The BEST episodes directed by Paul J. Smith
#1 - Bye, Bye Blackboard
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1972 - Episode 13
Woody Woodpecker goes to school with his dog. Mrs. Meany tries to get the dog out of her classroom. This is the final Woody Woodpecker cartoon produced. This was the last cartoon made by Walter Lantz, and the Walter Lantz studios shut down after this production.
#2 - Round Trip to Mars
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 11
In the middle of the desert just outside Las Vegas is the Oasis Hotel, and in the center of the swimming pool near the hotel is Woody Woodpecker, restfully relaxing in an auto tube. Suddenly, the rat-tap-tap of an automatic riveter interrupts Woody's peace and quiet. Investigation discloses Professor Dingledong putting the last rivets into a space rocket, into which he's about to visit the planet Mars.
#3 - Rain, Rain, Go Away
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1972 - Episode 7
Nothing goes right for Charlie. First his golf game is rained out, then the TV won't start, then Junior is too busy to play
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#4 - How to Stuff a Woodpecker
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1960 - Episode 6
Professor Strudel relates the story of how he managed to catch and stuff Woody Woodpecker... or did he?
#5 - Romp in a Swamp
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1959 - Episode 10
Woody tricks Ali Gator into a swampland chase. The banjo-plucking alligator shoots down what he thinks is a southbound duckling, except that it's a woodpecker. Woodpecker stew is better than none. The trouble is that Woody is hungry, too... and alligator stew will do.
#6 - Arts and Flowers
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1956 - Episode 12
Art, the artist, receives a circular announcing a prize for the best painting of a desert flower. Woody Woodpecker also reads it and decides to enter the competition. He and Art wage a battle all over the desert regarding who is to paint the only desert flower in the area. Woody wins the battle and the contest, and is awarded a painting of a bag of gold.
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#7 - Square Shootin' Square
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1955 - Episode 10
Western outlaw Dapper Denver Dooley is making his getaway from a small Western town and hides his loot in a large hole in a tree. The tree is Woody Woodpecker's home. Woody runs out of the tree with the bag containing the money, yelling, "Yippee, I'm rich." The robber, seeing Woody with the money, endeavors to retrieve his loot, but Woody escapes and runs, with the money, into town- the bandit following closely behind Woody. From here on is a series of episodes where the gunman tries to get the money from Woody, but at every turn, Woody outsmarts him. A posse attempting to follow the bandit finally arrives back in town, and Woody delivers both the money and the bandit to the sheriff.
#8 - The Bird Who Came to Dinner
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1961 - Episode 4
A street vendor is selling walking toy woodpeckers on a street corner. A large limousine stops, and a richly-dressed dowager steps out to purchase a toy for her son. Woody Woodpecker, peering around the corner of the building, pictures a luxurious future in a home as she would have to offer, so he quickly steps out and imitates the walking toy, and pulls on the dowager's fur coat. She picks Woody up and enters the limousine.
#9 - International Woodpecker
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 7
Woody Woodpecker helps his nephews, Knothead and Splinter, in their studies of Woodpecker History, by telling them how he figured in the cave-man era, and Greece, and was responsible for making the Lean Tower of Pisa lean, and also for discovering America. They then take off for a picnic on the moon, via Woody's rocket-ship.
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#10 - Home Sweet Homewrecker
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1962 - Episode 2
Woody has a tit-for-tat with Bucky Beaver as they attempt to destroy each other's house in this riotous cartoon that has some of the insanity usually found in Road Runner cartoons.
#11 - Tragic Magic
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1962 - Episode 11
Woody goes to a magic show. He chomps popcorn and continually ribs the magician about his "easy" tricks, finally driving most of the audience away. Then the magician calls Woody on stage to "assist" him in a few "tricks," which enables him to get back at Woody for some of his taunts.
#12 - Log Jammed
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1959 - Episode 5
Woody Woodpecker gets into a mêlée with a lumberjack in the north woods. When the woodchopper chops down Woody's tree (home), and it winds up in the middle of a huge log-jam in the river, Woody grabs an axe and begins trying to chop his tree away from the others. The woodsmen is trying to keep him from doing so, since Woody's tree is the key log in the log-float. Years later, after they have both become aged, the fight continues.
#13 - Calling All Cuckoos
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1956 - Episode 10
A clockmaker goes into the woods in search of a cuckoo and finds Woodpecker. Figuring a coo-coo could double as a cuckoo, the clockmaker sets out to capture Woody, take him home and put him to work on the clock. Woody figures otherwise, and introduces the clockmaker to an angry bear. Chaos follows.
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#14 - Pistol Packin' Woodpecker
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1960 - Episode 3
Woody Woodpecker, hot, hungry and thirsty, is walking across a dry, bleak Western desert and suddenly sees a large tree stump in the distance. He hastens to the tree, climbs on a broken stump, and begins pecking away.
#15 - Private Eye Pooch
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1955 - Episode 5
Professor Dingledong the taxidermist school instructor is about to teach his students "how to stuff a woodpecker in one easy lesson." For this purpose, he goes to a jail-like room with cells, and from one of these cells, he picks Woody. Escaping the nutty taxidermist's clutches, Woody is pursued by an unforgettable private eye, Strongnose the bloodhound. The remaining cartoon deals with the bloodhound's attempts to capture Woody, and with Woody's frustration of same. The chase leads through a hollow log, a railroad tunnel, a lumber yard, an ice machine and a door factory, and finally, back to the taxidermy school, where the instructor threatens to stuff the bloodhound for his failure. Woody intervenes, and he and Strongnose team up and lock up the professor, with plans to stuff him.
#16 - Ozark Lark
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1960 - Episode 8
All is quiet in the Ozark Mountains since the Martins and the Coys stopped feudin'. On the porch of a tumbledown shack, there lies snoozing Jeeter Martin, the last surviving member of the Martin family. Woody Woodpecker, fishing rod in hand, is entering the nearby Coy cabin, now a museum containing relics of the feud.
#17 - Box Car Bandit
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 4
A bandit and his horse (a bigger crook than the bandit) find out that a big shipment of gold bullion is being shipped by train, so they make immediate plans to hijack it. But, Woody Woodpecker is the guard in the baggage car, and foils all their attempts to steal it, and soon horse and rider are in the jail-house.
#18 - Busman's Holiday
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1961 - Episode 13
As the scene opens, window washer Woody washes the window of Pierre's bakery. His first mishap is to cause Pierre to mess up a cake that he's decorating, and Pierre tells him off. Since this job is finished, Woody gets on a bus with his automatic extension ladder, which keeps hitting the bus driver in the head every time that the bus stops. The driver finally throws Woody off, but Woody manages to get back on. The comedy with the ladder continues, finally involving a traffic cop, a motorcycle policeman and Pierre, as well as Woody and the driver. The story ends with all the participants, on the motorcycle, crashing into a brick wall.
#19 - Hot Noon or 12 O'Clock for Sure
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1953 - Episode 12
When Western bad guy Buzz Buzzard returns to town to settle a score with the sheriff, the sheriff gets the bright idea of pinning his badge on an unsuspecting little saloon piano player named Woody Woodpecker. Woody goes after Buzz in order to protect his small Western town and impress his Tex-Mex girlfriend. While he doesn't have enough sense to run from a showdown, Woody proves that there's a lot of imagination in being brave as he faces Buzz.
#20 - Careless Caretaker
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1962 - Episode 9
Smedley's the caretaker of Greenleaf Park, a job that he likes very much because he cares for all the trees, and he just loves trees. He suddenly is distressed, however, to find Woody Woodpecker pecking away at Gertrude, the oldest tree in the park.
#21 - Fodder and Son
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 13
Woody goes to Yellowstone National Park, where he encounters a bear who does anything to get food from people.
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#22 - Real Gone Woody
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1954 - Episode 10
Woody and Buzz Buzzard are younger teenagers fighting over a crush. They try to outdo each other in order to win the girl! Like Popeye and Bluto fighting for Olive, Woody and Buzz battle for Winnie's affection as they go to the Sock Hop followed by the Jive In-Drive In.
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#23 - Misguided Missile
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1958 - Episode 1
Woody is an insurance salesman who tries to sell Dapper Denver Dooley a policy. When Dooley fails to pay on the policy, Woody goes after him with a guided missile.
#24 - After the Ball
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1956 - Episode 2
Pierre Bear runs a bowling ball factory in the great North. His bowling balls are made of wood. When Pierre mistakenly chops Woody's tree house, turning it into a bowling ball, Woody decides to still reside in it- whether Pierre wants him to or not- and goes about trying to outwit the bear. Pierre uses a water hose, air pump, deep freeze and even hocus-pocus to evict the tree's tenant, but all he gets are knotted bowler's fingers.
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#25 - Half Empty Saddles
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1958 - Episode 4
Woody Woodpecker is wandering around the wild west again seeking to find some buried gold and he tangles with a crook who wishes to find the gold for himself. Woody finally disposes of the villain by shooting him into outer space via a rocket, another favorite method used by Woody to rid himself of whatever he wanted rid of at the moment. The horse steals the film.
#26 - His Better Elf
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1958 - Episode 7
Woody Woodpecker lives in a slum, and is fed up with his bills, wishing aloud that he were rich. At that moment, a four-leaf clover appears in the floorboards, and transforms into a leprechaun woodpecker, which grants Woody three wishes. Woody immediately wishes for immense wealth, and he gets it-- by robbing a bank without realizing it. A police chase follows; will Woody escape, and what will his other two wishes be?
#27 - Tomcat Combat
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1959 - Episode 3
Woody Woodpecker is engaged in combat with a big tomcat and after several break-even escapades, Woody finally tricks the cat into a dogcatcher's truck which is filled with dogs with a sour disposition, especially regarding cats. Woody finally shoots the cat off into outer space using a giant rocket (not from Acme.)
#28 - Woodpecker from Mars
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1956 - Episode 7
Woody Woodpecker is a guest at a television show and walks off with a space helmet and a space gun as souvenirs. He pretends to be a man from Mars, and is believed to the extent that he is caught and sent to an atomic laboratory for testing, which convinces the scientists he does belong on Mars. They send him to Mars on a rocket-ship and, once there, the Martians are convinced he is a crazy alien from Earth, and start testing him in their laboratories.
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#29 - The Tee Bird
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1959 - Episode 9
On the Pebbley Beach Golf Course, Dapper Denver Dooley and Woody Woodpecker are in a championship playoff. The prize: $25,000. After both contenders make holes in one, a psychological battle begins. Woody crunches celery. Dapper drives himself into a sand trap. Woody proves himself too light for quicksand; Dapper sinks. At every turn, Dapper proceeds to lure and trick poor Woody until Woody's game seems lost. All that Dapper needs to win is a short putt into the cup, but he's seized with a magnificent case of hiccups. Woody wins and hiccups dollar bills!
#30 - Witch Crafty
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1955 - Episode 3
A witch is riding her broom gaily through the night skies when she crashes and breaks the broom handle. She goes to a nearby broom factory and asks Woody (who works there) for a new one. He makes her one, but she refuses to pay the 50-cent check. Woody takes the magic broom back, and the rest of the picture deals with her attempts to gain access to the factory and get the broom without paying for it.
#31 - Kiddie League
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1959 - Episode 12
The final (and championship) baseball game of the Kiddie League pits pitcher Woody Woodpecker and his team (the Woody Woodpeckers) against a zany team, the Bubble Gummers.
#32 - Niagara Fools
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1956 - Episode 11
Woody Woodpecker visits Niagara Falls---on the Canadian and American side both, according to some viewers---and asks about going over the famous falls in a barrel which the guard tells him it is forbidden, which immediately makes Woody decide to do it, anyway. Woody uses everything BUT a ladder in his attempts, and the guard prevents him going over several times, but the guard winds up in a barrel and goes over himself. Woody, dressed as a policeman, is awaiting him at the bottom to give him a ticket for breaking the law.
#33 - Heap Big Hepcat
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1960 - Episode 4
Loose face, a young Indian brave turned TV star, completes his role in a picture and is told to go home for a vacation. He hurries to the Indian reservation to greet his sweetheart Hummingbird. The two rush into each other's arms, but they're immediately separated by the girl's father, who's chief of the tribe.
#34 - Belle Boys
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1953 - Episode 9
Woody Woodpecker and Buzz Buzzard, bellboys at a ritzy hotel, are visited by a very glamorous French actress, Ga Ga Gazoo. They fight for the privilege of serving Miss Gazoo in a laugh-loaded mix-up. They also fight off her French poodle!
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#35 - Bats in the Belfry
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1960 - Episode 7
A nervous and high-strung colonel is visited by his doctor, who conducts a series of tests in an endeavor to ascertain the cause of his trouble.
#36 - Red Riding Hoodlum
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 2
Knothead and Splinters, Woody Woodpecker's nephews, are reading "Little Red Riding Hood" and are requested to deliver a bag of goodies to Grandma in the forest. They meet a wolf, who takes a short-cut to Grandmas, but Slinters and Knothead take an even shorter cut and get there before him. After the get through wearing him out, Grandma decides the wolf is a good prospect for matrimony and drags him off to the altar.
#37 - Fowled Up Falcon
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1960 - Episode 13
The history of falconry is turned upside-down when Woody is the prey of a falcon bent on destroying him.
#38 - Bedtime Bedlam
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1955 - Episode 7
Woody is running a babysitting service and is offered $50 by one couple if he will look after their "baby". Not one to pass up this much money, he jumps at the chance. He shows the parents out and settles in. Unfortunately, when he checks in on the infant, the "baby" is revealed to be a pet gorilla! Woody is reluctant but realizes, if he sticks it out, he will be rewarded with $50. After a nightmarish experience looking after the ape (and trying to put it to sleep), Woody finally is able to at least watch TV where he sees a news report about the gorilla's parents who just left and are now going on a 20-year-long vacation!
#39 - Sufferin' Cats
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1961 - Episode 10
Woody Woodpecker has been a source of aggravating annoyance to a certain householder, due to Woody's pecking the antenna of a TV set, and thus interfering with its reception. Three badly crippled cats, hired to get rid of Woody, testify to their futile efforts in this regard.
#40 - The Unbearable Salesman
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 6
Knothead and Splinter, sitting on Woody Woodpecker's knee, ask Woody to tell them how he acquired his bearskin rug. So Woody starts: "Once upon a time...
#41 - Phantom of the Horse Opera
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1961 - Episode 15
In the ghost town of Spooksville, Arizona, Woody Woodpecker tangles with an outlaw who disguises himself as a ghost to scare Woody away.
#42 - Get Lost
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1956 - Episode 3
Woody Woodpecker is reading "Hansel and Gretel" to his two young cousins, Knothead, a boy, and Splinter,a girl. The children decide to get lost in a forest. A cat spots them and lures them to a gingerbread house. The cat tries to make woodpecker-pie out of the kids, but they outsmart him and escape.
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#43 - Everglade Raid
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1958 - Episode 8
Woody Woodpecker's in bed reading a paper's "Business Opportunity" section. His eyes light up as he reads an ad: "Tourists!! Visit the Everglades and make big money in alligator bags.
#44 - Room and Bored
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1962 - Episode 4
Woody decides to make a home in a telephone pole where he encounters Smedley, a lineman determined to stop his company's property from trespass.
#45 - Dopey Dick the Pink Whale
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 12
Woody Woodpecker is on a whaler-ship searching for Dopey Dick, the Pink Whale. When sighted, the ship captain sens Wood out in a rowboat to capture Dopey. The whale wrecks the ship but takes a liking to Woody, and off they go across the ocean with Woody water-skiing behind his new friend.
#46 - Bunco Busters
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1955 - Episode 12
Woody inherits a large sum of money, and Buzz Buzzard enacts an elaborate scheme to steal all of it, all the while being tailed by a detective.
#47 - Tree's a Crowd
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1958 - Episode 9
A sightseeing bus enters the gates of a large estate through the courtesy of its owner, tree-loving millionaire Colonel Mulch. Woody, a hitchhiker atop the bus, hears the driver (a Ralph Kramden clone) announce that the estate is noted for its rare and priceless trees. Woody immediately prepares for a delectable treat by putting on his napkin, and he goes to the arbor to sample the trees.
#48 - Helter Shelter
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1955 - Episode 1
A mean dog named Happy ruins Woody's attempts to make a home before a big storm comes. The dog's owner takes Woody in, and their skirmishes cause problems between Happy and his master Claude. The unfriendly dog tries by devious means to make Woody move. When Woody strikes back, the pair, now both homeless, take refuge in the same house, and the fun begins again.
#49 - Chief Charlie Horse
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1956 - Episode 5
Woody Woodpecker is working as a woodcarver, a very apt occupation for a woodpecker, and is carving a wooden when the outlaw, Chief Charley Horse, being pursued by the sheriff, ducks into Woody's shop. The sheriff also arrives and there is much confusion on the premises before Woody gets the reward for capturing the chief.
#50 - Jittery Jester
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1958 - Episode 11
A king, seated on the throne, says to official court jester Dapper Denver Dooley, "Make me laugh, jester." The jester does his best to comply, but his gags are old and stale, and they evoke no response from the king. The king goes to the window and sees Woody Woodpecker busy in a tree. Woody's antics so please the king that he laughs long and loud, and he orders the jester to bring Woody to him.