The Little Rascals (animated TV series)
| The Little Rascals | |
|---|---|
| Genre |
Animation Comedy |
| Based on |
Our Gang created by Hal Roach |
| Directed by | George Gordon Bob Hathcock Carl Urbano Rudy Zamora |
| Voices of |
Julie McWhirter Dees Patty Maloney Scott Menville Shavar Ross B.J. Ward Peter Cullen |
| Composer(s) | Hoyt Curtin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
William Hanna Joseph Barbera |
| Editor(s) | Gil Iverson |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 30 minutes (11 minutes a cartoon) |
| Production company(s) |
Hanna-Barbera Productions King World Productions |
| Distributor |
Taft Broadcasting (original) CBS Television Distribution (current) |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Picture format | NTSC |
| Original release | September 25, 1982 – September 1, 1984 |
The Little Rascals is a 30-minute Saturday morning animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and King World Productions. It first aired on ABC on September 25, 1982. Based on the Our Gang comedy shorts, it was broadcast as part of The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show in 1982 and then as part of The Monchhichis/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show in 1983.
The characters were designed by Iwao Takamoto and Bob Singer by using tracing paper on top of actual photographs of the real-life characters, and used a pencil to sketch the characters. The same technique was also used in previous Hanna-Barbera spinoffs such as Fonz and the Happy Days Gang and Laverne and Shirley in the Army.
The Little Rascals had been animated for television twice before. In the 1960s, a series of nine clay-animated Little Rascals Color Specials were produced for syndication, presumably by Bura & Hardwick, the British studio responsible for Camberwick Green, using soundtracks from the original Our Gang films. The episodes include "Shiver My Timbers", "Our Gang Follies of 1936", "Second Childhood", "Hearts Are Thumps", "Came the Brawn", "Bear Shooters", "Readin' and Writin'", "The Pinch Singer", and "Teacher's Beau".
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