Cartoon Alley
# Episode Title Shorts Featured Original Air Date
1 Clark Gable The Coo-Coo Nut Grove Malibu Beach Party Hollywood Steps Out Toyland Premiere 11/5/2004
2 Christmas Pups ' Christmas , The Peace on Earth Night Before Christmas $ 21 a Day ( Once a Month ) Toy Trouble Toyland Broadcast Merry Dog The Toy Shoppe Toyland Premiere Candyland 12/4/2004
3 Oscar Nominated Shorts Life with Feathers Blitz Wolf Hatch Up Your Troubles Pantry Panic Tweetie Pie 1/1/2005
4 Tom & Jerry Professor Tom Old Rockin ' Chair Tom The Cat Concerto 3/5/2005
5 Tex Avery Red Hot Riding Hood Batty Baseball Swing Shift Cinderella State Fair Boogie Woogie Man ( Will Get You If You Do n't Watch Out ) Crazy Mixed Up Pup 4/2/2005
6 The Early Days of Warner Brothers Cartoons and The Early Days of Walter Lantz Cartoons Honeymoon Hotel Beauty and the Beast I Have n't Got a Hat Jolly Little Elves 5/7/2005
7 The Captain and the Kids Cleaning House Petunia National Park Mama 's New Hat 6/4/2005
8 Popeye Adventures of Popeye The Anvil Chorus Girl Abusement Park 7/2/2005
9 Animaland Series ( 1 ) The Platypus The Cuckoo The Lion The Playful Pup 9/3/2005
10 Animaland Series ( 2 ) The Ostrich It 's A Lovely Day The House Cat Fox and The Rabbit 9/10/2005
11 Animaland Series ( 3 ) Ginger Nutt 's Bee Bother Ginger Nutt 's Christmas Circus Ginger Nutt 's Forest Dragon Three Lazy Mice 9/17/2005
12 Barney Bear The Bear That Could n't Sleep Goggle Fishing Bear Heir Bear 9/24/2005
13 Sniffles Naughty But Mice Little Brother Rat Sniffles and the Bookworm 10/1/2005
14 Droopy Dumb-Hounded The Shooting of Dan McGoo Wild and Woolfy 10/8/2005
15 Tweety Bird A Tale of Two Kitties Birdy and the Beast A Gruesome Twosome 10/15/2005
16 Cinemascope Cartoons Millionaire Droopy The Egg and Jerry Tops with Pops Socko in Morocco Dig That Dog ( 1954 film ) Broadway Bow Wow 's 10/22/2005
17 Peter Lorre Caricatures Horton Hatches the Egg Hair-Raising Hare Birth of a Notion Mad Hatter , The 10/29/2005
Episode list -- Season 1 : 2004-2005
Cartoon Alley was an American television series that aired on Turner Classic Movies on Saturday mornings from 2004 to 2007. It featured classic animated shorts. Broadcast at 11:30 AM ET, it was hosted by Ben Mankiewicz and featured three classic animated shorts from the 1930-1950s per episode. Most shorts were from The Golden Age of American animation. Each of the three shorts focused on a common theme. Most shorts came from Warner Bros., MGM, Universal, Paramount, Pat Sullivan, and Otto Mesmer (the latter studio provided the Popeye cartoons and the Felix The Cat cartoons only; these were in Turner's hands by this point), but during the show's first season Cartoon Alley featured shorts from the Gaumont Film Company. Many recognizable characters have been featured in at least one episode such as Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, Popeye, Felix The Cat, Porky Pig, Andy Panda, Tom and Jerry, Droopy, Screwy Squirrel, Barney Bear, Spike, George and Junior, and others not so famous such as Goopy Geer and The Captain and the Kids. The shorts often appeared uncut and uncensored (a few cartoons utilized cuts for content), and the more controversial cartoons (such as Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt and Half-Pint Pygmy) were often introduced with a brief warning by Mankiewicz about the ethnic stereotypes being portrayed. The network's logo was only featured for a brief time, usually during the last short featured. From November 2004 to September 2005 the series was featured just once a month but after popular demand the series became a weekly feature. This series never aired in February because of TCM's 31 Days of Oscars programming. The series was canceled in autumn of 2007.