Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1
Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume 1 is a DVD box set that was released by Warner Home Video on October 28, 2003. The first release of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVD series, it contains 56 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons and numerous supplements. The set won the Classic Award at the Parents' Choice Awards.
Related releases
In Regions 2 and 4, the discs were packaged as follows:- Disc 1: Best of Bugs Bunny
- Disc 2: Best of Daffy and Porky
- Disc 3 : All Stars - Volume 1
- Disc 4 : All Stars - Volume 2
- Discs 3 and 4 : All Stars - Volumes 1 and 2
Disc 1 - Best of Bugs Bunny
| # | Title | Co-stars | Release date | Director | Series |
| 1 | Baseball Bugs | Friz Freleng | LT | ||
| 2 | Rabbit Seasoning | Daffy, Elmer | Chuck Jones | MM | |
| 3 | Long-Haired Hare | Chuck Jones | LT | ||
| 4 | High Diving Hare | Sam | Friz Freleng | LT | |
| 5 | Bully for Bugs | Chuck Jones | LT | ||
| 6 | What's Up Doc? | Elmer | Robert McKimson | LT | |
| 7 | Rabbit's Kin | Pete Puma | Robert McKimson | MM | |
| 8 | Water, Water Every Hare | Gossamer | Chuck Jones | LT | |
| 9 | Big House Bunny | Sam | Friz Freleng | LT | |
| 10 | Big Top Bunny | Robert McKimson | MM | ||
| 11 | My Bunny Lies over the Sea | Chuck Jones | MM | ||
| 12 | Wabbit Twouble | Elmer | Bob Clampett | MM | |
| 13 | Ballot Box Bunny | Sam | Friz Freleng | MM | |
| 14 | Rabbit of Seville | Elmer | Chuck Jones | LT |
Special features
Audio bonuses
- Music-only audio tracks on Rabbit Seasoning, What's Up Doc?, Rabbit's Kin
- Audio commentaries
- * Michael Barrier on "Rabbit Seasoning", "Long-Haired Hare", "Bully for Bugs", Big Top Bunny, Wabbit Twouble
- * Greg Ford on High Diving Hare", "What's Up Doc?
- * Stan Freberg on Rabbit's Kin
From the Vaults
- Bonus cartoon: Bunny - with optional commentary by Greg Ford
- Bugs Bunny at the Movies Excerpts: My Dream Is Yours, Two Guys From Texas
- The Bugs Bunny Show: A Star is Bored bridging sequences; The Astro-Nuts audio recording sessions with Mel Blanc
- Trailer gallery: Bugs Bunny's Cartoon Festival, Bugs Bunny's Cartoon Jamboree
- Stills gallery
Behind-the-Tunes
- Bugs: A Rabbit For All Seasonings
- Short-Fuse Shootout: The Small Tale of Yosemite Sam
- Forever Befuddled
Others
- A greeting from Chuck Jones
- Camera Three: The Boys From Termite Terrace: Part 1
Disc 2 - Best of Daffy & Porky
Special features
Audio bonuses
- Music-only audio tracks on Duck Amuck, Drip-Along Daffy, The Scarlet Pumpernickel, Rabbit Fire
- Audio commentaries by Michael Barrier on Duck Amuck, Drip-Along Daffy, The Scarlet Pumpernickel, The Wearing of the Grin, Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
Behind-the-Tunes
- Hard Luck Duck
- Porky Pig Roast: A Tribute to the World's Most Famous Ham
- Animal Quackers
Others
- Camera Three: The Boys From Termite Terrace: Part 2
- Stills gallery
Disc 3 - Looney Tunes All-Stars: Part 1
| # | Title | Characters | Release date | Series |
| 1 | Elmer's Candid Camera | Elmer, Happy Rabbit | MM | |
| 2 | Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears | Bugs, The Three Bears | MM | |
| 3 | Fast and Furry-ous | Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner | LT | |
| 4 | Hair-Raising Hare | Bugs, Gossamer | MM | |
| 5 | Awful Orphan | Charlie, Porky | MM | |
| 6 | Haredevil Hare | Bugs, K-9, Marvin | LT | |
| 7 | For Scent-imental Reasons | Pepé, Penelope | LT | |
| 8 | Frigid Hare | Bugs, Playboy Penguin | MM | |
| 9 | Claude Cat, Hubie and Bertie | MM | ||
| 10 | Baton Bunny | Bugs | LT | |
| 11 | Feed the Kitty | Marc and Pussyfoot | MM | |
| 12 | Don't Give Up the Sheep | Ralph and Sam | LT | |
| 13 | Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid | Bugs, Beaky | MM | |
| 14 | Tortoise Wins by a Hare | Bugs, Cecil | MM |
Special features
Audio bonuses
- Music-only audio tracks on Baton Bunny, Feed the Kitty
- Audio commentaries
- * Stan Freberg on Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears
- * Michael Barrier on Fast and Furry-ous, Haredevil Hare, For Scent-imental Reasons, Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid
- * Michael Barrier and Greg Ford on Hair-Raising Hare
- * Greg Ford on Feed the Kitty
From the Vaults
- Toon Heads: The Lost Cartoons
- Hair-Raising Hare and The Hypo-Chondri-Cat schematics
- Stills gallery
Behind-the-Tunes
- Too Fast, Too Furry-ous
- Blanc Expressions
- Merrie Melodies: Carl Stalling and Cartoon Music
Disc 4 - Looney Tunes All-Stars: Part 2
| # | Title | Characters | Release date | Series |
| 1 | Canary Row | Granny, Sylvester, Tweety | MM | |
| 2 | Bunker Hill Bunny | Bugs, Sam | MM | |
| 3 | Kit for Cat | Elmer, Sylvester | LT | |
| 4 | Putty Tat Trouble | Sylvester, Tweety | LT | |
| 5 | Bugs and Thugs | Bugs, Rocky and Mugsy | LT | |
| 6 | Canned Feud | Sylvester | LT | |
| 7 | Lumber Jerks | Goofy Gophers | LT | |
| 8 | Speedy Gonzales | Speedy, Sylvester | MM | |
| 9 | Tweety's S.O.S. | Granny, Sylvester, Tweety | MM | |
| 10 | The Foghorn Leghorn | Foghorn, Henery | MM | |
| 11 | Daffy Duck Hunt | Barnyard, Daffy, Porky | LT | |
| 12 | Early to Bet | MM | ||
| 13 | A Broken Leghorn | Foghorn, Prissy | LT | |
| 14 | Devil May Hare | Bugs, Taz | LT |
Special features
Audio bonuses
- Music-only audio tracks on Putty Tat Trouble, Speedy Gonzales, A Broken Leghorn
- Audio commentaries
- * Jerry Beck on Canary Row, Canned Feud, Speedy Gonzales, and Devil May Hare
- * Michael Barrier on Tweety's S.O.S. and The Foghorn Leghorn
From the Vaults
- Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid
- Virgil Ross pencil tests
- Stills gallery
Behind-the-Tunes
- Needy For Speedy
- Putty Problems and Canary Rows
- Southern Pride Chicken
Others
- Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of Looney Tunes
Reception
The DVD site, The Digital Bits claimed that Looney Tunes had been one of the most anticipated releases since the inception of the DVD format, and noted that the wait had been "long, but in the end definitely worthwhile." The site's reviewer wrote that the cartoon shorts on the DVDs looked, "brighter, much more colourful, cleaner, sharper, and generally better-framed than their Laserdisc counterparts," which, until that time, had been the best home-format for viewing the cartoons. The reviewer noted that the "very generous selection of supplements" were "almost uniformly informative and entertaining."
The multimedia news and reviews website, IGN complained about the selection of shorts offered on the first set in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection series. First pointing out that it would be impossible not to leave out major cartoons by selecting only 56 out of the 1,100 Looney Tunes, the review criticized the selection for the omission of Knighty Knight Bugs, an Academy Award-winning 1958 Bugs Bunny cartoon. IGN complimented the restoration of the shorts, but noted that dust was visible in some cases. The reviewer noted that there were more extras than cartoons on the set, and singled out the audio commentaries for praise due to their variety.