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- When a cartoon rabbit is accused of murder, he enlists the help of a burnt out private investigator to prove his innocence.
- A year in the life of a middle-class family's maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
- Walter Lantz hosts a program of theatrical cartoons, along with segments showing the workings of an animation studio and newsreel footage narrated by Woody Woodpecker.
- "Destination Moon", tells the tale of when Doctor Charles Cargraves and retired General Thayer approach Jim Barnes, the head of his own aviation construction firms to help build a rocket that will take them to the moon.
- American Pre-Code color film starring Paul Whiteman and his Jazz orchestra.
- The psychiatrist needs a psychiatrist after attempting to treat Woody Woodpecker.
- A schooner anchors at the South Pole, and the skipper goes ashore and leaves the ship's mascot, a St. Bernard dog, to stand watch and guard the ship. A small penguin, Chilly Willy (the only penguin not equipped for cold weather...anywhere), sees the ship and tries to get warm by its stove. The watchdog attempts to get rid of him, but Willy manages to get the dog drunk from the rum in its own cask. The captain returns to find Willy saving the ship from sinking, while the dog is found sleeping it off. Willy is made mascot and the dog is tossed in the ship's brig.
- 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.
- A large Native American walks into the shop. Woody, who is still playing with the comb, is surprised to see a feathered headdress behind him in the mirror. He turns around quickly and notices the man in a chair behind him.
- Chilly Willy is freezing in his igloo home (he lives in Coldernell, Alaska) and burning everything he owns in the fireplace to keep warm. He notices an ad for the local fur factory and realizes that warmth is only a visit away. Unfortunately, it is guarded by a rather unexcitable watchdog who foils Chilly's attempts to steal the furs. Finally, he locks every fur in the storage bin but this doesn't stop Chilly who starts eyeing the watchdog's fur and makes various attempts to remove it from him.
- Bessie wants to hire a builder to make a sewing room for the house, but Charlie and Junior decide to build it instead. This, of course, becomes a massive mistake.
- Woody tries to get some sleep, but is interrupted by noise from a construction site.
- Woody goes to school, but his dog keeps on following him.
- Woody Woodpecker torments Wally Walrus on the beach. Their conflict leads to the amusement pier where Woody disguises himself as a yogi.
- 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 fox. He remembers what his mother told him before he left; "Don't be late to school. And remember, don't play hooky.", 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 measles, and his teacher kicks him out of school. He returns to the carrot patch, and isn't aware that the fox is waiting for him.
- A mild-mannered man whose nerves are shot from incessant noise is sent to an exclusive, silent retreat with hilarious results.
- Woody stays behind to swim while the other birds in the forest migrate south for the winter. Just after the other birds leave, the cold of winter sets in instantly, to the point that Woody's swimming hole freezes
- Andy Panda attempts to find out if he can catch a woodpecker by putting salt on its tail.
- The black residents of Lazy Town are bored one day until a sultry light-skinned woman shows up to teach them what rhythm is.
- A poor shoemaker and his wife have only a stale donut and a cup of coffee left to share. An elf drops by, and they offer to share with him. He teaches them (in song) to dunk the donut in the coffee. Later, as they sleep, he brings several other elves back, and they work through the night making shoes in humorous ways. The shoes are a success. Soon, the shoemaker and his wife are quite prosperous. They treat the elves to a feast of donuts and coffee, and the elves treat us to another chorus of "Dunk! Dunk! Dunk!".
- Woody decides to make a new home in a bird house. That doesn't go.well with the bird living in it, or its human owner.
- 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.
- Woody is flying with several ducks. However, A hunter and his dog interrupt them.
- Doc the cat attempts to capture mice Hickory and Dickory in an attempt to collect a cash bonus from a missile test program.
- Woody and Sugarfoot get a deed to a house which is haunted by a man named Wild Bill Hiccup.
- It's hot, so Charlie decides to get an air conditioner.
- Andy Panda conducts the "Hollywood Washbowl Orchestra" (an ensemble of farm animals, on a farm) in the title tune. After Andy removes a frog from under his wig, he begins. All is well until his shirt gets stuck on a nail; while he's fighting it, the orchestra breaks into a swinging tune. Back under control, a talkative squirrel in the audience annoys the pig sitting next to him; the pig zips the squirrel's mouth shut. A bird lands on Andy's baton; he waves it, and 2, 3, 4, and 5 birds appear (apparently, his baton's become a magic wand). He waves some more, and the birds disappear one by one, finally replaced with a very happy cat. Two ducks dance as ballerinas; then one fox and one duck, but the second duck is not as easily captured.
- Chilly Willy's quiet life is thrown into chaos when a military installation appears next to his home.
- The series was about Charlie Beary, the incompetent family man, his nagging wife Bessie, their well-meaning but half-witted teenage son Junior and their younger daughter Suzy, who later got a pet goose who never gets along with Charlie.
- The foreman of the "Lazy S Ranch" is getting much work out of his shiftless cowhands until a black cowboy on a donkey comes riding' along singing "Cow Cow Boogie." While his version doesn't hold a candle to the one by Ella Mae Morse, it is jivey and has more than enough rhythm to pep up the cowhands, and the cattle herd also.
- Smedley is the sole crew member aboard the ship Old Eyesore. The captain tells Smedley to go ashore and shanghai another crew member. Smedley captures Chilly Willy, who spends his time on the ship wreaking havoc instead of working.
- Chilly Willy goes face to face with lighthouse keeper Smedley for constantly disrupting his sleep.
- The story of Percy P. Pettipoint who purchases a much-desired great dane named Cuddles. He instructs Cuddles to bury his scraps in the back yard. Cuddles is a fast learner and obeys but, unfortunately, he carries it a little too far and eventually starts burying everything in the back yard including the refrigerator, the TV set, the bathtub (with him in it), and the mailman! Finally, when Cuddles buries Pettipoint's house, the man decides to get rid of the mutt...easier said than done.
- A desperado steals Woody's horse, Sugarfoot.
- Terrance O'Hoolihan is told by a little man if he hurts Woody Woodpecker in any way, he won't receive a cheque for $1 billion. Of course, Woody uses this to his own advantage, even after O'Hoolihan builds his own mansion.
- While travelling along a woodland highway, Woody's car runs out of gas. He intends to get some more by siphoning some from a nearby car, not realizing the car belongs to policeman Wally Walrus who immediately chases the bird. Woody temporarily eludes Wally by disguising himself as a gas station attendant who fills Wally's car to the brim with water! When Woody's disguise is uncovered, the two duel with grease guns. Woody, of course, cheats until he makes the mistake of escaping onto a grease rack at which point he slips backward into a vise which Wally uses to trap him!
- Woody escapes from the rain and lightning into the castle of a mad scientist. The scientist's latest invention, a chicken-plucking robot name Frankie, has awoken, and think's Woody is a chicken! Woody has to stay away from Frankie if he wants to keep his feathers.
- Woody Woodpecker goes on a ski vacation at the Swiss Chard Lodge where Wally Walrus is the proprietor.
- Woody is reading the tale of Little Red Riding Hood... and soon finds himself living the fable when a sobbing Red confronts him, telling him how a mean wolf has been bullying her on her entire trip to Grandma's. Woody plans to get even with the fiendish (and totally stupid) wolf by swapping places with her and going to HIS Grandma's. The wolf stops Woody carrying an apple pie and demands, "Let me have it" (Needless to say, he gets it alright!). Woody then offers the wolf a plum pudding (actually a beehive). The wolf takes a "shortcut" to get to Granny's first but Woody is on to his scheme leading him into several nasty spots (a water geyser, an eagle's nest, and a phone booth which blasts into orbit like a rocket). Woody arrives at Granny's and takes Granny's place finally getting rid of the wolf at last. Alas, when he tells Granny they're rid of that wolf, she angrily tells him, "For thirty years, I've been trying to MARRY that wolf" and gives the woodpecker a good spanking!
- The cartoon opens with a line of people (including Woody) drooling at the window of a market butcher's shop (Buzz Buzzard). What ensues is a short series of gags about how Buzz dishonestly (and literally) "jacks" up all his prices. Since Woody is broke as usual, he sneaks in and gets thrown out by Buzz. On the way out, Woody collides with a bottle of invisible ink and turns partially invisible. Buzz can only see parts of Woody's body and thinks he's been dismembered, (this scene is actually kind of gruesome) so he sweeps him into a trap door to get rid of him. When Woody awakes, he realizes what is happening, and douses himself with the rest of the ink...
- Chilly Willy is catching fish. A pelican comes and eats them. That irks Willy.
- Salesman Woody Woodpecker tries to unload his wares on a hibernating bear.
- Doc prepares Champ for a comeback in the boxing ring when the punching bag breaks. Upon repairing it, Doc mistakingly drops the hammer on Champ's foot causing him to throw a painful fit. A beatnik notices his "dance" and offers them money if they will play at his bar. Champ is a hit there too so Doc and Champ keep going up and up with their "act" until Champ complains that his feet are hurting. Just when they about to perform the greatest act of all at Carnegie Hall, Champ walks off the stage. They are forced to return to where they started, at the bar, where Champ gives the act an unexpected twist.
- Woody Woodpecker is at a U.S. Army Air Corps military air base and is dreaming of taking one of the aircraft up in the air. His enthusiasm in this respect gets him into a lot of trouble with his sergeant.
- Woody Woodpecker visits Niagara Falls---on the Canadian and American side both, according to some viewers---and asks about going over the famous falls in a barrel which the guard tells him it is forbidden, which immediately makes Woody decide to do it, anyway. Woody uses everything BUT a ladder in his attempts, and the guard prevents him going over several times, but the guard winds up in a barrel and goes over himself. Woody, dressed as a policeman, is awaiting him at the bottom to give him a ticket for breaking the law.
- Woody Woodpecker goes to the park for a game of golf, and quickly gets at odds with some city-workers who are laying a cement walk. His hooks and slices keep landing into the wet cement. But he smooths everything out by putting a couple of cement-trowels on his feet, and gliding over the surface as if it was ice.
- In this Walter Lantz Color Cartune---the correct house-name brand for the Woody's, and not Swing Symphony as some Keyworder seems to think---Woody, per usual, is sleeping and idling while the ants and grasshoppers are gathering food for the winter, and Woody even has a nightmare about it. He awakens, under a blanket of snow, to find that both Winter and a hungry wolf are knocking at his door. The wolf has intentions of eating Woody...but Woody also has the same thoughts regarding the wolf.
- 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.
- Woody Woodpecker and Buzz Buzzard fight over who will take the heartthrob Winnie Woodpecker out on a date at the high school "sock hop".
- In this swing version of the famous tale, a small town of no distinction is overrun with rats. Stores and homes of every kind and description are infected with a plague of rats. The mayor of the town is in a quandary. His phones are busy with demands to do something about the rats. Finally, he hears a voice say: "Listen. Mister, what you need is a Pied Piper." Looking up, he sees a young man with a trombone (a caricature of Jimmy Durante) who claims that he can run every rat out of town for a small financial consideration. The mayor makes a deal with him, and the trombone player goes to work leading the rats out of town with his hot music. He gets rid of the rats with the playing of his trombone, and he locks them in a large cage. Returning to the mayor's office, he's handed a bag which is full of peanuts. The mayor throws him out. Unable to get the reward promised him, the Pied Piper puts on his "Hank Swoonatra" (Frank Sinatra, of course) suit and tie and croons to the girls. The whole town is hep to his hot music. Soon, all of the children are following him. He leads them and aboard a "swing ship" (showboat) where "100 name bands" (Ozzie Nelson, Harry James, Jack Teagarden...) are playing. The ship toots goodbye and sails away as the trombone player opens the cage full of rats. Now the rats return to town, where only the mayor is left. The rats all swarm into the mayor's office and really give him a bad time of it for his faithless treatment of the Pied Piper. The mayor imitates Lou Costello.