1953-1957

 

  WDCS151 'Easter Disaster' - 1953

Synopsis:
Donald wants to be grand marshal for the Easter Parade. He has to distribute sweets to the children to get them to vote for him.

Comments:
Donald makes a whole-hearted effort to please the children at Easter, but Gladstone sabotages him several times!

 

  WDCS155 'Rainbow Heirs' - 1953

Synopsis:
Scrooge decides to find an heir for his vast fortune. He can choose either Donald, the nephews, or Gladstone, and each of them receive 10,000 dollars to use as they see fit.

Comments:
Obviously, Scrooge does not hold his relatives in high regard when it comes to their inheriting his fortune. He enumerates: My only relatives are my nephew, Donald, and his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and my distant nephew, Gladstone Gander!... What a collection! Gladstone is so disinterested in the money that he does not put it to any use at all...

 

  WDCS156 'The Picnic Ordeal' - 1953

Synopsis:
Donald is a master rainmaker but jealousy towards Gladstone in their mutual courting of Daisy muddles his mind...

Comments:
Gladstone merely functions as a catalyst for Donald's blind rage, which ends up totally spoiling an innocent picnic.

 

  WDCS163 'The Buried Pearls' - 1954

Synopsis:
Donald hopes to beat Gladstone's luck by using his own new rabbit's foot. Things are in fact looking up...

Comments:
One of Gladstone's greatest pastimes is to diminish and ridicule Donald and his lack of luck. Stacking up prizes in front of him is one way...

 

  WDCS167 'Salmon Contest' - 1954

Synopsis:
Donald is checking on how to catch the biggest salmon in a contest in order to win a Snobmobile. But Gladstone is checking in, too...

Comments:
Gladstone wins the great fishing prize - an elaborate car - from under the noses of the Ducks, but they rescue a little girl from drowning instead and reap the benefits.

 

  WDCS179 'Canoe Contest' - 1955

Synopsis:
Donald and Gladstone have entered the same canoe contest but only one of them can win. Maybe the nephews can lend Donald a hand?

Comments:
No matter what the Ducks' combined efforts amount to, Gladstone miraculously manages to win the sub-contests without even trying very hard.

 

  DD46 Secret of Hondorica - 1956

Synopsis:
Donald and the nephews are hired by Scrooge to trace some papers left in a crashed airplane. Gladstone tags along for the reward...

Comments:
Gladstone is freewheeling throughout this story letting the Ducks do the work, while he is just trying to reap the benefits. In the end he splits the reward money with Donald, though, but he is also the unwilling receiver of a special metal collar!

 

  WDCS187 'Business Contest' - 1956

Synopsis:
Scrooge is pondering who shall inherit his business. Donald or Gladstone? He decides to put them to the test...

Comments:
Gladstone is required to move a house from one cliff top to another, but he prefers to take a nap instead. In the meantime, a storm moves the house for him...

 

  WDCS205 'Growing Apples' - 1957

Synopsis:
Donald longs to win a prize for his apples at the county fair and he is nursing them all summer long. But his neighbour is Gladstone...

Comments:
...and he is not lifting a finger in his garden. All Donald's more and more frantic efforts to grow prize apples benefit Gladstone's tree instead.

 

  WDCS207 'Desert Tryouts' - 1957

Synopsis:
Donald, Scrooge, and Gladstone compete to win a uranium mine in several desert contests.

Comments:
Gladstone cannot really be bothered, so he contents himself by finding a diamond by simply throwing away his repulsive work tool. Later, he just happens to find 10 uranium mines...

 

1948-1949 1950-1952 1953-1957 1958-1960 1961-1966

 

 

 

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