The New 3 Stooges is an American animated television series that ran during the 1965–66 television season starring the Three Stooges. The show follows the trio's antics both in live-action and animated segments. The cast consisted of Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Joe DeRita (as Curly-Joe), with actor and close friend Emil Sitka co-starring, as well as Margaret Kerry. The stories took place in varied settings, including Newport Beach and sailing as buccaneers on the Spanish Main.

Forty-one live-action sequences were executively overseen by cartoonist Norman Maurer, son-in-law of Moe Howard, serving as their film agent during this period. Additionally, Edward Bernds, who directed the team at Columbia Pictures from 1945 to 1952 (predominantly during the Shemp Howard era), was enlisted to both script and direct the series. Emil Sitka, a familiar figure from numerous Stooges comedies, was slated to feature in these wraparound segments, assuming the role of a straight man to the Stooges.

Under the auspices of Cambria Studios, 156 short Stooge cartoons were produced, under the supervision of Lee Orgel. Notably, four cartoons were meticulously crafted to thematically align with each of the 40 live-action Stooge opening and closing sequences. Consequently, a single live-action segment could seamlessly transition as a wraparound for four distinct cartoons. However, this format posed a challenge for viewers, as articulated by Joe DeRita:

There were 156 cartoons and we made only 40 live-action segments. So after they ran the whole 40, they'd just start over by using these same introductions on new cartoons. This turned out to be misleading because viewers would say, "Oh, I've seen this one before", and they'd turn off the television. They didn't know it was a new cartoon.

The majority of the cartoons culminated with the trio fleeing into the horizon following inadvertent chaos at their various employments and ensuing predicaments. Remarkably, these cartoons diverged from Cambria's customary employment of Syncro-Vox, a patented technique involving filmed footage of voice actors' mouths over still frames. The inaugural cartoon, "That Little Old Bomb Maker", featured a distinctive live-action wraparound that remained exclusive to that particular cartoon.

A number of the cartoons featured recurring characters, such as Badman, a juvenile antagonist sporting a Batman-esque attire, who paradoxically is a benevolent 5-year-old boy. Another recurring character was the western outlaw named Getoutoftownbysundown Brown.

To preclude potential licensing entanglements, Cambria abstained from employing any of the Stooges' theme songs, including "Three Blind Mice" and "Listen to the Mockingbird", despite their lapse into the public domain. Similarly, the on-screen titling employed a numeral "3" to circumvent potential infringement on any trademark held by Columbia Pictures regarding the name "The Three Stooges".

The New 3 Stooges represented a subsequent endeavor at animating the trio. In the late 1950s, Norman Maurer sought to market "Stooge Time", a hybrid live-action/rotoscope animation half-hour series for television. In 1960, Maurer and the Stooges filmed a pilot for The Three Stooges Scrapbook, a half-hour series incorporating a five-minute Stooge cartoon. The Stooges later revisited animated form for Hanna-Barbera, contributing to two episodes of The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972–74) and the series The Robonic Stooges (1977–78), the latter developed posthumously following the demise of both Moe Howard and Larry Fine.