Cap'n Spanky's Showboat

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
Director(s)	Gordon Hunt (voices)
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"Cap'n Spanky's Showboat" is the first part of the ninth episode of The Little Rascals season one, and the twenty-second episode overall. It aired on November 20, 1982 on ABC. It was voice directed by Gordon Hunt.

Eager to get a ride on an old steamboat, the Mississippi Queen, the kids try to repair the ship, which was not maintained by Captain Smokey for a few years after he quit his job due to low traffic.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Pete	Peter Cullen
Captain Smokey	Brian Cummings
Darla	Patty Maloney
Alfalfa	Julie McWhirter Dees
Porky	Julie McWhirter Dees
Spanky	Scott Menville
Buckwheat	Shavar Ross

Organizations

• Little Rascals

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Mississippi

Vehicles

• Rascals' makeshift car
• Mississippi Queen
• Rowboat

Music

The music 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.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
German	Kapitän Smokeys Raddampfer	Captain Smokey's Paddleboat

Home availability

• Not available. 😥