Follow Us!
Popular Posts
-
Tags
Announce Awards Betty Boop Box Office Bugs Bunny cartoon Cartoon Network CotD Daffy Duck Disney DreamWorks Famous Feature Film Film Festival Financial Fleischer Foreign Fox Hanna-Barbera Hayao Miyazaki In Production Looney Tunes Merrie Melodies MGM Mickey Mouse New Release News Nickelodeon Nominees Obituary Paramount Personel Pixar Premier Programming Sequel Short Sony special Television Theatrical Tom & Jerry Universal Warner Bros. WinnersRecent Comments
- Meghan Hutnak on Cartoon Network Coming To Netflix Streaming
- Paul Presti on Silver Surfer actor Bernard Behrens Dies at 85
- Ken Raymond on Cartoon of the Day: Musica-Lulu
- joseph flores on TV Series Director Margaret Nichols Dies at 82
- Kendra on Cartoon of the Day: Treasure Planet
Tag Archives: special
Cartoon of the Day: I Yabba-Dabba Do!
Who is celebrating their twentieth anniversary today? The two stone-age kids that grew up next door to each other– Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm! In 1993, ABC aired I Yabba-Dabba Do!, a special directed by animation giant William Hanna. How tough was it for Fred to give away the bride?
Posted in Cartoons, News
Tagged cartoon, CotD, Hanna-Barbera, News, special, Television
Leave a comment
Cartoon of the Day: A Flintstone Family Christmas
Time for a little reminder that it’s Christmastime, even in the stone age. Fred, Barney, Wilma and Betty all hang out for A Flintstone Family Christmas in this 1993 special.
Combustible Heats up Japan Media Arts Festival
Katsuhiro Ohiro’s short film Hi No Yôjin (Combustible) has won the Grand Prize in the Animation Division of the 16th Japan Media Arts Festival, organizers announced Thursday.
Cartoon of the Day: A Very Merry Cricket
One of Chuck Jones’ specials from the 1970’s, A Very Merry Cricket featured Les Tremayne as Chester C. Cricket and Harry the Cat and Mel Blanc as Tucker the Mouse. Chuck wrote and directed this sequel.
Cartoon of the Day: Frosty The Snowman
What would the holidays be without great Rankin-Bass animated specials like Frosty The Snowman? 43 years young today, Frosty The Snowman is not that horrible sequel Frosty Returns (which was cel animated), but proper stop motion animation and narration by none other than Jimmy Durante.
Cartoon of the Day: A Wish For Wings That Work
One of the most bizarre– and most fun!- Christmas specials is A Wish For Wings That Work, based on the the Bloom County comic strip by Berkeley Breathed. The special, produced by Steven Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment, has more than it’s share of surprises… including an uncredited voice appearance by.… well, just watch it and see.
Newest Disney Cartoon Princess Upsetting Hispanics
Disney’s newest princess is set to premiere in three short weeks in Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess. Despite Sofia the First being Disney’s first Latino princess– and Disney’s youngest– Sofia has not endeared herself to many in the Hispanic population.
Sofia the First Gets A Special Date
Disney’s Sofie the First- a series about a child princess– is getting closer to airing, and a special based on the series has a firm air date. The special, titled Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess, will hit Disney Channel on Sunday, Nov. 18 at 7 PM, and 9 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 22, on Disney Junior.
Disney’s Golden Anniversary Of Snow White (1955) — Disney Special
#CotD: Fifty years after Walt Disney’s first feature length animated film hit theaters, “Disney’s Golden Anniversary Of Snow White” looks at the legacy of the film.
Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue (1990) — Animated TV Special
CotD: Over a dozen studio pooled their biggest stars in “Goldilocks And The Three Bears”, the Bear Family faces “Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue” to help show kids the evils of taking drugs.
Wanda Sykes Top Appear In Bubble Guppies Special
Actress/comedian Wanda Sykes makes a splash as the voice of a mean witch in the first-ever hour-long special of Nickelodeon’s top-rated CG-animated preschool series, Bubble Guppies, premiering Sunday, Feb. 19, at 8:00 p.m. In “Bubble Puppy’s Fin-tastic Fairytale Adventure,” preschoolers will join the characters on a fairytale-themed adventure through an enchanted underwater world.
Bugs Bunny’s Valentine (1979) — Animated TV Special
CotD: In celebration of the date, we present “Bugs Bunny’s Valentine” and we wish you a happy Valentines Day.
Continue reading
A Flintstone Family Christmas (1993) — Hanna-Barbera Studios Animated TV Special
CotD: Take a step back in time with “A Flintstone Family Christmas” for a Yabba-Dabba-Do good holiday special.
Continue reading
How The Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) — Chuck Jones Animated TV Special
CotD: The grand-daddy of all Christmas specials, “How The Grinch Stole Christmas!” showed us that some things are best as cartoons, big budgets and Jim Carrey or not!
Continue reading
The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas (1973) — DePatie-Freleng Animated TV Special
CotD: An early Christmas special, “The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas” originally aired on NBC and was rebroadcast on CBS.
Continue reading