George McFarland

George McFarland

Born: October 2, 1928
Died: June 30, 1993
in Dallas, Texas, USA
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.

Movies for George McFarland...

The Little Rascals: Classicflix Restorations Vol 4
Title: The Little Rascals: Classicflix Restorations Vol 4
Released: January 18, 2022
Type: Movie
Remastered, uncut and beautifully restored, now you can see The Little Rascals like never before! With restorations so glorious, it will be like watching these iconic shorts for the first time!
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The Little Rascals: The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 3
Title: The Little Rascals: The ClassicFlix Restorations, Volume 3
Released: October 19, 2021
Type: Movie
From 1929 to 1931, Hal Roach's “Our Gang” series showcasing scruffy but lovable kids was among the studio's biggest successes in the new era of sound. But in 1932, the franchise would introduce one of the most beloved and durable members of the gang in George ""Spanky"" McFarland—so named because of his mother's constant admonitions of ""Mustn't touch! Spanky, spanky!""
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The Best of The Little Rascals in 3D
Title: The Best of The Little Rascals in 3D
Character: Spanky
Released: October 30, 2012
Type: Movie
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The Little Rascals: Scary Spooktacular
Title: The Little Rascals: Scary Spooktacular
Character: Spanky
Released: September 20, 2011
Type: Movie
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 what those noises in the night might be in this four-film compilation of thrilling films starring our favorite little mischief-makers. See such classics as Spooky Hooky, Moan and Groan and Little Sinner - the episode that taught Spanky a lesson on why playing hooky from Sunday Mass isn't such a good idea! Featuring all of these hilarious episodes in their original black-and-white format! *Episodes: Spooky Hooky, Moan and Groan, First Roundup and Little Sinner.
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Our Gang - Comedy Festival
Title: Our Gang - Comedy Festival
Character: Spanky
Released: May 15, 2001
Type: Movie
Featuring the most riotous Rascals of all. This hilarious comedy compilation spans more than twenty years of classic Our Gang comedies to tickle your funny bone and includes rarely seen silent footage. See Alfalfa sing "The Barber of Seville" at the "Our Gang Follies" and Chubby grease Wheezer with Limburger, plus a 1930s bicycle commercial starring Spanky and a 1950s reunion on "You Asked for It". Come join Spanky, Buckwheat, Jackie, Mickey, Farina, Darla, Froggy, Mary, Joe Cobb and many more for the marathon of mirthful moments with the Little Rascals, a must-have for your comedy collection.
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The Our Gang Story
Title: The Our Gang Story
Character: Spanky (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Join all you favorites--Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more--in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200 episodes of Hal Roach's inimitable brand of childhood magic. This fascinating video offers insight into the Gang's personal lives, as rare footage follows each member's career through the joys and misfortunes that went along with being one of America's most beloved kids. See how the series began in 1922 and changed after the first all-talking release in 1929, why Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney never made the Gang, a fifteenth anniversary reunion, and clips from their only feature.
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The Aurora Encounter
Title: The Aurora Encounter
Character: Governor
Released: August 1, 1986
Type: Movie
In 1897, residents of a small Texas town are visited by a benevolent extraterrestrial being whose presence divides the community.
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Title: Going Hollywood: The '30s
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Title: Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1983
Type: Movie
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
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Hollywood’s Children
Title: Hollywood’s Children
Character: Self
Released: February 24, 1982
Type: Movie
A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell).
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Rascal Dazzle
Title: Rascal Dazzle
Character: Spanky
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
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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Moonrunners
Title: Moonrunners
Character: Precious
Released: May 14, 1975
Type: Movie
Grady and Bobby Lee run moonshine for Uncle Jesse, who prides himself on his old-school moonshining methods, and refuses to buckle in to the 'big business moonshine' of Jake, who controls these parts for New York mobsters
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Title: The George Gobel Show
Character: Self
Released: October 2, 1954
Type: TV
The George Gobel Show is an American television series hosted George Gobel that aired on NBC from 1954 to 1960.
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The Woman in the Window
Title: The Woman in the Window
Character: Boy Scout who finds Mazard's Body (uncredited)
Released: October 25, 1944
Type: Movie
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
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Cowboy and the Senorita
Title: Cowboy and the Senorita
Character: Kid tripping Teddy (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1944
Type: Movie
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 using a clue left by Chip's father, investigates. He finds the hidden shaft that contains the gold and with the posse chasing him on a trumped up robbery charge, races to town with ore samples hoping to get there before the ownership is transferred.
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Seeing Hands
Title: Seeing Hands
Character: Fatty, Boy Leading Initiation (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1943
Type: Movie
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 was blinded in an accident while playing baseball. He eventually acquired a guide dog and now works in a defense plant.
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I Escaped from the Gestapo
Title: I Escaped from the Gestapo
Character: Newsboy
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
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 gang.
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Johnny Doughboy
Title: Johnny Doughboy
Character: Spanky McFarland
Released: December 31, 1942
Type: Movie
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 of former child stars to perform in a USO show.
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Unexpected Riches
Title: Unexpected Riches
Character: Spanky
Released: November 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Weighing themselves on a penny machine, the Our Gang kids receive a fortune card predicting that they will receive "unexpected riches." Acting upon this, the kids decide to dig for buried treasure, using a fraudulent map provided by one of their wise-guy acquaintances.
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Mighty Lak a Goat
Title: Mighty Lak a Goat
Character: Spanky
Released: October 10, 1942
Type: Movie
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 among themselves.
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Rover's Big Chance
Title: Rover's Big Chance
Character: Spanky
Released: August 22, 1942
Type: Movie
Our Gang's dog, Rover, gets to audition for a movie studio.
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Doin' Their Bit
Title: Doin' Their Bit
Character: Spanky
Released: July 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Our Gang puts on a show for the troops.
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Surprised Parties
Title: Surprised Parties
Character: Spanky
Released: May 30, 1942
Type: Movie
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 party for him.
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Don't Lie
Title: Don't Lie
Character: Spanky
Released: April 4, 1942
Type: Movie
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't know is that the monkey is real, and hilarity will ensue.
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Going to Press
Title: Going to Press
Character: Spanky
Released: March 7, 1942
Type: Movie
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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Melodies Old and New
Title: Melodies Old and New
Character: Spanky
Released: January 24, 1942
Type: Movie
The gang prevails upon old-time minstrel impresario Walter Wills to help them stage a fund-raising musical show.
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Wedding Worries
Title: Wedding Worries
Character: Spanky (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1941
Type: Movie
The Our Gang kids worry that Darla's new stepmother will be an evil stepmother like of fairy tale fame.
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Come Back, Miss Pipps
Title: Come Back, Miss Pipps
Character: Spanky
Released: October 24, 1941
Type: Movie
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, stumbles on the festivities and has Miss Pipps fired. The Our Gang conspire to save her job by inviting all the parents to a special meeting. There the gang stage a melodrama, with Mr. Pratt portrayed as Simon Legree. The parents react by demoting Mr. Pratt to janitor. They appoint kindly Mr. Swanson, the current janitor, to head the school board. And of course they reinstate Miss Pipps as school teacher. Sometime later, in an act of forgiveness, Miss Pipps and the gang hold a birthday party for Pratt who is then humbled by the experience.
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Helping Hands
Title: Helping Hands
Character: Spanky
Released: September 29, 1941
Type: Movie
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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Robot Wrecks
Title: Robot Wrecks
Character: Spanky
Released: July 12, 1941
Type: Movie
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 them. Slicker Walburn convinces them they will need "invisible rays" to bring it to life which he just happens to have to sell to them. As they rush off to get their money, Slicker gets Boxcar Smith to wear the robot's outer body so when he "brings" the robot to life, it will be Boxcar bringing it to life. The gang unsuspectedly gets their robot to mow the lawn at Froggy's house, but with a signal from Slicker, Boxcar runs amok and mows down everything in his path. Froggy gets to explain what happened to his parents who bust up the fraud and get the miscreants to work with the gang to clean up the mess.
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1-2-3-Go!
Title: 1-2-3-Go!
Character: Spanky
Released: April 26, 1941
Type: Movie
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 appalled to find the ward populated by many other children injured in automobile accidents. The Our Gang kids resolve to do something about the problem, and thus the "1-2-3-Go Safety Society" is born.
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Ye Olde Minstrels
Title: Ye Olde Minstrels
Released: March 18, 1941
Type: Movie
The gang puts on a show to raise money for the Red Cross.
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Fightin' Fools
Title: Fightin' Fools
Character: Spanky
Released: February 25, 1941
Type: Movie
Spanky and the Our Gang kids go to battle over pranks with a rival gang.
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Baby Blues
Title: Baby Blues
Released: February 15, 1941
Type: Movie
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 Chinese friend and learn that kids are kids, no matter where they are from.
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Kiddie Kure
Title: Kiddie Kure
Character: Spanky
Released: November 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Rich 'Old Man' Bill Morton is a hypochondriac. After bringing new sugar pills to Bill Morton's house, his physician, Doctor Malcolm Scott suggested to Bill Morton's wife that adopting a child might help cure Mister Morton of his delusions. After overhearing their conversation, Bill Morton quickly invited the "Our Gang" members, (as they were at the front come to the door, offering to work and pay for a broken window pane, that had just occurred) to a lunch, in order to sour his wife's thoughts of adopting any children. Then, the unexpected occurs as Alfalfa's two twin little brothers, Tisket and Tasket got to Bill Morton's medications' table, they ate up a majority of them, leading Bill Morton to call his physician, Malcolm Scott back to his house, immediately! When, Doctor Malcolm Scott return to Bill Morton's house, he laughs at what he hears and then tells Bill Morton they are worthless sugar pills, teaching a lesson to Bill Morton he is not sick at all.
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Goin' Fishin'
Title: Goin' Fishin'
Released: October 26, 1940
Type: Movie
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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Waldo's Last Stand
Title: Waldo's Last Stand
Character: Spanky
Released: October 5, 1940
Type: Movie
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 elaborate floor show, with Darla Hood as the star vocalist.
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Good Bad Boys
Title: Good Bad Boys
Character: Spanky
Released: September 7, 1940
Type: Movie
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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Bubbling Troubles
Title: Bubbling Troubles
Character: Spanky
Released: May 25, 1940
Type: Movie
To impress Darla, Alfalfa drinks a concoction of Butch's "dynamite" brew.
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The New Pupil
Title: The New Pupil
Released: April 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Spanky and Alfalfa both try to impress the new girl at school, much to Darla's dismay.
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All About Hash
Title: All About Hash
Released: March 30, 1940
Type: Movie
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 them to stop fighting.
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The Big Premiere
Title: The Big Premiere
Character: Spanky
Released: March 9, 1940
Type: Movie
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, the police send them scurrying home. Not to worry--the Our Gang stage their own premiere night in the clubhouse barn.
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Alfalfa's Double
Title: Alfalfa's Double
Character: Spanky
Released: January 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Our Gang member Alfalfa comes face to face with his wealthy lookalike Cornelius.
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Time Out for Lessons
Title: Time Out for Lessons
Released: December 2, 1939
Type: Movie
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 grades cause him to be suspended from play.
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Dad for a Day
Title: Dad for a Day
Character: Spanky
Released: October 20, 1939
Type: Movie
The "Our Gang" kids encourage a shy man to take a widow and her son to a picnic.
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Captain Spanky's Show Boat
Title: Captain Spanky's Show Boat
Character: Spanky (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1939
Type: Movie
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' Dandies" and a "meller dramer" entitled "Out in the Snow You Go." All is not smooth sailing however, as Butch seeks revenge for having been excluded from the cast.
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Dog Daze
Title: Dog Daze
Character: Spanky
Released: July 1, 1939
Type: Movie
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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Joy Scouts
Title: Joy Scouts
Character: Spanky
Released: June 24, 1939
Type: Movie
The Boys Scouts give a demonstration of their camping skills, but Our Gang are excluded from participating because they are not yet old enough. Undeterred, the kids head off on their own unsupervised camping adventure, with comically disastrous results.
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Cousin Wilbur
Title: Cousin Wilbur
Character: Spanky
Released: April 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Alfalfa introduces his prissy, snooty cousin Wilbur to the gang. He instantly gets on everyone's bad side. Especially Alfalfa.
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Clown Princes
Title: Clown Princes
Character: Spanky
Released: April 14, 1939
Type: Movie
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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Duel Personalities
Title: Duel Personalities
Character: Spanky (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1939
Type: Movie
While under a hypnotic spell, Alfalfa thinks he's one of the Three Musketeers and challenges Butch to a duel.
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Tiny Troubles
Title: Tiny Troubles
Character: Spanky
Released: February 18, 1939
Type: Movie
Alfalfa "trades in" his whining baby brother for another baby--who turns out to be a midget criminal.
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Alfalfa's Aunt
Title: Alfalfa's Aunt
Character: Spanky
Released: January 7, 1939
Type: Movie
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 Spanky and the gang to save him.
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Practical Jokers
Title: Practical Jokers
Character: Spanky
Released: December 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Butch has been playing practical jokes on the gang, but now they get their turn.
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Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
Title: Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus
Character: Pee Wee
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
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 all kinds of problems.
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Football Romeo
Title: Football Romeo
Character: Spanky
Released: November 12, 1938
Type: Movie
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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Men in Fright
Title: Men in Fright
Character: Spanky
Released: October 15, 1938
Type: Movie
The kids go to the hospital to visit Darla, who's recovering from a tonsillectomy. Chaos soon ensues.
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Aladdin's Lantern
Title: Aladdin's Lantern
Character: Spanky
Released: September 17, 1938
Type: Movie
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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Came the Brawn
Title: Came the Brawn
Character: Spanky
Released: April 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Alfalfa enters a rigged wrestling match against the Masked Marvel, unaware that neighborhood bully Butch has secretly donned the disguise of his opponent.
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Three Men in a Tub
Title: Three Men in a Tub
Character: Spanky
Released: March 26, 1938
Type: Movie
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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Bear Facts
Title: Bear Facts
Character: Spanky
Released: March 5, 1938
Type: Movie
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 costume. It's time for everyone to uncover the "bear facts".
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Canned Fishing
Title: Canned Fishing
Character: Spanky
Released: February 12, 1938
Type: Movie
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 away. But Spanky's mom, knowing the truth, turns the tables by insisting they also watch Spanky's little brother. But taking care of little brother turns out to be more difficult than they expected.
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Our Gang Follies of 1938
Title: Our Gang Follies of 1938
Character: Spanky
Released: December 18, 1937
Type: Movie
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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Mail and Female
Title: Mail and Female
Character: Spanky (as Our Gang)
Released: November 12, 1937
Type: Movie
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 parties.
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The Pigskin Palooka
Title: The Pigskin Palooka
Character: Spanky (as Our Gang)
Released: October 23, 1937
Type: Movie
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 home, he has to prove it.
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Framing Youth
Title: Framing Youth
Character: Spanky
Released: September 11, 1937
Type: Movie
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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Fishy Tales
Title: Fishy Tales
Character: Spanky
Released: August 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Alfalfa tries to back out of a fight by pretending to be incapacitated.
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Night 'n' Gales
Title: Night 'n' Gales
Character: Spanky (as Our Gang)
Released: July 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Because of a storm, the Gang has to stay overnight at Darla's house, and they drive her father crazy.
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Roamin' Holiday
Title: Roamin' Holiday
Character: Spanky (as Our Gang)
Released: June 11, 1937
Type: Movie
The gang runs away from home, but meet up with a kindly old couple.
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Three Smart Boys
Title: Three Smart Boys
Character: Spanky (as Our Gang)
Released: May 13, 1937
Type: Movie
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, the Our Gang conspire to fake illness.
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Rushin' Ballet
Title: Rushin' Ballet
Character: Spanky (as Our Gang)
Released: April 24, 1937
Type: Movie
While trying to track down Butch, Spanky and Alfalfa get caught up in a dance recital.
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Hearts Are Thumps
Title: Hearts Are Thumps
Character: Spanky
Released: April 3, 1937
Type: Movie
The gang promises to keep away from girls on St. Valentine's Day, but Alfalfa can't resist Darla.
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Reunion in Rhythm
Title: Reunion in Rhythm
Character: Spanky
Released: January 8, 1937
Type: Movie
The gang puts on a musical show at a reunion for some of the former Gang kids.
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Spooky Hooky
Title: Spooky Hooky
Character: Spanky
Released: December 24, 1936
Type: Movie
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 going on a field trip to the circus anyway.
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General Spanky
Title: General Spanky
Character: Spanky Leonard
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After wronging a vicious gambler, Spanky and Buckwheat are forced to jump ship. Finding solace at a nearby house, the two are picked by Marshall Valiant for an important mission. This inspires Spanky to organize the local kids to form a small army of their own.
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Pay As You Exit
Title: Pay As You Exit
Character: Spanky
Released: October 23, 1936
Type: Movie
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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Bored of Education
Title: Bored of Education
Character: Spanky
Released: August 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Spanky and Alfalfa fake a toothache to get out of school.
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Arbor Day
Title: Arbor Day
Character: Spanky
Released: May 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Truant officers mistake 2 midgets for members of the gang.
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Second Childhood
Title: Second Childhood
Character: Spanky
Released: April 11, 1936
Type: Movie
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, berating her servants, taking her pills and grumping about everything around her, including the sunshine. A toy airplane comes flying through an open window and breaks a vase, and when its owner, Spanky, comes in search of it he is informed he will have to pay seventy-five cents for the broken vase. Spanly has never seen six-bit, much less having it in his pants, so he offers his and his friend's help in cleaning up the yard in exchange. Before the kids are through, they've given the old lady a new outlook on life.
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The Lucky Corner
Title: The Lucky Corner
Character: Spanky
Released: March 14, 1936
Type: Movie
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 Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Title: The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Character: Buddie Tolliver
Released: March 13, 1936
Type: Movie
A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.
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Divot Diggers
Title: Divot Diggers
Character: Spanky
Released: February 8, 1936
Type: Movie
When the caddies at the local golf course go on strike, the gang steps in to earn some money.
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The Pinch Singer
Title: The Pinch Singer
Character: Spanky
Released: January 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Alfalfa and our gang try to win fifty dollars on a radio contest.
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O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Title: O'Shaughnessy's Boy
Character: Young Stubby
Released: September 27, 1935
Type: Movie
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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Little Papa
Title: Little Papa
Character: Spanky
Released: September 21, 1935
Type: Movie
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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Here Comes the Band
Title: Here Comes the Band
Character: Spanky Lowry
Released: August 30, 1935
Type: Movie
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 girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
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Sprucin' Up
Title: Sprucin' Up
Character: Spanky
Released: June 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A new truant officer moves into the neighborhood, and everybody wants to get friendly with his daughter.
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Teacher's Beau
Title: Teacher's Beau
Character: Spanky
Released: April 27, 1935
Type: Movie
The gang tries to dissuade their teacher from geting married.
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Anniversary Trouble
Title: Anniversary Trouble
Character: Spanky
Released: March 13, 1935
Type: Movie
The gang's treasury is entrusted to Spanky, who accidentally gets it mixed up with his father's money.
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Beginner's Luck
Title: Beginner's Luck
Character: Spanky
Released: February 23, 1935
Type: Movie
Spanky's mother pushes him to join a local theater amateur night.
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Shrimps for a Day
Title: Shrimps for a Day
Character: Spanky
Released: December 7, 1934
Type: Movie
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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Washee Ironee
Title: Washee Ironee
Character: Spanky
Released: November 13, 1934
Type: Movie
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 him clean up.
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Kentucky Kernels
Title: Kentucky Kernels
Character: Spanky Milford
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
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 elopes, the pair are stuck with the little boy. But Spanky inherits a Kentucky fortune, so they head south to Banesville, where the Milfords and Wakefields are conducting a bitter feud.
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Mama's Little Pirate
Title: Mama's Little Pirate
Character: Spanky
Released: November 2, 1934
Type: Movie
The gang goes after pirate treasure they believe is hidden in a cave.
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The Little Rascals: The Pirates of Our Gang
Title: The Little Rascals: The Pirates of Our Gang
Character: Spanky
Released: September 28, 1934
Type: Movie
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 Pirate, and see what lengths Alfalfa will go to in his quest for love in Three Men in a Tub. These classic episodes are featured un-cut and in their original black-and-white format!
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Mike Fright
Title: Mike Fright
Character: Spanky
Released: August 25, 1934
Type: Movie
The gang attends a radio station amateur show.
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Honky Donkey
Title: Honky Donkey
Character: Spanky
Released: June 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Wally, the rich kid of Our Gang team, brings his pet mule along with the gang back home.
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Benny, from Panama
Title: Benny, from Panama
Character: Little Boy in Sailor Suit
Released: May 26, 1934
Type: Movie
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 guests show up at their apartment, disrupting the building. Then, a rowdy sailor friend of Eddie's shows up, accompanied by a squad of even rowdier buddies and an enormous vengeful mosquito.
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The First Round-Up
Title: The First Round-Up
Character: Spanky
Released: May 5, 1934
Type: Movie
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 and croaking frogs conjure up visions of spooks. When a thunderstorm hits, they all scurry for home.
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For Pete's Sake!
Title: For Pete's Sake!
Character: Spanky
Released: April 13, 1934
Type: Movie
The kids try to raise money to buy a doll for Marianne.
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Hi'–Neighbor!
Title: Hi'–Neighbor!
Character: Spanky
Released: March 2, 1934
Type: Movie
The gang decides to build their own fire engine.
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The Cracked Ice Man
Title: The Cracked Ice Man
Character: Boy who says, "Just skip it"
Released: January 27, 1934
Type: Movie
Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.
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Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Title: Miss Fane's Baby Is Stolen
Character: Johnny Prentiss
Released: January 12, 1934
Type: Movie
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 morning she awakens to find Michael has been kidnapped. After a day, she calls in the police, who instantly begin an all-out search.
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Wild Poses
Title: Wild Poses
Character: Spanky
Released: October 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Spanky's parents take their reluctant boy to get his portrait taken by a prissy photographer.
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Day of Reckoning
Title: Day of Reckoning
Character: Johnny Day
Released: October 26, 1933
Type: Movie
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-rise facility in LA. It seems the fellow was only following the instructions of his domineering, constantly nagging wife who, as soon as he is put away, takes up with a more successful businessman. This causes her new lover's ex-lover to get insanely jealous and kill the conniving wife.
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Bedtime Worries
Title: Bedtime Worries
Character: Spanky
Released: September 8, 1933
Type: Movie
Spanky's parents are trying unsuccessfully to get Spanky to spend a peaceful first night in his own room.
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Mush and Milk
Title: Mush and Milk
Character: Spanky
Released: May 27, 1933
Type: Movie
When Cap's back pension finally comes in, he treats the gang to a day at an amusement park.
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One Track Minds
Title: One Track Minds
Character: Spanky (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Thelma wins a screen test with a Hollywood studio, but trouble ensues on the train trip out there.
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The Kid from Borneo
Title: The Kid from Borneo
Character: Spanky
Released: April 15, 1933
Type: Movie
The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believing he is "The Wild Man from Borneo."
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Forgotten Babies
Title: Forgotten Babies
Character: Spanky
Released: March 11, 1933
Type: Movie
While the rest of the gang goes fishing, Spanky gets stuck babysitting.
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Fish Hooky
Title: Fish Hooky
Character: Spanky
Released: January 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.
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Birthday Blues
Title: Birthday Blues
Character: Spanky
Released: November 12, 1932
Type: Movie
Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present.
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Free Wheeling
Title: Free Wheeling
Character: Spanky
Released: September 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Stymie takes Dickie for a ride in his runaway car and cures his stiff neck.
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Hook and Ladder
Title: Hook and Ladder
Character: Spanky
Released: August 27, 1932
Type: Movie
The gang, while playing firemen, come upon a real fire.
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The Pooch
Title: The Pooch
Character: Spanky
Released: June 11, 1932
Type: Movie
The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.
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Choo-Choo!
Title: Choo-Choo!
Character: Spanky
Released: May 7, 1932
Type: Movie
The gang trades places with a group of orphans about to take a train ride.
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The Famous Ferguson Case
Title: The Famous Ferguson Case
Character: Newsboy
Released: April 19, 1932
Type: Movie
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 after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on Cornwall, one interested in facts, the other in getting sensational "news". Mrs. Ferguson is known to have been friendly with a local banker. The Fergusons quarrel the evening he is killed (by "burglars", his wife tells the police later), and she is arrested, spurred on by the "bad" journalists, who also manage to badger the banker's wife into the hospital. Meanwhile, young Bruce Foster runs the Cornwall Courier, and shows the big city reporters how to dig out real news while they attempt to subvert justice for their own ends.
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Spanky
Title: Spanky
Character: Spanky
Released: March 25, 1932
Type: Movie
While staging a play, Spanky finds his father's hiding place for the family "fortune."
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Free Eats
Title: Free Eats
Character: Spanky
Released: February 13, 1932
Type: Movie
The kids help capture a family of thieves.
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The Little Rascals: The Best of Our Gang Collection (In Color)
Title: The Little Rascals: The Best of Our Gang Collection (In Color)
Character: Spanky
Released: July 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Spanky, Buckwheat, Porky and all of the Little Rascals at their hilarious best! All films in this fantastic collection have been fully-restored and are presented here in beautiful COLOR! 1. Fly My Kite, 2. A Lad an' a Lamp, 3. Kid From Borneo, 4. Hi Neighbor, 5. Hide and Shriek