The BEST episodes directed by Wilfred Jackson
#1 - The Old Mill
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1937 - Episode 11
A triumph of mood over plot, the short shows the inhabitants of an ancient, abandoned mill preparing for nightfall and an approaching storm.
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#2 - Midnight in a Toy Shop
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1930 - Episode 11
A spider seeks shelter inside an old toy store, where he soon discovers that the merchandise comes to life after dark.
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#3 - The Wise Little Hen
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1934 - Episode 9
The hen is looking for someone to help her plant her corn. Peter Pig and Donald Duck both feign belly aches to get out of the chore. So, with help from her chicks, she plants it herself. Harvest time comes; again, Peter and Donald claim belly aches. She cooks up a variety of corn dishes, and heads over to Peter and Donald, but before she can open her mouth, they already have their belly aches. Once she asks, they are miraculously "cured" but all she gives them is castor oil, for their belly aches.
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#4 - The Country Cousin
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1936 - Episode 14
Abner is invited by his cousin Monty to leave Podunk behind and move to the big city. But he soon learns that the hidden dangers of big city life are not all they are cracked up to be.
#5 - Mickey's Follies
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1929 - Episode 8
Mickey and his barnyard pals put on a show that includes dancing ducks, opera singing by Patricia Pig, and Mickey's own rendition of his theme song, "Minnie's Yoo Hoo."
#6 - Mother Pluto
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1936 - Episode 15
Pluto plays mother hen to a handful of chicks who have just hatched in his doghouse.
#7 - Mickey's Rival
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1936 - Episode 8
The heart of Minnie Mouse is the prize in a feud between Mickey and a new rival for her affections.
#8 - Woodland Cafe
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1937 - Episode 5
One of the liveliest Silly Symphonies featuring a Café full of jitterbugging bugs.
#9 - Golden Eggs
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1941 - Episode 4
Donald is having a hard time harvesting eggs from the henhouse, so he goes in disguise as a hen to get them.
#10 - Toby Tortoise Returns
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1936 - Episode 11
A return bout between Max Hare and Toby Tortoise, this time mis-matched in the boxing ring.
#11 - Elmer Elephant
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1936 - Episode 4
Poor Elmer is teased unmercifully by the other kids at Tillie Tiger's birthday party because of his long nose. But soon, he is shown that his trunk can be very handy when a fire breaks out.
#12 - Funny Little Bunnies
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1934 - Episode 6
This short explores the mysteries of the Easter Rabbits and how they get ready for Easter, making chocolate eggs and rabbits, decorating eggs, and weaving and filling baskets.
#13 - Mickey's Revue
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1932 - Episode 6
Mickey, Minnie, Horace, and Clarabelle put on another big show, with Goofy as the running gag - eating peanuts and laughing to the annoyance of the audience.
#14 - The Bears and Bees
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1932 - Episode 8
Two cute bear cubs (who share more than a passing resemblance to Mickey Mouse) run afoul of a swarm of honeybees -- but luckily the brunt of their wrath is directed at a grumpy old grizzly.
#15 - The Whoopee Party
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1932 - Episode 15
Mickey and his pals throw a wild party - so wild that roast chickens and lamps come to life and join in the chaos. The police come to put down the racket, but end up joining in themselves.
#16 - Touchdown Mickey
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1932 - Episode 17
It's the big game with Mickey's Manglers vs. the Alley Cats. Sportscaster Goofy keeps track of what's going on (badly) as Mickey takes his team to victory.
#17 - Mickey Plays Papa
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1934 - Episode 14
While reading a murder mystery late at night, Mickey and Pluto find Elmer, a mouse toddler, on their doorstep. Trying to make the boy feel at home, Mickey and Pluto almost bring the house down around their knees.
#18 - The Klondike Kid
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1932 - Episode 19
Mickey entertains guests at a saloon as a piano player, then comforts poor, homeless Minnie. Pete comes to capture her, takes her to his cabin, and a wild Chaplinlike battle ensues.
#19 - Mickey's Mellerdrammer
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1933 - Episode 6
Mickey and the gang stage "Uncle Tom's Cabin," but the crowd receives Horace's villainous performance as Simon Legree too seriously, bombing him off the stage with vegetables. Clarabelle's dramatic performance as a fleeing slave is also ruined, when dogs that are supposed to be chasing her are led astray and through the orchestra pit by a cat.
#20 - The Castaway
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1931 - Episode 4
Mickey's shipwrecked on a desert island with bananas, wild animals, and a piano.
#21 - Mickey's Mechanical Man
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1933 - Episode 11
Mickey's built a robot named Champ who's going to win Mickey a prize by fighting Beppo the Gorilla, the Kongo Killer, in a boxing ring. The robot only works in fits and starts, though, so things look grim for a while. Luckily, Minnie resuscitates Champ by honking her car horn at him.
#22 - Puppy Love
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1933 - Episode 15
Mickey and Pluto come to call on Minnie and Fifi, but when Pluto exchanges the chocolates Mickey was going to give as a gift with the bone he has for Fifi, Minnie thinks Mickey did it and a violent argument starts. Mickey and Minnie each vow to give up the opposite sex... but they don't keep those vows for long.
#23 - The Pied Piper
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1933 - Episode 16
Based on the classic tale of a mysterious piper who rids a town of its rat infestation with his music. When the townsfolk refuse to pay the piper his fee, he lures all the town's children away to a magical land in the same manner.
#24 - The Busy Beavers
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1931 - Episode 9
A cheerful tribe of musical beavers puts up an elaborate dam which, alas, is destined to be destroyed in a spectacular flood.
#25 - The Pet Store
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1933 - Episode 18
Tony Dinero enlists Mickey to watch the shop while he's away at lunch. Unfortunately Beppo the Gorilla escapes from his cage and uses Minnie as Fay Wray in a King Kong imitation.
#26 - The Tortoise and the Hare
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1935 - Episode 2
A retelling of Aesop's fable where the hare learns that slow and steady wins the race.
#27 - Barnyard Olympics
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1932 - Episode 5
With Horace as his trainer, Mickey competes with Pete at running, vaulting, rowing, and finally a delightfully crazy bicycle race.
#28 - The Grasshopper and the Ants
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1934 - Episode 4
A grasshopper fiddles and plays through his day, tempting some of the worker ants to play with him, unaware that winter is coming and food will soon be scarce.
#29 - Musical Farmer
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1932 - Episode 7
One of Mickey's hens lays a giant egg, and the whole farm celebrates, preparing to take a photograph of the great event.
#30 - Egyptian Melodies
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1931 - Episode 13
An inquisitive spider explores the creepy interior of an Egyptian tomb, causing mummies and strange wall paintings to spring to life.
#31 - Water Babies
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1935 - Episode 8
The water sprites living in a rustic pond awake with the dawn for a rollicking picnic. The festivities climax as "matadors" test their courage against an angry bull-frog.
#32 - Mickey in Arabia
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1932 - Episode 9
Mickey and Minnie are on vacation when Sultan Pete tries to capture Minnie for his harem.
#33 - Peculiar Penguins
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1934 - Episode 13
Residents of the South Pole, including an amorous pair of penguins, dance and frolic in a Technicolor fantasyland. The "heavy", a large, hungry shark, is finally outwitted by our romantic hero.
#34 - The Clock Store
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1931 - Episode 15
A lone lamplighter walks down the street lighting the streetlamps as he goes. He stops outside a clock store where, inside, the products perform their various alarms and dances. A fight breaks out between two alarm clocks (instigated by a wall clock) and everyone watches to see who will win.
#35 - Mickey's Grand Opera
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1936 - Episode 3
An opera starring Donald Duck and Clara Cluck? Mickey conducts and Pluto steals the show.
#36 - The Fox Hunt
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1931 - Episode 17
As the title indicates, a wild fox hunt ends when the hunters encounter a skunk instead of a fox.
#37 - Santa's Workshop
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1932 - Episode 22
Santa reads off the list of good or bad boys and girls while the elves go about constructing the toys and making things ready for Santa's trip.
#38 - The Goddess of Spring
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1934 - Episode 15
An operatic (and melodramatic) take on the myth of Persephone and her abduction to the underworld.
#39 - Father Noah's Ark
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1933 - Episode 8
A musical retelling of the Biblical story of Noah and the ark.
#40 - Lullaby Land
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1933 - Episode 14
A baby falls asleep. The little one and his stuffed puppy visit Lullaby Land, filled with everything that a baby needs. He dreams of a land where powder puffs and pacifiers grow on trees. But look out! Stay out of the Forbidden Garden, where "things are sharp and things are hot, and baby mustn't touch!"
#41 - The China Plate
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1931 - Episode 7
An oriental scene on a China plate comes to life to tell the story of two young lovers menaced by an overweight Emperor and a fire-breathing dragon.
#42 - The Spider and the Fly
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1931 - Episode 18
The loves of the common house fly are briefly explored before a villainous black spider wearing Mickey Mouse gloves makes his presence felt. Soon the swarm must unite in military fashion to drive the intruder out--all to the strains of the familiar "Light Cavalry Overture."
#43 - The Night Before Christmas
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1933 - Episode 20
Loose rendition of Clement C. Moore's famous poem. St. Nick is seen delivering the toys he made in last year's "Santa's Workshop.
#44 - The Cat's Out
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1931 - Episode 11
A cat, being sent out for the night, begins to make trouble for some birds. He later has a nightmare that the birds grow and begin to extract their revenge.
#45 - The Band Concert
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1935 - Episode 3
Mickey leads his band through a rendition of ""The William Tell Overture"" while Donald Duck and a passing tornado interrupt.
#46 - Mother Goose Goes Hollywood
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1938 - Episode 18
From the opening scene where Mother Goose takes the place of the MGM lion, it's a trip through her famous rhymes with Hollywood stars taking the place of the storybook characters.
#47 - The Ugly Duckling
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1931 - Episode 22
The classic tale of an unwanted newborn who grows into a beautiful swan, but here retooled into an outcast duckling who returns to save his family.
#48 - The Bird Store
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1932 - Episode 1
An idyllic recital at the titular establishment is disrupted by the untimely arrival of a hungry alley cat.
#49 - The China Shop
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1934 - Episode 2
Closing time at "Ye Olde China Shop" brings the china pieces to life in a series of formal and informal dances, until a china demon threatens to steal the show.
#50 - The Grocery Boy
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1932 - Episode 3
Mickey goes shopping for Minnie, but is late bringing the groceries back. She acts haughty as a result, then softens. She and Mickey make dinner in time to the music, but Pluto steals the turkey and causes chaos when they try to retrieve it.