters that were evolved starting in 1939.Tom and Jerry also may refer to:Cartoon works featuring the cat and mouse so named:* The Tom and Jerry Show...

    : The Chuck Jones Cartoons (Tom and Jerry cartoons made under Chuck Jones's direction in the 1960s)
  4. Ranger John Smith
    Ranger Smith
    Ranger John Francis Smith is a fictional character in the Yogi Bear cartoon series.-Character:A former US Army soldier, he is the serious and stern authority figure in Jellystone Park, in contrast to the antics of the troublesome Yogi, and he greatly disapproves of Yogi's picnic basket thievery.In...

     (Yogi Bear cartoons featuring Yogi's antagonist, Ranger Smith)
  5. Hollywood (cartoons centered on Hollywood and the celebrities of the era)
  6. The Old West
    The Old West
    The Old West is a series of books about the fundamental founding of the American Old West, published by Time-Life Books from 1973 through 1980. Each book focused on a different topic, such as cowboys, American indians, gamblers and gunfighters....

     (cartoons that parody Westerns)
  7. Music (cartoons that heavily feature music)
  8. Sports (cartoons in which most of the gags center on sports)
  9. Mel Blanc (cartoons featuring Mel Blanc's voice-acting range)
  10. Daws Butler (cartoons featuring Daws Butler's voice-acting range)
  11. The Evolution of Tom and Jerry (Tom and Jerry cartoons as the years progressed)
  12. Bugs Bunny
    Bugs Bunny
    Bugs Bunny is a animated character created in 1938 at Leon Schlesinger Productions, later Warner Bros. Cartoons. Bugs is an anthropomorphic gray rabbit and is famous for his flippant, insouciant personality and his portrayal as a trickster. He has primarily appeared in animated cartoons, most...

     in Fairy Tales (fairy tale parodies featuring Bugs Bunny)
  13. Jay Ward (cartoons from Jay Ward Productions
    Jay Ward Productions
    Jay Ward Productions was an Amercian animated television cartoon series production company, founded in 1949 by American animator Jay Ward. It made extensive use of limited animation techniques....

    )
  14. Valentine's Day (romantic comedy cartoons)
  15. St. Patrick's Day (cartoons featuring leprechauns and Irish caricatures)

Season 2

The following is a list of episodes aired on season 2
  1. Travelogue Cartoons (cartoons parodying the travelogue, a short film highlighting the sights of a certain location)
  2. Emily the Chicken (cartoons centered on minor WB character Emily the Chicken, a hen who blindly pursued her dreams of being a star, only to be rejected. According to the special, Emily the Chicken is said to be the precursor to Miss Prissy from the Foghorn Leghorn cartoons)
  3. Baseball Cartoons (cartoons featuring baseball)
  4. The Early Works of Chuck Jones (a look at Chuck Jones's Disney-esque works in his early days as a Warner Bros. director)
  5. Southern Fried Cartoons (cartoons located in the Southern United States)
  6. Midnight in the Bookstore (a look at a genre of musical comedy cartoons featuring characters from books and grocery labels coming to life while the store is closed for the night)
  7. The Many Faces of Robin Hood (a look at cartoons featuring spoofs of the Robin Hood legend)
  8. Hollywood Nights (more cartoons featuring Hollywood parodies and caricatures of celebrities from the 1930s and 1940s)
  9. Future Shock (a look at cartoons featuring [then thought to be] futuristic devices, such as automated houses and robots)
  10. Movie Star Bugs (cartoons chronicling Bugs Bunny's supposed rise to stardom)
  11. Shut Eye (cartoons in which hilarity ensues when a character is trying to go to sleep)
  12. Egghead (cartoons featuring the prototype Elmer Fudd character, Egghead)
  13. The Dreams of Bob Clampett (a look at Bob Clampett's surrealistic cartoons)
  14. Goofy Gophers (cartoons featuring Mac and Tosh, a pair of overly-polite gophers)
  15. Motor Heads (cartoons featuring anthropomorphic cars)
  16. Fight Night (cartoons centered on boxing and wrestling)
  17. The Evolution of Tweetie (a look at the creation of Tweety Bird and his changes in character under Bob Clampett's and Friz Freleng's direction).
  18. The Year Elmer Fudd Got Fat (a look at the handful of cartoons depicting Elmer Fudd as a fat man)
  19. The Nice Mice of Warner Bros. (cartoons featuring singing mice)
  20. Toro! Toro! (cartoons centered on bullfighting)
  21. Director Robert McKimson (a look at cartoons directed by Robert McKimson
    Robert McKimson
    Robert "Bob" Porter McKimson, Sr. was an American animator, illustrator, and director best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros., and later DePatie-Freleng Enterprises...

    )
  22. Our Man Sam (a look at cartoons featuring Yosemite Sam as Bugs' adversary)
  23. The Musical Cartoons of Friz Freleng (a look at Friz Freleng's all-musical cartoons)
  24. Night of 1000 Elves (cartoon parodies of the story "The Elves and the Cobbler")
  25. One Toon Wonders (cartoons featuring characters who only starred in one cartoon, but became popular)
  26. Battle of the Bookworms
  27. Crooner Toons (cartoons with caricatures of 30's & 40's singers)
  28. Turkey Toons
  29. Hobo Flea
  30. Rocky & Mugsy (cartoons starring the infamous mobster duo)
  31. Salesman Daffy
  32. Cartoon Christmas (a holiday special with cartoons focused on the certin holiday)
  33. Ants Life (cartoon centered around an ant's eye view of life)
  34. The Lost Cartoons (a special with cartoons not shown very often)
  35. The Wartime Cartoons (a special with cartoons from World War II)

Season 3

The following is a list of episodes aired on season 3 http://looney.goldenagecartoons.com/tv/turner/textoon.html
  1. The Evolution of Elmer Fudd (cartoons that show how Elmer became who he is today)
  2. The Early Works of Hanna & Barbera (cartoons from the duo's first few years at MGM)
  3. Moon Toons (cartoons centered around going to the moon)
  4. The Great Cartoon Controversy (shows how Rhapsody Rabbit
    Rhapsody Rabbit
    Rhapsody Rabbit is a 1946 Merrie Melodies animated short subject, featuring Bugs Bunny and directed by Friz Freleng. The short was originally released to theaters by Warner Bros. Pictures on November 9, 1946. This short is a follow-up of sorts to Freleng's 1941 Academy Award-nominated short...

     and The Cat Concerto
    The Cat Concerto
    The Cat Concerto is a 1946 American one-reel animated cartoon and is the 29th Tom and Jerry short, produced in Technicolor in 1946 and released to theatres on April 26, 1947 by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. It was produced by Fred Quimby and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, with musical...

     are both similar)
  5. Tasmanian Devil (cartoons starring Taz)
  6. Before Bedrock (cartoons the take place in prehistoric times)
  7. The Early Works of Friz Freleng (30's cartoons directed by Friz Freeling)
  8. Night at the Opera (cartoons centered around opera music (starring Bugs Bunny))
  9. Sufferin' Succotash! (cartoons starring Sylvester)
  10. Beaky Buzzard
  11. Baby Boom Toons (cartoons centered around the stork)
  12. Tish Tash (cartoons supervised by Frank Tashlin)
  13. Cartoon News Reels (cartoons with news reel gags)
  14. Ralph Phillips (cartoons focused on Ralph Phillips's legacy)
  15. Rabbit Season, Duck Season (the entire Bugs & Daffy Hunting Trilogy)
  16. Hubie & Bertie
  17. The Great Race (the entire Bugs Vs. Cecil trilogy plus two others)
  18. Cartoons in the Real World (live action hybrid cartoons)
  19. Director Arthur Davis (cartoons supervised by Arthur Davis)
  20. Before They Were Stars (the early appearances of famous characters)
  21. Gangster Toons
  22. The Movie Parodies of Porky & Daffy (cartoons with Daffy & Porky in various roles)
  23. The Three Faces of Tom & Jerry (Tom and Jerry cartoons under the directions of William Hanna and Joe Barbera, Gene Dietch, and Chuck Jones)
  24. Director Norman McCabe
  25. Speedy Gonzales
  26. The Captain and the Kids
  27. Private SNAFU
  28. The Early Works of Porky Pig
  29. Red (cartoons starring Tex Avery's infamous showgirl)
  30. The Many Moods of Daffy Duck (cartoons centered around Daffy's different attitudes)
  31. Pepe Le Pew (cartoons starring the infamous French skunk)
  32. The Boys From Kansas City

See also

  • Cartoon Alley
    Cartoon Alley
    Cartoon Alley is an American television program that aired on Turner Classic Movies every Saturday Morning at 11:30 AM ET.Hosted by Ben Mankiewicz, the series featured three classic animated shorts from the 1930-1950's per episode. Most shorts were from The Golden Age of American animation. Each of...

  • The Tex Avery Show
    The Tex Avery Show
    The Tex Avery Show was an animated showcase of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Bros. cartoon shorts prominently by animator Tex Avery . The showcase premiered on the Cartoon Network in 1996 , and was taken off the air in 2002...

  • The Bob Clampett Show
    The Bob Clampett Show
    The Bob Clampett Show was an animation anthology television program which ran from 2000 to 2001. Produced by the Cartoon Network, it featured animated theatrical shorts from the Warner Bros. library that were animated or directed by Bob Clampett, as well as a selection of shorts from the Beany and...

  • The Popeye Show
    The Popeye Show
    The Popeye Show is a Cartoon Network TV show that premiered on November 11, 2001. Each episode would include three unedited Popeye theatrical shorts from Fleischer Studios and/or Famous Studios. The show was narrated by Bill Murray , would give the audience short facts about the history of the...

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