Depends if you consider "The Hollywood Matador" or "Room and Wrath" rarely shown.

No, I've seen both of them. Of the cartoons I watched, I hadn't seen two of them, "The Reluctant Recruit" and the one with Peterkin, which I had read about in The Walter Lantz Story. ("I don't think I ever had such beautiful backgrounds in my cartoons again.")

"Kiddie Koncert" had a Universal-International logo tacked onto the beginning (which I think would have been correct for that year). So it looks like Universal is doing this to all of the Lantz cartoons released by United Artists, not just the ones starring Woody.

On the morning of September 30th MeTV aired "A Bugs Bunny BOOnanza Bas!h", which was all Bugs Bunny cartoons:

"Broomstick Bunny"
"Water, Water Every Hare"
"Falling Hare"
"Transylvania 6-5000"
"Hyde and Hare"
"Hair-Raising Hare"

(I think they were a little early, unless they're planning on showing more "spooky" WB cartoons before the month is over. I wouldn't mind seeing a proper B & W version of "The Impatient Patient".)

MeTV managed to squeeze eight cartoons into the October 14th broadcast of "The Woody Woodpecker Show" and I had only seen one of them, "The Tree Medic". Of course most of the rest were later ones directed by Paul J. Smith (including one with The Beary Family, which I think was the first time they've been on MeTV). But I finally got to see all of "Astronut Woody", 38 years after seeing a clip playing on a TV in Firestarter.

With a handful of exceptions, until recently I hadn't seen Lantz cartoons newer than 1964 or 1965. So it was kind of strange hearing "ratfink" and "Verrrrrry interesting" and seeing a hippie in the Woody Woodpecker cartoons that aired this past Saturday morning.

I didn't know that "Hercules" was in other cartoons besides "The Plumber of Seville". Interesting that Gerald McBoingBoing was referenced in "The Goofy Gardener".

The October 21st broadcast of "Popeye & Pals" had a commercial break during "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp". MeTV didn't used to do that with the Popeye two-reelers, at least on Saturday mornings.

Of the seven cartoons that aired on "The Woody Woodpecker Show" that day, I hadn't seen two of them, the one with Windy and Breezy, and the one with Maggie and Sam. (I didn't know that Maggie and Sam were in other cartoons besides "Crazy Mixed Up Pup" and "The Ostrich Egg and I".)

I guess I hadn't watched Woody's second cartoon in awhile. When I watched it this past Saturday morning, I recognized the voices of Candy Candido, Berenice Hansel and Sara Berner when the other forest animals were picking on Woody. (I also recognized Sara Berner's voice in "Fish Fry" last month.)

Since MeTV showed a Dick Lundy Barney Bear cartoon as part of "The Tom & Jerry Show" this past Saturday, I noticed for the first time that Paul Frees used similar voices for Barney Bear and Charlie Beary.

"A Bugs Bunny BOOnananza Bash is airing again tomorrow (October 29th) at 12:00 PM.

Of the seven cartoons that aired on "The Woody Woodpecker Show" on MeTV this morning, I hadn't seen two of them, "Little Woody Riding Hood" and "Hassle in a Castle". (It's too bad my niece, age 6, didn't watch "The Woody Woodpecker Show" this morning. Her name is Sophia and she likes princesses. She also likes pandas.)

I'm surprised that Walter Lantz didn't get in trouble with Jay Ward for plagiarism of character design in the Inspector Willoughby cartoon that aired this morning. (Though "Vampira Hyde" isn't as bad as the "jaw dropping ripoff of Daffy Duck" in Columbia's "Wacky Quacky".)

It's strange that Dal McKennon got screen credit for "Get Lost" but June Foray didn't. (Neither did Gracie Lantz, but at the time she didn't want screen credit for doing Woody's voice. "Later I couldn't make her name big enough.") Walter Lantz was usually so good about giving screen credit to the people who did voicework for his cartoons from the mid-1950's on. (He also gave screen credit to Hans Conreid for narrating the Swing Symphony "The Sliphorn King of Polaroo", which was rare back then. (Though Hans Conreid also got screen credit for narrating "Johann Mouse". I think that was one of only two times that someone got screen credit for voicework in a pre-1961 MGM cartoon.))

Ending the November 4th broadcast of "The Woody Woodpecker Show" with "The Barber of Seville", then starting "Bugs Bunny and Friends" with "Rabbit of Seville" was a nice touch, like "Hatch Up Your Troubles " being the final cartoon on "The Tom & Jerry Show" right before Woody's debut on Saturday Morning Cartoons on September 2nd.

(One thing I forgot to mention whatever weekend "The Beech Nut" aired: I wonder if the person who did Woody's singing in "The Barber of Seville" and "Ski For Two" also did Woody's singing in "The Beech Nut"?)

Of the 7 cartoons that aired on "The Woody Woodpecker Show" on October 4th, the only one I hadn't seen was "The Big Snooze".

At the end of "The Hams That Couldn't Be Cured" (a cartoon I well remember from my younger years) the wolf is wearing the clothes he wore in the flashback, not the clothes he was wearing at the beginning of the cartoon.

It sounds like Woody's voice was muted when he's pretending to be Chinese in "The Screwdriver". (But at least it wasn't cut out completely. Ditto the Indian and the cigar smoking in the other cartoons that aired on "The Woody Woodpecker Show" on October 4th.)

Today MeTV aired CATCH AT CATS CAN from its new Collection's Choice V1 restoration, I'm sure BEANSTALK BUNNY will next time it airs with that being the case

Of the 7 cartoons that aired on "The Woody Woodpecker Show" yesterday morning, the only one I hadn't seen was "Chili Con Corny". (First appearance of Meany on Saturday Morning Cartoons, not counting clips. And it sounds like Daws Butler did Woody's sneeze.)

At least June Foray got screen credit for "The Bongo Punch". And it's interesting that Hal Smith was doing cartoon voicework before Elmer Fudd (and The Andy Griffith Show).

According to the credits "Ration Bored" was co-directed by animator Emery Hawkins and storyman Milt Schaffer. Maybe they were filling in until Shamus Culhane started directing for Walter Lantz. There certainly seemed to be a revolving door of directors at the Lantz studio. (Except of course for Paul J. Smith.)

Of the 7 cartoons that aired on "The Woody Woodpecker Show" this morning there were only two that I hadn't seen: "Witty Kitty" and the one with The Beary Family that borrowed its title from Tex. (And there was an Animaniacs segment with the title "Turkey Jerky".)

There was some Disney influence in a few of the cartoons that aired this morning. Gabby Gator and Woody run around in a panic exactly like Humphrey Bear in 'Woody's Kook-Out". I wonder if Jack Hannah brought any of the animators from his former Disney unit with him? "Solid Ivory" borrowed from the plot of "Golden Eggs" (which I saw in a theater in the late 1970's or the early 1980's), probably the influence of Dick Lundy. And "Adventures of Tom Thumb Jr." has a duck who sounds a lot like Donald (Harry Lang?), probably the influence of Burt Gillett. (And there was some in-house influence in 'Meatless Tuesday", with Charlie Chicken acting like Woody Woodpecker in one scene.)

I wonder if Walter Tetley (who would later do the voice of Andy Panda) did the voice of the title character in "Adventures of Tom Thumb Jr."?

And it's nice to see that MeTV isn't editing out characters taking sleeping pills (or in this case some kind of liquid). Of course I'm not going to say which cartoon.

Once again MeTV managed to squeeze 8 cartoons into "The Woody Woodpecker Show", probably because so many of them were late entries directed by Paul J. Smith. Of those 8, I had only seen "Termites From Mars" and "Operation Sawdust". (And I must not have seen "Termites From Mars" in a while. I noticed for the first time "Kukla, Fran and Ollie" (who I remember as the hosts of "CBS Children's Film Festival" on Saturdays in the 1970's) on Woody's TV and "WLP" on "Walter Winchell's" microphone.) And thankfully there didn't seem to be any censorship. (Of course I'm not going to say which cartoon.)

Just a couple of other comments. It's nice to see that Wally Walrus hadn't been forgotten in "Show Biz Beagle". And Smedley was really off-model in "Chilly's Hide-A-Way". His head was too small and he usually doesn't wear a dog collar.

Actually, "Show Biz Beagle" seems to be edited (although, I just scanned through the cartoon as I had the show DVR'd). It looks likes the dog's impression of Charlie Chan was cut out.

I wasn't able to watch "Show Biz Beagle" elsewhere so I'll take your word for it. I was thinking of the cartoon featuring a breed of cat that's come under criticism for being in my favorite Walt-era Disney animated feature and also in an early Ron Miller-era Disney animated feature.

Of the seven cartoons that aired on "The Woody Woodpecker Show" yesterday morning, I had only seen the three from the 1940's.

One of the horse's lines in "Swing Your Partner" seems to have been muted, and the end title had definitely been replaced with a later one. Too bad my copy of Thunderbean's "We're On Our Way To IB Tech" is in storage.

Interesting that one of the "newspapers" in "The Talking Dog" referenced rival studios 20th Century Fox and Warner Brothers. And Daws Butler used his "Mr. Jinks" voice for the title character, before Mr. Jinks existed. (Just like June Foray used her "Rocket J. Squirrel" voice for Knothead before Rocky And His Friends/The Bullwinkle Show.)

"The Coo Coo Bird" played out like a Donald Duck cartoon, probably because it was directed by Dick Lundy. (Though you could make a long list of "characters being kept awake all night" cartoons.)

I missed the first two cartoons of yesterday morning's "The Woody Woodpecker Show" and the beginning of "Kittens' Mittens" but I got caught up online. I definitely hadn't seen "Kittens' Mittens", "Woody Meets Davy Crewcut" and "Genie With the Light Touch" (which had a reference to Wally Walrus by the background artist, just like "Show Biz Beagle"). Not sure about "Chilly's Cold War", though I think I would have remembered Chilly Willy being a cannibal, like Woodstock in A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, and Donald and his nephews in "Soup's On". (And I've heard that there's a Woody Woodpecker cartoon in which Woody eats fried chicken.)

I missed the first two cartoons of "The Woody Woodpecker Show" yesterday morning because the electricity went out here right before 8:00 AM and my cable TV box took about fifteen minutes to reboot. But it looks like I only missed two late entries directed by Paul J. Smith, which made up most of yesterday morning's show except for the two two-strip Technicolor "Cartune Classics" from the 1930's, which I hadn't seen either one of. (Going by the opening titles, it looked like both of them had been re-released. You wouldn't think that two-strip Technicolor cartoons would have been re-released after Disney no longer had exclusive rights to the three-strip Technicolor process because of the limited color palette.) Of the seven cartoons that aired, the only one that I had seen before was the one with the telephone lineman who sounds like Mr. Jinks.

EDIT: According to a YouTube video, MeTV censored "Candyland". But the video is the censored version, and the person who uploaded the video only said that the part that was censored was the Sandman's song.



EDIT #2: And it turns out that "Jolly Little Elves" was censored by MeTV too. The person who posted the cut version on YouTube said that Chinese elves were edited out. But I just watched the uncut version (on YouTube); those elves look (and sound) Jewish to me. And there's a blackface scene toward the end.

I wonder why MeTV didn't start off yesterday morning's "The Woody Woodpecker Show" with "Ski For Two"?

Of the seven cartoons that aired yesterday morning, the only one I hadn't seen before was the Foolish Fable (which must have been made at the height of the Davy Crockett craze).

I must not have watched "Wacky-Bye Baby" in a long time, because I had never noticed that the doorbell plays "You're A Horse's Ass".



Maw and Paw's repeated failed attempts to rescue their kidnapped pig was reminiscent of a Road Runner cartoon, I'm sure because "Pig in a Pickle" was written by Michael Maltese.

Of the 7 cartoons that aired on "The Woody Woodpecker Show" yesterday morning, the only ones I had seen before were "Doc's Last Stand" and "Andy Panda's Victory Garden". (And it looks like the latter is a victim of DVNR.)

Before yesterday morning, I had never heard Daws Butler do an imitation of John Wayne or an imitation of Peter Lorre. He usually didn't do celebrity impersonations for Walter Lantz.

And I don't usually comment on clips, but before yesterday morning, I had never seen Woody paired up with Smedley. I wonder if this cartoon was directed by Jack Hannah, who paired up Chilly Willy and Wally Walrus (twice)? (According to Bloom County, walruses eat penguins.)

No, "The Tree Medic" was directed by Paul J. Smith.

Not even close, it was Alex Lovy who directed it.

Whoops, I meant "Careless Caretaker" was directed by Smith and it had Woody and Smedely.