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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#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 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#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 - Going Bye-Bye!
Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/23/1934
Laurel and Hardy testify against a convict and send him to prison for life. He soon escapes and comes looking for them.
#13 - 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.
#14 - Them Thar Hills
Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/21/1934
Because of an illness Oliver gets advised to spend some time in the mountains. Once there, Stan and Ollie prepare a meal inside a trailer, of course doing the usual goof stuff. Later Mr and Mrs Hall (Charlie Hall, Mae Bush) appear there because they just run out of fuel. While Mr Hall goes back to his car, Mrs Hall stays with the boys. They drink water from a well, unknowing that a gang previously poured cheap liquor into the well, considering the strange taste because of the iron in it. When Mr Hall returns, noticing all of them, including his wife, drunk and singing, they start arguing.
#15 - Babes in Toyland
Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/14/1934
In mythical Toyland, Laurel and Hardy try to prevent Mother Peep's house from being repossessed by evil Mr. Barnaby.
#16 - Tit For Tat
Season 11 - Episode 1 - 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.
#17 - The Fixer Uppers
Season 11 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/9/1935
Failed greeting card salesmen Stan and Ollie are hired to romance a lonely wife and make her husband jealous.
#18 - Thicker Than Water
Season 11 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/16/1935
Stan unintentionally causes much anger between Ollie and his wife, eventually forcing him to donate blood to Ollie with unexpected results.
#19 - Bonnie Scotland
Season 11 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/23/1935
Stan and Ollie head to Scotland to collect Stan's inheritance, but accidently enlist in the Scottish army and become stationed in India.
#20 - 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…
#21 - Our Relations
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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Swiss Miss
Season 14 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/20/1938
Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland, there should be more mice. While visiting one village, a cheese shop owner cons them out of their wares with a bogus banknote, and they are forced to work as dishwashers in a nearby hotel after ordering a slap-up meal they are unable to pay for. A Viennese composer present at the hotel is disrupted by the presence of his wife - an opera singer who upstages him constantly; Ollie subsequently falls in love with her. After various adventures (including a confrontation with a gorilla on a perilously-perched rope bridge), the boys overpower the hotel's burly chef and leave the hotel and village, but only to discover the opera singer is indeed married to the composer and then be confronted by the vengeful gorilla (in crutches) before they depart.
#24 - The Chimp
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/21/1932
After the circus where they work goes bankrupt, Stan & Ollie recieve trained gorilla Ethel as compensation.
#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.