Season 1933

E1. Building a Building

Jan 7, 1933 · 7m

Mickey saves box-lunch-seller Minnie from Pete, who's boss on a construction site.

E2. The Mad Doctor

Jan 21, 1933 · 7m

Mickey dreams that Pluto has been captured by an evil scientist who hopes to graft his head onto a hen's body. When Mickey tries to save the hound from the villain's castle, he ends up on the operating table himself.

E3. Mickey's Pal Pluto

Feb 18, 1933 · 7m

Pluto rescues some kittens, but when Mickey and Minnie seem to treat them well at his own expense, his evil side (shown as a devil dog) convinces him to start a rivalry with the kits.

E4. Birds in the Spring

Mar 11, 1933 · 7m

Two birds rejoice over the hatching of their three eggs; as they grow, the hatchlings are taught to sing and fly. One falls from the nest and has adventures with a rattlesnake and a beehive before finding his way home.

E5. Mickey's Mellerdrammer

Mar 18, 1933 · 7m

Mickey and the gang stage "Uncle Tom's Cabin," but the crowd receives Horace's villainous performance as Simon Legree too seriously, bombing him off the stage with vegetables. Clarabelle's dramatic performance as a fleeing slave is also ruined, when dogs that are supposed to be chasing her are led astray and through the orchestra pit by a cat.

E6. Ye Olden Days

Apr 8, 1933 · 10m

A stage play shows Mickey as a wandering minstrel, saving Maid Minnie from having to marry Prince Goofy of Poopoopadoo.

E7. Father Noah's Ark

Apr 8, 1933 · 10m

A musical retelling of the Biblical story of Noah and the ark.

E8. The Mail Pilot

May 13, 1933 · 7m

Through rain, sleet, snow and mail bandits, Mickey's mail must go through.

E9. Three Little Pigs

May 27, 1933 · 7m

Three pigs set off to set up housekeeping, and learn to deal with life and wolves.

E10. Mickey's Mechanical Man

Jun 17, 1933 · 7m

Mickey's built a robot named Champ who's going to win Mickey a prize by fighting Beppo the Gorilla, the Kongo Killer, in a boxing ring. The robot only works in fits and starts, though, so things look grim for a while. Luckily, Minnie resuscitates Champ by honking her car horn at him.

E11. Mickey's Gala Premier

Jul 1, 1933 · 7m

Mickey and the gang attend a premiere of his latest cartoon at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, and lots of Hollywood celebrities of the time are all there to see it.

E12. Old King Cole

Jul 29, 1933 · 7m

The Merry Old Soul throws a jazz party for the citizens of Storyland, featuring hepped-up renditions of everything from "Three Blind Mice" to "Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater.

E13. Lullaby Land

Aug 19, 1933 · 7m

A baby falls asleep. The little one and his stuffed puppy visit Lullaby Land, filled with everything that a baby needs. He dreams of a land where powder puffs and pacifiers grow on trees. But look out! Stay out of the Forbidden Garden, where "things are sharp and things are hot, and baby mustn't touch!"

E14. Puppy Love

Sep 2, 1933 · 7m

Mickey and Pluto come to call on Minnie and Fifi, but when Pluto exchanges the chocolates Mickey was going to give as a gift with the bone he has for Fifi, Minnie thinks Mickey did it and a violent argument starts. Mickey and Minnie each vow to give up the opposite sex... but they don't keep those vows for long.

E15. The Pied Piper

Sep 16, 1933 · 7m

Based on the classic tale of a mysterious piper who rids a town of its rat infestation with his music. When the townsfolk refuse to pay the piper his fee, he lures all the town's children away to a magical land in the same manner.

E16. The Steeple Chase

Sep 30, 1933 · 7m

Colonel Rolf Rolfe has bet his last "bottom dollar" on his horse, Thunderbolt, to win. When the horse discovers a gin bottle and drinks it, though, Mickey has to costume two stable hands as a horse and ride them in the race, instead.

E17. The Pet Store

Oct 28, 1933 · 7m

Tony Dinero enlists Mickey to watch the shop while he's away at lunch. Unfortunately Beppo the Gorilla escapes from his cage and uses Minnie as Fay Wray in a King Kong imitation.

E18. Giantland

Nov 25, 1933 · 7m

Mickey tells a crowd of orphans a version of "Jack and the Beanstalk" in which he plays the leading role and takes on Rumplewatt, the "king of the giants - prince of the tyrants."

E19. The Night Before Christmas

Dec 9, 1933 · 7m

Loose rendition of Clement C. Moore's famous poem. St. Nick is seen delivering the toys he made in last year's "Santa's Workshop.