Jeff Baker

A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.

These rare glimpses of Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly-Joe DeRita in color were shot in 1965 as live-action scenes for The New Three Stooges cartoon, representing the team at the peak of its popularity. While cleaning a musty mansion, they discover a suit of armor that appears to be inhabited and Moe matches wits withs a checker-playing chimp (we won't tell you who wins) as the boys play zany zookeepers. They wreak havoc open a golf course, the open road, a fishing boat, a camping trip, an airport scale and the beach, and as perplexed paperhangers, foolish photographers, short-tempered chefs and dim-bulb doctors.

You'll see all six of the Three Stooges - brothers Moe, Curly, and Shemp Howard, Larry Fine, Joe Besser, and Curly Joe DeRita - in this exhaustive "Nyukumentary" covering their comedic career in all its goofy glory. Starting in the early 1920s as sidekicks for comedian Ted Healy, the Stooges made their movie debut in Soup to Nuts (1930), and gained their greatest fame in a series of short films for Columbia from 1934-'57. You'll see the Stooges and many of their collaborators from both sides of the camera (actor Emil Sitka, directors Edward Bernds and Jules White) in rare film clips, documentary footage, TV Interviews, and more. Narrated by Mike Eagan