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- At the National Poultry Show, the prize for Best Duck is only $5.00, while the prize for Best Rooster is $5,000.00, so Daffy Duck decides to don a rubber glove top-knot, plucks a real rooster for tail feathers and enters the show.
- First game show ever produced by Goodson-Todman Productions, "Winner Take All" pitted two contestants against each other, answering general knowledge questions.
- Bugs Bunny retaliates against the pompous opera star who does him violence.
- Pa sees a want ad calling for vaudeville acts and tries to whip the family into shape for the job. Pa winds up being the only one getting whipped.
- Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions.
- Classic game show where couples (and sometimes families) competed to win prizes by completing stunts within a time limit.
- Daffy Duck is an obnoxious radio host who puts the guest, Porky, through an arduous series of quiz tests. The more questions he gets wrong, the more penalties Daffy gives him.
- Televised musical chairs, with questions and stunts.
- A perpetually-hungry dog has a great scheme going: planting a cat in different houses and bullying it out the food its "owners" give it. But he keeps getting hungrier and hungrier, and the cat keeps forgetting the gravy.
- It's Father's Day, and Junyer and Ma have a bunch of big surprises in store for good ol' Pa, including a pipe filled with gunpowder. To top it off, there's a gala Father's Day pageant, and Pa sits cringing through Junyer's recitation and aghast at Ma's tap-dancing rendition of "I'm Just Wild About Father."
- A group of panelists try to guess a guest's secret.
- Long-running religious series featuring dramatizations of contemporary problems and how they were resolved using a Christian solution.
- Sylvester gets a rubber mouse for Christmas, but he much prefers Granny's gift: a new Tweety Bird.
- A 1953 -1994 children's T.V. show that used hosts, puppets, games, music, short cartoons, and educational segments to teach a variety of subjects to preschool children.
- Bugs Bunny takes a wrong turn at Albuquerque and winds up in a Mexican bullring fighting one heck of a big bullying bull.
- Country music series that represented the first televised attempt to present the Grand Ole Opry as a regular series.
- Bugs heads toward the record carrot crop in Alabama but runs into Colonel (Yosemite) Sam who is under orders to let no Yankee cross the Mason-Dixon line.
- Sylvester Cat and Tweety Bird are snowbound in a mountain cabin, and though Tweety has lots of bird seed, Sylvester will starve unless he can cook the unsuspecting Tweety. Meanwhile, a starving mouse thinks Sylvester is edible and keeps springing on the cat, chewing the fur off his head and tail and trying to cook his various body parts. Granny returns just in time with groceries, to find she mistakenly brought back only more bird seed!
- Chasing Tweety all over the rooftops, Sylvester falls off a building and dies. While waiting for his other eight lives, a satanic bulldog goads Sylvester into losing all eight by continuing to chase Tweety into risky situations.
- Sylvester Cat tries to catch Tweety Bird, who is up in a tree in the middle of the city dog pound.
- Cute kitten Pussyfoot is the victim of smug Claude Cat's jealous abuse, which enrages the little cat's protector, Marc Anthony the bulldog. Claude convinces their master that Marc Anthony is the aggressor, getting the dog kicked out of the house and leaving Pussyfoot at Claude's mercy.
- To pass his initiation into "The Loyal Order of Alley Cats", Sylvester must put a bell around the neck of Hippety Hopper, the baby kangaroo constantly mistaken for a giant mouse.
- Daily children's program hosted by Captain Kangaroo.
- One of the most successful and fondly-remembered shows in TV history, "The Lawrence Welk Show" featured musical numbers and skits, with host Welk leading the band.
- A man futilely struggles to make his fortune with a frog that sings and dances, but only when it is alone with the owner.
- Among the most influential of the big-money quiz shows, and the undisputed king of the genre of the 1950s, contestants answer questions in a specific field in an attempt to win $64,000.
- Elmer Fudd brings Bugs Bunny on a parody of This Is Your Life (1950) where he and Yosemite Sam try to get revenge on the rabbit. Daffy Duck laments that the show is not about him.
- Butch J. Bulldog's new son is a scrappy little nipper who is a pain in the leg for Sylvester Cat.
- Four women, each with a sob story, vie to become "Queen for a Day."
- The original version of an American icon, "The Price is Right" rewarded contestants with valuable prizes for their ability to price items.
- Sylvester Cat tries to catch Tweety Bird in Granny's farm house, but Granny catches Sylvester and warns him if anything ever happens to Tweety, she will have Sylvester turned into violin strings. A one-eyed orange tabby makes off with Tweety, and Sylvester must rescue the canary to avoid being sent by Granny to the violin string factory.
- Daffy Duck plays a superhero who can't do anything right while fighting a menace he does not know is non-existant.
- The original version of the game show, where contestants use their intuition and luck to help them win cash and prizes by deciding whether to keep the unknown contents of a box they have chosen.
- The classic quiz show hosted by Win Elliot. In this game, the contestants are faced with a tic-tac-toe board with a different category in each square. To put their mark (X or O) in the square they want, they must first answer a question in the category listed there. For each question they answer correctly, they win a cash prize. The first contestant to put their mark in three squares in a row gets to keep the cash and move on to a bonus round for even bigger prizes.
- The jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict.
- Elmer Fudd is again hunting rabbits - only this time it's an opera. Wagner's Siegfried with Elmer as the titular hero and Bugs as Brunnhilde. They sing, they dance, they eat the scenery.
- When Sylvester learns of the possibly dire consequences of his passion for birds, he joins Birds Anonymous to quit. Unfortunately, the outside world taxes his resolve to the limit.
- Three pigs' career as a jazz band is complicated by a wolf they rejected for membership who keeps blowing down their gigs.
- An early example of reality-based courtroom drama, "Divorce Court" presented cases where divorcing couples presented their stories before Judge Voltaire Perkins, who always rendered his decision by the end of the program and resolved other divorce issues. Many cases involved accusations of cruelty, adultery, desertion, alcohol abuse and irreconcilable differences often with many strange twists and turns.
- Tweety, Sylvester and Hector find themselves in the hospital as patients after being injured in one of their chases, and the cat and dog still can't resist causing trouble there.
- Beaver loses the money he was given for a haircut. In order to conceal his carelessness from his parents, he gives himself a haircut - with disastrous results.
- Two contestants revealed pieces of a rebus-like puzzle by matching 15 pairs of cash amounts and prizes, then tried to solve it before the other.
- Wile E. Coyote hopes to catch the Road Runner using a mallet, a cooking pan, a TNT stick, a balloon, and a piano dropped from a precipice. The last of these results in Wile E. falling to the road below along with the piano and ending up with 88 teeth.
- The chase continues between Tweety Bird and that persistant puddy tat, Sylvester. Tweety hides in a millinery store (where Granny happens to be shopping) and hides on a hat. After a store clerk shoos Sylvester outside, she shows Granny a hat with what is thought to be a stuffed bird. Granny buys the hat and wears it immediately. Sylvester spots the hat and immediately begins his pursuit. Among the best gags: Sylvester hiding in a man's hat, and Granny clobbering the man (and puddy) after he makes a fresh remark; Sylvester's tail growing in great length after getting it caught in the elevator door at a department store; and the cat using a bellows to blow Granny's hat into the street, then going after the hat (with the ulterior motive of grabbing his dinner). In the end, Sylvester finally grabs Tweety as he and Granny are riding in a taxi, but the puddy tat getting clobbered when the car enters a low-clearance tunnel.
- The first of many game shows hosted by popular emcee Tom Kennedy, contestants answered general knowledge questions and played a game similar to "Battleships."
- The whole Cleaver family learns a lesson in truthfulness after Eddie Haskell intimidates Beaver into lying about how his good suit pants were torn.
- Wally gets blamed after Beaver takes pal Larry Mondello's dare to smoke the new Meerschaum pipe that Fred Rutherford sent as a gift to Ward from Germany.
- Television episodes built around the same sorts of incidents found in Hank Ketcham's long-running comic strip.
- A dog watches a cartoon that says "when dogs get old their master's will shoot them." Elmer takes the dog hunting, but the dog believes he is going to be shot so he does everything he can to hurt Elmer first.
- Two teams each representing a college or university and composed of four students answered questions rooted in the liberal arts in a battle for scholarship money and prestige.