Our Gang: Inside the Clubhouse (1984) (Part 9 of 10)

Rarely seen 1984 documentary hosted by Bob Lang about Hal Roach's 'Our Gang' series (a.k.a. 'The Little Rascals') and featuring interviews with many of them as adults, including Peggy Ahern, Stymie Beard, Butch Bond, Jackie Cooper, Dorothy deBorba, Pineapple Jackson, Junior Jasgar, Spanky McFarland, Sunshine Sammy Morrison, J.R. Smith, Jackie Lynn Taylor, and Buckwheat Thomas. Also, interviewed are William Thomas Jr., Cameraman William V. Draper, Musical T. Marvin Hatley, and Producer Hal E. Roach, Jr.

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• Hal
• Roach
• Little
• Rascals
• Our
• Gang
• documentary
• interview
• Peggy
• Ahern
• Stymie
• Beard
• Butch
• Bond
• Jackie
• Cooper
• Dorothy
• deBorba
• Pineapple
• Jackson
• Junior
• Jasgar
• Spanky
• McFarland
• Sunshine
• Sammy
• Morrison
• J.R.
• Smith
• Lynn
• Taylor
• Buckwheat
• Thomas
• William
• Draper
• Marvin
• Hatley

[dannysquirrel]

@limbo22222 Thanks for cearing that up for me :) That Red Jackson thing confused the hell out of me! This show is FULL of mistakes!

[fakethinggy]

RIP MR. HAL ROACH

[limbo22222]

Uh-Huh was not Red Jackson, it was John Collum. John died in 1962. Sherwood is still alive in 1984 and was not vanished until his death on his 64th birthday 1987. Jack Davis died in 1992. Joe Cobb died in 2002. Eugene Jackson died in 2001. Sunshine Sammy died in 1989. Johnny Downs died in 1994. Mary Ann Jackson died in 2003. Jackie Cooper died this year. Dorothy DeBorba died last year. Wally Albright died in 1999. Leonard Kibrick died in 1993.

[homemoviescolorado]

Gordon Porky Lee passed from cancer a few years ago in MN and had been a teacher in Boulder Colorado.

[DisWldFrk90]

I can't believe they didn't know what happened to Donald Haines. He was killed in WWII. Sherwood Bailey it's a bit surprising too since his wife was Mayor in California for two terms. He was still alive at this time period. Kendall McComas had committed suicide, I don't know how they lost track of him either.

[DisWldFrk90]

Poor Mickey Daniels. He had been dead for I think about 10 years at this point but nobody knew how, when, or where at the time. The press didn't notice it and he was unclaimed for so long it's just head shaking.

[DisWldFrk90]

@langtongirl That curse if you think about it is completely blarney. Most of them lived past the life expectancy of their time and died of things that unfortunately many people die from. And when you have this many kids in a series, there's bound to be multiple tragedies. A curse would be a relatively small cast where all of them died in uncommon ways over a span of time. Snopes actually did a statistic on this theory debunking it.

[OurGangFan]

5:47 makes me smile!

[TheNoisePolluter]

Interesting how Jackie doesn't remember much of any of it.

[langtongirl]

The curse of the rascals.... it's so sad.