The Woody Woodpecker Show is a long-running 30-minute
American television series mainly composed of the animated cartoon escapades of
Woody Woodpecker and other Walter Lantz characters including
Andy Panda,
Chilly Willy, and
Inspector Willoughby released by
Walter Lantz Productions. The series was revived and reformatted several times, but has remained popular for nearly four decades and allowed the studio to continue making theatrical cartoons until 1972 when it shut down. It also kept the Walter Lantz/Universal "cartunes" made during the
Golden Age of American animation a part of the American consciousness. The
Woody Woodpecker Show was named the 88th best animated series by
IGN.