The BEST episodes directed by Burt Gillett

#1 - Winter

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1930 - Episode 18

Final "4 Seasons" short. Synopsis: Various animals frolic in the new fallen snow, skating on an icy lake to tunes which include "Jingle Bells" and "The Skater's Waltz."

#2 - Cannibal Capers

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1930 - Episode 4

A group of cannibals gather together for a tribal dance. That is, until their dance is interrupted by a ferocious lion!

#3 - The Picnic

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1930 - Episode 17

Mickey and Minnie go picnicking but make the mistake of bringing Pluto along. The hound chases rabbits and damages Mickey's car; meanwhile, animals ransack the picnic lunch and Mickey sings "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree."

#4 - Frolicking Fish

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1930 - Episode 8

Title tells all here, until the festivities are interrupted by a "scary" octopus.

#5 - Monkey Melodies

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1930 - Episode 15

Monkeys and apes swing through the trees to the usual mix of classical tunes and standards; including this time the recent vaudeville hit "Abba Dabba Dabba."

#6 - Orphan's Benefit

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1934 - Episode 12

An ensemble performance emceed by Mickey includes piano playing, an adagio dance, an operatic number, and numerous attempts by Donald Duck to recite "Little Boy Blue."

#7 - Babes in the Woods

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1932 - Episode 21

Two lost children chance upon a village of elves when an evil witch comes to call. A reworked retelling of the "Hansel and Gretel" story.

#8 - The Gorilla Mystery

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1930 - Episode 16

Beppo the Gorilla has escaped from the zoo, captures Minnie, and ties her up in her own attic. Mickey hunts down the attacker, plays cat and mouse, but finally captures the ape.

#9 - The Fire Fighters

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1930 - Episode 12

Mickey, Horace, and a motley crew of firemen charge to a burning hotel, where Mickey ultimately rescues Minnie from the flames.

#10 - The Shindig

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1930 - Episode 13

Mickey, Minnie, Horace, and Clarabelle are off to a wild barn dance. There Mickey plays the harmonica and dances with gigantic Patricia Pig, then joins Minnie in a duet on "Pop Goes the Weasel."

#11 - The Chain Gang

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1930 - Episode 14

Mickey's a prisoner on jailer Pegleg Pete's rock pile. In a riot, he escapes, but when he's pursued by the jail guards' hounds, he jumps on a pair of motley horses who finally return him to jail the hard way.

#12 - Pioneer Days

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1930 - Episode 19

Mickey and Minnie are out West, then attacked by Indians. Minnie is captured and Mickey is, too, when he comes looking for her, but she escapes and rescues him; later, they disguise themselves as soldiers and scare the entire tribe into the hills.

#13 - The Mad Dog

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1932 - Episode 4

Pluto swallows the soap while being bathed, then runs away. His soapy slobber makes locals think he's gone mad, and they call the dogcatcher to destroy him.

#14 - Gulliver Mickey

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1934 - Episode 8

Mickey tells the orphans how he once landed in Lilliput, was first attacked by its tiny citizens, but later saved them all from a giant spider monster.

#15 - Just Dogs

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1932 - Episode 11

Two inmates at the city dog pound stage an escape and free most of their companions as well. A lively spree ensues, most of which takes place in a nearby junk yard.

#16 - King Neptune

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1932 - Episode 14

The King of the Sea becomes enraged when lustful pirates threaten violence and rapine against his innocent mermaids. Creatures of the deep rise do Neptune's bidding and soon the pirate ship lies on the ocean floor. Peace and harmony are restored.

#17 - Bugs in Love

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1932 - Episode 16

Inventive insects turn a junk yard into an amusement park. The fun is cut short however, by the arrival of a shifty (and hungry) hobo crow.

#18 - The Birthday Party

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1931 - Episode 1

Minnie, Horace, and Clarabelle join hordes of others for a big birthday celebration. Mickey and Minnie jam on "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby," then Horace and Clarabelle perform a dance and some scat-singing to "Darktown Strutters' Ball."

#19 - The Wayward Canary

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1932 - Episode 18

Mickey's bought a canary to give Minnie as a pet, but doesn't know that the bird has a bunch of hatchlings in her cage, too. When they get away and fly around Minnie's house, an old cat tries to catch them and Mickey destructively tries to keep that from happening.

#20 - Mickey's Pal Pluto

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1933 - Episode 4

Pluto rescues some kittens, but when Mickey and Minnie seem to treat them well at his own expense, his evil side (shown as a devil dog) convinces him to start a rivalry with the kits.

#21 - Traffic Troubles

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1931 - Episode 3

Mickey's a taxi driver on a very dilapidated road. He tries to take Percy Pig to an appointment, but loses him on the way. He then tries to bring Minnie to her music lesson, but a detour through a barnyard and an encounter with a snake-oil salesman ruin that plan, too.

#22 - Three Little Pigs

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1933 - Episode 10

Three pigs set off to set up housekeeping, and learn to deal with life and wolves.

#23 - The Steeple Chase

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1933 - Episode 17

Colonel Rolf Rolfe has bet his last "bottom dollar" on his horse, Thunderbolt, to win. When the horse discovers a gin bottle and drinks it, though, Mickey has to costume two stable hands as a horse and ride them in the race, instead.

#24 - Giantland

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1933 - Episode 19

Mickey tells a crowd of orphans a version of "Jack and the Beanstalk" in which he plays the leading role and takes on Rumplewatt, the "king of the giants - prince of the tyrants."

#25 - The Moose Hunt

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1931 - Episode 6

Mickey and Pluto hunt for moose, the hunt being delayed when Mickey thinks he's shot Pluto and, later, when Mickey's gun falls apart in the foe's face.

#26 - Andy Panda Goes Fishing

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1940 - Episode 1

Andy Panda decides to go on a fishing expedition, but he has no luck until he meets a friendly turtle who shows him many ingenous ways to catch fish. While they're busy fishing, evil pymgy panda hunters sneak up on them and try to capture Andy to sell him to the zoo. Just as it appears that Andy will be captured, he's saved by an electric eel who frightens off the natives.

#27 - The Duck Hunt

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1932 - Episode 2

Mickey and Pluto go duck hunting, stopping to jam to "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean." The ducks get their own back, carrying the hunters through the air and dropping them on a clothesline.

#28 - The Big Bad Wolf

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1934 - Episode 7

The bad guy from "Three Little Pigs" does double duty here; he's back for revenge on his old adversaries from the first film, but also stands in for his famous cousin out of "Little Red Riding Hood."

#29 - Flowers and Trees

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1932 - Episode 10

An idyllic dance of flora; until an wretched old tree stump tries to cut in the dance. Rebuffed, he proceeds to set the woods on fire!

#30 - The Birth of a Toothpick

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1939 - Episode 4

#31 - Mickey's Nightmare

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1932 - Episode 12

Pluto licks a sleeping Mickey, causing him to dream that Minnie's kissing him - and proposing marriage. The imagined union turns to catastrophe as tons of little mice demolish the house.

#32 - Playful Pan

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1930 - Episode 20

The God Pan flits through the fields, coaxing music and dance out of the flora and fauna, who cooperate well. Maybe too well when a dancing thundercloud bumps together, producing a lightning strike that threatens to burn everything down. Fortunately, Pan's musical charms are able to lure the flames into a nearby pond where they are safely extinguished.

#33 - Mickey Steps Out

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1931 - Episode 10

Mickey and Pluto call on Minnie, but an alley cat disrupts their afternoon of music.

#34 - The Stubborn Mule

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1939 - Episode 12

The first of only three Lil' Eightball cartoons. The character was seen again in 1940s Walter Lantz comic books.

#35 - Mickey's Good Deed

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1932 - Episode 23

On Christmas Eve, Mickey needs money to help out a poor mother's desperate children. So he sells Pluto to a rich family - whose spoiled brat gives the pooch a real run for his money.

#36 - Birds of a Feather

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1931 - Episode 2

A flock of birds flying through the air is attacked by a hawk who steals one of the baby birds. The other birds then join ranks to rescue him back.

#37 - Ye Olden Days

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1933 - Episode 7

A stage play shows Mickey as a wandering minstrel, saving Maid Minnie from having to marry Prince Goofy of Poopoopadoo.

#38 - Blue Rhythm

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1931 - Episode 12

Mickey and his gang gather to play "St. Louis Blues" in a concert hall.

#39 - Lonesome Ghosts

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1937 - Episode 14

Mickey and his best friends are hired by telephone to evict a number of ghosts from a haunted house. Unknown to them they were hired by the ghosts themselves, four lonesome ghosts who are bored because nobody has visited the house they are haunting for a long time. They wish to play tricks on the mortals. And they do through a series of inventive gags, but by the end the trio has managed to scare the ghosts out of the house when flour accidentally spilled over the trio.

#40 - Fishin' Around

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1931 - Episode 14

Mickey and Pluto fish in a spot where no fishing's allowed. They enjoy various gags and a chase around the river bottom before the sheriff shows up.

#41 - Mickey's Gala Premiere

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1933 - Episode 12

Mickey and the gang attend a premiere of his latest cartoon at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, and lots of Hollywood celebrities of the time are all there to see it.

#42 - Mother Goose Melodies

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1931 - Episode 5

Old King Cole summons various storybook characters to life for his entertainment and a dance.

#43 - Adventures of Tom Thumb Jr.

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1940 - Episode 3

Tom Thumb Jr. and his friend are cast ashore on an island where they are found by a lady who thinks Tom is a baby and puts him to sleep in a sewing basket. Left alone, Tom and his pal seek food and have a series of misadventures with a mouse, duck and a cat.

#44 - The Delivery Boy

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1931 - Episode 8

Mickey's delivering musical instruments, but stops his wagon to take them out and "test" them with Minnie - a project that leaves her farm and most of the instruments in ruins, and Mickey's mule without his hair.

#45 - The Barnyard Broadcast

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1931 - Episode 16

Mickey and the gang have a rowdy musicale for the radio.

#46 - Shanghaied

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1934 - Episode 1

Mickey and Minnie have been captured on Pete's pirate ship, but fight their way to freedom in the face of a whole crewful of identical, bulldog roughnecks.

#47 - The Beach Party

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1931 - Episode 19

Mickey and the gang frolic on the beach.

#48 - Mickey Cuts Up

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1931 - Episode 20

Mickey helps Minnie with her yard work. Eventually a lawnmower runs berserk as Pluto pulls it chaotically around the garden.

#49 - Playful Pluto

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1934 - Episode 5

Pluto pesters Mickey as the mouse tries to do his housecleaning. When the hound swallows a flashlight and later sits on flypaper, you know there's going to be trouble.

#50 - Mickey's Orphans

Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1931 - Episode 21

A bunch of orphan kids (depicted as kittens) are left on Mickey's doorstep in a basket. They make life into hell as Mickey, Minnie, and Pluto try to give them a Christmas party.