Product: Three Stooges (UK PAL Region 0)
Rating: 5.0
Great set if you are looking to create the ultimate Three Stooges collection
If you are looking for The Three Stooges shorts you know and love this is not the set for you. The only shorts the collection has is on one disc of the 3 DVD 75th Annivesary part of the collection. That disc only contrains four shorts and those are four of the most common Stooges shorts, (Disorder In The Court, Brideless Groom, Malice In The Palace, and Sing A Song Of Six Pants). If the shorts you know and love are what you want, I might suggest just going for the eight volumes of sets of Stooges shorts instead. This collection is more of an addition, if you are looking to put togther your own ultimate career spanning Three Stooges collection.This collection contains a lot of Pre-Three Stooges material. The bulk of this material is in the 4 DVD, The Three Stooges Collector's Edition, part of this collection. It contains Ted Healy and His Stooges in Nertsery Rhymes, Beer and Pretzels, and The Big Idea. It also has three Shemp solos in His First Flame, Corn On The Cop, and Saltwater Daffy. You will also get Curly's solo in Roast Beef and Movies.In both of these sets you will get, one dvd a piece, their animated shorts from 1965/66. One Disc has 13 episode and the other has 8 of those animated advetures of Moe, Larry, and "Curly Joe" DeRita. In addition the four DVD set contains a full length feature, with the Stooges, Swing Parade (1946), their appearances on The Steve Allen Show as well as their movie trailers and commercials.Then on the three DVD 75th Annivesary set the first disc can be considered a throw away unless you don't have those four shorts I metioned earlier. It is good for some more of the Animated shorts and it contains the last ever Three Stooges program Kook's Tour (1970). Too bad Larry suffered a stroke, I think Kook's Tour had the potential to be a very decent and fun travelogue. It is not physical like the other Stooges works, (Just consider how old they are in 1970. Not to mention Larry and Moe dieing five years later), but there is enough verbal and site gags mixed with the information about the places they are at to keep it moving.The only knock I give this collection is I would of like to have seen the whole pilot for Jerks Of All Trades instead of just the clip they give in this collection. With that said I purchased this cheaper, at the time form another place, but I see the price has dropped here. I still think it was worth getting before the price here drop myself. All-in-all if you are looking to have a collection of The Three Stooges matrial spanning their whole career, then this collection will be a great addition to your Three Sooges collection.