Half Empty Saddles
'Half Empty Saddles' opens with Woody Woodpecker looking for an old treasure in a Western ghost town.
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'His Better Elf' starts with Woody Woodpecker being poor, full of debts and living near a city dump.
View ArticleEverglade Raid
'Everglade Raid' opens with Woody Woodpecker reading a newspaper add telling tourists to come to the Everglades to make a fortune on alligator bags.
View ArticleTree’s a Crowd
Woody rides a bus through Colonel Fleabush's 60,000 acre estate full of trees. Woodpeckers are not welcome there, and when the colonel discovers Woody, he orders his big yellow cat Filbur to catch the...
View ArticleJittery Jester
'Jittery Jester' takes place in a medieval castle where Dooley is court jester to a bored king.
View ArticleBallyhooey
'Ballyhooey' was the last Walter Lantz cartoon directed by Alex Lovy. In 1959 Lovy left Lantz to become an associate producer for the now clearly successful Hanna-Barbera studio.
View ArticleRough and Tumbleweed
'Rough and Tumbleweed' introduces Inspector Willoughby, an incarnation of the little guard from 'Salmon Yeggs' (1958). Inspector Willoughby is a very, very Droopy-like character: he is small,...
View ArticleFranken-stymied
'Franken-stymied' starts with a classic stormy scene and Woody Woodpecker trying to hide from the storm in a castle. Inside the castle a Frankenstein-like mad scientist has made a chicken-plucking...
View ArticleMother’s Little Helper
'Mother's Little Helper' is the second cartoon featuring 'The Beary Family', new cartoon stars that Walter Lantz had launched in April 1962 in 'Fowled-up Birthday', and which would last until 1972, the...
View ArticleClash and Carry
'Clash and Carry' pairs Wally Walrus with Chilly Willy. The latter is hungry and tries to steal fish from Wally's fish market.
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