Description:  The Road Runner Show was an animated anthology series that compiled theatrical Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons, along with other Looney Tunes shorts, for television. The show, which aired on CBS and later ABC, featured Wile E. Coyote's elaborate schemes to catch the Road Runner failing due to the coyote's own mishaps and faulty Acme Corp. products. Each episode included a Road Runner/Coyote short, a Tweety and Sylvester cartoon, and a third segment with another Warner Bros. character like Elmer Fudd or Speedy Gonzales.

Format: An anthology series that compiled older theatrical shorts, plus original bridging sequences.

Characters: The primary characters were the fast-running Road Runner and the always-scheming Wile E. Coyote. Other Looney Tunes characters like Tweety, Sylvester, Elmer Fudd, and Speedy Gonzales also appeared in separate segments.

Plot: The central conflict was Wile E. Coyote's relentless, but always unsuccessful, attempts to catch the Road Runner using complex contraptions and products ordered from the Acme Corporation.

Show Structure: Typically, episodes featured one Road Runner/Coyote cartoon, a Tweety and Sylvester cartoon in the middle, and a third cartoon with another character.

Origin: The Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote characters were created by director Chuck Jones and writer Michael Maltese in 1948 for the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series.