Horse Sense

Horse Sense
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Premiere date	September 24, 1983
Run time	11:05
Starring	Scott Menville Julie McWhirter Dees Patty Maloney Shavar Ross
Music composed by	Hoyt Curtin
Writer(s)	Earl Kress
Director(s)	Gordon Hunt (voices)
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"Horse Sense" is the third episode of The Little Rascals season two, and the thirty-ninth episode overall. It aired on September 24, 1983 on ABC. It was written by Earl Kress, and voice directed by Gordon Hunt.

Alfalfa challenges Waldo to a horse race in order to win Darla's affections; however, Alfalfa has trouble riding a horse properly.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Darla	Patty Maloney
Alfalfa	Julie McWhirter Dees
Porky	Julie McWhirter Dees
Spanky	Scott Menville
Buckwheat	Shavar Ross
Waldo	B.J. Ward
Buckwheat's relative	Unavailable
Bettor	Unavailable
Racetrack announcer	Unavailable

Organizations

• Little Rascals

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • California
      • Greenpoint
        • Horse racing track

Music

The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: September 24, 1983 on ABC
• Germany:

Behind the scenes

• The horse racing theme may be a callback to the Our Gang short Derby Day.
• Pete does not appear in this episode, making it the only episode in the series in which one of the main characters does not appear.
• When aired in Germany, the English version of the title card was shown.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• Not available. 😥