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- A city girl revenuer spies on illegal whiskey making in the hills.
- Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.
- In the Civil War, Dave Elkin joins up with the rebel forces. He is captured and is taken to Washington and put in a POW camp. There, he kills one of the cruel guards and is sentenced to die for it. But before his execution, Dave's parents appeal directly to president Lincoln for a pardon.
- From his apartment, where he lives a cheerless widower's life, overlooking Washington Park, Alan Dale sees a refined, but poverty-stricken old gentleman on one of the park benches. Calling his butler, he instructs him to go down and tell the old man he would like to see him. When the butler approaches the elderly man the old fellow is somewhat skeptical, but finally consents to go with him. Alan receives his guest cordially and tells him why he has requested him to come and invites him to dinner. During the meal the old man tells his life's story: how he married a young woman, and after the birth of a little daughter, she died. How his daughter had married a young fellow and gone to live in New York, and how he had lost his money. The last news he had received of her was of her death. As he recites his story visions of the events appear before us and we have no trouble following them. Alan, at the conclusion of the story, eagerly grasps the old gentleman's hand and tells him that he is his daughter's son.
- Jimmy is an expert safe cracker that intends to knock over a small town's leading bank, but he stays there and gets a job instead. As a cashier, he falls in love with the president's daughter. Things go along well in his new life, until the arrival of a detective who's been on his trail, who tries to expose Jimmy as a crook, but can't get anyone to believe him.
- Finding himself discharged from a shoe store job and the girl of his affections, May, Johnny gets away from it all by becoming a tour guide for a group of travelers visiting Eygpt. Once there, he is conned into changing places with an itinerant sheik. Johnny finds that along with the colorful costumes, comes some property, including a fat, awful wife. Desperately trying to ditch his new status and responsibilities, he finds out that May is now in the hands of a bandit horde in the desert. He locates her and by cover of a sandstorm, escapes with her.
- With guitar in hand, George explains what goes into a good folk song, that they should include the words "Ireland" and "Mother." So he reduces his number to just a last line only, "She's that old Irish mother of mine!" In the main skit, Angela plays George's wife, and they discuss just what to do with their incorrigible (offscreen) son after he left her tied and gagged in a kitchen chair. They consider sending him to a strict military school, and George goes off to give him a talking to, but he also gets bound up.
- Worried he'll fail a test the bus company holds, Arnie's family tries him out, but he can't remember his own name when under pressure. He tries to acquire the answers from the company that composed the test, but gets responses to a butcher test instead. He doesn't realize it until he's actually taking the test. All entrants' answers are put on punch cards and fed into "Cora Ann" a computer. Arnie's card is accidentally punctured by Mr. Airedale so as to show he's ready to take over as president. He does, but when the job overwhelms him, he takes a college course to help. There, he gets caught up in a student protest against his own bus line.
- A young chiropractor is tricked by a tall, homely girl into marriage, but he ducks out the morning after the honeymoon. Months go by and he learns that his bride has become a mother. Obliged to his responsibilities, he returns. however, it's just another ruse, with three borrowed babies and a midget dressed as one standing in for his new children.
- An ex-convict butler helps a bankrupt horse-owner prove that he did not deliberately lose a race.
- Tired of vacationing at a mosquito infested lake, Arnie buys a lot from a fly-by-night swindler sight unseen, at "Vacation Villa Estates", believing it to be full of marinas and golf courses. It turns out to be a gator-choked quicksand swamp. He gets his kids to launch a high pressure presentation to sell it to hated neighbor Beagle, who refuses. But without Arnie's knowledge, they do successfully pitch it to his employer's wife, Mrs. Airedale. Desperate to prevent the boss from seeing the property, he tries keeping them home, then some last-minute improvements at the "estate" like laying a cement sidewalk, which sinks in the muck. Turns out Airedale, unlike Barkley, saw the place before purchasing it, and being a conservationist, wants to preserve it as is for a nature preserve.
- An infamous and dangerous train robber escapes from prison, and the judge sets out to bring capture him and send him back.
- Oswald goes to the theatre, and gets into a fight.
- In this Vitaphone act, stage and recording star Frances Williams sings "(a) "I'm the Only Boy in the World"; (b) "If It Takes Two hours to Make Philadelphia"; (c) "It Goes on Like That"; (d) "Oh Baby, Don't We Get along?" ...from The Sunday Times, (Perth,S.A.), 18 August 1929.
- The monologue has George commenting on the ongoing turmoil in the French government. He then demonstrates several items used in the playing of Mambo music, including gourds and mule bones. In the main skit, he has a ridiculously small Italian sports car that he tries to sell to ridiculously large Buddy Baer.
- Englishman Daniel Lane gets involved in the dynastic intrigues of an old desert sheik whose son and another Briton named Robert Barthampton plot against him. Lane's girlfriend Muriel visits him, determined to stop Lizette, whom she suspects is Lane's mistress. While there, the encampment is attacked by the plotters, and Barthampton is killed by Lane while threatening Muriel. Lizette is mortally wounded and dies after explaining she had no affair with Lane.
- The Canaries of the title is an allusion to the protagonists, caged by marriage. There are two unhappy, incompatible couples, one is a simple-living playwright and his sophisticated, bohemian wife, the other, a stuffy Eton and Oxford type whose spouse is a bored but fun-loving onetime tiller girl. They all spend a week-end holiday at the playwright's cottage, where he falls in love with the jolly chorine, and his friend falls for the playwright's highbrow wife.
- A half variety, half advertising film made by Fox Movietone News for the Studebaker Corporation, featuring some Broadway stars from shows like "Whoopee", "The Scandals" and "The Ziegfeld Follies". Also some Notre Dame football action, a "Vogue" fashion show, and an auto endurance demonstration showing the capabilities of Studebakers.
- Chinatown bus tour guide Charlie (Hines) finds that one of his lady riders (Louise Lorraine) is pursued by a Tong gang because she has a supposedly magic ring. They kidnap her and she's brought to a mysterious Mandarin's mansion, where Charlie goes to rescue her.
- Francis Byrd (Arthur), is in love with circus acrobat, and daughter of the show's owner, La Belle, and tries to join the show to be near her. However, his rival Oscar Thrust (Dane) is the keeper of a "Man-Eating Gorilla" named Bimbo, who's a featured act. He sabotages Byrd's efforts at impressing Belle, enough so she sees him as a coward. When the circus is travelling by train, Bimbo gets loose, rampaging through the cars, chasing Belle onto a roof , and the engineer off the engine. Byrd manages to stop the train, avoiding what would have been certain doom.
- Red appears as Clem Kadiddlehopper, Willie Lump-Lump, and San Fernando Red.
- A look in on the third grade class in a one- room country school, we find Clem Kadiddlehopper getting belted in the head by the kid in the desk behind him, so he dumps water on him, and other distractions. Instead of graduating, Clem gets dropped a grade. The Tide segment had McPugg laying on a rubdown table in his dressing room, talking to his unsympathetic trainer and manager after losing yet another fight. The final segment shows Private Willie Lump Lump ordered by Sergeant Benny Rubin to see the "G.I. Dentist" before he can be discharged. The doctor decides to pull a tooth. After wrestling it out of his mouth, the dentist remarks at the size of it, and Willie asks "Is it a boy or a girl?"
- On a whim, Mary, a high society girl works as a cabaret dancer in a shady New York nightclub. The crooked owner of the club is attempting to bunco a millionaire with the aid of Harry, who has fallen for Mary. She agrees to help in the scheme, but wishing to avoid putting him in real danger, asks old friend George to pose as the rich victim, but in a fit of jealousy, he double crosses them all.
- Five strangers band together to exact revenge on a man who ruined them financially.
- Poor working-class girl Stella marries wealthy Sidney Brock, recently jilted by his fiancée and social equal Connie. The two go through contentious times with the Brock patriarch, but when Stella becomes a mother, she seems to becomes accepted, although it's used as a way to shift Sidney's and the child's affections from her. Connie comes back into their lives, now seeking to reclaim Sidney, and manipulates the situation to convince Stella that he's been seeing her. So Stella decides to get a divorce, but fortunately, Sidney becomes aware of the deception in time.
- Jay C. Bruce, the official state of California fish and game lion hunter, is tasked with reducing the livestock-killing mountain lion population there. He and his dog, Ranger, trek through the western wilderness and have violent encounters with coyotes, snakes and a tarantula, before tracking down a huge cat seven feet long.
- Young heiress Ann Jordan and her fiancè Frank Oakes would be happy except for the constant appearance of Robert Metcalf, who follows her or them everywhere. This continues into their time at the country club, even interfering with tennis games. The two boys are constantly arguing, and Ann grows weary of them both, and after a knock down, drag out fight that destroys the Jordan garden, they realize she has fallen for an older man, Jack Gardner, an engineering friend of her father.
- Story of a saxophonist and his rise to fame as a singing star.
- Scarred across his face after a burning home rescue of his girlfriend Beth Alden, Jack Fenton is rewarded by her father with a teller job in his bank. As the years go on, Jack and Beth fall in love and marriage is contemplated. However, Mr. Alden prefers the bank Vice president, Wilkens, and tries to discourage Jack. Another Teller, Harris, secretly embezzles money and frames Jack, who is put on trial. Though he's found innocent, he's still discharged. Wrongly convinced that Beth has lost interest in him, he leaves town, only to get into another fiery accident. At the hospital, a doctor experimenting in plastic surgery fixes Jack up perfectly. Jack sees his opportunity for revenge on the town that treated him so badly by returning, unrecognizable in his new face.
- Riding a camel through the desert, Krazy and his Minnie-Mouse lookalike girlfriend are spotted by one of the sultan's men, who kidnaps the girl for his boss's harem. Krazy makes his way into the Sultan's tent, and there dons whiskers and hides in a bowl, only his head showing. The girl picks it up and dances, doing a Salome and John the Baptist routine. Just before you can say, why?, the Sultan gets into the spirit of the dance and joins them. They wrap his turban around him until he looks like a giant worm, then roll him into a ball and parade out, and everyone follows.
- In the near future of 1965, a drone seeks escape from his dull job, and his wife's constant demands. Charles Brailing longs to chuck it all and fly down to Rio a la Fred Astaire. Sharing his dilemma with another middle-age crazy hubby, Brailing purchases an answer which should satisfy all parties, even the lovely Lydia - an android duplicate.
- A small hungry dog tries to mooch some food from Farmer Al Falfa, who today is a butcher, busily chopping up large pieces of meat in front of his shop. The dog finally just resorts to outright theft, as well as a gang of other dogs, who run off with everything not bolted down. A dog catcher proves totally ineffectual, and the mutts he's already put into his wagon escape, and Al loses more of his goods.
- A small, long-eared pup comes across Butch, the Bulldog being captured by the dog catcher, but rescues him. Butch was being hauled off for being without a license, but he notices his new friend has one, and proceeds to trick him out of it, and laughs as the dog catcher now takes him to the pound. His conscience, embodied by a devil and angel Butch, have it out and he decides to turn himself in. But he finds the pound in flames, and now does the rescuing, of all the dogs as well as the Dog catcher.
- Escaped gangster "Nick the Shiek" (Lloyd Hamilton) is a dead ringer for Vernon Snodgrass, (Lloyd Hamilton). Vernon realizes it from seeing a newspaper the same time the police do, and chase him down a street where he ducks into a window that happens to be where Nick's gang is holed up. He tries to fool them that he's their leader, until the real thing shows up. At first he proposes they "Take Him For a Ride", but after seeing a threatening message from rival crime boss "Smokey O'Brien", they turn him loose. Before O'Brien or the cops grab him, Vernon is whisked off by Nick's moll to her apartment, she believing he's Nick. Soon, Nick and his men also show up, and Smokey and his just after that. They have a full scale battle in the apartment, though they seem to be armed exclusively with blackjacks. Vernon finds a box of tear gas bombs and sets them off. The police arrive to break up the fight, and all are reduced to blubbering their lines.
- Toby is captain of an old time Mississippi paddle-wheeled steamboat. When he arrives at the dock, a brass band greets him and tickets are sold for the show held inside. Smiling broadly and shaking hands with every customer as they board becomes a strain for Toby so he rigs up a monkey's tail to hold his mouth up in a grin position. The show has Patsy singing a rousing rendition of "Mississippi Mud"- so rousing the audience causes the ship to break it's moorings and race down the river with her still inside and Toby to fall overboard. He catches up to the runaway ship, and rearranges the paddles to become propellers, and the ship flies out of danger.
- "P. C. Josser is a dud, and his superiors know it. Given a chance to distinguish himself at a night club, he mistakes his comrades for crooks and bowls them over like nine-pins. Dismissed the force, he becomes a private detective, and has for a client a young lady racehorse owner. Disguised as a stableman, he guards the favourite, but the animal is drugged and the girl's sweetheart suspected. At his trial, Josser proves an eccentric witness, soon rescues the innocent man from prison, and disentangles the remaining knotty problem." (From Original Herald)
- In the series finale, Johnny and French Singing star Geneveiv Aumont play reminiscing onetime lovers. He has a talk on how music affects world events, then to wrap up the show, he auctions off all the fixtures, props and clothes used, and then the staff, crew and even the audience as well.
- Ernie interviews the inventor of an incredibly small motorcycle, which runs wild through the show, a look at westerns includes how gunfights can be seen from different camera angles, how Rod Serling might do a scene, bizarre sci-fi versions, a psychiatry themed one, and lastly, a Teutonic take on "The Lone Ranger" with Ernie in his "Wolfgang Von Saurbraten" guise. For his musical segment, the life cycle of a raindrop, from it's fall from the clouds to household cups of tea.
- 1961– 28mTV-G7.3 (16)TV EpisodeAiring monthly from April 1961 to January 1962, with a break in the summer, these shows are Kovacs' essence and contain many of his iconic masterpieces of comedy, visuals and love of music.
- An impromptu speakeasy sets up on Krazy's farm, and in no time, all the animals are drunk, and Krazy himself is so soused that he attempts to milk (an apparently male) donkey.
- After his day's work, Arnie finds $500. He takes it home, dreaming of what he can do with it, but soon his conscience, personified as a tiny Arnie, begs him to seek the owner and return it. He places an ad in the paper, but before he can do anything, a robot created by Chester finds the money and puts it in the kids' fund box for a big party, which they soon spend. realizing what's happened, he buys all but one of the paper's run, but from that one, the money's owner, (a Judge) responds. To get a new $500 fast, Arnie enters a prize water ski competition.
- In a run down New York Tenament, a chorine named Orchid lives with her overprotective brother Buddy, who sees to it that no uptown Casanovas get a chance at seducing his sister. At a New Year's Eve party the two are separated in the festivities, and millionaire playboy Brian Alden meets her, and they start seeing each other. Against her brother's wishes, Orchid, at Alden's behest, takes charm school-type instructions on how to be a society lady, and she seems to be turning into a snob. Alden regrets it, and after promising to allow her to be herself, gets Buddy's okay to marry her.
- A family of out-of-work vaudeville performers are finding hard times in the east, so after hearing about the success of a fellow player in Hollywood, they decide to relocate to the movie capitol. Unfortunately, they find themselves equally unemployed there, staying at a n apartment complex filled with similar hopefuls. One day, an offer for an interview at a large studio for the eldest daughter is made, so the father goes on a frantic search, finally locating her at a pool party where he pushes one of the young men in the water, only to find out that the lad was the son of the studio boss.
- A promotional film extolling the benefits of flying on the young American Airways (later Airlines), showing the different destinations served, and follows a Curtiss Condor's flight from Chicago to New York City.
- Cohen (Sidney) and Cohan (Murray) are partners in a barber shop, always squabbling with each other, both being smitten by their beautiful manicure girl. She is fascinated only with aviators, so, determined to win her, both take up flying. They find themselves in the same aeroplane, taking beginner's lessons, fighting with each other and causing the craft to do all sorts of random crazy turns and loop-the-loops. This impresses the plane's owner so much, he commissions them to do a Lindbergh-like "Hop" across the ocean. They miraculously make the flight, but in the end, they find another pilot has married the girl.
- A musical comedy star named Fifi D'Auray is famed for her Gallic charm, though she is really one Betty Murphy. She won't marry her fiance, Jimmy, until he stops gambling and gets honest work. As Fifi, she has rich playboy Gregory obsessed with her, and he goes to lengths to please her, even getting Jimmy a position as treasurer of his theatre. A robbery there is pinned on Jimmy, and Fifi believes that Gregory had set a trap for him.
- An old schoolmate of Arnie's, Sammy Schnauzer, has become a millionaire and is moving to town. Though they were never close, Arnie schemes to have his son Roger marry the Schnauzer daughter, Elsie. For the two to meet, first Arnie drags his unwilling son to a flower show and then a concert, missing her each time. Roger poses a newspaper reporter, but only gets pictures of her car. Finally, Arnie has the whole family visit the Schnauzer penthouse, where they find Elsie to be an insufferable snob, and Arnie manages to get everyone soaked in the pool.
- Captain Hilaire is wrongfully court martialed by the French Army. He Goes to Brazil where he is hired as a foreman in a Diamond mine. There, he falls in love with Diane, the boss's daughter, but when they are away, Hilaire is framed for stealing from the company by his rival, Remsen, and is sent to a Devil's Island-like prison camp. Eventually, Remson, too is sent there, where he confesses on his death bed, freeing Hilaire.
- Mr. Wygate, a wealthy businessman, is rising in social circles and decides his daughter Geraldine must become more refined and so hires Eddie Able to educate her. Eddie soon falls in love with her, but she has eyes only for a well-known lawyer and young man-about-town, Bellsworth Cameron, who has shown little interest in her. Suffering through his unrequited love, Eddie works to make Geraldine the ideal society lady, and to capture the interest of Cameron. Eventually Cameron starts seeing her but his true colors are shown when Geraldine is arrested in a speakeasy, and Eddie rescues her.
- After reading about a million dollar contract a basketball player just made, Arnie decides Chester must become a hoop star, though he's very short. He goes to sign Chester up for the school team, "The Small Frys" and becomes a coach, along with hated neighbor Beagle. He puts his diminutive son in as center, but is soon overwhelmed by the others. Chester tries to get taller, including listening to classical music, which only works on plants. Still short, his performance in the next game is pathetic. At school next day, Chester is discouraged, but his girlfriend Lulu urges him on and rekindles his confidence. He trains hard, but in the next game he does just as badly as ever until Beagle has him switch positions and he becomes a basket shooting, high scoring wonder.