The Mr. Magoo Show

November 7, 1960

Magoo thinks he's going into Armand's clothing shop, when actually he goes into the Armed Forces recruitment office.

November 8, 1960

Magoo mistakes an escaped bear for an old college buddy.

November 9, 1960

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.

November 10, 1960

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.

November 11, 1960

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.

November 14, 1960

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.

November 15, 1960

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.

November 16, 1960

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.

November 17, 1960

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.

November 18, 1960

Magoo gets stranded on an island with some politically incorrect natives.

November 21, 1960

Prezley talks Waldo into wrestling the champ for $100.

November 22, 1960

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.

November 23, 1960

Magoo hangs with Beatniks who have a fondness for bongos.

November 24, 1960

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.

November 25, 1960

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.

November 28, 1960

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.

November 29, 1960

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.

November 30, 1960

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.

December 1, 1960

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.

December 2, 1960

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!

December 5, 1960

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.

December 6, 1960

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.

December 7, 1960

Presley gets Waldo a job as a stuntman for western star Rock Bottom.

December 8, 1960

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.

December 9, 1960

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.

December 12, 1960

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.

December 13, 1960

Waldo and Prezley join the foreign legion.

December 14, 1960

Magoo goes duck hunting on a lake in a city park with Charlie and causes his usual chaos.

December 15, 1960

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.

December 16, 1960

Waldo and Prezley visit the Blue Rich Mountains and end up in the middle of a feud of the Martins and the McGoys.

December 19, 1960

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.

December 20, 1960

Two escaped crooks take the place of Waldo and Prezley while Magoo takes them on vacation.

December 21, 1960

Waldo and Presley land on what they think is a deserted island, but is actually populated with cannibals.

December 22, 1960

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.

December 23, 1960

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.

December 26, 1960

Magoo bumbles his way into flying the new top secret X109 jet.

December 27, 1960

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.

December 28, 1960

Magoo thinks he reuniting with his old college pal Stinky Spellman, but he mistakes a kangaroo for him.

December 29, 1960

Magoo is a prospector unknowingly on his uncle's land; his uncle sends his evil butler to stop him.

December 30, 1960

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!

January 2, 1961

Magoo and his houseboy Charlie battle a noisy alley cat.

January 3, 1961

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.

January 4, 1961

No overview available.

January 5, 1961

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.

January 6, 1961

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.

January 9, 1961

No overview available.

January 10, 1961

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.

January 11, 1961

Magoo camps out in Tycoon Magoo's department store.

January 12, 1961

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.

January 13, 1961

Magoo and Charlie hunt a cougar in the forest.

January 16, 1961

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.

January 17, 1961

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."

January 18, 1961

Magoo and Charlie go on a canoe trip.

January 19, 1961

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.

January 20, 1961

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.

January 23, 1961

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.

January 24, 1961

Waldo and Prezley try to catch a fox.

January 25, 1961

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.

January 26, 1961

Mr. Magoo and Charlie visit Tycoon Studios instead of Tycoonland.

January 27, 1961

When Magoo's hamster starts making food runs in the middle of the night, his cat begins to think the house is haunted.

January 30, 1961

Magoo bowls in a bottling factory, with Charlie taking the brunt of the strikes.

January 31, 1961

Magoo goes to visit his mother and leaves Hamlet and Bowser along. They run amuck while Hamlet raids the fridge.

February 1, 1961

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).

February 2, 1961

Magoo heads for Las Vegas for a gambler's vacation. Unfortunately, he ends up in a missile base instead.

February 3, 1961

Magoo leaves his pets home alone. Hamlet the hamster tries to get Caesar the dog into trouble.

February 6, 1961

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.

February 7, 1961

Magoo ends up in China where he is grated an audience with Genghis Khan.

February 8, 1961

Magoo and his Oriental houseboy Charlie burst into another traveling circus thinking that it's a charity ball!

February 9, 1961

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.

February 10, 1961

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.

February 13, 1961

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.

February 14, 1961

Mr. Magoo drives into a small town looking exactly like the wanted criminal, Dangerous Dan.

February 15, 1961

Magoo wanders into the Hollyhock Bowl where he becomes the conductor for the symphony orchestra.

February 16, 1961

Our hero turns winter skiing into a series of manic adventures. His servant, Charlie, keeps getting into scrapes of his own.

February 17, 1961

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.

February 20, 1961

Magoo is on a train in the wild west, trying to keep the mail car safe from robbers.

February 21, 1961

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.

February 22, 1961

Charlie takes center stage when he tries help another little Chinese boy get his cat.

February 23, 1961

Magoo needs to get a new vacuum cleaner, but ends up with a bank robbing robot instead!

February 24, 1961

Mr. Magoo's pet hamster has a plan for getting past his dog and into the refrigerator.

February 27, 1961

When Magoo takes a dip in the Fountain of Youth, Charlie sees a baby and thinks he has really turned young again.

February 28, 1961

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.

March 1, 1961

Magoo and Charlie head out to a football game, but end up in a construction site instead.

March 2, 1961

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.

March 3, 1961

Magoo tries to get dinner for his hamster, but his dog has other designs on the hamsters life.

March 6, 1961

Mr. Magoo and Charlie mistake an Indian reservation for Balm Strings.

March 7, 1961

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.

March 8, 1961

Mr. Magoo gets into all kinds of mischief on his hunting trip in Africa.

March 9, 1961

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.

March 10, 1961

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.

March 13, 1961

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.

March 14, 1961

No overview available.

March 15, 1961

Magoo takes a trip to India, where he wants to organize a safari hunt of the cunning tiger.

March 16, 1961

No overview available.

March 17, 1961

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.

March 20, 1961

Magoo tours Egypt and visits the pyramids where finds a secret way to get inside of them.

March 21, 1961

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.

March 22, 1961

No overview available.

March 23, 1961

Magoo recollects going on a date with his teenage lover; however, we find out he accidentally went out with a circus kangaroo.

March 24, 1961

Magoo goes to help his pal Smedley who, unknown to Magoo, is being held hostage.

March 27, 1961

Magoo and Charlie ride the big surf in Hawaii.

March 28, 1961

Magoo writes a song on the piano and goes to copyright it, but he runs into a audition instead and wins by default.

March 29, 1961

Magoo tries his hand at running a diner.

March 30, 1961

Magoo takes Charlie shopping, but they end up in a natural history museum instead.

March 31, 1961

Mr. Magoo and Charlie accidentally end up at a wrong hotel filled with spooky lunatics.

January 1, 1962

While reading about the exploits of Robin Hood, Magoo dreams that he is the legendary hero.

January 2, 1962

Charlie tries to help Magoo grow his own vegetable garden... with typically disastrous results.

January 3, 1962

A hungry lion smells breakfast coming from Magoo's campfire, and tries to get a bit.

January 4, 1962

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.

January 5, 1962

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.

January 8, 1962

The Masked Hombre is on Magoo's TV set and he thinks it's the kids playing outside.

January 9, 1962

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.

January 10, 1962

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.

January 11, 1962

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.

January 12, 1962

When they can't find a babysitter for Gerald McBoing Boing, his parents are forced to call in Mr. Magoo.

January 15, 1962

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.

January 16, 1962

No overview available.

January 17, 1962

No overview available.

January 18, 1962

No overview available.

January 19, 1962

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.

January 22, 1962

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.

January 23, 1962

Commodore Magoo mistakenly takes off in the wrong boat for a fishing derby and ends up fishing up an ammunition boat.

January 24, 1962

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.

January 25, 1962

No overview available.

January 26, 1962

Magoo has an eye-opening experience when he almost has his fortune told.

January 29, 1962

No overview available.

January 30, 1962

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.

January 31, 1962

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.

February 1, 1962

No overview available.

February 2, 1962

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.