Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales
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| Directed by: | Friz Freleng (Bugs Bunny sequences), Chuck Jones (Roadrunner sequence) |
| Written by: | Friz Freleng, Chuck Jones, John Dunn, Tony Benedict |
| Release date: | November 27, 1979 |
| Running time: | 30 minutes |
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Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales is a half-hour special, in which Bugs Bunny presents three seperate holiday stories, which premiered on CBS. "Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol" features a miserly Yosemite Sam in the Scrooge role, causing Bugs to take on the function of a single ghost to scare him into reform. "Freeze Frame" is a Roadrunner adventure, which takes Wile E. Coyote and his prey to the North Pole. Finally, "Fright Before Christmas" is a variation of "A Visit from St. Nicholas" in which the Tasmanian Devil inadvertently substitutes as a more ravenous Santa.
Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales was the first in a series of three Looney Tunes specials which, instead of compling and re-editing older shorts, consisted of new material which could later be broken up as individual shorts, introduced by Bugs in new footage. All three segments were later included in the Saturday morning and syndicated packages, with individual title cards and limited credits. Follow-up specials, using the same format, were Daffy Duck's Easter Special and Bugs Bunny's Busting Out All Over.
