The Tex Avery Show
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The Tex Avery Show was an animated showcase of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
and Warner Bros.
cartoon shorts prominently by animator
Tex Avery
(a.k.a. Fred Avery). The showcase premiered on the Cartoon Network
in 1996 (not long after the Time Warner
-Turner
merger allowed for common ownership of all but four of Avery's cartoons), and was taken off the air in 2002. It was soon re-broadcast on Boomerang
.
of the new Tex Avery Show
debuted on March 19, 1998. This series put a large emphasis on showcasing MGM cartoons that have never graced the show. Despite the newly contrived notion, most of these episode
s were not shown; although the first telecast aired under this policy were: The Early Bird Dood It, Dumb-Hounded and Red Hot Riding Hood.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is an American media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of films and television programs. MGM was founded in 1924 when the entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer...
and Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
cartoon shorts prominently by animator
Animator
An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an...
Tex Avery
Tex Avery
Frederick Bean "Fred/Tex" Avery was an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. He did his most significant work for the Warner Bros...
(a.k.a. Fred Avery). The showcase premiered on the Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network (United States)
Cartoon Network is an American cable television network owned by Turner Broadcasting which primarily airs animated programming. The channel was launched on October 1, 1992 after Turner purchased the animation studio Hanna-Barbera Productions in 1991...
in 1996 (not long after the Time Warner
Time Warner
Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...
-Turner
Turner Broadcasting System
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. is the Time Warner subsidiary managing the collection of cable networks and properties started and acquired by Robert Edward "Ted" Turner starting in the mid-1970s. The company has its headquarters in the CNN Center in Atlanta, Georgia. TBS, Inc...
merger allowed for common ownership of all but four of Avery's cartoons), and was taken off the air in 2002. It was soon re-broadcast on Boomerang
Boomerang (TV channel)
Boomerang is a 24-hour American cable television channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System, a division of Time Warner. Boomerang specializes in reruns of animated programming from Time Warner's extensive archives, including pre-1986 MGM, Hanna-Barbera, Cartoon Network, DePatie-Freleng Enterprises...
.
Second Series
The primetime telecastTelecast
Telecast may refer to:*television broadcast*Telecast , a Christian band from the United States...
of the new Tex Avery Show
The Wacky World of Tex Avery
The Wacky World of Tex Avery is a cartoon television show produced by DiC Entertainment in 1997 and 1998.-Production:The series was named after Tex Avery, a cartoonist who is most famous for his work at Warner Bros. and MGM...
debuted on March 19, 1998. This series put a large emphasis on showcasing MGM cartoons that have never graced the show. Despite the newly contrived notion, most of these episode
Episode
An episode is a part of a dramatic work such as a serial television or radio program. An episode is a part of a sequence of a body of work, akin to a chapter of a book. The term sometimes applies to works based on other forms of mass media as well, as in Star Wars...
s were not shown; although the first telecast aired under this policy were: The Early Bird Dood It, Dumb-Hounded and Red Hot Riding Hood.
List of featured Tex Avery Cartoons
- Blitz WolfBlitz WolfBlitz Wolf is an early anti-German World War II Hitler-parodying cartoon produced in 1942 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed by Tex Avery and produced by Fred Quimby. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons.-Plot:...
- The Early Bird Dood It
- Dumb-HoundedDumb-HoundedDumb-Hounded is an American animation short from 1943. It's notable for being the first cartoon to star Droopy.-Plot:The wolf escapes from prison. Several police dogs are freed to search him, but one one them, Droopy, remains behind and informs the audience that he is the hero of the story. He...
- Red Hot Riding HoodRed Hot Riding HoodRed Hot Riding Hood is an animated cartoon short subject, directed by Tex Avery and released on May 8, 1943 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1994 it was voted #7 of The 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field...
- Who Killed Who?Who Killed Who?Who Killed Who? is a 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated short directed by Tex Avery for MGM. The cartoon is a parody of whodunit stories and employs many clichés of the genre for humor.-Plot:...
- One Ham's Family
- What's Buzzin' Buzzard?
- Screwball SquirrelScrewball SquirrelScrewball "Screwy" Squirrel is a cartoon character, an anthropomorphic squirrel created by Tex Avery for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, generally considered the wackiest of the screwball cartoon characters of the 1940s, which included Warner Bros.'s Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, Disney's Aracuan Bird, and...
- Batty Baseball
- Happy-Go-Nutty
- Big Heel-Watha
- The Screwy Truant
- The Shooting of Dan McGooThe Shooting Of Dan McGooThe Shooting of Dan McGoo is a cartoon directed by Tex Avery. It starred Frank Graham as the Wolf. Both Avery and Bill Thompson voiced the lead character Droopy. Bea Benaderet did the speaking voice of Lou, while her singing was provided by Imogene Lynn...
- Jerky TurkeyJerky TurkeyJerky Turkey is an animated theatrical short, directed by Tex Avery, released on 7 April 1945 by MGM. The story for this cartoon was written by Heck Allen, the music by Scott Bradley, and the animation was done by Preston Blair, Ed Love and Ray Abrams. Voices were provided by radio actors Harry...
- Swing Shift CinderellaSwing Shift CinderellaSwing Shift Cinderella is an animated cartoon short subject. It is in the same vein as Red Hot Riding Hood. Frank Graham voiced the wolf, and Colleen Collins voiced Cinderella.-Plot:...
- Wild and Wolfy
- Lonesome Lenny
- The Hick Chick
- Northwest Hounded PoliceNorthwest Hounded PoliceNorthwest Hounded Police is a cartoon starring a prototypical Droopy and Tex Avery's wolf. This cartoon revoles the wolf on the run from Droopy, who is trailing the wolf in order to capture him...
- Henpecked Hoboes
- Hound Hunters
- Red Hot Rangers
- Uncle Tom's Cabana
- Slap Happy LionSlap Happy LionSlap Happy Lion is a 1947 cartoon directed by Tex Avery and produced by Fred Quimby. It is about the tragic downfall of a lion from king of the beasts to a gibbering, pill-popping wreck. It is narrated by a mouse whose torments drove him crazy. The mouse's voice was supplied by Paul Frees...
- King Size Canary
- What Price Fleadom
- Little Tinker
- Lucky Ducky
- Half-Pint Pygmy
- The Cat That Hated PeopleThe Cat That Hated PeopleThe Cat That Hated People is a 1948 cartoon directed by Tex Avery and produced by Fred Quimby. The cat's voice was supplied by radio actor Harry Lang; incidental music was directed by Scott Bradley.-Plot:...
- Bad Luck BlackieBad Luck BlackieBad Luck Blackie is a 1949 animated cartoon produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The Tex Avery-directed short was voted the fifteenth-best cartoon of all-time in a 1994 poll of one-thousand animation industry professionals, as referenced in the book The 50 Greatest Cartoons...
- Senor Droopy
- The House of TomorrowThe House of TomorrowThe House of Tomorrow EP is the third major release by The Magnetic Fields, and the first to feature Stephin Merritt as main vocalist. Merge Records reissued it in 1996...
- Doggone Tired
- Wags To Riches
- Little Rural Riding HoodLittle Rural Riding HoodLittle Rural Riding Hood is a 1949 animated cartoon short subject directed by Tex Avery, conceived as a follow-up to his 1943 cartoon Red Hot Riding Hood...
- Out-Foxed
- The Counterfeit Cat
- Ventriloquist CatVentriloquist CatVentriloquist Cat is an MGM animated film, directed by Hollywood director Tex Avery. The film was released in the US on 27 May 1950.-Plot:...
- The Cuckoo Clock
- Garden Gopher
- The Chump Champ
- The Peachy Cobbler
- Cock-A-Doodle Dog
- Daredevil Droopy
- Droopy's Good Deed
- Symphony In SlangSymphony in Slang"Symphony in Slang" is a 1951 cartoon short directed by Tex Avery, written by Rich Hogan and released by MGM. Minimalist and abstract in style , it tells the story of a man John Brown, who finds himself at the Pearly Gates explaining the story of his life to a bewildered Saint Peter and Noah Webster...
- Car of TomorrowCar of TomorrowThe Car of Tomorrow, sometimes called CoT or "Car of Today", is the car style for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Larger and boxier than the design it replaced, the Car of Tomorrow is safer, costs less to maintain, and was intended to make for closer competition.The car was introduced in the 2007 Cup...
- Droopy's Double Trouble
- Magical MaestroMagical MaestroMagical Maestro is a 1952 animated short film directed by Tex Avery and produced by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. It tells the story of Poochini, a canine opera singer who spurns a magician. The magician is able to replace Poochini's normal conductor prior to the show through disguise...
- One Cab's Family
- Rock-A-Bye Bear
- Little Johnny Jet
- TV Of Tomorrow
- The Three Little Pups
- Drag-A-Long Droopy
- Billy BoyBilly Boy"Billy Boy" is a traditional folk song and nursery rhyme found in the United States. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 326.-Lyrics:One variant of the lyrics goes:Oh, where have you been,Billy Boy, Billy Boy?Oh, where have you been,Charming Billy?...
- Homesteader Droopy
- The Farm Of Tomorrow
- The Flea Circus
- Dixieland DroopyDixieland DroopyDixieland Droopy is a 1954 animated short subject in the Droopy series, directed by Tex Avery and produced by Fred Quimby for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
- Field and Scream
- The First Bad ManThe First Bad ManThe First Bad Man is an American animated cartoon directed by Tex Avery, and features narration by singing cowboy Tex Ritter. It was released by MGM on September 30, 1955.-Synopsis:...
- Deputy Droopy
- Cellbound
- Millionaire Droopy
- Cat's MeowCat's meowCat's meow may refer to:*Meow , an onomatopoeia for the voiced sound made by cats...
See also
- Tex AveryTex AveryFrederick Bean "Fred/Tex" Avery was an American animator, cartoonist, voice actor and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during The Golden Age of Hollywood animation. He did his most significant work for the Warner Bros...
, cartoon director and honoree of The Tex Avery Show - The Wacky World of Tex AveryThe Wacky World of Tex AveryThe Wacky World of Tex Avery is a cartoon television show produced by DiC Entertainment in 1997 and 1998.-Production:The series was named after Tex Avery, a cartoonist who is most famous for his work at Warner Bros. and MGM...
- List of programs broadcast by Cartoon Network
- Cartoon AlleyCartoon AlleyCartoon Alley is an American television program that aired on Turner Classic Movies every Saturday Morning at 11:30 AM ET.Hosted by Ben Mankiewicz, the series featured three classic animated shorts from the 1930-1950's per episode. Most shorts were from The Golden Age of American animation. Each of...
- ToonHeadsToonHeadsThe TV series ToonHeads is an animation anthology series consisting of uncut Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer & Warner Bros. cartoon shorts, with interesting background information and trivia, prominently by animators and voice actors like: Mel Blanc, Tex Avery, Hugh Harman, Rudy Ising, David H. DePatie, Friz...
- The Bob Clampett ShowThe Bob Clampett ShowThe Bob Clampett Show was an animation anthology television program which ran from 2000 to 2001. Produced by the Cartoon Network, it featured animated theatrical shorts from the Warner Bros. library that were animated or directed by Bob Clampett, as well as a selection of shorts from the Beany and...
- The Popeye ShowThe Popeye ShowThe Popeye Show is a Cartoon Network TV show that premiered on November 11, 2001. Each episode would include three unedited Popeye theatrical shorts from Fleischer Studios and/or Famous Studios. The show was narrated by Bill Murray , would give the audience short facts about the history of the...