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If you want to re-live the golden age ov TV and are planing a trip to Pigeon Forge be sure to catch Brian Hoffman's Remembering Red - A Tribute to Red Skelton. If you are a fan of the Little Rascals and remember watching them in the 1960 when they were on television, then you probably were a fan of Red Skelton show that was also on television in that decade.
#Original little rascals dog series#
Cosby has never owned any rights to the series at any time. The widely circulated rumor that entertainer Bill Cosby bought up the rights to Our Gang to keep the racial stereotypes off of television is false. This led to rumors that there was a curse on the child actors of Our Gang comedy shorts but that theory was later debunked.
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Several Our Gang alumni, some of these actors had lesser known parts, Carl Switzer, Scotty Beckett, Norman Chaney, Billy Laughlin, Donald Haines and Bobby Hutchins, were met with untimely deaths before the age of forty. Like many child actors, and especially child actors from the 30's to the 60's the Our Gang children were subsequently typecast and had trouble outgrowing their Our Gang images. The characters of Alfalfa, Spanky, Buckwheat, Darla, and Froggy were especially well known. The some of the more memorable characters in the cast of the Little Rascals consisted of: "Spanky", played by George McFarland from 1932 to 1942 "Buckwheat", played by Billie Thomas from 1934 to 1944 "Alfalfa", played by Carl Switzer from 1935 to 1940 "Darla", played by Darla Hood from 1935 to 1941 "Stymie", played by Matthew Beard from 1930 to 1935 "Porky", played by Eugene Lee from 1935 to 1939 "Waldo", played by Darwood Kaye from 1937 to 1940 "Mickey", played by Robert Blake from 1939 to 1944 "Froggy", played by Billy Laughlin from 1940 to 1944 The characters in this series became well-known cultural icons, and could often be identified solely by their first names. there are no racist overtones like there were in the original films).
#Original little rascals dog update#
In the mid-1950s, the 80 Roach-produced shorts with sound were syndicated for television under the title The Little Rascals, as MGM owned the rights to the Our Gang trademark. Little Rascals update is a silly, awful mess of a comedy. A total of 220 shorts and one feature film, titled General Spanky, were eventually produced, featuring over forty-one child actors. Production continued at the Roach studio until the series was sold in 1938 to MGM, who continued producing the comedies until 1944. Roach changed distributors from Pathé to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, otherwise known as MGM, in 1927, and by 1929 had converted the series to sound. Our Gang, the trademark name of MGM before Roach studios titled it the Little Rascals, first production was at the Roach studio was in 1922 as a silent short subject series. Producer Hal Roach broke new ground in the filming industry by putting boys and girls, black and whites all in equal roles, something that was unheard of in the 1920's and 1930's. Eventually turning up in Atlantic City, NJ to pose for pictures with children for cash.The Little Rascals was a series of comedy shorts films about a group of poor neighborhood children and the adventures they had together. Harry Lucenay was fired by the studio in 1932 and he took his famous dog with him. Unfortunately most of the Petes we see in the Our Gang films were other nameless dogs. It was at this point that his offspring, who also had the distinctive eye ring, would take over. The first one worked with both Harold Lloyd and in the Buster Brown films before dying from poison in 1930. But the original Pete, the one you see above was actually the second Pete. The Petey you see in any film could be any number of dogs playing the role. Watch Pete the Pup show his stuff on YouTube (embed disabled) About Pete the Pup
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In it, his trainer Harry Lucenay, demonstrates just what his amazing dog was capable of doing. Last week I stumbled upon this video that demonstrates just what Pete the Pup was cable of doing. To my grown-up eyes it was obvious that this dog could do just about anything. Of course, I had no idea how well-trained he was until I became an adult and started re-watching Our Gang. Probably because unlike Pete the Pup, my dogs were not very well-trained. This dog could seemingly do anything, and was always in on the action like any other member of the gang. That was their faithful canine companion Petey or Pete the Pup. After all why pick just one favorite character when you had a whole gang to choose from? Consistently though, one character always pleased me when he was on the small screen. From week to week my favorite character would change. They would run on local TV on a Sunday and I would be glued to the adventures of the The Little Rascals. Growing up, I was a nuts for the Our Gang series of films.