The BEST episodes directed by Jack Hannah
#1 - Honey Harvester
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1949 - Episode 8
Donald's greenhouse is an ideal source of pollen for Spike the Bee.
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#2 - Toy Tinkers
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1949 - Episode 15
It's Christmas time, and Chip 'n' Dale fight with Donald for the goodies under his tree.
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#3 - Donald's Off Day
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1944 - Episode 12
Donald's golf game is ruined by a sudden thunderstorm. While passing the time with a medical book, he quickly becomes hypochondriac (with a little help from his nephews.)
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#4 - Spare the Rod
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1954 - Episode 1
Donald has the same old problem dealing with his three troublesome nephews, and is torn between using psychology or losing his temper.
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#5 - Corn Chips
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 6
Donald cons Chip 'n' Dale into shoveling his snowy sidewalk, and ends up shovelling popcorn.
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#6 - All in a Nutshell
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1949 - Episode 10
Chip 'n' Dale find a much better source of food than acorns at "Don's Nut Butter" stand.
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#7 - Test Pilot Donald
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 9
Dale dreams of flying and finds a perfect opportunity when Donald's remote control airplane gets stuck in their tree.
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#8 - A Knight for a Day
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1946 - Episode 1
Goofy (as Cedric) is preparing his knight, Sir Loinsteak, for a joust against Sir Cumference when an accident demands that Goofy take his place and, in the process, win the hand of the Princess Esmerelda.
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#9 - Bee at the Beach
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1950 - Episode 15
Donald and Spike fight over limited space at the beach.
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#10 - Frank Duck Brings 'em Back Alive
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1946 - Episode 12
In a switch from "Tiger Trouble" and "African Diary," this time Donald plays the great white hunter, going after the "wild man of the jungle," Goofy.
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#11 - Donald's Happy Birthday
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1949 - Episode 2
Huey, Dewey, and Louie earn enough money to buy their Uncle Donald a birthday present. Donald, not knowing what the money is for, wants the kids to save their money for a rainy day. The boys manage to get the money back and buy Donald a box of cigars. Donald thinks the boys have taken up smoking and force them to smoke the cigars.
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#12 - Out of Scale
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 16
Chip 'n' Dale make themselves at home in Donald's model train set.
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#13 - Daddy Duck
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1948 - Episode 5
Donald plays daddy to a baby kangaroo.
#14 - Tea for Two Hundred
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1948 - Episode 16
Donald is picnicking outdoors when he decides to have some fun with a line of ants. Big mistake as the ants decide to take revenge and go after his picnic.
#15 - They're Off
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1948 - Episode 1
The science of horse racing. Goofy shows the proper way to pick a winner, with a horse race that comes down to a photo finish as a finale.
#16 - Out on a Limb
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1950 - Episode 18
Donald is pruning Chip 'n' Dale's tree home. He doesn't want to chase them away like he usually does; just to have some fun with them which, of course, backfires.
#17 - Lambert the Sheepish Lion
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1952 - Episode 3
Lambert is a lion cub who is mis-delivered to a flock of sheep. Because he is different, he is ostracized by the rest of the lambs. But things change when he grows up and a wolf attacks the flock.
#18 - The Eyes Have It
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1945 - Episode 4
Donald learns hypnotism from a book and uses it on Pluto to make him believe he is a variety of animals, including one that bites back.
#19 - Dude Duck
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 4
Donald goes on vacation to a dude ranch and gets a totally uncooperative horse as a mount.
#20 - Two Chips and a Miss
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1952 - Episode 5
Unknown to each other, both Chip and Dale, feigning sleepiness and disinterest, sneak out of their tree to head downtown and meet the same pretty lounge singer, Clarice.
#21 - Canvas Back Duck
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1953 - Episode 15
Donald is lured into the boxing ring after provng his prowess at various circus games. He might have had second thoughts if he had known his opponent was going to be Pegleg Pete.
#22 - Chicken in the Rough
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 2
Chip 'n' Dale wander into a farmyard to collect acorns. Dale mistakes an egg for a nut, but when he tries to demonstrate to a newly hatched chick how to get back into the egg, a rooster mistakes him for one of his chicks.
#23 - The Greener Yard
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1949 - Episode 12
A small beetle decides the grass is greener is the yard next door. Unfortunately, that yard is the property of Donald Duck.
#24 - Slide, Donald, Slide
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1949 - Episode 14
Donald wants to listen to the World Series on the radio, but Spike would rather listen to classical music.
#25 - Crazy Over Daisy
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1950 - Episode 5
Donald's quiet bicycle ride to see Daisy is interrupted by Chip 'n' Dale.
#26 - Hook, Lion and Sinker
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1950 - Episode 13
Louie attempts to steal the prizes from Donald's fishing expedition.
#27 - Lucky Number
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 11
Service Station owner Donald wins a car from a sweepstake ticket (a new Zoom V-8) and Huey, Dewey, and Louie decide to pick it up for him.
#28 - Bee on Guard
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 18
Spike is responsible for protecting the hive against Donald's honey harvesting.
#29 - Winter Storage
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1949 - Episode 6
Winter is coming and Chip 'n' Dale's acorn ration is running low. What better place to find them than Park Ranger Donald's tree seeding project?
#30 - Grin and Bear It
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1954 - Episode 7
In his first appearance, the Ranger vainly tries to keep Humphrey from helping himself to Donald's picnic.
#31 - Trailer Horn
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1950 - Episode 7
Chip 'n' Dale come across Donald camping in the woods and amuse themselves by bouncing on Donald's car horn. Donald, however, is not amused but tries to enjoy his holiday anyway and the usual war ensues. In the end, it's Donald's car that gets the worst of it!
#32 - The Flying Squirrel
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1954 - Episode 9
Donald enlists the help of a flying squirrel to hang a sign in a nearby tree for his peanut stand, but the squirrel has to take revenge when Donald renegs on his half of the deal.
#33 - No Hunting
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1955 - Episode 1
Donald is inspired (possessed?) by the spirit of one of his forefathers to take up a gun and go hunting for his food.
#34 - Beezy Bear
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1955 - Episode 4
Donald's bee-keeping is threatened by Humphrey's honey stealing.
#35 - Up a Tree
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1955 - Episode 5
Chip 'n' Dale once again try to save their tree home from lumberjack Donald. Donald, in return, shows us how many ways he can fall of the side of a tree.
#36 - No Sail
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1945 - Episode 11
Goofy and Donald go sailing in a coin operated rented boat, but have to deal with sharks when they run out of nickles.
#37 - Donald Applecore
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1952 - Episode 2
Donald is an apple farmer trying to save his crop from two mischievous chipmunks.
#38 - Dragon Around
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1954 - Episode 6
Construction worker Donald tries to oust Chip 'n' Dale out of their home to build a highway, so the chipmunks become knights in shining armor to fight back.
#39 - Bearly Asleep
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1955 - Episode 3
Kicked out of his cave because of his obnoxious snoring, Humphrey tries to find another place to hibernate away the winter.
#40 - Uncle Donald's Ants
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1952 - Episode 11
Donald spills some sugar on his sidewalk, and soon the ants are in complete control of his home, stealing the cake he was baking, building a pipeline from his maple syrup to their hill, and causing general mayhem.
#41 - Clown of the Jungle
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1947 - Episode 5
As a photgrapher in the jungles of South America, Donald doesn't expect to come across the crazy Aracuan Bird, who more than fits his name as the ""clown of the jungle.""
#42 - Trick or Treat
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1952 - Episode 14
Donald's nephews come by for halloween and Donald plays tricks on them. But Witch Hazel was watching, and offers to help the boys get even. She brews up a potion that animates inanimate objects and sics them on Donald. He initially agrees to treat the boys, until he hears the witch call him a "pushover". She animates his feet to get him to cough up the key to his pantry.
#43 - Bootle Beetle
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1947 - Episode 9
A young beetle attempts to run away from home, but is stopped by a lesson about the dreaded bug collector, Donald Duck.
#44 - Chip an' Dale
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1947 - Episode 15
Chip 'n' Dale's house is being chopped down by a snowbound Donald for firewood, along with their store of nuts!
#45 - Let's Stick Together
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1952 - Episode 7
An elderly bee, seeing an equally elderly Donald Duck in the park, looks back on their long partnership. The bee started helping Donald pick up trash, then using his sharp stinger to increase sales for balloon vendor Donald, then as a tattoo artist, and finally doing embroidery. After a particularly demanding tapestry, the bee asks for time off, and Donald shows him to a custom-built greenhouse. In there, along with lots of lovely flowers, and moreover, a lady bee. This obviously causes some problems in the relationship with Donald.
#46 - Lighthouse Keeping
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1946 - Episode 10
Donald stoically tries to keep his lighthouse light lit, much to the chagrin of Marblehead the pelican, who is trying to get some sleep.
#47 - Inferior Decorator
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1948 - Episode 11
Spike the Bee doesn't understand why he can't get pollen out of Donald's new flowered wallpaper.
#48 - Soup's On
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1948 - Episode 13
It's dinner time! And all the nephews have to do is wash up for dinner. But things take a turn against Donald when his nephews convince him that he's an angel.
#49 - Three for Breakfast
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1948 - Episode 14
Donald's pancakes smell like a better breakfast for Chip 'n' Dale than acorns. Donald tries to slip them a rubber cement pancake in return.
#50 - Sea Salts
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1949 - Episode 4
Bootle Beetle reminisces about old times with Donald aboard ship.