George McFarland
George 'Spanky' McFarland was born on October 2, 1928 in Dallas, Texas, USA as George Robert Phillips McFarland. He was an actor, known for General Spanky (1936), Our Gang Follies of 1938 (1937) and Beginner's Luck (1935). He was married to Doris. He died of a heart attack on June 30, 1993 in Grapevine, Texas.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8375 |
| Birthday | 1928-10-02 |
| Place of Birth | Dallas, Texas, USA |
| Also Known As | George Robert Phillips McFarland, 'Spanky' McFarland, Spanky McFarland, George 'Spanky' McFarland, Spanky, George MacFarlane, Spanky McFarlane, Hal Roach's Rascals, Our Gang, |
1934
Honky Donkey
7/7
Rich kid Wally brings the gang back home to play, along with their mule.
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Honky Donkey
1933
Fish Hooky
7.571/7
A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.
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Fish Hooky
1941
Robot Wrecks
5.833/6
Spanky and the gang discover a demonstration of a "human-like" robot named Volto and are inspired to create a robot themselves to do their chores for...
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Robot Wrecks
1941
Helping Hands
6.667/3
Inspired by his soldier brother, Spanky decides to organize a military unit among his friends, collecting odds and ends for the war effort.
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Helping Hands
1994
The Our Gang Story
0/0
Join all your favorites—Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more—in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200 epis...
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The Our Gang Story
2001
Our Gang - Comedy Festival
0/0
Featuring the most riotous Rascals of all. This hilarious comedy compilation spans more than twenty years of classic Our Gang comedies to tickle your...
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Our Gang - Comedy Festival
1936
General Spanky
5.75/12
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wron...
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General Spanky
1937
Three Smart Boys
6.75/4
When they overhear Miss Witherspoon, the school superintendent, say that nothing short of an epidemic will allow the school to be closed for a week, t...
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Three Smart Boys
1937
The Pigskin Palooka
6.6/5
While Alfalfa was away at military school, his letters to his friends back home bragged about how he was a star football player. Now that he's back ho...
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The Pigskin Palooka
1937
Roamin' Holiday
7.25/4
The gang runs away from home, but meet up with a kindly old couple.
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Roamin' Holiday
1937
Night 'n' Gales
7/6
Because of a storm, the Gang has to stay overnight at Darla's house, and they drive her father crazy.
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Night 'n' Gales
1937
Mail and Female
6.857/7
The Gang's male members, headed by Spanky, decided to create the "He-Man Woman Haters Club" in reaction to not being invited to one of the girl's part...
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Mail and Female
1937
Rushin' Ballet
6.714/7
While trying to track down Butch, Spanky and Alfalfa get caught up in a dance recital.
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Rushin' Ballet
1936
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
6.5/34
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1934
Kentucky Kernels
6.4/10
The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and e...
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Kentucky Kernels
1933
Wild Poses
7.357/14
Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.
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Wild Poses
1934
Mike Fright
6.125/8
The gang attends a radio station amateur show.
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Mike Fright
1932
Free Wheeling
7.625/8
Stymie takes Dickie for a ride in his runaway car and cures his stiff neck.
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Free Wheeling
1933
Mush and Milk
6.571/7
When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park.
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Mush and Milk
1933
Forgotten Babies
7/6
While the rest of the gang goes fishing, Spanky gets stuck babysitting.
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Forgotten Babies
1933
Day of Reckoning
5.125/8
In this brutal prison drama a hen-pecked husband is sentenced to prison after getting caught with his hand in the company till. He is sent to a high-r...
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Day of Reckoning
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
7/3
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1935
O'Shaughnessy's Boy
6.2/5
A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.
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O'Shaughnessy's Boy
1937
Our Gang Follies of 1938
6.364/11
Alfalfa gives up being "King of the Crooners" to sing opera, but a nightmare of being under the thumb of an evil producer sends him back to his roots.
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Our Gang Follies of 1938
1934
Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
6/2
Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One mo...
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Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
1984
Going Hollywood: The '30s
9/2
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually get...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
2011
The Little Rascals: Scary Spooktacular
0/0
The only thing more outrageous than The Little Rascals' antics are their wild imaginations! See what happens when the Gang is left alone to guess at w...
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The Little Rascals: Scary Spooktacular
1939
Joy Scouts
6.8/4
The Boys Scouts give a demonstration of their camping skills, but Our Gang are excluded from participating because they are not yet old enough. Undete...
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Joy Scouts
1934
Benny, from Panama
8/2
Jeanette and Eddie get married, but their wedding night is a fiasco. First, their wedding guests follow them, resulting in a police chase, then the gu...
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Benny, from Panama
1938
Canned Fishing
7.2/5
Spanky and Alfalfa plot to play hooky so they can go fishing, by pretending that Alfalfa is sick and Spanky should stay with him while the parents are...
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Canned Fishing
1941
Come Back, Miss Pipps
7.667/3
On Mickey's birthday, Miss Pipps, the school teacher, serves cake and ice cream during school hours. Sour old Mr. Pratt, head of the school board, stu...
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Come Back, Miss Pipps
1938
Three Men in a Tub
5.571/7
Alfalfa and the gang build their own "speedboat" powered by ducks, and challenge Waldo to a race for the hand of Darla.
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Three Men in a Tub
1939
Tiny Troubles
6.75/4
Alfalfa "trades in" his whining baby brother for another baby--who turns out to be a midget criminal.
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Tiny Troubles
1986
The Aurora Encounter
5/4
In 1897, residents of a small Texas town are visited by a benevolent extraterrestrial being whose presence divides the community.
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The Aurora Encounter
1935
Teacher's Beau
7/7
The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from getting married.
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Teacher's Beau
1936
Arbor Day
6.2/5
Truant officers mistake 2 midgets for members of the gang.
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Arbor Day
1939
Dog Daze
5.4/7
The Gang owes 37 cents to Butch, so they try to raise money by rounding up stray dogs for the reward, but nearly get busted for dognapping.
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Dog Daze
1935
Little Papa
6.6/5
The gang wants Spanky to come out and play football, but he has to make sure his baby sister is asleep first.
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Little Papa
1938
Bear Facts
7/8
In an effort to impress Darla, Alfalfa tells her that he's a famous bear trainer. Little does he know that Darla's father owns a circus - and a bear c...
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Bear Facts
1938
Came the Brawn
7.167/6
Alfalfa enters a rigged wrestling match against the Masked Marvel, unaware that neighborhood bully Butch has secretly donned the disguise of his oppon...
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Came the Brawn
1933
One Track Minds
7/1
Thelma wins a screen test with a Hollywood studio, but trouble ensues on the train trip out there.
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One Track Minds
1938
Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
5.4/5
Trouble-prone Billy Peck and his gang descend on a traveling circus that has just hit town, and before long their antics are causing the circus owner...
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Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
1944
Cowboy and the Senorita
5.8/5
Chip has inherited a supposedly worthless gold mine from her father and Craig Allen is about to buy it. Roy suspects the mine may be valuable and usin...
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Cowboy and the Senorita
1934
The Cracked Ice Man
10/1
Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.
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The Cracked Ice Man
1935
Beginner's Luck
6.857/7
Spanky's mother pushes him to join a local theater amateur night.
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Beginner's Luck
1940
Alfalfa's Double
6.667/3
Our Gang member Alfalfa comes face to face with his wealthy lookalike Cornelius.
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Alfalfa's Double
1942
Melodies Old and New
7.333/3
The gang prevails upon old-time minstrel impresario Walter Wills to help them stage a fund-raising musical show.
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Melodies Old and New
1936
Second Childhood
7.333/6
A lonely, rich, hypochondriac is celebrating her 65th birthday in the same manner in which she observes the other 364 days of the year by complaining,...
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Second Childhood
1934
The First Round-Up
7/11
The gang packs up for a camping trip to Cherry Creek two miles from their home, but to them it is the wilderness. After night falls, the hooting owls...
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The First Round-Up
1935
Here Comes the Band
7/2
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfrie...
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Here Comes the Band
1943
Seeing Hands
6.333/9
This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig...
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Seeing Hands
1942
Don't Lie
6.5/4
After Buckwheat tells the gang he's seen a big monkey, Spanky, Froggy and Mickey decide to teach him once and for all not to lie. What the gang doesn'...
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Don't Lie
1940
Waldo's Last Stand
7/4
The gang offers to help their pal Waldo attract customers to his lemonade stand. Redecorating their clubhouse as a lavish nightclub, the kids stage an...
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Waldo's Last Stand
1940
The Big Premiere
6.667/3
It is a premiere night at the Fox Carthay Circle theater, and the Our Gang show up to observe the festivities. But after the Gang causes a disruption,...
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The Big Premiere
1932
The Famous Ferguson Case
6.571/7
A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall aft...
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The Famous Ferguson Case
1939
Dad for a Day
6.667/3
The "Our Gang" kids encourage a shy man to take a widow and her son to a picnic.
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Dad for a Day
1939
Captain Spanky's Show Boat
7/4
An abandoned old show boat is moored in a lazy creek. The Our Gang put the old vessel back to use when they stage a show featuring "Darla's Dancin' Da...
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Captain Spanky's Show Boat
1937
Fishy Tales
7.667/6
Alfalfa tries to back out of a fight by pretending to be incapacitated.
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Fishy Tales
1937
Framing Youth
7.333/6
Alfalfa and Butch are competing in an amateur radio contest, and Butch tries to fix it so that he will win.
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Framing Youth
1942
Unexpected Riches
6.8/5
Weighing themselves on a penny machine, the Our Gang kids receive a fortune card predicting that they will receive "unexpected riches." Acting upon th...
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Unexpected Riches
1944
The Woman in the Window
7.371/388
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
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The Woman in the Window
1943
I Escaped from the Gestapo
6/5
A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the...
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I Escaped from the Gestapo
1934
Mama's Little Pirate
7.25/8
The gang goes after pirate treasure they believe is hidden in a cave.
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Mama's Little Pirate
1935
Anniversary Trouble
6.833/6
The gang's treasury is entrusted to Spanky, who accidentally gets it mixed up with his father's money.
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Anniversary Trouble
1934
Washee Ironee
6.778/9
Rich boy Waldo gets his clothes dirty playing football with the gang just before he has to go to his mother's society party. The gang tries to help hi...
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Washee Ironee
1935
Sprucin' Up
6.75/8
A new truant officer moves into the neighborhood, and everybody wants to get friendly with his daughter.
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Sprucin' Up
2022
The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5
0/0
The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5 contains the next 12 Our Gang sound shorts produced by the Hal Roach Studios: Anniversary...
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The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 5
2022
The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 6
0/0
A must-have for any true Our Gang fan, Volume 6 features the talents of George "Spanky" McFarland, Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer,...
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The Little Rascals - The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 6
1941
Fightin' Fools
6.6/5
Spanky and the Our Gang kids go to battle over pranks with a rival gang.
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Fightin' Fools
1932
A Lad an' a Lamp
6.857/7
The gang finds what they think is a magic lamp.
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A Lad an' a Lamp
1940
Good Bad Boys
7/4
Alfalfa and the gang decide to turn to a life of crime, but Spanky tries to trick them with a fake burglary.
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Good Bad Boys
1940
Goin' Fishin'
6.333/3
The gang is going fishing and wants to get an early start, but they end up causing all sorts of problems for the passengers of a city bus.
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Goin' Fishin'
1941
Baby Blues
8/2
Mickey's mom is about to give birth, but he gets worried when he reads that every fourth child born is Chinese. Spanky and the gang then visit a Chin...
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Baby Blues
1941
Ye Olde Minstrels
7.333/3
The gang puts on a show to raise money for the Red Cross.
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Ye Olde Minstrels
1939
Time Out for Lessons
7/4
Alfalfa imagines himself being the star football player on a college team. After a big pep rally he ends up letting the team down when his poor grade...
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Time Out for Lessons
1940
All About Hash
6/3
Mickey's parents are constantly quarreling because his mother serves hash every Monday night. The kids decide to put on a radio skit to try to get the...
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All About Hash
1940
The New Pupil
6.25/4
Spanky and Alfalfa both try to impress the new girl at school, much to Darla's dismay.
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The New Pupil
1940
Bubbling Troubles
7/4
To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.
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Bubbling Troubles
1939
Clown Princes
6/5
The Our Gang kids put on a circus in the barn to raise money to help Porky's family pay the rent and avoid getting evicted.
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Clown Princes
1938
Aladdin's Lantern
6.2/5
Spanky and Alfalfa want to do a show based on the "Aladdin's Lamp" story with Darla in the cast, but Darla doesn't want to participate.
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Aladdin's Lantern
1938
Football Romeo
6.5/4
Darla pretends to like Butch, hoping to motivate Alfalfa into a better performance in the football game against Butch's team.
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Football Romeo
1938
Men in Fright
6.6/5
The kids go to the hospital to visit Darla, who's recovering from a tonsillectomy. Chaos soon ensues.
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Men in Fright
1932
Hook and Ladder
7.571/7
The gang, while playing firemen, come upon a real fire.
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Hook and Ladder
1934
Hi'–Neighbor!
7.545/11
The gang decides to build their own fire engine.
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Hi'–Neighbor!
1932
Birthday Blues
7/8
Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present.
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Birthday Blues
1936
Spooky Hooky
6.429/7
The gang puts a phony absent note on their teacher's desk so they can go to the circus, then have to get it back when they find out that the class was...
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Spooky Hooky
1934
For Pete's Sake!
7.833/6
The kids try to raise money to buy a doll for Marianne.
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For Pete's Sake!
1938
Practical Jokers
6.667/3
Butch has been playing practical jokes on the gang, but now they get their turn.
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Practical Jokers
1939
Alfalfa's Aunt
6.5/2
Alfalfa's weird aunt Penelope pays a visit. She's working on a murder mystery novel, but Alfalfa thinks she's trying to murder him. It's up to the S...
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Alfalfa's Aunt
1934
Shrimps for a Day
6.833/6
A magic lamp lets a young couple become kids again and exposes a mean old man who runs his orphanage like a prison.
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Shrimps for a Day
1933
Bedtime Worries
6.75/6
Spanky's parents are trying unsuccessfully to get Spanky to spend a peaceful first night in his own room.
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Bedtime Worries
1936
Bored of Education
6.765/17
Spanky and Alfalfa fake a toothache to get out of school. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with UCLA Film & Television Archive in...
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Bored of Education
1932
The Pooch
6.8/5
The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.
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The Pooch
1932
Choo-Choo!
7/6
The gang trades places with a group of orphans about to take a train ride.
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Choo-Choo!
1932
Spanky
7.2/5
While staging a play, Spanky finds his father's hiding place for the family "fortune."
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Spanky
1942
Surprised Parties
6.25/4
Since Froggy was born on Leap Year Day, he's upset that he only gets a birthday party once every four years. So, the gang decide to have a surprise p...
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Surprised Parties
1939
Cousin Wilbur
6.75/4
Alfalfa introduces his prissy, snooty cousin Wilbur to the gang. He instantly gets on everyone's bad side. Especially Alfalfa.
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Cousin Wilbur
1942
Doin' Their Bit
6.5/2
Our Gang puts on a show for the troops.
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Doin' Their Bit
1942
Rover's Big Chance
7/2
Our Gang's dog, Rover, gets to audition for a movie studio.
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Rover's Big Chance
1942
Johnny Doughboy
5.625/8
As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group o...
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Johnny Doughboy
2012
The Best of The Little Rascals in 3D
10/1
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The Best of The Little Rascals in 3D
1940
Kiddie Kure
8/2
While playing baseball near the home of wealthy hypochondriac, Mr. Morton, the gang inadvertently breaks one of his windows. This mishap coincides wit...
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Kiddie Kure
1936
Divot Diggers
6.429/7
When the caddies at the local golf course go on strike, the gang steps in to earn some money.
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Divot Diggers
1937
Hearts Are Thumps
7.167/6
The gang promises to keep away from girls on St. Valentine's Day, but Alfalfa can't resist Darla.
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Hearts Are Thumps
1936
The Lucky Corner
7/6
The gang help Scotty and his grandfather after an obnoxious lunch counter owner forces them to move their lemonade stand.
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The Lucky Corner
1936
The Pinch Singer
7.667/3
Alfalfa and our gang try to win fifty dollars on a radio contest.
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The Pinch Singer
1936
Pay As You Exit
8/5
The "Our Gang" kids stage a production of "Romeo and Juliet," but the show is threatened when leading lady Darla walks out on star Alfalfa.
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Pay As You Exit
1941
Wedding Worries
6.333/6
The Our Gang kids worry that Darla's new stepmother will be an evil stepmother like of fairy tale fame.
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Wedding Worries
1942
Going to Press
7.5/2
The Our Gang kids are running their own newspaper and are determined to get the big scoop by learning the identity of the leader of a gang of bullies.
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Going to Press
1941
1-2-3-Go!
6.6/5
While playing baseball, Mickey runs into the street to catch a fly ball and is struck by a car. When the gang visit him in the hospital they are appal...
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1-2-3-Go!
1939
Duel Personalities
7.5/2
While under a hypnotic spell, Alfalfa thinks he's one of the Three Musketeers and challenges Butch to a duel.
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Duel Personalities
1932
Free Eats
7.125/8
The kids help capture a family of thieves.
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Free Eats
1942
Mighty Lak a Goat
6.5/2
The Our Gang gets splashed by mud from a passing car and so using some cleaning fluid to get rid of the mud; they unknowingly created a bad odour amon...
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Mighty Lak a Goat
1937
Reunion in Rhythm
6.25/4
The gang puts on a musical show at a reunion for some of the former Gang kids.
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Reunion in Rhythm
1933
The Kid from Borneo
7.091/11
The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie, Dorothy, and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believing he is "The Wild Man from Borneo."
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The Kid from Borneo
1981
Rascal Dazzle
8/2
The Most Memorable Adventures from the "Our Gang Comedies" aka "The Little Rascals", Narrated By Jerry Lewis, Music by Nelson Riddle.
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Rascal Dazzle
1982
Hollywood’s Children
9/1
A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell).
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Hollywood’s Children
1934
The Little Rascals: The Pirates of Our Gang
0/0
See the Gang get a lesson on piracy and playing hooky in Shiver My Timbers, watch Spanky take on Goliath and his treasure chest in Mama's Little Pirat...
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The Little Rascals: The Pirates of Our Gang
2008
The Little Rascals: The Best of Our Gang Collection (In Color)
0/0
Spanky, Buckwheat, Porky and all of the Little Rascals at their hilarious best! All films in this fantastic collection have been fully-restored and ar...
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The Little Rascals: The Best of Our Gang Collection (In Color)
1935
Little Sinner
6.333/6
Rather than go to church, Spanky decides to go fishing - with disastrous results.
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Little Sinner
1935
Our Gang Follies of 1936
6.9/5
The gang puts on a show, everything goes well, except they're missing an act.
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Our Gang Follies of 1936
1936
Two Too Young
7/4
Spanky and Alfalfa try to get Porky's and Buckwheat's fireworks.
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Two Too Young
1937
Glove Taps
7.4/5
Butch challenges Alfalfa to a fight.
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Glove Taps
1939
Auto Antics
7.25/4
The "Our Gang" kids enter the Kidmobile Race Classic and must rescue their dog from the pound.
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Auto Antics
1989
When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
0/0
A documentary about the careers of child stars of the '40s in Hollywood, featuring movie clips with Shirley Temple, Margaret O'Brien, and numerous oth...
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When We Were Young: Growing Up on the Silver Screen
1986
Classic Comedy Teams
7/1
Steve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and television history, including Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy,...
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