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Doin' Their Bit (1942)

Cast: George "Spanky" McFarland   

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Venerable minstrel-show impresario Walter Wills makes his third and final Our Gang appearance in the one-reel comedy Doin' Their Bit. Hoping to entertain the military troops stationed in Greenpoint, Mr. Wills organizes the Our Gang kids into a junior...

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Surprised Parties (1942)

Tags: Family-Oriented Comedy Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Upset because, as a leap year baby, he only has a birthday every four years, Our Gang member Billy "Froggy" Laughlin bemoans the fact that he has never had a birthday party. The gang decides to throw a surprise party in Froggy's honor, but to keep him...

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Robot Wrecks (1941)

Cast: Darla Hood   

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 11min

Junior con man Freddie "Slicker" Walburn sells the Our Gang kids some "invisible rays," with which they hope to power their homemade mechanical robot. Miracle of miracles, the robot not only begins to move, but actually performs several of the gang's...

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Unexpected Riches (1942)

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

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 fradulent map provided by one of their...

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Mighty Lak a Goat (1942)

Cast: Ava Gardner Anne O'Neal   

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Just when it seemed that the MGM Our Gang series was going to continue wallowing in mediocrity, along came the one-reel gem Mighty Lak a Goat. In this consistently funny outing, the Gang members try to clean off their clothes after being splattered...

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Benjamin Franklin Jr. (1942)

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 11min

The Our Gang kids are upset that WWII is causing them deprivations and inconveniences. Organizing a fact-finding committee, Gang members Mickey (Robert Blake), Froggy (Billy Laughlin), Buckwheat (Billy Thomas), and Janet Burston try to determine what...

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Fightin' Fools (1941)

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

When neighborhood nemesis Freddie "Slicker" Walburn and his cronies tie knots in the Our Gang kids' clothes while the kids are swimming, a total war is declared. Commandeered by Spanky McFarland, the gang staves off Slicker's "troops" with a barrage...

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Rover's Big Chance (1942)

Cast: Bobby Blake Ben Hall   

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Future film star Stephen McNally (here billed as Horace McNally) appears in this Our Gang one-reeler as Bill Patterson, ace director at Mammoth Studios. On the say-so of studio casting director J.D. Broderick (Bryon Shores), Patterson agrees to give a...

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Helping Hands (1941)

Tags: Family-Oriented Comedy Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Another MGM Our Gang comedy that has next to nothing to do with Our Gang, the one-reel Helping Hands gets under way when Spanky McFarland receives a letter from his recently drafted older brother. Inspired by the letter's patriotic sentiments, Spanky...

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