The BEST episodes of Woody Woodpecker and Friends season 1938

#1 - Silly Seals

Season 1938 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/25/1938

In a North Pole classroom, Professor Seal is teaching th young seals all about fishing. One little seal would rather practice snowball-juggling and plays hookey, and gets into trouble with the teacher. But back in the classroom a hungry polar bear is waiting to make food out of the seals. The juggling seal does his act and the bear is so impressed that he decides to stay in school and learn to juggle.

#2 - Little Blue Blackbird

Season 1938 - Episode 26 - Aired 12/26/1938

A mother blackbird hatches out two normal offspring and one featherless nitwit. The nitwit refuses to learn to fly and learn the other aspects of bird-life, but when he battles wicked hawks and saves his siblings from been eaten up, all is forgiven at the family nest.

#3 - Baby Kittens

Season 1938 - Episode 25 - Aired 12/19/1938

#4 - The Disobedient Mouse

Season 1938 - Episode 24 - Aired 11/28/1938

Mother Mouse warns her son Baby Face to stay in the yard... so the first thing that he does when Mom's eye strays is wander across the railroad tracks. In no time, he encounters Rat Face the wharf rat, who runs a school for crime in which the subtle art of picking pockets is matriculated

#5 - Sailor Mouse

Season 1938 - Episode 23 - Aired 11/7/1938

Willie Mouse (Baby Face Mouse) leaves a note at home saying that he is running away to go to sea, but the thugs he meets up with make him change his mind quickly. He should have stayed home rather than mix it up with cigar- smoking, gun-toting, hook-armed boat rats of every size and description

#6 - The Rabbit Hunt

Season 1938 - Episode 22 - Aired 10/10/1938

A boy and his dog hunt rabbit in the forest.

#7 - Hollywood Bowl

Season 1938 - Episode 21 - Aired 10/5/1938

The stars come out to the Hollywood Bowl for a night of musical fun.

#8 - The Cat and the Bell

Season 1938 - Episode 20 - Aired 10/3/1938

#9 - Pixie Land

Season 1938 - Episode 19 - Aired 9/12/1938

A mad scientist injects his serum and sees the unexpected consequences. When our goofy scientist hits a flea on a little puppy, the folks of Pixie Land are about to have some very big problems. A montage of them getting ready to go to war has the feel of RKO's "King Kong."

#10 - Ghost Town Frolics

Season 1938 - Episode 18 - Aired 9/5/1938

The ghosts in an abandoned hotel are not happy. They idle away their time getting drunk, playing pinball and slot machines, and collecting their relief checks. What they want is someone to scare. They finally get their opportunity when two chimpanzees and a big, sad-faced dog step inside.

#11 - The Big Cat and the Little Mousie

Season 1938 - Episode 17 - Aired 8/15/1938

#12 - Queen's Kittens

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

#13 - Barnyard Romeo

Season 1938 - Episode 15 - Aired 8/1/1938

#14 - The Lamp Lighter

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

#15 - Voodoo in Harlem

Season 1938 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/18/1938

It's midnight in Walter Lantz's animation studio when an ink bottle spills. Out come dancing, singing cannibals.

#16 - Cheese-Nappers

Season 1938 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/4/1938

Baby Face Mouse learns that crime does not pay when he crosses the railroad tracks and Public Enemy #1, Butch Face Rat, tries to lead him astray on a cheese heist.

#17 - Happy Scouts

Season 1938 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/20/1938

Oswald and his Scouts (members of Oswald's Scouts Duck Troop 13) are marching on a camping trip. Blackie Duck loses his diaper and falls behind.

#18 - Nellie the Indian Chief's Daughter

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

#19 - 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).

#20 - 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).

#21 - 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

#22 - 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.

#23 - 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).

#24 - Trade Mice

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

#25 - Yokel Boy Makes Good

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