The Walter Lantz Cartune Encyclopedia: 1952

"Born to Peck" Release Date: 2/25/52 Direction: Walter Lantz (uncredited) Animation: Don Patterson, Ray Abrams, La Verne Harding, and Paul Smith Music: Clarence E. Wheeler Sets: Fred Brunish Notes: Production Number: U-8 Reissued as "Young and Handsome" by Castle Films.

"Stage Hoax" Release Date: 4/21/52 Direction: Walter Lantz (uncredited) Animation: Don Patterson, Ray Abrams, La Verne Harding, and Paul Smith Music: Clarence E. Wheeler Sets: Fred Brunish Notes: Production Number: U-9 Retitled "The Stagecoach Hoax" by Castle Films. This cartoon marks the first time Grace Stafford provided extensive dialouge for Woody (in all previous cartoons, she merely provided his laugh). However, it should be noted that she is doing the voice of Woody dressed as a woman, not Woody's "normal" voice.

"Woodpecker in the Rough" Release Date: 6/16/52 Direction: Walter Lantz (uncredited) Animation: Don Patterson, Ray Abrams, La Verne Harding, and Paul Smith Music: Clarence E. Wheeler Sets: Fred Brunish Notes: Production Number: U-10 Reissued as "The Goofy Golfer" by Castle Films. "Bull Dozer" from "The Loose Nut" (1945) reappears here as Woody's golfing rival. Grace Stafford provides dialogue as Woody in Woody's normal voice for the first time in this cartoon.

"Scalp Treatment" Release Date: 9/18/52 Direction: Walter Lantz (uncredited) Animation: Don Patterson, Ray Abrams, La Verne Harding, and Paul Smith Music: Clarence E. Wheeler Sets: Fred Brunish Notes: Production Number: U-11 Reissued as "Indian Whoopee" by Castle Films. Walter Lantz's final effort as a director.

"The Great Who-Dood-It" Release Date: 10/20/52 Supervision: Don Patterson Story: Homer Brightman Animation: Laverne Harding, Paul Smith, and Ray Abrams Music: Clarence Wheeler Backgrounds: Fred Brunish Notes: Production Number: U-12 Don Patterson's directorial debut First onscreen credit for Homer Brightman. Reissued as "The Great Magician" by Castle Films.

"Termites From Mars" Release Date: 12/8/52 Supervision: Don Patterson Animation: Laverne Harding, Paul Smith, and Ray Abrams Sets: Raymond Jacobs Music: Clarence Wheeler Notes: Production Number: U-13 First onscreen credit for Raymond Jacobs at Lantz In 1953, this cartoon's plot was adapted for a promotional giveaway comic book for Scotch Tape called "Woody Woodpecker Meets Scotty MacTape".