The Road Runner Show

The Road Runner Show

1949
The Road Runner Show
The Road Runner Show

The Road Runner Show

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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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Seasons & Episodes

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EP64  Freeze Frame
Nov. 27,1979
Freeze Frame

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.

EP63  Woolen Under Where
May. 11,1963
Woolen Under Where

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EP62  Adventures of the Road Runner
Jun. 02,1962
Adventures of the Road Runner

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.

EP61  A Sheep in the Deep
Feb. 10,1962
A Sheep in the Deep

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EP60  Ready, Woolen and Able
Jul. 30,1960
Ready, Woolen and Able

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EP59  Steal Wool
Jun. 08,1957
Steal Wool

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EP58  Double or Mutton
Jul. 23,1957
Double or Mutton

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EP57  Sheep Ahoy
Dec. 11,1954
Sheep Ahoy

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EP56  Don't Give Up the Sheep
Jan. 03,1953
Don't Give Up the Sheep

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EP55  Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too!
Jun. 07,1969
Rabbit Stew and Rabbits Too!

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EP54  Hare-Breadth Hurry
Jun. 08,1963
Hare-Breadth Hurry

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EP53  Compressed Hare
Jul. 29,1961
Compressed Hare

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EP52  Rabbit's Feat
Jun. 04,1960
Rabbit's Feat

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EP51  To Hare is Human
Dec. 15,1956
To Hare is Human

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EP50  Operation Rabbit
Jan. 17,1952
Operation Rabbit

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EP49  Rabid Rider
Dec. 17,2010
Rabid Rider

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.

EP48  Fur of Flying
Sep. 24,2010
Fur of Flying

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

EP47  Coyote Falls
Jul. 30,2010
Coyote Falls

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

EP46  The Whizzard of Ow
Nov. 01,2003
The Whizzard of Ow

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.

EP45  Look Before You Beep
Jul. 05,1967
Look Before You Beep

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

EP44  The Wild Chase
Feb. 27,1965
The Wild Chase

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

EP43  Little Go Beep
Dec. 30,2000
Little Go Beep

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.

EP42  Chariots of Fur
Dec. 21,1994
Chariots of Fur

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.

EP41  Soup or Sonic
May. 21,1980
Soup or Sonic

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

EP40  Freeze Frame
Nov. 27,1979
Freeze Frame

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.

EP39  Sugar and Spies
Nov. 05,1966
Sugar and Spies

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.

EP38  Clippety Clobbered
Mar. 12,1966
Clippety Clobbered

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.

EP37  The Solid Tin Coyote
Feb. 19,1966
The Solid Tin Coyote

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.

EP36  Out And Out Rout
Jan. 29,1966
Out And Out Rout

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.

EP35  Shot and Bothered
Jan. 08,1966
Shot and Bothered

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.

EP34  Roadrunner A Go-Go
Feb. 01,1965
Roadrunner A Go-Go

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.

EP33  Zip Zip Hooray!
Jan. 01,1965
Zip Zip Hooray!

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.

EP32  Chaser on the Rocks
Dec. 25,1965
Chaser on the Rocks

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.

EP31  Highway Runnery
Dec. 11,1965
Highway Runnery

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.

EP30  Hairied And Hurried
Nov. 13,1965
Hairied And Hurried

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.

EP29  Just Plane Beep
Oct. 30,1965
Just Plane Beep

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

EP28  Boulder Wham!
Oct. 09,1965
Boulder Wham!

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

EP27  Tired And Feathered
Sep. 18,1965
Tired And Feathered

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.

EP26  Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner
Aug. 21,1965
Run, Run, Sweet Road Runner

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.

EP25  Rushing Roulette
Jul. 31,1965
Rushing Roulette

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.

EP24  War and Pieces
Jun. 06,1964
War and Pieces

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.

EP23  To Beep Or Not To Beep
Dec. 28,1963
To Beep Or Not To Beep

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

EP22  Zoom at the Top
Jun. 30,1962
Zoom at the Top

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.

EP21  Beep Prepared
Nov. 11,1961
Beep Prepared

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.

EP20  Lickety-Splat
Jun. 03,1961
Lickety-Splat

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.

EP19  Zip 'n Snort
Jan. 21,1961
Zip 'n Snort

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.

EP18  Hopalong Casualty
Oct. 08,1960
Hopalong Casualty

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.

EP17  Fastest With the Mostest
Jan. 09,1960
Fastest With the Mostest

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.

EP16  Wild About Hurry
Oct. 10,1959
Wild About Hurry

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

EP15  Hot Rod and Reel
May. 09,1959
Hot Rod and Reel

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.

EP14  Hip Hip- Hurry!
Dec. 06,1958
Hip Hip- Hurry!

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).

EP13  Hook, Line, and Stinker
Oct. 11,1958
Hook, Line, and Stinker

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.

EP12  Whoa, Be-Gone!
Apr. 12,1958
Whoa, Be-Gone!

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.

EP11  Zoom and Bored
Sep. 14,1957
Zoom and Bored

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.

EP10  Scrambled Aches
Jan. 26,1957
Scrambled Aches

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.

EP9  There They GO-GO-GO!
Nov. 10,1956
There They GO-GO-GO!

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.

EP8  Gee Whiz-z-z-z
May. 05,1956
Gee Whiz-z-z-z

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.

EP7  Guided Muscle
Dec. 10,1955
Guided Muscle

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.

EP6  Ready.. Set.. Zoom!
Apr. 30,1955
Ready.. Set.. Zoom!

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.

EP5  Stop! Look! and Hasten!
Aug. 14,1954
Stop! Look! and Hasten!

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).

EP4  Zipping Along
Sep. 19,1953
Zipping Along

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.

EP3  Going! Going! Gosh!
Aug. 23,1952
Going! Going! Gosh!

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.

EP2  Beep Beep
May. 24,1952
Beep Beep

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

EP1  Fast And Furry-Ous
Sep. 16,1949
Fast And Furry-Ous

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.

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Synopsis

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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Cast

June Foray , Hal Smith , Mel Blanc

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