Little Rascals - All about our gang
The Little Rascals, also known as Our Gang, was an American comedy series that was produced for television in the 1950’s. It began as a series of short films in the 1920’s about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they shared together.
The Little Rascals was directed by Hal Roach and Robert F. McGowan. It was the first time that a series on television broke new ground by putting black and white children together and have them portrayed as equals. This type of thing was never done before.
The Little Rascals show was very popular on television and it wasn’t soon long after it’s debut that there was other licensed merchandise such as comic books and toys for people to purchase. The very first episodes of The Little Rascals were filmed in 1922 and found their end in 1944. Altogether, there are 221 episodes which included some memorable ones here on this page such as:
Episodes:
- Our Gang
- Saturday Morning
- The Champeen
- The Big Show
- A Pleasant Journey
- July Days
- Derby Day
- The Sun Down Limited
- The Mysterious Mystery
- Your Own Back Yard
- Shivering Spooks
- War Feathers
- The Old Wallop
- Fair and Muddy
- The Spanking Age
- Noisy Noises
- Boxing Gloves
- When the Wind Blows
- Pups is Pups
- Helping Grandma
- Dogs is Dogs
- Free Eats
- Birthday Blues
- Forgotten Babies
- Bedtime Worries
- Fly My Kite
- Teacher’s Pet
- Canned Fishing
- For Pete’s Sake
- Washee Ironee
- The Lucky Corner
- Fish Hooky
- The First Round-up
In 1979, The Little Rascals Christmas special was produced and aired. It was an animated holiday special based on the gang. Hanna-Barbera also attempted to bring back the animated gang in 1982 in a series of The Little Rascals cartoons for Saturday mornings on ABC. This unfortunately only lasted though until 1984. In 1994, Universal Pictures released a feature film which brought in over $50 million at the box office.
The Little Rascals most memorable characters were Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Pineapple and Porky. These priceless characters became well known as cultural icons and were well known just by their first names.
There have been VHS and DVD’s released of The Little Rascals, the one most notably were the first ten volumes released on DVD compilations by Hallmark Entertainment. Another DVD was issued on November 15, 2005. MGM has also released several VHS tapes of it’s short films. There are also many unofficial versions that were released of both Our Gang and The Little Rascals over the years. You can enjoy all of these for years to come in your home.