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- DirectorSeymour KneitelThomas JohnsonStarsJackson BeckJack MercerSid RaymondA Modern Madcap animated short in which the baseball teams the Redskins play the Bluesocks. The manager is threatened to be sent down to the bush leagues if he doesn't win the pennant. An Indian Chief and a baseball playing horse may be the answer to the manager's woes.Series premiere
- DirectorDave TendlarNick TafuriStarsJackson BeckMaurice GosfieldGrateful Gus, a happy-go-lucky panhandler, puts the touch on a bank executive who is hastily absconding with the bank's liquid assets. The banker gives Gus a ten-dollar bill, and Gus is so filled with gratitude that he sticks closer to the embezzler than glue, no matter where the robber goes. This eventually causes the apprehension of the worn-out robber. A policeman gives Gus a reward and Gus then turns his grateful attention to him.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelThomas JohnsonStarsJackson BeckJack MercerMae QuestelJonathan P. Grisley, the president of a toy company, is sent to a psychiatrist to find out why he plays with toys. He goes back to childhood and thinks that he's got "toy phobia".
- DirectorSeymour KneitelThomas JohnsonStarsGilbert MackJack MercerA French shopkeeper's life is disrupted by a daily parade. The parade consists of "ze king, ze premier, all ze lords and ministers, army, navy, department sanitaire." When the "department sanitaire" hits a pothole, all the garbage gets dumped onto the street in front of his store.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelThomas JohnsonStarsGilbert MackJack MercerA ghost is hired by a real-estate agent on the behalf of a Scots-client to haunt the tight-wad's mansion while he is away so he won't have to pay for a caretaker. A weary hobo, who doesn't believe in ghost, tries to move in the invitingly-empty domicile...and rues the day.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelFrank EndresStarsJack MercerMae QuestelSid RaymondA man schemes to get rich with a talking horse.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelThomas JohnsonStarsMae QuestelJackson BeckT.V. Fuddlehead is a television fan. He watches the early-shows, the late late-shows and the in-between-shows. He buys all the products advertised on the commercials. He wins a huge home with all the luxuries but it is built on an island in the middle of nowhere...and has no television reception.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelThomas JohnsonStarsGilbert MackJack MercerParamount Modern Madcap animated short. Professor Schmaltz sets out to prove that music calms the savage beast with the help of Sir Cedric Gluttonhead.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelWm. B. PattengillStarsPhil KramerJack MercerMae QuestelJeepers makes an effort to help Creepers find his long lost love.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelThomas JohnsonStarsJackson BeckJack MercerA devil appears on the shoulder of a man who has been down on his luck since his Friday-the-13th birthday. The green-suited tempter convinces him to gamble away his last dime.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelThomas JohnsonStarsJackson BeckJack MercerParamount Modern Madcap animated short. Sheriff, who prohibits guns in his town, must take down Dirty Dan, an outlaw in the Wild West.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelIrv SpectorStarsJack MercerA Paramount Modern Madcap animated short - Luigi the blacksmith pounds his hammer to the annoyance of the neighbouring symphony. Of course the theatre owner must put a stop to Luigi's infernal noise making.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelNick TafuriStarsGilbert MackJack MercerMae QuestelA Paramount Modern Madcap animated short. Henry, being a hen-pecked husband doing all the chores, solves his problem by purchasing a robot maid.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelThomas JohnsonStarsJackson BeckJack MercerMae QuestelA Paramount Modern Madcap animated short. Two rival TV cowboy stars, Wild Bill Hiccup and Quiet Burp, compete for the right to sign a little boy's autograph book.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelThomas JohnsonStarsGilbert MackJack MercerMae QuestelA Paramount Modern Madcap animated short. Mike the Masquerader tries to steal a diamond collar from the neck of a poodle.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelIrv SpectorStarsDayton AllenJack MercerCorinne OrrA Russian matchmaker tries to find a wife for a space alien who has landed in the neighborhood.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelGraham PlaceStarsJack MercerCecil RoyA boy with a springlike spine bounces his way through childhood.Instead of painting the film on cels, animators Place and Feuer created paper cutouts of the characters to create shadow effects
- DirectorSeymour KneitelThomas JohnsonStarsJack MercerCecil RoyA Paramount Modern Madcap animated short. A child psychologist is hired to reform a mischievous boy named Terry.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelWm. B. PattengillStarsGilbert MackJack MercerSid RaymondMike the masquerader disguises himself as a kid in order to rob a bank.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelMyron WaldmanStarsJack MercerA Paramount Modern Madcap animated short. Smedley, the loyal butler, is challenged to prevent his master Sir Perceval Prunepit from his compulsion to draw moustaches on anyone he sees.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelNick TafuriStarsDayton AllenA Paramount Modern Madcap animated short. Young alien with a special ray gun invades Earth and makes life difficult for a circus ringmaster.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelNick TafuriStarsJack MercerProfessor Schmaltz captures a termite to study, and gets more than he bargained for when it wreaks havoc in his laboratory.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelIrv SpectorStarsEddie LawrenceCorinne OrrThe harried wife of an incorrigible cigarette smoker confines her husband to an institution that promises to break him of his habit.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelIrv SpectorStarsDayton AllenNorma MacMillanA Paramount Modern Madcap animated short. Chaz Huntington, TV interviewer, is at the home of the famous Gabby Lamette describing a day in the life of a celebrity. Unfortunately her husband Minton Silva is jealous of all men attracted to Gabby with challenging results for the TV interviewer.
- DirectorSeymour KneitelIrv SpectorStarsJack MercerCorinne OrrA trumpet-playing cat and his jazz band invade Ye Olde Squaresville, a kingdom that has outlawed all but the squarest music.