1980 9am on CBS: The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Show

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(Cross posted from Tumblr)

Starting at 9am on Saturday Morning at your local CBS affiliate, you could see the long-running Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Show! This cartoon show, which was just a repackaging of Warner Brothers cartoons that had been produced up till 1962, bounced around the Saturday Morning TV dial so often you never really knew what channel it was going to show up on. But in the morning of 1980, it was on CBS...and it was like a Rosetta Stone of Childhood Memories. Parents, grandparents, older siblings... EVERYBODY knew the 5-to-8-minute adventures of Bugs Bunny and friends and so this cartoon was a common language that could bring generations together :)

(Also ran at 9:00 in 1981, 9:30 in 1982/1983)

Comments

[teddy0bear.livejournal.com]

Woah, I didn't know the Bugs Bunny and Tweety show reused footage from this. Cool.

The roadrunner show intro was awesome. Meep meep!

Road runner totally cooler than tweety.