The BEST episodes of Laurel & Hardy
Every episode of Laurel & Hardy ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Laurel & Hardy!
The Laurel and Hardy Show is a series of short silent films which later led into talking short films and feature movies with the progression in sound technology. The show revolves around the duo getting into various situations that are often a bit unrealistic and silly. The main focus is on the two disagreeing so often that it got them into trouble on more than one occasion. 'The Laurel and Hardy Show' is a syndicated version of The Boys, seen weekly throughout the late 80s. Showcased collections of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy's genius work, as well as featurettes ending each episode dediacted to the bit-players seen in many shorts. Distributed and made by Hal Roach.
#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 - Blotto
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/8/1930
Sound Short - Stanley steals his wife's whiskey so he and Ollie can have a night on the town.
#3 - 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.
#4 - Brats
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/22/1930
Sound Short - Laurel and Hardy have to baby sit their mischevious sons.
#5 - Hustling for Health
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/2/1919
Silent Short Featuring only Stan Laurel.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Our Relations
Season 12 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/30/1936
Two pairs of long-lost twin brothers experience high jinks involving a valuable ring, cases of mistaken identity, and gangsters.
#20 - The Lucky Dog (a.k.a.) A Lucky Dog
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/1921
Silent short - Laurel is an animal lover who takes up with a stray dog after getting kicked out of a boarding house. Hardy plays a thief who is trying to rob Laurel, who has no money.
#21 - 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.
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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.
#23 - Our Relations (Colour)
Season 12 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/30/1936
Two pairs of long-lost twin brothers experience high jinks involving a valuable ring, cases of mistaken identity, and gangsters.
#24 - Them Thar Hills (Colour)
Season 10 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/21/1934
Stan and Ollie take a trip into the mountains ('the high multitude') so that Ollie can recover from gout. Bootleggers have dumped their moonshine in the well from which the boys sample their 'healthy' mountain water. Mr Hall, who has left his wife with the boys while he refuels his car is not amused at his wife's condition when he returns.
#25 - Tit For Tat (Colour)
Season 11 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/5/1935
Stan and Ollie run a store, they try to sell electrical stuff. After opening they go to introduce themselves to the neighbour, Charlie Hall who runs a grocery store. When his wife (Mae Bush) interrupts they notice that they know each other already (Them thar hills), Mrs Hall and Stanley repeat their favourite song from that recent encounter, she sings, he falls in with Pompom. Since Mr Hall remains still angry the three men start by the usual Tit-for-tat-mode destroying several items in each store. In the mean time a thief is removing items from Stan and Ollie’s store, starting with little things and getting bigger and bigger.
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