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The Little Rascals, also known as "Our Gang", was an American comedy series about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they shared together. It began as a series of short films in the 1920s, and was brought to television in the 1950s.
The gang trades places with a group of orphans about to take a train ride.
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
Stymie takes Dickie for a ride in his runaway car and cures his stiff neck.
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtually disappeared from theaters.
A young writer, John Hale, inherits a fortune and moves into an alleged-haunted castle with his servant "Rusty." He discovers the 'hauntee' to be Countess von Baden, hiding in a secret chamber with her son, whom the court has awarded to her divorced husband.
The gang, while playing firemen, come upon a real fire.
The kids help capture a family of thieves.
Part of a gold shipment has been stolen and the Sergeant suspects Louis LeBey. When Louis is attracted to newly arrived Nedra Ruskin, Woolie-Woolie becomes jealous and tells the Sergeant where Louis hid the gold. First Louis rescues the Sergeant whose dog team crashes chasing him and then he saves Nedra from an avalanche. When he returns the injured Nedra to the settlement, the Sergeant takes him prisoner.
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, The Marx Brothers, Burns and Allen, The Three Stooges, The East-Side Kids, Abbott and Costello, and Martin and Lewis.
Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present.
The gang tries to save Petey from the dogcatcher.
Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.
Miss Crabtree, the teacher Jackie has a crush on, rents a room at Jackie's house.
A truant officer spots the kids in an amusement park. They try to escape him.
The gang goes to a circus sideshow to visit Dickie, Dorothy, and Spanky's uncle, mistakenly believing he is "The Wild Man from Borneo."
Wheezer and Stymie, door-to-door salesmen, meet a lonely little rich girl.
Jackie prepares a series of elaborate jokes for his new teacher.
Wheezer and Dorothy are forced to live with her evil stepmother and her brat son.
