TVSquad

Here are the new TV DVDs, in stores tomorrow.

• Absolutely Fabulous - Absolutely Everything
• Cory in the House - New and Improved
• Degrassi: The Next Generation - Season 6
• Gunsmoke - Season 2, Vol. 2
• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe - Vol. 2
• Holocaust - Anniversary Edition
• The Invaders - Season 1
• The Jackie Gleason Show - The Honeymooners: Collection 3 (color)
• Lipstick Jungle - Season 1
• MonsterQuest - Season 1
• One Piece - Season 1, First Voyage (Uncut)
• Rawhide - Season 3, Vol. 1
• The Three Stooges Collection - Vol. 2: 1937-39
• Wing Chun - Complete Series

• Still no deal to have Letterman come back with everyone else in early January.
• What's it like to ride the subway with Anderson Cooper?
• Entertainment Weekly picks the Best and Worst TV of 2007.
• Michael Ausiello has a Festivus Christmas Wish List too.
• Former NBC newsman John Hockenberry is not happy with his former network.
• Who would win in a fight, Charlie's Angels or The Three Stooges?
• Did you know they once made animated versions of Lost in Space and That Girl?
• Remember Apple TV?

The sketch I've placed below is from The Mike Douglas Show and features Douglas, Soupy Sales and Moe Howard. The sketch is amusing, though not laugh-out-loud funny, but you may like it more than I did. Really, my main reason for posting it is that I'm a Three Stooges fan and I've never seen any of the Stooges outside of their old movie shorts. Seeing Moe in thick glasses and gray hair is both kind of cool and kind of weird. It's "cweridool," if you will. Will you? Thank you.

In the sketch, which according to Mark Evanier is based on an old Stooges bit, Moe serves as a translator for the "Maharjah." Hilarity ensues.

Speaking of The Three Stooges, Spike TV airs episodes in the wee hours of the morning. They're always worth an occasional Tivoing if I do say so myself. I especially like the one where Moe gets upset and hits Larry and Curly.

If any of you sexy, sexy readers of this blog plan to go out partying tonight, I hope you have fun and also stay safe. I recommend covering your entire body in bubble wrap and foam insulation.

Now then, if you find yourself at a party and somebody slaps a record on the turntable (because in my mind, all New Year's Eve parties take place in 1972) and everyone starts dancing, don't be scared. Maybe you don't have the best moves in the world, but there are plenty of dances perfect for folks like you and me, and I've provided you with two instructional videos below. The first is Soupy Sales doing "The Mouse" on Hullabaloo, and the second is "The Curly Shuffle," courtesy of the Three Stooges and the Jump 'N The Saddle Band. I hope you find these useful.

NOTE: The Soupy video has a weird audio glitch at the end, so don't crank your speakers up too loud.

Veteran TV and movie producer Herb Leonard died of cancer last night in Hollywood.

Besides directing the movies Going Home and The Perils of Pauline, and producing several movies including those two movies, Popi, and Friendly Persuasion, Leonard was also producer on three classic television shows: The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, The Naked City, and Route 66 (the original, not the remake in the 90s). Interestingly, he was a production manager on two famous serial dramas in the 40s and 50s: Atom Man vs. Superman, which became the Superman TV series, and Batman and Robin.

His last credits were Katts and Dog, a TV series in the late 80s, and a 1974 Three Stooges anthology film.