Amazon is having a sale — and I think it's for today only — of The Little Rascals: The Complete Collection, an 8-DVD set of Our Gang comedies produced by the Hal Roach Studios. The title would make you think you're getting every film ever produced in that series but that's not so. There were 220 Our Gang comedies. The Roach studio did 88 silent shorts, 80 talkie two-reel shorts and one feature. Then they sold the series to MGM which made 52 more sound shorts, some of them one-reelers. MGM got custody of the name "Our Gang" so when the Roach folks re-released their films, they changed the title cards to "The Little Rascals." Later, both names were used sometimes haphazardly on TV releases and home movies. This collection calls itself "complete" because it includes the 80 Roach talkies (i.e., the best ones) plus a few silents as bonus features.
Despite the advertising, it is not uncut nor are the films fully-restored. There are some edits and a couple of the shorts are transfers not from the negatives but from old 16mm Blackhawk prints. On the other hand, there are some nice special features about Our Gang history and it's cheap — $28.49 and they pay shipping. Here's the link to order but read the next paragraph before you do.
I believe it's being closed-out because new Our Gang collections are on the way from the same company. In fact, the first one (containing ten episodes) was to have been released yesterday but has been delayed until June. The forthcoming releases are supposedly remastered and complete and made from better source material but we've yet to see them so who knows? If you're a serious collector of material like this, you'll probably want to wait and see if they are superior. If you just want to introduce your kids to the wonderment of Our Gang and Spanky and Alfalfa and Darla, this 8-DVD set is probably a great deal. You could easily wear these discs out by the time we finally get the perfect collection.
The 52 MGM shorts are also available on one of those "pressed on demand, no extras included" sets from Warner Home Video. The first MGM shorts are pretty decent. The last ones are pretty awful as the series ran out of gas and all the best members of the troupe got too old and were replaced by newer, less wonderful characters. Here's that link if you're interested in watching a great comedy series decline.