Lothar has it correct. In
1938 when Roach sold the series to MGM and they started producing the Our Gang shorts themselves(after which they quickly went downhill), he also lost the rights to the name of Our Gang. But Little Rascals was what he had long called them himself, and he still owned the early shorts, which he packaged to theatres as The Little Rascals, and many of them were sold as a ...