The Mister Magoo Show is an American animated television series which was produced from November 7, 1960 to February 2, 1962. A single episode included five five-minute shorts and could either be aired together with bumpers as a single half-hour show, or it could be split up with one short aired each weekday, along with other cartoons. It was produced by United Productions of America.
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Episode 1
Magoo thinks he's going into Armand's clothing shop, when actually he goes into the Armed Forces recruitment office.
Episode 2
Magoo mistakes an escaped bear for an old college buddy.
Episode 3
Magoo takes his two grandchildren (Wheeler and Dealer) on a car trip, and they end in Cape Canaveral. Our nearsighted Magoo mistakes the sign as saying "Carnival." Wheeler and Dealer go into the control room of Cape Canaveral, and Mr. Magoo ends up in the space rocket.
Episode 4
Manuel Tijuana Guadalahara Tampico Gomez Jr. is looking for someone dumb enough to fight the Great El Toro, and along come Waldo and Prezley. Magoo misunderstands a telephone call and agrees to fight the raging bull. Here's a bum steer: read a babysitting manual to prepare for a bullfight.
Episode 5
Passing by a construction site, Magoo confuses construction workers in the street for children playing ball. He thinks that it's a great place for a ball park for the kiddies. Tycoon Magoo gets upset because that's where he's trying to build a skyscraper, so he sends Worstershire to dispose of him.
Episode 6
Magoo is out hunting and comes across a wanted villain, who doesn't like the bounty for his capture. Magoo mistakes the gangster for a hunting guide.
Episode 7
Waldo and Prezley are at the beach and find a book on Davey Jones' book to buried treasure, so they go diving to seek it out.
Episode 8
Magoo mistakes a fishbowl for a TV set. Two strange-looking Martians crawl out of a flying spaceship and invade Magoo's house. Guess who wins.
Episode 9
While attending a concert with her son Quincy, Mother Magoo leaves her canary and her cat in the care of Wheeler and Dealer. The cat tries to eat the bird, but the two kids put a stop to the cat's antics.
Episode 10
Magoo gets stranded on an island with some politically incorrect natives.
Episode 11
Prezley talks Waldo into wrestling the champ for $100.
Episode 12
Magoo goes fishing for the big ones. His brother Tycoon is afraid that he'll catch the big fish he has been trying to catch for years. He sends butler Worcestershire to get rid of him by posting a no-fishing sign and setting traps. If that doesn't work, maybe dynamite will! Magoo thinks it's a storm and ends up with the big fish.
Episode 13
Magoo hangs with Beatniks who have a fondness for bongos.
Episode 14
Quincy and Waldo get dressed up in Halloween costumes and head for a party. Magoo "comes out of the closet" as a free-wheeling mechanical space robot on wheels with a radio in the center... perfect for dancing! Magoo hits the reverse button by mistake and wanders into a mysterious cave, where the bears can't figure what's up. As bats look down from the cave's ceiling, Magoo starts a shocking conga line, dancing with everyone as lights from his robot costume blink back and forth.
Episode 15
Waldo calls Mr. Magoo. He is to be a big singer on the TV talent show "Top the Music." Inspired by the possibility of winning a prize, Prezley comes up with a plan for his friend Waldo to win the contest. He plants a speaker inside the young fellow's jacket and has Waldo lip-sync to a pop version of "Jimmy Crack Corn." Unfortunately, a jealous winner on the show, Squirrley Evans, exposes the two. The wrong record is put on with only animal sounds. Waldo is embarrassed, but Magoo is pleased.
Episode 16
Magoo is out of eggs, so he's off to the store to pick some up when, of course, he ends up in the wrong place -- an eagle's nest.
Episode 17
Waldo and his friend Prezley decide to spend the day fishing, but when they get to the lake, they find that a wily fox has staked out the territory and is defending his turf. They end up hunting down the fox, which they battle in the mountains.
Episode 18
Magoo thinks that a British butler is the TV repairman. What the butler really wants is to give Magoo a check for one billion dollars.
Episode 19
Magoo's nephew Waldo and his slick friend Presley get stuck in "Lost Vegas" when their car gets four flats, but they have no money to get them repaired. Presley suggests capturing Mexican bandit "El Pauncho" for a big reward, but "El Pauncho" doesn't go willingly.
Episode 20
Magoo leaves his mom's house and goes to a pizza parlor, where Beatnik jazz is playing. He keeps confusing the tablecloth with his meal. His lunch is the tablecloth instead of the pizza pie. Then he tries to catch a train and winds up in a railroad car diner near the station. Oh, Magoo, you've done it again!
Episode 21
Mr. Magoo needs money, so he calls up and enters Waldo in a Wild West rodeo. Waldo tries bull riding, and the bull kicks Waldo right out of the arena. He tries bronc riding, but he gets all tied up. Finally, Waldo "accidentally" wins first prize: a tough bronc to take home with him. Meanwhile, Magoo attempts to overcome an obstacle to riding a horse.
Episode 22
Mr. Magoo drives to his dear old mother's house to take her for a quiet ride in the country. Mother Magoo has other ideas and is secretly planning to enter the car race that weekend: she has a high-powered hot rod with three carburetors. He thinks that it's a new washing machine.
Episode 23
Presley gets Waldo a job as a stuntman for western star Rock Bottom.
Episode 24
Magoo plays golf on his rich uncle Tycoon Magoo's estate, tearing up the very expensive landscape. Tycoon gets a call from Worcestershire the butler that Quincy is playing golf on his property, and he wants him off. Quincy sends his evil butler to put a stop to it. The butler tries everything, but it all backfires on him.
Episode 25
Waldo and Prezley are hired by a zoo to bring back a gorilla, and they head for the jungles of South Africa. Their efforts to capturing the beast are hampered by an unhappy hunter who wants the pair to help return him to the States. In the end, Prezley and Waldo decide to have the zoo exhibit the obnoxious hunter.
Episode 26
A rich tycoon's trees are in escrow at "Tycoon Peak" and worth a lot of money. The tycoon hears that Mr. Magoo is headed for his forest and fears that Magoo will ruin his trees, so the tycoon gets his butler Worcestershire to stop Magoo from messing things up in his forest of valuable trees.
Episode 27
Waldo and Prezley join the foreign legion.
Episode 28
Magoo goes duck hunting on a lake in a city park with Charlie and causes his usual chaos.
Episode 29
Magoo mistakes the police station for a TV show for which he has a ticket, and he then believes that the police lineup is a "This is Your Life, Magoo" show.
Episode 30
Waldo and Prezley visit the Blue Rich Mountains and end up in the middle of a feud of the Martins and the McGoys.
Episode 31
Magoo takes his mother out for a night in town, planning to go to an Italian restaurant. The only thing is that he runs into the circus mistaking performers and animals for waiters.
Episode 32
Two escaped crooks take the place of Waldo and Prezley while Magoo takes them on vacation.
Episode 33
Waldo and Presley land on what they think is a deserted island, but is actually populated with cannibals.
Episode 34
Magoo thinks he's back on his old college campus and mistakes a hobo for Smedley, so he takes him back to the Rutgers club where they catch up.
Episode 35
Mr. Magoo, Bowser and Charlie, go for a trip to the beach to avoid the heat. Instead of the beach, however, Magoo's nearsighted vision takes them to a construction site with a sand pit. They get into all kinds of disasters with cement mixers, cranes, you name it.
Episode 36
Magoo bumbles his way into flying the new top secret X109 jet.
Episode 37
Waldo and Prezley are selling vacuums door to door, but they knock on the wrong one when they come across bank robbers Big Jack and Little Jake.
Episode 38
Magoo thinks he reuniting with his old college pal Stinky Spellman, but he mistakes a kangaroo for him.
Episode 39
Magoo is a prospector unknowingly on his uncle's land; his uncle sends his evil butler to stop him.
Episode 40
Mr. Magoo inadvertently wanders into the TV studio of the game show "People Are A Scream" (a parody of a real show at the time, "People Are Funny"), which plays vicious jokes on its contestants. The obnoxious host tries to get the nearsighted fellow to take a ride in a car with the host's assistant Ralph. They plan to scare him by disguising Ralph as a gangster who wants to "take him for a ride." But Magoo, thinking that the place is Al's Used Cars, takes control of the car and creates havoc along the way. Magoo leaves the show happy, and it's the host and Ralph who are screaming!
Episode 41
Magoo and his houseboy Charlie battle a noisy alley cat.
Episode 42
Magoo is looking for a compact car. Salesmen Mugsy and Smiley (at a very used car lot next door to the city dump) try to push Magoo into buying a new hot rod. The only "catch" is that Magoo prefers the crap in the junkyard next door! He thinks that a used stove is the salesman, and he ends up buying a baby buggy for a compact car.
Episode 43
No overview available.
Episode 44
Quincy confuses a Russian spy's hideout with a grocery store. The Peter Lorre-type spy, a neighbor of Magoo, mistakes him for another spy. He convinces Quincy to steal nuclear secrets from a radioactive military base.
Episode 45
Mr. Magoo gets an invitation in the mail for free dance lessons. He goes to Al Manny's Gym next door by mistake. The nearsighted gent mistakes a gymnasium for a dance studio. His attempts to work out with the equipment leave the place in a shambles.
Episode 46
No overview available.
Episode 47
Believing that his houseboy needs to put his salary and savings into a banking account, Magoo takes Charlie to Piggy Bank Savings to open a new account for him. But the old fellow takes him to the racetrack by mistake. There, the houseboy wins a fortune.
Episode 48
Magoo camps out in Tycoon Magoo's department store.
Episode 49
Magoo watches a TV program on "wild" youth and decides to go downtown to straighten out his nephew. Magoo bursts into a TV studio while the announcer is shooting a commercial. Magoo is looking for Waldo, with hilarious results: he mistakes a motivational speaker for Waldo.
Episode 50
Magoo and Charlie hunt a cougar in the forest.
Episode 51
Magoo's icebox is on the fritz, so he goes to the factory where they make the iceboxes, which just happens to be in Alaska.
Episode 52
Waldo and Prezley happen upon a crafty witch in the forest just as she makes jokes with a talking magic mirror. The witch and genie fight each other for the "Best Magic Transformation."
Episode 53
Magoo and Charlie go on a canoe trip.
Episode 54
Magoo is going to attend his college reunion at Rutgers University. Wearing his cap and gown, he carries a picnic basket with goodies and his photo album. But he ends up at Grandma's house, where he barely escapes the clutches of the Big Bad Wolf.
Episode 55
Magoo and his mother go out to a sock shop. Meanwhile, a snooty cat and a bongo-playing hamster stay behind and battle over jazz vs. classical music records, smashing everything. When Magoo returns, his mom ends up loving jazz and really gets into her son's bongo-playing beatnik style.
Episode 56
The narrator tells the story of a stagecoach crossing the Western desert with good ol' Quincy riding along reading girlie magazines. The Indians want to attack, but he keeps saving the day.
Episode 57
Waldo and Prezley try to catch a fox.
Episode 58
Magoo feeds his pets before leaving the house for a party, but only feeds the goldfish and leaves Hamlet starving. Then Bowser attempts to eat Hamlet and makes a mess.
Episode 59
Mr. Magoo and Charlie visit Tycoon Studios instead of Tycoonland.
Episode 60
When Magoo's hamster starts making food runs in the middle of the night, his cat begins to think the house is haunted.
Episode 61
Magoo bowls in a bottling factory, with Charlie taking the brunt of the strikes.
Episode 62
Magoo goes to visit his mother and leaves Hamlet and Bowser along. They run amuck while Hamlet raids the fridge.
Episode 63
Magoo and Charlie go pier fishing, oblivious to the sign: "Condemned Pier/Keep Off!" Magoo lands plenty of laughs at his secret fishing hole, as he can't tell what he's catching (or not catching).
Episode 64
Magoo heads for Las Vegas for a gambler's vacation. Unfortunately, he ends up in a missile base instead.
Episode 65
Magoo leaves his pets home alone. Hamlet the hamster tries to get Caesar the dog into trouble.
Episode 66
Finding out that it's Charlie's birthday, Magoo tries to make a birthday dinner for him. But as usual, the entire affair turns into a disaster. Magoo is going to bake a birthday cake for Charlie and his cat.
Episode 67
Magoo ends up in China where he is grated an audience with Genghis Khan.
Episode 68
Magoo and his Oriental houseboy Charlie burst into another traveling circus thinking that it's a charity ball!
Episode 69
Mr. Magoo is on the campaign trail (to Sioux City, Iowa!), speaking boldly in support of his favourite candidate for mayor, Col. Bottomly, who has a bad cold. Before long, Magoo has been accidentally thrown from his train, only to be caught up in a different train, which happens to be carrying circus animals.
Episode 70
Magoo finds himself at a local football game featuring a team called The Indians- whom he mistakes for real Native Americans. He gets the game confused with an "Indians vs. Pioneers" Western ambush.
Episode 71
A Boy Scout gives Mr. Magoo a flyer to encourage him to observe fire prevention week. Magoo mistakes the flyer for a certificate announcing his appointment as the city's honorary fire chief.
Episode 72
Mr. Magoo drives into a small town looking exactly like the wanted criminal, Dangerous Dan.
Episode 73
Magoo wanders into the Hollyhock Bowl where he becomes the conductor for the symphony orchestra.
Episode 74
Our hero turns winter skiing into a series of manic adventures. His servant, Charlie, keeps getting into scrapes of his own.
Episode 75
Our hero is planning on taking his driving test. At the same time, the "Broiler, Bake and Fry" advertising agency has selected him as Mr. Safety, having picked him randomly from a phone directory for its "Safety Society Campaign"! The driving test is a riotous disaster, and Magoo is immortalized as Mr. Safety in cement, having gotten stuck in a bag of the stuff.
Episode 76
Magoo is on a train in the wild west, trying to keep the mail car safe from robbers.
Episode 77
Magoo is supposed to go to the doctor's office to get a checkup. Instead, he confuses a TV repair shop with the doc's. On TV, a Jack LaLanne lookalike instructs Magoo on how to stay in shape.
Episode 78
Charlie takes center stage when he tries help another little Chinese boy get his cat.
Episode 79
Magoo needs to get a new vacuum cleaner, but ends up with a bank robbing robot instead!
Episode 80
Mr. Magoo's pet hamster has a plan for getting past his dog and into the refrigerator.
Episode 81
When Magoo takes a dip in the Fountain of Youth, Charlie sees a baby and thinks he has really turned young again.
Episode 82
In a parody of Snow White, a boating hag tries to get rid of Magoo when her mirror tells her that he has the better boat.
Episode 83
Magoo and Charlie head out to a football game, but end up in a construction site instead.
Episode 84
A rich investor puts his entire oil fortune into Goober Gas Corp. stock, and there is just one more shareholder to buy out, Quincy Magoo.
Episode 85
Magoo tries to get dinner for his hamster, but his dog has other designs on the hamsters life.
Episode 86
Mr. Magoo and Charlie mistake an Indian reservation for Balm Strings.
Episode 87
Magoo travels to a TV studio, thinking that it's Waldo's apartment. There, he confronts (and replaces) a snobby actor trying to do a love scene with a dopey actress.
Episode 88
Mr. Magoo gets into all kinds of mischief on his hunting trip in Africa.
Episode 89
Magoo dresses up as Goldilocks for a masquerade party at his friend Charlotte's house, but mistakes the home of the 3 Bears for her house and just as Papa Bear comes home.
Episode 90
While Magoo spends the day in the yard, he leaves Caesar and Hamlet alone in the house, so they try to make friends. The two end up fighting for control of Magoo's house.
Episode 91
Magoo is off to a Boy Scout meeting in a building where a gang mistakes him for the head boss. Magoo mistakes the mobsters for Boy Scouts.
Episode 92
No overview available.
Episode 93
Magoo takes a trip to India, where he wants to organize a safari hunt of the cunning tiger.
Episode 94
No overview available.
Episode 95
Mr. Magoo and Charlie tend to the home garden while an escaped African bull gnu runs amok. If Magoo knew what the gnu knew! The Great Dane in Magoo's garden is really a gnu.
Episode 96
Magoo tours Egypt and visits the pyramids where finds a secret way to get inside of them.
Episode 97
Magoo's car breaks down on the way to Palm Springs and stumbles onto a location shoot for a film thinking the actress is in real danger.
Episode 98
No overview available.
Episode 99
Magoo recollects going on a date with his teenage lover; however, we find out he accidentally went out with a circus kangaroo.
Episode 100
Magoo goes to help his pal Smedley who, unknown to Magoo, is being held hostage.
Episode 101
Magoo and Charlie ride the big surf in Hawaii.
Episode 102
Magoo writes a song on the piano and goes to copyright it, but he runs into a audition instead and wins by default.
Episode 103
Magoo tries his hand at running a diner.
Episode 104
Magoo takes Charlie shopping, but they end up in a natural history museum instead.
Episode 105
Mr. Magoo and Charlie accidentally end up at a wrong hotel filled with spooky lunatics.
Episode 106
While reading about the exploits of Robin Hood, Magoo dreams that he is the legendary hero.
Episode 107
Charlie tries to help Magoo grow his own vegetable garden... with typically disastrous results.
Episode 108
A hungry lion smells breakfast coming from Magoo's campfire, and tries to get a bit.
Episode 109
A mad scientist needs a human brain to transfer the personality of the human into that of his monster. Needing a place to stay the night, Magoo enters the mad scientist's castle, thinking that the place is a hotel, and creates havoc for the demented inventor.
Episode 110
While growing plants in his garden, Magoo and Charlie find an extremely large beanstalk. They decide to climb it. Once at the top, the two barely escape the clutches of Alfred E. Neuman- the son of the giant from Jack and The Beanstalk.
Episode 111
The Masked Hombre is on Magoo's TV set and he thinks it's the kids playing outside.
Episode 112
Mr. Magoo participates in a simulated air raid medical emergency situation, but his failing eyesight causes him to apply first aid to zoo animals instead of humans.
Episode 113
Smiley, Magoo's old gag playing frat buddy, phones him up to get together, so Magoo anticipates his arrival with some of his own jokes, however, an escaped gorilla shows up instead.
Episode 114
Magoo and Charlie prepare a barbecue for some friends, building a pit in the back yard. But, as usual, the entire affair turns into a disaster. Magoo chops up the garden hose (thinking that it's wood) and pours gasoline on it to light up. It catches the neighbor's house on fire. When the firemen come, Magoo thinks that the fire hose is salami, and he chops it in pieces. He does invite the firemen to the barbecue, though.
Episode 115
When they can't find a babysitter for Gerald McBoing Boing, his parents are forced to call in Mr. Magoo.
Episode 116
Magoo mistakes a wanted sign for a cruise ship advertisement, and he boards Captain Bruiser's ship instead. He creates mayhem for a band of unsavory pirates while sailing the Seven Seas.
Episode 117
No overview available.
Episode 118
No overview available.
Episode 119
No overview available.
Episode 120
Coming home from a long business trip, Mr. Magoo inadvertently enters the deserted house next door- except that the house is not really deserted. The place is really a hideout for a group of counterfeiters. The crooks are not too thrilled with Magoo's intrusion on their racket, so they try to scare him off, disguised as ghosts. Magoo is unfazed by the bizarre events; his nearsightedness makes him think that the scare tactics are just the makings of a surprise birthday party.
Episode 121
Believing that his houseboy needs to put his salary and savings into a banking account, Magoo takes Charlie to Piggy Bank Savings to open a new account for him. But the old fellow takes him to the racetrack by mistake. There, the houseboy wins a fortune.
Episode 122
Commodore Magoo mistakenly takes off in the wrong boat for a fishing derby and ends up fishing up an ammunition boat.
Episode 123
Instead of hiring the local contractor to fix his roof, Magoo and Charlie decide to fix the roof of the house themselves. The whole project turns into a fiasco.
Episode 124
No overview available.
Episode 125
Magoo has an eye-opening experience when he almost has his fortune told.
Episode 126
No overview available.
Episode 127
Charlie prepares to go out to a stage performance of Cyrano de Bergerac. Hearing that the young man is going to see the show, Magoo proceeds to tell the story of the poetic but ugly-looking swordsman to his houseboy.
Episode 128
The masked bandit is loose in the city, and he's taking everything until he gets to Magoo's place. Magoo hears on the radio that there's a masked bandit about, so Magoo prepares himself for the situation.
Episode 129
No overview available.
Episode 130
Magoo sees an ad on TV to get fit, but he goes to a carnival instead and ends up performing in a bunch of circus events.
