"The Little Rascals" redirects here. For other uses, see
The Little Rascals (disambiguation).For the novel by
Philip Roth see
Our Gang (novel). Our Gang, also known as The Little Rascals or Hal Roach's Rascals, was a long-lived series of
American comedy short films about a troupe of poor neighborhood
children and the adventures they had together. Created by comedy
producer Hal Roach, Our Gang was produced at the Roach studio starting in 1922 as a silent short subject series. Roach changed distributors from
Pathé to
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1927, went to sound in 1929, and continued production until 1938, when he sold the series to MGM. MGM continued producing the comedies until 1944. A total of 220 shorts and one feature film,
General Spanky, were eventually produced, featuring over forty-one
child actors. In the mid-1950s, the 80 Roach-produced shorts with sound were syndicated for
television under the title The Little Rascals, as MGM retained the rights to the Our Gang trademark.
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