Okay, but I thought that was the regular Three Stooges shorts show, as was run on AMC.
They made it sound as if the "Playhouse" was some separate show that was never run.
AMC did not run "Playhouse." *
1999's "Playhouse" was a 130-short package, specially edited for gag commercial breaks and animated-effect segues. Each short was edited into a half-hour show (i.e., 22 minutes). It was syndicated to local stations. It was unsuccessful; after a few months, some stations dropped it and others were throwing it into the early AM hours in-between infomericals.
In 2000, AMC leased the shorts, not the "Playhouse," but were unfortunately restricted to the same 130 titles. SpikeTV took the same package a few years later. AMC (and Spike) produced their own interstitial material, i.e., AMC's "Nyuk University" with Leslie Nielsen, Anna Nicole Smith, Carrot Top and Dan Lauria.
* Except for July 2000, when AMC began running the "Playhouse" package, pressured on them by Sony and C3. That situation lasted less than 1 week, after AMC was inundated by viewer complaints (AMC's website crashed due to the volume of complaints), and the cable network went back to the unedited/commercial-less shorts.
