| Genre: | Sitcom Comedy |
| Based On: | The Three Stooges |
| Director: | Sidney Miller |
| Starring: | Moe Howard Larry Fine Joe DeRita Emil Sitka Marjorie Eaton Edward Innes Albert Grazier |
| Narrated: | Don Lamond |
| Theme Music Composer: | George Duning Stanley Styne |
| Opentheme: | "I Want to Be a Stooge" |
| Endtheme: | "I Want to Be a Stooge" |
| Composer: | Paul Dunlap |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Num Episodes: | 2 |
| Producer: | Norman Maurer |
| Editor: | Chuck Gladden |
| Runtime: | 25 minutes |
| Company: | Normandy Productions, Inc. |
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.
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]
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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]