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The Three Stooges Scrapbook
GenreSitcom
Comedy
Based onThe Three Stooges
Written byElwood Ullman
Directed bySidney Miller
StarringMoe Howard
Larry Fine
Joe DeRita
Emil Sitka
Marjorie Eaton
Edward Innes
Albert Grazier
Narrated byDon Lamond
Theme music composerGeorge Duning
Stanley Styne
Opening theme"I Want to Be a Stooge"
Ending theme"I Want to Be a Stooge"
ComposerPaul Dunlap
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of episodes2
Production
ProducerNorman Maurer
EditorChuck Gladden
Running time25 minutes
Production companiesNormandy Productions, Inc.
Original release
ReleaseUnaired (Unaired)

The Three Stooges Scrapbook is an unaired 1960 television miniseries starring The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly-Joe DeRita). In the opening title and Hollywood trade advertisements, the show's title is spelled without "The," including a promotional photograph of the Stooges holding an oversized scrapbook. The first episode's plot finds the men evicted from a rooming house and finding refuge in the home of a mad inventor (played by Emil Sitka). The second and final episode features the trio presenting an animated short called The Spain Mutiny that imagines them as part of Christopher Columbus’ crew.[1]

The Three Stooges Scrapbook was filmed in color and produced by Norman Maurer (Moe Howard’s son-in-law), who hoped to establish a weekly program for children’s television.[2] When no network wished to pursue the project as a series, Maurer divided the pilot into two short films that were released to theaters in 1963. Maurer also reprinted the live-action scenes in black and white and incorporated them into the 1962 feature film The Three Stooges in Orbit.[1]

Bradley Server, the youngest grandson of Curly Howard, has restored a 35-mm print of a portion of the second episode and made it available on YouTube.[3]

Episodes

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Nº Episode title Directed by Written by Airdate
1"Pilot"Sidney MillerElwood UllmanUnaired (Unaired)
2"The Spain Mutiny"Sidney MillerElwood UllmanUnaired (Unaired)

Cast

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Credits

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  • Director: Sidney Miller
  • Writer: Elwood Ullman
  • Producer: Norman Maurer
  • Starring: Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Joe DeRita
  • Featuring: Emil Sitka, Marjorie Eaton, Don Lamond, Edward Innes, Albert Grazier
  • Music Composer and Conductor: Paul Dunlap
  • Title Song: George Dunning (music) and Stanley Styne (lyrics)
  • Vocals: The Eligibles
  • Director of Photography: Hal McAlpin
  • Film Editor: Chuck Gladden
  • Assistant Director: Harry Slott
  • Associate Producer: Pat Somerset
  • Chief Electrician: Robert Petzoldt
  • Sound Recorder: Leon Leon
  • Property Master: Chick Chicetti
  • Set Decorator: Frank Lombardo
  • Script Supervisor: Joe Franklin
  • Makeup: Ted Coodley
  • Costumer: Jack Angel
  • Grip: Tex Hayes
  • Laboratory: Consolidated Film Industries
  • Sound: Glen Glenn
  • Costume Designer: Sascha Brastoff

Book

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The Three Stooges Scrapbook is also the title of a 1982 book written by Three Stooges experts Jeff and Greg Lenburg and Joan Howard Maurer (Moe Howard's daughter and Norman Maurer's wife).[4]

See also

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  • Kook's Tour – another unaired Three Stooges pilot from 1970 that was initially released through the home-movie market and later on VHS and DVD.

References

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  1. ^ a b "The Three Stooges Scrapbook". The Three Stooges Online Filmography. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
  2. ^ Jeff Lenburg, Joan Howard Maurer and Greg Lenburg (1994). The Three Stooges Scrapbook. Citadel Press. p. 267. ISBN 0-8065-0946-5.
  3. ^ Curly's Grandson, "RARE Color THREE STOOGES SCRAPBOOK - Restored and Remastered", YouTube, May 24, 2024.
  4. ^ Nathan Cobb (September 26, 1986). "The 3 Stooges: More Than You Wanted to Know About Larry, Moe, Shemp and the Curlys". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2009-05-03.
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