The BEST episodes of Woody Woodpecker and Friends

#1 - Bye, Bye Blackboard

Season 1972 - Episode 13 - Aired 9/1/1972

Woody Woodpecker goes to school with his dog. Mrs. Meany tries to get the dog out of her classroom. This is the final Woody Woodpecker cartoon produced. This was the last cartoon made by Walter Lantz, and the Walter Lantz studios shut down after this production.

#2 - The Bandmaster

Season 1947 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/22/1947

Andy Panda goes to the circus, and the circus turns into a circus where a girl aerialist is rescued by her own false teeth; the acrobats and jugglers mangle each other; a girl trapeze artist loses her wig as a rope-spinning act goes haywire; and the drunken high-wire walker finds himself surrounded by pink elephants.

#3 - Round Trip to Mars

Season 1957 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/23/1957

In the middle of the desert just outside Las Vegas is the Oasis Hotel, and in the center of the swimming pool near the hotel is Woody Woodpecker, restfully relaxing in an auto tube. Suddenly, the rat-tap-tap of an automatic riveter interrupts Woody's peace and quiet. Investigation discloses Professor Dingledong putting the last rivets into a space rocket, into which he's about to visit the planet Mars.

#4 - Rain, Rain, Go Away

Season 1972 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/1/1972

Nothing goes right for Charlie. First his golf game is rained out, then the TV won't start, then Junior is too busy to play

#5 - Arabs with Dirty Fezzes

Season 1939 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/31/1939

#6 - Nellie the Indian Chief's Daughter

Season 1938 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/6/1938

#7 - Snuffy's Party

Season 1939 - Episode 14 - Aired 8/7/1939

#8 - Slaphappy Valley

Season 1939 - Episode 15 - Aired 8/21/1939

#9 - Silly Superstition

Season 1939 - Episode 16 - Aired 8/28/1939

The second and final cartoon in the Lil' Eightball series. The character would appear once more in the Technicolor Cartune A Haunting We Will Go before being retired from the screen permanently. The last Walter Lantz cartoon filmed in black and white.

#10 - A Haunting We Will Go

Season 1939 - Episode 17 - Aired 9/4/1939

Lil' Eightball visits a house haunted by ghosts.

#11 - Life Begins for Andy Panda

Season 1939 - Episode 18 - Aired 9/9/1939

Walter Finchell, the tattletale gossip of the jungle, broadcasts from the treetop that Mr. and Mrs. Panda were presented with a baby boy, whom Mrs. Panda names Andy. All the birds and animals go to the Panda's home to welcome the new arrival. As Andy grows, Mr. Panda takes Andy for a walk in the jungle to get him acquainted with Mother Nature and point out some of the perils.

#12 - Scrambled Eggs

Season 1939 - Episode 19 - Aired 11/20/1939

Peterkin, a mischievous elf with mixed body parts, decides to see what would happen if he switched the eggs in the tree-maternity nests. What happens is that there are many surprised mothers, and just as many indignant fathers, when the eggs hatch and each family gets a hatching that resembles neither parent. All fly the, figuratively-speaking, coop and Peterkin is left to tend to all the young birds.

#13 - The Sleeping Princess

Season 1939 - Episode 20 - Aired 12/4/1939

A baby is born to the Queen and King of a mythical kingdom, and the whole countrieside is invited to a christening reception, including the Four Good Fairies who watch over the kingdom.

#14 - The Lamp Lighter

Season 1938 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/10/1938

#15 - Man Hunt

Season 1938 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/7/1938

Although the main plot is a bunch of cute forest animals getting their revenge by fighting a war on some hunters, the hunters here are atrociously racist, not just typically stereotypical.

#16 - Yokel Boy Makes Good

Season 1938 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/21/1938

#17 - Trade Mice

Season 1938 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/28/1938

#18 - Feed the Kitty

Season 1938 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/14/1938

The final cartoon in the Oswald series. Oswald himself would still appear in two more films, Happy Scouts (1938) and The Egg-Cracker Suite (1943).

#19 - Nellie the Sewing Machine Girl (or Honest Hearts & Willing Hands)

Season 1938 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/11/1938

The first of many 1890's melodrama lampoons produced by the Lantz studio during 1938 and 1939.

#20 - Tail End

Season 1938 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/25/1938

A story of the outcast dogs NYC's East Side. They live in the dog slums, and are trying to get some of the bones the fat bulldog has piled up in his yard, but the bulldog is too watchful

#21 - Problem Child

Season 1938 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/16/1938

Wildcat Willie, one of Walter Lantz's lesser known characters, is the protagonist here, a mean widdle kid who runs away from home and masquerades as an orphan. Trouble ensues when Wildcat's new family suspects Wildcat is a rat - er, wildcat. Lots of fast action and violence (Wildcat wields a mean axe).

#22 - Movie Phoney News

Season 1938 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/30/1938

This "cheater" cartoon features no new animated segments and, with the exception of the soundtrack and the newsreel-esque intertitles, is comprised entirely of footage from the following Lantz releases: The Hillbilly (1935), Monkey Wretches (1935), Soft Ball Game (1936), Alaska Sweepstakes (1936), The Barnyard Five (1936), Music Hath Charms (1936), House of Magic (1937), and The Big Race (1937).

#23 - Moochin Pooch

Season 1971 - Episode 12 - Aired 10/1/1971

Charlie agrees to babysit his boss's dog while he's out of town. The dog wreaks havoc over his house, and the situation gets even worse when his boss calls and says that he'll be gone for a month.

#24 - The Magic Beans

Season 1939 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/13/1939

Unable to find an apartment for rent, Woody is conned into buying a collection of magic beans from Bucky Beaver. Woody plants the beans and soon he climbs the resulting beanstalk. He not only does battle with the giant, he also takes over the giant's castle. He ends up turning the giant's castle into a hotel in the clouds.

#25 - The Mechanical Handy Man

Season 1937 - Episode 20 - Aired 11/8/1937