- Country: USA
- Genres: Comedy, Family, Short
- Release: 1944-04-15
- Director: Cy Endfield
- Writers: Hal Law , Robert A. McGowan
- Language: English
- Stars: Our Gang , Gene Collins , Margaret Bert , Robert Blake , Janet Burston , Willa Pearl Curtis , Fern Emmett , Richard Hall , Cordell Hickman , Billy ‘Froggy’ Laughlin
- Runtime: 10 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Tale of a Dog (United States of America) , Tale of a Dog
- Plot: When Bigshot Jones gives his unnamed dog to the All-For-One Club, Buckwheat quickly named the canine, "Smallpox". When Froggy, Mickey, Janet all other Our Gang members first hear, they mistakenly think that Bigshot has given Buckwheat the disease of the same name. Froggy, Janet, and Mickey proceed to incite a panic in the town of Greenpoint by spreading rumors of a smallpox epidemic, causing everyone that hear them, as they are warning all others around them, to jump to a wrong conclusion. Some even list their house address as "quarantined".
- IMDB:tt0037342
Tale of a Dog Cast · · · ALL
Cy Endfield
Director
Billie ‘Buckwheat’ Thomas
Buckwheat Thomas
Billy ‘Froggy’ Laughlin
Froggy Laughlin
Janet Burston
Janet
Robert Blake
Mickey Blake
Cordell Hickman
Big Shot Jones
Margaret Bert
Gossiper (voice)
Anita Sharp-Bolster
Gossiper
Willa Pearl Curtis
Buckwheat's Mother
Fern Emmett
Gossiper
Emmett Vogan
Dr. Parkson