The BEST episodes written by Homer Brightman
#1 - Tot Watchers
Tom and Jerry - Season 1950 - Episode 68
Babysitter Jeannie, still attached to the phone, unintentionally forces Tom and Jerry to take care of the baby, who still keeps getting into mischief.
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#2 - Dumb Bell of the Yukon
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1946 - Episode 9
Donald heads to the Yukon Territory to hunt up a fur coat for Daisy.
#3 - The Bird Who Came to Dinner
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1961 - Episode 4
A street vendor is selling walking toy woodpeckers on a street corner. A large limousine stops, and a richly-dressed dowager steps out to purchase a toy for her son. Woody Woodpecker, peering around the corner of the building, pictures a luxurious future in a home as she would have to offer, so he quickly steps out and imitates the walking toy, and pulls on the dowager's fur coat. She picks Woody up and enters the limousine.
#4 - Watch the Birdie
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1958 - Episode 2
Deep in the woods, a birdwatcher is studying the various bird species found there. First, he discovers "love birds" (a henpecked husband bird and his grumbling bird spouse), and a "humming bird" (who hums rock tunes). Then he discovers Woody who gives him all sorts of trouble such as attaching his stethoscope to a running faucet, stretching the lens on his camera and then snapping it back on him, and sending all manner of trees tumbling down onto him.
#5 - Sioux Me
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1965 - Episode 11
An Indian tribe is in need of rain and believe they can get it by sacrificing a woodpecker. Along comes Woody.
#6 - Ozark Lark
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1960 - Episode 8
All is quiet in the Ozark Mountains since the Martins and the Coys stopped feudin'. On the porch of a tumbledown shack, there lies snoozing Jeeter Martin, the last surviving member of the Martin family. Woody Woodpecker, fishing rod in hand, is entering the nearby Coy cabin, now a museum containing relics of the feud.
#7 - To Catch a Woodpecker
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 8
Woody Woodpecker has become an endless source of frustration for the Miracle Telephone Co. ("If you get your call, it's a miracle") by pecking holes in their telephone poles. After a company henchman fails to apprehend him, the company President goes after Woody himself using a woodpecker disguise. Hijinks ensue.
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#8 - Dumb Like a Fox
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1964 - Episode 1
Woody and Fink Fox are teamed up as buddies roaming the Western Plains. The vagabonds try to jump up on a moving train, but the train turns and they slam into a cactus. Angered, they decide to separate.
#9 - Private Eye Pooch
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1955 - Episode 5
Professor Dingledong the taxidermist school instructor is about to teach his students "how to stuff a woodpecker in one easy lesson." For this purpose, he goes to a jail-like room with cells, and from one of these cells, he picks Woody. Escaping the nutty taxidermist's clutches, Woody is pursued by an unforgettable private eye, Strongnose the bloodhound. The remaining cartoon deals with the bloodhound's attempts to capture Woody, and with Woody's frustration of same. The chase leads through a hollow log, a railroad tunnel, a lumber yard, an ice machine and a door factory, and finally, back to the taxidermy school, where the instructor threatens to stuff the bloodhound for his failure. Woody intervenes, and he and Strongnose team up and lock up the professor, with plans to stuff him.
#10 - Tumble Weed Greed
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1969 - Episode 7
Woody wins a cash prize and goes on a vacation with it. Buzz Buzzard stops at nothing to get the cash away from Woody.
#11 - The Tree Medic
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1955 - Episode 13
A tree surgeon arrives in a forest to inspect a tree, specifically Woody's. He destroys Woody's bed with a drill and Woody plans to get even. First, he sticks a pan over said drill, then sticks his foot in the tree's branch and kicks the doctor in the face with it. He also inflates the doctor's stethoscope with a bellows until it explodes and holds up a sexy pin-up when the doctor x-rays the tree. Finally, Doc discovers Woody and gives chase but Woody inevitably outsmarts him knocking the doc unconscious. The pest gone, Woody can now continue his rest.
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#12 - Jittery Jester
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1958 - Episode 11
A king, seated on the throne, says to official court jester Dapper Denver Dooley, "Make me laugh, jester." The jester does his best to comply, but his gags are old and stale, and they evoke no response from the king. The king goes to the window and sees Woody Woodpecker busy in a tree. Woody's antics so please the king that he laughs long and loud, and he orders the jester to bring Woody to him.
#13 - Ballyhooey
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1960 - Episode 5
After a short history of television, the high towers of a TV station transmit waves. Woody turns on his TV set to watch his favorite quiz show, "Win the Whole Wide World." He waits for a question, the answer to which is "The Whole Wide World." But the program keeps being interrupted by endless annoying (yet amusing) commercials.
#14 - Woody Meets Davy Crewcut
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1956 - Episode 13
From the time he was a baby, Little Davy Crewcut learns to shoot at bears with a variety of weapons, but when he gets grown and starts taking serious potshots at Mr. Bear with a rifle, Mr. Bear gets rightfully upset at being shot at, and suggest to Davy Crewcut that he turn his shooting in the direction of a more suitable target, such as a woodpecker. The woodpecker turns out to be Woody, and Woody also objects to being shot at.
#15 - Fowled Up Falcon
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1960 - Episode 13
The history of falconry is turned upside-down when Woody is the prey of a falcon bent on destroying him.
#16 - A Fine Feathered Frenzy
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1954 - Episode 11
When Woody undertips in a posh restaurant, the waiters immediately throw him out on his ear. Tired of his petty lifestyle, he notices an ad in the paper for a rich woman with a big mansion and lots of food looking for a husband. Of course, he volunteers and is pleased when he overhears the woman's sexy voice on the telephone. Unfortunately, when he meets the lady in person, her sexy voice belies the fact that she is largely unattractive. She chases the unwilling Woody all over her mansion until he, finally, is reluctantly married to her.
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#17 - Sufferin' Cats
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1961 - Episode 10
Woody Woodpecker has been a source of aggravating annoyance to a certain householder, due to Woody's pecking the antenna of a TV set, and thus interfering with its reception. Three badly crippled cats, hired to get rid of Woody, testify to their futile efforts in this regard.
#18 - Fodder and Son
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 13
Woody goes to Yellowstone National Park, where he encounters a bear who does anything to get food from people.
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#19 - Skinfolks
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1964 - Episode 7
Woody is freezing and hungry, too. To get warm, he burns his furniture and begins to burn pages from the family album... till he comes across one of his Uncle Scrooge Woodpecker. He goes to visit Uncle Scrooge in hopes of a handout and finds his house guarded by 10 crocodiles. Even worse than the crocodiles is Uncle Scrooge.
#20 - Socko in Morocco
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1954 - Episode 1
Woody Woodpecker is in the Foreign Legion, where he and his commander are guarding a dancing girl. A neighboring sheik wants her for his harem, and he kidnaps her. Woody goes to the sheik's palace and finally frees her by disguising her to be as ugly as homemade sin.
#21 - Little Skeeter
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1969 - Episode 3
A mosquito flies around (and bites) Woody. Woody tries unsuccessfully to kill the mosquito, so he calls in an incompetent "exterminator".
#22 - Everglade Raid
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1958 - Episode 8
Woody Woodpecker's in bed reading a paper's "Business Opportunity" section. His eyes light up as he reads an ad: "Tourists!! Visit the Everglades and make big money in alligator bags.
#23 - Tree's a Crowd
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1958 - Episode 9
A sightseeing bus enters the gates of a large estate through the courtesy of its owner, tree-loving millionaire Colonel Mulch. Woody, a hitchhiker atop the bus, hears the driver (a Ralph Kramden clone) announce that the estate is noted for its rare and priceless trees. Woody immediately prepares for a delectable treat by putting on his napkin, and he goes to the arbor to sample the trees.
#24 - Alley to Bali
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1954 - Episode 3
Woody Woodpecker and Buzz Buzzard are just a couple of sailors visiting a lovely tropical island in the South Pacific when a native girl invites them to lunch. The fun begins when they find out that they're the "lunch." The pair vie for the attention of the girl, who's more interested in sacrificing them to her volcano God than in romance.
#25 - Tomcat Combat
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1959 - Episode 3
Woody Woodpecker is engaged in combat with a big tomcat and after several break-even escapades, Woody finally tricks the cat into a dogcatcher's truck which is filled with dogs with a sour disposition, especially regarding cats. Woody finally shoots the cat off into outer space using a giant rocket (not from Acme.)
#26 - Woodpecker from Mars
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1956 - Episode 7
Woody Woodpecker is a guest at a television show and walks off with a space helmet and a space gun as souvenirs. He pretends to be a man from Mars, and is believed to the extent that he is caught and sent to an atomic laboratory for testing, which convinces the scientists he does belong on Mars. They send him to Mars on a rocket-ship and, once there, the Martians are convinced he is a crazy alien from Earth, and start testing him in their laboratories.
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#27 - Log Jammed
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1959 - Episode 5
Woody Woodpecker gets into a mêlée with a lumberjack in the north woods. When the woodchopper chops down Woody's tree (home), and it winds up in the middle of a huge log-jam in the river, Woody grabs an axe and begins trying to chop his tree away from the others. The woodsmen is trying to keep him from doing so, since Woody's tree is the key log in the log-float. Years later, after they have both become aged, the fight continues.
#28 - Billion Dollar Boner
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1960 - Episode 2
On a quiet and peaceful street, the serenity of one house is suddenly disturbed by the noise of Woody Woodpecker pecking away inside on a chest of drawers. The owner, Terrance O'Hoolihan, goes after Woody, and just as he catches him, the doorbell rings.
#29 - Arts and Flowers
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1956 - Episode 12
Art, the artist, receives a circular announcing a prize for the best painting of a desert flower. Woody Woodpecker also reads it and decides to enter the competition. He and Art wage a battle all over the desert regarding who is to paint the only desert flower in the area. Woody wins the battle and the contest, and is awarded a painting of a bag of gold.
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#30 - Bats in the Belfry
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1960 - Episode 7
A nervous and high-strung colonel is visited by his doctor, who conducts a series of tests in an endeavor to ascertain the cause of his trouble.
#31 - Hot Rod Huckster
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1954 - Episode 7
In a used car town, happy Woody's car is wrecked by sleazy auto salesman Buzz Buzzard. Woody suddenly gets the feeling that he wants a new used car just as crafty Buzz just happens to be on hands to sell him one. Woody soon turns the dishonest dealer's lot into a junkyard.
#32 - Southern Fried Hospitality
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1960 - Episode 12
A building boom is sweeping the state of Florida to such an extent that even the wildlife is fighting for space to live in. Among the hardest hit is the alligator. Take the case of Seminole Sam: he's hard-put to find food. After failing to beg or borrow something to eat, he's finally reduced to reading a cookbook for ideas.
#33 - Box Car Bandit
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 4
A bandit and his horse (a bigger crook than the bandit) find out that a big shipment of gold bullion is being shipped by train, so they make immediate plans to hijack it. But, Woody Woodpecker is the guard in the baggage car, and foils all their attempts to steal it, and soon horse and rider are in the jail-house.
#34 - Poop Deck Pirate
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1961 - Episode 2
Woody's sleep is rudely disturbed by the early-morning noises of yowling cats, screeching automobile tires, factory whistles and such until he can't stand it any more.
#35 - Hot Noon or 12 O'Clock for Sure
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1953 - Episode 12
When Western bad guy Buzz Buzzard returns to town to settle a score with the sheriff, the sheriff gets the bright idea of pinning his badge on an unsuspecting little saloon piano player named Woody Woodpecker. Woody goes after Buzz in order to protect his small Western town and impress his Tex-Mex girlfriend. While he doesn't have enough sense to run from a showdown, Woody proves that there's a lot of imagination in being brave as he faces Buzz.
#36 - Gabby's Diner
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1961 - Episode 5
In a Florida swamp, starving Gabby Gator has a little diner. Things are slow; he is just waiting for a good meal to come along. While looking out of the window of his hut, he sees a flock of geese flying around overhead. He gets his gun and shoots at them, but all that floats down is a feather. Woody, overhead, is happily humming when Gabby sees him. He decides to use strategy to entice Woody down.
#37 - Dopey Dick the Pink Whale
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1957 - Episode 12
Woody Woodpecker is on a whaler-ship searching for Dopey Dick, the Pink Whale. When sighted, the ship captain sens Wood out in a rowboat to capture Dopey. The whale wrecks the ship but takes a liking to Woody, and off they go across the ocean with Woody water-skiing behind his new friend.
#38 - Franken-Stymied
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1961 - Episode 12
In a thunderstorm, the tree in which Woody Woodpecker makes his home is struck by lightning and utterly destroyed. Completely dazed by his misfortune, Woody doesn't know what to do or where to turn. Looking around, he sees a castle in the distance and starts toward it, the storm impeding his progress.
#39 - Witch Crafty
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1955 - Episode 3
A witch is riding her broom gaily through the night skies when she crashes and breaks the broom handle. She goes to a nearby broom factory and asks Woody (who works there) for a new one. He makes her one, but she refuses to pay the 50-cent check. Woody takes the magic broom back, and the rest of the picture deals with her attempts to gain access to the factory and get the broom without paying for it.
#40 - Woody's Clip Joint
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1964 - Episode 9
Woody is getting his hair cut at the local barber shop, but the lunch whistle blows and the barber leaves for lunch right in the middle of Woody's haircut. Shortly after this, Woody hears on the radio that King Louie the lion has escaped from the circus.
#41 - Misguided Missile
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1958 - Episode 1
Woody is an insurance salesman who tries to sell Dapper Denver Dooley a policy. When Dooley fails to pay on the policy, Woody goes after him with a guided missile.
#42 - Freeway Fracas
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1964 - Episode 6
The construction of a freeway threatens to destroy Woody's tree trunk home. Woody fights for the right to keep his home away from evil contractors.
#43 - Woody the Freeloader
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1968 - Episode 4
Woody fakes an illness to get all the comforts of home from a little old lady, but her dog knows better.
#44 - His Better Elf
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1958 - Episode 7
Woody Woodpecker lives in a slum, and is fed up with his bills, wishing aloud that he were rich. At that moment, a four-leaf clover appears in the floorboards, and transforms into a leprechaun woodpecker, which grants Woody three wishes. Woody immediately wishes for immense wealth, and he gets it-- by robbing a bank without realizing it. A police chase follows; will Woody escape, and what will his other two wishes be?
#45 - Bedtime Bedlam
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1955 - Episode 7
Woody is running a babysitting service and is offered $50 by one couple if he will look after their "baby". Not one to pass up this much money, he jumps at the chance. He shows the parents out and settles in. Unfortunately, when he checks in on the infant, the "baby" is revealed to be a pet gorilla! Woody is reluctant but realizes, if he sticks it out, he will be rewarded with $50. After a nightmarish experience looking after the ape (and trying to put it to sleep), Woody finally is able to at least watch TV where he sees a news report about the gorilla's parents who just left and are now going on a 20-year-long vacation!
#46 - The Tee Bird
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1959 - Episode 9
On the Pebbley Beach Golf Course, Dapper Denver Dooley and Woody Woodpecker are in a championship playoff. The prize: $25,000. After both contenders make holes in one, a psychological battle begins. Woody crunches celery. Dapper drives himself into a sand trap. Woody proves himself too light for quicksand; Dapper sinks. At every turn, Dapper proceeds to lure and trick poor Woody until Woody's game seems lost. All that Dapper needs to win is a short putt into the cup, but he's seized with a magnificent case of hiccups. Woody wins and hiccups dollar bills!
#47 - Old Sequoia
Disney Animated Shorts - Season 1945 - Episode 15
Park Ranger Donald (Agent # 13) is in charge of making sure a tree ""Old Sequoia"" doesn't get gnawed down by beavers.
#48 - Under the Counter Spy
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1954 - Episode 5
A criminal known as "The Bat" (X 490231, alias Willy Garrity, alias Cornball Smith, etc.) unwittingly hides a top secret formula in Woody's house. The bird mistakes "Formula 7 3/8 (One Drop = 50,000 Horsepower)" for his "Redwood Sap" tonic and turns into a multicolored Superman, gaining super strength whenever he ingests it. The chase is on.
#49 - Calling All Cuckoos
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1956 - Episode 10
A clockmaker goes into the woods in search of a cuckoo and finds Woodpecker. Figuring a coo-coo could double as a cuckoo, the clockmaker sets out to capture Woody, take him home and put him to work on the clock. Woody figures otherwise, and introduces the clockmaker to an angry bear. Chaos follows.
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#50 - Romp in a Swamp
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1959 - Episode 10
Woody tricks Ali Gator into a swampland chase. The banjo-plucking alligator shoots down what he thinks is a southbound duckling, except that it's a woodpecker. Woodpecker stew is better than none. The trouble is that Woody is hungry, too... and alligator stew will do.