Woody Woodpecker - all shorts
- Character ("First appearance", YEAR, voiced by)
Woody Woodpecker ("Knock Knock", 1940, voiced by Mel Blanc, Grace Stafford, Ben Hardaway, Kent Rogers, Danny Webb)
Wally Walrus ("The Beach Nut", 1944, voiced by Jack Mather & Dallas McKennon),
Buzz Buzzard ("Wet Blanket Policy", 1948, voiced by Lionel Stander & Dallas McKennon),
Dapper Denver Dooley ("Square Shootin' Square", 1955, voiced by Dallas McKennon),
Gabby Gator ("Everglade Raid", 1958, voiced by Daws Butler),
Winnie Woodpecker (voiced by Grace Stafford),
Splinter and Knothead (both voiced by June Foray),
Ms. Meany (voiced by Grace Stafford).
Key people: Walter Lantz, Ben Hardaway, Alex Lovy, Dick Lundy, James 'Shamus' Culhane, Mel Blanc, Grace Stafford, Dallas McKennon, Daws Butler, Fred Moore, Ed Love, LaVerne Harding.
Oscar nominees:
"The Dizzy Acrobat" (1943) - for Short Subjects, Cartoons
"Musical Moments from Chopin" (1946) - for Short Subjects, Cartoons
"Wet Blanket Policy" (1948) - for Best Original Song
Studio: Walter Lantz Productions (1940-1972)
Distributors:
Universal Pictures (1940-1947; 1963-1972)
United Artists (1948-1950)
Universal International (1951-1962)
Woody Woodpecker ("Knock Knock", 1940, voiced by Mel Blanc, Grace Stafford, Ben Hardaway, Kent Rogers, Danny Webb)
Wally Walrus ("The Beach Nut", 1944, voiced by Jack Mather & Dallas McKennon),
Buzz Buzzard ("Wet Blanket Policy", 1948, voiced by Lionel Stander & Dallas McKennon),
Dapper Denver Dooley ("Square Shootin' Square", 1955, voiced by Dallas McKennon),
Gabby Gator ("Everglade Raid", 1958, voiced by Daws Butler),
Winnie Woodpecker (voiced by Grace Stafford),
Splinter and Knothead (both voiced by June Foray),
Ms. Meany (voiced by Grace Stafford).
Key people: Walter Lantz, Ben Hardaway, Alex Lovy, Dick Lundy, James 'Shamus' Culhane, Mel Blanc, Grace Stafford, Dallas McKennon, Daws Butler, Fred Moore, Ed Love, LaVerne Harding.
Oscar nominees:
"The Dizzy Acrobat" (1943) - for Short Subjects, Cartoons
"Musical Moments from Chopin" (1946) - for Short Subjects, Cartoons
"Wet Blanket Policy" (1948) - for Best Original Song
Studio: Walter Lantz Productions (1940-1972)
Distributors:
Universal Pictures (1940-1947; 1963-1972)
United Artists (1948-1950)
Universal International (1951-1962)
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- DirectorWalter LantzAlex LovyStarsMel BlancSara BernerBernice HansenAndy Panda attempts to find out if he can catch a woodpecker by putting salt on its tail.
- first appearance of Woody Woodpecker
- part of the "Andy Panda" series
- produced by Walter Lantz Productions
- released by Universal Pictures
- directed by Alex Lovy
- story by Ben Hardaway & Lowell Elliott
- animated by Alex Lovy & Frank Tipper
- music by Frank Marsales (Marsales' final score for Lantz)
- Woody's first words are his trademark "Guess who?", except the voice is normal-sounding instead of sped-up as Woody's voice normally would be.
- the first cartoon to feature Woody's trademark laugh, a gurgling cackle voice artist Mel Blanc had been perfecting since high school.
- this is also the laugh Blanc used for Happy Rabbit, a predecessor to Bugs Bunny in the 1939 cartoon "Hare-um Scare-um".
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancSara BernerBen HardawayThe psychiatrist needs a psychiatrist after attempting to treat Woody Woodpecker.
- the first animated cartoon short subject in the "Woody Woodpecker" series
- the working title of this cartoon is "Cracked Nut"
- produced, directed & animated by Walter Lantz
- story by Ben Hardaway & Jack Cosgriff
- music by Darrell Calker
- released by Universal Pictures
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancThe episode revolves around Woody driving a car in his typical manner, which includes eluding a persistent police officer.
- this short marks the last time Mel Blanc provided the voice for Woody. However, Woody's famous laugh and "Guess Who?!" signature line (provided by Blanc) would continue to be recycled in the succeeding shorts.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancGeneva HallSara BernerWoody 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
- the first short with Danny Webb as Woody's voice
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsDick NelsonThe Sportsmen QuartetThe first Swing Symphony featuring cameos of Woody Woodpecker, Andy Panda, and Snuffy Skunk.
- part of the "Swing Symphonies" series
- DirectorWalter LantzAlex LovyStarsMel BlancBen HardawayKent RogersA day of the big bullfight has arrived. The stands are packed. The spectators are in a frenzy of excitement. A trumpeter signals the entrance of the contestants.
- the final time Danny Webb provided the voice for Woody
- the first entry in the series directed by veteran animator/director Alex Lovy
- DirectorAlex LovyStarsMel BlancDick NelsonKent RogersWoody 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.
- the first time Kent Rogers provided the voice for Woody
- DirectorAlex LovyStarsMel BlancKent RogersWoody is happily driving down the street when his car breaks down. He tries to get a loan on it from a nearby wolf. The wolf agrees to give Woody the loan but exclaims if he doesn't receive payment in thirty days,
- DirectorAlex LovyStarsMel BlancKent RogersA local crowd gathers at a baseball park for a game between the Droops and the Drips. A lone policeman stands at the park gate discouraging spectators who have not paid to see the game.
- the last onscreen credit for director/animator Alex Lovy on a Woody cartoon for 12 years. He would direct one more entry "The Dizzy Acrobat" (1943) before departing the studio.
- This is one of the few "Woody Woodpecker" cartoons in which Woody loses at the end. The other shorts in which Woody loses include The Cracked Nut, Banquet Busters, Smoked Hams, Real Gone Woody, Woody's Clip Joint, A Fine Feathered Frenzy, Tepee for Two, Well Oiled, Ace in the Hole, Busman's Holiday, Bye Bye Blackboard, The Tenant's Racket, Rough Riding Hood, Chili Con Corny, Ski for Two, Knock Knock, The Dizzy Acrobat, What's Sweepin', The Coo Coo Bird, The Barber of Seville, Solid Ivory & The Beach Nut.
- DirectorAlex LovyStarsMel BlancKent RogersWoody Woodpecker visits a traveling circus. He attempts to sneak into the big top but a caretaker kicks him out. He says that if Woody wants to see the show, he will have to water the elephant.~ nominated for an Academy Award for Short Subjects, Cartoons
- the fifth film from Walter Lantz to be nominated in this category
- this was Alex Lovy's final effort as director on a Woody short for about 12 years, as he was drafted into the US Navy. The next Woody "cartune" he would direct was 1955's "The Tree Medic". He does not receive on-screen credit as director.
- DirectorEmery HawkinsMilt SchafferStarsMel BlancDick NelsonWhile driving his car, Woody sees a sing that reads: "Conserve gas and tires. While changing his appearance briefly into a demonic version of itself with deranged eyes and speeds down the road after changing back again.
- the last time Kent Rogers would voice Woody before his death in a World War II plane crash
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsMel BlancBen HardawayDick NelsonA 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.
- the first time Ben Hardaway provided the voice for Woody
- the first Woody cartoon directed by James 'Shamus' Culhane
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsLee SweetlandMel BlancBen HardawayWoody Woodpecker torments Wally Walrus on the beach. Their conflict leads to the amusement pier where Woody disguises himself as a yogi.
- Wally Walrus's first appearance
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsMel BlancBen HardawayJack MatherWoody Woodpecker goes on a ski vacation at the Swiss Chard Lodge where Wally Walrus is the proprietor.
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsLee SweetlandMel BlancBen HardawayWally Walrus kicks the delinquent Woody Woodpecker out of his boarding house. But the mooching bird finds the walrus's personal ad in the newspaper and comes back, disguised as a woman.
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsMel BlancHans ConriedBen HardawayWoody is hungry because all the restaurants are closed; and when he sees a place that stuffs birds, he goes there - only to learn he's gone to a taxidermist.
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsMel BlancBen HardawayJack MatherA newspaper announces that Ivan Awfulitch, the famous ambassador, is due to have a barbecue with local resident Wally Walrus. Unfortunately, while Wally is preparing the barbecue, the scent of the steaks he is cooking attracts an unwelcome guest in the form of Woody Woodpecker. He steals some of the food through a knothole in the fence then uses a bow and arrow to get the rest. Wally throws him out but when Woody hears of the visitor he is expecting, he dresses as Awfulitch himself and finally gets the remainder of Wally's food.
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsMel BlancBen HardawayLionel StanderWoody 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.
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsWill WrightMel BlancBen HardawayIn 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.
- DirectorDick LundyStarsMel BlancBen HardawayJack MatherWoody and Wally share an apartment building. Woody's favorite pastime is playing golf... it's just a shame he plays inside the house instead of outside. Finally, Wally breaks his club and tells him not to make any more noise. Woody decides to forget his troubles by taking a bath. His bathtub is coin-operated and when he inserts a dime for the water, it falls down the drain. Woody is not about to part with any money and is determined to retreive his dime... even if it means driving Wally to the nut house in the process!
- the first Woody cartoon directed by Dick Lundy
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsMel BlancHans ConriedBen HardawayDriving down a U.S. highway, Woody passes a billboard which reminds him that he should renew his driver's license. He heads to the department of motor vehicles and asks Officer Wally Walrus, who takes an immediate dislike to Woody, to give him the test. He puts Woody through the eye test, the reflex test, and the fingerprint test...with Woody constantly making short work of the walrus' patience. Finally, he puts him through the driving test with the bird converting his car into a rocket zooming around the office driving Wally berserk. At this point, Woody exclaims, "Say. I've changed my mind. I want a pilot's license!"
- DirectorShamus CulhaneStarsMel BlancBen HardawayWill WrightAfter a storm strands them on a deserted island, Woody Woodpecker and his wolf friend end up battling themselves in a quest to find food.
- the last Woody cartoon directed by James 'Shamus' Culhane
- DirectorDick LundyWoody Woodpecker and Andy Panda give a piano performance for an audience of barnyard animals.~ nominated for an Academy Award for Short Subjects, Cartoons
- part of the "Andy Panda" series & "Musical Miniatures" series
- Woody is a co-star in this short
- produced by Walter Lantz
- directed by Dick Lundy
- music by Frederic Chopin
- animated by Laverne Harding & Les Kline
- DirectorDick LundyStarsMel BlancWalker EdmistonBen HardawayWally Walrus is a day sleeper and requires daily rest while his neighbor in the adjacent apartment, Woody Woodpecker, is a night sleeper who does his chores during the day. Needless to say, Woody's noisy chores tend to keep the hapless Wally from getting any slumber particularly when he burns his leaves in the backyard, the smoke from the burning pile travelling into Wally's room eventually turning the pipes in his bed into a musical organ! But Wally gets the last laugh...
- DirectorDick LundyStarsMel BlancBen HardawayWoody reads in his newspaper that quail hunting season begins the next morning at 5 a.m. Not wanting to pass up quail hunting, he determines to get a good night's sleep but, of course, his attempts are ruined by all manner of distractions such as a flashing neon sign, an obnoxious cuckoo clock (the cuckoo itself is just as obnoxious), and the destruction of Woody's bed causing him to sleep on an "automatic table" which he has many a tussle with.
- DirectorDick LundyStarsMel BlancBen HardawayJack MatherWhile 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!
- DirectorDick LundyStarsMel BlancWalker EdmistonBen HardawayWoody is shooting pool at a farm house when one of his pool balls rolls into a nearby henhouse. He takes the ball back but must battle with the hen who thinks the woodpecker is taking one of her eggs. Woody makes several attempts to get the ball back from the protective poultry finally disguising himself as a macho continental rooster whom the hen falls for causing Woody to retrieve his ball. But it doesn't last long. The hen gets wise prompting Woody to trip spilling all the hen's eggs all over himself and getting conked with his own pool ball!
- DirectorDick LundyStarsMel BlancBen HardawayHarry LangOut of work, Woody complains about his not having any living quarters. A slick talking con man convinces him to buy some "magic beans" promising they will guarantee him a home. Sure enough, Woody climbs the resulting beanstalk and finds a huge castle at the top. Unfortunately, the castle is already occupied by a sleeping giant who Woody eventually outwits, turning his castle into a series of apartments with the giant as a bellboy and Woody as his manager.
- the last Woody short released by Universal Pictures until 1963
- DirectorDick LundyStarsMel BlancBen HardawayJack MatherWoody is offered a movie role providing he arrives at the studio at 9:00 a.m. and *must* wear a top hat. His sole hat is eaten by moths so he goes to Wally Walrus' hat store to purchase a new one (and, for once, does not give Wally a hard time). After a few attempts to get the hat to fit Woody's head, he buys the hat but it blows away landing on a goose in a meadow. After tussling with the goose, he gets his head back but loses his job at the studio anyway. Frustrated, he takes his loss out on "the girl of his dreams".
- the first Woody short released by United Artists
- DirectorDick LundyStarsMel BlancSteve BlancBen HardawayWoody Woodpecker and Andy Panda are two (unemployed) musicians who sit in their office without food sans one last bean that a mouse eats. Fortunately, there is a banquet going on down the street at Mrs. Van Glutton's mansion. The two arrive at the mansion and instantly try the patience of butler Wally Walrus who doesn't appreciate the food filching ways of the two. Eventually, an enormous food fight erupts with Wally caught in the middle, ending with Wally chasing the two away with a shotgun.
- co-starring Andy Panda
- DirectorDick LundyStarsMel BlancBen HardawayJack MatherAfter Woody is thrown out of a city park for being a vagrant, Woody deems himself "an outcast" and decides he needs to advance his living conditions. He reads in the newspaper that millionaire Wally Walrus is looking to adopt a baby boy. He dresses himself as a baby and leaves himself on Wally's doorstep. At first, Wally is pleased as punch to become a father but soon realizes Woody to be the freeloader that he is and impatiently tries to exterminate him with a dynamite ball.
- DirectorDick LundyStarsMel BlancBen HardawayLionel StanderWoody Woodpecker buys life insurance with the benifactor being Buzz Buzzard who wants to collect early.~ nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song
- Buzz Buzzard's first appearance
- Lionel Stander provided the voice of Buzz Buzzard for his earliest appearances. When Stander was blacklisted in 1951, Dal McKennon stepped in as Buzz as well as Wally and Dooley.
- the first appearance of Woody Woodpecker's theme song, "The Woody Woodpecker Song". The song became the first and only tune from an animated short subject to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Lantz adopted the song as Woody's theme music from then on.
- DirectorDick LundyStarsHeck AllenMel BlancPinto ColvigThe bad guy buzzard has been taking out all the sheriffs. Woody rides into town and signs on as sheriff, and faces off with the buzzard.
- DirectorDick LundyStarsMel BlancPinto ColvigBen HardawayA thoroughly thirsty Woody Woodpecker overhears a radio advertisement for the "Drooler's Delight" ice cream soda. Armed with his only quarter, he heads to the malt shop to relieve his thirst. Unfortunately, his quarter is stolen along the way by greedy Buzz Buzzard and a free-for-all ensues between the two over it culminating with Woody disguising himself as a woman to earn Buzz's affections and retrieve his quarter.
- the last Woody short directed by Dick Lundy
- the last time Ben Hardaway will voice Woody
- the last Woody short released by United Artists
- DirectorWalter LantzDick LundyStarsMel BlancGrace StaffordWoody is a wandering cowboy who notices an ad at a western post office advertising for a new mail delivery rider. Woody accepts but is warned of mail thief Buzz Buzzard. Woody regards the buzzard as a pushover and begins his trek. Sure enough, Woody eventually encounters the buzzard who uses every trick possible to snatch the mail from Woody's hands spreading tacks across the road and dynamiting a bridge. But Woody is prepared for Buzz's antics...
- the first time Grace Stafford provided the voice for Woody. She will provide the voice for Woody in every of its appearances until 1991.
- the first Woody short released by Universal International
- DirectorWalter LantzDick LundyStarsMel BlancBen HardawayGrace StaffordAn exhausted Woody is walking the streets looking for a place to rest. He happens upon Wally Walrus' bed & board which welcomes boarders. He enters Wally's house, settles into bed, and sets his alarm. Unfortunately, Woody tends to be a noisy roommate with his constant snoring, chuckling, and moving about. Wally tries to silence him by all means possible but all attempts fail until, finally, the alarm goes off, the sun rises, a rested Woody leaves, and Wally has had one heck of a sleepless night.
- the last Woody short written by Ben Hardaway
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancJoe HaymanGrace StaffordWoody Woodpecker plays croquet, but someone underground gets upset.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancGrace StaffordOut west, tenderfoot Woody uses his slingshot against Indian Buzz Buzzard in a shooting contest.
- the first pairing of Buzz Buzzard & Wally Walrus
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancJack MatherGrace StaffordWoody Woodpecker eats everything that ants and beavers bring to his home.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsThe StarlightersMel BlancGrace StaffordFor a chance at free food at a barn dance, Woody dresses as a girl to fool ticket taker Wally Walrus.
- co-starring Andy Panda & Oswald Rabbit
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancBen HardawayGrace StaffordThe 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...
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancGrace StaffordAn elderly, suicidal Woody Woodpecker reminisces about his life as a woodpecker, as his ability to peck wood has vanished, leaving his life seemingly without energy.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancDal McKennonDick NelsonWeary Woody Woodpecker is hitchhiking across the desert trying to thumb a ride on a passing stagecoach. He adds artificial limbs and dresses like a girl and has no problem in getting on the next one but is tossed out when his disguise is discovered. After eating a huge meal he decides to get even with the driver and uses a poster of the wanted Buzz Buzzard as a tool. But the real Buzz shows up and, when Woody resorts to his female disguise, the dastardly villain makes a play for him. Aftera wild mêlée, Woody has the driver and the bandit pulling the stage.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancDick NelsonGrace StaffordWoody is challenged to a zany game of golf.
- DirectorWalter LantzStarsMel BlancDick NelsonGrace StaffordBuzz Buzzard tries to scalp Woody for his feathered head, as a gift to an Indian maiden.
- DirectorDon PattersonStarsMel BlancDal McKennonDick NelsonWoody Woodpecker is having a good time wandering around the County Fair and blowing his bubble gum, and is a big distraction to Buzzy Buzzard's attempts to sell his home-made tonics. Buzzy grabs Woody to demonstrate his wares on him and Woody is not pleased at all with this turn of events. He runs into a magician's tent and uses all the equipment there to make Buzzy's life miserable.
- DirectorDon PattersonStarsDal McKennonGrace StaffordWoody's home is beset by an invasion of voracious alien termites.
- this is the first short in the series where, at the end of the short, Woody and the other characters laugh
- DirectorDon PattersonStarsDal McKennonNestor PaivaGrace StaffordWoody is a city street sweeper and hates his job. After being abused by policeman Wally Walrus, he decides to quit and disguises himself as a policeman, kicking the rubbish can away which scoops up Wally sending him into the harbour shrinking his uniform. The angry Wally chases the disguised Woody into the circus. Because he is mistaken for a child, he is denied access but enters backstage disguised as an elephant. Finally, after a long struggle with Woody under the big top, he captures the redhead and returns him to his job as street sweeper.
- DirectorDon PattersonStarsDal McKennonGrace StaffordWoody Woodpecker, a 17th-century lamplighter, while making his rounds one night hears that the ship of the notorious pirate Buccaneer Buzzard has been spotted in the harbor. Knowing that a substantial reward has been offered for the capture of the pirate, Woody sets out to capture the pirate and claim the reward. Bucaneer Buzzard has other ideas, one of which involves feeding Woody to a shark.
- DirectorDon PattersonStarsDal McKennonGrace StaffordIn this Walter Lantz production (U-I production number 8326), distributed by Universal-International long before MCA/Universal existed, Woody Woodpecker tangles with a burly lumberjack over food. A furious battle ensues until a giant buzz-saw chases the lumberjack away and Woody returns to his dinner.
- final appearance of Wally Walrus
- last cartoon pairing Buzz Buzzard & Wally Walrus
- DirectorDon PattersonStarsDal McKennonJohn T. SmithGrace StaffordWoody Woodpecker is watching a wrestling match on TV. It's "Precious Percy" (Woody's favorite) versus his opponent, "Bull Dozer". Eventually, Woody's dog gets overexcited and inadvertantlty wrecks his TV set, forcing to Woody to watch the match in person at the arena. While in the audience, he often helps Percy win the match through underhanded tactics. However, when Bull still defeats Percy, Woody decides to take on Bull all by himself.
- DirectorDon PattersonStarsMel BlancGladys HollandDal McKennonWoody Woodpecker and Buzz Buzzard are hotel bellhops in this Walter Lantz Technicolor Cartune (production number 8330.) The are admiring Ga-Ga Gazoon, glamorous French actress, in a fan magazine, when the desk informs them she is about to arrive at the hotel. Woody and Buzz compete (with dirty tricks) to serve her.
- DirectorDon PattersonPaul J. SmithStarsMel BlancJohn T. SmithGrace StaffordWoody is asked by a law officer to serve a court summons on Buzz Buzzard. Woody accepts but when Buzz takes a look at the summons, he disposes of Woody and thwarts all his attempts to deliver it. Finally, Woody uses hypnotism to get Buzz to accept it and, just for kicks, hypnotizes him into thinking he's various animals and getting him to wander around a skyscraper skeleton. Finally, Woody brings Buzz into the officer who serves Woody with a court summons for practicing hypnotism out of season. The enraged woodpecker in turn hypnotizes Buzz into thinking he's a hungry giant and the officer is a ham sandwich.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithDon PattersonStarsGladys HollandDal McKennonGrace StaffordWoody Woodpecker is the small town sheriff who must face the feared gunslinger Buzz Buzzard.
- DirectorDon PattersonStarsMel BlancHarry LangJohn T. SmithWoody 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.
- DirectorDon PattersonStarsMel BlancDal McKennonNestor PaivaAn angry volcano god in the South Pacific demands a sacrifice, and a lovely young woman in the god's service finds the perfect candidates in the form of two American sailors: Woody Woodpecker and Buzz Buzzard.
- DirectorDon PattersonStarsMel BlancDaws ButlerDick NelsonThis cartoon is a parody of the then current TV show, "Dragnet". Police are warned of an escaped criminal, "The Bat", who possesses a super strength tonic. He hides the tonic in Woody's house hoping to retreive it the next day. When the listless Woody awakes, he imbibes the tonic, giving him the strength of twenty men which he immediately tests. Eventually, "The Bat" lures Woody to his hideout in hopes of retrieving his bottle, resulting in a man-to-man (bat?) showdown between Woody and "The Bat".
- DirectorDon PattersonStarsMel BlancDal McKennonGrace StaffordWoody is driving down the city street singing a "screwy" driving song. Used car dealer Buzz Buzzard tries to interest Woody in buying a new car (after sabotaging the one he has, natch). He shows him various cars but they all are utterly lacking in quality and leave a lot to be desired. After getting him to try a hot rod with a record player under the hood (playing a record of "hot rod sounds" which, alas, gets switched to "animal sounds" on the record's other side), Buzz comes up with the idea of rejuvenating Woody's old car and selling it to him at a vast price. Woody's response to this is to put Buzz through the "rejuvenating machine" where the buzzard gets a car built around him and is driven home by Woody.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDal McKennonGrace StaffordAnne WhitfieldWoody Woodpecker and Buzz Buzzard fight over who will take the heartthrob Winnie Woodpecker out on a date at the high school "sock hop".
- DirectorDon PattersonStarsMel BlancGladys HollandGrace StaffordWhen 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.
- DirectorDon PattersonStarsDaws ButlerDal McKennonGrace StaffordA wanted criminal hides inside a piano that Woody Woodpecker is tuning, and forces Woody at gunpoint to play said piano as cover so he can escape the completely oblivious cop.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDaws ButlerGrace StaffordWoody Woodpecker and Happy the dog both seek shelter in a house, but Woody finds multiple ways to get the dog kicked out.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsColleen CollinsGrace StaffordWoody Woodpecker is working at a broom factory when a witch comes in for broom repairs. Rather than paying, she attempts to steal her completed broom.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDal McKennonGrace StaffordWoody escapes from getting stuffed at a taxidermy school and is pursued by Strongnose the bloodhound, who has a nose for trouble.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsStan FrebergDaws ButlerJune ForayWoody 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!
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDal McKennonGrace StaffordA western bank robber makes a getaway and hides his loot in a tree. Woody Woodpecker pops out of the tree with the bag containing the money. Woody takes off with the robber in close pursuit. The chase leads back to the town where the robber makes many attempts to retrieve the bag but is always outsmarted by Woody. A posse arrives on the scene and Woody delivers both the robber and the loot into the sheriff's hands.
- Dapper Denver Dooley's first appearance
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDal McKennonGrace StaffordWoody inherits a large sum of money, and Buzz Buzzard enacts an elaborate scheme to steal all of it, all the while being tailed by a detective.
- DirectorAlex LovyTex AveryStarsDaws ButlerDal McKennonGrace StaffordA 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.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDaws ButlerGrace StaffordPierre Bear runs a bowling ball factory in the great North. Pierre mistakenly chops down Woody's tree-house and converts it into a bowling ball. Despite this, Woody decides to still reside in it, and goes about trying to outwit the bear. Pierre uses a water hose, air pump, deep freeze and even hocus-pocus to evict the tree's tenant, but all he gets are knotted bowler's fingers.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDal McKennonJune ForayGrace StaffordWoody Woodpecker is reading "Hansel and Gretel" to his two young cousins, Knothead, a boy, and Splinter,a girl. The children decide to get lost in a forest. A cat spots them and lures them to a gingerbread house. The cat tries to make woodpecker-pie out of the kids, but they outsmart him and escape.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDal McKennonGrace StaffordWoody Woodpecker is working as a woodcarver, a very apt occupation for a woodpecker, and is carving a wooden when the outlaw, Chief Charley Horse, being pursued by the sheriff, ducks into Woody's shop. The sheriff also arrives and there is much confusion on the premises before Woody gets the reward for capturing the chief.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithDon PattersonStarsDal McKennonMel BlancGrace StaffordWoody 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.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsBob JohnsonGrace StaffordA 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.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsBob JohnsonGrace StaffordWoody 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.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDal McKennonGrace StaffordWoody and a temperamental artist compete for a big prize to see who can paint the best painting of a desert flower.
- DirectorAlex LovyStarsDaws ButlerGrace StaffordFrom 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.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDal McKennonJune ForayGrace StaffordKnothead and Splinter, Woody Woodpecker's nephews, are reading "Little Red Riding Hood" and are requested to deliver a bag of goodies to Grandma in the forest. They meet a wolf, who takes a short-cut to Grandmas, but Splinter and Knothead take an even shorter cut and get there before him. After the get through wearing him out, Grandma decides the wolf is a good prospect for matrimony and drags him off to the altar.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDal McKennonGrace StaffordA 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.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithAlex LovyStarsDaws ButlerJune ForayGrace StaffordSalesman Woody Woodpecker tries to unload his wares on a hibernating bear.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDaws ButlerJune ForayGrace StaffordWoody Woodpecker tells Knothead and Splinter the story of how woodpeckers have influenced world history.
- DirectorAlex LovyStarsDaws ButlerGrace StaffordThe Miracle Telephone Company attempts to stop Woody Woodpecker from pecking holes in its telephone poles.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDal McKennonMel BlancGrace Stafford
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDal McKennonGrace StaffordWoody 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.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDaws ButlerGrace StaffordWoody goes to Yellowstone National Park, where he encounters a bear who does anything to get food from people.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDal McKennonGrace StaffordMel BlancWoody gets a job selling insurance policies. He tries to sell one to a bum living on the poor side of town.
- DirectorAlex LovyStarsDaws ButlerGrace StaffordDeep 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.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithAlex LovyStarsDal McKennonGrace StaffordWoody Woodpecker is wandering around the wild west again seeking to find some buried gold and he tangles with a crook who wishes to find the gold for himself. Woody finally disposes of the villain by shooting him into outer space via a rocket, another favorite method used by Woody to rid himself of whatever he wanted rid of at the moment. The horse steals the film.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDal McKennonGrace StaffordWoody, exasperated at continually having to pay rent, encounters a leprechaun woodpecker who grants him three wishes.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDaws ButlerGrace StaffordWoody goes to the Everglades to make money turning alligators into suitcases, but one alligator plans on having Woody for dinner.
- Gabby Gator's first appearance
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDaws ButlerGrace Stafford
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDal McKennonGrace StaffordWoody.competes to become a king's jester.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDaws ButlerGrace StaffordWoody 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.)
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDaws ButlerGrace StaffordMel BlancWoody 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.
- DirectorAlex LovyStarsDal McKennonGrace StaffordBandit Denver Dooley travels to a lawless western town where he notices a sign, "No Bandits Allowed. Signed, Marshall Woody Woodpecker". Dooley pays no heed to the sign and confronts a Mexican who claims to know about the bird but in the end, just says, "I don't know him, Senor!" Dooley causes trouble at a bar and marshall Woody steps in. Dooley demands a showdown which Woody keeps besting him at. Dooley chases after the redhead asking the Mexican for directions (The Mexican again says, "I don't know him, Senor!"). After a few more chase gags, Dooley again encounters the Mexican and asks for directions. At this point, the Mexican reveals himself to have been Marshall Woody all along and arrests Dooley (still saying, "I don't know him, Senor!").
- DirectorAlex LovyStarsDal McKennonGrace StaffordCarl GraysonThe local rocket society is looking for a new volunteer to blast to the moon, the only other person having been sent there being Professor Dingledong who has not returned thus far. They decide to send mailman Woody Woodpecker who, upon landing on the moon's surface, encounters the aforementioned Dingledong who demands possession of Woody's rocket so that he may return to Earth. After many a tussle, Woody and Dingledong are both returned to Earth's atmosphere whereupon Dingledong takes revenge on the rocket society chairman by blasting *him* into space!
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDal McKennonGrace StaffordWoody competes in a golf match against Dapper Denver Dooley.
- final appearance of Dapper Denver Dooley
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDaws ButlerGrace Stafford
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDal McKennonGrace StaffordWoody Woodpecker's Kiddie League baseball team is in the championship game finals with the Bubble Gummers. Woody's screwball antics cause all manner of confusing things to happen in the game, including a fracas between the umpire and the fans. Woody's team, of course, wins.
- DirectorAlex LovyStarsDal McKennonGrace StaffordTerrance 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.
- DirectorPaul J. SmithStarsDal McKennonGrace StaffordA western bandit, caught by Woody, escapes jail and vows revenge against the wacky woodpecker.