Walter Wills is listening to the radio as the mayor points out that U.S. soldiers stationed in small towns need entertainment as much as the ones overseas. It actually works, and the bear begins to obey his commands. Meanwhile, the whole gang is behind the hedge witnessing everything. [6], 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. This eventually leads to chaos, as the gang assists Pete in attacking some movie villains. The gang is prevailed upon by the rest of the kids in their club to come up with a solution regarding all the hardships they're enduring in the interest of the war. 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. Producer Hal Roach broke new ground in the filming industry by putting boys and girls, black and whites all in equal roles, something that was unheard of in the 1920's and 1930… [26] New faces included Bobby Hutchins as Wheezer, Harry Spear, Jean Darling and Mary Ann Jackson, while stalwart Farina served as the series' anchor. 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 gang, however, doesn't get the message about his change of plans, and destroys his act, anyway. Misunderstanding, the gang warns the whole neighborhood about the impending epidemic. It's Valentine's Day, and the boys decide they don't want anything to do with it, forming ""The He-Man Woman-Haters' Club."" 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. 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. The characters of Alfalfa, Spanky, Buckwheat, Porky, Darla, Froggy, Butch, Woim, and Waldo were especially well known. He chases them off, but they take refuge in their underground hideout, which just happens to be directly beneath the seance room. They also remember to bring food, which the older boys have forgotten to do. As a reward, the chief helps the gang to start their own fire department. After helping themselves to as much loot as they can carry, they try to find their way out. The impresario still has him under contract, and orders him to sing in the streets. The station manager has no luck winning over a visiting prospective sponsor, as most of the ""talent"" is unimpressive, and the gang is generally disrupting the proceedings. A long list of people, including persons famous in other capacities such as Nanette Fabray, Eddie Bracken, and gossip columnist Joyce Haber[54] claimed to be or have been publicly called former Our Gang children. The gang, inspired by the Aladdin story, is busy rubbing every lamp they can get their hands on. The gang then stages its own baby show, but their mothers arrive with the police to reclaim their babies. As it turns out, the class is being treated to a day at the local amusement park, and once the boys hear of this, it's too late. [47] 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. We were just a group of kids who were having fun. It was the 74th Our Gang short that was released and the first to have a synchronized musical and sound-effects track. Mickey gets adopted by his rich aunt Kate, which means no longer living with his uncle Pat Kelly. Currently, the rights to the Our Gang/Little Rascals shorts are divided. The gang has decided to become inventors, and builds a car that somewhat resembles a submarine. The boys overhear the teacher requesting a week-long closure of the school so she can attend her sister's wedding. Alfalfa's in military school, and has been writing home to Darla about his single-handed football victories. The Little Rascals is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and King World Productions.It first aired on ABC on September 25, 1982.: 365–366 A spin-off based on the live-action Our Gang comedy shorts, it was broadcast as part of The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show in 1982 and then as part of The Monchhichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich … Jackie has a crush on Mary Ann, and Kennedy the Cop gives him advise on how to court her. True Hollywood Story documentary entitled "The Curse of the Little Rascals". The gang puts on a patriotic musical revue in front of a live audience that is also broadcast on the radio. While in the house, they're tormented by a lunatic. They throw a party and invite the gang, who get treated to one of the least appetizing birthday cakes ever baked. Froggy decides to run against incumbent Mickey in the election for clubhouse president. When the official from the orphan asylum arrives, the gang tries to sabotage his plans. It's the first day of school, and Brisbane is reminded by his mom that if he does well, he'll grow up to be president. They take too long and have no idea where the fire is, but another fire is conveniently burning nearby, so they go to work on that one. The 1930 Our Gang short Pups is Pups was an inductee of the 2004 National Film Registry list.[52]. About Us. The boys have decided that they're going to disrupt the class so that their teacher will send them home. The four black child actors who held main roles in the series were Ernie Morrison, Allen Hoskins, Matthew Beard and Billie Thomas. Wheezer and Stymie are out selling stuff door-to-door, including the gang's baseball equipment. It's the first day of school, and Spanky and Alfalfa have cooked up a scheme to be sent home. 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. Our Gang (also known 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. Not wanting an actor's life, Spanky arranges for the gang to sabotage his performance with noise-makers and pea-shooters. The gang travels by wagon to go on a picnic with their families. Darla tries to get him to change his mind by appearing with Butch. Meanwhile, a couple of sideshow midgets have disguised themselves as children in order to sneak out for a little liberty. [13], In their adult years, actors Morrison, Beard, and Thomas defended the series, arguing 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". These shorts marked the departure of Jackie Condon, who had been with the group from the beginning of the series. In 2006, Fantagraphics Books began issuing a series of volumes reprinting the Our Gang stories, mostly written and drawn by Pogo creator Walt Kelly. After Mary leaves the gang's mock-war to go do some work at the local movie studio, the boys decide to break into the pictures as well, but are chased away. Some black people are holding a baptism ceremony at a nearby river just as a solar eclipse occurs, and the boys get a good scare. But it's getting late, and as they open the door to leave, it suddenly starts to rain. Dell Comics published a 12-issue Little Rascals comic book series from 1957 to 1962. It's Spanky's first night in his own room, and he's spooked by every little bump in the night. Jackie and Jay are left out, so when the film is premiered, they sabotage the proceedings. In 1930, Roach began production on The Boy Friends, a short-subject series which was essentially a teenaged version of Our Gang. This last spot involves sitting upon the trapeze which is held up by a mule. Sure enough, he's sent away by Miss Crabtree. Word from his mother reveals that Darla is going to read the letter to the kids assembled in the stands at the game. As it turns out, Toughey hasn't moved at all, but has been swimming at a nearby swimming hole. As school lets out, Spanky and Alfalfa send Buckwheat and Porky back into the building to deposit a phony doctor's note on the teacher's desk, so that they can skip school the next day and go to the circus. [25] 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. Luckily, Buckwheat arrives with ten cents which he just got from the tooth fairy. It's the first day of school, and the gang is lamenting the loss of their beloved Miss McGillicuddy. Eventually, the gang goes into their house when they realize there's a litter of puppies in there. Meanwhile, the gang has set up a baby-washing system, and when Joe puts his baby into the machine, the white paint washes off. The wife of Kennedy the Cop is staging a Shakespearean play featuring the schoolchildren. This means the gang will dig a hole that Ken's father had told him to take care of. [33] 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 kids take turns performing in front of the parents, with Mary struggling through ""Mary Had A Little Lamb"" and Mickey trying to play ""Humoresque"" on the violin. As he begs to be let go, Alfalfa wakes from his dream, and tearing up the contract, returns to the stage to croon again. Rich girl Jean invites the gang into her mansion. As a solution, they draw a line down the middle of the clubhouse and have two presidents. However, MGM did not want the series discontinued and agreed to take over production. Almost immediately, Darla passes by and winks at Alfalfa, who drops the club like a hot potato and follows her for a picnic lunch. The TV prints, which debuted in 1955 (after having run in theaters starting in 1950), were known simply as The Little Rascals. This inspires the gang to convert others to this philosophy. The gang is putting on a performance of Aladdin and his lamp, which is repeatedly interrupted by Buckwheat and Porky's off-key rendition of "Strolling Through The Park One Day." Eventually Our Gang talent scouting employed large-scale national contests in which thousands of children tried out for an open role. 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. 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. Several boys get beaten up for this, but it turns to be Wheezer. These were released as "Famous Kid Comedies," as Official could not use "Our Gang". The Mack-directed shorts are considered to be among the lesser entries in the series. During the proceedings, a couple of auto thieves break into the barn, and when they make their getaway, Farina and Jackie are in the back seat. The truant officer mistakes them for real children and dutifully deposits them in the schoolroom, where they offer to take part in the pageant, performing a racy vaudeville number. As the party wears on, the midgets steal jewelry from the women who cuddle with them. Spanky sets his mind at ease by introducing him to his Chinese friend, Lee Wong, who invites the gang over for lunch. Unfortunately, when the party ends, the two of them are mistaken for orphans and taken back to the orphanage, where they witness the abuses first-hand. Buckwheat and Porky tag along as he ventures off for a nice spot to fish. Darla's dad gets into a bear costume, and Alfalfa has to nervously train him. No matter how hot and thirsty they try to make this boy, he repeatedly refuses the lemonade. The boat gets loose, however, and they drift out to sea. The gang gets chased away from a big Hollywood premiere, so they decide to make their own movie and present it to the neighborhood kids with a big premiere. A society matron takes the orphaned kids of the gang on a car journey. It turns out that the boys had actually modeled for the dollmaker. The gang decides to dig for buried treasure in the basement of an old abandoned house, against the advise of Kennedy the Cop. Junior exits through the hole in top and turns the machine on. Jackie Lynn Taylor, one of The Little Rascals in Hal Roach's Our Gang comedy shorts in the 1930s, died Monday in the Sacramento suburb of Citrus Heights, Calif. She was 88. 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. 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. While the boys are playing their baseball game, a couple living nearby offer to take care of Jack's baby sister, Imogene. Unfortunately, Farina can't keep his dog from being caught, and must come up with five dollars if he wants him back. Froggy overhears their plans, but misunderstands and think he's being left out for being a sourpuss. In later years, many adults falsely claimed to have been members of Our Gang. Spanky wishes for Cotton to be turned into a monkey, which appears to happen thanks to a vaudeville chimp that happens along. They eventually find themselves in a covered wagon which takes them to the hideout of some bandits. They manage to ruin the seance, so Fleece decides to give them a good scare. When they see Mickey in his Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit, they kidnap him and give him the works. These remastered films are a must-have for fans, both old and new. The Little Rascals, which debuted on television in 1955, introduced a band of ragtag children to the world.They were born from the 1922-1938 ‘Our Gang’ shorts from MGM. In later shorts, both Butch and Waldo were portrayed as Alfalfa's rivals in his pursuit of Darla's affections. Numerous unauthorized Little Rascals and Our Gang restaurants and day care centers also exist throughout the United States. Butch has been playing practical jokes on the gang, so when his birthday party comes up, they decide to plant a firecracker in his cake. [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). He uses a mirror to shoot backwards at the apple on Buckwheat's head, only to find that the suction-cup dart has made a direct hit on Butch's nose. Since 1937, Our Gang had been featured as a licensed comic strip in the UK comic The Dandy, drawn by Dudley D. Watkins. Dog Heaven is a 1927 Our Gang short silent comedy film directed by Robert A. McGowan. The Little Rascals (TV Series 1955) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Dickie's father is too stingy to buy his wife a birthday present, so the boy decides to raise some money and buy her a swell dress he's seen in a shop window. I just try to look at it as mostly a fun thing. It was the 68th Our Gang short that was released. In 1963, Hal Roach Studios, by then run by Roach's son Hal Jr, filed for bankruptcy. Ward as Butch and Waldo. Coupled with a brief suspension in McFarland's work permit,[28] 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.[25]. Unfortunately, the pigeon escapes before any money can be attached to it. [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. Luckily for her, a passing circus giant figures out whats going on and fills in for Wheezer. By the end of 1941, Darla Hood had departed from the series, and Spanky McFarland followed her within a year. [16] 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. 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. This first volume contains shorts spanning from 1930 to 1938. Unfortunately, the truant officer sees to it that he makes it to school. The hypnosis doesn't wear off, however, so the kids are still assuming their animal characteristics at inopportune times during a society luncheon. Brisbane spots the local fire brigade answering a call and sounds the alarm for the kiddie version to follow them. The boys decide to sabotage the wedding, eventually resorting to laughing gas. Recess is over before they can light off the firecrackers, so Alfalfa puts them in his back pocket. Summer is fast approaching, and Jackie is worried that Miss Crabtree will get married and leave her students the way Miss McGillicuddy had the previous year. 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. The local blacksmith, Dad Anderson, builds nifty sail-propelled scooters for the boys. Alfalfa notices that the main ingredient is Settles-itt Powder, and drinks the whole thing down to the astonishment of the gang. Much to the frustration of his board of directors, he helps the gang to build quite an elaborate setup. There's a baby contest in town, so the gang decides to enter their younger siblings. This must-have collection for every fan of the little rascals includes the Oscar-winning episode Bored of Education, as well as more than ten bonus episodes that range from the peak of Rascals popularity in the mid-30 s to the rare, but completely endearing episodes of … This is all for naught, however, as Harry falls for Jean and abandons Mary Ann. The gang's club has organized a father and son picnic, but poor fatherless Mickey is in tears. He'd rather be a streetcar conductor, actually. Spanky announces that Alfalfa will be leading the local team to victory in a football game being played that day. Buckwheat and Porky then walk right in with another dog, who turns out to belong to the proprietors. As Porky focuses a magnifying glass on Alfalfa's back pocket, the poem receives some added special effects when the firecrackers go off. The boys arrange for Mr. Henry, who runs the gas station, to attend the picnic with Mickey. His dad, thinking it's a more serious problem, gives him a stomach remedy prepared with Settles-itt Powder. Joe arrives as the new boy in school, and the boys decide to initiate him into their secret club, the Cluck Cluck Klams. A new kid moves into town and is soon bullying little Jackie. When his mom walks into the kitchen, she sees him take the envelope and find a hiding place for it. Joe comes over with his cake, which is full of surprises secretly inserted by Joe's little sister when he wasn't looking. The gang visits Mickey in the hospital, who's having his tonsils taken out. It's the last day of school, and Mickey gets into a big fight with Snoozer, the school bully. The gang owes Butch some money, which they borrowed to care for a stray dog with two broken legs. [56] 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. The gang decides to spruce up their wide variety of pets and enter them in the contest. [40] The strips in The Dandy ended three years after the demise of the Our Gang shorts, in 1947. 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). 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