Eddie Donnelly

The origin story of Mighty Mouse & first Mighty Mouse short.

Gandy Goose reads a scary story just before lights out, and suddenly finds himself escorted to a house full of ghosts. (imdb)

Sourpuss the cat and Gandy Goose are fishermen who end up getting chased by a whale. (imdb)

Gandy Goose takes on the classic story.

Heckle and Jeckle of the Northwest Unmounted Police pursue the dreaded outlaw, Powerful Pierre. (imdb)

The title is a take-off parody of Billy Rose's Aquacade, and uses an ordinary bathtub, as aqua-mice perform aquatic ballet dances and water sports... (imdb)

Heckel and Jeckel fly over a country estate and decide it would do just fine as a nesting ground for them... (imdb)

Heckel and Jeckel are in Mexico and selling real-hot hot-tamales at the bullfight arena. When their customers are burned up after eating the tamales... (imdb)

Some happy mice are listening to an old radio program that features their hero, Mighty Mouse! (bcdb.com)

Heckle and Jeckle know something other animated toilers don't: they're cartoons. That means unlimited power, which they use to outwit a bulldog cop. (imdb)

Heckel and Jeckle. the two talking-magpies are selling hair-tonic in a public park without a license... (imdb)

Dangerous Dan the desperado enters the barbershop run by Hackle and Jackle with guns blazing, and that is his highlight as the Magpies use their barber equipment to teach him a lesson and drive him crazy. (imdb)

Nellie and her father, the Colonel (both are humans), are comfortable in their "Old Kentucky Home" until Wolfie (dressed as a jitterbug) knocks on the door. (bcdb.com)

Mighty Mouse animated short, although here he is still called Super Mouse.

The boy mice of the village become hot rod fans and soon it isn't safe to walk the streets. Three cats seize up the situation and challenge the mice to a race... (imdb)

In Arabia, a feline bandit kidnaps Aladdin's beautiful daughter. Mighty Mouse saves the day in this operetta parody. (imdb)

Cubby The Bear takes his girlfriend to the park where a band plays and they go fishing.

Cubby The Bear is a jockey and prepares to race.... (imdb)

Heckle and Jeckle read in the newspaper about a reward offered by a millionaire for the finder of his childhood sweetheart. Since they have a storehouse filled with any kind of costume, they decide to collect the money by convincing the millionaire that Jackle is his lost love, so Jeckle shows up disguised as a woman. JUst as Jeckle has about convinced the millionaire that he is a she and his long-lost sweetheart, a slew of impostors walk in with the same claim. (imdb)

As usual, little Dinky Duck gets no cooperation as he goes about his usual rounds doing good deeds. He finds an orphan egg, and, unable to get anyone else to care for it, he takes it home with him. After it hatches, he feeds the young bird as it grows ever larger. Meanhile, back in the barnyard, a sneaky fox has captured all the farm animals and birds including, to the fox's delight, the succulent ducks and chewy chickens. (imdb)

When a Dutch wolf puts the snatch on a Dutch-damsel-in-distress, the Holland-visiting Might Mouse comes to her rescue. As always, the Super Mighty Mouse, has a few problems before the villain is dispatched, but comes though in the end. And then, just like Superman, with theme-song blaring, flies off to his next adventure as the Wolrd's Mightest Mouse. (imdb)

Heckle and Jeckle, despite the animals falling in love all around, swear they won't. Of course, immediately after they say this, a pretty girl drops a hanky, and they fight over her. Jeckle hides in a gift box; Heckle nails Jeckle into a rocket, then mails him to Mexico. Jeckle returns with a bull. They both swear off dames, until, of course, another one walks by. (imdb)

In his first cartoon, Sourpuss has bright colored fur. He romances an Owl and takes her out on his boat, like the nursery rhyme has it. She seems mesmerised by him just as long as he strums his guitar. Her real boyfriend is so dejected he tries doing himself in, but soon he stops their wedding just in time. (imdb)

In the town of Nowhere, the main street is divided by a broad green line. The mice live on one side. The cats live on the other, and never cross over the line, until an evil spirit convinces one of the cats to cross the line. Chaos ensues until Mighty Mouse arrives to defeat the evil spirit cat in a battle in the sky. The evil spirit cat crashes to the ground and burns up in a flaming pile! (imdb)

The Little King wants a wife, so his Court Hypnonist, using foul means for a devious purpose, brings him Sweet Suzette, who has no interest in marrying the King. Mighty Mouse rescues yet again a damsel-in-distress, and sees to it that no wedding bells ring for Sweet Suzette. (imdb)

Some mice decide to tease a cat, but he is hungry and determined and easily catches them. Just as he is about to eat them, Mighty Mouse comes to the rescue. (imdb)

A young beaver who has run away from home learns a lesson about work and slothfulness when he attracts a wolf who wants to turn him into a fur coat.

When the little, cuddly, bouncy rabbits go freckling in the first snow of winter, the wily fox thinks his supper is in the bag. And, for a while it looks that way, but circumstances intervene and they get away. Not one to give-up easily, the hungry fox tries again, but this time Mighty Mouse, singing at the top of his lungs, interferes and the fox is forced to wave the white flag of defeat. (imdb)

In the last 10 years, much has changed in the world of Mother Goose. Little Boy Blue is now a hot jazz trumpeter; Little Tommy Tucker is a crooner; Tom Tom the Piper's Son is a cop; and the Big Bad Wolf is about to be paroled. He visits the three little pigs, but they're bigger than him now and run a construction company. Finally, he goes after Little Red Riding Hood.... (imdb)

Oil Can Harry captures Mighty Mouse and traps him in the Mohave desert about to be eaten by vultures. Harry kidnaps Pearl Pureheart's father, the Colonel, ties him with a boulder and drops him off the Brooklyn Bridge and into the East river teeming with hungry crocodiles, then he goes after Pearl. The cops were too late to stop him as Harry absconds with Pearl. Meanwhile, Mighty Mouse breaks free and clobbers the vultures, rescues the colonel and his daughter and defeats Harry once again.

The talking magpies go to Africa to indulge in a bit of lion-hunting and, once there, they find a lion who has no desire to be hunted by two wise-cracking birds. Heckle almost meets his maker when Jeckle persuades him to serve as lion bait. The lion is deceived for a little while when they promise him a movie contract but the end finds the score about dead-even between the hunters and the huntee. (imdb)

Oil Can Harry, most malevolent and evil of all the villainous cats, has pretty Pearl Pureheart, cutest mouse of them all, in his grasping clutches, and ties her to the railroad tracks. But here comes Mighty Mouse to her rescue. (imdb)

Gandy reads a book about detectives and decides he should become one. He wears a Sherlock Holmes-style cap and uses a magnifying glass, but he encounters movie monsters like Frankenstein and Dracula out in the woods. (imdb)

A fast-talking airplane-salesman inspires the farmyard animals to building airplanes of their own, but farmer Alfalfa is set on not getting off of the ground. The salesman finally gets him to take a flight, with the result that he vows never to take another one. (imdb)

A timid pig tries to go swimming at the beach, but somehow he keeps getting tangled up with Sourpuss's fishing line. (imdb)

Opera-singing alley cats. Just about every element that spells 'Terrytoon' is on display (including a bouquet of Tyer).

A young boy asks an old man why the valley they live in is such a beautiful utopia and is called Happy Valley, and the old man explains it is because everyone there is contented and happy but, he adds, it wasn't always that way. In a flashback, he tells the boy that many years ago this paradise was nearly wrecked when greed swept over the land, and this led to poverty and misery before all the farmers came to their senses. (imdb)

Shanghai Pete and his crew of pirate cats sail into San Francisco to kidnap sailors at the port for their crew. The mice sailors are unable to stop the assault from the buccaneers until a call is placed to Mighty Mouse at his headquarters at Telegraph Hill. The little superhero flies down and routs the villains. (tv.com)

A duck becomes sheriff in a Western town ruled by Dead Eye Dick. Dead Eye warns: "This town ain't big enough few two of us and I ain't leaving!"

A radio program tells the story: Cats lure mice with a peep show, then drop them into ice cube trays. The semi-frozen mice are then sold to cats for 5 cents each. The dog police come and break things up somewhat, but it takes Mighty Mouse to truly save the day and set the mice free. (imdb)

A fun, tune-filled retelling of the legendary Christopher Columbus telling of the world being round, and going on his ocean voyage.

A Rooster finds that none of the housework, cooking or chick-minding is going on when the hens join the WAACs. Throwing themselves into a first-aid course, they manage to tie up the Rooster with bandages and nearly run him down with a jeep. (imdb)

A Terrytoon reworking of Jack and the Beanstalk, and the hen/goose that laid the golden eggs; here, the hen is a Jackpot that lays/produces golden coins, and swings a mean mallet in protecting Jack from the evil giant. (imdb)

A very tough gang of alley cats are running a black-market operation in a big city, filled with little mice and gangster cats, and are making the streets mean indeed. And they have a hit-order out on Mighty Mouse. (imdb)

A quaint little village has a magic shop. While performing for his mice friends there, a magician mouse's show is interrupted by a group of cats who start chasing the mice. The magician battles them as long as he can, but they finally get his magic wand. They use the wand to make themselves invisible! The mice look doomed after the cats capture all of them. In desperation to save his friends, the magician sends a rocket into the skies to summon Mighty Mouse.

Mrs. O'Leary's cow is brought to the witness stand in court to explain how she started a great fire. Her testimony fades into a very routine fire brigade cartoon.It has little to do with the Chicago conflagration she's famous for. (imdb)

Herman, a fat pig-man with a Herman Bing voice. He trades jobs with his wife and finds that cooking and taking care of kids is too difficult for a mere male. He concedes this to his wife, after the house has become a broken, wet shambles. (imdb)

A fox family is starving, the father with a bandaged foot and crutch. Hunters and dogs roar through and start hunting down one of the fox boys, but he not only outwits them he steals a turkey dinner from the men. (imdb)

Gandy Goose goes to Mexico and falls in love with a beautiful senorita. But her father objects and, hoping to get rid of what he thinks is an unsuitable suitor, forces Gandy into fighting a bull. (imdb)

Gandy is hitch hiking next to his trailer. A dog comes by and latches on to it. They spend a restless night, fighting off hundreds of mosquitoes. Eventually Gandy's new acquaintance has enough and flees, but the skeeter swarm ends up flying the caravan away after their stingers are stuck in the roof. (imdb)

Heckle and Jeckle, the always-talking Magpies, kick this one off by stealing a bowl of bones from Soupbone, an old hound dog. Soupbone raises some objections that leads to a fracas or two, with all hands ending up in a nervous place, and the two birds trying to rescue Soupbone from a padded cell. (imdb)

A depiction of the life of a pampered dog belonging to a rich family. It gets egg-shampoos and all sorts of other annoying indignities heaped upon its shoulders when it had rather be outside digging in the dirt. It gets loose and invites various kinds of gutter and mongrel dogs into the mansion. (imdb)

A cartoon that illustrates the old adage that you can take a pig to Switzerland, lead him to the snow, but you can't teach him to ski. But he might learn to yodel. This pig, surrounded by expert skiers, blunders along down the slope and falls into a bear's cave. The rescuers find the pig safe and playing poker with the bear. The pig is winning. He knew how to play poker. (imdb)

Yet another of John Foster's bug cartoons, much like Fly Hi and Fly Frolic ten years earlier. Boy Bug loses girl bug to big spider that invades a fly night club. This time there's cowboy flies on horsefly mounts. (imdb)

The tortoise and hare boys argue who would win a skating race, so overconfident daddy rabbit challenges daddy tortoise to a race he ultimately wins. (imdb)

Gandy Goose and his bullying, tormentor Cat buddy, are hunting in the jungle. The jungle birds and animals are irritated at being hunted (especially by an American goose and alley-cat), hold a counsel and devise ways and means to harass the unwelcome invaders. Gandy and Cat put up an inept fight and driven away. (imdb)

A Pete Smith-like narrator introduces us to a pig named Oscar who's overwhelmed with advice and useless elixirs to relieve his cold. This leads to his having a nightmare where he's pursued by giant medicine and pill containers. (imdb)

Sourpuss is frustrated fishing on a pier, as the fish are too smart for him. Oscar shows up with a book about fishing and makes it look easy-for a while. (imdb)

Gandy and Sourpuss have been patching up their worn-out tires, due to wartime civilian restrictions on rubber. But finally they give out for the last time, and they seek out replacements at a garage. (imdb)

Schoolchildren claim "Nancy" comic books are educational. (imdb)

A Toreador, who talks like Jimmy Durante, wants to marry the fair Spanish lass, who talks like Lupe Velez, but her father, who talks like Leo Carrillo, tells him he must first prove himself worthy by fighting the bull. He does so and, after a few incidents in which things do not appear to be going his way and some scattered 'ole's, wins the hand of his fair lady. (imdb)

The tiny toy helicopter which all the little mice didn't think was worth bother with, comes to the rescue of a mouse that has been trapped by the cat. The helicopter saves the day and becomes a mouse-hero icon. (imdb)

A day in June in which the birds, bees, insects and other forms of wild-life are basking in the fields and meadows. (imdb)

As was his usual pattern, Gandy Goose is sleeping. This time he dreams of the story of the princess and the frog and how the frog later turned into a prince into a prince and married the princess. (imdb)

In a departure from the usual Terrytoon, this short is based on predictions of things to come in the world after the end of World War II. It primarily deals with, in a comedy sense, what every "G.I." Jonnny can expect when he returns home to civilian life. Written by Les Adams (imdb)

Opening with a few painful punful examples of various types of fish...a sunfish 'sets' and a starfish 'comes out', Gandy Goose and his pal go deep-sea fishing with the intent to land one of the denizens of the deep, with no luck until a whale appears. (imdb)

Gandy Goose, now in the pest-extermination business takes the job of ridding his friend's house of mice. Everything he tries backfires on him and the goosey one is soon gone and the mice are still playing. (imdb)

The big bad cats are the villains/Indians, and the little mice are the settlers going west in their little covered wagons, and the Indians are on a rampage about it. Things look dark indeed for the settlers when the likes of Buffalo Bill, General Custer and Daniel Boone are unable to defeat the attacking cats but...wait...up in the sky...here comes the singing, flying mouse...Mighty Mouse. Not recommended for Revisionists. (imdb)

A hypnotist cat charms a sweet young mouse femme-fatale into luring all the mice in town into his cellar, with intent of eating them. But, with his super-senses hitting on all cylinders, the super-hero mouse, Mighty Mouse, zooms in and puts an end to the dastardly scheme. (imdb)

Three of the felonious felines to ever serve time in the city-pound break out, steal a car, kidnap some little mice as hostages,and beat it for their mountain hideout. They are closely pursued by the canine cops (K9 Korps), but the dogs are losing to the cats when Mighty Mouse shows up to turn the tide in the favor of law and order. (imdb)

In a burlesque of the silent-film serials, Oil Can Harry, the most evil of all evil cats, has wicked gleam-in-the-eyes designs on Pearl Pureheart, the cutest mouse in all of Micedon. She is subjected to all manners of torture and is saved through the heroic efforts of Mighty Mouse. (imdb)

Following one of their usual violent fights, the cat thinks he has killed Little Roquefort, and buries him, with a lot of sadness, in a flower pot. The mouse is not dead, of course, and he returns to frighten the cat, and does so to the point he thinks the cat has died. He hasn't and when the cat makes a comeback, they are both scared of each other. (imdb)

A King gets sad for the loss of his songbird.

In this nod to Alice in Wonderland, a scampy pup follows a white rabbit into the trunk of a tree and encounters some strange experiences- including a phallic-looking ride on a mushroom that stretches up to the stars, and some creepy talking trees. (bcdb.com)

In a little village in a far-away mythical country lives an old cobble and his dog. The old man can no longer make good shoes and they have fallen upon hard times until, one night, the dog hears noise in the workshop. He finds a band of merry elves making a beautiful pair of shoes. The cobbler believes his dog made them and spreads the news. (imdb)

Cornball duck gets the business form those nature slicker waterfowl, until he proves himself useful.

The Terry-Bears hear howling and waken their father, who is also frightened. A big dog comes in, and the cubs want to keep it but Papa Bear kicks it outside. The kids get the dog back inside and Papa decides to get rid of it and takes it away in his car. A traffic-cop is knocked down and gives chase. Later, the Terry-Bears are happy when the dog returns on his own, wearing a policeman's cap, while Papa Bear is in court giving an explanation to a judge. (imdb)

Litle Rocquefort, the mouse named after a cheese, is reading a horror book to his cat pal. A Dr. Jekyll/Mr.Hyde-type character is mixing his evil potion, and needs the tail of a black cat and chooses the one on Roquefort's buddy. The mouse comes to his rescue, and when Dr. Silvana ropes the cat's tail, Roquefort uses his tail to make an electrical short-circuit. After a few more harrowing chases, the mouse finally rescues the cat. The cat's finale act if to make Little Roquefort eat the book. (imdb)

The Terry Bears tries to enter a photo contest.

A devious fox comes to a small farm and uses flattery to trick the ducks, chickens and roosters into coming with him, supposedly to compete at the County Fair. Dinky is desperate to come along, too, but the fox rejects the little black duck for the same reason all the other farm birds shun him: he's too small. Dinky, however, discovers that the fox has tricked all the birds into his cave. The fox has them caged and plans to roast them in his oven. (imdb)

A moral story of being good to the little creatures with the Terry Bears. (imdb)

The feud between Little Roquefort and the cat gets increasingly intense with explosives and tanks. (imdb)

The story of Dinky Duck and the scared Scarecrow.

After watching a television commercial, Papa Bear decides to take up gardening but has more than his share of problems. The little bears give him a bag of 'speedy-grow' in stead of weed-killer, and the weeds thrive and take over his garden. Worms are feasting on his tomato crop, and the anti-worm spray he uses engulfs him rather than the vines. (imdb)

Papa Bear gets extremely tired of his oversized dog Pago causing problems- so much that he is ready to execute him. Of course, he becomes soft-hearted and lets the dog go, only to be treated to another more frustrating experiences as a result of the antics of Pago and his three cubs.

Percval Sleuthhound, the Sherlock Holmes of the dog kingdom, tracks down a pair of shifty characters who just escaped from jail. The crooks try every trick they know to get the relentless hound off their trail and, finally, the try to dynamite their adversary, but are blown up themselves, and land at Percival's feet in the police station.

In a small town, there are two barbers: a man and a mouse who get along well. However, a bunch of cats decide to grab the mice.

Some mice and their friend a dog, who has been protecting them are attacked by cats and saved by Mighty Mouse. (imdb)

A twisted version of some famous fairy tales! The Wolf introduces himself and explains that he's misunderstood! Red Riding Hood comes along, and the Wolf changes into his zoot suit, grabs Red and makes her do a jive boogie-woogie dance with him! Mighty Mouse sees this, and he clobbers the Wolf. Then the Wolf cross-dresses to impersonate Little Bo Peep, and lures a flock of lambs into his trap.

In the Southland at Colonel Pureheart's old plantation, there's a heavy mortgage on the old house- literally! He loads up his donkey, and they set up for the gold fields. The old man and his donkey strike gold. To get it back home, they have to go through Indian country. Just as the colonel is about to be burned at the stake, Mighty Mouse comes to their rescue- wouldn't you know it? A bunch of wolf/dog-looking characters portray the Indians. (BCDB.com)

An old buzzard who has aspirations of having a chicken-dinner converts his trailer into a beauty shop in order to lure the hens from the barnyard hen-house. He not only lures all the hens but a rooster looking for a make-over. Dinky the Duck comes to the rescue.

The old fire horse has to retire and is replaced by a automobile.