Cartoon Alley
Cartoon Alley | |
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Starring | Ben Mankiewicz |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 67 |
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Running time | 30 minutes |
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Original network | Turner Classic Movies |
Original release | November 5, 2004 March 9, 2008 | –
Cartoon Alley is an American animated children's television series which aired on Turner Classic Movies on Saturday mornings from 2004 to 2008. It featured classic animated shorts.
Originally broadcast at 11:30 AM ET, it was hosted by Ben Mankiewicz and usually featured three classic animated shorts from the 1930–1950s per episode. Most shorts were from The Golden Age of American animation. Each of the three shorts focused on a common theme. Most shorts came from Warner Bros., MGM, Universal, Paramount, Pat Sullivan, and Otto Mesmer (the latter studio provided the Popeye cartoons and the Felix The Cat cartoons only; these were in Turner's hands by this point), but during the show's first season Cartoon Alley featured shorts from the Gaumont Film Company. Many recognizable characters were featured in at least one episode such as Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, Popeye, Felix The Cat, Porky Pig, Andy Panda, Space Mouse, Tom and Jerry, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, Barney Bear, Spike, George and Junior, and others not so famous such as Goopy Geer, Betty Boop, Mutt and Jeff, Hunky and Spunky, Little Lulu, Gabby, The Captain and the Kids, and also include animated feature films. The shorts often appeared uncut and uncensored (a few cartoons utilized cuts for content), and the more controversial cartoons (such as Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt and Half-Pint Pygmy) were often introduced with a brief warning by Mankiewicz about the ethnic stereotypes being portrayed. The network's logo was only featured for a brief time, usually during the last short featured.
From November 2004 to September 2005, the series was featured just once a month but after popular demand the series became a weekly feature. Cartoon Alley usually did not air in February because of TCM's 31 Days of Oscar programming. the series was cancelled in Autumn of 2008.
Episode list[edit]
Season 1: 2004-2005[edit]
# | Episode Title | Shorts Featured | Original Air Date |
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1 | Clark Gable |
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11/5/2004 |
2 | Christmas |
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12/4/2004 |
3 | Oscar Nominated Shorts | 1/1/2005 | |
4 | Tom & Jerry | 3/5/2005 | |
5 | Tex Avery |
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4/2/2005 |
6 | The Early Days of Warner Brothers Cartoons and The Early Days of Walter Lantz Cartoons | 5/7/2005 | |
7 | The Captain and the Kids |
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6/4/2005 |
8 | Popeye |
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7/2/2005 |
9 | Animaland Series (1) |
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9/3/2005 |
10 | Animaland Series (2) |
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9/10/2005 |
11 | Animaland Series (3) |
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9/17/2005 |
12 | Barney Bear | 9/24/2005 | |
13 | Sniffles |
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10/1/2005 |
14 | Droopy | 10/8/2005 | |
15 | Tweety Bird | 10/15/2005 | |
16 | Cinemascope Cartoons |
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10/22/2005 |
17 | Peter Lorre Caricatures |
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10/29/2005 |
Season 2: 2005-2006[edit]
18 | Happy Harmonies |
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11/5/2005 |
19 | Elmer Fudd |
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11/12/2005 |
20 | Benny Burro |
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11/19/2005 |
21 | WB Cartoon Character Debuts | 11/26/2005 | |
22 | Popeye II |
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12/3/2005 |
23 | Two Curious Puppies |
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12/10/2005 |
24 | Christmas II |
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12/17/2005 |
25 | Nursery Rhymes and Bedtime Stories |
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12/31/2005 |
26 | Homer the Flea |
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9/2/2006 |
27 | Black and White Warner Brothers |
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9/9/2006 |
28 | Tex Avery's Screwball Classics | 9/16/2006 | |
29 | Hubie & Bertie |
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9/23/2006 |
30 | Popeye III |
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9/23/2006 |
31 | Warner Brothers |
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10/7/2006 |
32 | CinemaScope Tom & Jerry |
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10/14/2006 |
33 | CinemaScope Droopy |
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10/21/2006 |
34 | Conrad Cat |
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10/28/2006 |
Season 3: 2006-2007[edit]
35 | George and Junior |
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11/4/2006 |
36 | Early Bugs Bunny | 11/11/2006 | |
37 | Spike |
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11/18/2006 |
38 | Bugs and Cecil |
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11/25/2006 |
39 | Happy Harmonies II |
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12/2/2006 |
40 | Porky Pig |
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12/9/2006 |
41 | Bing Crosby Spoofs |
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12/16/2006 |
42 | Christmas III |
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12/23/2006 |
43 | Goopy Geer |
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12/30/2006 |
44 | The Bear Family |
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1/6/2007 |
45 | Beans |
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1/13/2007 |
46 | Adolph Hitler WB Caricatures |
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1/20/2007 |
47 | Screwy Squirrel |
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1/27/2007 |
48 | Woody Woodpecker |
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3/6/2007 |
49 | Felix The Cat |
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3/13/2007 |
50 | Andy Panda |
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3/20/2007 |
51 | Andy Panda |
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3/27/2007 |
52 | Space Mouse |
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4/1/2007 |
53 | Chuck Jones' Classics | 4/10/2007 | |
54 | Mutt and Jeff |
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4/30/2007 |
55 | Betty Boop | 5/28/2007 | |
56 | Van Beuren's Tom and Jerry |
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6/17/2007 |
57 | Cartoon Movie Classics | 7/4/2007 | |
58 | Black and White Felix the Cat |
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8/10/2007 |
59 | Hunky and Spunky |
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9/11/2007 |
60 | Count Screwloose |
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10/31/2007 |
61 | Cartoon Movie Classics II | 11/12/2007 | |
62 | Little Lulu |
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12/1/2007 |
63 | Popeye IIII |
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12/31/2007 |
64 | Gabby |
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1/5/2008 |
65 | Rainbow Parade |
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1/17/2008 |
66 | Molly-Moo Cow | 1/25/2008 | |
67 | Woody Woodpecker II | 3/9/2008 |
Featured directors[edit]
These people directed original shorts featured in the series.
- Tex Avery
- Joseph Barbera
- Robert Clampett
- Arthur Davis
- Earl Duvall
- David Hand (Animalland)
- Max Fleischer
- Dave Fleischer
- Friz Freleng
- William Hanna
- Hugh Harman
- Rudolph Ising
- Chuck Jones
- Seymour Kneitel
- Dick Lundy
- Robert McKimson
- Isadore Sparber
- Walter Lantz
- Pat Sullivan
- Otto Messmer
See also[edit]
- The Tex Avery Show
- ToonHeads
- The Bob Clampett Show
- The Popeye Show
- The Woody Woodpecker Show
- The Ink and Paint Club
References[edit]
- ^ TCM Strolls Down Cartoon Alley-Animation Magazine
- ^ TCM Gets Animated-TimeWarner.com
- ^ "Classic Cartoon TV Highlights - Dec. 2006-Golden Age Cartoons.com". Archived from the original on 2007-09-02. Retrieved 2007-01-16.
- ^ Cartoon Alley December 2005-TCM.com
- ^ Cartoon Alley September 2006-TCM.com