For World Children’s Day: Our New “Little Rascals” Podcast

Happy World Children’s Day!

We’ve chosen this symbolic day to release our new podcast special exploring the 100 year history of Our Gang a.k.a. The Little Rascals. It’s a half hour long, and if I say so myself, perfect Sunday morning listening. It’s available here.

After listening, come on back to learn more. We have nearly 50 posts in the Our Gang section of Travalanche.

Some notable posts to look out for:

This overview of the whole series, somewhat less in-depth than the podcast show.

With reference to the charges of racism I mention in the episode, see:

My review of this book

This rebuttal to a Christie’s curator

I’ve done profiles of almost all of the 40+ kids in the series (browse here), but here are some key ones:

Spanky

Alfalfa

Darla

Stymie

Buckwheat

Porky

Butch

Sunshine Sammy

Farina

Froggy

Chubby

Jackie Cooper

Robert Blake (Mickey)

Pete the Pup

And a couple of dozen others, here. Again the podcast is here.

And to support the work of this blog and the creation of more podcast shows like this one, please go here.