2.4 Later films 3 Selected Woody Woodpecker shorts 3.1 Woody in the television era

roductions and occasions, save for one new Saturday morning cartoon television series, The New Woody Woodpecker Show, for the Fox Network in the late 1990s/early 2000s.
Woody Woodpecker cartoons were first broadcast on television in 1957 under the title The Woody Woodpecker Show, which featured Lantz cartoons bookended by new footage of Woody and live-action footage of Lantz. Woody has a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on 7000 Hollywood Boulevard. He also made a cameo alongside many other famous cartoon characters in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Woody Woodpecker and friends are also icons at the Universal Studios Theme Parks worldwide, as well as the PortAventura Park in Salou, Spain (they were originally brought to the park by Universal Studios, and remain there today despite Universal no longer having a financial stake in the park).
Contents  [hide]
1 Origin
2 History
2.1 Early years
2.2 The post-war woodpecker
2.3 "The Woody Woodpecker Song"
2.4 Later films
3 Selected Woody Woodpecker shorts
3.1 Woody in the television era
4 Reception
4.1 Legacy
5 VHS and DVD releases
6 Voice artists
7 Visual media
7.1 Theatrical cartoons
7.2 TV series
7.3 Other appearances
8 Video games
9 See also
10 References
11 External links
Origin[edit]

According to Walter Lantz's press agent, the idea for Woody came during the producer's honeymoon with his wife, Gracie, in Sherwood Lake, California. A noisy acorn woodpecker[1] outside their cabin kept the couple awake at night, and when a heavy rain started, they learned that the bird had bored holes in their cabin's roof. As both Walter and Gracie told Dallas attorney Rod Phelps during a visit, Walter wanted to shoot the thing, but Gracie suggested that her husband make a cartoon about the bird, and thus Woody was born.[4]
Although allegedly based on an acorn woodpecker, Woody shares many characteristics in common with the pileated woodpecker in terms of both physical appearance as