The BEST episodes directed by Charles Nichols
#1 - Plutopia
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 8
Vacationing at a lodge, Pluto has a surreal nightmare where Milton is his butler and will fulfull any wish when Pluto bites him on the tail.
#2 - R'coon Dawg
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1951 - Episode 12
The racoon Mickey and Pluto hunt fools Mickey into thinking that she's got a family - but Pluto knows her "child" is really Mickey's coonskin cap.
#3 - Pluto's Blue Note
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1947 - Episode 16
Pluto loves to sing, but no one, not even the radio will sing along with him. But success comes when he finds that his tail makes an excellent phonograph needle.
#4 - Mickey Down Under
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1948 - Episode 4
Mickey's in Australia, driving Pluto crazy with a boomerang and getting involved in chaos when he encounters a giant emu and tries to steal her egg.
#5 - Bone Bandit
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1948 - Episode 6
Pluto just wants to dig up one of his bones, but has to deal with an angry gopher to get at it.
#6 - Pluto's Purchase
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1948 - Episode 8
Mickey sends Pluto to buy some sausages, not telling them they're a gift for neighbor pooch Butch - so when the tough bulldog tries to take them, Pluto defends himself, having no idea what the wursts are really meant to be used for.
#7 - Cat Nap Pluto
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1948 - Episode 10
Pluto comes home after a long night and has to fight Figaro for the right to take a nap.
#8 - Mickey and the Seal
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1948 - Episode 15
A zoo escapee finds refuge in Mickey's bath, despite Pluto's protests.
#9 - Pueblo Pluto
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1949 - Episode 1
Vacationing in South America, Mickey leaves Pluto to fight with a St. Bernard pup and roll around the desert in a huge vase.
#10 - Pluto's Surprise Package
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1949 - Episode 3
A package arrives in the mail for Pluto ... but he has terrible trouble trying to get it into the house.
#11 - Pluto's Sweater
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1949 - Episode 5
Minnie knits a red sweater for Pluto, much to his disgust. Pluto is then teased by the neighbor dogs and Figaro.
#12 - Bubble Bee
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1949 - Episode 7
Pluto discovers Spike the Bee's hive full of gum balls.
#13 - Sheep Dog
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1949 - Episode 13
Pluto protects his sheep against ever-hungry coyotes. Bent-Tail disguises his son as a lamb to secretly get his prey.
#14 - Pluto's Heart Throb
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1950 - Episode 1
Pluto once again falls in love with Dinah the dachshund, but has to compete with Butch for her affections.
#15 - Pluto and the Gopher
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1950 - Episode 3
Pluto tries to rid Minnie's garden of a pesky gopher, and pretty much destroys the garden in the process.
#16 - Wonder Dog
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1950 - Episode 6
Pluto envisions himself as a circus dog in order to win the heart of Dinah, who has fallen for a poster of Prince, the Wonder Dog.
#17 - Primitive Pluto
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1950 - Episode 8
Primo, a wolf, convinces Pluto to go native and go out hunting for his own food like a 'real' dog.
#18 - Puss Cafe
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1950 - Episode 9
Pluto is up against a band of cats who are out trying to steal food.
#19 - Pests of the West
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1950 - Episode 11
Pluto guards the chicken house from a hungry coyote and his hungrier son.
#20 - Camp Dog
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1950 - Episode 14
While camping out, Pluto must protect the food from a hungry coyote and his son.
#21 - Grand Canyonscope
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1954 - Episode 10
The Ranger takes a tour group on a guided tour of the Grand Canyon. However, Donald is in the group and gets into a tussle with Louie to environmentally disatrous results.
#22 - The Simple Things
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1953 - Episode 2
Mickey and Pluto go fishing. Pluto has a run-in with a clam, who eventually lodges in Pluto's mouth; Mickey thinks the clam is Pluto's tongue and can't understand why Pluto keeps begging for more food. After they get rid of the clam, Mickey's attempts to use his minnows as bait are thwarted by a hungry seagull; he brings his friends, and they chase our heroes away.
#23 - Springtime for Pluto
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1944 - Episode 8
Pluto gets spring fever! But too much fever can be a bad thing as nature begins to intrude on his pastoral romp.
#24 - How to Play Football
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1944 - Episode 10
The Goofies of Taxidermy Tech take on the Goofies of Anthropology A and M.
#25 - Dog Watch
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1945 - Episode 3
Pluto is assigned to guard a ship at port from intruders, and is almost bested by a sly wharf rat.
#26 - Canine Casanova
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1945 - Episode 8
Pluto's first meeting with Dinah, as he falls head over heels and tried to woo the cute, little dachshund.
#27 - The Legend of Coyote Rock
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1945 - Episode 10
Sheepdog Pluto protects his flock from a coyote, and carves out a desert landmark in the process.
#28 - Canine Patrol
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1945 - Episode 14
As a member of the Coast Guard, Pluto tries to keep a newborn turtle from off-limits beach territory.
#29 - Pluto's Kid Brother
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1946 - Episode 2
Pluto and his little brother steal some weiners and have to elude other dogs and the dogcatcher.
#30 - In Dutch
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1946 - Episode 3
Pluto is delivering milk in Holland, falls for a pretty Dutch dog, and cries wolf but ends up saving the town.
#31 - The Purloined Pup
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1946 - Episode 6
Ronnie is kidnapped by Butch, so Pluto, as a policedog must come in to rescue her.
#32 - Pluto's Housewarming
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1947 - Episode 1
Pluto's brand new beach house is invaded by a wandering turtle, and then Butch the Bulldog, who are both looking for new homes of their own.
#33 - Rescue Dog
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1947 - Episode 2
Pluto, as the title says, is a rescue dog in the frozen north. But when he tangles with a baby seal, it turns out that he is the one who needs to be rescued.
#34 - Mickey's Delayed Date
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1947 - Episode 12
Mickey is late for a date with Minnie and has to get himself ready in a hurry with Pluto's help.
#35 - Mail Dog
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1947 - Episode 14
Pluto is pressed into duty to deliver a sack of mail to a remote arctic outpost, helped along by a playful arctic rabbit.
#36 - Pluto's Fledgling
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1948 - Episode 12
Big-hearted Pluto helps Orville the bird learn to fly.
#37 - Morris the Midget Moose
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1950 - Episode 17
Morris is a small moose with tremendous antlers who is ostracized from the group until he meets his match; an oversized moose with small antlers.
#38 - The Saga of Windwagon Smith
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1961 - Episode 3
Windwagon Smith blows into town with a strange contraption: a conestoga wagon outfitted with a wind sail. The town fathers figure that since a small windwagon does so well, a big one must do better. They set out to build one (while Smith woos the mayor's daughter) and launch it on it's maiden voyage to very unexpected results.
#39 - How to Have an Accident at Work
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1959 - Episode 2
A companion piece to the previous years' "How to Have an Accident at Home" follows the same accident-prone Donald to the workplace.