Perhaps the most notable big game collector's set back in the days of analog home media, this entire series is most notable for spectacularly completing the entirety of the AAP library (Censored Eleven aside).
Background
This LaserDisc series served as one of George Feltenstein's and Jerry Beck's earliest projects on home media for the series, aiming to cater to the completionists and historians who were to view the Looney Tunes series as more than a "children's show." A product of MGM/UA Home Video, they only consisted of the AAP library but still delved deep towards many releases that didn't even have home media releases at the time.
A part of the motivation for this series came from the mediocre quality of the Viddy-Oh! series, which attempted to market several AAP cartoons to children but had done so largely by hacking off opening and closing titles. Taking what was developed from the more sophisticated Cartoon Moviestars series, the series aimed for completely uncut releases that were rarely tampered with (aside from removing the AAP logo at the start of the cartoons). The pre-1948 shorts were one step closer towards maintaining a genuine view of what moviegoers at the time saw in theaters, only being hampered by being unable to use the original negatives. As a result, the 16mm AAP Eastmancolor prints were still used, which, depending on the cartoon, were beginning to show signs of fade.
The series retailed at $99.95 USD per volume, and the first four volumes shipped with five LaserDiscs with 10 sides of content. Each side was often themed in more ways than one, ranging from director or main character showcases to thematic compilations. The final volume was released several years after the fourth one, and while completing the majority of the AAP library, had resorted to using the 1995 dubbed versions of the shorts, which, while generally an audiovisual improvement to earlier releases, ended up plastering the ending titles with a stock one with the Turner Entertainment disclaimer.
All in, nearly every single AAP short, no matter how racially insensitive they were, had managed to see a release in the series, with minimal double dips to boot. Only the Censored Eleven's polarizing reception kept them out of the picture, while a handful of shorts did see double dipping for usually more interesting discoveries at the time, such as original titles or, in one case, the prototypical release of a short that had to be reworked due to the Hays Office. As George and Jerry's first modest success working on the series, it paved the way for them to continue to get involved with the development of many modern Looney Tunes home media releases that is still ongoing even in the days of Blu-ray.
