''Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales'' is a 1979

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featuring

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and other

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characters in three newly created cartoon shorts with seasonal themes. It premiered on

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on November 27, 1979.

Voice cast

Mel Blanc Melvin Jerome Blanc (born Blank ; May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and radio personality whose career spanned over 60 years. During the Golden Age of Radio, he provided character voices and vocal sound effects for come ...

as Bugs Bunny,

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Foghorn Leghorn Foghorn Leghorn is an anthropomorphic rooster who appears in ''Looney Tunes'' and '' Merrie Melodies'' cartoons and films from Warner Bros. Animation. He was created by Robert McKimson, and starred in 29 cartoons from 1946 to 1964 in the gol ...

Tweety Bird Tweety is an animated character, a yellow Domestic canary, canary bird in the Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of animated cartoons. His characteristics are based on Red Skelton's famous "Junior the Mean Widdle Kid". ...

Yosemite Sam Yosemite Sam ( ) is a cartoon character in the ''Looney Tunes'' and '' Merrie Melodies'' series of short films produced by Warner Bros. His name is taken from Yosemite National Park in California. His real name is ''Aloysius Bartholamew Sam''. ...

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Speedy Gonzales Speedy Gonzales is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' and ''Merrie Melodies'' series of cartoons. He is portrayed as "The Fastest Mouse in all Mexico" with his major traits being the ability to run extremely fast ...

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, and Airplane Pilots *

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and

Clyde Bunny Clyde Bunny is a cartoon character who appears in three Looney Tunes shorts. He is the nephew of Bugs Bunny. Appearances Clyde made his first appearance in '' His Hare-Raising Tale''. Clyde visits his uncle Bugs who narrates about playing basebal ...

New cartoons featured

Three new cartoons appeared in the show: *'' Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol'' (Friz Freleng) *''Freeze Frame'' (Chuck Jones) *''The Fright Before Christmas'' (Friz Freleng)

Home media

It was released on the fifth volume of the ''

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'' along with '' Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over'' and '' Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals''.

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Voice cast

New cartoons featured

Home media

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