The BEST episodes of Laurel & Hardy

#1 - Dirty Work

Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/25/1933

Laurel and Hardy have more problems at work. This time they are hapless chimney sweeps.

#2 - Way Out West

Season 13 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/16/1937

Laurel and Hardy are hired to deliver the deed to a gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector.

#3 - Brats

Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/22/1930

Sound Short - Laurel and Hardy have to baby sit their mischevious sons.

#4 - Hustling for Health

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/2/1919

Silent Short Featuring only Stan Laurel.

#5 - Duck Soup

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/13/1927

Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy are hiding out in a vacant house when prospective renters come for a tour. They must act quickly so Oliver pretends to be the owner and Stanley pretends to be a servant.

#6 - Do Detectives Think?

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/20/1927

Silent Short - Laurel & Hardy are hired as bodyguards for a judge whose life is threatened by an escaped prisoner.

#7 - The Finishing Touch

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/25/1928

Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy are contracted to build a house in just a day. When they get it done birds land on the roof causing the house to start falling apart. The owner wants his money back and a big fight begins.

#8 - Block-Heads

Season 14 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/19/1938

In World War One, Stan is left to guard a trench while Ollie goes 'over the top'. More than twenty years later, Stan is discovered still at his post. Ollie, now married, sees his friend's picture in the newspaper and visits him at the Old Soldier's Home. Stan is invited back for a meal but Mrs. Hardy objects and storms out. Stan and Ollie's disastrous attempts to cook lead to the arrival of an attractive neighbour - and her shotgun-wielding husband.

#9 - You're Darn Tootin'

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/21/1928

Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy play goof-ball musicians in a local marching band.

#10 - 45 Minutes From Hollywood

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/26/1926

Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy must take a 45-minute train ride to Hollywood in order to make a payment on their house. When they get there the star-struck pair mistake a bank robbery as a movie set and get themselves into hot water.

#11 - The Rogue Song

Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/10/1930

Russia, 1910. Yegor, a dashing (as well as singing) bandit leader meets Princess Vera at a mountain inn. They end up falling in love, but the relationship is shattered when Yegor kills Vera's brother, Prince Serge, for raping his sister, Nadja, and driving her to suicide. Yegor kidnaps Vera, forcing her to live a life of lowly servitude among the bandits. Vera manages to outwit Yegor, who's captured by soldiers and flogged. Vera begs Yegor's forgiveness. Although still in love with each other, they realize they cannot be together, at least for the time being.

#12 - The Music Box

Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/16/1932

Laurel and Hardy start up a business as furniture movers. Their first job is moving a huge player piano up a long flight of steps.

#13 - Perfect Day

Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 8/10/1929

Sound Short - Laurel and Hardy decide it's a nice day to take their families on a picnic. One mishap after another threatens to ruin their plans.

#14 - Saps at Sea

Season 16 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/3/1940

After working in the noisy horn factory, just the sound of one drives Oliver into a violent fit. Dr. Finlayson prescribes a long, restful sea voyage, so Stan and Oliver rent a boat and set sail, unaware that escaped killer Nick Grainger has stowed away onboard. To disable the crook, the boys prepare him a meal using string for spaghetti, sponges for meatballs and soap for cheese. But Grainger discovers their plan and decides to make them eat the stuff themselves.

#15 - Berth Marks

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/1/1929

Sound Short - Stan and Ollie are musicians who cause all sorts of trouble on a train trip to their next performance.

#16 - Night Owls

Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/4/1930

Sound Short - Laurel and Hardy are hired by a cop to pose as robbers, so he can arrest them and keep his job.

#17 - The Tree in a Test Tube

Season 19 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/17/1943

To Pete Smith's voice over commentary, Stan and Oliver produce various props - the contents of a suitcase and their wallets - all manufactured from wood, or containing wood byproducts such as cellulose. The props demonstrate the omnipresence of wood in the American economy.

#18 - Our Relations

Season 12 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/30/1936

#19 - The Bell Hop

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/18/1921

A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal them from the safe, and a lady government agent enlists the help of the hotel's bumbling bellhop in getting back the papers and breaking up the spy ring.

#20 - Men O'War

Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/29/1929

Sound Short - Laurel and Hardy play sailors on shore leave. They have no money until Stanley wins the jackpot on a slot machine.

#21 - Slipping Wives

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/3/1927

Silent Short - Laurel is asked to give up his handyman job to attend a party. The woman that is hiring him needs him to pretend to be a well-to-do man and flirt with her to make her husband jealous.

#22 - Love 'Em and Weep

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/12/1927

Silent Short - A businessman is being blackmailed and asks Stanley for help.

#23 - Why Girls Love Sailors

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/17/1927

Silent Short - Stan plays a sailor whose girlfriend gets kidnapped by a sea captain. He dresses up as a woman to try and distract the captain so he can get his girlfriend back. The captain's wife sees what is going on and is not the least bit pleased.

#24 - With Love and Hisses

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/28/1927

The boys are part of an Army Reserve group, headed for a weekend camp. Sergeant Banner (Hardy) gets in trouble with Captain Bustle (James Finlayson) by flirting with Bustle's two female companions. Private Cuthbert Hope (Laurel) is also on the train, causing trouble. While going through their exercises at their destination, the men pause to bathe in a lake. Hope is supposed to watch their clothing, but instead he joins them. Banner tosses away his cigarette, which completely burns up everyone's outfits. Bustle's ladies happen by, and the naked platoon are forced to hide behind a billboard and have to somehow get back to camp. On the way, they knock over a hornet's nest, resulting in a title card reading, "All's well that ends swell," and a final shot showing the men from the back, their behinds swollen to preposterous proportions.

#25 - Sugar Daddies

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/10/1927

Silent Short - Stanley plays the lawyer of a rich oil tycoon that had become married acidentally. Stan must find a way out for his client.