Our Gang filmography

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This is a complete listing of all 220 Our Gang (Little Rascals) films produced by the Hal Roach studio or Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer between 1922 and 1944.

Contents 1 Our Gang comedies 1.1 The Roach/Pathé silent shorts 1.1.1 1922 1.1.2 1923 1.1.3 1924 1.1.4 1925 1.1.5 1926 1.1.6 1927 1.1.7 1928 1.2 The Hal Roach/MGM silents 1.2.1 1927 1.2.2 1928 1.2.3 1929 1.3 The Hal Roach/MGM talkies (The Little Rascals) 1.3.1 1929 1.3.2 1930 1.3.3 1931 1.3.4 1932 1.3.5 1933 1.3.6 1934 1.3.7 1935 1.3.8 1936 1.3.9 1937 1.3.10 1938 1.4 The MGM talkies 1.4.1 1938 1.4.2 1939 1.4.3 1940 1.4.4 1941 1.4.5 1942 1.4.6 1943 1.4.7 1944 2 Home videos 2.1 Blackhawk/Republic releases 2.2 Cabin Fever/Hallmark releases 2.3 Public domain 3 External links

[edit] Our Gang comedies

[edit] The Roach/Pathé silent shorts

All shorts are two reels (twenty minutes) long.

[edit] 1922

• 1. Our Gang
• 2. Fire Fighters
• 3. Young Sherlocks
• 4. One Terrible Day
• 5. A Quiet Street
• 6. Saturday Morning

[edit] 1923

• 7. The Big Show
• 8. The Cobbler
• 9. The Champeen
• 10. Boys To Board
• 11. A Pleasant Journey
• 12. Giants vs Yanks
• 13. Back Stage
• 14. Dogs of War
• 15. Lodge Night
• 16. Stage Fright
• 17. July Days
• 18. Sunday Calm
• 19. No Noise
• 20. Derby Day

[edit] 1924

• 21. Fast Company
• 22. Tire Trouble
• 23. Big Business
• 24. The Buccaneers
• 25. Seein' Things
• 26. Commencement Day
• 27. It's A Bear
• 28. Cradle Robbers
• 29. Jubilo, Jr
• 30. High Society
• 31. The Sundown Limited
• 32. Every Man For Himself
• 33. The Mysterious Mystery!

[edit] 1925

• 34. The Big Town
• 35. Circus Fever
• 36. Dog Days
• 37. The Love Bug
• 38. Ask Grandma
• 39. Shootin' Injuns
• 40. Official Officers
• 41. Mary, Queen of Tots
• 42. Boys Will Be Joys
• 43. Better Movies
• 44. Your Own Back Yard
• 45. One Wild Ride

[edit] 1926

• 46. Good Cheer
• 47. Buried Treasure
• 48. Monkey Business
• 49. Baby Clothes
• 50. Uncle Tom's Uncle
• 51. Thundering Fleas
• 52. Shivering Spooks
• 53. The Fourth Alarm
• 54. War Feathers
• 55. Telling Whoppers

[edit] 1927

• 56. Seeing the World
• 57. Bring Home the Turkey
• 58. Ten Years Old
• 59. Love My Dog
• 60. Tired Business Men
• 61. Baby Brother
• 62. Chicken Feed
• 63. Olympic Games
• 64. The Glorious Fourth

[edit] 1928

• 65. Playin' Hookey
• 66. The Smile Wins

[edit] The Hal Roach/MGM silents

All shorts are two reels (twenty minutes) long except Spook Spoofing, which is three reels (thirty minutes) long.

[edit] 1927

• 67. Yale vs Harvard
• 68. The Old Wallop
• 69. Heebee Jeebees
• 70. Dog Heaven

[edit] 1928

• 71. Spook Spoofing
• 72. Rainy Days
• 73. Edison, Marconi & Co.
• 74. Barnum & Ringling, Inc.
• 75. Fair and Muddy
• 76. Crazy House
• 77. Growing Pains
• 78. Old Gray Hoss
• 79. School Begins
• 80. The Spanking Age

[edit] 1929

• 81. Election Day
• 82. Noisy Noises
• 83. The Holy Terror
• 84. Wiggle Your Ears
• 85. Fast Freight
• 86. Little Mother
• 87. Cat, Dog & Co.
• 88. Saturday's Lesson

[edit] The Hal Roach/MGM talkies (The Little Rascals)

These 80 films, excepting some that are banned 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 (twenty minutes) long except Small Talk, which is three reels (thirty minutes) long.

(*) denotes a film that was banned from television and deleted from the Little Rascals package. Rationale for most of the films' edits are given; the usual reason was to remove stereotypical humor or insensitive references to African Americans, Asian Americans, or Jewish Americans.

(**) denotes a film that was aired in an edited television print for the reasons given above.

[edit] 1929

• 89. Small Talk (3 reels)** (heavily edited for time and sound quality)
• 90. Railroadin'* (never shown on television because the film's sound track of the film was presumed lost since the mid 1940's. In 1982, Railroadin's sound track turned up in the MGM vaults, and the film was released on home video, although it never became part of the television package)
• 91. Boxing Gloves** (edited for time and to add sound to originally silent scenes)
• 92. Lazy Days* (banned for insensitive references to African-Americans)
• 93. Bouncing Babies
• 94. Moan & Groan, Inc. * (banned for insensitive references to Jewish-Americans and African Americans)

[edit] 1930

• 95. Shivering Shakespeare**
• 96. The First Seven Years **
• 97. When The Wind Blows ** (All scenes with Farina edited heavily due to perceived racism toward African Americans)
• 98. Bear Shooters **
• 99. A Tough Winter (with Stepin Fetchit)* (banned for perceived racism towards African-Americans)
• 100. Pups Is Pups** (All scenes with Farina edited heavily due to perceived racism toward African Americans and stereotyping of other people)
• 101. Teacher's Pet**
• 102. School's Out ** (many scenes edited due to negative stereotypes towards women, African Americans, and others)

[edit] 1931

• 103. Helping Grandma ** (edited heavily due to perceived racism toward African Americans)
• 104. Love Business **
• 105. Little Daddy* (banned for perceived racism towards African-Americans)
• 106. Bargain Day ** (edited heavily due to perceived racism toward African Americans)
• 107. Fly My Kite **
• 108. Big Ears* (banned for depicting divorce)
• 109. Shiver My Timbers **
• 110. Dogs Is Dogs ** (edited due to negative treatment toward children)

[edit] 1932

• 111. Readin' and Writin'**
• 112. Free Eats
• 113. Spanky ** (edited heavily due to perceived racism toward African Americans)
• 114. Choo-Choo!**
• 115. The Pooch ** (edited due to negative treatment toward children)
• 116. Hook and Ladder
• 117. Free Wheeling **
• 118. Birthday Blues **
• 119. A Lad an' a Lamp* (banned for perceived racism towards African-Americans)

[edit] 1933

• 120. Fish Hookey
• 121. Forgotten Babies **
• 122. The Kid from Borneo* (banned for perceived racism towards African-Americans and handicapped people)
• 123. Mush And Milk ** (edited due to negative treatment toward children and negative perceptions of older people)
• 124. Betime Worries
• 125. Wild Poses

[edit] 1934

• 126. Hi' Neighbor!
• 127. For Pete's Sake ** (edited heavily due to perceived racism toward African Americans)
• 128. The First Round-Up **
• 129. Honky Donkey **
• 130. Mike Fright
• 131. Washee Ironee** (heavily edited for perceived racism towards Asian-Americans as well as African Americans)
• 132. Mama's Little Pirate **
• 133. Shrimps for a Day **

[edit] 1935

• 134. Anniversary Trouble** (heavily edited for perceived racism towards African-Americans)
• 135. Beginner's Luck
• 136. Teacher's Beau **
• 137. Sprucin' Up **
• 138. The Lucky Corner ** (heavily edited for perceived racism towards African-Americans)
• 139. Little Papa
• 140. Little Sinner */** (banned for a period of time because of perceived racism towards African-Americans, the short was later reinstated, though edited heavily for the same reasons)
• 141. Our Gang Follies Of 1936 ** (heavily edited for perceived racism towards African-Americans)

[edit] 1936

• 142. Divot Diggers **
• 143. The Pinch Singer** (heavily edited for perceived racism towards African-Americans)
• 144. Second Childhood
• 145. Arbor Day **

All future shorts are now one-reel (ten minutes) long, unless otherwise noted.

• 146. Bored of Education
• 147. Two Too Young ***
• 148. Pay As You Exit
• 149. Spooky Hooky ** (moderately edited for perceived racism towards African-Americans)

• Also in 1936 a feature film (six reels) called General Spanky was released.

[edit] 1937

• 150. Reunion In Rhythm **
• 151. Glove Taps
• 152. Hearts Are Thumps
• 153. Three Smart Boys** (moderately edited for perceived racism towards African-Americans)
• 154. Rushin' Ballet **
• 155. Roamin' Holiday
• 156. Night 'N' Gales **
• 157. Fishy Tales
• 158. Framing Youth
• 159. The Pigskin Palooka
• 160. Mail And Female
• 161. Our Gang Follies Of 1938 ** (two-reel special)

[edit] 1938

• 162. Canned Fishing
• 163. Bear Facts
• 164. Three Men In A Tub
• 165. Came the Brawn
• 166. Feed 'Em And Weep
• 167. The Awful Tooth
• 168. Hide and Shriek

[edit] The MGM talkies

[edit] 1938

• 169. The Little Ranger
• 170. Party Fever
• 171. Aladdin's Lantern
• 172. Men in Fright
• 173. Football Romeo
• 174. Practical Jokers

[edit] 1939

• 175. Alfalfa's Aunt
• 176. Tiny Troubles
• 177. Duel Personalities
• 178. Clown Princes
• 179. Cousin Wilbur
• 180. Joy Scouts
• 181. Dog Daze
• 182. Auto Antics
• 183. Captain Spanky's Show Boat
• 184. Dad For A Day
• 185. Time Out For Lessons

[edit] 1940

• 186. Alfalfa's Double
• 187. Bubbling Troubles
• 188. The Big Premiere
• 189. All About Hash
• 190. The New Pupil
• 191. Goin' Fishin'
• 192. Good Bad Boys
• 193. Waldo's Last Stand
• 194. Kiddie Kure

[edit] 1941

• 195. Fightin' Fools
• 196. Baby Blues
• 197. Ye Olde Minstrels
• 198. Come Back, Miss Pipps
• 199. 1-2-3 Go!
• 200. Robot Wrecks
• 201. Helping Hands
• 202. Wedding Worries

[edit] 1942

• 203. Melodies Old And New
• 204. Going To Press
• 205. Don't Lie
• 206. Surprised Parties
• 207. Doin' Their Bit
• 208. Rover's Big Chance
• 209. Might Lak A Goat
• 210. Unexpected Riches

[edit] 1943

• 211. Benjamin Franklin, Jr.
• 212. Family Troubles
• 213. Election Daze
• 214. Calling All Kids
• 215. Farm Hands
• 216. Little Miss Pinkerton
• 217. Three Smart Guys

[edit] 1944

• 218. Radio Bugs
• 219. Dancing Romeo
• 220. Tale of a Dog

[edit] Home videos

[edit] Blackhawk/Republic releases

For many years, Blackhawk Films released seventy-nine of the eighty Roach talkies on 16 mm film. The sound discs for Railroading' (1929) 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 TV 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. Sixty-seven sound shorts were made available across twenty-two VHS volumes, three shorts to a tape.

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. Thirty 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. In addition, Republic made the first two catalogue volumes available for retail.

Twelve more Little Rascals shorts made their way to home video through Spotlite Video in 1986. Meanwhile, MGM released twenty of its fifty-two Our Gang shorts in a five-volume VHS set with four shorts per tape.

In 1991, Republic repackaged thirty Little Rascals shorts for a fifteen-volume VHS set, with two shorts per tape. By this point, thirteen Hal Roach talkies had still not been made available on home video.

[edit] Cabin Fever/Hallmark releases

In 1993, Republic sold the home video rights to the eighty 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, and for the first time in over fifty years, the Roach sound Our Gang comedies could be commercially exhibited in their original format. In June 1994, Cabin Fever released a twelve-volume set of Little Rascals VHS tapes, hosted by Leonard Maltin. With four shorts per tape, Cabin Fever made forty-eight 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 thirty-two Roach talkies available for purchase (some of which had never been made available for home exhibition before). Cabin Fewver began pressing DVD versions of their first twelve Little Rascals VHS volumes (with the contents of two VHS volumes included on each DVD), but went out of business before the release and sold their catalog to Hallmark Entertainment.

In April 2000, Hallmark cleaned out their warehouse, making all available DVD's 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 2 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. On November 13, 2005, ten more Little Rascals shorts were issued on a DVD entitled Little Rascals Collectors Edition III.

[edit] Public domain

The following Our Gang comedies are in the public domain, and have turned up on many different VHS and DVD releases over the years

• 1923: Derby Day
• 1924: The Sun Down Limited
• 1925: Dogs of War
• 1930: Bear Shooters and School's Out
• 1931: Fly My Kite, Dogs is Dogs
• 1932: Hook and Ladder, The Pooch
• 1933: The Kid From Borneo, Wild Poses
• 1934: Hi' Neighbor!, Shrimps for a Day
• 1935: Beginner's Luck, Sprucin' Up, Little Papa, and Our Gang Follies of 1936
• 1936: Arbor Day
• 1937: Our Gang Follies of 1938
• 1940: Waldo's Last Stand

[edit] External links

• Details on the Cabin Fever Little Rascals home video collections
• Details on the Hallmark Little Rascals home video collections