ToonHeads (partially lost Cartoon Network animation anthology series; 1992-2003)
ToonHeads was an American animation series consisting of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Hanna-Barbera, Warner Brothers, Jay Ward and Popeye shorts, with trivia in between shorts about the studio who made it, a character in it, etc.. Each episode would have a different theme.
ToonHeads was originally broadcast on Cartoon Network from 1994 to November 23rd, 2003. Reruns aired from 2003 to 2005 on Cartoon Network, Boomerang, and Adult Swim. The series included eighty-two episodes, two one-hour specials, and one half-hour special which was never aired.
Season 1
Around one half of one episode and two-thirds of another out of fifteen[1] have surfaced. The rest have not resurfaced.
Notice: "(H-B)" means Hanna Barbera, "(MGM)" means Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, "(WB)" means Warner Brothers, "(JW)" means Jay Ward, and "(P)" means Popeye.
Original Airdate | Episode | Name | Shorts | Availability |
Unknown | S01E01 | El Kabong | "El Kabong" (H-B) "El Kabong Meets El Kazing" (H-B) "El Kabong Bongs Kabong" (H-B) |
Partially Found |
Unknown | S01E02 | Barney Bear | "Wee Willie Wildcat" (MGM) "The Impossible Possum" (MGM) "The Bear and the Beavers" (MGM) |
Lost |
Unknown | S01E03 | Tom and Jerry - The Chuck Jones Cartoons | "The Cat Above the Mouse Below" (MGM) "Much Ado About Mousing" (MGM) "Cat and Dupli-cat" (MGM) |
Lost |
Unknown | S01E04 | Ranger John Smith | "A Bear Living" (H-B) "Bear Face Disguise" (H-B) "Home Sweet Jellystone" (H-B) |
Lost |
Unknown | S01E05 | Hollywood | "Slick Hare" (WB) "Popeye's 20th Anniversary" (P) "Yankee Doodle Daffy" (WB) |
Lost |
Unknown | S01E06 | The Old West | "Hare Trigger" (WB) "Homesteader Droopy" (MGM) "Wagon Heels" (WB) |
Lost |
Unknown | S01E07 | Music | "Me Musical Nephews" (P) "The Rabbit of Seville" (WB) "Johann Mouse" (MGM) |
Lost |
Unknown | S01E08 | Sports | "Baseball Bugs" (WB) "The Bowling-Alley Cat" (MGM) "The Football Toucher-Downer" (P) |
Lost |
Unknown | S01E09 | Mel Blanc | "Rabbit Seasoning" (WB) "Speedy Gonzales" (WB) "Daffy Duck Slept Here" (WB) |
Lost |
Unknown | S01E10 | Daws Butler | "Mars Little Precious" (H-B) "Tricky Trapper" (H-B) "Pie-Pirates" (H-B) |
Lost |
Unknown | S01E11 | The Evolution of Tom and Jerry | "Puss Gets the Boot" (MGM) "Mouse Trouble" (MGM) "Ah, Sweet Mouse-story of Life" (WB) |
Lost |
Unknown | S01E12 | Bugs Bunny in Fairy Tales | "Little Red Riding Rabbit" (WB) "Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears" (WB) "Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk" (WB) |
Lost |
Unknown | S01E13 | Jay Ward | "Treasure of Sierra Madre" (JW) "Tom Tom the Piper's Son" (JW) "Dudley Do-Right" (JW) "How to Direct Movies" (JW) "Snow White" (JW) |
Lost |
Unknown | S01E14 | Valentine's Day | "The Zoot Cat" (MGM) "The Stupid Cupid" (WB) "Little 'Tinker" (MGM) |
Lost |
Unknown | S01E15 | St. Patrick's Day | "The Huck of the Irish" (H-B) "Droopy Leprechaun" (MGM) "The Wearing of the Grin" (WB) |
Partially Lost |
Season 2
This season started on November 13th, 1998[2] and is the most complete, with thirty-four out of thirty-five episodes available.
Original Airdate | Episode | Name | Shorts | Availability |
November 13th, 1998 | S02E01 | Travelogue Cartoons | "Detouring America" (WB) "Crazy Cruise" (WB) "Fresh Fish" (WB) |
Found |
November 20th, 1998 | S02E02 | Emily the Chicken | "Let it Be Me" (WB) "A Star is Hatched" (WB) "Strangled Eggs" (WB) |
Found |
November 27th, 1998 | S02E03 | Baseball Cartoons | "Gone Batty" (WB) "Batty Baseball" (MGM) "Baseball Bugs" (WB) |
Found |
December 6th, 1998 | S02E04 | The Early Works of Chuck Jones | "The Night Watchman" (WB) "Dog Gone Modern" (WB) "Toy Trouble" (WB) |
Found |
December 11th, 1998 | S02E05 | Southern Fried Cartoons | "Southern Fried Rabbit" (WB) "Backwoods Bunny" (WB) "The Dixie Fryer" (WB) |
Found |
December 18th, 1998 | S02E06 | Midnight in the Bookstore | "Speaking of the Weather" (WB) "You're An Education" (WB) "Book Revue" (WB) |
Found |
December 25th, 1998 | S02E07 | The Many Faces of Robin Hood | "Robin Hood Makes Good" (WB) "Robin Hood Daffy" (WB) "Robin Hoodwinked" (MGM) |
Found |
January 1st, 1999 | S02E08 | Hollywood Nights | "The Coo-Coo Nut Grove" (WB) "Hollywood Steps Out" (WB) "Slick Hare" (WB) |
Found |
January 8th, 1999 | S02E09 | Future Shock | "Dog Gone Modern" (WB) "House Hunting Mice" (WB) "The House of Tomorrow" (MGM) |
Found |
January 15th, 1999 | S02E10 | Movie Star Bugs | "A Hare Grows In Manhattan" (WB) "What's Up Doc?" (WB) Clips from various Bugs Bunny cartoons |
Found |
January 22nd, 1999 | S02E11 | Shut Eye | "Good Night, Elmer" (WB) "Back Alley Op-roar" (WB) "Daffy Duck Slept Here" (WB) |
Lost |
January 29th, 1999 | S02E12 | Egghead | "Daffy Duck and Egghead" (WB) "Count Me Out" (WB) "A Day at the Zoo" (WB) |
Found |
February 5th, 1999 | S02E13 | The Dreams of Bob Clampett | "The Old Grey Hare" (WB) "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" (WB) "The Big Snooze" (WB) |
Found |
May 14th, 1999 | S02E14 | Goofy Gophers | "The Goofy Gophers" (WB) "I Gopher You" (WB) "Tease for Two" (WB) |
Found |
May 21st, 1999 | S02E15 | Motor Heads | "Streamlined Greta Green" (WB) "One Cab's Family" (MGM) "Little Johnny Jet" (MGM) |
Found |
May 28th, 1999 | S02E16 | Fight Night | "Let You And Him Fight" (P) "To Duck or Not to Duck" (WB) "Rabbit Punch" (WB) |
Found |
June 6th, 1999 | S02E17 | The Evolution of Tweety | "A Tale of Two Kitties" (WB) "Tweetie Pie" (WB) "Canary Row" (WB) |
Found |
June 13th, 1999 | S02E18 | The Year Elmer Fudd Got Fat | "Wabbit Twouble" (WB) "The Wacky Wabbit" (WB) "Fresh Hare" (WB) |
Found |
June 20th, 1999 | S02E19 | The Nice Mice of Warner Bros. | "Ain't We Got Fun" (WB) "A Sunbonnet Blue" (WB) "The Mice Will Play" (WB) |
Found |
June 27th, 1999 | S02E20 | Toro! Toro! | "Bulldozing the Bull" (P) "Bully for Bugs" (WB) "Senor Droopy" (MGM) |
Found |
July 4th, 1999 | S02E21 | Director Robert McKimson | "Daffy Doodles" (WB) "Easter Yeggs" (WB) "Walky Talky Hawky" (WB) |
Found |
July 11th, 1999 | S02E22 | Our Man Sam | "Hare Trigger" (WB) "Along Came Daffy" (WB) "Bugs Bunny Rides Again" (WB) |
Found |
July 18th, 1999 | S02E23 | The Musical Cartoons of Friz Freleng | "Rhapsody in Rivets" (WB) "Lights Fantastic" (WB) "Rhapsody Rabbit" (WB) |
Found |
July 25th, 1999 | S02E24 | Night of 1000 Elves | "Busy Bakers" (WB) "Holiday for Shoestrings" (WB) "The Peachy Cobbler" (MGM) |
Found |
August 1st, 1999 | S02E25 | One Toon Wonders | "Ghost Wanted" (WB) "The Crackpot Quail" (WB) "One Froggy Evening" (WB) |
Found |
August 8th, 1999 | S02E26 | Battle of the Bookworms | "The Bookworm" (MGM) "Sniffles and the Bookworm" (WB) "The Wacky Worm" (WB) |
Found |
November 19th, 1999 | S02E27 | Crooner Toons | "Bingo Crosbyana" (WB) "I Only Have Eyes for You" (WB) "The Swooner Crooner" (WB) |
Found |
November 26th, 1999 | S02E28 | Turkey Toons | "Tom Turkey and His Harmonica Humdingers" (MGM) "Jerky Turkey" (MGM) "Tom Turk and Daffy" (WB) |
Found |
December 3rd, 1999 | S02E29 | Hobo Flea | "The Homeless Flea" (MGM) "An Itch in Time" (WB) "What Price Fleadom?" (MGM) |
Found |
December 10th, 1999 | S02E30 | Rocky & Mugsy | "Bugs and Thugs" (WB) "Bugsy and Mugsy" (WB) "The Unmentionables" (WB) |
Found |
December 17th, 1999 | S02E31 | Salesman Daffy | "Yankee Doodle Daffy" (WB) "The Stupor Salesman" (WB) "Fool Coverage" (WB) |
Found |
December 24th, 1999 | S02E32 | ToonHeads Christmas Special - Cartoon Christmas | "Alias St. Nick" (MGM) "The Captain's Christmas" (MGM) "Peace On Earth" (MGM) "The Night Before Christmas" (MGM) "Bedtime For Sniffles" (WB) |
Found |
December 26th, 1999 | S02E33 | Ants Life | "The Fighting 69th-½" (WB) "The Gay Anties" (WB) "Ant Pasted" (WB) |
Found |
March 12th, 2000 | S02E34 | ToonHeads Special - The Lost Cartoons | "Bosko, The Talk-Ink Kid" (WB) "Crying For The Carolines" (WB) "Lady, Play Your Mandolin!" (WB) "Any Bonds Today?" (WB) "Spies" (WB) "The Return Of Mr. Hook" (WB) Clip of Two Guys from Texas featuring Bugs Bunny "My Dream Is Yours" (WB) "So Much for So Little" (WB) "Orange Blossoms for Violet" (WB) "Drafty, Isn't It?" (WB) Tang commercial featuring Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian "Philbert" (WB) "The Adventures of the Road Runner" (WB) |
Found |
July 1st, 2001 | S02E35 | ToonHeads Special - The Wartime Cartoons | "Blitz Wolf" (MGM) "Scrap Happy Daffy" (WB) "Herr Meets Hare" (WB) "Russian Rhapsody" (WB) |
Found |
Season 3
This season is the next most complete, with nineteen episodes available. There were two specials entitled "The Twelve Missing Hares" and "The Worst Cartoons Ever Made" that ended up not being aired. The former was possibly going to show the twelve banned Bugs Bunny cartoons collectively referred to as The Twelve Missing Hares, and the latter was likely to going to showcase various different cartoons infamous for their poor quality. The specials may have remained unaired due to the former containing cartoons infamous for their offensive content, and the latter likely heavily criticizing the cartoons featured. [3] [4]
Original Airdate | Episode | Name | Shorts | Availability |
November 4th, 2001 | S03E01 | The Evolution of Elmer Fudd | "A-Lad in Bagdad" (WB) "Dangerous Dan McFoo" (WB) "Elmer's Candid Camera" (WB) "The Hardship of Miles Standish" (WB) "A Wild Hare" (WB) |
Lost |
November 11th, 2001 | S03E02 | The Early Works of Hanna & Barbera | "To Spring" (MGM) "Puss Gets the Boot" (MGM) "Gallopin' Galls" (MGM) "Officer Pooch" (MGM) "Yankee Doodle Mouse" (MGM) |
Lost |
November 25th, 2001 | S03E03 | Moon Toons | "Little Buck Cheeser" (MGM) "The Cat that Hated People" (MGM) "Haredevil Hare" (WB) |
Found |
November 25th, 2001 | S03E04 | The Great Cartoon Controversy | "Rhapsody Rabbit" (WB) "The Cat Concerto" (MGM) "Tweetie Pie" (WB) |
Found |
December 2nd, 2001 | S03E05 | Tasmanian Devil | "Devil May Hare" (WB) "Ducking the Devil" (WB) "Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare" (WB) |
Found |
December 2nd, 2001 | S03E06 | Before Bedrock | "Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur" (WB) "The First Bad Man" (MGM) "Wild Wild World" (WB) |
Partially Found |
December 9th, 2001 | S03E07 | The Early Works of Friz Freleng | "It's Got Me Again!" (WB) "Beauty and the Beast" (WB) "Mr. and Mrs. is the Name" (WB) "I Haven't Got a Hat" (WB) "A Star is Hatched" (WB) |
Lost |
December 16th, 2001 | S03E08 | Night at the Opera | "Long-Haired Hare" (WB) "Rabbit of Seville" (WB) "What's Opera, Doc?" (WB) |
Found |
December 16th, 2001 | S03E09 | Sufferin' Succotash! | "Life with Feathers" (WB) "Crowing Pains" (WB) "Scaredy Cat" (WB) |
Found |
December 23rd, 2001 | S03E10 | Beaky Buzzard | "Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid" (WB) "The Bashful Buzzard" (WB) "Strife with Father" (WB) |
Lost |
December 23rd, 2001 | S03E11 | Baby Boom Toons | "The Stork's Holiday" (MGM) "Baby Bottleneck" (WB) "Stork Naked" (WB) |
Found (Missing opening sequence) |
December 30th, 2001 | S03E12 | Tish Tash | "Porky's Poultry Plant" (WB) "You're an Education" (WB) "Puss n' Booty" (WB) "The Swooner Crooner" (WB) "Nasty Quacks" (WB) |
Lost |
December 31st, 2001 | S03E13 | Cartoon News Reels | "She Was an Acrobat's Daughter" (WB) "Going Home" (WB) "The Hole Idea" (WB) |
Found |
July 21st, 2002 | S03E14 | Ralph Phillips | "From A to Z-z-z-z" (WB) "Boyhood Daze" (WB) "A Waggily Tale" (WB) |
Found |
July 28th, 2002 | S03E15 | Rabbit Season, Duck Season | "Rabbit Fire" (WB) "Rabbit Seasoning" (WB) "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!" (WB) |
Lost |
August 4th, 2002 | S03E16 | Hubie & Bertie | "The Aristo-Cat" (WB) "Mouse Wreckers" (WB) "Cheese Chasers" (WB) |
Found |
August 11th, 2002 | S03E17 | The Great Race | "Tortoise Beats Hare" (WB) "Porky's Road Race" (WB) "Tortoise Wins By a Hare" (WB) "Porky's Naughty Nephew" (WB) "Rabbit Transit" (WB) |
Lost |
August 18th, 2002 | S03E18 | Cartoons in the Real World | "The Adventures of Popeye" (P) "You Ought to Be in Pictures" (WB) |
Found |
September 1st, 2002 | S03E19 | Director Arthur Davis | "Mouse Menance" (WB) "Bowery Bugs" (WB) "Quackodile Tears" (WB) |
Found |
December 21st, 2002 | S03E20 | Before They Were Stars | "A Tale of Two Kitties" (WB) "The Fast and Furry-ous" (WB) "Stage Door Cartoon" (WB) |
Found |
December 24th, 2002 | S03E21 | Gangster Toons | "I'm a Big Shot Now" (WB) "Thugs with Dirty Mugs" (WB) "Bunny and Claude - We Rob Carrot Patches" (WB) |
Found |
December 26th, 2002 | S03E22 | The Movie Parodies of Porky & Daffy | "Drip-Along Daffy" (WB) "Duck Dodgers in the 24-½ Century" (WB) "Deduce, You Say" (WB) |
Found |
December 27th, 2002 | S03E23 | The Three Faces of Tom & Jerry | "Mouse Trouble" (MGM) "High Steaks" (MGM) "Purr-chance to Dream" (MGM) |
Found |
December 28th, 2002 | S03E24 | Director Norman McCabe | "Who's Who in the Zoo" (WB) "Daffy's Southern Exposure" (WB) "The Ducktators" (WB) "Gopher Goofy" (WB) "Hop and Go" (WB) |
Partially Found |
December 31st, 2002 | S03E25 | Speedy Gonzales | "Cat-Tails for Two" (WB) "Speedy Gonzales" (WB) "The Pied Piper of Guadalupe" (WB) |
Lost |
October 19th, 2003 | S03E26 | Captain & the Kids | "Cleaning House" (MGM) "Poultry Pirates" (MGM) "Old Smokey" (MGM) "Petunia Natural Park" (MGM) "Mama's New Hat" (MGM) |
Lost |
October 26th, 2003 | S03E27 | The Early Career of Porky Pig | "Gold Diggers of '49" (WB) "The Blow Out" (WB) "Westward Whoa" (WB) "Porky's Romance" (WB) "Porky's Duck Hunt" (WB) |
Lost |
November 9th, 2003 | S03E28 | Private Snafu | "Coming Snafu" (WB) "Spies" (WB) "Booby Traps" (WB) "Snafuperman" (WB) "Censored" (WB) |
Found |
November 9th, 2003 | S03E29 | Red | "Red Hot Riding Hood" (MGM) "Wild and Woolfy" (MGM) "Little Rural Riding Hood" (MGM) |
Found |
November 16th, 2003 | S03E30 | The Many Moods of Daffy Duck | "The Wise Quacking Duck" (WB) "Duck Amuck" (WB) "Ali Baba Bunny" (WB) |
Lost |
November 16th, 2003 | S03E31 | Pepe le Pew | "Odor-able Kitty" (WB) "For Scent-imental Reasons" (WB) "Louvre Come Back to Me" (WB) |
Lost |
November 23rd, 2003 | S03E32 | The Boys from Kansas City | "Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!" (WB) "Porky and Gabby" (WB) "Porky's Hare Hunt" (WB) "Bottles" (MGM) "The Milky Way" (MGM) |
Found |
Notes
- In S02E06, "Midnight in the Bookstore", during the weekend of March 19, 1999, "You're An Education" was replaced with a redrawn print of "I Like Mountain Music" (WB). "Speaking Of The Weather" (WB) was the cartoon shown after that. "Book Revue" (WB) then followed. New wraparounds were made for "I Like Mountain Music" and "Speaking Of The Weather" during the weekend of October 6th, 2000.
- In S02E20, "Toro! Toro!", technical difficulties caused "The Mice Will Play" (WB) and “Sheep Wrecked” (MGM) to play instead of “Bully for Bugs”, and “Senor Droopy”, respectively. There was also the usage of bumpers from S02E19, "The Nice Mice of Warner Bros”. The correct cartoons and segments were reinstated on October 1st, 1999.
See Also
External Link
References
- ↑ Tex Avery Show / Toonheads Episode Guides (part 1). Retrieved 30 Aug ‘16
- ↑ Tex Avery Show / Toonheads Episode Guides (part 2). Retrieved 30 Aug ‘16
- ↑ Book page confirming the existence of "The Twelve Missing Hares". Retrieved 22 Jan '19
- ↑ Forum post referencing " The Worst Cartoons Ever Made". Retrieved 09 Feb '19