| The Three Stooges Scrapbook | |
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| Genre | Sitcom Comedy |
| Based on | The Three Stooges |
| Written by | Elwood Ullman |
| Directed by | Sidney Miller |
| Starring | Moe Howard Larry Fine Joe DeRita Emil Sitka Marjorie Eaton Edward Innes Albert Grazier |
| Narrated by | Don Lamond |
| Theme music composer | George Duning Stanley Styne |
| Opening theme | "I Want to Be a Stooge" |
| Ending theme | "I Want to Be a Stooge" |
| Composer | Paul Dunlap |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 1 |
| Production | |
| Producer | Norman Maurer |
| Editor | Chuck Gladden |
| Running time | 25 minutes |
| Production companies | Normandy Productions, Inc. |
The Three Stooges Scrapbook is an unaired 1960 television pilot 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 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). Later, the trio dashes off to a television studio to host their new series ("Three Stooges Scrapbook"). Part of the show within a show is an animated short called The Spain Mutiny that imagines them as part of Christopher Columbus’ crew. [1]
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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]
The complete pilot was released as a bonus feature on Sony's The Three Stooges 20-Disc Blu-Ray Collection. [3]
