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Season 1948

  • S1948E01 Robin Hoodlum

    • December 23, 1948

    The King appoints the Crow to be the new Sheriff of Nottingham and demands that he catch the outlaw Robin Hood (played by the Fox.)

Season 1949

  • S1949E01 The Magic Fluke

    • March 27, 1949

    When dance band leader Lips Fox leaves his drummer (the Crow) behind to become Foxini, the highfalutin conductor at Corneggy Hall, his former partner gives him a magician’s magic wand to use as a conductor’s baton.

  • S1949E02 The Ragtime Bear

    • September 8, 1949

    In the first Mr. Magoo cartoon, the near-sighted Magoo mistakes a banjo-playing bear for his nephew Waldo while vacationing at the Hodge Podge Lodge.

Season 1950

  • S1950E01 Punchy de Leon

    • January 12, 1950

    In 1503, the King of Spain posts a reward for proof of the Fountain of Youth, so the Fox and the Crow travel to Florida to retrieve it.

  • S1950E02 Spellbound Hound

  • S1950E03 The Miner's Daughter

    • May 25, 1950

    Clementine, the daughter of a crusty gold prospector, falls for John Harvard, who stakes a claim too close for daddy’s comfort.

  • S1950E04 Giddyap

    • July 27, 1950

    Jack the horse pulls an ice wagon but reminisces about his glory days in show business as “Jack the Hoofer” and tries for a comeback.

  • S1950E05 Trouble Indemnity

  • S1950E06 The Popcorn Story

    • November 30, 1950

    The adventures of farm boy/inventor Wilbur Shucks, and his blundering into the discovery of popcorn, are recounted.

  • S1950E07 Bungled Bungalow

Season 1951

  • S1951E01 Gerald McBoing Boing

    • January 25, 1951

    UPA adapts a story written by Dr. Suess for a children’s record; when Gerald McBoing Boing begins to talk, it is not in words but in sound effects. Picked on at school, he runs away from home.

  • S1951E02 Family Circus

    • January 25, 1951

    Little Patsy causes all manner of havoc in her household due to her jealousy of the attention Daddy devotes to her baby brother, Butch.

  • S1951E03 Barefaced Flatfoot

    • April 26, 1951

  • S1951E04 Georgie and the Dragon

    • September 27, 1951

    A young Scottish lad named Georgie finds a baby dragon on the shoreline, takes it home, and plans to ask his father Angus if he can adopt it as a pet.

  • S1951E05 Fuddy Duddy Buddy

  • S1951E06 The Wonder Gloves

    • November 29, 1951

    A janitor stumbles upon a pair of magical boxing gloves that give him the edge he needs to become a champion fighter.

  • S1951E07 Grizzly Golfer

  • S1951E08 Man on the Land

    Informational film about the development of hunting throughout history and agriculture in America

  • S1951E09 Frosty the Snowman

    • December 21, 1951

    An animated musical number of the beloved classic song based off everyone's favorite snowman Frosty.

Season 1952

  • S1952E01 The Oompahs

    • January 24, 1952

    Mr. Oompah is a serious-minded tuba, while his son Orville is just a little horn that likes to jazz it up with his other instrument friends.

  • S1952E02 Sloppy Jalopy

  • S1952E03 Rooty Toot Toot

    • March 27, 1952

    "Frankie & Johnny" is retold as a courtroom case set to a swinging jazz score.

  • S1952E04 The Dog Snatcher

  • S1952E05 Willie the Kid

    • June 26, 1952

    Modern suburbia is overrun by the neighborhood preschoolers acting out a violent Western scenario, six-shooters blazing before naptime.

  • S1952E06 Pink and Blue Blues

  • S1952E07 Pete Hothead

    • September 25, 1952

    Pete Hothead has ordered a radio as a present for his wife, and when a package containing a parrot arrives at the house, Pete storms off to the department store to complain.

  • S1952E08 Hotsy Footsy

    • October 23, 1952

  • S1952E09 Madeline

    • November 27, 1952

    An adaptation of Ludwig Bemelmans' classic children's book, narrated by Gladys Holland, about "twelve little girls in two straight lines” and the smallest and most adventurous of them, Madeline.

  • S1952E10 Captains Outrageous

Season 1953

  • S1953E01 Little Boy with a Big Horn

    • March 26, 1953

    Little Ollie disturbs his parents and everyone in town when he practices playing his tuba, resulting in the formation of the “Stop Ollie” committee.

  • S1953E02 The Emperor's New Clothes

    • April 30, 1953

    In this retelling of the Hans Christian Andersen story, the Emperor has nothing to wear for the upcoming parade and is offered a new garment woven with cloth that is invisible to those who are “unusually stupid.”

  • S1953E03 Safety Spin

  • S1953E04 Christopher Crumpet

    • June 25, 1953

    Christopher Crumpet wants a rocketship – a REAL rocketship, mind you – and whenever he doesn’t get his way, he turns into a chicken.

  • S1953E05 Gerald McBoing Boing's Symphony

    • July 5, 1953

    Gerald the noisemaking boy works at the KZX radio network, where his talents at sound effects are put to the test when a full symphony orchestra fails to show up as scheduled.

  • S1953E06 Magoo's Masterpiece

  • S1953E07 The Unicorn in the Garden

    • September 24, 1953

    In this adaptation of the story by James Thurber, a meek husband sees a unicorn in his garden one sunny morning and his shrewish wife tries to get him thrown in the “booby hatch.”

  • S1953E08 Magoo Slept Here

  • S1953E09 The Tell-Tale Heart

    • December 27, 1953

    James Mason narrates this dark adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story of murder and madness.

Season 1954

  • S1954E01 Bringing Up Mother

    • January 14, 1954

    John Smith recounts the trials and tribulations of childhood, such as getting a baby brother when he was promised a sister.

  • S1954E02 Ballet-Oop

    • February 11, 1954

    Mr. Hotfoot announces to the patient instructor of his School of Ballet that she has but three weeks to prepare four new pupils for an important upcoming Ballet Festival.

  • S1954E03 Magoo Goes Skiing

  • S1954E04 The Man on the Flying Trapeze

    • April 8, 1954

    Downtrodden Wesley loses the affections of his girlfriend Fifi to dashing trapeze artist The Great Alonzo, daredevil of the canvas top.

  • S1954E05 Fudget's Budget

    • June 17, 1954

    George and Irene Fudget find themselves underwater after they have trouble keeping to their household budget.

  • S1954E06 Kangaroo Courting

  • S1954E07 How Now Boing Boing

    • September 9, 1954

    The parents of Gerald McBoing Boing bring their boy to see Professor Joyce, teacher of voice, who is determined to teach Gerald to say “how now brown cow.”

  • S1954E08 Destination Magoo

Season 1955

  • S1955E01 When Magoo Flew

  • S1955E02 Spare the Child

    • January 27, 1955

    Junior makes a birthday wish to trade sizes with his father, so the discipline issues of the household are reversed.

  • S1955E03 Four Wheels, No Brakes

    • March 24, 1955

    Pete Hothead’s wife wins a new purple car in a contest while Pete puts a down payment on a new red Widgeon; thinking the dealership has made a mistake upon delivery, Pete blows his stack and returns it.

  • S1955E04 Magoo's Check-Up

  • S1955E05 Baby Boogie

    • May 19, 1955

    A little girl wants to know where babies come from; when her daddy tells her “the hospital,” she goes there to get the scoop.

  • S1955E06 Magoo's Express

  • S1955E07 Madcap Magoo

  • S1955E08 Christopher Crumpet's Playmate

    • September 8, 1955

    Marvin and Abigail Crumpet won’t allow little Christopher to have a dog, but they will allow him to have an “imaginary” playmate: Webster the Elephant.

  • S1955E09 Stage Door Magoo

  • S1955E10 The Rise of Duton Lang

    • December 1, 1955

    Rotund chemistry genius Duton Lang lives in his basement laboratory and creates a chemical concoction that, when sprinkled on food, causes him to lose weight.

  • S1955E11 Magoo Makes News

Season 1956

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Season 1958

Season 1959

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x1 Christopher Crumpet's Playmate (work print)

    Rare work-in-progress footage from Christopher Crumpet's Playmate (1955). Original pencil animation was photographed, in advance of final ink and paint, to test if the movements were what the director wanted. These pencil tests were usually discarded after production. This section was found in the estate of animator Pete Burness.