The same technique was also used in previous Hanna-Barbera spin-offs such as The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang and Laverne and Shirley in the Army.
In the 1960s, a series of nine clay-animated Little Rascals Color Specials were produced for syndication, presumably by Bura and 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".
[citation needed] In 1979, Fred Wolf produced an animated The Little Rascals Christmas Special for NBC.
Also in the animated series, the Rascals met in a treehouse and drove around the town of Greenpoint in a dog-drawn vehicle.
In March 1984, Our Gang actor Eugene Lee, who had played Porky in the original theatrical short films as a child from 1935 to 1939, sued Hanna-Barbera Productions for nearly $2 million, claiming that the animated character was a violation of his likeness rights.
It was found that Hanna-Barbera's license from King World did not include the likeness rights of the former child actors, and the case was settled out of court.
"Tiny Terror", "Class Act", "Porky-O and Julie-Et" and "Cap'n Spanky's Showboat", previously aired during the first season, were rebroadcast on October 8 and 22, and November 5 and 26, 1983 respectively.