This eighth volume of the THREE STOOGES COLLECTION marks the end of an era for a comedy team that to this day remains unparalleled in its success and popularity. In November of 1955 Shemp Howard died of a sudden heart attack, forcing Moe and Larry to use a stand-in(Joe Besser) for Shemp on some of the shorts. Columbia pictures closed its short-subjects unit in 1958, thus ending the Three Stooges' run after 24 years and 190 shorts; half a century later The Three Stooges are entertainment legends.