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.

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Dirty Work
star
10.00
1 votes

#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.

Directors: Lloyd French
Writer: H. M. Walker
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Way Out West
star
10.00
2 votes

#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.

Directors: James W. Horne
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Blotto
star
10.00
1 votes

#3 - 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.

Directors: James Parrott
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Brats
star
9.75
32 votes

#4 - Brats

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

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

Directors: James Parrott
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Hustling for Health
star
9.73
30 votes

#5 - Hustling for Health

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

Silent Short Featuring only Stan Laurel.

Directors: Frank Terry
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Duck Soup
star
9.33
3 votes

#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.

Directors: Fred Guiol
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star
9.00
3 votes

#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.

Directors: Fred Guiol
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The Finishing Touch
star
9.00
3 votes

#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.

Writer: H. M. Walker
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Block-Heads
star
8.50
2 votes

#9 - Block-Heads

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

Stan, who has remained faithfully at his World War I post for twenty years, finally comes home where his best friend, Ollie, takes him in, thus allowing him to discover the many conveniences of the modern world.

Directors: John G. Blystone
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star
8.00
2 votes

#10 - 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.

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45 Minutes From Hollywood
star
7.93
30 votes

#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.

Directors: Fred Guiol
Writer: Hal Roach
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star
7.67
3 votes

#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.

Directors: Lionel Barrymore
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The Music Box
star
7.50
2 votes

#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.

Directors: H. M. Walker
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star
7.19
31 votes

#14 - 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.

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Saps at Sea
star
7.13
30 votes

#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.

Directors: Gordon Douglas
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Night Owls
star
7.10
30 votes

#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.

Directors: James Parrott
Writer: H. M. Walker
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Berth Marks
star
7.10
30 votes

#17 - 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.

Directors: Lewis R. Foster
Writer: H. M. Walker
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star
7.00
2 votes

#18 - The Lucky Dog (a.k.a.) A Lucky Dog

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/1/1921

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.

Directors: Jess Robbins
Writer: Jess Robbins
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The Tree in a Test Tube
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6.50
2 votes

#19 - 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.

Directors: Charles McDonald
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Our Relations
star
6.00
1 votes

#20 - 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.

Directors: Stan Laurel
Writer: Stan Laurel
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star
5.50
2 votes

#21 - 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.

Directors: Lewis R. Foster
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0.00
0 votes

#22 - Sons of the Desert

Season 9 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/29/1933

Laurel and Hardy lie to their wives and sneak away to attend a lodge convention in Chicago.

Writer: Frank Craven
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0.00
0 votes

#23 - The Bohemian Girl

Season 12 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/14/1936

Stan and Ollie, who is also married, are in a gipsy bunch. The lover of Ollie’s wife (Mae Busch) gets caught in the property of a count and therefore whipped. Ollie’s wife seeks for revenge, captures the counts little daughter, introduces it to Ollie as his daughter, let the child with him and runs away with her lover. Fifteen years later, the girl (Julie Bishop) is grown up, the Gipsies are again near the count's castle…

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Oliver The Eighth
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0.00
0 votes

#24 - Oliver The Eighth

Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/13/1934

Laurel and Hardy play owners of a barber shop that compete for the hand of a rich widow who has place a personal ad for a new husband.

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The Live Ghost
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0.00
0 votes

#25 - The Live Ghost

Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/8/1934

The captain of a haunted ship gets Laurel and Hardy to help him snatch a new crew.

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