Looney Tunes: The Radio Show???

[don Jaime]

I've asked this before in 2000, but I thought I'd try again.

While looking for online fans of Sniffles the Mouse I tripped over this site (http://atomicbride.com/bobradio.html). As you can see, the creators of this page recall a Looney Tunes radio show of some sort. I made contact with Mr. McBride and asked him what he could tell me. The answer was not much: just that they had listened to it as kid when it was on a Los Angeles station in the late 1940s or early 1950s. (This other site (http://www.ukans.edu/~medieval/kansas-l/1998/msg00225.html) indicates it ran on Sundays.) They didn't know about the cartoons. I gave them the link to Cooke's site.

It's particularly odd because this radio show would have been influenced more by the comic book Sniffles who ran with Mary Jane instead of the loner who appeared in the cartoons. I still haven't dredged up anything new online and have never seen anything about a radio show in the published Warner Bros. books. I'm willing to bet the bigger stars appeared on radio, too. Does anybody know anything more about this?

[Rob]

Originally posted by don Jaime
I've asked this before in 2000, but I thought I'd try again.

While looking for online fans of Sniffles the Mouse I tripped over this site (http://atomicbride.com/bobradio.html). As you can see, the creators of this page recall a Looney Tunes radio show of some sort. I made contact with Mr. McBride and asked him what he could tell me. The answer was not much: just that they had listened to it as kid when it was on a Los Angeles station in the late 1940s or early 1950s. (This other site (http://www.ukans.edu/~medieval/kansas-l/1998/msg00225.html) indicates it ran on Sundays.) They didn't know about the cartoons. I gave them the link to Cooke's site.

It's particularly odd because this radio show would have been influenced more by the comic book Sniffles who ran with Mary Jane instead of the loner who appeared in the cartoons. I still haven't dredged up anything new online and have never seen anything about a radio show in the published Warner Bros. books. I'm willing to bet the bigger stars appeared on radio, too. Does anybody know anything more about this?

Not sure about a regular "Looney Tunes Radio Show," but on Mel Blanc's show (THE MEL BLANC SHOW) he was introduced at the top of the program as "The voice of Warner Brothers' Bugs Bunny!," followed with an appropriate "What's Up, Doc?" and the inevitable audience reaction of laughter and applause.