Cap'n Spanky's Showboat
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| Premiere date | November 20, 1982 |
| Run time | 11:05 |
| Starring | Scott Menville Julie McWhirter Dees Patty Maloney Shavar Ross Peter Cullen |
| Music composed by | Hoyt Curtin |
| Story by | Unknown |
| Writer(s) | Unknown |
| Director(s) | George Gordon Bob Hathcock Carl Urbano Rudy Zamora |
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"Cap'n Spanky's Showboat" is the ninth episode (part one) of The Little Rascals season one. It aired on November 20, 1982 on ABC.
The kids fix up the Mississippi Queen, an old steamboat, after Captain Smokey quit his job due to low traffic a few years before. Everything was fixed except for one problem: the engine failed. Buckwheat and Porky row to an abandoned boat down the river, but a swift current takes them off course and heading towards a waterfall. The kids, Pete and Captain Smokey risk their lives to save Buckwheat and Porky from getting killed.
Detailed summary
Memorable quotes
Characters
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Locations
- United States
- Mississippi
- Mississippi Queen
- Mississippi
Objects
- Parachute
- Sandwich
- Floor brushes
- Paintbrushes
- Cane
- Baseball
- Rowboat
Vehicles
- The Rascals' makeshift car
Production
Development
Filming
Music
The score was composed by Hoyt Curtin.
Release
Dates are in order of release:
- United States: November 20, 1982 on ABC
Behind the scenes
- The episode title is a play on Captain Spanky's Showboat, which was an Our Gang theatrical short in 1939.
- The boys using their feet as their "emergency brakes" is likely a callback to the final scene in the Our Gang short "Hi'-Neighbor!"
- After Alfalfa inspected the ship's whistle, a live spider jumped on his nose and he had a cross-eyed look - which may be a callback to a scene from the Our Gang short "Night N' Gales".
Errors
- After Darla attempted to pull the boat's whistle, the colors of her shoes and socks flickered, and then became pink and white respectively, the inverse of her usual white and pink color scheme respectively.
Critical reception
In other languages
| Language | Name | Meaning |
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| German | Kapitän Smokeys Raddampfer | Captain Smokey's Paddleboat |
Home availability
- Not available. 😥
