The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special is an animated television special that was broadcast on CBS October 26, 1980. Presented as an Alfred Hitchcock-style whodunit, the plot is modeled after those of "North by Northwest" and "The Fugitive". Like most Looney Tunes specials of the time, this program consists of clips from classic cartoons with some new original animation holding them together. A criminal known as the Tall, Dark Stranger robs a bank, and Inspector Elmer Fudd mistakenly arrests Bugs Bunny for the crime. Escaping from jail, Bugs sets out to prove his innocence while evading
Bugs Bunny: Superstar documentary footage. "Bugs Bunny: Superstar" was the first of a series of Warner cartoon compilation movies released in the 1970s and 1980s. However, as a documentary, it does not fit the mold of the totally animated Warner Brothers compilation movies that began with 1979's "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie". "Bugs Bunny: Superstar" was not considered a "canon" compilation movie because it was produced by Larry Jackson's Hare-Raising Films, rather than by Warner Bros. (1982's "" is actually the "fourth" Bugs film, if "Bugs Bunny: Superstar" were to be included.) The nine full-length cartoons featured in "Bugs Bunny: Superstar" were originally