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IN SEARCH OF THE 3 STOOGES

Air Date/Released Monday, May 28, 1984
Station/Studio WTAF-TV 29 Philadelphia PA
Host/Star Grover Silcox
Featuring Miscellaneous Appearances

Grover Silcox hosted a tongue-in-cheek 5-hour documentary and retrospective about The Three Stooges, answering fan mail and conducting man-in-the-street interviews with Philadelphians. There is a visit to Lyla Budnick (Larry's sister) and her husband Nate for an interview, and short telephone interviews are done with Joe Besser, Emil Sitka and Ed Bernds. A few satirical sketches with the "curator" of a Three Stooges museum, a college professor, and an opthalmologist to discuss Moe's eye-poking. Between Silcox's segments, 13 Three Stooges shorts are screened, ALL THE WORLD'S A STOOGE (1941), MEN IN BLACK (1934), SPACE SHIP SAPPY (1957), MICRO-PHONIES (1945), WHO DONE IT? (1949), YOU NAZTY SPY! (1940), TERMITES OF 1938 (1938), BUBBLE TROUBLE (1953), AN ACHE IN EVERY STAKE (1941), HEALTHY, WEALTHY AND DUMB (1938), FLAT FOOT STOOGES (1938), BUSY BUDDIES (1944) and MERRY MAVERICKS (1951).


Cast: Grover Silcox (Host), Joe Besser, Emil Sitka, Edward Bernds, Lyla Budnick, Nate Budnick (Themselves), Tommy Moore (Museum curator), Jim Tam (Professor), Thomas Farrell (Opthalmologist), Bob Rumnock (Wild Bobby Martindale), Traci Skene (Vandy), Jim Skene (Brad Baughman), Joe Fusco (Sitarist), Ed 'Big Daddy' Graham (Meditator), The New Image (Singers)
Archive footage: Curly Howard, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Joe Besser, Shemp Howard

Crew: Ren Hendricks (Director), Wanda Fletcher, Chuck Brickman (Technical Directors), Rich Ross, Jim Tam, Grover Silcox (Writers), Rich Ross (Producer)
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