Little Orphan Airedale

Infobox Hollywood cartoon
cartoon_name = Little Orphan Airedale
series = Looney Tunes (Reissued as Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodies)


caption = Blue Ribbon title card
director = Charles M. Jones
story_artist = Michael Maltese Tedd Pierce
animator = Lloyd Vaughan Ben Washam Ken Harris Phil Monroe
voice_actor = Mel Blanc
musician = Carl W. Stalling
producer = Edward Selzer
studio = Warner Bros. Pictures
distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
release_date = 1947
color_process = Technicolor
runtime = 7 minutes
preceded_by =
followed_by =
movie_language = English
imdb_id = 0039572

Little Orphan Airedale is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Charles M. Jones and released on October 4, 1947. It was later reissued as a Blue Ribbon Merrie Melodies short. It's major significance is its status as the debut of Jones's character Charlie Dog.

The cartoon's story is about a dog named Rags McMutt, who has just escaped from the dog pound and accidentally meets Charlie, an old friend of his in a car he used as a hiding place. Charlie tells Rags about the troubles he has had finding a new master (Porky Pig), and keeping him after that. In the end of the film, Porky throws both dogs out of his car and tells them he doesn't want a dog. When Rags sees how Charlie begs Porky to keep him as a pet, he decides to go back to the pound (even though he has a hard time getting back in).

This is one of the Warner Bros. cartoons that MGM owned for many years. MGM released it on video in the "Cartoon Moviestars" series (on a video collection called "PORKY!") in the 1980s.