The BEST episodes directed by David Hand
#1 - Thru the Mirror
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1936 - Episode 6
Mickey dreams that he steps through the mirror where everything is alive. While there, he dances with a pair of gloves and a pack of playing cards.
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#2 - Mickey's Elephant
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1936 - Episode 13
Mickey receives a baby elephant as a gift from the Rajah of Gahboon. But Pluto isn't quite sure what to make of it, especially when he begins to suspect that he's being replaced.
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#3 - Alpine Climbers
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1936 - Episode 9
Mickey, Donald, and Pluto climb up into the Alps in search of eagle's eggs and edelweiss - leading to violent conflict with a mother eagle and a mountain goat.
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#4 - Three Little Wolves
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1936 - Episode 5
A Disney take on "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" as Fifer Pig and Fiddler Pig continually set off the wolf alarm to Practical Pig's annoyance. Unbeknownst to them, they are being stalked by the Big Bad Wolves' sons.
#5 - Three Blind Mouseketeers
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1936 - Episode 12
The Three Mouseketeers must find different ways to escape the clutches of the devious Captain Katt.
#6 - More Kittens
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1936 - Episode 17
The three kittens once again get into trouble, this time finding a friend and protector in a big Saint Bernard dog.
#7 - Little Hiawatha
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1937 - Episode 7
A young Indian brave sets off into the forest primeval to prove his worth by hunting big game. Unfortunately, he finds that some of the game is a lot bigger than he is!
#8 - The Dognapper
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1934 - Episode 16
Officers Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck have to capture Pegleg Pete, who's stolen Minnie's dog and is holding it for ransom. A wild chase in a sawmill (including an extended battle to avoid the saw itself) is soon in order.
#9 - Mickey's Polo Team
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1936 - Episode 1
The Mickey Mousers take on the Movie Stars in a manic polo tournament.
#10 - Magician Mickey
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1937 - Episode 3
Donald makes the mistake of heckling Mickey's magic act, so Mickey gets his revenge ... or so he thinks.
#11 - The Whalers
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1938 - Episode 11
While Captain Mickey struggles to empty a pail of water, Donald gets his head stuck in a boot that's tied to a harpoon rope, and in trying to save him, Goofy falls through the blowhole of the whale they're trying to capture.
#12 - Camping Out
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1934 - Episode 3
a.k.a. 'Camping Troubles.' Mickey, Minnie, Horace, and Clarabelle are picked on by a mosquito while camping. When Horace swats the 'skeeter, the little bug flies back to the swamp and rallies his relatives for a full-bore attack on our friends.
#13 - Mickey's Steam Roller
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1934 - Episode 10
While streetworker Mickey romances Minnie, Mickey's nephews Morty and Ferdy take control of his steamroller and it's full speed ahead on a very destructive ride.
#14 - The Flying Mouse
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1934 - Episode 11
A small mouse saves a butterfly from a spider's web. The butterfly turns out to be a fairy who gives the mouse one wish : to be able to fly. But his wish turns out to be not quite what he bargained for.
#15 - Trader Mickey
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1932 - Episode 13
While taking a shipload of musical instruments along the African coast, Mickey and Pluto are captured by cannibals. The savages plan to eat them until Mickey trades the instruments for their freedom, then engages in a wild jam session to "The Darktown Strutters' Ball."
#16 - Building a Building
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1933 - Episode 1
Mickey saves box-lunch-seller Minnie from Pete, who's boss on a construction site.
#17 - The Mad Doctor
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1933 - Episode 3
Mickey dreams that Pluto has been captured by an evil scientist who hopes to graft his head onto a hen's body. When Mickey tries to save the hound from the villain's castle, he ends up on the operating table himself.
#18 - Birds in the Spring
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1933 - Episode 5
Two birds rejoice over the hatching of their three eggs; as they grow, the hatchlings are taught to sing and fly. One falls from the nest and has adventures with a rattlesnake and a beehive before finding his way home.
#19 - The Mail Pilot
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1933 - Episode 9
Through rain, sleet, snow and mail bandits, Mickey's mail must go through.
#20 - Old King Cole
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1933 - Episode 13
The Merry Old Soul throws a jazz party for the citizens of Storyland, featuring hepped-up renditions of everything from "Three Blind Mice" to "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater.
#21 - Mickey's Man Friday
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1935 - Episode 1
On a desert island, Mickey befriends the monkeyfaced native Friday, a cannibal whose brothers had planned him to be their evening meal. When the entire tribe returns to get even, Mickey and Friday hold them off from a boobytrapped fort.
#22 - Mickey's Kangaroo
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1935 - Episode 6
A friend in Australia has sent Mickey the kangaroo Hoppy, who with her pesky son drives Pluto completely to distraction. Mickey wants to train the kangaroos to be fighters, but they end up throwing him in his own hay-baling machine. "C'mon - mix it up!"
#23 - The Robber Kitten
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1935 - Episode 7
A discontented young kitten tires of being mothered at home and runs away seeking adventure as a highwayman. A scary encounter with a genuine robber, however, soon sends him flying home to Mom.
#24 - Who Killed Cock Robin?
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1935 - Episode 10
A new twist on an old nursery rhyme as the criminal bird court attempts to determine who killed Cock Robin as he wooed his love, Jenny Wren. Robin, it turns out, is not dead, but merely wounded by Cupid's arrow.
#25 - Pluto's Judgement Day
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1935 - Episode 13
Pluto chases a cat too much and in his dreams is brought to trial before a jury ... composed of cats!
#26 - Three Orphan Kittens
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1935 - Episode 16
Three kittens are heartlessly abandoned during a snowstorm. They try to take refuge in a nearby house and playfully begin to tear the house apart.