Overview

Join all your favorites—Spanky, Buckwheat, Alfalfa, Darla, Butch, Froggy and more—in a jam-packed special covering more than twenty years and 200 episodes of Hal Roach's inimitable brand of childhood magic. This fascinating video offers insight into the Gang's personal lives, as rare footage follows each member's career through the joys and misfortunes that went along with being one of America's most beloved kids. See how the series began in 1922 and changed after the first all-talking release in 1929, why Shirley Temple and Mickey Rooney never made the Gang, a fifteenth anniversary reunion, and clips from their only feature.

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Cast

Mickey Daniels

Mickey (archive footage)

Jackie Condon

Jackie (archive footage)

Sunshine Sammy Morrison

Sunshine Sammy (archive footage)

Mary Kornman

Mary (archive footage)

Allen 'Farina' Hoskins

Farina (archive footage)

Joe Cobb

Joe (archive footage)

Jackie Cooper

Jackie (archive footage)

Mary Ann Jackson

Mary Ann (archive footage)

Carl Switzer

Alfalfa (archive footage)

Matthew Beard

Stymie (archive footage)

George McFarland

Spanky (archive footage)

Darla Hood

Darla (archive footage)