About this season
ToonHeads is an animation anthology series consisting of Hanna-Barbera, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros. and Popeye cartoon shorts, with interesting background information and trivia, prominently about animators and voice actors like: Mel Blanc, Tex Avery, Hugh Harman, Rudy Ising, David H. DePatie, Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, and Daws Butler. The program was narrated by Leslie Fram and Don Kennedy. Every half-hour episode would have a different theme, including one series of episodes in 1996 featuring the long-unseen Nudnik shorts. It was originally broadcast on Cartoon Network from October 1992 to November 23, 2003, with a Christmas special shown on December 24, 2005. The series includes 82 episodes, two one-hour specials, and one half-hour special which was never aired.
Episodes (13)
1. The Goofy Gophers
Aired 14 May 1999
2. Motor Heads
Aired 21 May 1999
3. Fight Night
Aired 28 May 1999
Cartoons that lampooned boxing and wrestling.
4. The Evolution of Tweety
Aired 6 June 1999
5. The Year Elmer Fudd Got Fat
Aired 13 June 1999
A look at the short-lived time in the early 1940s when Elmer Fudd was depicted as a fat man to look more like his voice actor, Arthur Q. Bryan.
6. The Nice Mice of Warner Bros.
Aired 20 June 1999
7. Toro! Toro!
Aired 27 June 1999
Cartoons that lampooned bull-fighting.
8. Director Robert McKimson
Aired 4 July 1999
9. Our Man Sam
Aired 11 July 1999
A look at Yosemite Sam, Friz Freleng's hot-tempered, trigger-happy cowboy character created as a more worthy adversary to Bugs Bunny.
10. The Musical Cartoons of Friz Freleng
Aired 18 July 1999
11. Night of 1000 Elves
Aired 25 July 1999
A look at cartoons that featured elven characters, often in a parody of the fable "The Shoemaker and the Elves".
12. One Toon Wonders
Aired 1 August 1999
Cartoons that had potential recurring characters, but only starred in one cartoon. Ghost Wanted, Crackpot Quail, and One Froggy Evening
13. Battle of the Bookworms
Aired 8 August 1999