Our Gang / Little Rascals Peggy Eames Authentic Ca. 1926 Signed W/ Rube Wager

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Peggy Eames (actress) EDIT   SHARE Peggy eames Peggy Eames Contents[show] Biography Character: Peggy Eames Birthday: February 1, 1918 Place of Birth: Newcastle, Australia Date of Death: March 3, 1987 Place of Death: Forest Grove, Oregon First Short: Uncle Tom's Uncle Last Short: Tired Business Men Number of Shorts: 6 History: Not much is known about the past or career of Peggy Eames. An unrevealed source links her birthplace as Pennsylvania, but her son reports she was adopted in Australia. She won her role on Our Gang through a dance contest, later retiring from the show when she became too old for the series. Afterward, she went around singing in Vaudeville stage shows with Mickey Daniels until she became an adult, later marrying and having five kids. She passed away in 1987. In 2013, her son, Paul, appeared on "Pawn Stars" trying to sell her old 1938 Gibson guitar and revealing a promotional photo from Seeing The World, but he eventually kept the guitar. List of Shorts Uncle Tom's Uncle Telling Whoppers Seeing The World Bring Home The Turkey Ten Years Old - unconfirmed Tired Business Men Other Projects The Wedding March (1928) Gallery Peggy Eames (role) EDIT   SHARE Peggy Eames Peggy Eames in Telling Whoppers Profile Nickname: Played By: Peggy Eames Born: Relatives: Clubs: Manhattan Club First Short: Uncle Tom's Uncle Last Short: Tired Business Men Character Peggy Eames is one of the peripheral gang members, usually appearing when the gang is present in large numbers, such as one of the schoolchildren in Seeing The World. She causes some mischief by telling Joe and Farina that Tuffy moved to Chicago when he hadn't, which leads the two boys to brag to the gang that they did away with Tuffy, only to come under suspicion of murder when he turns up missing. She should not be confused with Peggy Cartwright, Peggy Ahearn, or Peggy Lynch. Quotes: "He isn't in town no more - He's left for Chicago - He needed more room." - Peggy, talking about Tuffy, in Telling Whoppers Our Gang (known subsequently to television syndication as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals) is an American series of comedy short films chronicling a group of poor neighborhood children and their adventures. Created by comedy producer and studio executive Hal Roach, the series was produced in various forms from 1922 to 1944 and is noted for showing children behaving in a relatively natural way. Roach and original director Robert F. McGowan worked to film the unaffected, raw nuances apparent in regular children rather than have them imitate adult acting styles. The series broke new ground by portraying white and black children interacting as equals.[1] The franchise began in 1922 as a series of silent short subjects produced by the Roach studio and released by Pathé Exchange. Roach changed distributors from Pathé to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1927, and the series entered its most popular period after converting to sound in 1929. Production continued at the Roach studio until 1938, when the series was sold to MGM, which produced the comedies until 1944. Across 220 short films and a feature-film spin-off, General Spanky, the Our Gang series featured over 41 child actors as regular members of cast. As MGM retained the rights to the Our Gang trademark following their purchase of the production rights, the 80 Roach-produced "talkies" were syndicated for television under the title The Little Rascals beginning in 1955. Roach's The Little Rascals package (now owned by CBS Television Distribution) and MGM's Our Gang package (now owned by Turner Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros. Television) have since remained in syndication. New productions based on the shorts have been made over the years, including a 1994 feature film, The Little Rascals, released by Universal Pictures. Contents 1 Series overview 1.1 Directorial approach 1.2 Finding and replacing the cast 1.3 Minority cast members 2 History 2.1 1922–1925: Early years 2.2 1926–1929: New faces and new distributors 2.3 1929–1931: Entering the sound era 2.4 1931–1933: Transition 2.5 1933–1936: New directions 2.6 The final Roach years 2.7 The MGM era 3 Later years and The Little Rascals revival 3.1 The Little Rascals television package 3.2 King World's acquisition and edits 3.3 New Little Rascals productions 4 Legacy and influence 4.1 Imitators, followers, and frauds 4.2 Persons and entities named after Our Gang 5 Home media and rights to the films 5.1 16 mm, VHS, and DVD releases 5.2 Cabin Fever/Hallmark releases 5.3 MGM/Warner Bros. releases 6 Status of ownership 7 Our Gang cast and personnel 7.1 Roach silent period 7.2 Roach sound period 7.3 MGM period 8 Surviving cast 9 Notable Our Gang comedies 10 References 11 External links Series overview Unlike many motion pictures featuring children and based in fantasy, producer/creator Hal Roach rooted Our Gang in real life: most of the children were poor, and the gang was often at odds with snobbish "rich kids," officious adults, parents, and other such adversaries.[1] Directorial approach Senior director Robert F. McGowan helmed most of the Our Gang shorts until 1933, assisted by his nephew Anthony Mack. McGowan worked to develop a style that allowed the children to be as natural as possible, downplaying the importance of the filmmaking equipment. Scripts were written for the shorts by the Hal Roach comedy writing staff, which included at various times Leo McCarey, Frank Capra, Walter Lantz and Frank Tashlin, among others.[2] The children, some too young to read, rarely saw the scripts; instead McGowan would explain the scene to be filmed to each child immediately before it was shot, directing the children using a megaphone and encouraging improvisation.[2] When sound came in at the end of the 1920s, McGowan modified his approach slightly, but scripts were not adhered to until McGowan left the series. Later Our Gang directors, such as Gus Meins and Gordon Douglas, streamlined the approach to McGowan's methods to meet the demands of the increasingly sophisticated movie industry of the mid-to-late 1930s.[2] Douglas in particular had to streamline his films, as he directed Our Gang after Roach halved the running times of the shorts from two reels (20 minutes) to one reel (10 minutes).[2] Finding and replacing the cast As children became too old for the series, they were replaced by new children, usually from the Los Angeles area. Eventually Our Gang talent scouting employed large-scale national contests in which thousands of children tried out for an open role. For example, Norman Chaney who played Chubby (replaced Joe Cobb), Matthew Beard who played Stymie (replaced Allen Hoskins, who was Farina) and Billie Thomas as Buckwheat (who replaced Stymie) all won contests to become members of the gang.[3][4][5] Even when there was no talent search, the studio was bombarded by requests from parents who were sure their children were perfect for the series. Among them were the future child stars Mickey Rooney and Shirley Temple, neither of whom made it past the audition.[6] Minority cast members Original theatrical poster for the Our Gang comedy Baby Brother, in which Allen "Farina" Hoskins (center) paints a black baby with white shoe polish so that he can sell him to a lonely rich boy, Joe Cobb (right), as a baby brother The Our Gang series is notable for being one of the first in cinema history in which African-Americans and White Americans were portrayed as equals. The four African-American child actors who held main roles in the series were Ernie Morrison, Allen Hoskins, Matthew Beard and Billie Thomas. Ernie Morrison was, in fact, the first African-American actor signed to a long-term contract in Hollywood history[7] and the first major African-American star in Hollywood history.[8] Although the African-American characters have since been criticized as racial stereotypes,[9][10] in their adult years, actors Morrison, Beard, and Thomas defended the series, maintaining that its integrated cast and innocent story lines were not racist. They argued that the white characters in the series were similarly stereotyped: the "freckle-faced kid", the "fat kid", the "neighborhood bully", the "pretty blond girl", and the "mischievous toddler". "We were just a group of kids who were having fun", Beard recalled.[11] Morrison stated, "When it came to race, Hal Roach was color-blind."[12] Other minorities, including Asian Americans Sing Joy, Allen Tong (also known as Alan Dong), and Edward Soo Hoo; and Italian American actor Mickey Gubitosi (later known as Robert Blake), were depicted in the series with varying levels of stereotyping.[citation needed] History Left to right: Ernie "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison, Andy Samuel, Allen "Farina" Hoskins, Mickey Daniels and Joe Cobb in a 1923 still from one of the earliest Our Gang comedies 1922–1925: Early years According to Roach, the idea for Our Gang came to him in 1921, when he was auditioning a child actress to appear in a film. The girl was, in his opinion, overly made up and overly rehearsed, and Roach waited for the audition to be over. After the girl and her mother left the office, Roach looked out of his window to a lumberyard across the street, where he saw some children having an argument. The children had all taken sticks from the lumberyard to play with, but the smallest child had the biggest stick, and the others were trying to force him to give it to the biggest child. After realizing that he had been watching the children bicker for 15 minutes, Roach thought a short film series about children just being themselves might be a success.[13] Our Gang also had its roots in an aborted Roach short-subject series revolving around the adventures of a black boy called "Sunshine Sammy", played by Ernie Morrison.[14] Theater owners then were wary of booking shorts focused on a black boy,[14] and the series ended after just one entry, The Pickaninny, was produced.[14] Morrison's "Sunshine Sammy" instead became one of the foci of the new Our Gang series. Under the supervision of Charley Chase, work began on the first two-reel shorts in the new "kids-and-pets" series, to be called Hal Roach's Rascals, later that year. Director Fred C. Newmeyer helmed the first pilot film, entitled Our Gang, but Roach scrapped Newmeyer's work and had former fireman Robert F. McGowan reshoot the short. Roach tested it at several theaters around Hollywood. The attendees were very receptive, and the press clamored for "lots more of those 'Our Gang' comedies." The colloquial usage of the term Our Gang led to its becoming the series' second (yet more popular) official title, with the title cards reading "Our Gang Comedies: Hal Roach presents His Rascals in..."[15] The series was officially called both Our Gang and Hal Roach's Rascals until 1932, when Our Gang became the sole title of the series. The first cast of Our Gang was recruited primarily of children recommended to Roach by studio employees, with the exception of Ernie Morrison, under contract to Roach. The other Our Gang recruits included Roach photographer Gene Kornman's daughter Mary Kornman, their friends' son Mickey Daniels, and family friends Allen Hoskins, Jack Davis, Jackie Condon, and Joe Cobb. Most early shorts were filmed outdoors and on location and featured a menagerie of animal characters, such as Dinah the Mule. Roach's distributor Pathé released One Terrible Day, the fourth short produced for the series, as the first Our Gang short on September 10, 1922; the pilot Our Gang was not released until November 5. The Our Gang series was a success from the start, with the children's naturalism, the funny animal actors, and McGowan's direction making a successful combination. The shorts did well at the box office, and by the end of the decade the Our Gang children were pictured on numerous product endorsements. The biggest Our Gang stars then were Ernie Morrison as Sunshine Sammy, Mickey Daniels, Mary Kornman, and Allen Hoskins as little Farina, who eventually became the most popular member of the 1920s gang[16] and the most popular black child star of the 1920s.[17] A reviewer wrote of her character in Photoplay: "The honors go to a very young lady of color, billed as 'Little Farina.' Scarcely two years old, she goes through each set like a wee, sombre shadow."[18] Daniels and Kornman were very popular and were often paired in Our Gang and a later teen version of the series called The Boy Friends, which Roach produced from 1930 to 1932. Other early Our Gang children were Eugene Jackson as Pineapple, Scooter Lowry, Andy Samuel, Johnny Downs, Winston and Weston Doty, and Jay R. Smith. 1926–1929: New faces and new distributors After Ernie, Mickey and Mary left the series in the mid 1920s, the Our Gang series entered a transitional period. The stress of directing child actors forced Robert McGowan to take doctor-mandated sabbaticals for exhaustion,[19] leaving his nephew Robert A. McGowan (credited as Anthony Mack) to direct many shorts in this period. The Mack-directed shorts are considered to be among the lesser entries in the series.[20] New faces included Bobby Hutchins as Wheezer, Harry Spear, Jean Darling and Mary Ann Jackson, while stalwart Farina served as the series' anchor. Also at this time, the Our Gang cast acquired an American Bulldog with a ring around one eye, originally named Pansy but soon known as Pete the Pup, the most famous Our Gang pet. In 1927, Roach ended his distribution arrangement with the Pathé company. He signed on to release future products through the newly formed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which released its first Our Gang comedy in September 1927. The move to MGM offered Roach larger budgets and the chance to have his films packaged with MGM features to the Loews Theatres chain. Some shorts around this time, particularly Spook Spoofing (1928, one of only two three-reelers in the Our Gang canon), contained extended scenes of the gang tormenting and teasing Farina, scenes which helped spur the claims of racism, which many other shorts did not warrant. These shorts marked the departure of Jackie Condon, who had been with the group from the beginning of the series. Jackie Cooper in the 1930 short School's Out 1929–1931: Entering the sound era Starting in 1928, Our Gang comedies were distributed with phonographic discs that contained synchronized music-and-sound-effect tracks for the shorts. In spring 1929, the Roach sound stages were converted for sound recording, and Our Gang made its "all-talking" debut in April 1929 with the 25-minute film Small Talk. It took a year for McGowan and the gang to fully adjust to talking pictures, during which time they lost Joe Cobb, Jean Darling and Harry Spear and added Norman Chaney, Dorothy DeBorba, Matthew "Stymie" Beard, Donald Haines and Jackie Cooper. Cooper proved to be the personality the series had been missing since Mickey Daniels left and was featured prominently in three 1930/1931 Our Gang films: Teacher's Pet, School's Out, and Love Business. These three shorts explored Jackie Cooper's crush on the new schoolteacher Miss Crabtree, played by June Marlowe. Cooper soon won the lead role in Paramount's feature film Skippy, and Roach sold his contract to MGM in 1931. Other Our Gang members appearing in the early sound shorts included Buddy McDonald, Clifton Young, and Shirley Jean Rickert. Many also appeared in a group cameo appearance in the all-star comedy short The Stolen Jools (1931). Beginning with the short When the Wind Blows, in 1930 background music scores were added to the soundtracks of most of the Our Gang films. Initially, the music consisted of orchestral versions of then popular tunes. Marvin Hatley had served as the music director of Hal Roach Studios since 1929, and RCA employee Leroy Shield joined the company as a part-time musical director in mid 1930. Hatley and Shield's jazz-influenced scores, first featured in Our Gang with 1930s Pups is Pups, became recognizable trademarks of Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy, and the other Roach series and films. Another 1930 short, Teacher's Pet, marked the first use of the Our Gang theme song, "Good Old Days", composed by Shield and featuring a notable saxophone solo. Shield and Hatley's scores supported Our Gang's on-screen action regularly through 1934, after which series entries with background scores became less frequent. In 1930, Roach began production on The Boy Friends, a short-subject series which was essentially a teenaged version of Our Gang. Featuring Our Gang alumni Mickey Daniels and Mary Kornman among its cast, The Boy Friends was produced for two years, with fifteen installments in total. The gang races rich-kid Jerry Tucker in their makeshift fire engine in the 1934 short Hi'-Neighbor! 1931–1933: Transition Jackie Cooper left Our Gang in early 1931 at the cusp of another major shift in the lineup, as Farina Hoskins, Chubby Chaney, and Mary Ann Jackson all departed a few months afterward. Our Gang entered another transitional period, similar to that of the mid 1920s. Matthew Beard, Wheezer Hutchins, and Dorothy DeBorba carried the series during this period, aided by Sherwood Bailey and Kendall McComas, who would play Breezy Brisbane Unlike the mid-1920s period, McGowan sustained the quality of the series with the help of the several regular cast members and the Roach writing staff. Many of these shorts include early appearances of Jerry Tucker and Wally Albright, who later became series regulars. New Roach discovery George McFarland joined the gang as Spanky late in 1931 at the age of three and, excepting a brief hiatus during the summer of 1938, remained an Our Gang actor for eleven years. At first appearing as the tag-along toddler of the group, and later finding an accomplice in Scotty Beckett in 1934, Spanky quickly became Our Gang's biggest child star. He won parts in a number of outside features, appeared in many of the now-numerous Our Gang product endorsements and spin-off merchandise items, and popularized the expressions "Okey-dokey!" and "Okey-doke!"[21] Dickie Moore, a veteran child actor, joined in the middle of 1932 and remained with the series for one year. Other members in these years included Mary Ann Jackson's brother Dickie Jackson, John "Uh-huh" Collum, and Tommy Bond. Upon Dickie Moore's departure in mid 1933, long-term Our Gang members such as Wheezer (who had been with Our Gang since the late Pathé silents period) and Dorothy left the series as well. 1933–1936: New directions Robert McGowan, burned out from the stress of working with the child actors, had as early as 1931 attempted to resign from his position as Our Gang producer/director.[19] Lacking a replacement, Hal Roach persuaded him to stay on for another year.[19] At the start of the 1933–34 season, the Our Gang series format was significantly altered to accommodate McGowan and persuade him to stay another year.[19] The first two entries of the season in fall 1933, Bedtime Worries and Wild Poses (which featured a cameo by Laurel and Hardy), focused on Spanky and his hapless parents, portrayed by Gay Seabrook and Emerson Treacy, in a family-oriented situation comedy format similar to the style later popular on television. A smaller cast of Our Gang kids—Matthew Beard, Tommy Bond, Jerry Tucker, and Georgie Billings—were featured in supporting roles with reduced screen time. An unsatisfied McGowan abruptly left after Wild Poses. Coupled with a brief suspension in McFarland's work permit,[22] Our Gang went into a four-month hiatus, during which the series was revised to a format similar to its original style and German-born Gus Meins was hired as the new series director.[19] Hi-Neighbor!, released in March 1934, ended the hiatus and was the first series entry directed by Meins, a veteran of the once-competing Buster Brown short subject series. Gordon Douglas served as Meins's assistant director, and Fred Newmeyer alternated directorial duties with Meins for a handful of shorts. Meins's Our Gang shorts were less improvisational than McGowan's and featured a heavier reliance on dialogue.[23] McGowan returned two years later to direct his Our Gang swan song, Divot Diggers, released in 1936. Retaining McFarland, Matthew Beard, Tommy Bond, and Jerry Tucker, the revised series added Scotty Beckett, Wally Albright, and Billie Thomas, who soon began playing the character of Stymie's sister "Buckwheat," though Thomas was a male. Semi-regular actors, such as Jackie Lynn Taylor, Marianne Edwards, and Leonard Kibrick as the neighborhood bully, joined the series at this time. Tommy Bond and Wally Albright left in the middle of 1934; Jackie Lynn Taylor and Marianne Edwards would depart by 1935. Early in 1935, new cast members Carl Switzer and his brother Harold joined Our Gang after impressing Roach with an impromptu musical performance at the studio commissary. While Harold would eventually be relegated to the role of a background player, Carl, nicknamed "Alfalfa," eventually replaced Scotty Beckett as Spanky's sidekick. Matthew Beard as Stymie left the cast soon after, and the Buckwheat character morphed subtly into a male. That same year, Darla Hood, Patsy May, and Eugene Lee as Porky joined the gang. Scotty Beckett departed for a career in features (he returned in 1939 for a single short, Cousin Wilbur). The final Roach years Our Gang was very successful during the 1920s and the early 1930s. However, by 1934, many movie theater owners were increasingly dropping two-reel (20-minute) comedies like Our Gang and the Laurel & Hardy series from their bills and running double feature programs instead. The Laurel & Hardy series went from film shorts to features exclusively in mid 1935. By 1936, Hal Roach began debating plans to discontinue Our Gang until Louis B. Mayer, head of Roach's distributor MGM, persuaded Roach to keep the popular series in production.[24] Roach agreed, producing shorter, one-reel Our Gang comedies (ten minutes in length instead of twenty). The first one-reel Our Gang short, Bored of Education (1936), marked the Our Gang directorial debut of former assistant director Gordon Douglas and won the Academy Award for Best Short Subject (One Reel) in 1937. As part of the arrangement with MGM to continue Our Gang, Roach received the clearance to produce an Our Gang feature film, General Spanky, hoping that he might move the series to features as was done with Laurel & Hardy.[24] Directed by Gordon Douglas and Fred Newmeyer, General Spanky featured characters Spanky, Buckwheat, and Alfalfa in a sentimental, Shirley Temple-esque story set during the American Civil War. The film focused more on the adult leads (Phillips Holmes and Rosina Lawrence) than the children and was a box office disappointment.[25] No further Our Gang features were made. George McFarland, Darla Hood, and Carl Switzer in the "Club Spanky" dream sequence from the 1937 short Our Gang Follies of 1938. After years of gradual cast changes, the troupe standardized in 1936 with the move to one-reel shorts. Most casual fans of Our Gang are particularly familiar with the 1936–1939 incarnation of the cast: Spanky, Alfalfa, Darla, Buckwheat, and Porky, with recurring characters such as neighborhood bullies Butch and Woim and the bookworm Waldo. Tommy Bond, an off-and-on member of the gang since 1932, returned to the series as Butch beginning with the 1937 short Glove Taps. Sidney Kibrick, the younger brother of Leonard Kibrick, played Butch's crony, Woim. Glove Taps also featured the first appearance of Darwood Kaye as the bespectacled, foppish Waldo. In later shorts, both Butch and Waldo were portrayed as Alfalfa's rivals in his pursuit of Darla's affections. Other popular elements in these mid-to-late-1930s shorts include the "He-Man Woman Haters Club" from Hearts Are Thumps and Mail and Female (both 1937), the Laurel and Hardy-ish interaction between Alfalfa and Spanky, and the comic tag-along team of Porky and Buckwheat. Roach produced the final two-reel Our Gang short, a high-budget musical special entitled Our Gang Follies of 1938, in 1937 as a parody of MGM's Broadway Melody of 1938. In Follies of 1938, Alfalfa, who aspires to be an opera singer, falls asleep and dreams that his old pal Spanky has become the rich owner of a swanky Broadway nightclub where Darla and Buckwheat perform, making "hundreds and thousands of dollars." As the profit margins continued to decline owing to double features,[26] Roach could no longer afford to continue producing Our Gang. However, MGM did not want the series discontinued and agreed to take over production. On May 31, 1938, Roach sold MGM the Our Gang unit, including the rights to the name and the contracts for the actors and writers, for $25,000 (equal to $454,078 today).[27] After delivering the Laurel and Hardy feature Block-Heads, Roach also ended his distribution contract with MGM, moving to United Artists and leaving the short-subjects business. The final Roach-produced short in the Our Gang series, Hide and Shriek, was his final short-subject production. The MGM era The Little Ranger was the first Our Gang short to be produced in-house at MGM. Gordon Douglas was loaned out from Hal Roach Studios to direct The Little Ranger and another early MGM short, Aladdin's Lantern, while MGM hired newcomer George Sidney as the permanent series director. Our Gang would be used by MGM as a training ground for future feature directors: Sidney, Edward Cahn and Cy Endfield all worked on Our Gang before moving on to features. Another director, Herbert Glazer, remained a second-unit director outside of his work on the series. Nearly all of the 52 MGM-produced Our Gangs were written by former Roach director Hal Law and former junior director Robert A. McGowan (also known as Anthony Mack, nephew of former senior Our Gang director Robert F. McGowan). Robert A. McGowan was credited for these shorts as "Robert McGowan"; as a result, moviegoers have been confused for decades about whether this Robert McGowan and the senior director of the same name at Roach were two separate people. The last few of the Roach comedies featured Alfalfa Switzer as the lead character; Spanky McFarland had departed from the series just before its sale to MGM.[28] Casting his replacement was delayed until after the move to MGM, at which point MGM rehired McFarland.[29] In 1939, Mickey Gubitosi (later known by the stage name of Robert Blake) replaced Eugene "Porky" Lee, who had matured too quickly.[30] Tommy Bond, Darwood Kaye, and Alfalfa Switzer all left the series in 1940, and Billy "Froggy" Laughlin (with his Popeye-esque trick voice) and Janet Burston were added to the cast. By the end of 1941, Darla Hood had departed from the series, and Spanky McFarland followed her within a year. Billie Thomas as Buckwheat remained in the cast until the end of the series as the sole holdover from the Roach era. Overall, the Our Gang films produced by MGM were not as well-received as the Roach-produced shorts had been, largely due to MGM's inexperience with the brand of slapstick comedy that Our Gang was famous for, and to MGM's insistence on keeping Alfalfa, Spanky, and Buckwheat in the series as they became teens.[30] The MGM entries are considered by many film historians, and the Our Gang children themselves, to be lesser films than the Roach entries.[31] The children's performances were criticized as stilted and stiff, their dialogue being recited instead of spoken naturally. Adult situations often drove the action, with each film often incorporating a moral, a civics lesson, or a patriotic theme.[30] The series was given a permanent setting in the fictitious town of Greenpoint, and the mayhem caused by the Our Gang kids was toned down significantly. Exhibitors noticed the drop in quality, and often complained that the series was slipping. When six of the 13 shorts released between 1942 and 1943 sustained losses rather than turning profits,[32] MGM discontinued Our Gang, releasing the final short, Dancing Romeo, on April 29, 1944 (as an MGM Miniature, not an Our Gang comedy). Since 1937, Our Gang had been featured as a licensed comic strip in the UK comic The Dandy, drawn by Dudley D. Watkins. Starting in 1942, MGM licensed Our Gang to Dell Comics for the publication of Our Gang Comics, featuring the gang, Barney Bear, and Tom and Jerry.[33] The strips in The Dandy ended three years after the demise of the Our Gang shorts, in 1947. Our Gang Comics outlasted the series by five years, changing its name to Tom and Jerry Comics in 1949. In 2006, Fantagraphics Books began issuing a series of volumes reprinting the Our Gang stories, mostly written and drawn by Pogo creator Walt Kelly. Later years and The Little Rascals revival The Little Rascals television package When Roach sold Our Gang to MGM, he retained the option to buy the rights to the Our Gang trademark, provided he produced no more children's comedies in the Our Gang vein. In the late 1940s, he created a new film property in the Our Gang mold and forfeited his right to buy back the name Our Gang to obtain permission to produce two Cinecolor featurettes, Curley and Who Killed Doc Robbin. Neither film was critically or financially successful, and Roach turned to re-releasing the original Our Gang comedies. In 1949, MGM sold Roach the back catalog of 1927–1938 Our Gang silent and talking shorts, while retaining the rights to the Our Gang name, the 52 Our Gang films it produced, and the feature General Spanky. Under the terms of the sale, Roach was required to remove the MGM Lion studio logo and all instances of the names or logos "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer", "Loew's Incorporated", and Our Gang from the reissued film prints. Using a modified version of the series' original name, Roach repackaged 79 of the 80 sound Our Gang shorts as The Little Rascals. Monogram Pictures and its successor, Allied Artists, reissued the films to theaters beginning in 1950. Allied Artists' television department, Interstate Television, syndicated the films to TV in 1955. Under its new name, The Little Rascals enjoyed renewed popularity on television, and new Little Rascals comic books, toys, and other licensed merchandise were produced. Seeing the potential of the property, MGM began distributing its own Our Gang shorts to television in September 1958, and the two separate packages of Our Gang films competed with each other in syndication for three decades. Some stations bought both packages and played them alongside each other under the Little Rascals show banner. The television rights to the silent Pathé Our Gang comedies were sold to National Telepix and other distributors, who distributed the films under titles such as The Mischief Makers and Those Lovable Scallawags with Their Gangs. King World's acquisition and edits In 1963, Hal Roach Studios, by then run by Roach's son Hal Jr, filed for bankruptcy. A struggling novice syndication agent named Charles King purchased the television rights to The Little Rascals in the bankruptcy proceedings and returned the shorts to television. The success of The Little Rascals paved the way for King's new company, King World Productions, to grow into one of the largest television syndicators in the world. Currently, ViacomCBS, King World's latest successor, handles distribution rights. In 1971, because of controversy over some dated racial humor in the shorts and other content deemed to be in bad taste, King World made significant edits to Little Rascals TV prints. Many series entries were trimmed by two to four minutes, while others (among them Spanky, Bargain Day, The Pinch Singer and Mush and Milk) were cut to nearly half of their original length. At the same time, eight Little Rascals shorts were pulled from the King World television package altogether. Lazy Days, Moan and Groan, Inc., the Stepin Fetchit-guest-starred A Tough Winter, Little Daddy, A Lad an' a Lamp, The Kid From Borneo, and Little Sinner were deleted from the syndication package because of perceived racism, while Big Ears was deleted for its depiction of carelessly ingesting an assortment of drugs out of a medicine cabinet. The early talkie Railroadin' was never part of the television package because its soundtrack (recorded on phonographic records) was considered lost, although it was later found and restored to the film. Turner Entertainment acquired the classic MGM library in 1986, and the 1938–44 MGM-produced Our Gang shorts were shown on Turner's TBS and TNT cable networks for many years as early-morning programming filler, with a regular slot on Sundays at 6 am ET on TNT. In the early 2000s, the 71 films in the King World package were re-edited, reinstating many (though not all) edits made in 1971 and the original Our Gang title cards. These new television prints made their debut on the American Movie Classics cable network in 2001 and ran until 2003. New Little Rascals productions Many producers, including Our Gang alumnus Jackie Cooper, made pilots for new Little Rascals television series, but none ever went into production. In 1977, Norman Lear tried to revive the Rascals franchise, taping three pilot episodes of The Little Rascals. The pilots were not bought, but were notable for including Gary Coleman. 1979 brought The Little Rascals Christmas Special, an animated holiday special produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, written by Romeo Muller and featuring the voice work of Darla Hood (who died suddenly before the special aired) and Matthew "Stymie" Beard. From 1982 to 1984, Hanna-Barbera Productions produced a Saturday morning cartoon version of The Little Rascals, which aired on ABC during The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show (later The Monchichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show).[34] It starred the voices of Patty Maloney as Darla; Peter Cullen as Petey and Officer Ed; Scott Menville as Spanky; Julie McWhirter Dees as Alfalfa, Porky and The Woim; Shavar Ross as Buckwheat, and B.J. Ward as Butch and Waldo. In 1994, Amblin Entertainment and Universal Pictures released The Little Rascals, a feature film based loosely on the series and featuring interpretations of classic Our Gang shorts, including Hearts are Thumps, Rushin' Ballet, and Hi'-Neighbor! The film, directed by Penelope Spheeris, starred Travis Tedford as Spanky, Bug Hall as Alfalfa, and Ross Bagley as Buckwheat; with cameos by the Olsen twins, Whoopi Goldberg, Mel Brooks, Reba McEntire, Daryl Hannah, Donald Trump and Raven-Symoné.[35] The Little Rascals was a moderate success for Universal, bringing in $51,764,950 at the box office.[36] In 2014, Universal Pictures released a direct-to-video film, The Little Rascals Save the Day. This was a second film loosely based on the series and featuring interpretations of classic Our Gang shorts, including Helping Grandma, Mike Fright, and Birthday Blues. The film was directed by Alex Zamm, and starred Jet Jurgensmeyer as Spanky, Drew Justice as Alfalfa, Eden Wood as Darla, and Doris Roberts as the kids' adopted Grandma. Legacy and influence Painted cover to Four Color Comics number 674, featuring "The Little Rascals" (Dell, January 1956). Artist: David Gantz. The characters in this series are well-known cultural icons, and identified solely by their first names. The characters of Alfalfa, Spanky, Buckwheat, Porky, Darla, Froggy, Butch, Woim, and Waldo were especially well known. Like many child actors, the Our Gang children were typecast and had trouble outgrowing their Our Gang images. Several Our Gang alumni, among them Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Scotty Beckett, Norman "Chubby" Chaney, Billy "Froggy" Laughlin, Donald Haines, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Darla Hood, Matthew "Stymie" Beard, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, and George "Spanky" McFarland, died before age 65, in most cases well earlier. This led to rumors of an Our Gang/Little Rascals "curse", rumors further popularized by a 2002 E! True Hollywood Story documentary entitled "The Curse of the Little Rascals".[37] The Snopes.com website debunks the rumor of an Our Gang curse, stating that there was no pattern of unusual deaths when taking all of the major Our Gang stars into account, despite the deaths of a select few.[38] The children's work in the series was largely unrewarded in later years, although Spanky McFarland was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame posthumously in 1994. Neither he nor any other Our Gang children received any residuals or royalties from reruns of the shorts or licensed products with their likenesses. The only remittances were their weekly salaries during their time in the gang, ranging from $40 a week for newcomers to $200 or more weekly for stars like Farina, Spanky, and Alfalfa.[16] One notable exception was Jackie Cooper, who was later nominated for an Academy Award and had a career as an adult actor. Cooper is known today for portraying Perry White in the 1978–1987 Superman movies, and for directing episodes of TV series such as M*A*S*H and Superboy. Another was Robert Blake, who found great success in the 1960s and 1970s as an actor, with films like In Cold Blood (1967) and television shows like Baretta (1975–78), which netted him an Emmy Award. The 1930 Our Gang short Pups is Pups was an inductee of the 2004 National Film Registry list.[39] Imitators, followers, and frauds Due to the popularity of Our Gang, many similar kid comedy short film series were created by competing studios. Among the most notable are The Kiddie Troupers, featuring future comedian Eddie Bracken; Baby Burlesks, featuring Shirley Temple; the Buster Brown comedies (from which Our Gang received Pete the Pup and director Gus Meins); and Our Gang's main competitor, the Toonerville Trolley-based Mickey McGuire series starring Mickey Rooney. Less notable imitations series include The McDougall Alley Gang (Bray Productions, 1927–1928), The Us Bunch and Our Kids. There is evidence[40] that Our Gang-style productions were filmed in small towns and cities around the country using local children actors in the 1920s and 1930s. These productions did not appear to be affiliated with Hal Roach, but often used storylines from the shorts of the period, and sometimes went so far as to identify themselves as being Our Gang productions. In later years, many adults falsely claimed to have been members of Our Gang. A long list of people, including persons famous in other capacities such as Nanette Fabray, Eddie Bracken, and gossip columnist Joyce Haber[41] claimed to be or have been publicly called former Our Gang children.[42] Bracken's official biography was once altered[42] to state that he appeared in Our Gang instead of The Kiddie Troupers, although he himself had no knowledge of the change.[42] Among notable Our Gang imposters is Jack Bothwell, who claimed to have portrayed a character named "Freckles",[42] going so far as to appear on the game show To Tell The Truth in the fall of 1957, perpetuating this fraud.[42] In 2008, a Darla Hood impostor, Mollie Barron, died claiming to have appeared as Darla in Our Gang.[43] Another is Bill English, a grocery store employee who appeared on the October 5, 1990, episode of the ABC investigative television newsmagazine 20/20 claiming to have been Buckwheat. Following the broadcast, Spanky McFarland informed the media of the truth,[42] and in December, William Thomas, Jr. (son of Billie Thomas, the person who played Buckwheat) filed a lawsuit against ABC for negligence.[42] Persons and entities named after Our Gang A number of groups, companies, and entities have been inspired by or named after Our Gang. The folk-rock group Spanky and Our Gang was named for the troupe because lead singer Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane's last name was similar to that of George "Spanky" McFarland. The band had no connection with the actual Our Gang series. Numerous unauthorized Little Rascals and Our Gang restaurants and day care centers also exist throughout the United States. Home media and rights to the films Further information: Our Gang filmography 16 mm, VHS, and DVD releases In the 1950s, home movie distributor Official Films released many of the Hal Roach talkies on 16 mm film. These were released as "Famous Kid Comedies," as Official could not use "Our Gang". The company's licensing only lasted for a short period. For years afterward, Blackhawk Films released 79 of the 80 Roach talkies on 8mm and 16 mm film. The sound discs for Railroadin' had been lost since the 1940s, and a silent print was available for home movie release until 1982, when the film's sound discs were located in the MGM vault and the short was restored with sound. Like the television prints, Blackhawk's Little Rascals reissues featured custom title cards in place of the original Our Gang logos, per MGM's 1949 arrangement with Hal Roach not to distribute the series under its original title. Edits to the films were the replacements of the original Our Gang title cards with Little Rascals titles. In 1983, with the VHS home video market growing, Blackhawk began distributing Little Rascals VHS tapes through catalogue, with three shorts per tape. Blackhawk Films was acquired in 1983 by National Telefilm Associates, later being renamed Republic Pictures. Republic would release Little Rascals VHS volumes for retail purchase in non-comprehensive collections through the rest of the 1980s and early 1990s. By then, all but 11 of the Roach-era sound films were available on home video. Cabin Fever/Hallmark releases In 1993, Republic Pictures Home Video sold the home video rights to the 80 sound Roach shorts and some available silent shorts to Cabin Fever Entertainment. Cabin Fever acquired the rights to use the original Our Gang title cards and MGM logos, and for the first time in over 50 years, the Roach sound Our Gang comedies could be commercially exhibited in their original formats. The first twelve volumes of The Little Rascals were released on July 6, 1994, followed by nine more on July 11, 1995, coinciding with the theatrical and home video releases of Universal's 1994 feature.[44][45] Each tape contains four shorts, as well as specially-produced introductions by Leonard Maltin. With these releases, Cabin Fever made all 80 Roach sound shorts, and four silents, available for purchase, uncut, uncensored, unedited and with digitally restored picture and sound. On August 26, 1997, a limited edition volume, For Pete's Sake, was released in honor of the Rascals' 75th anniversary, and contained an introduction from original cast member Tommy "Butch" Bond and Petey from the 1994 feature. The video contained three previously-released shorts, plus the never-before-available silent short Dog Heaven; it was also available in a gift set with a Pete plush doll.[46] Cabin Fever began pressing DVD versions of their first 12 Little Rascals VHS volumes (with the contents of two VHS volumes included on each DVD), but went out of business in 1998 before their release. The Little Rascals home video rights were then sold to Hallmark Entertainment in 1999, who released the DVDs without an official launch while cleaning out their warehouse in early 2000. Hallmark colorized a few Our Gang shorts and released them across 8 VHS tapes. Later that year, the first 10 Cabin Fever volumes were re-released on VHS with new packaging, and the first two volumes were released on DVD as The Little Rascals: Volumes 1–2. Two further Hallmark DVD collections featured ten shorts apiece, and were released in 2003 and 2005, respectively. From 2006 to 2009, Legend Films produced colorized versions of twenty four Our Gang comedies (23 Roach entries, and the public domain MGM entry Waldo's Last Stand), which were released across five Little Rascals DVDs. In 2011, Legend Films released black and white versions of Little Rascals DVDs. RHI Entertainment and Genius Products released an eight-disc DVD set, The Little Rascals – the Complete Collection, on October 28, 2008.[47][48] This set includes all 80 Hal Roach-produced Our Gang sound short films. Most of the collection uses the 1994 restorations, while 16 shorts are presented with older Blackhawk Films transfers as their remastered copies were lost or misplaced during preparations.[49][50] On June 14, 2011, Vivendi Entertainment re-released seven of the eight DVD's from RHI/Genius Products' The Little Rascals – The Complete Collection as individual releases. This includes the 80 shorts – replacing the Blackhawk transfers on the previous set with their respective 1994 restorations – but excludes the disc featuring the extras. MGM/Warner Bros. releases During the 1980s and 1990s, MGM released several non-comprehensive VHS tapes of its shorts, and a VHS of the feature General Spanky. After video rights for the classic MGM library reverted to their new owners, Turner Entertainment/Warner Bros., in the late 1990s, four of the MGM Our Gang shorts appeared as bonus features on Warner Bros.-issued classic film DVD releases. In 2009, Warner Home Video released all 52 MGM Our Gang shorts in a compilation titled The Our Gang Collection: 1938–1942 (though it contains the 1943–44 shorts as well) for manufacture-on-demand (MOD) DVD and digital download. The set is available by mail order and digital download as part of the Warner Archive Collection, and is available for purchase via the iTunes Store. A MOD release of General Spanky was also released by Warner Archive in 2016.[51] There are many unofficial Our Gang and Little Rascals home video collections available from several other distributors, comprising shorts (both silent and sound) which have fallen into the public domain. Status of ownership Currently, the rights to the Our Gang/Little Rascals shorts are scattered. Sonar Entertainment (formerly known as RHI Entertainment, Cabin Fever Entertainment and Hallmark Entertainment)[52] owns the copyrights of and holds the theatrical and home video rights to the Roach-produced Our Gang shorts. Sonar acquired these after absorbing Hal Roach Studios in 1988, and both Roach's estate and Cabin Fever Entertainment in the late 1990s.[53] ViacomCBS owns the rights to the Little Rascals trademark and has all other media rights to the 1929-1938 Roach shorts, which constitute The Little Rascals television package, with certain territory exclusions controlled by Cinematografische Commers Anatalt. CBS offers original black-and-white and colorized prints for syndication. The King World/CBS Little Rascals package was featured as exclusive programming (in the United States) for the American Movie Classics network from August 2001 to December 2003, with Frankie Muniz hosting. As part of a month-long tribute to Hal Roach Studios, Turner Classic Movies televised a 24-hour marathon of Roach Our Gang shorts - both sound films and silents – on January 4–5, 2011.[54] Some of the silent Our Gangs (such as Mary, Queen of Tots and Thundering Fleas) resurfaced on TCM at this time with new music scores in stereo sound; these silent Pathé Our Gangs are now being syndicated by Mackinaw Media. The MGM-produced Our Gang shorts, General Spanky, and the rights to the Our Gang name are owned by AT&T, owner of Warner Bros. Entertainment as part of the Turner Entertainment library. Turner Entertainment acquired these assets in 1986 when its founder, Ted Turner, purchased the pre-May 1986 MGM library; Turner merged with Time Warner in 1996.[55] The television rights for the MGM Our Gang shorts belong to Warner Bros. Television Distribution, and the video rights to Warner Home Video. The MGM Our Gangs today appear periodically on the Turner Classic Movies cable network, and are available for streaming via the subscription-based Warner Archive Instant streaming video service.[56] Our Gang cast and personnel For a detailed listing of the Our Gang child actors, recurring adult actors, directors, and writers, see Our Gang personnel. The following is a listing of the primary child actors in the Our Gang comedies. They are grouped by the era during which they joined the series. Roach silent period Ernie Morrison as Sunshine Sammy (1922–1924) Peggy Cartwright (1922) Mickey Daniels (1922–1926) Jackie Condon (1922–1929) Allen Hoskins as Farina (1922–1931) Jack Davis (1922–1923) Lassie Lou Ahern (1923–1924) Mary Kornman (1923–1926) Peggy Ahern (1923–1927) Joe Cobb (1923–1929) Andy Samuel (1923–1924) Eugene Jackson as Pineapple (1924–1925) Johnny Downs (1925–1927) Jay R. Smith (1925–1929) Bobby Young as Bonedust (1925–1931) Elmer "Scooter" Lowry (1926–1927) Jean Darling (1927–1929) Bobby Hutchins as Wheezer (1927–1933) Harry Spear (1927–1929) Mary Ann Jackson (1928–1931) Pete the Pup (1929–1938) Roach sound period Norman Chaney as Chubby (1929–1931) Jackie Cooper (1929–1931) Donald Haines (1929–1933) Dorothy DeBorba (1930–1933) Matthew Beard - as Stymie (1930–1935) Jerry Tucker (1931–1938) Kendall McComas (1932) Dickie Moore (1932–1933) George McFarland as Spanky (1932–1942) Tommy Bond (1932–1934 as "Tommy," 1937–1940 as "Butch") Jackie Lynn Taylor (1934 as "Jane") Scotty Beckett (1934–1935) Billie Thomas as Buckwheat (1934–1944) Carl Switzer as Alfalfa (1935–1940) Darla Hood (1935–1941) Eugene Gordon Lee as Porky (1935–1939) Darwood Kaye as Waldo (1937–1940) MGM period Mickey Gubitosi (Robert Blake) (1939-1944) Janet Burston (1940-1944) Billy Laughlin as Froggy (1940-1944) Surviving cast As of April 1, 2020, the following notable cast members are confirmed as still living. Donnie Smith Mildred Kornman Margaret Kerry Betta St. John Sidney Kibrick Annie Ross Daryl Hickman Robert Blake Dwayne Hickman See also: Our Gang personnel § Surviving cast members, and List of surviving silent film actors Notable Our Gang comedies For a complete filmography, see Our Gang filmography. The following is a listing of selected Our Gang comedies, considered by Leonard Maltin and Richard W. Bann (in their book The Little Rascals: The Life and Times of Our Gang) to be among the best and most important in the series. 1923: The Champeen, Derby Day 1924: High Society 1925: Your Own Back Yard, One Wild Ride 1929: Small Talk, Lazy Days, Boxing Gloves, Cat, Dog & Co. 1930: The First Seven Years, Pups Is Pups, Bear Shooters, Teacher's Pet, School's Out 1931: Helping Grandma, Love Business, Little Daddy, Fly My Kite, Big Ears, Dogs Is Dogs 1932: Readin' and Writin', The Pooch, Hook And Ladder, Free Wheeling, Birthday Blues 1933: Fish Hooky, Forgotten Babies, The Kid From Borneo, Mush and Milk, Bedtime Worries 1934: Hi'-Neighbor!, For Pete's Sake!, The First Round-Up, Honky Donkey, Mama's Little Pirate 1935: Anniversary Trouble, Shrimps for a Day, Beginner's Luck, Little Papa, Our Gang Follies of 1936 1936: Divot Diggers, Bored of Education, General Spanky 1937: Reunion in Rhythm, Glove Taps, Hearts Are Thumps, Rushin' Ballet, Night 'n' Gales, Mail and Female, Our Gang Follies of 1938 1938: Three Men in a Tub, Hide and Shriek 1939: Alfalfa's Aunt, Cousin Wilbur 1940: Goin' Fishin', Waldo's Last Stand, Kiddie Kure 1942: Going to Press The following is a complete list of the 220 Our Gang short films produced by Hal Roach Studios and/or Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer between 1922 and 1944, in order of release. 1922 - 1923 - 1924 - 1925 - 1926 - 1927 - 1928 - 1929 - 1930 - 1931 1932 - 1933 - 1934 - 1935 - 1936 - 1937 - 1938 - 1939 - 1940 - 1941 - 1942 - 1943 - 1944 The Roach/Pathé silents (1922–1928) These two-reel silent Our Gang shorts were produced by Hal Roach Studios and distributed to theaters by Pathé. 1922 # Film Director Original release date Notes/Content edits for television 001 One Terrible Day Charles Parrott Robert McGowan Tom McNamara September 10 First appearance of Allen "Farina" Hoskins, Jackie Condon, Mickey Daniels, Jack Davis, and Ernie Morrison. First Our Gang short released, fourth to be produced. Filmed in-between Young Sherlocks and A Quiet Street. 002 Fire Fighters Charles Parrott Robert McGowan Tom McNamara October 8 Filmed in between Our Gang and Young Sherlocks. Remade as The Fourth Alarm! (1926) and Hook and Ladder (1932). 003 Our Gang Charles Parrott Fred Newmeyer Robert McGowan Tom McNamara November 5 First short to be produced. Original version directed by Newmeyer; reshoots by McNamara and McGowan after One Terrible Day and Fire Fighters. 004 Young Sherlocks Charles Parrott Robert McGowan Tom McNamara November 26 Filmed in between Fire Fighters and One Terrible Day. 005 Saturday Morning Tom McNamara Robert McGowan December 3 Filmed in between A Quiet Street and The Big Show. 006 A Quiet Street Tom McNamara Robert McGowan December 31 Filmed in between One Terrible Day and Saturday Morning. 1923 # Film Director Original release date Notes/Content edits for television 007 The Champeen Robert McGowan January 28 First appearance of Joe Cobb, Mary Kornman and Andy Samuel. Filmed in between The Cobbler and Boys to Board. Remade as Boxing Gloves (1929). 008 The Cobbler Tom McNamara February 18 Joe Cobb does not appear. 009 The Big Show Robert McGowan February 25 Filmed in between Saturday Morning and The Cobbler. 010 A Pleasant Journey Robert McGowan March 18 Filmed in between Boys to Board and Giants Vs. Yanks. 011 Boys to Board Tom McNamara April 8 Final short directed by Tom McNamara Mary Kornman does not appear. Filmed in between The Champeen! and A Pleasant Journey. 012 Giants vs. Yanks Robert McGowan May 13 Filmed in between A Pleasant Journey and Back Stage. Mary Kornman does not appear. 013 Back Stage Robert McGowan June 3 Mary Kornman does not appear. 014 Dogs of War! Robert McGowan July 1 With Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston. 015 Lodge Night Robert McGowan July 29 Filmed in between Dogs of War! and early filming of Fast Company. 016 July Days Robert McGowan August 26 Filmed in between Stage Fright and Sunday Calm. 017 No Noise Robert McGowan September 23 Filmed in between Sunday Calm and Derby Day. 018 Stage Fright Robert McGowan October 21 Filmed in between early production of Fast Company and July Days. 019 Derby Day Robert McGowan November 18 Filmed in between No Noise and Tire Trouble. 020 Sunday Calm Robert McGowan December 16 Final appearance of Jack Davis, save for Fast Company. Mary Kornman does not appear. Filmed in between July Days and No Noise. 1924 # Film Director Original release date Notes/Content edits for television 021 Tire Trouble Robert McGowan January 13 022 Big Business Robert McGowan February 10 Andy Samuel is promoted from supporting player to replacement for Jack Davis. 023 The Buccaneers Robert McGowan Mark Goldaine March 9 024 Seein' Things Robert McGowan April 6 025 Commencement Day Robert McGowan Mark Goldaine May 4 026 Cradle Robbers Robert McGowan June 1 Andy Samuel does not appear. Filmed in between It's a Bear and Jubilo, Jr. Remade as Forgotten Babies (1933). 027 Jubilo, Jr. Robert McGowan June 29 With Will Rogers and Charley Chase Filmed in between Cradle Robbers and High Society. As a result, Ernie Morrison does not appear. 028 It's a Bear Robert McGowan July 24 Final appearance of Ernie Morrison, save for Fast Company. Andy Samuel does not appear. 029 High Society Robert McGowan August 24 030 The Sun Down Limited Robert McGowan September 21 Partially remade as Railroadin' (1929). 031 Every Man for Himself Robert McGowan October 19 032 Fast Company Robert McGowan Charles Parrott November 16 Shot in spring 1923 with reshoots in summer 1924, features Ernie Morrison and Jack Davis. Originally filmed in between Lodge Night and Stage Fright. 033 The Mysterious Mystery! Robert McGowan December 14 First appearance of Eugene Jackson Final appearance of Andy Samuel. 1925 # Film Director Original release date Notes/Content edits for television 034 The Big Town Robert McGowan January 11 035 Circus Fever Robert McGowan February 8 First appearance of Johnny Downs. 036 Dog Days Robert McGowan March 8 037 The Love Bug Robert McGowan April 5 038 Shootin' Injuns Robert McGowan May 3 Final appearance of Eugene Jackson Johnny Downs is now promoted from a supporting player to a replacement for Andy Samuel. 039 Ask Grandma Robert McGowan May 31 Filmed in between The Love Bug and Shootin' Injuns. 040 Official Officers Robert McGowan June 28 With James Finlayson Filmed in between Shootin' Injuns and Mary, Queen of Tots. 041 Boys Will Be Joys Robert McGowan July 26 First appearance of Jay R. Smith. Filmed in between Mary, Queen of Tots and Better Movies. 042 Mary, Queen of Tots Robert McGowan August 23 With James Finlayson Johnny Downs does not appear. 043 Your Own Back Yard Robert McGowan September 27 Filmed in between Better Movies and One Wild Ride. 044 Better Movies Robert McGowan November 1 First appearance of Bobby "Bonedust" Young. Jay R. Smith is now a main player. 045 One Wild Ride Robert McGowan December 6 Filmed in between Your Own Back Yard and Good Cheer. Jay R. Smith does not appear. Remade in 1932 as Free Wheeling. 1926 # Film Director Original release date Notes/Content edits for television 046 Good Cheer Robert McGowan January 26 With Charlie Hall 047 Buried Treasure Robert McGowan February 14 With Charlie Hall 048 Monkey Business Robert McGowan March 21 With Charlie Hall 049 Baby Clothes Robert McGowan April 25 With Charlie Hall Jay R. Smith does not appear. 050 Uncle Tom's Uncle Robert McGowan May 30 Bobby Young is now a main player. 051 Thundering Fleas Robert McGowan July 18 First appearance of Mildred Kornman and Scooter Lowry. Final appearance of Mickey Daniels With Charley Chase, James Finlayson, Charlie Hall, and Oliver Hardy 052 Shivering Spooks Robert McGowan August 8 053 The Fourth Alarm Robert McGowan September 12 Final appearance of Mary Kornman. Remake of Fire Fighters; remade as Hook and Ladder (1932). 054 War Feathers Robert McGowan Anthony Mack November 21 055 Telling Whoppers Robert McGowan Anthony Mack December 19 Filmed in between Seeing the World and Bring Home the Turkey. 1927 # Film Director Original release date Notes/Content edits for television 056 Bring Home the Turkey Robert McGowan Anthony Mack January 16 First appearance of Jean Darling Bobby "Bonedust" Young does not appear. 057 Seeing the World Robert McGowan Anthony Mack February 13 With Stan Laurel and James Finlayson. Bobby "Bonedust" Young does not appear. Johnny Downs' last appearance, save for a guest appearance in Chicken Feed. 058 Ten Years Old Anthony Mack March 13 Filmed in between Bring Home the Turkey and Love My Dog Remade as Birthday Blues (1932). 059 Love My Dog Robert McGowan April 17 Remade as The Pooch (1932). 060 Tired Business Men Anthony Mack Charles Oelze May 15 061 Baby Brother Anthony Mack Charles Oelze June 26 First appearance of Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins. With Oliver Hardy 062 The Glorious Fourth Robert McGowan June 26 With Charley Chase Filmed in between Olympic Games and Playin' Hooky. First appearance of Harry Spear and Pete the Pup. Jean Darling, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Scooter Lowry, and Bobby Young do not appear. 063 Olympic Games Anthony Mack September 11 Filmed in between Chicken Feed and The Glorious Fourth. Jean Darling, Scooter Lowry, and Bobby "Bonedust" Young do not appear. 066 Chicken Feed Anthony Mack Charles Oelze November 6 With Johnny Downs. Last appearance of Scooter Lowry and Bobby "Bonedust" Young. Young would later return as a supporting player, first in 1928, and again in 1930. Pete the Pup does not appear. Released in between The Old Wallop and Heebee Jeebees. Remade as A Lad An' A Lamp (1932). 1928 # Film Director Original release date Notes/Content edits for television 069 Playin' Hookey Anthony Mack January 1 Filmed in between The Glorious Fourth and The Smile Wins. 072 The Smile Wins Robert McGowan February 26 Jean Darling and Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins do not appear. The Roach/MGM silents (1927–1929) These silent Our Gang shorts were produced by Hal Roach Studios and distributed to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. All films are two reels (20 minutes) long, except Spook Spoofing, which is three reels (30 minutes) long. Shorts marked with an asterisk (*) were originally released with a synchronized music and sound effects track. 1927 # Film Director Original release date Notes/Content edits for television 064 Yale vs. Harvard Robert McGowan September 24 Currently lost. 065 The Old Wallop Robert McGowan October 22 067 Heebee Jeebees Robert McGowan Anthony Mack November 19 Currently lost. 068 Dog Heaven Anthony Mack December 17 Harry Spear does not appear. 1928 # Film Director Original release date Notes/Content edits for television 070 Spook–Spoofing Robert McGowan January 14 While running the standard length of a two-reeler (20 minutes), this film was also released as a three-reeler. Jean Darling does not appear. 071 Rainy Days Anthony Mack February 11 073 Edison, Marconi & Co. Anthony Mack March 10 Currently lost. Jean Darling and Mildred Kornman do not appear. 074 Barnum & Ringling, Inc. (*) Robert McGowan April 7 With Oliver Hardy First silent Our Gang short released with a synchronized music and sound effects disc. Mildred Kornman does not appear. 075 Fair and Muddy Charley Oelze May 5 With Bobby "Bonedust" Young. Last appearance of Mildred Kornman. 076 Crazy House Robert McGowan June 2 First appearance of Mary Ann Jackson 077 Growing Pains Anthony Mack September 22 Currently lost. Last appearance of Jackie Condon and Jay R. Smith for the time being. Both would return for Election Day. 078 The Ol' Gray Hoss Anthony Mack October 20 Released with synchronized music and sound effects, on disc only. 079 School Begins Anthony Mack November 17 Currently lost. Released with synchronized music and sound effects, on disc only. 080 The Spanking Age (*) Robert McGowan December 15 Released with synchronized music and sound effects, on disc only. Rediscovered in 1990. 1929 # Film Director Original release date Notes/Content edits for television 081 Election Day Anthony Mack January 12 Jackie Condon and Jay R. Smith return. Final appearance of Jackie Condon. Final appearance of Jay R. Smith as a main player. He would appear as a supporting player in two more shorts. Jean Darling does not appear. 082 Noisy Noises (*) Robert McGowan February 9 Released with synchronized music and sound effects, on disc only. With Jay R. Smith. 083 The Holy Terror Anthony Mack March 9 Currently lost. Released with synchronized music track. 084 Wiggle Your Ears (*) Robert McGowan April 6 Released with synchronized music and sound effects, on disc only. 085 Fast Freight Robert McGowan May 9 With James Finlayson 087 Little Mother Robert McGowan June 1 091 Cat, Dog & Co. (*) Anthony Mack September 14 Released with synchronized music and sound effects, on disc only. 093 Saturday's Lesson (*) Robert McGowan November 9 Released with synchronized music and sound effects, on disc only. The Roach/MGM talkies (1929–1938, The Little Rascals) These sound Our Gang shorts were produced by Hal Roach Studios and distributed to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. These 80 films, excepting some that have been removed for content, are the Our Gang shorts that King World Productions have packaged and syndicated as The Little Rascals. All shorts through Arbor Day in 1936 are two reels (approximately 17 to 20 minutes) long except Small Talk, which is three reels (26 minutes) long. Subsequent shorts (1936's Bored of Education through 1938's Hide and Shriek) are one reel (10 minutes) in length. Also in 1936, an Our Gang feature-length film, General Spanky, was released. Many of the shorts were edited for television over the years, and distributor King World Productions removed several of the shorts from their Little Rascals television package. Shorts that were either edited for, or withheld from, television broadcast are noted as such. 1929 # Film Director Original release date Notes/Content edits for television 086 Small Talk Robert McGowan May 18 First sound film; release dates of first five sound shorts overlap with those of final three silents shorts. Television prints heavily edited for time and sound quality. Initially in the Little Rascals television package, but eliminated in the early 1980s due to sound quality. Released as a three-reel (thirty minute) short. 088 Railroadin' Robert McGowan June 15 First appearance of Norman "Chubby" Chaney. Director Robert F. McGowan Appears on Screen Never shown on television because the film's soundtrack was presumed lost since the mid-1940s. Railroadin's sound track turned up in the MGM vaults in 1982; while it was released on home video, it never became part of the television package. 089 Lazy Days Robert McGowan August 15 Previously stated this was Jackie Cooper's first appearance, yet upon viewing he is nowhere to be seen. Withdrawn from television package due to racial humor involving African-Americans. Filmed in between Boxing Gloves and Bouncing Babies 090 Boxing Gloves Anthony Mack September 9 If this is considered the third episode according to the order of the films being made this would be considered first appearance of Jackie Cooper, appearing at this point as a supporting player. Some sources say this was the last appearance of Joe Cobb, though he is credited on Bouncing Babies (perhaps appearing in a Halloween costume). Television prints edited due to time and to add sound to originally silent scenes. Filmed in between Railroadin' and Lazy Days. Motion picture trade journals from 1929 give this film's release date as July 13, 1929. 092 Bouncing Babies Robert McGowan October 12 Final appearances of Jean Darling, Joe Cobb (possibly), and Harry Spear. Joe Cobb was credited to have been on this film and may appear in a Halloween costume. Television prints edited due to content considered in bad taste. 094 Moan and Groan, Inc. Robert McGowan December 7 With Edgar Kennedy and Max Davidson. Final appearance of Jay R. Smith. Jackie Cooper is promoted to main player status. Withdrawn from television package due to racial/ethnic humor involving Jewish-Americans and African Americans. 1930 # Film Director Original release date Notes/Content edits for television 095 Shivering Shakespeare Anthony Mack January 25 With Edgar Kennedy First appearance of supporting players Donald Haines, Douglas Greer, and Georgie Billings. Television prints edited due to content considered in bad taste. Last short directed by Anthony Mack. 096 The First Seven Years Robert McGowan March 1 With Edgar Kennedy Television prints edited for racial humor involving African Americans. 097 When the Wind Blows James W. Horne April 5 With Edgar Kennedy First "Our Gang" short released with background music. Television prints edited due to racial humor involving African Americans. 098 Bear Shooters Robert McGowan May 17 With Leon Janney. Television prints edited due to content considered in bad taste, as well as racial humor involving African Americans. 099 A Tough Winter Robert McGowan June 21 With Stepin Fetchit Withdrawn from television package due to racial humor involving African-Americans. Last appearance of the original Pete the Pup. 100 Pups Is Pups Robert McGowan August 30 First entry for 1930 – 31 film season. First appearances of main player Dorothy DeBorba, supporting player Buddy McDonald, and the second Pete the Pup. First Our Gang film to feature incidental music by Leroy Shield. Selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Television prints edited due to racial humor involving African Americans and for stereotyping of other people. 101 Teacher's Pet Robert McGowan October 11 First appearance of Matthew Beard. First appearance of June Marlowe as schoolteacher Miss Crabtree. First appearance of the Our Gang theme song, "Good Old Days". Pete the Pup does not appear. Television prints edited due to content considered in bad taste. 102 School's Out Robert McGowan November 22 With June Marlowe and Bobby "Bonedust" Young. Television prints edited due to stereotyping of women and racial humor involving African Americans. 1931 # Film Director Original release date Notes/Content edits for television 103 Helping Grandma Robert McGowan January 3 With Bobby "Bonedust" Young. First appearance of Shirley Jean Rickert Pete the Pup does not appear. Television prints edited due to racial humor involving African Americans. 104 Love Business Robert McGowan February 14 With June Marlowe and Bobby "Bonedust" Young. Television prints edited due to racial humor involving African Americans. 105 Little Daddy Robert McGowan March 28 Final appearance of Bobby "Bonedust" Young. With June Marlowe Withdrawn from television package due to racial humor involving African-Americans. 106 Bargain Day Robert McGowan May 2 Final appearance of Jackie Cooper. Television prints edited due to racial humor involving African Americans. 107 Fly My Kite Robert McGowan May 30 Final appearances of Allen "Farina" Hoskins, Mary Ann Jackson, Norman "Chubby" Chaney, Shirley Jean Rickert. First appearance of supporting player Dickie Jackson. With Mae Busch. Television prints edited due to racial humor involving African Americans. 108 Big Ears Robert McGowan August 29 First entry for 1931 – 32 film season. First appearance of Sherwood Bailey Withdrawn from television package for centering on divorce. 109 Shiver My Timbers Robert McGowan October 10 First appearance of Jerry Tucker, who wouldn't return until 1933. With Billy Gilbert and June Marlowe Television prints edited for verbal descriptions of violence. 110 Dogs is Dogs Robert McGowan November 21 With Billy Gilbert. Television prints edited due to negative treatment toward children and racial humor involving African Americans. 1932 # Film Director Original release date Notes/Content edits for television 111 Readin' and Writin' Robert McGowan January 2 First appearance of Kendall "Breezy Brisbane" McComas. Final appearance of June Marlowe. Television prints edited due to racial humor involving African Americans and content deemed to be in bad taste. 112 Free Eats Raymond McCarey February 13 With Billy Gilbert First appearance of George "Spanky" McFarland. 113 Spanky Robert McGowan March 26 With Billy Gilbert. Television prints edited due to racial humor involving African Americans. 114 Choo-Choo! Robert McGowan May 7 First appearance of Wally Albright and Harold "Bouncy" Wertz. Television prints edited due to content deemed to be in bad taste. Semi-remake of A Pleasant Journey. 115 The Pooch Robert McGowan June 11 Final appearance of the second Pete the Pup. Television prints edited due to negative treatment toward children and racial humor involving African Americans. 116 Hook and Ladder Robert McGowan August 27 First entry for 1932 – 33 film season. First appearance of Dickie Moore and the third Pete the Pup. Final appearances of Sherwood Bailey, Harold "Bouncy" Wertz, and supporting player Buddy McDonald. Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins does not appear. Semi-remake of Fire Fighters and The Fourth Alarm. 117 Free Wheeling Robert McGowan October 1 Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins and Pete the Pup do not appear. Television prints edited due to stereotyping of women and racial humor involving African Americans. Semi-remake of One Wild Ride. 118 Birthday Blues Robert McGowan November 12 Final appearances of Kendall "Breezy Brisbane" McComas Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins does not appear. Television prints edited due to negative treatment toward children and racial humor involving African Americans. Semi-remake of Ten Years Old. 119 A Lad an' a Lamp Robert McGowan December 17 First appearance of supporting player John Collum Withdrawn from television package due to racial humor involving African-Americans. Semi-remake of Chicken Feed. 1933 # Film Director Original release date Notes/Content edits for television 120 Fish Hooky Robert McGowan January 28 Features "Our Gang Graduates" Allen "Farina" Hoskins, Mickey Daniels, Mary Kornman, Joe Cobb Final appearance of supporting player Donald Haines Amusement park scenes filmed at Santa Monica Pier, providing a historic record of rides and attractions of the era.[1][2] 121 Forgotten Babies Robert McGowan March 11 First appearance of Tommy Bond. Semi-remake of Cradle Robbers. 122 The Kid From Borneo Robert McGowan April 15 Withdrawn from television package due to racial humor and negative treatment of handicapped people. 123 Mush and Milk Robert McGowan May 27 Final appearances of Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Dorothy DeBorba, Dickie Moore, and supporting player Dickie Jackson. With James Finlayson. Television prints edited due to negative treatment of children and negative misconceptions of the elderly. 124 Bedtime Worries Robert McGowan September 9 First entry for 1933 – 34 film season. With Emerson Treacy and Gay Seabrook. Jerry Tucker returns. 125 Wild Poses Robert McGowan October 28 With Emerson Treacy, Gay Seabrook, Franklin Pangborn, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy Production hiatus until early 1934 following this short. 1934 # Film Director Original release date Notes/Content edits for television 126 Hi'-Neighbor! Gus Meins March 3 First appearance of Scotty Beckett and Jackie Lynn Taylor. Television prints edited due to scenes deemed to be in bad taste. Remade as Three Men in a Tub in 1938. 127 For Pete's Sake! Gus Meins April 14 Willie Mae Taylor (a girl) plays "Buckwheat", who at first was a female character. First appearance of Leonard Kibrick, Marianne Edwards, and Billie Thomas, all uncredited as general Our Gang kids. Later in the series, Billie Thomas would become famous for playing Buckwheat when the character was changed to male. Jerry Tucker does not appear. Television prints edited due to racial humor involving African Americans. 128 The First Round-Up Gus Meins May 5 Willie Mae Taylor (a girl) plays "Buckwheat", who at first was a female character, identified in this episode as "Stymie's kid sister". Billie Thomas, who would later become famous as Buckwheat when the gender was changed to a boy, appears briefly in this episode as a mischievous little boy emptying the gang's canteens. Jerry Tucker, Leonard Kibrick, and Marianne Edwards do not appear. Television prints edited due to racial humor involving African Americans. 129 Honky Donkey Gus Meins June 2 With Don Barclay Willie Mae Taylor (a girl) again plays "Buckwheat". Billie Thomas, Jerry Tucker, Leonard Kibrick, Marianne Edwards, Jackie Lynn Taylor, and Pete the Pup do not appear. 130 Mike Fright Gus Meins August 25 First entry for 1934 – 35 film season. Wally Albright, Jerry Tucker, Jackie Lynn Taylor, Marianne Edwards, and Billie Thomas do not appear. 131 Washee Ironee James Parrott November 13[3] Final appearance of Wally Albright. Only Our Gang film directed by Roach veteran James Parrott, who also appears in this film. Marianne Edwards does not appear. Tommy Bond departs series after this short; will return to Our Gang as "Butch" in 1937 Television prints edited due to racial humor involving Asian Americans. Billie Thomas makes his third Our Gang appearance, but not yet as Buckwheat. He plays a football game spectator. 1935 # Film Director Original release date Notes/Content edits for television 132 Mama's Little Pirate Gus Meins January 5[3] Billie Thomas, a male, now plays "Buckwheat" wearing a dress. "Little Buckwheat" is referred to as "she".[4] Leonard Kibrick, Jackie Lynn Taylor, Marianne Edwards, and Pete the Pup do not appear. Television prints edited due to racial humor involving African Americans. 133 Shrimps for a Day Gus Meins February 20[3] Final appearance of Jackie Lynn Taylor. Pete the Pup does not appear. Television prints edited due to racial humor involving African Americans. 134 Anniversary Trouble Gus Meins March 13[3] First appearance of Sidney Kibrick Marianne Edwards does not appear. With Johnny Arthur as John, Spanky's father; Hattie McDaniel as Mandy, the maid (both uncredited). Television prints edited due to racial humor involving African Americans. 135 Beginner's Luck Gus Meins April 8[3] First appearance of Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Harold Switzer. Leonard Kibrick does not appear. 136 Teacher's Beau Gus Meins April 27 Final appearances of Matthew "Stymie" Beard Television prints edited due to racial humor involving African Americans. Leonard and Sidney Kibrick do not appear. 137 Sprucin' Up Gus Meins June 1 Leonard and Sidney Kibrick do not appear. 138 Little Papa Gus Meins September 21 First appearance of Patsy May First entry for 1935 – 36 film season. Leonard Kibrick, Marianne Edwards, Jerry Tucker, and Pete the Pup do not appear. 139 Little Sinner Gus Meins October 26 First appearance of Eugene "Porky" Lee. Scotty Beckett, Leonard Kibrick, Marianne Edwards, and Pete the Pup do not appear. Withdrawn from television package from the early 1970s to early 1980s due to racial humor involving African-Americans. The short was later reinstated, though edited heavily for the same reasons. 140 Our Gang Follies of 1936 Gus Meins November 30 With Dickie Jones. First appearance of Darla Hood. Marianne Edwards and Pete the Pup do not appear. Television prints edited due to racial humor involving African Americans. 1936 # Film Director Original release date Notes/Content edits for television 141 The Pinch Singer Fred Newmeyer January 4 Filmed in between Divot Diggers and Second Childhood. Last short in which Jerry Tucker plays a supporting player. From here until 1938, he would only occasionally appear as an extra. Sidney Kibrick also reduced to extra roles, until 1937. Scotty Beckett does not appear. Television prints edited due to racial humor involving African Americans. 142 Divot Diggers Robert McGowan February 8 Filmed in between Our Gang Follies of 1936 and The Pinch Singer Scotty Beckett and Marianne Edwards do not appear. 143 The Lucky Corner Gus Meins March 14 Filmed in mid-1935 between Sprucin' Up and Little Papa, withheld for a year. Final appearances of Leonard Kibrick, Marianne Edwards and Scotty Beckett, although the final filmed short Beckett shot was Follies of 1936. Television prints edited due to racial humor involving African Americans. 144 Second Childhood Gus Meins April 11 With Zeffie Tilbury Pete the Pup does not appear. Beginning with this short, Pete would begin to make fewer appearances in the series. 145 Arbor Day Fred Newmeyer May 2 Final regular two-reel short in series. Eugene "Porky" Lee does not appear. First appearance of Rosina Lawrence as schoolteacher Miss Lawrence. With Hattie McDaniel. 146 Bored of Education Gordon Douglas August 20 First entry for 1936 – 37 film season. First one-reel short in series. With Rosina Lawrence. One of Pete's few appearances during this period. Winner of the 1937 Academy Award for Short Subjects (One-Reel). 147 Two Too Young Gordon Douglas September 26 With Rosina Lawrence. Darla Hood does not appear. 148 Pay as You Exit Gordon Douglas October 24 Features "Our Gang Graduate" Joe Cobb. 149 Spooky Hooky Gordon Douglas December 5 With Rosina Lawrence and Dudley Dickerson. Darla Hood does not appear. Television prints edited due to racial humor involving African Americans. 1937 # Film Director Original release date Notes/Content edits for television 150 Reunion in Rhythm Gordon Douglas January 9 With Rosina Lawrence and "Our Gang Graduates" Mickey Daniels, Mary Kornman, Joe Cobb, Matthew "Stymie" Beard. Television prints edited due to racial humor involving African Americans. 151 Glove Taps Gordon Douglas February 20 First appearances of Tommy Bond as "Butch", Sidney Kibrick as "The Woim" and Darwood "Waldo" Kaye. 152 Hearts Are Thumps Gordon Douglas April 3 First appearance of Shirley Coates, who would later become a supporting player in 1938. Tommy "Butch" Bond does not appear. With Rosina Lawrence. 153 Three Smart Boys Gordon Douglas May 13 Tommy "Butch" Bond and Sidney "Woim" Kibrick do not appear. Final appearance of Rosina Lawrence. Television prints edited due to racial humor involving African Americans. 154 Rushin' Ballet Gordon Douglas April 24 Darwood Kaye appears, but not as Waldo. Television prints edited due to racial humor involving African Americans. 155 Roamin' Holiday Gordon Douglas June 12 One of Pete the Pup's few appearances during this period. Butch, Woim, and Waldo do not appear. 156 Night 'n' Gales Gordon Douglas July 24 First appearance of Gary Jasgur Butch, Woim, and Waldo do not appear. With Johnny Arthur. 157 Fishy Tales Gordon Douglas August 28 Darwood Kaye appears, but not as Waldo. 158 Framing Youth Gordon Douglas September 11 First entry for 1937 – 38 film season. Waldo and Woim do not appear. 159 The Pigskin Palooka Gordon Douglas October 23 With Dickie Jones. Tommy "Butch" Bond does not appear. Darwood Kaye appears, but not as Waldo. One of Pete the Pup's few appearances during this period. 160 Mail and Female Fred Newmeyer November 13 First appearance of Henry Lee as "Spike". Darwood Kaye appears, but not as Waldo. Butch and Woim do not appear. Final Fred Newmeyer directed film. 161 Our Gang Follies of 1938 Gordon Douglas December 18 Two-reel musical special. With Henry Brandon and Dickie Jones. Darwood Kaye appears, but not as Waldo. Butch, Woim, and Gary "Junior" Jasgur do not appear. Edited slightly due to racial humor involving African Americans. Final appearance of Patsy May 1938 # Film Director Original release date Notes/Content edits for television 162 Canned Fishing Gordon Douglas February 12 Darla, Waldo, Butch, Woim, and Spike do not appear. 163 Bear Facts Gordon Douglas March 5 Butch, Woim, Waldo, Junior, and Spike do not appear. 164 Three Men in a Tub Nate Watt March 26 Butch, Woim, and Spike do not appear. Final appearances of Jerry Tucker and John Collum. 165 Came the Brawn Gordon Douglas April 16 George "Spanky" McFarland departs series after this short; will rejoin after transition to MGM. Junior does not appear. 166 Feed 'em and Weep Gordon Douglas May 7 First appearance of Leonard Landy. Buckwheat, Spike, Butch, Woim, and Waldo do not appear. In Buckwheat's place is Philip Hurlic. With Johnny Arthur. 167 The Awful Tooth Nate Watt May 28 Darla, Butch, Woim, Waldo, Leonard, and Junior do not appear. One of Pete the Pup's few appearances during this period. 168 Hide and Shriek Gordon Douglas June 18 Final Roach short. Final two entries for 1937 – 38 film season completed by MGM. Butch, Woim, Waldo, and Spike do not appear. The MGM talkies (1938–1944) These one-reel sound Our Gang shorts were produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 1938 # Film Director Original release date Notes 169 The Little Ranger Gordon Douglas May 18 First film produced by MGM Leonard and Junior do not appear. Shirley Coates now plays "Muggsy" 170 Party Fever George Sidney June 15 Final appearance of Pete the Pup. Leonard, Junior, and Muggsy do not appear. 171 Aladdin's Lantern Gordon Douglas September 17 First entry for 1938 – 39 film season. George "Spanky" McFarland returns to Our Gang with this short. Butch, Woim, and Muggsy do not appear. Final appearance of Henry Lee as "Spike". 172 Men in Fright George Sidney October 15 With Sonny Bupp. Butch, Woim, Waldo, and Muggsy do not appear. 173 Football Romeo George Sidney November 12 Waldo and Muggsy do not appear. 174 Practical Jokers George Sidney December 17 Waldo and Muggsy do not appear. 1939 # Film Director Original release date Notes 175 Alfalfa's Aunt George Sidney January 7 Darla, Butch, Woim, Waldo, and Muggsy do not appear. 176 Tiny Troubles George Sidney February 18 Butch, Woim, Waldo, Muggsy, Junior, and Leonard do not appear. 177 Duel Personalities George Sidney March 11 Leonard and Junior do not appear. 178 Clown Princes George Sidney April 15 Butch, Woim, and Waldo do not appear. 179 Cousin Wilbur George Sidney April 29 Guest appearance by Scotty Beckett as Cousin Wilbur. Muggsy does not appear. Darwood Kaye appears, but not as Waldo. Final appearance of Gary Jasgur. 180 Joy Scouts Edward Cahn June 24 First appearance of Mickey Gubitosi (Robert Blake). Darla, Muggsy, Butch, Woim, and Waldo do not appear. 181 Dog Daze George Sidney July 1 Guest appearance by Scotty Beckett as Cousin Wilbur. Leonard, Muggsy, and Mickey do not appear. 182 Auto Antics Edward Cahn July 22 Final appearance of Eugene "Porky" Lee. Waldo and Muggsy do not appear. 183 Captain Spanky's Show Boat Edward Cahn September 9 First entry for 1939 – 40 film season. 184 Dad for a Day Edward Cahn October 21 Darla, Butch, Woim, and Muggsy do not appear. Darwood Kaye appears, but not as Waldo. 185 Time Out for Lessons Edward Cahn Bud Murray December 2 Final appearance of Sidney Kibrick. Butch does not appear. 1940 # Film Director Original release date Notes 186 Alfalfa's Double Edward Cahn January 20 Butch, Waldo, and Muggsy do not appear. 187 The Big Premiere Edward Cahn March 9 Last appearance of Shirley "Muggsy" Coates. Butch and Leonard do not appear. Filmed in between Bubbling Troubles and All About Hash. 188 All About Hash Edward Cahn March 30 First appearance of Janet Burston, who is a supporting player at this point. Butch and Waldo do not appear. 189 The New Pupil Edward Cahn April 27 With Juanita Quigley. First appearance of Billy "Froggy" Laughlin, at this point a supporting player. Darwood Kaye appears, but not as Waldo. Butch and Leonard do not appear. Final appearance of Harold Switzer. Filmed in between All About Hash and Goin' Fishin. 190 Bubbling Troubles Edward Cahn May 25 Filmed between Alfalfa's Double and The Big Premiere. Waldo does not appear. Final appearance of Tommy "Butch" Bond. 191 Good Bad Boys Edward Cahn September 7 First entry for the 1940 – 41 film season. Filmed in between "Goin' Fishin" and "Waldo's Last Stand". 192 Waldo's Last Stand Edward Cahn October 5 Final appearance of Darwood "Waldo" Kaye. With Billy "Froggy" Laughlin and Janet Burston. 193 Goin' Fishin' Edward Cahn October 26 With Paul Hurst. Filmed in between The New Pupil and Good Bad Boys 194 Kiddie Kure Edward Cahn November 23 With Thurston Hall. Final appearance of Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer. Billy "Froggy" Laughlin now promoted as a main player. Leonard does not appear. 1941 # Film Director Original release date Notes 195 Fightin' Fools Edward Cahn January 25 Darla does not appear. Final appearance of Leonard Landy. 196 Baby Blues Edward Cahn February 15 Darla does not appear. With Janet Burston. 197 Ye Olde Minstrels Edward Cahn Bud Murray March 18 With Walter Wills. 198 1-2-3-Go! Edward Cahn April 26 Darla does not appear. 199 Robot Wrecks Edward Cahn July 12 200 Helping Hands Edward Cahn September 27 First entry for the 1941 – 42 film season. 201 Come Back, Miss Pipps Edward Cahn October 25 Filmed earlier in year, between Ye Olde Minstrels and 1-2-3 Go. With Sara Haden and Christian Rub. 202 Wedding Worries Edward Cahn December 13 Final appearance of Darla Hood. 1942 # Film Director Original release date Notes 203 Melodies Old and New Edward Cahn January 24 With Walter Wills. Janet Burston now promoted as a main player. 204 Going to Press Edward Cahn March 7 With Juanita Quigley and Darryl Hickman. Janet does not appear. 205 Don't Lie Edward Cahn April 4 Janet does not appear. 206 Surprised Parties Edward Cahn May 30 207 Doin' Their Bit Herbert Glazer July 18 With Walter Wills. 208 Rover's Big Chance Herbert Glazer August 22 First entry for the 1942 – 43 film season. 209 Mighty Lak a Goat Herbert Glazer October 10 Janet does not appear. 210 Unexpected Riches Herbert Glazer November 28 Janet does not appear. Final appearance of George "Spanky" McFarland. 1943 # Film Director Original release date Notes 211 Benjamin Franklin, Jr. Herbert Glazer January 30 Mickey "Happy" Laughlin added as a replacement for Spanky. 212 Family Troubles Herbert Glazer April 3 213 Calling All Kids Sam Baerwitz April 24 Happy does not appear. 214 Farm Hands Herbert Glazer June 19 Janet does not appear. 215 Election Daze Herbert Glazer July 31 Mickey Laughlin's last appearance. Dickie Hall plays the role of "Happy". Filmed in between Family Troubles and Calling All Kids. 216 Little Miss Pinkerton Herbert Glazer September 18 217 Three Smart Guys Edward Cahn October 23 1944 # Film Director Original release date Notes 218 Radio Bugs Cyril Endfield April 1 219 Tale of a Dog Cyril Endfield April 15 Released as part of the MGM Miniatures series rather than an Our Gang comedy. Only entry for 1943 – 44 film season. 220 Dancing Romeo Cyril Endfield April 29 Final film in series. Planned follow-up Home Front Commandos canceled during production. Foreign-language versions During the early days of sound American motion picture companies often made foreign-language versions of their films. The following is a list of known foreign-language versions of Our Gang films. Foreign language versions of short films Year English French German Spanish 1930 The First Seven Years Title unknown Title unknown Los Pequeños Papas (The Little Fathers) 1930 When the Wind Blows Las Fantasmas (The Ghosts) 1930 Bear Shooters Title unknown Title unknown Los Cazadores De Osos (The Bear Hunters) 1930 A Tough Winter Temps d'Hiver (Winter Time) Winter Wetter (Winter Weather) Cameos/appearances in other films Our Gang as a unit appeared in a handful of other Hal Roach films, and in a few outside productions as well. Dr. Jack (November 26, 1922) - a Hal Roach feature-length comedy starring Harold Lloyd. Jackie Condon and Mickey Daniels both appear. Safety Last! (April 1, 1923) - a Hal Roach feature-length comedy starring Harold Lloyd. Mickey Daniels appears. The Fraidy Cat (March 30, 1924) - a Hal Roach short comedy starring Charley Chase. Our Gang players featured are Joe Cobb, Mickey Daniels, Ernie "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison, and Andy Samuel. Girl Shy (April 20, 1924) - a feature-length comedy starring Harold Lloyd. Joe Cobb and Jackie Condon both appear. Rupert of Hee Haw (June 8, 1924) - a Hal Roach short comedy starring Stan Laurel. Our Gang players featured are Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon, Mickey Daniels, Mary Kornman, and Ernie "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison. Short Kilts (August 3, 1924) - a Hal Roach short comedy starring Stan Laurel. Our Gang players featured are Mickey Daniels and Mary Kornman. Battling Orioles (October 6, 1924) - a Hal Roach feature film starring Glenn Tryon. Our Gang players featured are Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon, Mickey Daniels, and Ernie "Sunshine Sammy" Morrison. Pathé Review (November 8, 1925) - Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon, Mickey Daniels, Johnny Downs, "Farina" Hoskins, Mary Kornman, and director Robert F. McGowan appear in a segment. 45 Minutes from Hollywood (December 26, 1926) - a Hal Roach short comedy starring Glenn Tryon. Features stock footage from Our Gang's Thundering Fleas. The Stolen Jools (April 4, 1931) (a.k.a. The Slippery Pearls) - promotional short subject intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists tuberculosis sanitarium. Our Gang players featured are "Stymie" Beard, "Chubby" Chaney, Dorothy DeBorba, "Farina" Hoskins, "Wheezer" Hutchins, Mary Ann Jackson, Shirley Jean Rickert, and Pete the Pup. One Track Minds (May 20, 1933) - a Hal Roach short comedy starring Zasu Pitts and Thelma Todd. "Spanky" McFarland is featured. The Cracked Iceman (January 27, 1934) - a Hal Roach Charley Chase short subject, featuring Chase as a schoolteacher and the Our Gang kids as his students. Our Gang players featured are "Stymie" Beard, Tommy Bond, and "Spanky" McFarland. Four Parts (March 17, 1934) - a Hal Roach Charley Chase short subject. "Stymie" Beard is featured. I'll Take Vanilla (May 5, 1934) - a Hal Roach Charley Chase short subject. Tommy Bond is featured. Benny From Panama (May 26, 1934) - a Hal Roach short comedy starring Eddie Foy, Jr.. "Spanky" McFarland costars. Kid Millions (November 10, 1934) - an Eddie Cantor musical feature. The Our Gang kids appear among the children in the Technicolor fantasy sequence. Our Gang player featured include Wally Albright, "Stymie" Beard, Tommy Bond, "Uh-huh" Collum, Leonard Kibrick, and Jacqueline Taylor. Kentucky Kernels (November 2, 1934) - a feature-length comedy starring Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, and costarring "Spanky" McFarland. Babes in Toyland (December 16, 1934) - a Hal Roach feature-length comedy starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Several Our Gang members appear as schoolkids, including Scotty Beckett, Marianne Edwards, Jacqueline Taylor, and Jerry Tucker. Jean Darling and Johnny Downs also appear, respectively playing Curly Locks and Little Boy Blue. Southern Exposure (April 6, 1935) - a Hal Roach Charley Chase short subject. "Alfalfa" Switzer makes a cameo appearance. Here Comes the Band (August 30, 1935) - a musical comedy feature starring Ted Lewis, and costarring "Spanky" McFarland. Life Hesitates at 40 (November 18, 1935) - a Hal Roach Charley Chase short subject. "Alfalfa" Switzer makes a cameo appearance. The Bohemian Girl (February 14, 1936) - a Hal Roach feature-length comedy starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Darla Hood costars. Neighborhood House (May 9, 1936) - a Hal Roach Charley Chase short subject. Darla Hood costars. Kelly the Second (August 21, 1936) - a Hal Roach feature-length comedy starring Patsy Kelly and Charley Chase. "Alfalfa" Switzer makes a cameo appearance. Block-Heads (August 19, 1938) - a Hal Roach feature-length comedy starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Tommy "Butch" Bond makes a cameo appearance. The Singing Lesson (1941) - a soundie starring "Alfalfa" Switzer. Johnny Doughboy (December 31, 1942) - a feature film starring Jane Withers. George "Spanky" McFarland and Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer are also featured. It's a Wonderful Life (December 20, 1946) - a Frank Capra feature film starring Jimmy Stewart. Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer makes a cameo appearance. Our Gang related films The Boy Friends (September 13, 1930 through June 18, 1932), a Hal Roach produced short comedy series considered by some to be a spin-off of Our Gang. Former Our Gang stars Mickey Daniels and Mary Kornman were among the series' stars. One Boy Friends short, Too Many Women, featured a direct reference to Our Gang - flashback footage of Mickey and Mary as children. General Spanky (December 11, 1936), a feature film produced by Hal Roach and directed by Fred Newmeyer and Gordon Douglas; a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release. Starring George "Spanky" McFarland, Phillips Holmes, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, Rosina Lawrence, and Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, General Spanky was intended as a test film to move Our Gang into features, but did not perform to Hal Roach's and MGM's expectations at the box office. The Gas House Kids (October 9, 1946 through August 23, 1947), a series of B Movies loosely based on the then-popular East Side Kids/The Bowery Boys comedies. Produced by Producers Releasing Corporation. Three films, Gas House Kids, Gas House Kids Go West, and Gas House Kids in Hollywood were made. Carl Switzer reprised his "Alfalfa" character in two of these films. Tommy Bond was also featured in the cast. Curley (August 23, 1947) and Who Killed Doc Robbin (April 9, 1948), two Streamliners produced by Hal Roach and Robert F. McGowan and directed by Bernard Carr with a similar cast and tone as the Our Gang comedies. Both films starred Larry Olsen, Billy Gray, and Matthew "Stymie" Beard's brother Renee Beard. Roach forfeited his option to buy back the rights to the Our Gang trademark to produce these films. The Little Rascals Varieties (May 5, 1959), a feature-length compilation featuring clips from Our Gang Follies of 1936, The Pinch Singer, Reunion in Rhythm, and Our Gang Follies of 1938. The Little Rascals (August 5, 1994), a feature-length adaptation of Our Gang which includes gags and situations borrowed directly from several of the original shorts. Directed by Penelope Spheeris and starring Travis Tedford as Spanky, Bug Hall as Alfalfa, Brittany Ashton Holmes as Darla, and Ross Bagley as Buckwheat, The Little Rascals was produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and released by Universal Pictures. The Little Rascals Save the Day (April 1, 2014), a direct-to-video Our Gang feature-length adaptation in much the same format as the 1994 film. Directed by Alex Zamm and starring Jet Jurgensmeyer as Spanky, Drew Justice as Alfalfa, Eden Wood as Darla, and Isaiah "Zay Zay" Fredericks as Buckwheat, The Little Rascals was produced by Capital Arts Entertainment and released by Universal Studios Home Entertainment. Our Gang related television productions The Little Rascals Christmas Special (December 3, 1979), a thirty-minute animated television special featuring Philip Tanzini as Spanky, Jimmy Gatherum as Alfalfa, Randi Kiger as Darla, Robby Kiger as Porky, and Al Jocko Fann as Stymie. Darla Hood and Matthew "Stymie" Beard are also featured. Rascal Dazzle (1980), a compilation film featuring clips from various Roach produced films. Narrated by Jerry Lewis. The Little Rascals (September 25, 1982 through September 1, 1984), a Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, featuring the voices of Scott Menville as Spanky, Julie McWhirter Dees as Alfalfa and Porky, Shavar Ross as Buckwheat, Patty Maloney as Darla, and Peter Cullen as Pete the Pup. Home videos Blackhawk/Republic releases For many years, Blackhawk Films released 79 of the 80 Roach talkies on 16 mm film. The sound discs for Railroading' had been lost since the 1940s, and a silent print was made available for home movie release until 1982, when the film's sound discs were located in the MGM vault and the short was restored with sound. Like the television prints, Blackhawk's Little Rascals reissues featured custom-created title cards in place of the original Our Gang logos, as per MGM's 1949 arrangement with Hal Roach not to distribute the series under its original title. In 1983, with the VHS home video market growing, Blackhawk began distributing Little Rascals VHS tapes available through catalogue only. The 80 sound shorts were made available across twenty-seven VHS volumes (one volume had the MGM short Waldo's Last Stand which was public domain to round out to 81), three shorts to a tape. Half a dozen silent episodes were also available across three additional VHS volumes. Four volumes on VHS went out of print by 1986, then leaving only 69 out of 80 episodes available. National Telefilm Associates, later renamed Republic Pictures, purchased Blackhawk in 1983, and continued the catalogue releases while also making The Little Rascals available on retail home video collections in 1984. 30 Little Rascals shorts were released in a set of five VHS compilations, with six shorts to a volume: Little Rascals Comedy Classics 1, Little Rascals Comedy Classics 2, Best of the Little Rascals, Little Rascals on Parade, and Adventures of Little Rascals. Each of these tapes contained two volumes of the 1983 catalogue releases, making each tape contain six episodes. In addition, Republic made the first two catalogue volumes available for retail. Twelve Little Rascals shorts made their way to home video through Spotlite Video in 1986. These also were all previously released on the catalogue Blackhawk releases and contained none of the ones that had been out of print. These were available through retail. Meanwhile, MGM released 20 of its 52 Our Gang shorts in a five-volume VHS set with four shorts per tape. In 1991, Republic repackaged 30 Little Rascals shorts for a fifteen-volume VHS set, with two shorts per tape. Out of the 30 episodes released, only one of them (Night 'n' Gales) had been previously unreleased. Cabin Fever/Hallmark releases In 1993, Republic sold the home video rights to the 80 sound Roach shorts and some of the available silent shorts to Cabin Fever Entertainment. Cabin Fever also acquired the rights to use the original Our Gang title cards and MGM logos; for the first time in over 50 years, the Roach sound Our Gang comedies could be seen in their original format. In June 1994, Cabin Fever released a 12-volume set of Little Rascals VHS tapes, hosted by Leonard Maltin. With four shorts per tape, Cabin Fever made 48 Roach sound shorts available for purchase, uncut and with digitally restored and remastered picture and sound. Due to the success of these volumes, Cabin Fever released nine more volumes in June 1995, which made the other 32 Roach talkies available for purchase (some of which had never been available on home video before). Five of these volumes contained four sound shorts, while the other four featured three sound shorts and a silent short. Cabin Fever began pressing DVD versions of their first 12 Little Rascals VHS volumes (with the contents of two VHS volumes included on each DVD), but went out of business before the release was announced in late 1998. Early in 1999, they sold their catalog to Hallmark Entertainment. In April 2000, Hallmark cleared out their warehouse, making all of the Little Rascals DVDs and VHS tapes available for retail, but never did an official launch of the Cabin Fever Little Rascals DVDs. In August, the first 10 volumes were re-released on VHS with new packaging, and the first two volumes were released on DVD as The Little Rascals: Volumes 1-2. In 2003, the VHS tapes went out of print. That spring, Hallmark issued a DVD called Little Rascals Vols. 3–4, which actually did not completely compile volumes three and four of the Cabin Fever VHS set, but included ten Our Gang shorts. On November 13, 2005, ten more Little Rascals shorts were issued on a DVD entitled Little Rascals Collectors Edition III. MGM/UA releases Throughout the early and mid 1990s, MGM/UA released a handful of the 1938-1944 MGM Our Gang shorts on VHS. The 1936 feature film General Spanky received both a VHS and LaserDisc release. Additionally, MGM/UA released a LaserDisc set of Our Gang comedies, consisting of both silent films and sound films. Later releases In 2006, Legend Films released colorized versions of twenty four Our Gang comedies, which were released across five Little Rascals DVDs. Twenty three of these shorts were Hal Roach talkies, while the remaining film is Waldo's Last Stand, a public domain short from the MGM era. These DVDs went out of print in 2009. RHI Entertainment and Genius Products released an eight-disc DVD box set entitled The Little Rascals - the Complete Collection on October 28, 2008. This set includes all of the Hal Roach sound short films in the Our Gang series (1929–1938), encompassing all of the Our Gang shorts distributed to TV as The Little Rascals (save for a handful of silents). Sixty-four of the shorts are sourced from the Cabin Fever restorations, while the remaining sixteen shorts utilize older Blackhawk Films transfers without their original title cards. On June 14, 2011, Vivendi Entertainment re-released seven of the eight DVDs from the RHI/Genius box set (which encompasses all of the sound Roach Our Gang shorts and excludes the eight "special features" bonus disc), replacing the Blackhawk transfers with their respective Cabin Fever restorations. Throughout the 2000s, Warner Home Video used individual MGM Our Gang shorts as supplemental features on DVD releases of entries in their classic film library. On September 1, 2009, Warner Bros. released the fifty two MGM Our Gang shorts in a compilation as part of their Warner Archive Collection mail-order series. The collection, Our Gang Comedies 1938–1942 (despite the title, includes the 1943 and 1944 MGM shorts as well), is available for DVD mail order through the Warner Bros. Studio Online Store, and for digital download through both the WB Studio Online Store and the Apple iTunes Store. On January 19, 2016, General Spanky was released on DVD through Warners. Public domain The following Our Gang comedies are in the public domain, and have appeared on many different VHS and DVD releases over the years. 1922: Our Gang; Fire Fighters; Young Sherlocks; One Terrible Day; A Quiet Street; Saturday Morning 1923: The Big Show; The Cobbler; The Champeen; Boys To Board; A Pleasant Journey; Giants Vs. Yanks; Back Stage; Dogs of War; Lodge Night; Stage Fright; July Days; Sunday Calm; No Noise; Derby Day 1924: Fast Company; Tire Trouble; Big Business; The Buccaneers; Seein' Things; Commencement Day; It's a Bear; Cradle Robbers; Jubilo, Jr.; High Society; The Sun Down Limited; Every Man for Himself; The Mysterious Mystery! 1925: The Big Town; Circus Fever; Dog Days; The Love Bug; Ask Grandma; Shootin' Injuns; Official Officers; Mary, Queen of Tots; Boys Will Be Joys; Better Movies; Your Own Back Yard; One Wild Ride 1926: Good Cheer; Buried Treasure; Monkey Business; Baby Clothes; Uncle Tom's Uncle; Thundering Fleas; Shivering Spooks; The Fourth Alarm; War Feathers 1928: Playin' Hookey 1929: Lazy Days 1930: Bear Shooters; School's Out 1931: Fly My Kite 1932: The Pooch 1933: Kid From Borneo 1934: Hi Neighbor; Shrimps For A Day 1935: Beginner's Luck; Our Gang Follies Of 1936 1937: Our Gang Follies of 1938 1940: Waldo's Last Stand Notes  Jim  Rube Wager  (who also appeared on stage with Scooter Lowry, Our Gang and  Peggy Eames  later on
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