Cartoon Alley

Cartoon Alley
Starring	Ben Mankiewicz
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	47
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Release
Original network	Turner Classic Movies
Original release	November 5, 2004 (2004-11-05) – January 27, 2007 (2007-01-27)
External links
[{{#property:P856}} Website]

Cartoon Alley was an American television series that aired on Turner Classic Movies on Saturday mornings from 2004 to 2007. It featured classic animated shorts.

Broadcast at 11:30 AM ET, it was hosted by Ben Mankiewicz and 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, and Paramount (the latter studio provided the Popeye 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 have been featured in at least one episode such as Bugs Bunny, Popeye, Porky Pig, Tom and Jerry, and others not so famous such as Goopy Geer and The Captain and the Kids. 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. This series never aired in February because of TCM's 31 Days of Oscars programming. The series was canceled in autumn of 2007.

Episode list

Season 1: 2004-2005

#	Episode Title	Shorts Featured	Original Air Date
1	Clark Gable	The Coo-Coo Nut Grove Malibu Beach Party Hollywood Steps Out	11/5/2004
2	Christmas	Pups' Christmas, The Peace on Earth Night Before Christmas	12/4/2004
3	Oscar Nominated Shorts	Life with Feathers Blitz Wolf Hatch Up Your Troubles	1/1/2005
4	Tom & Jerry	Professor Tom Old Rockin' Chair Tom The Cat Concerto	3/5/2005
5	Tex Avery	Red Hot Riding Hood Batty Baseball Swing Shift Cinderella	4/2/2005
6	The Early Days of Warner Brothers Cartoons	Honeymoon Hotel Beauty and the Beast I Haven't Got a Hat	5/7/2005
7	The Captain and the Kids	Cleaning House Petunia National Park Mama's New Hat	6/4/2005
8	Popeye	Adventures of Popeye The Anvil Chorus Girl Abusement Park	7/2/2005
9	Animaland Series (1)	The Platypus The Cuckoo The Lion	9/3/2005
10	Animaland Series (2)	The Ostrich It's A Lovely Day The House Cat	9/10/2005
11	Animaland Series (3)	Ginger Nutt's Bee Bother Ginger Nutt's Christmas Carol Ginger Nutt's Forest Dragon	9/17/2005
12	Barney Bear	The Bear That Couldn't Sleep Goggle Fishing Bear Heir Bear	9/24/2005
13	Sniffles	Naughty But Mice Little Brother Rat Sniffles and the Bookworm	10/1/2005
14	Droopy	Dumb-Hounded The Shooting of Dan McGoo Wild and Woolfy	10/8/2005
15	Tweety Bird	A Tale of Two Kitties Birdy and the Beast A Gruesome Twosome	10/15/2005
16	Cinemascope Cartoons	Millionaire Droopy The Egg and Jerry Tops with Pops	10/22/2005
17	Peter Lorre Caricatures	Horton Hatches the Egg Hair-Raising Hare Birth of a Notion	10/29/2005

Season 2: 2005-2006

18	Happy Harmonies	The Discontented Canary The Old Pioneer Tale of Vienna Woods	11/5/2005
19	Elmer Fudd	Elmer's Candid Camera Confederate Honey The Hardship of Miles Standish	11/12/2005
20	Benny Burro	Little Gravel Voice The Prospecting Bear Half-Pint Palomino	11/19/2005
21	WB Cartoon Character Debuts	Walky Talky Hawky The Goofy Gophers Haredevil Hare	11/26/2005
22	Popeye II	Baby Wants a Bottleship A Balmy Swami Beaus Will Be Beaus	12/3/2005
23	Two Curious Puppies	Dog Gone Modern The Curious Puppy Snowtime For Comedy	12/10/2005
24	Christmas II	The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives Bedtime for Sniffles Good Will To Men	12/17/2005
25	Nursery Rhymes and Bedtime Stories	Little Red Walking Hood The Bear's Tale The Trial of Mr. Wolf	12/31/2005
26	Homer the Flea	The Homeless Flea What Price Fleadom The Cat That Hated People	9/2/2006
27	Black and White Warner Brothers	I've Got to Sing a Torch Song Pettin' in the Park Gold Diggers of '49	9/9/2006
28	Tex Avery's Screwball Classics	Lucky Ducky Bad Luck Blackie Symphony in Slang	9/16/2006
29	Hubie & Bertie	Aristo-Cat Roughly Squeaking House Hunting Mice	9/23/2006
30	Popeye III	Can You Take It Child Psykolojiky Car-azy Drivers	9/23/2006
31	Warner Brothers	Egghead Rides Again The Bashful Buzzard Boulevardier of the Bronx	10/7/2006
32	CinemaScope Tom & Jerry	Mucho Mouse Tom's Photo Finish Royal Cat Nap	10/14/2006
33	CinemaScope Droopy	Blackboard Jumble One Droopy Knight Sheep Wrecked	10/21/2006
34	Conrad Cat	The Bird Came C.O.D Porky's Cafe Conrad the Sailor	10/28/2006

Season 3: 2006-2007

35	George & Junior	Henpecked Hoboes Hound Hunters Half-Pint Pygmy	11/4/2006
36	Early Bugs Bunny	A Wild Hare Elmer's Pet Rabbit Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt	11/11/2006
37	Spike	The Counterfeit Cat Ventriloquist Cat Garden Gopher	11/18/2006
38	Bugs and Cecil	Tortoise Beats Hare Tortoise Wins By a Hare Rabbit Transit	11/25/2006
39	Happy Harmonies II	When the Cat's Away Lost Chick, The Calico Dragon, The	12/2/2006
40	Porky Pig	Porky's Picnic Porky's Baseball Broadcast Porky's Snooze Reel	12/9/2006
41	Bing Crosby Spoofs	Let It Be Me Bingo Crosbyana Woods Are Full of Cuckoos	12/16/2006
42	Christmas III	Toyland Broadcast Alias St. Nick Captain's Christmas	12/23/2006
43	Goopy Geer	Goopy Gear Moonlight for Two The Queen Was in the Parlor	12/30/2006
44	The Bear Family	Goldilocks and the Three Bears A Rainy Day Papa Gets the Bird	1/6/2007
45	Beans	Fire Alarm, The Phantom Ship, The Boom Boom	1/13/2007
46	Adolph Hitler WB Caricatures	Daffy - the Commando Russian Rhapsody Herr Meets Hare	1/20/2007
47	Screwy Squirrel	Screwball Squirrel Screwy Truant, The Lonesome Lenny	1/27/2007

Featured directors

These people directed original shorts featured in the series.

• Robert Allen
• Tex Avery
• Joseph Barbera
• Robert Clampett
• Arthur Davis
• Earl Duvall
• Bert Felstead
• Dave Fleischer
• Friz Freleng
• William Hanna
• Hugh Harman
• Rudolph Ising
• Chuck Jones
• Seymour Kneitel
• Dick Lundy
• Robert McKimson
• Isadore Sparber

See also

• The Tex Avery Show
• ToonHeads
• The Bob Clampett Show
• The Popeye Show

References

• TCM Strolls Down Cartoon Alley
• TCM Gets Animated
• Classic Cartoon TV Highlights - Dec. 2006

External links

• Cartoon Alley at IMDb
• Cartoon Alley at TV.com
• Cartoon Alley December 2005
• Cartoon Alley September 2006