Bugs Bunny, who turned 70 last month, remains an iconic property at Warner Bros., which recently announced the wacky hare would be featured in both a new TV series and a projected feature film.

Bugs, of course, got his start in animated shorts the studio distributed to theaters into the late ’60s. Fifteen of them have been collected in “Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinare,” one of two initial releases in Warner Home Video’s “Looney Tunes Super Stars” line, the promised successor to the more lavish (and expensive), much-beloved “Looney Tunes Golden Collection,” issued in annual installments from 2003 to 2008.

There are no extras in these recently-released single-disc sets (the other one is “Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl”), which are selling for as little as $15 online, but the restored and remastered cartoons look terrific. Ten of the more recent cartoons on each set are being presented in their original widescreen theatrical aspect ratio (though this is curiously nowhere indicated in the packaging).

Bugs’ work has been so extensively mined in the earlier collections that “Hare Extraordinare” draws exclusively from some of his lesser-known titles released between 1950 and 1964. Friz Freleng’s “Mutiny on the Bunny,” “Hare Trimmed,” “From Hare to Heir” and “Lighter than Heir” all team Bugs with his frequent antagonist Yosemite Sam. “Mad as a March Hare,” is a reunion with Marvin the Martian directed by Chuck Jones, who also contributed “Lumber Jack-Rabbit.”

Except for Freleng’s “Foxy by Proxy” and “Apes of Wrath,” the rest, which vary considerably in quality, are directed by Robert McKimson: “Bushy Hare,” “Hare We Go,” “Bedevilled Rabit,” “The Million Hare,” “Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare” and “False Hare.”

The Daffy Duck disc covers 1944 to 1965 and includes stylistically diverse contributions from the great Robert Clampett (the wonderful “Tick Tock Tuckered” with Porky Pig), Frank Tashlin (“Nasty Quacks”) and Chuck Jones (“Daffy Dilly”).

Except for Phil Monroe’s “The Iceman Ducketh’ (1964), the rest of the pun-happy titles are divided between Freleng (“Wise Crackers” with Elmer Fudd, “Stork Naked,” “This is a Life?” with Bugs, Elmer and Yosemite Sam, “Person to Bunny” with Bugs) and McKimson (“The Prize Pest” with Porky, “Design for Leaving” with Elmer, “Dime to Retire” with Porky, “Ducking the Devil” with the Tasmanian Devil, “People Are Bunny” with bugs, “Daffy’s Trouble Inn” with Porky and “Supressed Duck”).

Both sets include disclaimers that they’re aimed at adult collectors, but there’s nothing here that would warp a young mind too seriously. They would be tremendously entertained, however.

Coming attractions: A. Edward Sutherland’s long-awaited “Mississppi,” featuring the great W.C. Fields as a riverboat captain and Joan Bennett as Der Bingle’s love interest, is one of five new-to-DVD titles in “The Bing Crosby Collection,” which Universal plans to release on Nov. 2 as part of its ongoing “Backlot Collection.”

The others are Wesley Ruggles’ long-unseen “College Humor” (1933) with George Burns, Gracie Allen, Richard Arlen, Jack Oakie and Mary Carlisle; Frank Tuttle’s long-considered-lost and never-on-TV “Here Is My Heart” (1934) with Kitty Carlisle; Ruggles’s delightful “Sing You Sinners” (1938) with Fred MacMurray and Donald O’Connor as Bing’s brothers, and Elliot Nugent’s charming “Welcome Stranger” (1947), basically a medical version of “Going My Way” with Barry Fitzgerald.

The sixth musical in the set is Leo McCarey’s “We’re Not Dressing” (1934), a rather free adaptation of “The Admirable Crichton” previously available as part of a Carole Lombard set. Burns and Allen, Leon Errol and Ray Milland co-star.

Charles Laughton’s classic thriller “Night of the Hunter” (1957) with Robert Mitchum, previously available as a bare-bones DVD from MGM, will make its long-rumored Criterion Collection debut on Nov. 16 in two-disc deluxe editions on DVD and Blu-ray. Both will include a 2 1/2 hour documentary that includes outtakes and rehearsals filmed by Laughton (shown at the Tribeca Film Festival several years ago) as well as many other features, among them a live performance of a deleted scene on “The Ed Sullivan Show”!

On that same date, Criterion will release, in both formats and with many features, Charles Chaplin’s “Modern Times” (1936), which has been out of print since Warners’ rights to the Chaplin library lapsed last year. Flicker Alley has set an Oct. 26 release date for “Chaplin at Keystone,” a four-disc collection of 34 newly-restored shorts that Chaplin made for Mack Sennett. The extras include a recently discovered sequence with Chaplin appearing as a Keystone Kop.

This week’s additions to The Warner Archive Collection are a pair of noirs (Felix Feist’s “Tomorrow is Another Day” with Steve Cochran and Ruth Roman, Gerald Mayer’s “The Sellout” with Walter Pidgeon and Audrey Totter), a pair of adventures (Gordon Douglas’ 1956 “Santiago” with Alan Ladd, the always-interesting Albert Lewin’s 1953 “Saadia” with Cornel Wilde, and Mervyn LeRoy’s forgotten drama “Oil For the Lamps of China” (1935), Pat O’Brien’s best Warner Bros. film without James Cagney.

The WAC has dug even deeper into the vaults for William Castle’s 1950 exploitation oddity “It’s a Small World” starring Paul Dale as a troubled midget (as they were then known) along with Will Geer and Steve Brodie. This Eagle-Lion release is so obscure I’ve never heard of it.