Tex Avery Screwball Classics

Tex Avery Screwball Classics is a series of single-disc Blu-ray and DVD sets by Warner Archive collecting various theatrical cartoons from animation director Tex Avery during his tenure at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's cartoon division between the years of 1942 and 1955. Unlike previous laserdisc and VHS releases, the cartoons were presented fully uncut and restored for the first time in HD. The cartoons are in a "best of" fashion since Warner had to scout and find the best available elements since the original negatives to the pre-51 MGM library were destroyed in the 1978 George Eastman House Fire.

Volume 1

Released on February 18, 2020 on Blu-Ray and released on December 1, 2020 on DVD, 19 shorts in total.

(*) Previously released on DVD/Blu-Ray, but unrestored

Cover for the first volume on Blu-Ray

Tex Avery Screwball Classics

• "Red Hot Riding Hood" (1943)*
• "Who Killed Who?" (1943)
• "What's Buzzin' Buzzard?" (1943)
• "Batty Baseball" (1944)
• "The Hick Chick" (1946)
• "Bad Luck Blackie" (1949)*
• "Garden Gopher" (1950)
• "The Peachy Cobbler" (1950)
• "Symphony in Slang" (1951)*

Screwy Squirrel

• "Screwball Squirrel" (1944)*
• "The Screwy Truant" (1945)
• "Big Heel Watha" (1944)
• "Lonesome Lenny" (1946)

George & Junior

• "Hound Hunters" (1947)
• "Red Hot Rangers" (1947)

Droopy

• "Dumb-Hounded" (1943)*
• "Wags to Riches" (1949)*
• "The Chump Champ" (1950)*
• "Daredevil Droopy" (1951)*

Volume 2

Released on December 15, 2020 on Blu-Ray and DVD, 21 shorts in total.

(@) Previously released on DVD

(*) Previously released on DVD/Blu-Ray, but unrestored

cover for the 2nd volume

Tex Avery Screwball Classics

• "Little Rural Riding Hood" (1949)
• "The Cuckoo Clock" (1950)
• "Magical Maestro" (1952)*
• "One Cab's Family" (1952)
• "The Cat That Hated People" (1948)
• "Doggone Tired" (1949)
• "The Flea Circus" (1954)
• "Field and Scream" (1955)
• "The First Bad Man" (1955)

Droopy

• "Out-Foxed" (1949)*
• "Droopy's Double Trouble" (1951)*
• "The Three Little Pups" (1953)*
• "Drag-a-Long Droopy" (1954)*
• "Homesteader Droopy" (1954)*
• "Dixieland Droopy" (1954)@

Spike

• "The Counterfeit Cat" (1949)
• "Ventriloquist Cat" (1950)

Cartoons of Tomorrow

• "The House of Tomorrow" (1949)
• "Car of Tomorrow" (1951)
• "TV of Tomorrow" (1953)
• "The Farm of Tomorrow" (1954)

Special Features

• Tex Avery: The King of Cartoons

Volume 3

Released on October 5, 2021 on Blu-Ray and DVD.

Tex Avery Screwball Classics

Cover of the 3rd Volume

• "Blitz Wolf" (1942)
• "The Early Bird Dood It!" (1942)
• "One Ham's Family" (1943)
• "Happy-Go-Nutty" (1944)
• "Jerky Turkey" (1945)
• "The Shooting of Dan McGoo" (1945)
• "Swing Shift Cinderella" (1945)
• "Wild and Woolfy" (1945)
• "Northwest Hounded Police" (1946)
• "Slap Happy Lion" (1947)
• "King-Size Canary" (1947)
• "What Price Fleadom" (1948)
• "Little 'Tinker" (1948)
• "Señor Droopy" (1949)
• "Cock-a-Doodle Dog" (1951)
• "Rock-a-Bye Bear" (1952)
• "Little Johnny Jet" (1953)
• "Billy Boy" (1954)
• "Deputy Droopy" (1955)
• "Cellbound" (1955)

Special Features

• "The Crackpot Quail" (1941): a Merrie Melodies short directed by Avery whilst at Warner Bros., featuring its original 1941 soundtrack.