Okay, I originally reviewed this on February 7, 2015, and submitted this on another ep entry on this site because the proper one wasn't open yet. Anyway, here goes: The first segment of the show is from a ship somewhere in Korea. It's for a signed copy of The Pin-Up magazine. So the photos in the issue come to life with each of the three women signing their name along with a greeting. Well, except the last one who drops her pen so host Art Baker tells her she can do it again when the program's over. Second segment has Baker interviewing Lon Chaney Jr. who talks about his late father Lon Chaney Sr. mentioning him being raised by deaf-mute parents and knowing sign language as a result. He then demonstrates various sign emotions for love, hate, and fear which is then shown in a clip from Lon Sr.'s silent movie, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Art then pretends to hypnotize the home audience to buy Skippy Peanut Butter after a certain time the next morning. Yes, that was a sponsor plug. Finally, he intros a reunion of the silent Our Gang: Jackie Condon, Joe Cobb, Mickey Daniels, Johnny Downs, and Allen "Farina" Hoskins. We find out Farina was acting in other things but then he decided he wanted to eat. Johnny was doing his own TV show. Mickey just did his famous laugh and was asked if he was any trouble. Joe mentioned doing defense work. And Jackie was saying how he'd like to get back into acting. They then were surprised by three more people: their teacher Fern Carter, cinematographer Art Lloyd, and director Robert F. McGowan-their "Uncle Bob". I think either the host or Mrs. Carter joked about the gang giving her the white hair. Lloyd was in a wheelchair. He had a paralyzing stroke during the late '40s from possibly suffering from radiation when filming the Bikini Atoll explosion. Uncle Bob wore glasses and didn't get to say much as he cut the cake that said, "Welcome Back Gang". Baker then said that Mary Kornman couldn't make it before then saying he didn't blame her thinking she must have taken quite some pranks from them. Well, that's what I think he meant. Anyway, to quote Leonard Maltin and Richard W. Bann's book, "The Little Rascals: The Life and Times of Our Gang"-"A slapdash affair, it didn't begin to exploit the possibilities of an Our Gang reunion, but was a nostalgic treat nonetheless." Oh, and Baker mistakenly ID'd Joe as "Fatty" (There was one with that nickname in the series played by Clyde Dembeck in two of the M-G-M-produced-only entries-Going to Press and Rover's Big Chance) and Mickey as "Freckles", neither of whom were ever know as such. I have previously mentioned what happened to Jackie in my review of Election Day as well as Farina in my Fish Hooky one and Mickey and Joe in Reunion in Rhythm. Here's what happened to the other members and crew I just mentioned above:
Johnny Downs kept in touch with Mary Kornman. In fact, during the Audie Murphy picture Column South, he got Mary to coach him on horse riding. He died on June 6, 1994.
Teacher Fern Carter taught all the subsequent Our Gang kids as well as the kids of the two Our Gang-derived features produced by Hal Roach and Robert F. McGowan in the late '40s before moving on to the young children of the TV series, "Father Knows Best". She died on December 8, 1961 after retiring nearly two years before.
Art Lloyd left Hal Roach Studios at the same time as that comedy team he was long associated with-Laurel & Hardy-did eventually serving at the Signal Corps during World War II, teaching his craft to soldiers before his ailment I mentioned earlier. He died on November 25, 1954.
Robert F. McGowan was very much retired at this point. He died on January 27, 1955.