Run, Run Sweet Road Runner is an animated cartoon in the Merrie Melodies series released by Warner Bros.. It features Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner was directed and written by Rudy Larriva for release in 1965. It was the first of the Road Runner Cartoons subcontracted to Format Films, and the only one which composer William Lava was able to properly score. (The others had to use a set of stock musical cues, due to extremely low budgets).