The BEST episodes written by Victor Mcleod
#1 - Baby Kittens
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 25
#2 - The Birthday Party
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 7
Oswald throws a birthday party for obnoxious duckling quintuplets Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum and Fooey. The quints and a crazy dog decide to tear the entire place down- all in the name of fun.
#3 - Movie Phoney News
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 9
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).
#4 - Hollywood Bowl
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 21
The stars come out to the Hollywood Bowl for a night of musical fun.
#5 - Voodoo in Harlem
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 13
It's midnight in Walter Lantz's animation studio when an ink bottle spills. Out come dancing, singing cannibals.
#6 - Feed the Kitty
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 5
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).
#7 - Everybody Sing
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 3
Oswald is the conductor of an orchestra composed of several birds. Things are going well until three crows ransack their place.
#8 - The Bird on Nellie's Hat
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1939 - Episode 11
A dishy dolly of a brunette hitchhikes while taking lunch to her blacksmith husband. She gets a ride from a dastardly masher once she shows some leg. When she resists the cad's advances, she blackens his eye and gets tied to the railway tracks in revenge.
#9 - The Stevedores
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 10
#10 - Snuffy's Party
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1939 - Episode 14
#11 - Pixie Land
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 19
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."
#12 - Barnyard Romeo
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 15
#13 - Yokel Boy Makes Good
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 3
#14 - Sailor Mouse
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 23
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
#15 - Nellie of the Circus
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1939 - Episode 9
#16 - The Golfers
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 1
The three monkeys try out their luck on the links. The "boys" get attacked by a mechanical golf cart that looks like a robot.
#17 - Tail End
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 7
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
#18 - Duck Hunt
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 5
#19 - The Magic Beans
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1939 - Episode 3
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.
#20 - Trailer Thrills
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 9
Oswald, along with his animated car and trailer, go into a rough and troublesome journey.
#21 - Happy Scouts
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 11
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.
#22 - Cheese-Nappers
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 12
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.
#23 - The Birth of a Toothpick
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1939 - Episode 4
#24 - Silly Seals
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 14
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.
#25 - Slaphappy Valley
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1939 - Episode 15
#26 - Ghost Town Frolics
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 18
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.
#27 - Queen's Kittens
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 16
#28 - Man Hunt
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 2
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.
#29 - The Cat and the Bell
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 20
#30 - The One-Armed Bandit
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1939 - Episode 6
#31 - The Rabbit Hunt
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 22
A boy and his dog hunt rabbit in the forest.
#32 - Trade Mice
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 4
#33 - The Disobedient Mouse
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 24
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
#34 - I'm Just a Jitterbug
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1939 - Episode 2
At a cartoon studio, a drawing of a jitterbug comes to life and encourages the other drawings to dance and sing. Meanwhile, the cuckoo bird in the cuckoo clock is desperate for sleep.
#35 - Little Blue Blackbird
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 26
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.
#36 - Nellie the Sewing Machine Girl (or Honest Hearts & Willing Hands)
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 6
The first of many 1890's melodrama lampoons produced by the Lantz studio during 1938 and 1939.
#37 - House of Magic
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 2
First seen as incidental characters in an Oswald the Rabbit cartoon, these three monkeys act is reminiscent of the Three Stooges. Acting out in pantomime, the monkeys were a bit hit with audiences in the mid-1930's.
#38 - Bolo-Mola Land
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1939 - Episode 10
#39 - The Big Race
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 4
#40 - Problem Child
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 8
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).
#41 - The Lumber Camp
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 6
#42 - Kittens' Mittens
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1940 - Episode 2
Three little kittens go out walking and ridicule a little orphan tramp kitten because he doesn't have any mittens. They lose their mittens, just like in the nursery rhyme. Fearing that their mother won't let them have pie, they pretend that their mittens were stolen. Their mother calls the police, who arrest every criminal in town. In the police lineup, the boys accuse the vagabond kitten they met. When asked to name the culprit, they name the kitten. He denies committing the crime, and the cops threaten to hang him. This causes the boys to relent and tell the truth. Their friend is off the hook, and the kittens adopt him.
#43 - The Steel Workers
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 8
#44 - Nellie the Indian Chief's Daughter
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 10
#45 - Arabs with Dirty Fezzes
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1939 - Episode 13
#46 - Andy Panda Goes Fishing
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1940 - Episode 1
Andy Panda decides to go on a fishing expedition, but he has no luck until he meets a friendly turtle who shows him many ingenous ways to catch fish. While they're busy fishing, evil pymgy panda hunters sneak up on them and try to capture Andy to sell him to the zoo. Just as it appears that Andy will be captured, he's saved by an electric eel who frightens off the natives.
#47 - Soup to Mutts
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1939 - Episode 1
Dogland is having an amateur show, with food for the winners. A mechanical-applause machine identifies the winners by hitting a jackpot. A cat, way more talented than the dog-performers, dons a dog-skin (source unknown) and proceeds to become the big winner, but he loses his disguise at the crucial moment.
#48 - Little Tough Mice
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1939 - Episode 5
#49 - The Lamp Lighter
Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1938 - Episode 1
