The BEST episodes directed by Hal Roach
#1 - The Pooch
The Little Rascals - Season 10 - Episode 8
The gang is angry with Stymie for stealing a pie, but they forgive him when he frees their dogs from the dogcatcher. When the man hears what Stymie did, he confiscates Pete, and tells Stymie that he'll need five dollars within the next half hour to get the dog back. A convenient wind blows a five dollar bill Stymie's way in answer to his prayer, and a cop chases him around to get it back for the woman who lost it.
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#2 - Spanky
The Little Rascals - Season 10 - Episode 6
The gang is trying to put on a performance of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," but Brisbane has to divide his attention between the show and looking after his kid brother, Spanky.
Watch Now:Amazon#3 - One Terrible Day
The Little Rascals - Season 1 - Episode 1
A wealthy society matron treats the underprivileged kids of the gang to an outing at her country estate. The gang turns both the journey and the visit at the farm into a chaotic adventure.
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The Little Rascals - Season 1 - Episode 2
The gang sets up their own junior fire department after mistaking a bootleg still for a boiler. Steam from an open window is mistaken for fire, and they rush off to put it out, arousing the attention of the local cop, who smells the liquor.
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The Little Rascals - Season 1 - Episode 12
While the boys are playing their baseball game, a couple living nearby offer to take care of Jack's baby sister, Imogene. Eventually, the gang goes into their house when they realize there's a litter of puppies in there. By this time, however, the doctor has realized that one of the servants has a contagious disease and decides to quarantine the place, giving the gang a chance to turn the house into a disaster area.
Watch Now:Amazon#6 - It's A Bear
The Little Rascals - Season 2 - Episode 13
When Mickey comes along in his wagon and sees the gang hunting for wild animals, he invites them to his farm to see some real animals. The kids run around trying to catch anything on four legs, until a couple of bears show up to chase them around.
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The Little Rascals - Season 3 - Episode 7
The circus is coming to town, but Mickey, Joe, and Jackie have to go to school. When they learn that Gene and Farina get to stay home for six weeks due to spotted fever, they paint dots on their faces. Their mothers are fooled by their symptoms, but the doctor knows better.
Watch Now:Amazon#8 - Ask Grandma
The Little Rascals - Season 3 - Episode 11
Mickey's tired of the Little Lord Faunterloy existence put upon him by his mother. Grandma understands and helps him to sneak outside, where he promptly gets into a fight with Johnny the bully.
Watch Now:Amazon#9 - Young Sherlocks
The Little Rascals - Season 1 - Episode 4
Ernie stumbles into the secret headquarters of the J.J.J.'s (the Jesse James Juniors), and spins a tale in which he and Jackie save rich girl Mary Jane from a gang of kidnappers.
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The Little Rascals - Season 2 - Episode 1
The local blacksmith, Dad Anderson, builds nifty sail-propelled scooters for the boys. Meanwhile, Mickey imitates his big sister's beau in his efforts to win Mary's affection.
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The Little Rascals - Season 4 - Episode 2
Farina wants to play with the boys of the gang, but they keep chasing him away. His mother tells him to stay in his own back yard, but boredom leads him back into the street, where he repeatedly becomes the victim of the gang's pranks. At one point, the gang tries out some toothpaste on their dogs. They're mistaken for mad dogs by the police, and Farina thinks they're shooting at him.
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - Cradle Robbers
The Little Rascals - Season 2 - Episode 11
When the gang hears about prizes being offered at a baby show, they get their younger siblings ready to earn some money. Mickey dresses Joe up to win the prize for fattest baby, but Joe runs off when it comes time to be inspected by a pediatrician. The gang then stages its own baby show, but their mothers arrive with the police to reclaim their babies. The gang hides in a gypsy's wagon, and find themselves being kidnapped by the unknowing gypsy.
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The Little Rascals - Season 1 - Episode 10
The boys switch places with some runaways who are about to be taken back to San Francisco. The welfare lady in charge of taking them back sprains her ankle and enlists her child-hating boyfriend to escort them. The journey, to say the least, is a disaster.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#14 - The Mysterious Mystery!
The Little Rascals - Season 3 - Episode 5
Rich boy Adelbert Wallingford is kidnapped and aspiring detective Mickey decides to crack the case. The gang earns a dollar delivering a package to Mr. Wallingford, which turns out to be a ransom note. He's supposed to attach the money to a pigeon and then let it go. If the pigeon returns without the money, then goodbye to Little Adelbert. Unfortunately, the pigeon escapes before any money can be attached to it. This leads to a daring chase to catch the pigeon, with Mickey, Joe and Farina taking a small plane.
Watch Now:Amazon#15 - The Big Town
The Little Rascals - Season 3 - Episode 6
The gang are sitting in an empty traincar when the door suddenly closes. The next morning, they find themselves in New York. They give themselves a tour, but are eventually apprehended by the police and put on a train home. They manage to get into mischief on the train, however, involving some bugs belonging to a traveling entomologist.
Watch Now:Amazon#16 - The Love Bug
The Little Rascals - Season 3 - Episode 9
The gang visits Gene, who's working as a page at the beauty parlor. When left to their own devices, they experiment with every gadget and hose until chaos sets in.
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#17 - Dogs of War!
The Little Rascals - Season 1 - Episode 14
After Mary leaves the gang's mock-war to go do some work at the local movie studio, the boys decide to break into the pictures as well, but are chased away. They manage to sneak in and sabotage a film-in-progress, adding their own unusual footage.
Watch Now:Amazon#18 - Boys Will Be Joys
The Little Rascals - Season 3 - Episode 13
A surveyor tells the gang that they can't build their amusement park in the vacant lot, since a factory will be built there soon. They decide to go straight to the head of the company, who turns out to be a kid at heart. Much to the frustration of his board of directors, he helps the gang to build quite an elaborate setup.
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#19 - Swiss Miss
Laurel & Hardy - Season 14 - Episode 1
Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland, there should be more mice. While visiting one village, a cheese shop owner cons them out of their wares with a bogus banknote, and they are forced to work as dishwashers in a nearby hotel after ordering a slap-up meal they are unable to pay for. A Viennese composer present at the hotel is disrupted by the presence of his wife - an opera singer who upstages him constantly; Ollie subsequently falls in love with her. After various adventures (including a confrontation with a gorilla on a perilously-perched rope bridge), the boys overpower the hotel's burly chef and leave the hotel and village, but only to discover the opera singer is indeed married to the composer and then be confronted by the vengeful gorilla (in crutches) before they depart.
Watch Now:Amazon#20 - Stage Fright
The Little Rascals - Season 2 - Episode 3
The gang performs in a Shakespearean playlet authored by Miss Ocheltree. The material is way over their heads and it's past their bedtimes, so everything inevitably goes from bad to worse.
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The Little Rascals - Season 4 - Episode 4
The gang uses an engineless car to start up a horse-drawn taxi service. When Johnny's dad reclaims the horse, the gang gets a motorist to give them a tow up a hill. As the gang is away from the vehicle, Farina takes it for a hair-raising joyride.
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - Good Cheer
The Little Rascals - Season 4 - Episode 5
The downtrodden kids of the gang have concluded that there is no Santa Claus. Mickey and Johnny, after being visited by the spirit of Santa, earn money to buy the kids Christmas presents and disguise themselves as Santa to deliver the toys.
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#23 - Derby Day
The Little Rascals - Season 2 - Episode 4
As the gang are selling lemonade across the street from the racetrack, they meet Mary, who's rich father owns one of the horses. She gets them into the track, and they're sufficiently impressed to start up their own junior version.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#24 - A Quiet Street
The Little Rascals - Season 1 - Episode 6
A new kid moves into town and is soon bullying little Jackie. When the gang finds this out, they beat up on the kid, only to discover that his father is a cop. Meanwhile, the police are after a criminal named Red Mike, and the gang mistakenly thinks they're the ones being chased.
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#25 - Sunday Calm
The Little Rascals - Season 2 - Episode 5
The gang travels by wagon to go on a picnic with their families. After losing a wheel, the parents put on a new one, and the gang races off with the wagon, leaving the parents behind. They have a picnic without the parents, only to be overrun with insects.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#26 - Tire Trouble
The Little Rascals - Season 2 - Episode 6
The gang are running their own taxi service, and come across Ernie and Farina delivering laundry to J. William McAllister, the wealthiest man in town. His doctor and his wife have both convinced him that he's sick, but when the kids visit him, they convince him otherwise. They all drive off in the taxi to Emerald Beach and have the time of their lives.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#27 - Commencement Day
The Little Rascals - Season 2 - Episode 10
It's the last day of school, and Mickey gets into a big fight with Snoozer, the school bully. The kids take turns performing in front of the parents, with Mary struggling through ""Mary Had A Little Lamb"" and Mickey trying to play ""Humoresque"" on the violin.
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#28 - The Big Show
The Little Rascals - Season 1 - Episode 9
After being chased away from the county fair, the gang decides to open their own junior version of the fair, complete with wild animal displays, rides, and animal stunts. To top it off, they give a live performance set inside a giant movie frame, and impersonate several popular film stars of the day.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#29 - Jubilo, Jr.
The Little Rascals - Season 2 - Episode 12
Jubilo reminisces about his childhood, and his mother's birthday many years ago. His father is too stingy to buy gifts, so Jubilo decides to buy a 3 dollar hat for her. He tries several ideas for earning money, including starting his own circus.
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#30 - The Champeen!
The Little Rascals - Season 1 - Episode 7
Ernie takes advantage of a feud between Mickey and Jack, becoming a fight promoter and putting the two rivals in a boxing ring.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#31 - Big Business
The Little Rascals - Season 2 - Episode 7
The gang starts up their own barbershop, giving the neighborhood kids haircuts that wouldn't become popular for another sixty years. When they see Mickey in his Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit, they kidnap him and give him the works. Mickey then decides to join them in their enterprise.
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#32 - High Society
The Little Rascals - Season 3 - Episode 1
Mickey gets adopted by his rich aunt Kate, which means no longer living with his uncle Pat Kelly. The life of a rich boy doesn't suit him at all, especially since he has to deal with his bratty cousin, Percy. Uncle Pat and the gang come by one day to pay Mickey a visit, and before long, the place is a disaster area.
Watch Now:Amazon#33 - Boys To Board
The Little Rascals - Season 1 - Episode 11
The boys, along with kindly old Pop Malone, decide to escape from Mother Malone's boarding school, where they are subjected to Mother Malone's nasty temperament. While on the lam, they meet up with an unfriendly bootlegger.
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Laurel & Hardy - Season 9 - Episode 3
Feature - Laurel and Hardy become accomplices to the most feared bandit in all of 18th century Italy.
Watch Now:Amazon#35 - Dog Days
The Little Rascals - Season 3 - Episode 8
Mickey's dog rescues Mary during a runaway pony incident, so she invites the gang to a party at her house. Her parents are reluctant to allow this, but they give in.
Watch Now:Amazon#36 - Back Stage
The Little Rascals - Season 1 - Episode 13
The gang meets up with the head of a vaudeville troupe, who enlists them to help him out when his co-stars have abandoned him. They manage to make a complete wreck of the act, and Jack's bugs get loose in the auditorium, putting the audience into an itching frenzy.
Watch Now:Amazon#37 - Shootin' Injuns
The Little Rascals - Season 3 - Episode 10
The gang runs away from home, but night travel turns out to be too scary for them, so they find shelter in a nearby house. As it turns out, the house has been rigged up with amusement park contraptions, all geared for frights. When the parents catch up with their kids, they too get caught up in the situation.
Watch Now:Amazon#38 - Our Gang
The Little Rascals - Season 1 - Episode 3
Mary Jane's mother owns the village store, and finds her business suffering because her landlord runs a competing shop right across the street and is threatening eviction. Ernie and Pat, with the help of their pets, lure the skinflint's customers away by various means.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#39 - Official Officers
The Little Rascals - Season 3 - Episode 12
The gets in trouble with local cop ""Hard-Boiled"" McManus, but this is soon remedied when kindly Officer Mac is brought in to replace him. The gang is allowed to become junior police officers and eventually have a run-in with the now-fired McManus.
Watch Now:Amazon#40 - Lodge Night
The Little Rascals - Season 1 - Episode 15
Joe arrives as the new boy in school, and the boys decide to initiate him into their secret club, the Cluck Cluck Klams. During the proceedings, a couple of auto thieves break into the barn, and when they make their getaway, Farina and Jackie are in the back seat.
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#41 - Mary, Queen of Tots
The Little Rascals - Season 4 - Episode 1
Rich girl Mary has no friends to play with, so the kindly gardener buys her some homemade dolls. When she takes a nap, the dolls come to life and frolic around her bedroom. While she's sleeping, her unkindly governess throws the dolls out. When the boys of the gang arrive at the house to deliver laundry, Mary thinks her dolls have come to life, since they resemble them so closely. It turns out that the boys had actually modeled for the dollmaker.
Watch Now:Amazon#42 - Unaccustomed as We Are
Laurel & Hardy - Season 5 - Episode 5
Sound Short - Ollie asks his friend Stan over for dinner. Mrs Hardy is not happy about the invitation and leaves the boys to fend for themselves. Their problems get bigger when Ollie's pretty neighbour volunteers to help out.
Watch Now:Amazon#43 - Better Movies
The Little Rascals - Season 4 - Episode 3
The gang makes a movie, with the help of Billy, who's brought along his home-movie camera. Jackie and Jay are left out, so when the film is premiered, they sabotage the proceedings.
Watch Now:Amazon#44 - No Noise
The Little Rascals - Season 2 - Episode 2
The gang visits Mickey in the hospital, who's having his tonsils taken out. Before long, they create mayhem in the hospital, and get thrown out. To get back in, they switch vaccination orders with some other kids, but the staff catches on and gives them some false diseases to worry about.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#45 - Saturday Morning
The Little Rascals - Season 1 - Episode 5
The various boys of the gang each manage to escape their responsibilities for the day, meeting up to build a raft for their pirate game.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#46 - Flying Elephants
Laurel & Hardy - Season 4 - Episode 2
Silent Short - Laurel and Hardy fight for the love of a woman in this Stone Age tale.
Watch Now:Amazon#47 - On The Loose
Laurel & Hardy - Season 7 - Episode 10
Zazu and Thelma decide that they are too good for the local boys and Coney Island. They jump at the chance to go out with two English gentlemen only to find out they want to take them to Coney Island. While there, they have a run in with Laurel and Hardy.
Watch Now:Amazon#48 - The Buccaneers
The Little Rascals - Season 2 - Episode 8
The gang hides out on Captain Whelan's boat after being chased by the police. The boat gets loose, however, and they drift out to sea. A Navy ship comes by to rescue them, but the gang mistake them for the enemy. After being captured, they're put to work scrubbing the decks.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#49 - The Cobbler
The Little Rascals - Season 1 - Episode 8
When the cobbler, Mr. Tuttle, receives his back pension, he takes the gang for a car trip out to the country. When the car breaks down, some of the kids go exploring in a nearby barn, only to meet up with a criminal named Dandy Dick.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#50 - Seein' Things
The Little Rascals - Season 2 - Episode 9
Farina has nightmares whenever he eats meat. After he eats the contents of a picnic basket, he dreams of being chased around by giant versions of the kids in the gang.
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