The Robonic Stooges

The Robonic Stooges is a series of animated segments as part of the Skatebirds television series, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions for CBS's Saturday morning children's programming block. It ran from 1977 to 1978, airing 32 episodes in total that spanned one season. When Skatebirds ended in early 1978, the series was given their own half-hour timeslot that ran for 16 episodes, airing alongside Woofer & Wimper, Dog Detectives.

In this strange twist on The Three Stooges, Moe, Larry and Curly work together as a team of cybernetic superheroes, and are given assignments from their boss Agent 000 of the Superhero Employment Agency.

Casting
Since all of the original Three Stooges had died when production began (Moe Howard and Larry Fine had both died in 1975, and Curly Howard died in 1952), other voice actors were used to impersonate them, mostly veteran voice actors from the Hanna-Barbera studio. Paul Winchell, Joe Baker and Frank Welker provided the voices of Moe, Larry and Curly, respectively. For Curly in particular, Welker used a similar voice impression to that of Jabberjaw, another character he was voicing at the time.

Music
The music was composed by Hoyt Curtin.

Episodes

 * Note: After the first sixteen episodes of the Robonic Stooges, it was spun-off into its own half-hour series, leaving the remaining sixteen episodes being part of its own series rather than the Skatebirds.

Cast

 * Joe Baker as Larry
 * Ross Martin as Agent 000
 * Frank Welker as Curly and Narrator
 * Paul Winchell as Moe

Legacy
American Mythology published three issues of The Robonic Stooges from 2021 to 2022.