In the mid 1950s, when the Our Gang comedies were sweeping the nation on TV, McFarland hosted an afternoon children's show, The Spanky Show, on KOTV television in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Special features on this DVD relating to Rejected include a new text commentary by Hertzfeldt ( via closed-caption boxes ), footage from the abandoned cartoon " the Spanky the Bear Show " that later evolved into a central scene in the film, original pencil tests, the 2001 audio commentary, and dozens of pages devoted to Hertzfeldt's original sketches, storyboards, notes, and deleted ideas from the film.

* Jabbers Interview by Spanky Payne of Twisted Press & The Spanky Payne Radio Show

On July 27, 2002, at Crowning a Champion, he became the first ever ROH Champion by defeating Daniels, Spanky and Doug Williams in a Four Way Ironman match.

Wammo and Spanky became an infamous duo on the RDU Mornings show, most notably coaxing Don Brash into answering inappropriate love letters live on-air, and upsetting listeners by playing distasteful games poking fun at cancer victims.

At first appearing as the tag-along toddler of the group, and later finding an accomplice in Scotty Beckett in 1934, Spanky quickly became Our Gangs biggest child star.

George " Spanky " McFarland ( October 2, 1928 – June 30, 1993 ) was an American actor most famous for his appearances as a child in the Our Gang series of short-subject comedies of the 1930s and 1940s.

Use of the " Spanky " name by McFarland for subsequent business or personal activities was expressly granted to McFarland in one of his studio contracts.

McFarland appeared as “ Spanky ” in 95 Our Gang films between 1932 and 1942.

* George McFarland, an actor, appeared as Spanky in 95 Our Gang films between 1932 and 1942.

Former Our Gang members Jackie Cooper and George " Spanky " McFarland made the presentation to a flattered Roach, with McFarland thanking the producer for hiring him 53 years prior.

She also played the same dignified, poised dowager in other movies, with W. C. Fields ( Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, 1941 ) and ( Tales of Manhattan, 1942 ), Abbott and Costello ( Little Giant, 1946 ), Laurel and Hardy ( The Dancing Masters, 1943 ), Red Skelton ( Bathing Beauty, 1944 ), Jack Benny ( The Horn Blows at Midnight, 1945 ), Wheeler and Woolsey and George " Spanky " McFarland ( Kentucky Kernels, 1934 ) and ( High Flyers, 1937, with Lupe Vélez thrown in for good measure ), radio comedian Joe Penner ( The Life of the Party, 1937 ), George " Gabby " Hayes ( Sunset in El Dorado ), and Danny Kaye ( Up In Arms, 1944 ), and on television with Martin and Lewis ( The Colgate Comedy Hour, December 1951 ).

Switzer ( right ) as " Alfalfa " in Our Gang Follies of 1938, with fellow Our Gang cast members George McFarland | George " Spanky " McFarland and Darla Hood.

By the end of 1937, Alfalfa Switzer had supplanted Spanky McFarland, the series ' nominal star, in popularity.

In 1987, former Our Gang co-star Spanky McFarland recalled a meeting with Switzer concerning the farm:

Spanky McFarland may refer to:

* George " Spanky " McFarland ( 1928 – 1993 ), American actor, member of Our Gang

* Joe " Spanky " McFarland ( born 1954 ), American college baseball coach at James Madison University

The channel was originally launched in 1985 as The Nostalgia Channel through the efforts of former Our Gang child star George " Spanky " McFarland.

During the first half of his Our Gang tenure, Thomas ' Buckwheat character was often paired with Eugene " Porky " Lee as a tag-along team of " little kids " rallying against ( and often outsmarting ) the " big kids ," George " Spanky " McFarland and Carl " Alfalfa " Switzer.

Thomas's co-star George McFarland, who played " Spanky " in the Little Rascals, did not like Murphy's imitation, saying that Murphy turned Buckwheat into a stereotype at the expense of Thomas's surviving relatives.

By the next week, 20 / 20 had learned of their error ( George " Spanky " McFarland personally contacted the media following the broadcast ), that the true Buckwheat had been dead for 10 years, and admitted their mistake on-air.

A spin-off of Roach's popular Our Gang short subjects, the film stars George " Spanky " McFarland, Phillips Holmes, Rosina Lawrence, Billie " Buckwheat " Thomas, and Carl " Alfalfa " Switzer.

George McFarland, the original " Spanky ", died in June 1993, during the early stages of filming.

Lee got his break in motion pictures in 1935, after producer Hal Roach noted how much the eighteen-month-old toddler looked like Our Gang star Spanky McFarland, also from Texas.

McFarland's nickname " Spanky " is erroneously said to have arisen from warnings by his mother not to misbehave during one of the initial discussions with Hal Roach in his office.

Upon his return to civilian life, indelibly typecast in the public's mind as " Spanky " from Our Gang, he found himself unable to find work in show business.

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When DJ Pierre and his friends Herb and Spanky created a weird squelching rhythm track from a Roland TB 303 bassline machine, they gave this track to Ron Hardy.

* A short sound clip of Darla, Spanky and Alfalfa from an episode of Our Gang can be heard at the beginning of the REO Speedwagon song " Tough Guys ", from the album Hi Infidelity.

In 1984, as " The Turtles ... featuring Flo & Eddie ", ( together with three other groups from the 1960s: Gary Puckett, Spanky and Our Gang, and The Association ), they traveled across the US and Canada as " The Happy Together Tour ".

On September 16, he wrestled Leonardo Spanky and won the International Junior Heavyweight Championship from him.

Worried about the new teacher they'll be getting this term, Spanky and Alfalfa come up with a scheme to get themselves excused from school: Spanky has Alfalfa pretend he has a toothache, going as far as to stuff a balloon in his mouth to sell the idea.

However, it should be noted there were plenty of groups from other parts of the United States as well, including The Cowsills ( from Rhode Island ), The Free Design ( from New York ) and Spanky and Our Gang ( from Illinois ).

He had the exclusive distinction of being with the gang from " Miss Crabtree " talkies of the early 1930s, through the mid-thirties transitional period, up until the era of the more familiar group of Spanky, Alfalfa, and Buckwheat, who would ultimately replace Stymie in 1935.

When Roach bought the rights to the back catalog of Our Gang films he had produced from MGM in 1949, he did not buy back the rights to General Spanky.

WWF severed its ties with MCW in 2001, releasing Danielson from his contract, but not before he won the MCW Light Heavyweight Championship and the MCW Tag Team Championship with Spanky.

George " Spanky " McFarland, Darla Hood, and Carl " Alfalfa " Switzer in the " Club Spanky " dream sequence from the 1937 short Our Gang Follies of 1938.

Other popular elements in these mid-to-late 1930s shorts include the " He-Man Woman Haters Club " from Hearts Are Thumps and Mail and Female ( both 1937 ), the Laurel and Hardy-ish interaction between Alfalfa and Spanky, and the comic tag-along team of Porky and Buckwheat.

The first two entries of the season, Bedtime Worries and Wild Poses the latter of which featured a surprise cameo by Laurel and Hardy as babies, released in the fall of 1933, focused on Spanky McFarland and his hapless parents, portrayed by Gay Seabrook and Emerson Treacy, in a family-oriented situation comedy format similar to that later popular on television.

Coupled with a brief suspension in Spanky McFarland's work permit, Our Gang went into a four-month hiatus, during which the series was revised to a format similar to its original style and German-born ' Gus Meins was hired as the new series director.