The Little Rascals - "Pooch" - 02:24 am Saturday, June 20 on WJLP MeTV+

Matthew 'Stymie' Beard (Actor) .. Stymie

Born: January 01, 1927
Died: January 08, 1981

Trivia: The son of a Los Angeles minister, three-year-old Matthew Beard won out of 350 kids to replace Allen "Farina" Hoskins as the resident black child in Hal Roach's Our Gang comedies. Nicknamed Hercules in his first two-reeler, Teacher's Pet (1930), Beard was thereafter known as Stymie because of his innocent offscreen habit of confounding his elders. Wearing an oversized derby hat (borrowed from Roach comedian Stan Laurel), the clever, resourceful, eternally grinning Stymie quickly became one of the most popular Our Gang kids. After appearing in 36 Our Gang shorts, Beard began freelancing in 1935, playing small roles in big films like Captain Blood (1935), Jezebel (1938), The Great Man Votes (1939), and Stormy Weather (1943). Alas, after dropping out of high school in 1945, he fell into a bad crowd, spending the next two decades in and out of jails for committing crimes to feed his drug habit. Miraculously, Beard completely turned his life around in the mid-'60s when he entered the drug rehab organization Synanon. Looking remarkably like the eternally optimistic Stymie of old, Matthew Beard made a successful show business comeback in the 1970s, appearing in such films as The Buddy Holly Story (1978) and such weekly TV series as Good Times and The Jeffersons.

George 'Spanky' McFarland (Actor) .. Spanky

Born: October 02, 1928
Died: June 30, 1993

Trivia: American actor Spanky McFarland (born George Emmett McFarland in Forth Worth, TX) was the most popular member of the Our Gang children's comedy troupe. He got his start while still a baby as an advertising model for a bakery in Dallas because he looked so fat and happy. It was his pudginess as a toddler that led him to the Our Gang series of shorts when he was hired to replace Joe Cobb as the tubby child. In addition to appearing in that series, McFarland also appeared in a few feature films and in other shorts. By the mid-'40s, his acting career was over and he found gainful employment elsewhere.

Dorothy de Borba (Actor) .. Dorothy

Born: March 28, 1925
Died: June 02, 2010

Trivia: Nicknamed "Echo," Dorothy De Borba was the little brunette with the festive hair bows in the 1930-1933 Our Gang comedy shorts. De Borba arrived in the series at the dawn of sound, along with Jackie Cooper, Chubby Chaney, Stymie Beard, and Mary Ann Jackson, and her first series entries were released in both talkie and silent versions. Although the grown-up De Borba often complained that the boys were awarded the best lines, she certainly enjoyed her full share of quips in perhaps her best short, Love Business (1931), the one in which Jackie Cooper gets a fiery crush on Miss Crabtree (June Marlowe. De Borba, who had made her screen debut in the comedy-drama A Royal Romance (1930), left films after playing an autograph-hound in Jean Harlow's Bombshell (1933).

Kendall McComas (Actor) .. Breezy Brisbane

Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins (Actor) .. Wheezer

Sherwood Bailey (Actor) .. Spud

Born: January 01, 1922
Died: January 01, 1987

Trivia: Actor Sherwood Bailey is best known for playing the rusty-headed befreckled boy Spud in the Our Gang series. As an adult, Bailey left acting and became a civil engineer.

Dickie Jackson (Actor) .. Neighborhood Kid

Pete the Pup (Actor) .. Himself

Budd Fine (Actor) .. Dogcatcher

Born: September 10, 1894

Estelle Etterre (Actor) .. 1st Housewife

Born: July 26, 1899

May Wallace (Actor) .. 2nd Housewife

Born: January 01, 1876
Died: January 01, 1938

Harry Bernard (Actor) .. Officer

Born: January 01, 1877
Died: January 01, 1940

Baldwin Cooke (Actor) .. Lunch Counter Attendant

Dick Gilbert (Actor) .. Pound Worker

The Little Rascals: Pooch

02:24 am - 02:42 am, Saturday, June 20 on WJLP MeTV+ (33.8)

Pooch

Season 10, Episode 7