The Three Stooges
Two Full HoursSaturdays at 6 PM
eastern (on most MeTV stations)Next Airings
- 2/21 6:00PMThree Dumb Clucks, In the Sweet Pie and Pie, Stone Age Romeos, G.I. Wanna Go Home, Scrambled Brains, Muscle Up a Little Closer"Their father's plan to marry prompts the Stooges to break out of jail to save him from himself and, it turns out, from this intended dangerous posse. , The Stooges are convicts about to be executed for some murders they didn't commit. The day before the execution they are tricked into marrying three rich girls who need husbands to collect a legacy. At the last minute the real murderers confess and the Stooges are pardoned. The girls are now stuck with the Stooges so they plot to get rid of them by making them become gentlemen. The girl's lawyer convinces them to throw a big party in the hope that the Stooges will humiliate them and they can get a divorce. The boys do just that as the party degenerates into a wild pie fight. But the girls decide to keep the Stooges and give their lawyer the boot. [Dance teacher footage from "Hoi Polloi"] , The Stooges hope to collect a reward by proving to a museum that cavemen still exist. They return from their expedition with a film purporting to show some stone age Stooges defending their women from other cavemen. The museum curators are about to pay they reward, until they overhear the Stooges talking about how they faked the film, with themselves playing the cavemen. , The Stooges are discharged from the army and go to see their fiancées, but find they have been dispossessed and the wedding is off until they find a home. The boys have trouble finding a vacant apartment so they set up housekeeping in a vacant lot. Their housing problems seem to be solved until a farmer destroys their new home with a tractor. The Stooges then build a house of their own, but the girls aren't impressed with the one room mansion and walk out on them. , Shemp is a sick man, suffering from hallucinations. His worst vision is that his ugly nurse Nora is actually beautiful. When Moe and Larry come to take him home from the sanitarium, they discover he's become engaged to Nora. On the way to Nora's apartment for the wedding, the boys get in a fight with a stranger who promises to get even with them if he ever sees them again. They arrive to finding Nora waiting for her father, who, when he arrives, turns out to be the man they just fought with. , Joe is engaged but can't get married until he recovers the engagement ring which has disappeared. The Stooges suspect the ring was stolen by Elmo, a beefy bully, who works at the same factory they do. They confront Elmo in the company gym, but he's too tough for them. Fortunately Joe's girl is even tougher, and she gets Elmo to confess and return the ring. "
- 2/28 6:00PMHealthy, Wealthy, and Dumb, Three Smart Saps, Corny Casanovas, Shot in the Frontier, Husbands Beware, Self Made Maids"When Curly wins $50,000 the Stooges start living the high life? until they get the lowdown on exactly how much they get after taxes. , The Stooges are engaged to the three daughters of a prison warden. When they learn that some crooks have taken over the prison and their prospective father-in-law has been locked up, they decide to go undercover to rescue him. The Stooges sneak into the prison where they find a casino with a fancy party in progress. After swiping some formal attire, they crash the party and get candid camera evidence to expose the crooked goings-on. With the crooks behind bars once again, the Stooges are able to get married and all ends well. , Love is in the air for these laughable Lotharios. The Stooges all romance the same gold-digging gal with hilarious results. , Set in the old west, the Stooges must defend their honor against the Noonan brothers, three desperadoes who want to marry the same girls the Stooges are courting. , To inherit a fortune, voice teacher Shemp must marry before six o'clock, but no girl will accept his proposal. Finally one of his repulsive students agrees to marry him, just in the nick of time. When the rest of the prospective brides hear about the inheritance, they show up at the ceremony and a free for all ensues. Shemp marries his student before the deadline, and then finds out that there is no inheritance. Moe and Larry have tricked him into marriage as revenge for their marrying his shrewish sisters. [ A remake of "Brideless Groom".] , The Stooges are artists who want to marry their models; "Moella", "Larraine", and "Shempetta". The girls' father doesn't approve, so the Stooges tickle him into submission. "
- 3/7 6:00PMThree Little Pirates, Hugs and Mugs, Outer Space Jitters, Hold That Lion, Punchy Cowpunchers, Who Done It"The Stooges are castaways from a garbage scow who land on Dead Man's Island where everyone is living in olden times. To escape from the governor, they disguise Curly as a Maharaja and win permission to journey to their own country to fetch presents. The governor is fooled, but the boys run into more trouble in the den of Black Louie the pirate where Curly is forced into a knife-throwing contest with Larry as the target. Things look bad until a mis-thrown knife cuts the rope that holds the chandelier and it crashes down on Black Louie's men. With the pirates defeated, Moe decides to take over as ruler of the island. , The Stooges run a furniture store and come into possession of a stolen pearl necklace. Three crooked dames convince the boys that the necklace is theirs, and when the real thieves arrive, the Stooges fight to defend the girl's property. The Stooges defeat the bad guys and the girls decide to go honest and return the necklace to its rightful owner. , The Stooges accompany professor Jones on an expedition to Venus, where they discover that the Venusians are planning to conquer the earth with an army of zombies. When the boys learn that they're going to be turned into zombies, they escape. The scene changes to the Stooges apartment where we learn they are just telling a bedtime story to their kids (also played by the Stooges) while they wait for the baby sitter to arrive. When the baby sitter shows up, she looks like one of the zombies and the boys exit in a hurry. , The Stooges are gypped out of their inheritance by Icabob Slipp, a crooked lawyer. The boys follow Slipp onto a passenger train and corner him, but not before they accidentally let a lion loose on the train. , Set in the old west, the Stooges are three soldiers assigned to go undercover and spy on an outlaw gang that's terrorizing a nearby town. The bad guys have the Arizona Kid locked up, so the boys set about rescuing him with the help of beautiful Nell, his girl. They free the kid, and he rides to summon help. The Stooges, with the help of Nell, manage to subdue the bad guys before the kid arrives with the cavalry. , The Stooges are private detectives looking for a missing millionaire. They wander around the millionaire's spooky mansion confronting various crooks and a dangerous dame. The Stooges vanquish the crooks (Shemp uses his "trusty shovel") and find the missing man. "
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Episode Guide
Season 1
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- Season 4
- Season 5
- Season 6
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- Season 11
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- Season 15
- Season 16
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- Season 18
- Season 19
- Season 20
- Season 21
- Season 22
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- Season 24
- Season 25
- Season 26


