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Cartoon Alley is an American animated children's animated anthology series which aired on Turner Classic Movies on Saturday mornings from 2004 to 2007. 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, Paramount (the latter studio provided the Popeye cartoons; 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, Popeye, Porky Pig, Tom and Jerry, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, Barney Bear, Spike, George and Junior, and others not so famous such as Goopy Geer and The Captain and the Kids. Also included were 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 2007.

Episode list

Season 1: 2004-2005

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Episode Title

Shorts Featured

Original Air Date

1

Clark Gable

11/5/2004

2

Christmas

12/4/2004

3

Oscar Nominated Shorts

1/1/2005

4

Tom & Jerry

3/5/2005

5

Tex Avery

4/2/2005

6

The Early Days of Warner Brothers Cartoons

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 Circus

  • Ginger Nutt's Forest Dragon

9/17/2005

12

Barney Bear

9/24/2005

13

Sniffles

10/1/2005

14

Droopy

10/8/2005

15

Tweety Bird

10/15/2005

16

Cinemascope Cartoons

10/22/2005

17

Peter Lorre Caricatures

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

11/12/2005

20

Benny Burro

  • Little Gravel Voice

  • The Prospecting Bear

  • Half-Pint Palomino

11/19/2005

21

WB Cartoon Character Debuts

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

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

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

10/21/2006

34

Conrad Cat

  • The Bird Came C.O.D

  • Porky's Café

  • Conrad the Sailor

10/28/2006

Season 3: 2006-2007

35

George and Junior

  • Henpecked Hoboes

  • Hound Hunters

  • Half-Pint Pygmy

11/4/2006

36

Early Bugs Bunny

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

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 Geer

  • 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.

See also

References