Warren Foster

Bugs Bunny hosts an award show featuring several classic Looney Tunes shorts and characters.

Dir. Friz Freleng · With Mel Blanc, June Foray, Bea Benaderet

If Bugs Bunny were to direct his signature inquiry--"What's up, doc?"--toward the modern-day Warner Bros. creative team, he wouldn't be far off. For 1001 Rabbit Tales, they've doctored up a batch of classic cartoons featuring the carrot muncher and his bumbling comrades and bundled them, near seamlessly, into a feature-length film. Here's the premise: Bugs and Daffy, both book salesmen, are competing to sell the most copies of a kids' book. Instead of burrowing a beeline to his sales territory (he should have made a left at Albuquerque), Bugs ends up in the castle of Yosemite Sam, here a harem-leading honcho. Sam's pain-in-the-spurs son, Prince Abalaba, needs somebody to read him stories; Bugs, who'd sooner take the job than suffer the alternative, that involving being boiled in oil, signs on.

Dir. Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Robert McKimson · With Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, Arthur Q. Bryan

Speedy comes to the aid of a group of mice trying to get the cheese from a factory guarded by Sylvester.

Dir. Friz Freleng · With Mel Blanc, Stan Freberg

Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales find a treasure map that leads them to a wishing well, which for a penny will grant any wish (through old cartoon footage). Daffy sets up a resort around the well and various Looney Tunes characters have their dreams come true. Meanwhile, Yosemite Sam and the Tasmanian Devil hunt for the varmints who stole their treasure map!

Dir. Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Robert McKimson · With Mel Blanc, June Foray, Les Tremayne