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- Monsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings.
- Shortly before his execution on the death row in San Quentin, amateur sleuth and baby photographer Ronnie Jackson tells reporters how he got there.
- Two booksellers search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.
- After the events in Them Thar Hills (1934), Stan and Ollie encounter their old nemesis, whose grocery shop is next to their home-appliances store. Nobody can let bygones be bygones, and a war breaks out. Will those tit-for-tat battles ever end?
- Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results.
- Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out. In the lobby he pushes a fat lady into a fountain and returns to sit down by Edna. Mr. Rowdy, in the gallery, pours beer down on Mr. Pest and Edna. He attacks patrons, a harem dancer, the singers Dot and Dash, and a fire-eater.
- Three inept firemen try to avoid being fired by their increasingly exasperated chief.
- Ollie and Stanley are two Christmas Tree sales reps who get into one of their usual mutual-destruction fights with a disgruntled homeowner.
- Stan and Ollie take a trip into the mountains ('the high multitude') so Ollie can recover from gout. Bootleggers have dumped their moonshine in the well from which the boys sample their 'healthy' mountain water. Mr. Hall, who has left his wife with the boys while he refuels his car, is not amused at his wife's condition when he returns.
- Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble
- At a rail crossing, a small fender-bender incident turns into a major tit-for-tat retaliatory war among various motorists.
- The gang decides to enter their animals in a local pet show.
- Stan & Ollie attempt to fool their wives by sneaking out to a poker game, but instead get involved with two flirty ladies, one of whom is the girlfriend of a jealous boxer.
- Instructional short aimed at school-aged children of the early 1950s that combines animation and live-action footage with voice-over narration to explain what to do to increase their chances of surviving the blast from an atomic bomb.
- The star of a traveling theatrical company is pressed into multiple services at a hotel where the staff have walked off on strike.
- Two bumbling servants are hired by a dizzy society matron to cook and serve a meal to visiting royalty.
- Claude Kirchner hosted this children's show with a mixture of cartoons, film shorts (like "Diver Dan", which combined a live action actor and sea-creature puppets), and occasional guests. Cocomarsh Milk Mix was a longtime sponsor.
- In Paris, a stage-struck would-be actor is mistaken for an escaped convict.
- A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
- Members of a municipal band, Stanley and Oliver seem to be always following someone else's lead, rather than that of the temperamental conductor. Soon they're out of a job, as well as their lodgings when the landlady finds out they've been fired. The boys try their luck at being street musicians, but the tiffs they get into with each other soon spread to passersby in general, until the street is filled with men pulling each other's pants off.
- Rich oil tycoon (Finlayson) awakens one morning, after a night of carousing, to be told that he was married the night before. His lawyer (Laurel) is called in to straighten things out when a blackmail attempt is made. Wild chases through a dance hall and amusement park ensue.
- In Victorian London the esteemed Dr. Pyckle uses himself as a guinea pig when he experiments with a new drug that changes him into a compulsive prankster.
- Dr. Benchley lectures the women's club on the unusual but important title-topic.
- A con artist (Garvin) and her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward (Laurel.)
- A government official staying in a hotel puts some important secret papers in the hotel safe. A ring of spies out to get the papers manages to steal them from the safe, and a lady government agent enlists the help of the hotel's bumbling bellhop in getting back the papers and breaking up the spy ring.