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
The Bugs Bunny Show for two seasons, only for CBS to re-acquire both shows and bring back "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour" in 1975. In 1976, Sylvester and Tweety were featured in their own "Sylvester and Tweety Show" for one year, necessitating the removal of most of the Tweety and/or Sylvester cartoons on "Bugs Bunny/Road Runner" that season. Also that year, a weekly half-hour prime-time edition of "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show" briefly aired on CBS' Tuesday night schedule from April through June. "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour" became "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show" in November 1977 after CBS added another half-hour to the