Mad as a Mars Hare

Mad as a Mars Hare
Marvin the Martian threatens to project Bugs Bunny forward into time using his Time-Space Gun
Directed byChuck Jones
Maurice Noble
Story byJohn Dunn
Produced byDavid H. DePatie
StarringMel Blanc
Music byBill Lava
Animation byKen Harris
Richard Thompson
Bob Bransford
Tom Ray
Harry Love
Layouts byMaurice Noble
Backgrounds byBob Singer
Color processTechnicolor
Production
company
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
The Vitaphone Corporation
Release date
  • October 19, 1963 (1963-10-19)
Running time
7 minutes
LanguageEnglish

Mad as a Mars Hare is a 1963 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble.[1] The short was released on October 19, 1963, and stars Bugs Bunny and Marvin the Martian.[2] The cartoon's title is a play-on-words of the famous phrase to be "mad as a March hare". This is Marvin's final appearance in the Looney Tunes shorts during the Golden Age of American Animation.

  1. ^ Beck, Jerry; Friedwald, Will (1989). Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies: A Complete Illustrated Guide to the Warner Bros. Cartoons. Henry Holt and Co. p. 344. ISBN 0-8050-0894-2.
  2. ^ Lenburg, Jeff (1999). The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons. Checkmark Books. pp. 60–62. ISBN 0-8160-3831-7. Retrieved 6 June 2020.