Journal TV Page – June 25, 1962

Here's another TV page of the Lorain Journal from the early 1960s for your amusement. This one is for Monday, June 25, 1962 – sixty years ago this month.

What caught my eye on the page are the drawings of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd, showing their evolution over the previous 20+ years. The illustrations were a promotion for ABC-TV's The Bugs Bunny Show, which was winding down its primetime run in 1962.

Watching that show in the evening (where it originally ran) is one of my earliest memories of childhood.

Here's a promotional spot for the show, courtesy of YouTube. It's kind of funny seeing the normally good-natured Speedy Gonzales brandishing a knife (not too mention seeing the obnoxious canary Tweetie Pie holding a gun).

In its original run, the show used to open with the iconic Warner Brothers shield swinging open to reveal Bugs Bunny munching a carrot.

I was so dumb as a very young kid that every time I saw the WB shield (like at the beginning of a Warner Brothers movie, for example), I thought the Oscar-winning rabbit might pop out from behind it.

Anyway, here's the well-remembered opening and closing credits of The Bugs Bunny Show.