The BEST episodes directed by Dick Lundy
#1 - The Bandmaster
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1947 - Episode 8
Andy Panda goes to the circus, and the circus turns into a circus where a girl aerialist is rescued by her own false teeth; the acrobats and jugglers mangle each other; a girl trapeze artist loses her wig as a rope-spinning act goes haywire; and the drunken high-wire walker finds himself surrounded by pink elephants.
#2 - Sea Scouts
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1939 - Episode 10
Commodore Donald teaches the finer points of seamanship to his crew of nephews.
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#3 - Donald's Camera
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1941 - Episode 15
Donald finds a new hobby; photography, which he takes into the wilderness to photograph the wildlife.
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#4 - A Good Time for a Dime
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1941 - Episode 7
Donald visits a penny arcade where he sees a risque Daisy dancing in one of the nickelodeon shows and later has trouble with the airplane ride.
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#5 - Donald's Garden
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1942 - Episode 9
Among other problems, Donald's prize watermelons are at risk from a hungry gopher while trying to tend his own garden.
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#6 - Donald's Gold Mine
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1942 - Episode 11
Donald attempts to dig for gold with difficult equipment and an uncooperative donkey.
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#7 - The Village Smithy
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1942 - Episode 1
Blacksmith Donald has two tasks on his list: put a new iron rim on a wagon wheel, and shoe Jenny, a female donkey. But the rim won't stay smooth, and the donkey doesn't want the shoes.
#8 - The Riveter
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1940 - Episode 1
Donald lands a job working high steel as a riveter for construction foreman Pete.
#9 - Donald's Tire Trouble
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1943 - Episode 3
A flat tire proves to be more than enough to try Donald's patience.
#10 - The Flying Jalopy
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1943 - Episode 5
Donald buys a used plane from Ben Buzzard who tries to sabotage it in order to collect on a forged insurance policy.
#11 - Music Land
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1935 - Episode 15
When the saxophone son of the King of the Isle of Jazz falls in love with the violin daughter of his father's rival, the Queen of the Land of Symphony, war erupts. The Prince and Princess are nearly drowned in the Sea of Discord until a cease fire is called. The short ends in a double wedding and the uniting of the two kingdoms with the Bridge of Harmony.
#12 - Bathing Buddies
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1946 - Episode 5
Woody Woodpecker, who lives upstairs at Wally Walrus' boarding house, is enjoying a game of indoor golf while Wally takes a bath. The ball lands on Wally's head, causing a sudden end to the golf game. With nothing to do but take a bath, Woody's dime for the hot water meter falls down the drain. Retrieving his dime requires a bit of ingenuity and the help of a long wire, a wrench, a jack, a sledgehammer and finally some dynamite. The combined operations reunite Woody and his dime, but they're too much for Wally and his rooming house, each of which ends up a complete wreck.
#13 - Smoked Hams
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1947 - Episode 2
Wally Walrus is a "Day Sleeper," as the sign hanging on his door attests. Woody Woodpecker is a "Night Sleeper," as another sign on his door signifies. Both of them live in the same apartment house. The dawn of a new day is just breaking. Wally's retiring for his daily sleep, but Woody, down the hallway in another room, is still sound asleep. Woody's awakening is rather sudden when a door in a cuckoo clock opens, and a doll comes out and pours a small pail of water in his face. Full of vim and vigor, Woody noisily begins mowing the lawn. This disturb's Wally's sleep, and he takes stringent measures to stop grass and loose trash.
#14 - The Coo Coo Bird
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1947 - Episode 3
Woody reads in the paper that quail hunting season begins the next morning at 5 a.m. Not wanting to pass up quail hunting, he determines to get a good night's sleep. However, of course, his attempts are ruined by all manner of distractions, such as a flashing neon sign, and an obnoxious cuckoo clock that takes on a life of its own (the cuckoo itself is just as obnoxious). In getting rid of the cuckoo, Woody destroys his bed, causing him to sleep on a runaway "automatic table," with which he has many a tussle. The folding table first beats him up, then traps him, and finally bucks him off into a bush full of quail. The quail throws him to a hunter's dogs, who chase him into a cabin where he almost loses his identity, and the quail give him the Woody Woodpecker laugh.
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#15 - Well Oiled
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1947 - Episode 5
Enjoying a drive through the Giant Redwoods, Woody Woodpecker runs out of gas. He tries to foil police officer Wally Walrus after siphoning some from his cop car. Unfortunately, he's observed by the cop, and the chase is on. Woody eludes the cop temporarily by ducking into a service station and disguising himself as an old man. When the cop asks for water, Woody uses the fire hose, then runs him through a huge wringer at the car laundry. A duel fought with grease guns gives Woody a chance to thoroughly grease the law, but he makes one slip and winds up with himself well oiled.
#16 - Solid Ivory
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1947 - Episode 6
Woody Woodpecker is playing pool in his barn. He loses control of one of the balls (the white one), which bounces across the yard and lands in a hen house. When he goes to get it, an overprotective setting hen will not let him have it, thinking that Woody is trying to steal one of her eggs. Woody loses the battle that follows, so he tries a rod and reel, baited with corn. The hen hooks it up with the light circuit and almost electrocutes Woody. He tries hypnotizing her with nylons, but she beats him back to the eggs. A disguise as a lovestruck French rooster with a Charles Boyer accent finally gets her off the nest, but Woody drops the eggs. The baby chicks that pop out of the broken eggs make the hen happy, so all is forgiven.
#17 - Woody the Giant Killer
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1947 - Episode 7
Out of work, Woody is weary from looking for a place to rent, and he complains about his not having any living quarters. He's approached by city slicker Buck Beaver, who convinces him to buy some magic beans. Woody plants them, and a beanstalk shoots up to the clouds. An elevator takes Woody to a giant's castle, where he finds the dopey giant asleep and initially fails to wake him up. Woody puts mustard, red pepper and horseradish on his tongue, which does the trick. Woody hides from the giant in a stuffed olive and is almost swallowed. He escapes in a handy car.
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#18 - The Mad Hatter
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1948 - Episode 1
Woody Woodpecker, dreaming of becoming a great screen lover, is awakened by a telegram from the studio telling him to come to work. His screen test starts at 9 a.m., and he must be wearing a top hat. The months have wrecked Woody's hat, so he has to buy a new one. Wally Walrus, proprietor of a hat store, makes a stubborn hat stay on Woody's head by screwing it on. An electric fan, however, soon blows the ornery hat off, and it lands on a frog. In trying to get the hat away from the frog, Woody becomes involved with a bucket and a goose. He fastens a skyrocket onto the goose to get it out of his hat, but he goes up into the sky himself. He arrives at his new job by crashing through the roof, and he's fired immediately. He throws the hat away, but it boomerangs and knocks him out. Woody's dream of fame as a great screen lover ends with a spat with his dream glamour girl.
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#19 - Banquet Busters
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1948 - Episode 2
Andy Panda and Woody Woodpecker are two cold, hungry, unemployed musicians trying to keep alive in a heatless, foodless house. After fighting over a stale bean and losing it to a hungry mouse, they happen to read about Mrs. Gloria Van Glutton's musicale and dinner. Eluding butler Wally Walrus, they slip unobserved into the orchestra, where the aroma of a roast pig is too much for Woody. While the hungry mouse swallows a piece of cheese whole, Andy snags a roast turkey with a rod and reel fastened to his violin bow. Wally watches Woody make a sandwich, gets too close, and becomes part of it. Fortunately, a sneeze starts a free-for-all, with Mrs. Van Glutton a leading contender. The guests throw food at each other while Andy, Woody and the mouse stuff themselves- that is, until Wally starts using a shotgun. This breaks up the party and is a great help in sending Woody hopping madly over the hill.
#20 - Wacky-Bye Baby
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1948 - Episode 4
Woody Woodpecker, a homeless nobody, is rudely awakened from his park bench and tossed into a garbage can. He finds a news item announcing that billionaire Wally Walrus is planning to adopt a new baby boy. To get free room and board, Woody shows up on his doorstep disguised as a baby foundling. He gives Wally a tough time playing horsie, which leads to Wally's safe. He dishes out great piles of his money via an improvised slot machine. A trick ball that returns to the thrower fools Woody a couple of times, but when he substitutes an iron ball, Wally moves to the basement, but suddenly. Wally tries to discipline Woody with a stick of dynamite inside the trick ball, but his trick boomerangs, and he's blown into a hospital wheelchair that's equipped with a machine gun. Woody escapes by diving through the end title.
#21 - Wet Blanket Policy
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1948 - Episode 6
Underhanded insurance agent A. Welcher forces Woody into signing a "Low Life" insurance policy- a document stating that the agent will get $10,000 if Woody kicks the bucket.
#22 - Wild and Woody!
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1948 - Episode 9
Just as cowpoke Woody Woodpecker rides into the Wild West town of Rigor Mortis, New Mexico, outlaw Buzz Buzzard is disposing of the 274th new sheriff. With a price on badman Buzz's head, Woody takes on the sheriff's job. Gunslinger Woody tries to bring down tough hombre Buzz. Lots of crazy sight gags, including politically incorrect images of the two characters rolling cigarettes and smoking up a storm.
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#23 - Drooler's Delight
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1949 - Episode 2
Woody Woodpecker, suffering from heat and commercials, plans to spend his last quarter to cool off with a "super-duper delight ice cream soda," the "Drooler's Delight," but con man Buzz Buzzard has other ideas. Woody finds that he must outsmart Buzz on his way to the fountain.
#24 - Musical Moments from Chopin
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1947 - Episode 1
Andy Panda is performing a rendition of Chopin's "Polonaise" for an audience in a barn when Woody Woodpecker walks in. After initially trying to show Andy up, Woody joins in on an accompanying piano. As the duo play, various members of the audience are engaged in antics seemingly in sync with the musical performance.
#25 - Sliphorn King of Polaroo
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1945 - Episode 3
The show opens with a tremendous storm at sea. The lone survivor is Jackson, a lion who also happens to be a jazz trombone player. The boat is finally shipwrecked in the Arctic, where the lion floats ashore, lands on an ice floe of some sort, and is rescued by penguins. He's so admired for his trombone playing that he's crowned king of the mystical kingdom of Polaroo. The usual "natives embracing the white explorer" phenomenon, but tongue in cheek.
#26 - Crow Crazy
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1945 - Episode 5
Andy Panda, as a farmer, has a fine-looking field of corn about ready for the harvest. However, a flock of crows has discovered the corn and is busily devouring every kernel in sight when Andy discovers what's going on. He rushes out into the cornfield and fires a shotgun into the air. The crows fly away in every direction- all, that is to say, but one crow who continues to eat undisturbed. After many futile attempts to get rid of the wise-guy crow, Andy finds that he's unable to cope with the crow's sagacity. Andy then calls in his dumb dog Milo for assistance in keeping the crows from eating his corn, especially the one who's causing all the trouble. Again, the crow outsmarts the dog, with disastrous results for both Andy and Milo. Finally, the crow is seen rowing a boat filled with corn away into the sunset as Andy and Milo watch his departure with undisguised chagrin, and not a little relief.
#27 - The Poet & Peasant
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1946 - Episode 1
Andy Panda is conducting the Hollywood Washbowl Orchestra in a Sunday afternoon concert. It's one of those afternoons when everything goes wrong. A frog gets entangled in Andy's wig, but he finally manages to extricate himself. Andy's stiff shirt front catches on a nail. Yank and jerk as he will, it won't come loose. The orchestra, following every yank and jerk, goes into a very snappy jam session. A pig, a squirrel, a flock of birds and a cat do their best to interrupt the concert, but in spite of everything, Andy manages to hold forth and keep the musicians playing. An adagio dance by two ducks is interrupted by a hungry fox who starts to chase the ducks.
#28 - Apple Andy
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1946 - Episode 3
Andy Panda is very fond of apples and he eats a bushel of green apples, falls asleep and has a nightmare in which the devil is trying to entice him into Hades and stuffs him full of apple juice, applesauce and more apples. (In Andy's defense, since Andy was taught not to eat green apples, the devil had spray-painted the green apples red.)
#29 - The Wacky Weed
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1946 - Episode 8
Andy Panda goes shopping for a flower to decorate his lawn but the poor flower is attacked by a very nasty weed that threatens to choke the life out of it. Andy does his best to get rid of the menacing and stubborn weed.
#30 - The Overture to William Tell
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1947 - Episode 4
In this Lantz Color Cartune, Wally Walrus, masquerading as famed orchestra leader, Sir Wally Walrus, mounts the podium to conduct the orchestra, and his troubles only end when the cartoon does, with the orchestra completely destroyed.
#31 - Kiddie Koncert
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1948 - Episode 3
Wally Walrus is the conductor at a local schoolhouse who conducts the entire school band to the tune of "Morning, Noon, and Night in Vienna". Among the gags set to music: A skunk is forced to play his instrument outside, a caterpillar resting on a guitar is pursued by the rooster playing it, and one boy uses his knitting needles to play the drums (when he plays a rather long piece, he knits two pairs of socks!). The piece ends when Wally becomes entangled with bubble gum that one boy has been blowing through his trumpet.
#32 - Pixie Picnic
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1948 - Episode 5
The Pixies of the forest are having a picnic. Their band is playing "La Gazza Ladra Overture," led by a little old bewhiskered Pixie on a toadstool. Their instruments are improvised from flowers, spider webs, etc. A bee pesters one Pixie, while a box of pepper causes several others to sneeze. The cooks get too much stuffing in the turkey, which explodes, scrambling the food and musicians. One Pixie almost drowns in the cider well, but he hiccups himself out and onto the bowling green, where he tries to bowl. He finally fires the ball out of a cannon, lets loose an avalanche of giant pumpkins, squash, melons, etc., and breaks up the picnic.
#33 - Playful Pelican
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1948 - Episode 7
Captain Andy Panda is bothered by a pelican sleeping on his boat and throws her off, not knowing that she left an egg. When a baby pelican hatches and hungrily gulps a frog, things really start to hop. The "playful pelican" believes that Andy's his mother. Andy prays for rescue.
#34 - Dog Tax Dodgers
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1948 - Episode 8
Andy reads in the newspaper that dog catcher Wally Walrus is coming to collect $3.00 worth of dog tax from every dog owner. Being kind of a cheapskate, he hides his dog in the closet from Wally's presence but, upon entering Andy's house, Wally still suspects something is amiss. He uses a trained flea to reveal the dog who gets chased by Wally into a pond in the backyard. After "fishing" the dog out, Wally demands Andy pay his $3.00 but both are in for a surprise: the dog has an entire litter of puppies each worth an additional $3.00!
#35 - Scrappy Birthday
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1949 - Episode 1
For her birthday, Andy presents his sweetheart, Miranda, with her usual present, candy and flowers. Miranda complains she wants something decent for her birthday like a fur coat...which Andy can't afford. A con man tells him he doesn't need money. He sells him a tracking hound and tells him he can hunt for the fox himself. Unfortunately, the fox Andy and his hound find has no intentions of being caught. Eventually, Andy does capture an animal to make a fur stole with. It's not the fox but, rather, something that's more of a surprise.