After the release of Gas House Kids, the PRC studio decided to emulate Monogram's popular comedy series The Bowery Boys, another incarnation of the Dead End Kids but now with more emphasis on comedy. Billy Halop had only agreed to the one picture, and was no longer available for a sequel. The Gas House Kids series was now built around Halop's co-star Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer with a new cast of kids, and resulted in two features: Gas House Kids Go West and The Gas House Kids in Hollywood (both 1947). The series came to an abrupt end when the studio closed its doors in August 1947. It merged into the new Eagle-Lion Films company.
The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1941 - 1950: Feature Films. University of California Press, 1999.
