The Three Stooges Collection is a series of DVD collections of theatrical short subjects produced by Columbia Pictures starring American slapstick comedy team The Three Stooges. Each volume is a two-disc set, and covers a three-year interval, with the exception of Volume Eight, which is a three-disc set and covers the last five years at Columbia.
The series was first made available by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on October 30, 2007 and released Volume One: 1934-1936 and marked the first time the comedy team's shorts were released on DVD in chronological order. In addition, every film was remastered in high definition, another first for the comedy team's body of celluloid works.
The series proved to be a success and was very popular, so Sony released, Volume Two: 1937-1939 on May 27, 2008. Three months later, Volume Three: 1940-1942 was released on August 26, 2008. Volume Four: 1943-1945 was released just two months later on October 7, 2008.
After the release of the fourth volume, the global economic crisis slowed down the release schedule. Volume Five: 1946-1948 was belatedly released on March 17, 2009. Volume Six: 1949-1951 was released three months later on June 16, 2009. Volume Seven: 1952–1954 was released on November 10, 2009, and included a pair of 3-D glasses to view the two shorts, Spooks! and Pardon My Backfire. As of 2013, the 3-D versions of these shorts have been removed for the current versions of this volume. The final volume, Volume Eight: 1955-1959, was released on June 1, 2010, which is a three-disc set and covers the last five years with Columbia Pictures.
On June 5, 2012, all eight volumes were reissued in a box set entitled The Three Stooges: The Ultimate Collection, with the addition of a ninth, 3-disc volume entitled Rare Treasures from the Columbia Picture Vault. The additional volume featuring the feature films Rockin' in the Rockies and Have Rocket, Will Travel, several cartoons featuring the Stooges from the 1930s and 1940s, and a number of Columbia shorts featuring Shemp Howard, Joe Besser and Joe DeRita as solo comedians prior to joining the Stooges; several of these solo films are remakes of Stooge films.
On October 18, 2016, The Three Stooges: The Complete DVD Collection was released. It had all the DVDs from volumes 1 through 8 but it did not include the "Rare Treasures from the Columbia Picture Vault" discs. All eight volumes are also available on iTunes. On June 15, 2020, iTunes released The Three Stooges: The Complete Series, which features all 190 shorts in an entire collection.
Volume One: 1934–1936
The film's original release date is listed next to the title.
Disc One
1934
001 Woman Haters (May 5) 002 Punch Drunks (July 13) 003 Men in Black (September 28) 004 Three Little Pigskins (December 8)
1935
005 Horses' Collars (January 10) 006 Restless Knights (February 20) 007 Pop Goes the Easel (March 29) 008 Uncivil Warriors (April 26) 009 Pardon My Scotch (August 1) 010 Hoi Polloi (August 29) 011 Three Little Beers (November 28)
Disc Two
1936
012 Ants in the Pantry (February 6) 013 Movie Maniacs (February 20) 014 Half Shot Shooters (April 30) 015 Disorder in the Court (May 30) 016 A Pain in the Pullman (June 27) 017 False Alarms (August 16) 018 Whoops, I'm an Indian! (September 11) 019 Slippery Silks (December 27)
Volume Two: 1937–1939
Disc One
1937
020 Grips, Grunts and Groans (January 15) 021 Dizzy Doctors (March 19) 022 3 Dumb Clucks (April 17) 023 Back to the Woods (May 14) 024 Goofs and Saddles (July 2) 025 Cash and Carry (September 3) 026 Playing the Ponies (October 15) 027 The Sitter Downers (November 26)
1938
028 Termites of 1938 (January 7) 029 Wee Wee Monsieur (February 18) 030 Tassels in the Air (April 1) 031 Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb (May 20) 032 Violent Is the Word for Curly (July 2)
Disc Two
033 Three Missing Links (July 29) 034 Mutts to You (October 11) 035 Flat Foot Stooges (December 5)
1939
036 Three Little Sew and Sews (January 6) 037 We Want Our Mummy (February 24) 038 A Ducking They Did Go (April 7) 039 Yes, We Have No Bonanza (May 19) 040 Saved by the Belle (June 30) 041 Calling All Curs (August 25) 042 Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (October 6) 043 Three Sappy People (December 1)
Volume Three: 1940–1942
Disc One
1940
044 You Nazty Spy! (January 19) 045 Rockin' thru the Rockies (March 8) 046 A Plumbing We Will Go (April 19) 047 Nutty but Nice (June 14) 048 How High Is Up? (July 26) 049 From Nurse to Worse (August 23) 050 No Census, No Feeling (October 4) 051 Cookoo Cavaliers (November 15) 052 Boobs in Arms (December 27)