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Buster Keaton

Season 1 1917 - 1920
TV-G

  • 1917-04-23T00:00:00Z
  • 20m
  • 4h 40m (14 episodes)
  • Comedy
After being featured in several comedies with Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton starred in a series of two reel comedies distributed by Metro between 1920 and 1923. After graduating to feature-length films, he returned to shorts with Educational Pictures and Columbia Pictures in the '30s and '40s. Keaton's screen persona was in some ways a continuation of his stage persona, only more exaggerated: a handsome, dignified, and resourceful young man whose deadpan "stone face" depicted emotion with stunning and brilliant subtlety. Buster was lithe and extremely athletic at five feet, six inches tall, weighing only 140 pounds. He moved with the smoothness of a dancer but in a whirlwind style, whether he was caught in the clutches of a machine, running against a rain storm, or dogged by screen enemies. Buster was also eclectic: one never knew exactly what to expect from his next film project, which of course kept his audiences guessing and coming back to the theater again and again.

14 episodes

Series Premiere

1917-04-23T00:00:00Z

1x01 The Butcher Boy

Series Premiere

1x01 The Butcher Boy

  • 1917-04-23T00:00:00Z20m

Customers and clerks frolic in a general store. Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat, then does some clever cleaver tossing. In Buster's film debut he buys a pail of molasses.

1917-06-25T00:00:00Z

1x02 The Rough House

1x02 The Rough House

  • 1917-06-25T00:00:00Z20m

Roscoe, his wife and his mother-in-law run a seaside resort. Buster plays a gardener who puts out a fire started by Roscoe, then a delivery boy who fights with the cook St. John, then a cop.

1917-08-20T00:00:00Z

1x03 His Wedding Night

1x03 His Wedding Night

  • 1917-08-20T00:00:00Z20m

In a drugstore Al and Roscoe are rivals for Alice. Roscoe slings melons and operates the gas pump. Buster delivers a wedding gown for Alice, begins modeling it, is mistaken for Alice and is kidnapped by Al.

1917-09-30T00:00:00Z

1x04 Oh Doctor!

1x04 Oh Doctor!

  • 1917-09-30T00:00:00Z20m

Roscoe is a doctor who falls in love with a pretty woman whose boyfriend, in turn, falls in love with Roscoe's wife's jewelry.

1917-10-29T00:00:00Z

1x05 Coney Island

1x05 Coney Island

  • 1917-10-29T00:00:00Z20m

Roscoe tries to dump his wife so he can enjoy the beach attractions. Buster arrives with Alice who is taken away from him by Al who loses her to Roscoe. Bathing beauties and Keystone Kops abound.

1917-12-10T00:00:00Z

1x06 A Country Hero

1x06 A Country Hero

  • 1917-12-10T00:00:00Z20m

This short is a lost silent film so it doesn't exist.

1918-01-20T00:00:00Z

1x07 Out West

1x07 Out West

  • 1918-01-20T00:00:00Z20m

A satire of western movies. Roscoe comes into town after riding the rails. The saloon has a trap door over a pit where bodies are tossed as they are shot. A black patron is taunted and shot at. Roscoe and Buster do everything they can to keep Al from Alice.

1918-03-18T00:00:00Z

1x08 The Bell Boy

1x08 The Bell Boy

  • 1918-03-18T00:00:00Z20m

At the Elk's Head Hotel bellhops torment the lobby, each other and guests. The elevator is powered by a stubborn horse. A sham robbery turns into a real one. And there is a chase on a runaway trolley.

1917-05-13T00:00:00Z

1x09 Moonshine

1x09 Moonshine

  • 1917-05-13T00:00:00Z20m

A feud between the Owens and the Gillettes ends when the last remaining Gillette is killed, but new trouble erupts for the mountain folk with the arrival of a U.S. revenue agent and his assistant. The revenuers search high and low for the secret hideaway where the mountain people prepare illegal alcohol, but end up in deep trouble that only a little movie magic can save them from.

1918-07-06T00:00:00Z

1x10 Good Night, Nurse!

1x10 Good Night, Nurse!

  • 1918-07-06T00:00:00Z20m

Roscoe's wife wants him committed to the No Hope Sanitarium for a cure from drink. He is greeted by blood spattered, cleaver-wielding Buster and a barely clad female patient. He eats a thermometer and must be rushed into surgery.

1918-09-15T00:00:00Z

1x11 The Cook

1x11 The Cook

  • 1918-09-15T00:00:00Z20m

Cooks make hovoc in seaside resort hotel.

1919-09-07T00:00:00Z

1x12 Back Stage

1x12 Back Stage

  • 1919-09-07T00:00:00Z20m

Roscoe and Buster are working at a vaudeville house. When the crew attacks the strongman for bullying his assistant, the man goes out on strike so the crew puts on a show. When the strongman starts shooting from the balcony, Buster rigs a swing, picks him up, and takes him to the stage where is again subdued.

1919-10-26T00:00:00Z

1x13 The Hayseed

1x13 The Hayseed

  • 1919-10-26T00:00:00Z20m

Buster manages the store while Roscoe delivers the mail, taking time out for hide-and-seek with Molly. The constable, also interested in Molly, steals $300 while being observed by Buster.

1920-01-11T00:00:00Z

1x14 The Garage

1x14 The Garage

  • 1920-01-11T00:00:00Z20m

Roscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a car left for them to clean. In the second half they go off on a false alarm and return to find their own building on fire.

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