The Little Rascals (animated TV series)
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| The Little Rascals | |
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 A screenshot from the Little Rascals Saturday morning cartoon. |
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| Genre | Animation |
| Starring | Peter Cullen Patty Maloney Julie McWhirter Dees Scott Menville Shavar Ross B.J. Ward |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 11 minutes of The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show or The Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | ABC |
| Picture format | NTSC |
| Original run | September 25, 1982 – 1984 |
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The Little Rascals was a 1982-1984 Saturday morning cartoon series produced jointly by Hanna-Barbera Productions and King World, and broadcast on ABC. Based upon the classic Our Gang comedy short films, it was part of a 90-minute package program, The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show, with Pac-Man and Richie Rich in 1982 - 1983, and part of the 30-minute The Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show in 1983 - 1984.
The Little Rascals had been animated for television twice before. In the 1960s a series of clay-animated Little Rascals Color Specials were produced for syndication, presumably by Art Clokey, using soundtracks from the original Our Gang films. In 1979, Fred Wolf produced an animated The Little Rascals Christmas Special for NBC. That company's version was further used in animated public service announcements.
Hanna-Barbera's Little Rascals animated series had six voice actors:
- Peter Cullen as Pete the Pup and Officer Ed
- Patty Maloney as Darla Hood
- Julie McWhirter Dees as Alfalfa, Porky and Woim
- Scott Menville as Spanky
- Shavar Ross as Buckwheat
- B.J. Ward as Butch and Waldo.
The animated series and the original live-action Our Gang films differ in a number of ways. The gang now lives in a contemporary 1980s setting, with computers and television. Buckwheat is now a clever inventor, always creating new devices for the gang, and Darla's eyes were changed from hazel to blue. Also in the animated series, the Rascals met in a treehouse and drove around the town of Greenpoint in a dog-drawn vehicle.
