Author Archive: Retro

Joe, the new boy in town, is initiated into the gang’s secret club. But the proceedings are interrupted when a couple of auto thieves hide out in the kids’ meeting place.

The kids mistake Miss Crabtree’s brother for a potential boyfriend, and plot to discourage him.

Adults have the Pike and Coney Island amusement parks, so the rascals put up their own rides in a large vacant lot. Mickey’s got big plans for expansion when surveyors show up to begin work on a factory. The gang travels by donkey cart to the office of Henry Mills, President of Pan American Export Company, to protest. Henry, in his 60s, is still a boy at heart: he has his chauffeur stop the car so he can join a sandlot game. He bails on a meeting with his board of directors, going with the kids to the factory site where he stops the workers and helps our gang add more rides. The directors follow him, and they get put to work. Will they ever have their meeting?

The gang creates its own makeshift county fair, highlighted by a “movie,” which is really a clever stage performance.

Trying to take the place of her deceased mother, a little girl struggles to care for her younger brothers. But the children and their papa have a wonderful surprise in store for them.

The kids decide to build their own locomotive. But jealous neighborhood bully Toughy attempts to run it off the tracks.

The kids are playing baseball when a man dressed in Middle-Eastern clothing comes out and tells them to be quiet. They join Mary, Farina, and Scooter in the gang’s hide-out while Mary is reading ghost stories. While on the other side of the wall, the Arab-looking man is cheating people out of their money by staging a fake séance using state-of-the-art special effects. The cave entrance for the gang’s hide-out collapses, so they light candles and dig into the wall, entering into the house. Those, he deceived realize they are being cheated and run to get the police to catch and book the criminals. One criminal finds out that the kids are in the house, and dresses up in a ghost costume and chases the kids throughout the house.

The Our Gang kids try to extinguish a fire.

While on a camping trip, the gang comes across poachers.