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The Road Runner Show Season 1

September. 16,1949

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The Road Runner Show

The Road Runner Show was an animated anthology series which compiled theatrical Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner cartoons from the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, which were produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons between 1948 and 1966. Several of the shorts, especially the ones produced from 1965 onward, were produced specifically for television by Format Films after Warner Bros. closed their animation studio. The Road Runner Show ran for two seasons on CBS, and then on ABC for two seasons. There were two Road Runner/Coyote cartoons during each episode, with another WB animated character in the middle segment. CBS combined The Road Runner Show with The Bugs Bunny Show in 1968. The Road Runner and the Coyote more often shared at least an hour with Bugs Bunny on CBS during the late-1960s through the mid-1980s to the early-1990s. The theme song was written and performed by Barbara Cameron, in 1999 was covered by the Mexican band Chicos de Barrio.

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The Road Runner Show

1949

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June Foray, Hal Smith

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The Road Runner Show Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 64 - Freeze Frame

First Aired: November. 27,1979

Wile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner through some snowy mountaintops, leading to a series of snow-related traps such as the Acme Blizzard Machine which makes instant snow....a little too instant for the Coyote's taste.

Episode 63 - Woolen Under Where

First Aired: May. 11,1963

Episode 62 - Adventures of the Road Runner

First Aired: June. 02,1962

Two boys watch Wile E. Coyote chase Road Runner continuously and express their opinions. They ask why the Coyote wants the Road Runner so badly. Wile E. Coyote then explains in a comedic documentary why he wants the Road Runner so badly.

Episode 61 - A Sheep in the Deep

First Aired: February. 10,1962

Episode 60 - Ready, Woolen and Able

First Aired: July. 30,1960

Episode 59 - Steal Wool

First Aired: June. 08,1957

Episode 58 - Double or Mutton

First Aired: July. 23,1957

Episode 57 - Sheep Ahoy

First Aired: December. 11,1954

Episode 56 - Don't Give Up the Sheep

First Aired: January. 03,1953

Episode 55 - Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too!

First Aired: June. 07,1969

Episode 54 - Hare-Breadth Hurry

First Aired: June. 08,1963

Episode 53 - Compressed Hare

First Aired: July. 29,1961

Episode 52 - Rabbit's Feat

First Aired: June. 04,1960

Episode 51 - To Hare is Human

First Aired: December. 15,1956

Episode 50 - Operation Rabbit

First Aired: January. 17,1952

Episode 49 - Rabid Rider

First Aired: December. 17,2010

Wile E. Coyote once again tries to ensnare his long-time adversary, the Road Runner. In this short, Wile devises various attempts of capture with the aid of a Sedway, better known in the WC/RR world as the Hyper-Sonic Transporter by ACME.

Episode 48 - Fur of Flying

First Aired: September. 24,2010

Wile E. Coyote intends to catch Road Runner while avoiding heat-seeking missiles using a makeshift copter-helmet.

Episode 47 - Coyote Falls

First Aired: July. 30,2010

Wile E. Coyote incorporates a bungee cord into his plans to catch the Road Runner.

Episode 46 - The Whizzard of Ow

First Aired: November. 01,2003

Wile E. Coyote is chasing the Road Runner (still) and comes across the Acme Book of Magic. With the power to levitate heavy boulders, fly on broomsticks, and transfigure anything to suit his need, it seems like Wile E. finally has a chance at getting his breakfast... but then again, this is Wile E. Coyote we're talking about.

Episode 45 - Look Before You Beep

First Aired: July. 05,1967

Look Before You Beep is a compilation of the bumpers seen on "The Road Runner Show" in 1966-1968.

Episode 44 - The Wild Chase

First Aired: February. 27,1965

Speedy Gonzales and the Road Runner are racing each other, with Sylvester Cat and Wile E. Coyote in hot pursuit.

Episode 43 - Little Go Beep

First Aired: December. 30,2000

Baby Wile E. Coyote is told by his father, Cage E., that he's not to speak until he catches a roadrunner. Wile E. tries several products from Acme Jr., including a jack-in-the-box and a water-rocket-propelled bike. They maintain the fine tradition of Acme quality products.

Episode 42 - Chariots of Fur

First Aired: December. 21,1994

Road Runner gives Wile E. Coyote a "come-on" to chase him. The chase continues until the coyote stops to read a sign in the road: "WARNING: The Surgeon General has determined that chasing Road Runners may be hazardous to your health." He dismisses this sign as cheesy and laughs at it, before the Road Runner pulls up behind him and beeps the coyote into another headache.

Episode 41 - Soup or Sonic

First Aired: May. 21,1980

The Coyote is at it once again...only this time he DOES catch the Road Runner!

Episode 40 - Freeze Frame

First Aired: November. 27,1979

Episode 39 - Sugar and Spies

First Aired: November. 05,1966

Wile E. Coyote finds a spy kit and uses its contents (sleeping gas, a mail bomb, explosive putty, and a gadget-filled spy car) in his unsuccessful attempt to catch the Road Runner.

Episode 38 - Clippety Clobbered

First Aired: March. 12,1966

Wile E. Coyote uses a chemistry set to try and catch the Road Runner. He mixes chemicals to yield invisible paint, a bouncy outer skin, and a jet-powered spray can, none of which are successful.

Episode 37 - The Solid Tin Coyote

First Aired: February. 19,1966

Wile E. Coyote uses scrap metal from a dump to build a huge, mechanical likeness of himself, and uses this robot to chase the Road Runner. It ends up as just another pile of scrap.

Episode 36 - Out And Out Rout

First Aired: January. 29,1966

Wile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner using a skateboard, a hunting falcon, two doves tied to his feet, a hot rod, a wind sail, and glue stuck on the road. The last scheme ends with himself becoming stuck in the glue and flattened by a steam roller driven by the Road Runner.

Episode 35 - Shot and Bothered

First Aired: January. 08,1966

Wile E. Coyote uses suction cups, a tennis net, TNT sticks on a rope, a skateboard, helium gas, and a bomb in his unsuccessful attempts to catch the Road Runner.

Episode 34 - Roadrunner A Go-Go

First Aired: February. 01,1965

Wile E. Coyote uses slow motion photography to record his failures at catching the Road Runner in hopes of detecting where exactly he went wrong and avoiding the same pratfalls in the future.

Episode 33 - Zip Zip Hooray!

First Aired: January. 01,1965

Wile E. Coyote suspends his chase with the Road Runner to explain to two young boys watching him on TV why he wants to catch the speedy bird.

Episode 32 - Chaser on the Rocks

First Aired: December. 25,1965

Wile E. Coyote is both thirsty and hungry in this one. He keeps seeing mirages of oases in the desert as he chases the Road Runner.

Episode 31 - Highway Runnery

First Aired: December. 11,1965

Wile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner around an old jalopy that starts up and runs him over, with the Road Runner at the wheel. Wile E. plants a bomb in a fake egg shell for the Road Runner to sit on, but instead of exploding under the Road Runner, it hatches a robot that walks over to Wile E. and explodes.

Episode 30 - Hairied And Hurried

First Aired: November. 13,1965

Wile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner and hopes, without success, to catch his prey using such schemes as a snow-making machine, a bomb dropped from a kite, a parachute dive (into a tornado), dynamite on an extending metal arm, and a karate chop.

Episode 29 - Just Plane Beep

First Aired: October. 30,1965

Wile E. Coyote builds a World War I bi-plane to chase the Road Runner.

Episode 28 - Boulder Wham!

First Aired: October. 09,1965

The Coyote tries, with no success, to find a way across a gorge to reach the Road Runner on the other side.

Episode 27 - Tired And Feathered

First Aired: September. 18,1965

Wile E. Coyote's latest misbegotten Road Runner-catching schemes include a propeller-powered backpack, a stone log let loose down a hill, and a bogus bird sanctuary containing a phone booth with a TNT stick disguised as the phone receiver. As usual, Wile E. ends up taking the explosion.

Episode 26 - Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner

First Aired: August. 21,1965

Wile E. Coyote unsuccessfully tries to catch the Road Runner in a bird seed trap with overhead spikes, and then with a lightning rod disguised as a female Road Runner, with Wile E. doing rain dances to start a storm.

Episode 25 - Rushing Roulette

First Aired: July. 31,1965

Wile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner, and his ploys such as glue on the road, a huge magnifying glass, an exploding piano, a cannon disguised as a camera, and an anvil dropped from a helicopter, all backfire on him, as usual.

Episode 24 - War and Pieces

First Aired: June. 06,1964

Wile E. Coyote tries to catch the Road Runner with a grenade, a bow, a rope, invisible paint, a gun disguised as a peep show, and a rocket that tunnels him through the Earth to arrive in the Orient, where a Japanese Road Runner greets him.

Episode 23 - To Beep Or Not To Beep

First Aired: December. 28,1963

Wile E. Coyote attacks the Road Runner with an enormous boulder-throwing catapult, only to have it constantly backfire on him.

Episode 22 - Zoom at the Top

First Aired: June. 30,1962

Wile E. Coyote tries and fails to catch the Road Runner using a bear trap with a bird seed bait, a jet rocket, an ice-making machine, and a boomerang.

Episode 21 - Beep Prepared

First Aired: November. 11,1961

Wile E. Coyote tries and fails to catch the Road Runner using his foot extended to trip, an arrow, a hole in the road, a winged-rocket outfit, two electronically activated machine guns, and a super magnet.

Episode 20 - Lickety-Splat

First Aired: June. 03,1961

Wile E. Coyote releases a number of explosive darts to attack the Road Runner, only to have them bedevil him continually during his subsequent attempts.

Episode 19 - Zip 'n Snort

First Aired: January. 21,1961

Wile E. Coyote tries to catch the Road Runner using a sling shot, a grenade in a toy airplane whose propeller detaches and leaves the plane behind, a cannon on a cliff ledge that gives way, and axle grease on his feet that sends him into the path of a train driven by the Road Runner.

Episode 18 - Hopalong Casualty

First Aired: October. 08,1960

Wile E. Coyote tries to catch the Road Runner using a dynamite stick on a fishing pole, a Christmas present wrapping machine, and ACME Earthquake pills, which the Coyote discovers don't affect Road Runners, but only after he himself has angrily downed a whole bottle of the pills! The Coyote quakes and shivers away boulders and whole mountains before the pills wear off.

Episode 17 - Fastest With the Mostest

First Aired: January. 09,1960

Wile E. Coyote tries to drop a rocket bomb on the Road Runner from a balloon but inflates himself instead, ascends skyward, then falls along with the bomb. He tries painstakingly to deactivate the bomb before it explodes - and fails. His attempt to trap the Road Runner on the edge of a cliff results in the cliff collapsing under his feet, sending him to the ground to be hit by his own knife and fork and then fall into a waterfall leading to a maze of pipes.

Episode 16 - Wild About Hurry

First Aired: October. 10,1959

Wile E. Coyote tries to catch the Road Runner by enclosing himself inside an "Indestructo Steel Ball", over which he has no directional control !

Episode 15 - Hot Rod and Reel

First Aired: May. 09,1959

Wile E. Coyote's failed efforts to catch the Road Runner involve the use of roller skates, a gun in a camera, a trampoline, a dynamite stick on a crossbow, a bogus railroad crossing, and a jet-powered unicycle.

Episode 14 - Hip Hip- Hurry!

First Aired: December. 06,1958

Wile E. Coyote is once again after the Road Runner, this time resorting to hand grenades, dynamite, falling rocks and a speed potion (which contains vitamins R, P and M).

Episode 13 - Hook, Line, and Stinker

First Aired: October. 11,1958

Wile E. Coyote hopes to catch the Road Runner using a mallet, a cooking pan, a TNT stick, a balloon, and a piano dropped from a precipice. The last of these results in Wile E. falling to the road below along with the piano and ending up with 88 teeth.

Episode 12 - Whoa, Be-Gone!

First Aired: April. 12,1958

Wile E. Coyote's plans for catching the Road Runner involve a giant elastic spring, a gun and trampoline, TNT sticks in a barrel, and tornado seeds. The last of these schemes results in the Coyote being swept up by a twister and carried into a mine field.

Episode 11 - Zoom and Bored

First Aired: September. 14,1957

Wile E. Coyote uses a bottle full of bees, a brick wall, a boulder in a catapult, and a harpoon gun in his usual unsuccessful attempts to catch the Road Runner.

Episode 10 - Scrambled Aches

First Aired: January. 26,1957

Wile E. Coyote uses, among other things, a dehydrated boulder to try to catch the Road Runner. He applies a drop of water to enlarge it from pebble-size to usual boulder dimensions, but it enlarges as Wile E. is lifting it over his head, coming down on top of him.

Episode 9 - There They GO-GO-GO!

First Aired: November. 10,1956

Wile E. Coyote is so hungry that he forms a chicken out of mud, bakes it, and tries to eat it, causing one of his teeth to fall out. He throws the mud bird away when a real one comes along - the Road Runner, who runs so fast that he literally burns up the road, setting Wile E.'s feet on fire! Wile E. schemes to catch the Road Runner using a rope, a sling-shot, a gun on a spring, a rotating circle of spiked balls, a booby-trapped ladder, and a load of rocks.

Episode 8 - Gee Whiz-z-z-z

First Aired: May. 05,1956

Wile E. Coyote unsuccessfully chases the Road Runner using such contrivances as a rifle, a steel plate, a dynamite stick on an extending metal pulley, a painting of a collapsed bridge (which the Coyote falls into while Road Runner passes right through), and a jet motor.

Episode 7 - Guided Muscle

First Aired: December. 10,1955

While cooking a tin can, the Coyote spots a better meal rushing by- the Road Runner. But making himself into a giant arrow doesn't catch the bird, and the book, "How to Tar and Feather a Road Runner", isn't much help either.

Episode 6 - Ready.. Set.. Zoom!

First Aired: April. 30,1955

Among the strategies that fail in Wile E. Coyote's attempts to catch the Roadrunner: glue on the road, a giant rubber band, an outboard motor in a wash tub, and dressing in drag as a female Roadrunner.

Episode 5 - Stop! Look! and Hasten!

First Aired: August. 14,1954

A Burmese tiger trap, a pop-up steel wall, a motorcycle, and a box of Acme-brand leg-building vitamins can't help the Coyote (Eatibus anythingus) catch the Road Runner (Hot Rodicus supersonicus).

Episode 4 - Zipping Along

First Aired: September. 19,1953

Hypnosis doesn't help the Coyote catch the Road Runner, nor do a clutch of string-controlled rifles or dozens of mousetraps, but they all manage to backfire on him, naturally.

Episode 3 - Going! Going! Gosh!

First Aired: August. 23,1952

In his attempt to catch the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote tries the old cartoon trick of putting up a painting of a continuing road where a bridge has in fact gone out. It doesn't work, nor does dressing in drag or dropping an anvil from a balloon.

Episode 2 - Beep Beep

First Aired: May. 24,1952

The Coyote chases the Road Runner through a maze of mine shafts, with their positions made visible only by the lamps on their helmets.

Episode 1 - Fast And Furry-Ous

First Aired: September. 16,1949

The desert in the U.S. southwest is the natural habitat of the Road Runner, a high-octane, cartoon bird who runs so fast on the desert's roadways that he leaves a trail of flame or causes pavement to ripple, distort, or roll up like a carpet. This speedy bird is unrelentingly chased by a hungry coyote named Wile E., who, though believing himself to be a genius, repeatedly fails to catch the Road Runner with his endless supply of ACME Corporation gadgets, weapons, and other paraphernalia. Episodes of this television series contain three theatrical cartoons, one with the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, one with Tweety Bird and Sylvester Cat, and one with other characters from Warner Brothers' cartoon classics.