Our Gang filmography

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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, numbered by order of release along with production order.

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1922 - 1923 - 1924 - 1925 - 1926 - 1927 - 1928 - 1929 - 1930 - 1931 1932 - 1933 - 1934 - 1935 - 1936 - 1937 - 1938 - 1939 - 1940 - 1941 - 1942 - 1943 - 1944

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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.

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1922

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|001

|004

|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

|001

|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

|003

|Young Sherlocks

|Charles Parrott Robert McGowan Tom McNamara

|November 26

Filmed in between Fire Fighters and One Terrible Day.

|005

|006

|Saturday Morning

|Tom McNamara Robert McGowan

|December 3

Filmed in between A Quiet Street and The Big Show.

|006

|005

|A Quiet Street

|Tom McNamara Robert McGowan

|December 31

Filmed in between One Terrible Day and Saturday Morning.

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1923

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|007

|009

|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

|007

|The Big Show

|Robert McGowan

|February 25

Filmed in between Saturday Morning and The Cobbler.

|010

|011

|A Pleasant Journey

|Robert McGowan

|March 18

Filmed in between Boys to Board and Giants Vs. Yanks.

|011

|010

|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

|018

|July Days

|Robert McGowan

|August 26

Filmed in between Stage Fright and Sunday Calm.

|017

|020

|No Noise

|Robert McGowan

|September 23

Filmed in between Sunday Calm and Derby Day.

|018

|017

|Stage Fright

|Robert McGowan

|October 21

Filmed in between early production of Fast Company and July Days.

|019

|021

|Derby Day

|Robert McGowan

|November 18

Filmed in between No Noise and Tire Trouble.

|020

|019

|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.

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1924

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|021

|022

|Tire Trouble

|Robert McGowan

|January 13

|022

|023

|Big Business

|Robert McGowan

|February 10

Andy Samuel is promoted from supporting player to replacement for Jack Davis.

|023

|024

|The Buccaneers

|Robert McGowan Mark Goldaine

|March 9

|024

|025

|Seein' Things

|Robert McGowan

|April 6

|025

|026

|Commencement Day

|Robert McGowan Mark Goldaine

|May 4

|026

|028

|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

|029

|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

|027

|It's a Bear

|Robert McGowan

|July 24

Final appearance of Ernie Morrison, save for Fast Company.
Andy Samuel does not appear.

|029

|030

|High Society

|Robert McGowan

|August 24

|030

|031

|The Sun Down Limited

|Robert McGowan

|September 21

Partially remade as Railroadin' (1929).

|031

|032

|Every Man for Himself

|Robert McGowan

|October 19

|032

|016

|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.

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1925

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|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

|039

|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

|038

|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

|042

|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

|041

|Mary, Queen of Tots

|Robert McGowan

|August 23

With James Finlayson
Johnny Downs does not appear.

|043

|044

|Your Own Back Yard

|Robert McGowan

|September 27

Filmed in between Better Movies and One Wild Ride.

|044

|043

|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.

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1926

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|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

|056

|Telling Whoppers

|Robert McGowan Anthony Mack

|December 19

Filmed in between Seeing the World and Bring Home the Turkey.

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1927

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|056

|057

|Bring Home the Turkey

|Robert McGowan Anthony Mack

|January 16

First appearance of Jean Darling
Bobby "Bonedust" Young does not appear.

|057

|055

|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

|064

|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

|062

|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).

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1928

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|069

|065

|Playin' Hookey

|Anthony Mack

|January 1

Filmed in between The Glorious Fourth and The Smile Wins.

|072

|066

|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.

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1927

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|064

|067

|Yale vs. Harvard

| Robert McGowan

|September 24

Currently lost.

|065

|068

|The Old Wallop

|Robert McGowan

|October 22

|067

|069

|Heebee Jeebees

|Robert McGowan Anthony Mack

|November 19

Currently lost.

|068

|070

|Dog Heaven

|Anthony Mack

|December 17

Harry Spear does not appear.

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1928

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|070

|071

|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

|072

|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
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

|079

|School Begins

|Anthony Mack

|November 17

A copy exists in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

|080

|The Spanking Age

|Robert McGowan

|December 15

First silent Our Gang short released with a synchronized music and sound effects disc.
Rediscovered in 1990.

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1929

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|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

|086

|Little Mother

|Robert McGowan

|June 1

|091

|087

|Cat, Dog & Co.

|Anthony Mack

|September 14

Released with synchronized music and sound effects, on disc only.

|093

|088

|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)

The Our Gang sound shorts were produced by Hal Roach Studios and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. These 80 films, with some removed due to content concerns, were later packaged and syndicated by King World Productions under the title The Little Rascals.

The shorts produced up until Arbor Day (1936) were two reels in length, typically running 17 to 20 minutes. The exception is Small Talk which extended to three reels (26 minutes). From 1936's Bored of Education to 1938's Hide and Shriek the shorts were reduced to one reel, approximately 10 minutes each, except for Our Gang Follies of 1938 which was a one-shot return to the two-reel format. In 1936, the feature-length film General Spanky was also released.

Over the years, many of the shorts were edited for television, and King World Productions excluded several from The Little Rascals television package. The shorts that were either edited or withheld from broadcast are noted accordingly.

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1929

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|086

|089

|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

|090

|Railroadin

|Robert McGowan

|June 15

First appearance of Norman "Chubby" Chaney.
Cameo by director Robert F. McGowan
Never shown on television because the film's sound track, released only on separate phonographic records, 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

|092

|Lazy Days

|Robert McGowan

|August 24

Withdrawn from television package due to racial humor involving African-Americans.
Filmed in between Boxing Gloves and Bouncing Babies

|090

|091

|Boxing Gloves

|Anthony Mack

|September 9

First appearance of Jackie Cooper, appearing at this point as a supporting player.
Final appearance of Joe Cobb
Television prints edited due to time and to add sound to originally silent scenes.
Filmed in between Railroadin<nowiki>'</nowiki> and Lazy Days.
Motion picture trade journals from 1929 give this film's release date as July 13, 1929.

|092

|093

|Bouncing Babies

|Robert McGowan

|October 12

Final appearances of Jean Darling 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.

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1930

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|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.

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1931

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|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.

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1932

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|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.

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1933

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|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.

|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.

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1934

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|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.

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|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.

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|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.
Joy Wurgaft appears as a Hula Dancer.
Wally Albright, Jerry Tucker, Jackie Lynn Taylor, Marianne Edwards, and Billie Thomas do not appear.

|131

|Washee Ironee

|James Parrott

|November 13

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.

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|132

|Mama's Little Pirate

|Gus Meins

|January 5

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

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.

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 media

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.

All pre-1931 comedies
1937: Our Gang Follies of 1938
1940: Waldo's Last Stand

Notes

References

Maltin, Leonard & Bann, Richard W (1977, rev. 1992). The Little Rascals: The Life & Times of Our Gang. New York: Crown Publishing/Three Rivers Press. .

External links

Detailed series and crew filmographies on The Lucky Corner Our Gang website

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Our Gang related television productions

Home media

Blackhawk/Republic releases

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MGM/UA releases

Later releases

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