Watch HDToday. Based on Paul Hutchens's series of children's books about a bunch of kids growing up in the rural South in the 1950s, this adventure finds the Sugar Creek Gang in a heap of trouble at school. Things look pretty bleak for the gang when tough new teacher Mr. Black arrives, and life gets even worse when Bill Collins, Dragonfly, Poetry and the rest of the kids are framed for some serious mischief on school grounds.