The BEST episodes written by Walter Lantz

#1 - 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.

#2 - 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.

#3 - 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.

#4 - The Big Race

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 4

#5 - Duck Hunt

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 5

#6 - The Lumber Camp

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 6

#7 - 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.

#8 - The Steel Workers

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 8

#9 - 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.

#10 - The Stevedores

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 10

#11 - The Wily Weasel

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 11

Oswald and his two dogs try to catch an egg-snatching weasel on the farm, but with disappointing results.

#12 - The Country Store

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 12

#13 - The Playful Pup

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 13

#14 - Fireman's Picnic

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 14

#15 - The Rest Resort

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 15

#16 - Ostrich Feathers

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 16

#17 - The Air Express

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 17

The poor monkeys are no match for a hungry ostrich when they try to fly an airplane and deliver a million dollars in diamonds.

#18 - Football Fever

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 21

Oswald the Rabbit matches his football team up against the tough Ruffians, but it is a pitiful mismatch as Oswald has a lot of ducks on his outweighed team. But just as it looked as if Oswald's team was heading for a certain loss, it began to rain...and the tide turned in favor of the swimmers versus the waders.

#19 - The Dumb Cluck

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1937 - Episode 23

#20 - Soft Ball Game

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1936 - Episode 1

A big sign says "Oswald's Torn Sox vs. Jungle Giants," and the big game is on! Big apes and huge elephants take their best shots against Oswald's often confused group of hapless barnyard ballers. Will Oswald and his team cheat their way to win against the opposing big guys' team? Is this not a 1930s cartoon? Of course the good guys will cheat... and win!

#21 - Slumberland Express

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1936 - Episode 3

Oswald takes a trip to Nightmareland. This cartoon is mostly in music, like a 1930s operetta.

#22 - Beauty Shoppe

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1936 - Episode 4

#23 - The Barnyard Five

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1936 - Episode 5

A worried duck is sweating it out while Mama Duck is hatching out quintuplets. Afterwards, Papa Duck receives a telegram of congratulations from his friend Oswald Rabbit and an invitation to have dinner at Oswald's house and bring the kids.

#24 - Fun House

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1936 - Episode 6

Oswald the Rabbit and his (rabbit) girlfriend go to an amusement park but Oswald's dog is refused admittance. This does not set well with the pooch so he sneaks in through a trap-door that comes up into the shooting gallery, The park police are soon chasing Ozzie's dog through the skating rink.

#25 - Farming Fools

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1936 - Episode 7

Meany, Miny, Moe- three hitchhiking, hobo chimpanzees who are work-dodgers and followers of the open road- are put to work on Oswald Rabbit's farm in payment for pies stolen from the hard-working rabbit. The simians find it hard to milk a cow, paint a house, and haul water from the well.

#26 - Battle Royal

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1936 - Episode 8

Boxer Oswald battles it out in a "boxer vs. wrestler" match at the Punch Bowl Arena with Punchy Pig.

#27 - Music Hath Charms

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1936 - Episode 9

#28 - Kiddie Revue

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1936 - Episode 10

#29 - Beach Combers

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1936 - Episode 11

#30 - Night Life of the Bugs

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1936 - Episode 12

#31 - Puppet Show

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1936 - Episode 13

Oswald (who had been given a makeover and was no longer lucky) runs a puppet show. Almost the entire film is comprised of live action footage of puppets with only a small bit of animation by Manuel Moreno.

#32 - The Unpopular Mechanic

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1936 - Episode 14

#33 - Turkey Dinner

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1936 - Episode 15

Meany, Miny and Moe, three monkeys, have their hearts set on a turkey dinner but the turkey thinks otherwise. While they are out hunting the turkey, the turkey sneaks into their house and gobbles up all their food. The monkeys end up eating their Thanksgiving dinner at a hot-dog stand.

#34 - Gopher Trouble

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1936 - Episode 16

Billy Gopher is digging holes and wrecking everything in Henrietta Hen' beautiful garden, so she calls in a pest exterminator, Oswald Rabbit. He shows up with his assistant, Elmer Pooch. When it comes to getting rid of gophers, Elmer is not adverse to using dynamite. Lots of dynamite.

#35 - Knights for a Day

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1936 - Episode 17

Meany, Miny and Moe, the three monkeys, start out to sing Christmas carols, but wind up doing a good deed for Widow Duck and her family. The stockings were empty at the Duck house so they go to the home of the rich Henrietta Hen and move out the Christmas tree and all the presents to the home of the poverty-stricken Ducks. Mrs. Hen forgives all when she sees how happy the four Duck kids are.

#36 - Candyland

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1935 - Episode 5

It's the story of a young boy who can't sleep because he wants candy. The sandman is busy putting everyone to sleep until he meets the boy's father who is kept up late at night by his constant crying...

#37 - Elmer the Great Dane

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1935 - Episode 6

#38 - Springtime Serenade

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1935 - Episode 7

Mr. and Mrs. Oswald Rabbit are preparing their summer home, confident that winter has ended. Professor Groundhog, unable to see his shadow, predicts several more weeks of cold weather. The rabbit-family and their woodland neighbors choose to disbelieve the groundhog's pessimistic forecast, until suddenly it begins to snow and the forest animals are driven back into hibernation.

#39 - Towne Hall Follies

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1935 - Episode 8

Historians Joe Adamson and Tom Klein speculate this short to be an uncredited Tex Avery-directed effort.

#40 - At Your Service

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1935 - Episode 9

#41 - Three Lazy Mice

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1935 - Episode 10

The King of Mouseland issues an edict that all of his Mouse subjects must work for their cheese. But three mice, too lazy to work (and too scared to steal) put on dark glasses and claim to be blind. But they wander out of Mouseland and encounter a big ugly cat who figures they'll make him a nice meal.

#42 - Bronco Buster

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1935 - Episode 11

#43 - Amateur Broadcast

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1935 - Episode 12

#44 - Fox and the Rabbit

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1935 - Episode 14

A child rabbit is sent to school by his mother. On the way, he passes a carrot patch, which is actually a trap set by a hungry wolf. He remembers what his mother told him before he left; "Don't be late to school. And remember, don't play hookey.", so he decides to walk on by. While at school, the rabbit remembers the carrot patch he passed and begins to get anxious. He pretends to have the measels, and his teacher kicks him out of school. He returns to the carrot patch, and isn't aware that the wolf is wating for him...

#45 - Monkey Wretches

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1935 - Episode 15

#46 - Case of the Lost Sheep

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1935 - Episode 16

The bunny highway patrol- motorcycle cop Oswald Rabbit and his sidekick Humpty Dumpty- are called in when Bo Peep's two small sheep run off and begin a crime spree. They even steal a full pie truck, and wreak havoc with the pies.

#47 - Doctor Oswald

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1935 - Episode 17

It's a dark and stormy night when Elmer The Great Dane gets sick and Oswald has to nurse him back to health.

#48 - Jolly Little Elves

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1934 - Episode 15

The poor old shoemaker and his wife are facing starvation. Yet they extend their kindness to a freezing elf who comes in from the cold, and the three share coffee and the last, rock-hard donut in the cupboard. After the shoemaker and his spouse make their way to bed, the little elf returns with a mini-army of his elf associates to return the favor by fixing up all the shoes.

#49 - Toyland Premiere

Woody Woodpecker and Friends - Season 1934 - Episode 18

Santa comes to the big city to be grand marshal of the famous pre-Christmas department store parade through the streets and the guest of honor at its Christmas dinner. The host of the dinner, where all the toys come to life, is Oswald The Rabbit. All of Hollywood's most famous performers- Johnny Weissmuller, Shirley Temple, Al Jolson, Frankenstein's Monster, Lupe Velez, and Laurel and Hardy- perform at the party.