Three Stooges Scrapbook was an unaired 1960 television pilot starring
The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly-Joe DeRita). In
the opening title and Hollywood trade ads, the show's title is spelled
without "The," including a promotional photograph of the Stooges
holding an oversized scrapbook. The pilot featured the slapstick trio
getting evicted from a rooming house for cooking in their apartment,
looking for a new place to live, finding refuge in the home of a mad
inventor (played by Emil Sitka), and presenting an animated short
called The Spain Mutiny that imagines the funnymen as part of
Christopher Columbus’ crew.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. When
no network wanted 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.To date, the original pilot has never been released on home
media.The Three Stooges Scrapbook is also the title of a 1982 book
written by Stooge experts Jeff and Greg Lenburg and Joan Howard Maurer
(Moe Howard's daughter and Norman Maurer's wife).
The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly-Joe DeRita). In
the opening title and Hollywood trade ads, the show's title is spelled
without "The," including a promotional photograph of the Stooges
holding an oversized scrapbook. The pilot featured the slapstick trio
getting evicted from a rooming house for cooking in their apartment,
looking for a new place to live, finding refuge in the home of a mad
inventor (played by Emil Sitka), and presenting an animated short
called The Spain Mutiny that imagines the funnymen as part of
Christopher Columbus’ crew.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. When
no network wanted 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.To date, the original pilot has never been released on home
media.The Three Stooges Scrapbook is also the title of a 1982 book
written by Stooge experts Jeff and Greg Lenburg and Joan Howard Maurer
(Moe Howard's daughter and Norman Maurer's wife).
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