FOUND: LONG-LOST THREE STOOGES TV PILOT

FOUND: LONG-LOST THREE STOOGES TV PILOT

LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) -- This should "soitently" please fans of the Three Stooges: a long-lost 1949 TV pilot featuring Larry, Moe and Shemp is being released for the first time. The show, titled "Jerks Of All Trades," was filmed 50 years ago for a proposed ABC-TV series that would have featured the trio as bumbling handymen. The long-lost show never aired because the Stooges couldn't find a sponsor, so the unsold tape sat in producer Phil Berle's closet untouched for nearly 50 years. The tape was resurrected by Berle's son, Marshall, who also is the nephew of Milton Berle. Marshall says "Jerks Of All Trades" is the only known live recording of the Three Stooges and it demonstrates the knuckleheads' amazing ability to fingerpoke each other in front of a live audience.

CONTACT: Marshall Berle, ***1/2; Arrange with Fred Sherman; LA: (818) 766-2850