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The Three Stooges Collection

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Three Stooges Collection

| image = Stooges3436.jpg

| caption = The Three Stooges Collection, Volume One: 1934–1936 DVD cover.

| director =

| producer = Jules White
Hugh McCollum
Del Lord
Charley Chase

| starring = Moe Howard
Larry Fine
Curly Howard
Shemp Howard
Joe Besser

| music = R. H. Bassett

| distributor = Columbia Pictures
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

| runtime = Volume One
340 mins.
Volume Two
415 mins.
Volume Three
396 mins.
Volume Four
360 mins.
Volume Five
432 mins.
Volume Six
390 mins.
Volume Seven
356 mins.
Volume Eight
515 mins.
Total running time
3204 mins.

| country = United States

| language = English

}}

The Three Stooges Collection is a series of DVD collections of theatrical short subjects produced by Columbia Pictures starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. Each volume is a two-disc set, and covers a three-year interval, with the exception of Volume Eight, which is a three-disc set and covers the last five years at Columbia.

The series was first made available by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on October 30, 2007 and released Volume One: 1934-1936 and marked the first time the comedy team's shorts were released on DVD in chronological order. In addition, every film was remastered in high definition, another first for the comedy team's body of celluloid works.

The series proved to be a success and was very popular, so Sony released, Volume Two: 1937-1939 on May 27, 2008. Three months later, Volume Three: 1940-1942 was released on August 26, 2008. Volume Four: 1943-1945 was released just two months later on October 7, 2008.

After the release of the fourth volume, the 2008 financial crisis slowed down the release schedule. Volume Five: 1946-1948 was belatedly released on March 17, 2009. Volume Six: 1949-1951 was released three months later on June 16, 2009. Volume Seven: 1952–1954 was released on November 10, 2009, and included a pair of 3-D glasses to view the two shorts, Spooks! and Pardon My Backfire. As of 2013, the 3-D versions of these shorts have been removed for the current versions of this volume. The final volume, Volume Eight: 1955-1959, was released on June 1, 2010, which is a three-disc set and covers the last five years with Columbia Pictures.

On June 5, 2012, all eight volumes were reissued in a box set entitled The Three Stooges: The Ultimate Collection, with the addition of a ninth, 3-disc volume entitled Rare Treasures from the Columbia Pictures Vault. The additional volume featuring the feature films Rockin' in the Rockies and Have Rocket, Will Travel, several cartoons featuring the Stooges from the 1930s and 1940s, and a number of Columbia shorts featuring Shemp Howard, Joe Besser and Joe DeRita as solo comedians prior to joining the Stooges; several of these solo films are remakes of Stooge films.

On October 18, 2016, The Three Stooges: The Complete DVD Collection was released. It had all the DVDs from volumes 1 through 8 but it did not include the "Rare Treasures from the Columbia Pictures Vault" discs. All eight volumes are also available on iTunes. On June 15, 2020, iTunes released The Three Stooges: The Complete Series, which features all 190 shorts in an entire collection.

100 of the shorts were released on Blu-ray on July 23, 2024.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=34530 |title=The Three Stooges Collection Blu-ray |access-date=2024-05-21 |via=www.blu-ray.com}}

''Volume One: 1934–1936''

The film's original release date is listed next to the title.

=Disc One=

==[[1934 in film|1934]]==

==[[1935 in film|1935]]==

=Disc Two=

==[[1936 in film|1936]]==

''Volume Two: 1937–1939''

=Disc One=

==[[1937 in film|1937]]==

==[[1938 in film|1938]]==

=Disc Two=

==[[1939 in film|1939]]==

''Volume Three: 1940–1942''

=Disc One=

==[[1940 in film|1940]]==

==[[1941 in film|1941]]==

=Disc Two=

==[[1942 in film|1942]]==

''Volume Four: 1943–1945''

=Disc One=

==[[1943 in film|1943]]==

=Disc Two=

==[[1944 in film|1944]]==

==[[1945 in film|1945]]==

''Volume Five: 1946–1948''

=Disc One=

==[[1946 in film|1946]]==

==[[1947 in film|1947]]==

=Disc Two=

==[[1948 in film|1948]]==

''Volume Six: 1949–1951''

=Disc One=

==[[1949 in film|1949]]==

==[[1950 in film|1950]]==

=Disc Two=

==[[1951 in film|1951]]==

''Volume Seven: 1952–1954''

=Disc One=

==[[1952 in film|1952]]==

==[[1953 in film|1953]]==

=Disc Two=

==[[1954 in film|1954]]==

''Volume Eight: 1955–1959''

=Disc One=

==[[1955 in film|1955]]==

==[[1956 in film|1956]]==

=Disc Two=

==[[1957 in film|1957]]==

=Disc Three=

==[[1958 in film|1958]]==

==[[1959 in film|1959]]==

''Rare Treasures from the Columbia Pictures Vault''

3-DVD set of bonus material released with Ultimate Collection box set, focusing on solo films featuring Shemp Howard, Joe Besser and Joe DeRita. Also included were animated cartoons featuring the Stooges.

=Disc One=

==Feature films starring the Three Stooges==

==[[Color Rhapsodies|Columbia Cartoons]] featuring the Three Stooges==

  • Bon Bon Parade (1935)
  • Merry Mutineers (1936)
  • A Hollywood Detour (1942)

=Disc Two=

==Columbia Films shorts featuring/starring Shemp Howard==

  • Home on the Rage (1938) (Andy Clyde series)
  • Glove Slingers (1939) (Glove Slingers series)
  • Money Squawks (1939) (Andy Clyde series)
  • Boobs in the Woods (1940) (Andy Clyde series)
  • Pleased to Mitt You (1940) (Glove Slingers series)
  • Pick a Peck of Plumbers (1944) (partial remake of A Plumbing We Will Go)
  • Open Season for Saps (1944) (remake of Charley Chase's initial Columbia short The Grand Hooter)
  • Off Again, On Again (1945) (remake of Charley Chase's Time Out for Trouble)
  • Where the Pest Begins (1945)
  • A Hit with a Miss (1945) (remake of Punch Drunks)
  • Mr. Noisy (1946) (remake of Charley Chase's The Heckler)
  • Jiggers, My Wife (1946)
  • Society Mugs (1946) (remake of Termites of 1938)
  • Bride and Gloom (1947) (remake of Charley Chase's The Awful Goof)

=Disc Three=

==Columbia Films shorts starring Joe Besser==

  • Waiting in the Lurch (1949)
  • Dizzy Yardbird (1950)
  • 'Fraidy Cat (1951) (remake of Dizzy Detectives)
  • Aim, Fire, Scoot (1952) (remake of Boobs in Arms)
  • Caught on the Bounce (1952)
  • Spies and Guys (1953)
  • The Fire Chaser (1954) (remake of Waiting in the Lurch)
  • G.I. Dood It (1955) (remake of Dizzy Yardbird)
  • Hook a Crook (1955) (remake of {{'}}Fraidy Cat and Dizzy Detectives)
  • Army Daze (1956) (remake of Aim, Fire, Scoot and Boobs in Arms)

==Columbia Films shorts starring Joe DeRita==

References

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External links

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  • [http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/54884/three-stooges-the-ultimate-collection-the/ The Three Stooges: The Ultimate Collection : DVD Talk Review of the DVD Video] Detailed synopses, with historical lore and anecdotes, of every short and film in this set, in chronological order with year dates.

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