Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas

Practical Jokers (1938)

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Hoping to get even for all the practical jokes perpetrated by neighborhood troublemaker Tommy "Butch" Bond, the Our Gang kids plan to sabotage Butch's birthday party. The weapon of choice is a firecracker, which is substituted for one of the birthday...

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Bear Facts (1938)

Tags: Family-Oriented Comedy Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Upon learning that Darla Hood's father (Jack Pepper) owns a circus, Our Gang members Spanky McFarland and Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer try their best to impress Darla, hoping to land circus jobs. Never letting the facts get in the way of a good story,...

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Aladdin's Lantern (1938)

Cast: Darla Hood Gordon M. Douglas   

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Spanky McFarland returned to the Our Gang comedy series in the one-reel entry Aladdin's Lantern. This time around, the gang members are putting on a musical show about Aladdin and his lamp. While Spanky, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, and Darla Hood endeavor...

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The Awful Tooth (1938)

Cast: Hal Roach   

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Hoping to earn enough money to buy baseball equipment, the Our Gang kids elect to have all their teeth pulled out. Their logic is sublime: If the Good Fairy is willing to slip a dime under the pillow for one tooth, imagine how much the kids will earn...

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Football Romeo (1938)

Cast: Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer George Sidney   

Tags: Comedy Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

The Our Gang kids square off against "Butch's Assassins" in a crucial football game. Star player Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer balks at participating, leaving it up to Darla Hood to coerce and cajole him into donning his uniform. The climax of the game finds...

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Rushin' Ballet (1937)

Tags: Family-Oriented Adventure Adventure Family Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Our Gang members Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer and Spanky McFarland form the Sekret Revengers Club, dedicated to protecting such smaller, more vulnerable children as Billy "Buckwheat" Thomas and Eugene "Porky" Lee. When Buckwheat and Porky report that their...

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Our Gang Follies of 1938 (1937)

Tags: Family-Oriented Comedy Showbiz Comedy Family Comedy 

Length: 2rlmin

Briefly digressing from "Our Gang"'s new one-reel format, the series' December 18, 1937 release, Our Gang Follies of 1938, was expanded to two reels -- and the result is often considered to be the best "Gang" comedy of all. Another musical short in...

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Roamin' Holiday (1937)

Cast: Little Rascals   

Tags: Family-Oriented Adventure Adventure Family Family-Oriented Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Upset at being forced to do the household chores all weekend long, Our Gang-ers Spanky McFarland, Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer, Billy "Buckwheat" Thomas and Eugene "Porky" Lee decide to run away from home. Taking a breather in the tiny village of...

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Night N' Gales (1937)

Tags: Comedy 

Length: 1rlmin

Comedian Johnny Arthur, who played Spanky McFarland's absent-minded father in the 1935 "Our Gang" comedy Anniversary Trouble, returns as the father of another Gang member, Darla Hood, in the one-reel entry Our Gang: Night 'N' Gales. Though he'd rather...

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