Our Gang
When Roach sold "Our Gang" to MGM, he retained the option to buy the rights to the "Our Gang" trademark, provided he produced no more children's comedies in the "Our Gang" vein. In the late 1940s, he created a new film property in the "Our Gang" mold and forfeited his right to buy back the name "Our Gang" to obtain permission to produce two Cinecolor featurettes, "Curley" and "Who Killed Doc Robbin". Neither film was critically or financially successful, and Roach turned to re-releasing the original "Our Gang" comedies.