Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines Season 1, Episode 27: The Cuckoo Patrol

Fur Out Furlough

The General will reward the one who stops Yankee Doodle Pigeon with a 30-day furlough with all expenses paid.

6 min

Hot Soup

3 min

Barn Dance

3 min

Muttley on the Bounty

While mopping the floor, Muttley daydreams he's Fletcher Christian on the H.M.S. Bounty and Dastardly is Captain Bligh.

3 min

Sappy Birthday

Muttley wants a day off because it's his birthday. Dastardly reminds him the birthday party cannot be held until after they stop the pigeon

6 min

Follow That Feather

Fully aware of the gravity of the situation, Dick Dastardly and his proud men try to eliminate the pigeon with a feather seeking homing missile.

6 min

Barber

3 min

Empty Hangar

3 min

What's New Old Bean?

Our medal-mooching mutt is tending garden and imagines himself in the story of Jack and the Beanstalk.

3 min

Operation Anvil

Klunk is sure his new invention, a flying anvil, will work. Dick Dastardly is flattered - or should I say flattened - by the idea of finally getting Yankee Doodle Pigeon.

6 min

Sky Hi-IQ

The General sends an efficiency expert in order to shape up the Vulture Squadron. Having analysed the results of an attitude test, he recommends Muttley to take command of the squadron.

6 min

Prop Wash

3 min

Carpet

3 min

The Marvelous Muttdini

Locked in the guard house, Muttley daydreams he's an escape artist.

3 min

A Plain Shortage of Planes

The Vulture Squadron has run out of planes. The General calls to tell them there's no more money to by new ones. Dick Dastardly decides to buy a wreck so he'll still be able to catch Yankee Doodle Pigeon.

6 min

Barnstormers

Having messed up another mission a safe landing in a barn would be all they'd need. The country woman Hilda thinks her Prince Charming Zilly has fallen out of the sky. She won't let him go.

6 min

Arnold

3 min

Pineapple Sundae

3 min

The New Mascot

3 min

The Bad Actor

Muttley daydreams he's a stage actor being upstaged by Dastardly (in a typecast role).

3 min

Shape Up Or Ship Out

Yankee Doodle Pigeon now flies bravely across open water carrying top secret messages to ships at sea. The General transfers the Vulture Squadron to sea duty on board a flat deck ferry boat.

6 min

Stop That Pigeon

Yankee Doodle Pigeon and the members of the Vulture Squadron, Dick Dastardly, Muttley, Klunk and Zilly, are introduced shortly. We witness their first attempts to stop that pigeon.

6 min

Grease Job

3 min

Robot

3 min

The Big Topper

Muttley dreams he's a circus star, with rival Dastardly plotting to sabotage the show.

3 min

Zilly's a Dilly

Dick Dastardly is fed up with Zilly being a scary cat. So, he calls for a doctor who hypnotizes Zilly. Now Zilly changes into the bravest Vulture Squadron warrior.

6 min

Automatic Door

3 min

Airmail

3 min

Runway Stripe

3 min

The Masked Muttley

Muttley dreams he's a western hero thwarting outlaw Dastardly's bank robbery.

3 min

Pest Pilots

The inimitable entrepreneurs of the Vulture Squadron drop in on a mad professor's laboratory. He gives them a chance to try his flying inventions on the pigeon instead of Klunk's.

6 min

The Swiss Yelps

High in the sky our gallant courier Yankee Doodle Pigeon now sweeps swiftly trough the canons of the Swiss Alps. Of course, followed by Dastardly and his men who are having their planes rocked.

6 min

Eagle-Beagle

Having made a mess of several operations, Dick Dastardly comes to the conclusion an eagle is much easier to fetch than a pigeon.

6 min

Deep Reading

3 min

Shell Game

3 min

Slightly Loaded

3 min

Movie Stuntman

While painting a flagpole, Muttley dreams he's a movie stuntman, with director Darryl O. Dastardly trying to do him in.

3 min

Fly By Knights

This time around the group try to get Yankee Doodle by shooting arrows at him. They all miss Yankee Doodle and Dastardly suggest they they need glasses. So off they go to take an eye test. They all fail and get glasses. However the glasses make their sight worse. Everything Muttley sees is farther than it really is. Klunk's vision is multiplied and he sees more than what is really there. Zilly sees everything upside down. Then The General gives Dastardly glasses and all he sees is magnified.

6 min

There's No Fool Like a Re-Fuel

The episodes opens with the gang doing their normal thing. One by one they run out of fuel. One of the gang suggest they can never catch Yankee Doodle because they run out of fuel. Klunk gets the idea to fuel while in the air. They try many different ways of in-air fueling.

6 min

Springtime

3 min

Dog's Life

3 min

Strange Equipment

3 min

Coonskin Caper

While playing in the woods, Muttley dreams he's Daniel Boone and Dastardly is a renegade Indian making off with his girl.

3 min

Movies Are Badder Than Ever

The General sends over a movie director to film the crew and see what they are doing wrong. The crew goes about their normal business and the director loves the footage he is getting. The crew destroys the film and the director is very upset.

6 min

Home Sweet Homing Pigeon

Zilly,Muttley and Klunk refuse to obey Dastardly's command because their enlistments are up. Dastardly cries and makes them feel bad so they decide to go along for one last time. The crew tries to try and feather Yankee Doodle but it doesn't work. They try a wreaking ball. It fails. The crew decides to leave for good this time. Yankee Doodle flies by and scares everyone so they decide to go get him. Dastardly tricks the crew in to reenlisting for four more years.

6 min

The Elevator

3 min

Obedience School

3 min

Aquanuts

Muttley dreams he's a deep sea treasure hunter, with Dastardly out to steal the treasure he eventually finds.

3 min

Lens a Hand

Dastardly offers to give The General Proof that the squadron is doing its job and not just collecting flight pay. Muttley is put in charge of taking pictures.

6 min

Vacation Trip Trap

The General calls Dick Dastardly to tell him he is allowed to take a two weeks furlough. Zilly, Klunk and Muttley now have to try to stop the pigeon without their leader. But they can't do without him.

6 min

Parachute

3 min

Real Snapper

3 min

Leonardo de Muttley

Muttley dreams he's Leonardo DaVinci, trying to invent the first flying machine.

3 min

Stop Which Pigeon?

The General is coming to the Vulture Squadron's hangar to inspect Yankee Doodle Pigeon having been caught. Since our inventive idiots appear to be still unable to stop that pigeon before the General arrives, they hire an actor pigeon to make the General believe it's the real Yankee Doodle Pigeon.

6 min

Ceiling Zero Zero

Equipped with Klunk's latest invention - a weather machine - the Vulture Squadron tries to stop Yankee Doodle Pigeon for the umpteenth time.

6 min

Fast Freight

3 min

Home Run

3 min

Start Your Engines

Muttley dreams he's racer Barney Olfield.

3 min

Who's Who?

During 'Operation Catapault,' Dastardly falls out of the plane and lands on his head. As a result of this, he loses his memory. Klunk takes command of the squadron, but their operations are no more successful than before. Eventually, Dastardly, Zilly and Klunk all fall on their heads from a plane. Dastardly's memory is restored by this, but now Klunk and Zilly don't seem to know who he is or who they are...

6 min

Operation Birdbrain

According to Dastardly the Vulture Squadron will certainly be able to catch Yankee Doodle Pigeon if they learn to think like a pigeon. In order to achieve this, they should also sleep and eat like a pigeon.

6 min

Bowling Pin

3 min

Shrink Job

3 min

Ship Ahooey

Muttley dreams he's trying to be the first swimmer across the English Channel.

3 min

Medal Muddle

The complete collection of Muttley's medals appear to be stolen. Muttley insists on Dick Dastardly helping him to get back the medals. Until then, he refuses to do his duty.

6 min

Go South Young Pigeon

Dick Dastardly, Muttley, Klunk and Zilly experience great difficulties finding the pigeon among many other birds going south to hibernate.

6 min

The Window Washer

3 min

Beach Blast

3 min

Admiral Bird Dog

Muttley dreams he's trying to reach the North Pole. Dastardly tries to beat him to it.

3 min

Too Many Kooks

Dick Dastardly lets successively Klunk, Zilly and Muttley come up with an idea to get Yankee Doodle Pigeon. Muttley develops a bird dog sensing device that's certain stop the pigeon.

6 min

Ice See You

Continuing his dangerous task of delivering secret messages, Yankee Doodle Pigeon now flies above the frozen area of the northern front. Of course, hotly pursued by Dick Dastardly and his Vulture Squadron

6 min

Echo

3 min

Rainmaker

3 min

Professor Muttley

Muttley dreams he's an inventor, with Dastardly stealing all his ideas.

3 min

Balmy Swami

Having crocked another plane, the Vulture Squadron drops into Sam Swami's tent. He who can look into the future, predicts a better future for our fearless flyers, but a worse one for Yankee Doodle Pigeon.

6 min

Camouflage Hop-Aroo

The General sends a camouflage expert to help the Vulture Squadron out. These vicious men will certainly stop that pigeon while in disguise.

6 min

Mop Up

3 min

Big Turnover

3 min

Wild Mutt Muttley

Muttley dreams he's a jungle lord.

3 min

Have Plane Will Travel

The Vulture Squadron is transferred to a place where there's positively no pigeon except Yankee Doodle Pigeon.

6 min

Windy Windmill

Yankee Doodle Pigeon now flies above The Netherlands, of course pursued by the preposterous Vulture Squadron, trying to catch the brave messenger with a windmill plane.

6 min

Tough Break

3 min

The Ice Cream Tree

3 min

Astromutt

Muttley dreams he's a space hero, with Dastardly as a being on a planet plotting Muttley's demise.

3 min

Plane Talk

Klunk develops a plane with a spare plane that will save our fearless flyers in case of disaster.

6 min

Happy Bird Day

The General calls to tell Dick Dastardly there'll be no birthday celebrations until they stop Yankee Doodle Pigeon. Dastardly wonders who's birthday it is, and comes to the conclusion it's the General's. He decides to bake him a cake and deliver it to him right after catching the pigeon.

6 min

Boxing

3 min

Runaway Rug

3 min

Super Muttley

Muttley dreams he's a superhero.

3 min