List of Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes
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This page is a list of episodes for the American TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000
Mystery Science Theater 3000
Mystery Science Theater 3000 is an American cult television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Best Brains, Inc., that ran from 1988 to 1999....

. In total, 198 episodes were broadcast from 1988 to 1999.

Season index

Season Network Episodes Aired Notable events
0 KTMA-TV
WUCW
WUCW is an affiliate of The CW serving the Minneapolis-St. Paul area of Minnesota. The station is currently owned and operated by the Sinclair Broadcast Group....

21 1988–1989
1 The Comedy Channel
The Comedy Channel (United States)
The Comedy Channel was an all-comedy cable television network owned by Home Box Office, a division of Time Warner. It premiered on November 15, 1989 at 6 p.m. ET, and merged with Viacom's HA! to become CTV: The Comedy Network on April 1, 1991...

13 1989–1990 Introduction of Joel, Crow, Gypsy, Servo, Dr. Forrester and Dr. Erhardt
2 The Comedy Channel 13 1990–1991 TV's Frank replaces Dr. Erhardt.
Kevin Murphy replaces Josh Weinstein as the voice of Servo.
3 Comedy Central
Comedy Central
Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel that carries comedy programming, both original and syndicated....

24 1991–1992
4 Comedy Central 24 1992–1993
5 Comedy Central 24 1993–1994 Joel escapes the Satellite of Love; Mike becomes his replacement
6 Comedy Central 24 1994–1995 Introduction of Pearl Forrester; Death of TV's Frank
7 Comedy Central 6 1996 Dr. Forrester cuts the Satellite of Love loose and leaves the show
Feature film 1 1996
8 Sci Fi Channel
Syfy
Syfy , formerly known as the Sci-Fi Channel and SCI FI, is an American cable television channel featuring science fiction, supernatural, fantasy, reality, paranormal, wrestling, and horror programming. Launched on September 24, 1992, it is part of the entertainment conglomerate NBCUniversal, a...

22 1997 Introduction of Professor Bobo and Observer; Pearl Forrester takes over as the main antagonist.
Bill Corbett replaces Trace Beaulieu as the voice of Crow.
Patrick Brantseg replaces Jim Mallon as the voice of Gypsy.
9 Sci Fi Channel 13 1998 Pearl, Bobo, and Observer move into Castle Forrester
10 Sci Fi Channel 13 1999 At the end of the season the Satellite of Love crashes, returning everyone to Earth

Explanation of entries

Each entry starts with a code, which is its production number. Episodes are listed in production number order, not production order or air date order. The MST3K episode title is next, and if the original film title is different from the MST3K episode title, the former follows in parentheses. Also in parentheses is the film's initial release year, a color/black & white notation, the production company (if known), and the country of origin (if not the United States). The next field shows the initial MST3K airdate of the episode. The last column indicates whether the episode is available on DVD, and if so, the title of the DVD collection in which it appears. If the DVD is listed as "Out of print", it will mean the DVD is no longer available on Rhino's official website/Shout's official website and Mst3k's official website.

Because The Comedy Channel referred to their first series of MST3K as "Season 1", and Comedy Central and the Sci Fi Channel continued with this numbering, the 21 episodes aired on KTMA-TV are referred to by fans as "Season 0".

KTMA-TV

Episode Number Featured Film Original Airdate
Pilot The Green Slime
The Green Slime
is a 1968 science-fiction film produced by MGM in the United States and shot in Japan at the studios of Toei Company by director Kinji Fukasaku. The film was spearheaded by the same creative team who produced similar Italian outings including Wild, Wild Planet, Ivan Reiner and Walter...


1969, Color, Toei/MGM, Japan
None
K01 Invaders from the Deep
Stingray (TV series)
Stingray is a children's marionette television show, created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and produced by AP Films for ATV and ITC Entertainment from 1964–65. Its 39 half-hour episodes were originally screened on ITV in the UK and in syndication in the USA. The scriptwriters included Gerry and...


1981, Color, Incorporated Television Company (ITC), UK
1988-11-24
K02 Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars
Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars
Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars is a 1981 television film incorporating re-edited footage from the 1967 British Supermarionation television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons. Created by ITC Entertainment's New York offices, the film is a compilation of the original episodes "Shadow of...


(Captain Scarlet vs. the Mysterons)
1980, Color, Incorporated Television Company (ITC), UK
1988-11-24
K03 Star Force: Fugitive Alien 2
Star Wolf (TV series)
Star Wolf is a Japanese science fiction TV series inspired by the novel series bearing the same name, by American writer Edmond Hamilton...


1986, Color, Japan
1988-11-27
K04 Gamera vs. Barugon
Gamera vs. Barugon
is a 1966 daikaiju eiga featuring the giant turtle Gamera produced and distributed by Daiei Motion Picture Company. The film is the second to feature Gamera. Gamera vs. Barugon was released in the United States by AIP-TV as War of the Monsters, and then later by Sandy Frank as Gamera vs. Barugon...


(Daikaijû kessen: Gamera tai Barugon)
1966, Japan
1988-12-04
K05 Gamera
Gamera (film)
is a 1965 daikaiju eiga about a giant turtle named Gamera. The film is similar in nature to the popular Godzilla films, and is also the first in a series of films about Gamera...


(Daikaijû Gamera)
1966, Japan
1988-12-11
K06 Gamera vs. Gyaos
Gamera vs. Gyaos
is a 1967 daikaiju eiga featuring the giant turtle Gamera by the Daiei Motion Picture Company. Gamera vs. Gyaos was released in the United States by AIP-TV as Return of the Giant Monsters, and later by Sandy Frank as Gamera vs. Gaos...


(Gamera tai Gyaosu)
1967, Japan
1988-12-18
K07 Gamera vs. Zigra
Gamera vs. Zigra
is a 1971 kaiju film starring Gamera created by Daiei Motion Picture Company. Unlike previous Gamera sequels, Gamera vs. Zigra was not released by AIP-TV. Sandy Frank released the film to television and home video in the 1980s. It is one of five Gamera films featured on Mystery Science Theater...


(Gamera tai Shinkai kaijû Jigura)
1971, Japan
1988-12-31
K08 Gamera vs. Guiron
Gamera vs. Guiron
, is a 1969 kaiju film, the fifth entry in the original Gamera series. It was one of five Gamera films to be featured as episodes of movie-mocking television show Mystery Science Theater 3000.-Plot:...


(Gamera tai daikaijû Giron)
1969, Japan
1989-01-08
K09 Phase IV
Phase IV
Phase IV is an American science fiction film, made in 1974. It is the only feature-length film directed by the noted title designer Saul Bass. It starred Michael Murphy, Nigel Davenport and Lynne Frederick....


1974, Color, Paramount
1989-01-15
K10 Cosmic Princess
1976, edited 1982, Color, Group 3 Ltd, UK
1989-01-22
K11 Humanoid Woman
(Cherez ternii k zvyozdam)
1981, Color, Maxim Gorky Filmstudio, USSR
1989-01-29
K12 Fugitive Alien
1978 or 1986, Japan
1989-02-05
K13 SST: Death Flight
SST: Death Flight
SST Death Flight is a 1977 made-for-TV movie produced by ABC Circle Films. It featured an all-star television cast and was directed by David Lowell Rich, who went on to direct The Concorde ... Airport '79...


1977, Color, ABC Circle Films
1989-02-19
K14 Mighty Jack
Mighty Jack
was a tokusatsu SF/espionage/action TV series. Created by Japanese effects wizard Eiji Tsuburaya, the show was produced by Tsuburaya Productions and was broadcast on Fuji TV from April 6, 1968 to June 29, 1968, with a total of 13 one-hour episodes...


1968, prod. 1987, Japan
1989-03-05
K15 Superdome
Superdome (film)
Superdome is a 1978 made for TV drama movie. It premiered on ABC as part of The ABC Monday Night Movie series and was used to promote Super Bowl XII...


1978, Color (TV), ABC Circle Films
1989-03-12
K16 City on Fire
City on Fire (1979 film)
City on Fire is a 1979 disaster film directed by Alvin Rakoff and featuring an “all-star cast,” as was the custom for that time. The film’s plot revolves around a disgruntled employee who sets fire to an oil refinery, setting off a blaze which engulfs an entire city. Various people try to either...


1979, Color, Astral, Canada
1989-03-19
K17 Time of the Apes
1974, rel. 1987, Color, Tsuburaya Productions, Japan
1989-04-02
K18 The Million Eyes of Sumuru
The Million Eyes of Sumuru
The Million Eyes of Sumuru is a 1967 spy film produced by Harry Alan Towers and directed by Lindsay Shonteff, starring Frankie Avalon and George Nader, with Shirley Eaton as the titular Sumuru. It was based on a series of novels by Sax Rohmer about a megalomaniac femme fatale. The film was released...


1967, Color, AIP
1989-05-07
K19 Hangar 18
Hangar 18 (film)
Hangar 18 is a 1980 science fiction film that was released to capitalize on the UFO interest of the era. The film itself carries ties to Area 51, as well as ufology. Although it flopped , it tantalized those who saw government cover-ups of UFOs...


1980, Color, Taft International
1989-05-14
K20 The Last Chase
The Last Chase
The Last Chase is a 1981 science fiction film starring Lee Majors, Burgess Meredith and Chris Makepeace, and directed by Martyn Burke. It was produced by Argosy Films.-Plot:The setting is the USA at an unspecified future time...


1981, Color, Crown International
1989-05-21
K21 Legend of the Dinosaurs
(Kyôryuu: Kaichô no densetsu)
1977, Color, Toei Company Ltd, Japan
1989-05-28

Season 1

Ep. # Featured Film Original Airdate DVD Availability
101 The Crawling Eye
The Trollenberg Terror
The Trollenberg Terror is the title of both a 1956 "Saturday Serial" ITV UK television programme and a better-known 1958 black and white science fiction film. The latter is also known as The Crawling Eye, Creature from Another World, The Creeping Eye, and The Flying Eye...


(The Trollenberg Terror)
(1958, B&W, DCA, England)
Unknown MST3K Collection, Volume XVII
A mutant extraterrestrial eye is ravaging the Swiss Alps. A UN troubleshooter and a scientist use a young psychic to aid their investigation.
102 The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy
The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy
The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy is a 1958 Mexican film directed by Rafael Portillo, starring Ramón Gay and Rosa Arenas. It blends elements of science fiction and horror...


(La momia azteca contra el robot humano)
(1959, B&W, K. Gordon Murray, Mexico)
Unknown MST3K Collection, Volume XV
(Short: Radar Men from the Moon
Radar Men from the Moon
Radar Men from the Moon is the first Commando Cody serial, in 12 chapters, starring newcomer George Wallace as Cody and Aline Towne as his sidekick Joan Gilbert, with serial veteran Roy Barcroft as the evil Retik, the Ruler of the Moon. The director was Fred C...

, Part 1: "Moon Rocket") A mad scientist wants to steal a mummy's treasure, and builds a robot to handle the dirty deed. The short, the first of nine installments of Republic serial
Serial (film)
Serials, more specifically known as Movie serials, Film serials or Chapter plays, were short subjects originally shown in theaters in conjunction with a feature film. They were related to pulp magazine serialized fiction...

 Radar Men from the Moon, introduces "Commando Cody
Commando Cody
Commando Cody was the hero in a 12-episode science-fiction serial made in 1952 by Republic Pictures entitled Radar Men from the Moon, which was followed up 1953 with the 12 episode Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe....

", a scientist who dons a helmet and jet pack when not flying his bullet-shaped spaceship, to thwart the evil plans of Moon Men and their criminal associates to take over the Earth.
103 The Mad Monster
The Mad Monster
The Mad Monster is an American horror film released in 1942 by P.R.C. , a Poverty Row studio. The film, a B-movie shot in black and white, features a mad scientist and a werewolf as the main characters. Directed by Sam Newfield and written by Fred Myton, the film—Poverty Row's only Werewolf...


(1942, B&W, PRC)
Unknown MST3K Collection, Volume XIV
(Short: Radar Men from the Moon, Part 2: "Molten Terror") A mad scientist experimenting with wolf blood injects his concoction into his assistant, who then turns into a werewolf. The assistant then is forced to silence the scientist's critics.
104 Women of the Prehistoric Planet
Women of the Prehistoric Planet
Women of the Prehistoric Planet is a 1966 film. It was featured in the first season of Mystery Science Theater 3000 in 1989.-Plot:A spacefaring crew from an advanced civilization is preparing to return home after an extended voyage...


(1966, Color, Realart)
Unknown MST3K Collection, Volume 9 (out of print)
A marooned spaceship on a strange planet leaves only a young boy as the survivor. The boy grows up into manhood, and when the rescue ship comes along he takes one of the rescue women as his companion. The departing rescue ship names the planet "Earth."
Despite its production number, this was the last episode produced for season one. That means this episode features the final appearance of Josh Weinstein
J. Elvis Weinstein
Josh "J. Elvis" Weinstein is an American writer and performer, best known for his roles as Dr. Laurence Erhardt and the original puppeteer and voice for Tom Servo on Mystery Science Theater 3000.-Mystery Science Theater 3000:...

 as Tom Servo
Tom Servo
Tom Servo is a fictional character from the American science fiction comedy television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 . Tom is one of two wise-cracking, robotic main characters of the show, built by Joel Robinson to act as a companion and help stave off space madness as Joel was forced to watch...

 and Dr. Laurence Erhardt.
105 The Corpse Vanishes
The Corpse Vanishes
The Corpse Vanishes is a 1942 American mystery and horror film directed by Wallace Fox. The screenplay was written by Harvey Gates. The film stars Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist who injects his aging wife with fluids from virginal young brides in order to preserve her beauty...


(1942, B&W, Monogram)
Unknown MST3K Collection, Volume XVI
(Short: Radar Men from the Moon, Part 3: "Bridge of Death") A botanist (Bela Lugosi
Béla Lugosi
Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó , commonly known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian actor of stage and screen. He was best known for having played Count Dracula in the Broadway play and subsequent film version, as well as having starred in several of Ed Wood's low budget films in the last years of his...

) uses the blood of brides to create a youth potion for his elderly wife.
106 The Crawling Hand
The Crawling Hand
The Crawling Hand is a 1963 science fiction film directed by Herbert L. Strock, and starring Rod Lauren, Peter Breck, Allison Hayes, and Alan Hale, Jr...


(1963, B&W, AIP)
Unknown Standalone DVD (out of print)
An astronaut's capsule crashes in the ocean and his severed hand (controlled by an unknown alien force) washes up on a beach, where it is found by a moody teen. Soon both are on respective rampages. With Peter Breck
Peter Breck
Joseph Peter Breck is an American prolific character actor of stage, who has played roles on television and in film...

 as a scientist, and Alan Hale, Jr.
Alan Hale, Jr.
Alan Hale, Jr. was an American film and television actor, best known for his role as Skipper on the popular sitcom Gilligan's Island. Hale was the lookalike son of popular supporting film actor Alan Hale, Sr....

 as a local sheriff.
107 Robot Monster
Robot Monster
Robot Monster is a 1953 American science fiction film made in 3-D by Phil Tucker. It is frequently considered one of the worst films ever made.- Plot :...


(1953, B&W [3-D], Astor)
Unknown MST3K Collection, Volume XIX
(Shorts: Radar Men from the Moon, Part 4: "Flight to Destruction"; Part 5: "Murder Car") The survivors of an apocalyptic event attempt to escape the alien robot sent to finish the job.
108 The Slime People
(1964, B&W, Hansen Enterprises)
Unknown None
(Short: Radar Men from the Moon, Part 6: "Hills of Death") Nuclear tests near Los Angeles awaken sleeping monsters, who head to the city.
109 Project Moonbase
Project Moonbase
Project Moonbase is a black-and-white 1953 science fiction film directed by Richard Talmadge. The film is also known as Project Moon Base and is based on a story by Robert A. Heinlein, who shares screenwriting credit...


(1953, B&W, Lippert)
1990-01-06 MST3K Collection, Volume XX
(Shorts: Radar Men from the Moon, Part 7: "Camouflaged Destruction"; Part 8: "The Enemy Planet") In the then-future of 1970, a space station deals with a communist spy who is sabotaging projects.
110 Robot Holocaust
Robot Holocaust
-Plot summary:Neo, a drifter from the atomic-blasted wastelands, and his klutzy robot sidekick, arrive at a factory where slaves labor to fuel the Dark One's Power Station. He meets a woman who convinces him to help rescue her father, a scientist who invented a device that can break the Dark One's...


(1986, Color, Tycill Entertainment/MGM)
Unknown None
(Short: Radar Men from the Moon, Part 9: "Battle in the Stratosphere") In the future, a group of renegades fight to free mankind by battling the Dark One, the Room of Questions, the Vault of Beasts, and other menacing creations.
The short is interrupted in mid-episode, with the Mads claiming technical difficulties.
111 Moon Zero Two
Moon Zero Two
Moon Zero Two is a science fiction film produced by Hammer Films and released in 1969. It was billed as a 'space western' and followed shortly after the release of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968...


(1969, Color, Hammer/Warner, England)
Unknown None
On a colonized moon, a disaffected astronaut-turned-cargo hauler hooks up with a woman who has come looking for her brother, a miner working a distant patch of moonscape.
112 Untamed Youth
Untamed Youth
Untamed Youth is a 1957 film starring Mamie Van Doren and released by Warner Bros. The film has been featured on an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.-Plot:...


(1957, B&W, Warner)
Unknown None
Two hitchhiking sisters (one played by Mamie Van Doren
Mamie Van Doren
Mamie Van Doren is an American actress and singer; who rose to popularity as Universal Pictures's version of 20th Century Fox's Marilyn Monroe....

) are sentenced to 30 days labor at a cotton farm run by the corrupt county government.
113 The Black Scorpion
The Black Scorpion (film)
The Black Scorpion is a 1957 American horror film released by Warner Brothers, with stop motion special effects done by Willis O'Brien.-Plot:...


(1957, B&W, Warner)
1990-02-03 None
Giant black scorpions emerge after a Mexican volcano eruption and go on a rampage.

Season 2

Ep. # Featured Film Original Airdate DVD Availability
201 Rocketship X-M
Rocketship X-M
Rocketship X-M was the second of the American science fiction feature films of the space adventure genre begun in the post-war era, in 1950...


(1950, B&W, Lippert)
1990-09-22 None
A rocketship is accidentally diverted from the Moon to Mars, where the crew finds the ruins of a Martian civilization and a band of rogue survivors. Starring Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Bridges
Lloyd Vernet Bridges, Jr. was an American actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. Bridges is best known for his role of Mike Nelson in Sea Hunt, the most-popular syndicated American TV series in 1958...


New sets and new intro theme visuals. First appearance of Frank Conniff
Frank Conniff
Frank Conniff is a writer and actor who is perhaps best known for his portrayal of TV's Frank on Mystery Science Theater 3000 .-Early work:...

 as TV's Frank
TV's Frank
TV's Frank, played by Frank Conniff, is a fictional character, mad scientist Dr. Clayton Forrester's lab assistant in the television comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000. He appears at the beginning of Season 2, with the departure of Forrester's earlier co-scientist Dr. Laurence Erhardt, and...

. First appearance of Kevin Murphy
Kevin Murphy (actor)
Kevin Wagner Murphy is an American actor and writer best known as the voice and puppeteer of Tom Servo on the Peabody Award-winning comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000.- Early career :...

 as Tom Servo
Tom Servo
Tom Servo is a fictional character from the American science fiction comedy television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 . Tom is one of two wise-cracking, robotic main characters of the show, built by Joel Robinson to act as a companion and help stave off space madness as Joel was forced to watch...

. First guest appearance by new head writer Michael J. Nelson
Michael J. Nelson
Michael John Nelson is a U.S. comedian and writer, most famous for his work on the cult television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 . Nelson was the head writer of the series for most of the show's 11-year run, and spent half of that time playing the on-air host, also named Mike Nelson...

, here playing Valeria from
Robot Holocaust.
202 The Sidehackers
Sidehackers
The Sidehackers is a 1969 action film about motorcycle racing with a twist. Each motorcycle has a sidehack , in which a passenger rides and tilts to one side or another when going around curves...


(Five the Hard Way)
(1969, Color, Crown International)
1990-09-29 MST3K Collection, Volume 3 (out print)
Two motorcycle racers meet at a competition and become the victims of manipulation by a girlfriend who wants to change partners.
The original film featured a flashback involving a character being raped prior to her death. This reportedly shocked the writers, who had not watched the entire film before production on the episode had begun. In the episode, neither this nor any shots of the character's body were shown. Crow covers up for the resulting plot gap by mentioning afterward that the character is dead.
203 Jungle Goddess
(1948, B&W, Lippert)
1990-10-06 None
(Short: The Phantom Creeps
The Phantom Creeps
The Phantom Creeps is a 1939 serial about a mad scientist who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions. In a dramatic fashion, foreign agents and G-Men try to seize the inventions for themselves....

, Chapter 1: "The Menacing Power") Two pilots set out to find a woman lost in remote Africa to gain a reward. They find her being worshiped by a native tribe. The short is the first of several episodes of the 1939 serial The Phantom Creeps, starring Bela Lugosi
Béla Lugosi
Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó , commonly known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian actor of stage and screen. He was best known for having played Count Dracula in the Broadway play and subsequent film version, as well as having starred in several of Ed Wood's low budget films in the last years of his...

 as a mad scientist bent on world domination.
204 Catalina Caper
Catalina Caper
Catalina Caper is a 1967 comedy musical mystery film starring Tommy Kirk. It is one of the last in the beach party film genre. This entry blends the beach format with a standard crime-caper comedy...


(1967, Color, Crown International)
1990-10-13 MST3K Collection, Volume 1 (out of print)
Two college boys enjoy Catalina Island
Santa Catalina Island, California
Santa Catalina Island, often called Catalina Island, or just Catalina, is a rocky island off the coast of the U.S. state of California. The island is long and across at its greatest width. The island is located about south-southwest of Los Angeles, California. The highest point on the island is...

 sunshine, scuba diving
Scuba diving
Scuba diving is a form of underwater diving in which a diver uses a scuba set to breathe underwater....

, and beach "bunnies", while another boy's con-artist parents scheme to sell a stolen scroll. Beach Party
Beach Party
Beach Party was the first of several beach party films from American International Pictures aimed at a teen audience. It was directed by William Asher and written by Lou Rusoff. The main actors included Robert Cummings, Dorothy Malone, Frankie Avalon, and Annette Funicello...

-style entertainment, starring Tommy Kirk
Tommy Kirk
Thomas Lee "Tommy" Kirk is a former American actor, and later a businessman.-Disney years:Kirk was discovered by talent agents at the age of thirteen in a production of Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California...

 and featuring Lyle Waggoner
Lyle Waggoner
Lyle Wesley Waggoner is an American actor and former model, best known for his work on The Carol Burnett Show from 1967 to 1974 and for playing the role of Steve Trevor in the Wonder Woman television series from 1975 to 1979...

. Singers Little Richard
Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman , known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. He was also the first artist to put the funk in the rock and roll beat and...

, The Cascades, and Carol Connors provide musical diversions.
205 Rocket Attack U.S.A.
(1961, B&W, Exploit Films)
1990-10-27 None
(Short: The Phantom Creeps, Chapter 2: "Death Stalks the Highway") The U.S. sends spies to the Soviet Union to discover imminent missile-attack plans, while trying to play catch-up with its own missile program.
For this and the next episode, Servo has been given a "haircut": His normally round gumball dispenser head has been replaced by a clear cylinder. This was the first episode to feature a "stinger" (an amusing moment from the film) following the closing credits.
206 Ring of Terror
(1962, B&W, Ashcroft)
1990-11-03 MST3K Collection, Volume 11
(Short: The Phantom Creeps, Part 3: "Crashing Timbers") A seemingly fearless college kid must steal a ring from a dead man to join a fraternity
Fraternities and sororities
Fraternities and sororities are fraternal social organizations for undergraduate students. In Latin, the term refers mainly to such organizations at colleges and universities in the United States, although it is also applied to analogous European groups also known as corporations...

.
The short follows the movie, rather than preceding it as was normally done on the series. This was also the last installment of The Phantom Creeps shown.
207 Wild Rebels
Wild Rebels
Wild Rebels is a 1967 film directed by William Grefe. It was featured as an episode of movie-mocking television series Mystery Science Theater 3000, and was released on the Collection, Volume 9 box set. The tag line for the movie was "They live for kicks... love for kicks.....


(1967, Color, Crown International)
1990-11-17 MST3K Collection, Volume 9 (out of print)
A retired race car driver, talked into going undercover by the police, joins a biker gang and must serve as the getaway car driver.
208 Lost Continent
Lost Continent (1951 film)
The Lost Continent is an American science fiction film, starring Cesar Romero and Hillary Brooke directed by Sam Newfield and produced by his brother Sigmund Neufeld. This low budget independent film was shot in eleven days. The footage on the plateau where the dinosaurs lived was printed with...


(1951, B&W, Lippert)
1990-11-24 MST3K Collection, Volume XVIII
An American military/science team searches for a downed rocket in a dinosaur-infested jungle at the top of a remote mountain. Starring Cesar Romero
Cesar Romero
Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. was an American film and television actor who was active in film, radio, and television for almost sixty years...

 and Hugh Beaumont
Hugh Beaumont (actor)
Eugene Hugh Beaumont was an American actor and television director. He was also licensed to preach by the Methodist church...

.
209 The Hellcats
The Hellcats
The Hellcats, also known as Biker Babes, is a 1967 outlaw biker film. It was featured on the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 ....


(1968, Color, Crown International)
1990-12-08 Standalone DVD (out of print)
After a cop is killed by a drug boss, his fiancée and brother join a drug-running woman-led biker gang to uncover the boss's operation and get justice.
210 King Dinosaur
King Dinosaur
King Dinosaur is a 1955 science fiction film starring William Bryant and Wanda Curtis with narration by Marvin Miller. In this film, four astronauts in 1960 travel to a planet called Nova that has just entered Earth's solar system. The crew begins to study the planet to see if it's able to...


(1955, B&W, Lippert)
1990-12-22 None
(Short: X Marks the Spot) Two carefully chosen scientist couples investigate a mysterious new planet and are menaced by dinosaurs. The short reviews the vehicular misdeeds of an accident victim in Heaven's courtroom, New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

 branch.
211 First Spaceship on Venus
First Spaceship on Venus
First Spaceship on Venus, German: Der schweigende Stern , Polish: Milcząca Gwiazda, is a 1960 East German/Polish film directed by Kurt Maetzig and based on the novel The Astronauts by Stanisław Lem...


(Der Schweigende Stern)
(1960, Color, DEFA (GDR) /Iluzjon Filmunit, East Germany/Poland)
1990-12-29 MST3K 20th Anniversary Edition
A multinational team of astronauts heads to Venus, but finds a world destroyed by nuclear war.
212 Godzilla vs. Megalon
Godzilla vs. Megalon
is a 1973 Japanese science fiction kaiju film directed and co-written by Jun Fukuda with special effects by Teruyoshi Nakano. It was the thirteenth film in the Godzilla franchise...


(Gojira tai Megaro)
(1973, Color, Toho/Cinema Shares, Japan)
1991-01-19 MST3K Collection, Volume 10 (out of print)
Mutant dinosaur Godzilla
Godzilla
is a daikaijū, a Japanese movie monster, first appearing in Ishirō Honda's 1954 film Godzilla. Since then, Godzilla has gone on to become a worldwide pop culture icon starring in 28 films produced by Toho Co., Ltd. The monster has appeared in numerous other media incarnations including video games,...

 and size-changing robot Jet Jaguar
Jet Jaguar
is a fictional character who appears in the Godzilla film Godzilla vs. Megalon .-History:In Godzilla vs. Megalon, Jet Jaguar is a robot created by the protagonist, Goro Ibuki. He is initially depicted as a mindless automaton, and is controlled by the evil Seatopians for most of the film...

 battle Seatopian god Megalon and alien cyborg Gigan
Gigan
is a kaiju from the Godzilla series, introduced in the 1972 film Godzilla vs. Gigan. Gigan is a cybernetic monster sporting a buzzsaw weapon in its frontal abdominal region and large metallic hooks for hands. Gigan is considered Godzilla's most brutal and violent opponent, alongside Destroyah,...

, bent on razing the planet for the underground civilization of Seatopia.
213 Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster
Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster
Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, released in Japan as and known internationally as Ebirah, Horror of the Deep, is a 1966 science fiction kaiju film directed by Jun Fukuda and written by Shinichi Sekizawa. This is the first film in the series with special effects directed by Sadamasa Arikawa...


(Gojira-Ebira-Mosura: Nankai no daiketto)
(1966, Color, AIP-TV/Toho-Continental, Japan)
1991-02-02 None
Godzilla
Godzilla
is a daikaijū, a Japanese movie monster, first appearing in Ishirō Honda's 1954 film Godzilla. Since then, Godzilla has gone on to become a worldwide pop culture icon starring in 28 films produced by Toho Co., Ltd. The monster has appeared in numerous other media incarnations including video games,...

 and giant moth Mothra
Mothra
is a kaiju, a type of fictional monster who first appeared in the serialized novel The Luminous Fairies and Mothra by Takehiko Fukunaga, Shinichiro Nakamura, and Yoshie Hotta...

 battle giant crustacean Ebirah
Ebirah
, is a fictional kaiju that first appeared in the Showa Godzilla film Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster. He is one of the two main antagonists of the film.-Showa series:...

.

Season 3

Ep. # Featured Film Original Airdate DVD Availability
301 Cave Dwellers
(The Blade Master)
(1984, Color, Metaxa Film/New Line Cinema/Royal Film Traders, Italy/USA)
1991-06-01 MST3K Collection, Volume 2 (out of print)
Hero Ator (Miles O'Keeffe
Miles O'Keeffe
Miles O'Keeffe is a television and movie actor. O'Keeffe got his first big break playing the title role in the 1981 version of Tarzan, the Ape Man.-Early life:...

) helps a warrior woman rescue her father from an evil overlord.
302 Gamera
(1965, B&W, Daiei, Japan) (Daikaijû Gamera)
1991-06-08 MST3K vs. Gamera Volume XXI
A military plane crashes in the Arctic, awakening giant turtle Gamera
Gamera
is a giant, flying turtle from a popular series of kaiju films produced by Daiei Motion Picture Company in Japan. Created in 1965 to rival the success of Toho Studios' Godzilla during the daikaiju boom of the mid-to-late 1960s, Gamera has gained fame and notoriety as a Japanese icon in his own...

. It attacks Japan, yet seemingly befriends a young boy.
303 Pod People
(Los nuevos extraterrestres)
(1984, Color)
1991-06-15 MST3K Collection, Volume 2 (out of print)
A child adopts a large egg which hatches into a mischievous alien, while a group of pop musicians on a wilderness vacation runs into trouble.
304 Gamera vs. Barugon
Gamera vs. Barugon
is a 1966 daikaiju eiga featuring the giant turtle Gamera produced and distributed by Daiei Motion Picture Company. The film is the second to feature Gamera. Gamera vs. Barugon was released in the United States by AIP-TV as War of the Monsters, and then later by Sandy Frank as Gamera vs. Barugon...


(Daikaijû kessen: Gamera tai Barugon)
(1966, Daiei/AIP-TV, Japan)
1991-06-22 MST3K vs. Gamera Volume XXI
A group of men collude to steal a giant jewel from an Asian jungle. The jewel is actually an egg, which hatches into mutant lizard Barugon, who battles Gamera.
305 Stranded in Space
The Stranger (1973 film)
The Stranger, also known as Stranded in Space, is a television movie made in 1973 as a pilot for a new television series, but was never picked up by a network. It was directed by Lee H...


(The Stranger)
(1973, Color (TV) (NBC), Bing Crosby Productions)
1991-06-29 None
A sci-fi TV pilot, about an astronaut who winds up on a totalitarian Earth look-alike and tries to return home.
306 Time of the Apes
(Japan release 1974; USA release 1987; Color, Tsuburaya Productions, Japan)
1991-07-06 MST3K Collection, Volume XXII
A woman and two children take refuge in cryogenic capsules, only to awake as fugitives in a world populated by apes.
307 Daddy-O
Daddy-O
Daddy-O is a 1958 B-movie starring Dick Contino. It was directed by Lou Place and written by David Moessinger. The film is notable for its soundtrack as being the debut film score for composer John Williams...


(1959, B&W, Imperial AIP)
1991-07-13 None
(Short: Alphabet Antics) A drag-racing crooner (Dick Contino
Dick Contino
Dick Contino is an American accordionist and singer.Contino studied accordion primarily with San Francisco-based Angelo Cognazzo, and occasionally with Los Angeles-based Guido Deiro. Early on he exhibited great virtuosity on the instrument...

) investigates his friend's death and becomes a courier for drug dealers. The educational short takes viewers on a rhyming tour of the English alphabet
English alphabet
The modern English alphabet is a Latin alphabet consisting of 26 letters and 2 ligatures – the same letters that are found in the Basic modern Latin alphabet:...

.
308 Gamera vs. Gyaos
Gamera vs. Gyaos
is a 1967 daikaiju eiga featuring the giant turtle Gamera by the Daiei Motion Picture Company. Gamera vs. Gyaos was released in the United States by AIP-TV as Return of the Giant Monsters, and later by Sandy Frank as Gamera vs. Gaos...


(Gamera tai Gyaosu)
(1967, Daiei/AIP-TV, Japan)
1991-07-20 MST3K vs. Gamera Volume XXI
Gamera fights the pterodactyl-like Gyaos
Gyaos
, is the name of several daikaiju from Daiei's Gamera film series, introduced in their 1967 production Gamera vs. Gyaos and one of Gamera's most famous opponents...

.
309 The Amazing Colossal Man
The Amazing Colossal Man
The Amazing Colossal Man is a 1957 black-and-white science fiction film, directed by Bert I. Gordon and starring Glenn Langan. The film revolves around a 60 foot mutant man produced as the result of an atomic accident....


(1957, B&W, AIP)
1991-07-27 VHS only (out of print)
A military officer is accidentally exposed to an atomic blast, turning him into a giant.
310 Fugitive Alien
Star Wolf (TV series)
Star Wolf is a Japanese science fiction TV series inspired by the novel series bearing the same name, by American writer Edmond Hamilton...


(Star Wolf)
(Japan TV-series 1978; USA film 1986, Color, Sandy Frank/Tsuburaya, Japan)
1991-08-17 None
Movie constructed from two episodes of a Japanese television show. An alien marauder named Ken becomes a fugitive from his planet Valnar's Star, then joins the Earth spaceship Bacchus 3 to fight against his former masters.
311 It Conquered the World
It Conquered the World
It Conquered the World is a 1956 American science fiction film about an alien from Venus trying to take over the world with the help of a disillusioned human scientist. It was directed by Roger Corman, written by Lou Rusoff , and starred Peter Graves, Lee Van Cleef, Beverly Garland, and Sally...


(1956, B&W, AIP)
1991-08-24 None
(Short: Snow Thrills) With the help of a naive scientist (Lee Van Cleef
Lee Van Cleef
Lee Van Cleef was an American film actor who appeared mostly in Western and action pictures. His sharp features and piercing eyes led to his being cast as a villain in scores of films such as High Noon, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Good The Bad and the Ugly.-Early life:Van Cleef was...

), an alien from Venus invades Earth and attempts to turn humans into emotionless servants. With Peter Graves
Peter Graves (actor)
Peter Aurness , known professionally as Peter Graves, was an American film and television actor. He was best known for his starring role in the CBS television series Mission: Impossible from 1967 to 1973...

 and Beverly Garland
Beverly Garland
Beverly Garland was an American film and television actress, businesswoman, and hotel owner. Garland gained prominence for her role as Fred MacMurray's second wife, "Barbara Harper Douglas", in the 1960s sitcom My Three Sons...

. The short is a newsreel
Newsreel
A newsreel was a form of short documentary film prevalent in the first half of the 20th century, regularly released in a public presentation place and containing filmed news stories and items of topical interest. It was a source of news, current affairs and entertainment for millions of moviegoers...

 featuring a wide variety of winter sports.
312 Gamera vs. Guiron
Gamera vs. Guiron
, is a 1969 kaiju film, the fifth entry in the original Gamera series. It was one of five Gamera films to be featured as episodes of movie-mocking television show Mystery Science Theater 3000.-Plot:...


(Gamera tai daikaijû Giron)
(1969, Daiei/AIP-TV, Japan)
1991-09-07 MST3K vs. Gamera Volume XXI
Female brain-eating aliens abduct two boys from Japan. Gamera attempts to rescue them, but must fight the cyborg monster Guiron.
313 Earth vs the Spider
(1958, B&W, AIP)
1991-09-21 None
(Short: Speech: Using Your Voice) Teenagers discover a giant spider, which rampages through a small town. The short demonstrates the do's and don'ts of public speaking.
314 Mighty Jack
Mighty Jack
was a tokusatsu SF/espionage/action TV series. Created by Japanese effects wizard Eiji Tsuburaya, the show was produced by Tsuburaya Productions and was broadcast on Fuji TV from April 6, 1968 to June 29, 1968, with a total of 13 one-hour episodes...


(1968, prod. 1987, Japan)
1991-09-28 MST3K Collection, Volume XXII
A world-protecting organization and their flying submarine – both called "Mighty Jack" – fight the terrorist organization "Q". Movie constructed from the first and last episodes of a Japanese TV show.
315 Teenage Cave Man
Teenage Cave Man
Teenage Cave Man is the name of a 1958 science fiction film directed by Roger Corman. It was shot as Prehistoric World, but was changed by American International Pictures to its final title. Years later in an interview, Corman stated "I never directed a film called Teenage Caveman"...


(1958, B&W, AIP)
1991-11-09 None
(Shorts: Aquatic Wizards, Catching Trouble) In a prehistoric world, a teenager (Robert Vaughn
Robert Vaughn
Robert Francis Vaughn, , is an American actor noted for stage, film and television work. His best known roles include the suave spy Napoleon Solo in the 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., wealthy detective Harry Rule in the 1970s television series The Protectors, Albert Stroller in...

) rails against the seemingly arbitrary laws of his caveman tribe to explore the forbidden world around him.
Aquatic Wizards is a newsreel
Newsreel
A newsreel was a form of short documentary film prevalent in the first half of the 20th century, regularly released in a public presentation place and containing filmed news stories and items of topical interest. It was a source of news, current affairs and entertainment for millions of moviegoers...

 about water-skiing acrobatics.
Catching Trouble (1936) features trapper Ross Allen
Ross Allen (herpetologist)
Ensil Ross Allen was an American herpetologist and writer. Born in Pennsylvania, Ross relocated to Florida with his family when he was a teenager. As a young man, Allen made a hobby of capturing turtles, snakes and other reptiles near his home in central Florida.Allen began the Reptile Institute...

 demonstrating his prowess at catching animals in the Florida Everglades
Everglades
The Everglades are subtropical wetlands in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Florida, comprising the southern half of a large watershed. The system begins near Orlando with the Kissimmee River, which discharges into the vast but shallow Lake Okeechobee...

.
316 Gamera vs. Zigra
Gamera vs. Zigra
is a 1971 kaiju film starring Gamera created by Daiei Motion Picture Company. Unlike previous Gamera sequels, Gamera vs. Zigra was not released by AIP-TV. Sandy Frank released the film to television and home video in the 1980s. It is one of five Gamera films featured on Mystery Science Theater...


(Gamera tai Shinkai kaijû Jigura)
(1971, Color, Daiei, Japan)
1991-10-19 MST3K vs. Gamera Volume XXI
Gamera fights shark-like alien Zigra, who, with the help of a woman under his control, attempts to take over Earth from its polluting inhabitants.
317 Viking Women and the Sea Serpent
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent is a 1957 film directed by Roger Corman. It starred Abby Dalton, Susan Cabot, and June Kenney. The film was featured in an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.-External links:*...


(The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent)
(1957, B&W, AIP)
1991-10-26 None
(Short: The Home Economics Story) Vikings' wives set sail to rescue their husbands, who are being held hostage by Grimolt warriors. In the 1951 short, four young women learn the value of home economics degrees.
318 Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
Star Wolf (TV series)
Star Wolf is a Japanese science fiction TV series inspired by the novel series bearing the same name, by American writer Edmond Hamilton...


(Star Wolf)
(Japan TV-series 1978; USA film 1986, Color, Sandy Frank/Tsuburaya Productions, Japan)
1991-11-16 None
Sequel to Fugitive Alien. In this installment, Ken and the Bacchus 3 crew are ordered to destroy an alien superweapon, then move on to attack Valnar's Star itself.
319 War of the Colossal Beast
War of the Colossal Beast
War of the Colossal Beast is a 1958 black-and-white science fiction film, directed by Bert I. Gordon and produced by Carmel Productions and distributed by American International Pictures. It continued the storyline of the 1957 movie The Amazing Colossal Man, although it was not marketed as a direct...


(1958, B&W and Color, AIP)
1991-11-30 None
(Short: Mr. B Natural
Mr. B Natural
Mr. B Natural is a short sponsored film produced in 1956 by Kling Film Productions for the C.G. Conn Company, directed by Phil Patton. It is also the name of film's main character, played by Betty Luster....

) In the sequel to The Amazing Colossal Man
The Amazing Colossal Man
The Amazing Colossal Man is a 1957 black-and-white science fiction film, directed by Bert I. Gordon and starring Glenn Langan. The film revolves around a 60 foot mutant man produced as the result of an atomic accident....

, Glenn Manning is found ravaging Mexico, looking for food. He is then captured and brought back to the United States. The short is about a magical pixie who urges an adolescent boy to take up a musical instrument.
320 The Unearthly
The Unearthly
The Unearthly is a science fiction/horror film written by Jane Mann and John D.F. Black, with characters originally created by Edward D. Wood, Jr....


(1957, Republic, B&W)
1991-12-14 MST3K Collection, Volume 3 (out of print), Standalone DVD
(Shorts: Posture Pals, Appreciating Our Parents) A surgeon (John Carradine
John Carradine
John Carradine was an American actor, best known for his roles in horror films and Westerns as well as Shakespearean theater. A member of Cecil B DeMille's stock company and later John Ford's company, he was one of the most prolific character actors in Hollywood history...

) performs medical experiments on his patients at a remote sanitarium. With Tor Johnson
Tor Johnson
Tor Johansson , better known by the stage name Tor Johnson, was a Swedish professional wrestler and actor....

. In
Posture Pals, a foursome of elementary school kids improve their posture. In Appreciating Our Parents, a young boy learns to value his parents.
321 Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is a 1964 science fiction film that regularly appears on lists of the worst films ever made. It is regularly featured in the "bottom 100" list on the Internet Movie Database, and was also featured in an episode of the 1986 syndicated series, the Canned Film...


(1964, Color, Embassy)
1991-12-21 The Essentials
Martians abduct Santa Claus
Santa Claus
Santa Claus is a folklore figure in various cultures who distributes gifts to children, normally on Christmas Eve. Each name is a variation of Saint Nicholas, but refers to Santa Claus...

 and two human children in hopes of bringing Christmas
Christmas
Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...

 to their planet.
322 Master Ninja I
The Master (TV series)
The Master is a short-lived ninja-themed action-adventure TV series created by Michael Sloan which aired on NBC. The show focused on the adventures of John Peter McAllister, an aging ninja master , and his young pupil, Max Keller...


(The Master: "Max" and "Out-of-Time Step")
(1978, 1984, Color (TV), Film Ventures International)
1992-01-11 MST3K Collection, Volume XX
TV show The Master
The Master (TV series)
The Master is a short-lived ninja-themed action-adventure TV series created by Michael Sloan which aired on NBC. The show focused on the adventures of John Peter McAllister, an aging ninja master , and his young pupil, Max Keller...

cut together into a series of movies. An American ninja (Lee Van Cleef
Lee Van Cleef
Lee Van Cleef was an American film actor who appeared mostly in Western and action pictures. His sharp features and piercing eyes led to his being cast as a villain in scores of films such as High Noon, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance and The Good The Bad and the Ugly.-Early life:Van Cleef was...

) searches for his long-lost daughter with the help of a sidekick (Tim Van Patten
Tim Van Patten
Tim Van Patten is an American television director, actor, screenwriter, and producer. As a director, Van Patten has directed episodes of The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, Boardwalk Empire, Rome, The Pacific, Game of Thrones, Ed, and Sex and the City. Van Patten is perhaps best known for portraying...

). In this installment, they defend an airport owner from businessmen and a corrupt sheriff, then defend a nightclub owner from thugs.
323 The Castle of Fu Manchu
The Castle of Fu Manchu
The Castle of Fu Manchu also known by its German title Die Folterkammer des Dr. Fu Man Chu, is the fifth and final Fu Manchu film with Christopher Lee portraying the title character. The spy/crime film was filmed on location in Spain and Istanbul and originally released in West Germany in 1969...


(Die Folterkammer des Dr. Fu Man Chu)
(1968, International Cinema, Germany/Spain/Italy/England)
1992-01-18 None
The evil Doctor Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee
Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, CBE, CStJ is an English actor and musician. Lee initially portrayed villains and became famous for his role as Count Dracula in a string of Hammer Horror films...

) threatens to freeze the Earth's oceans, and abducts a talented scientist with heart problems.
324 Master Ninja II
The Master (TV series)
The Master is a short-lived ninja-themed action-adventure TV series created by Michael Sloan which aired on NBC. The show focused on the adventures of John Peter McAllister, an aging ninja master , and his young pupil, Max Keller...


(The Master: "State of the Union" and "Hostages")
(1978, 1984, Color (TV), Film Ventures International)
1992-01-25 MST3K Collection, Volume XX
Continuation of Master Ninja I. In this installment, the protagonists help a tuna cannery union organizer, then save a Senator's daughter from terrorists.

Season 4

Ep. # Featured Film Original Airdate DVD Availability
401 Space Travelers
Marooned (film)
Marooned is a 1969 American film directed by John Sturges and starring Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, and Gene Hackman....


(Marooned)
(1969, Color, Columbia, Repackaged)
1992-06-06 None
Various obstacles hamper attempts to rescue three NASA astronauts trapped aboard a crippled space capsule. This, the only film ever featured on MST3K to win an Academy Award
Academy Awards
An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...

, features big names like Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck
Eldred Gregory Peck was an American actor.One of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1980s. His notable performances include that of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won an...

, Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman
Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman is an American actor and novelist.Nominated for five Academy Awards, winning two, Hackman has also won three Golden Globes and two BAFTAs in a career that spanned five decades. He first came to fame in 1967 with his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde...

, and David Janssen
David Janssen
David Janssen was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Dr. Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive , the starring role in the 1950s hit detective series Richard Diamond, Private Detective , and as Harry Orwell on Harry O.In 1996 TV Guide...

, and also counted Frank Capra, Jr.
Frank Capra, Jr.
Frank Warner Capra was an American studio executive. He was one of the three children of film director Frank Capra and his second wife, Lucille. His own son, Frank Capra III, is an actor.Capra, Jr...

 as an associate producer.
402 The Giant Gila Monster
The Giant Gila Monster
The Giant Gila Monster is a 1959 black-and-white science fiction film directed by Ray Kellogg, and produced by Ken Curtis. It stars Don Sullivan, Lisa Simone, as well as Fred Graham, Shug Fisher and Bob Thompson. This low-budget B-Movie featured a cast of unknown actors, and the effects included a...


(1959, B&W, McLendon Radio Pictures)
1992-06-13 MST3K Collection, Volume 10.2, standalone DVD (out of print)
A 30-foot killer lizard is loose in the woods near a bumbling town full of teens.
403 City Limits
(1985, Color, Showtime)
1992-06-20 None
In a dystopian
Dystopia
A dystopia is the idea of a society in a repressive and controlled state, often under the guise of being utopian, as characterized in books like Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four...

 future, a teen rides his motorcycle into an abandoned city and gets involved in a gang dispute that centers on taking the city back from an evil corporation. With Rae Dawn Chong
Rae Dawn Chong
Rae Dawn Chong is a Canadian-American actress.-Life and career:Chong was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, the daughter of Maxine Sneed and Tommy Chong. She and her sister Robbi were raised by her grandmother, Tommy Chong's mother. Chong's father is of Chinese and Scottish-Irish ancestry and her...

, Kim Cattrall
Kim Cattrall
Kim Victoria Cattrall is an English actress. She is known for her role as Samantha Jones in the HBO comedy/romance series Sex and the City, and for her leading roles in the 1980s films Police Academy, Big Trouble in Little China, Mannequin, and Porky's...

, and James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones is an American actor. He is well-known for his distinctive bass voice and for his portrayal of characters of substance, gravitas and leadership...

, in a minor role.
404 Teenagers from Outer Space
Teenagers from Outer Space
Teenagers from Outer Space is a 1959 science-fiction film about an extraterrestrial space ship landing on Earth to use it as a farm for its food supply. The crew of the ship includes teenagers, two of whom oppose each other in their activities. The independent film was originally distributed by...


(1959, B&W, Warner)
1992-06-27 MST3K Collection, Volume 6
A group of aliens land on Earth and decide to use the planet as a farm for their livestock. One of the aliens rebels and flees to a small town, where he is pursued by another alien who kills anyone in his path.
405 Being from Another Planet
Being from Another Planet
Time Walker is a 1982 B-movie. It was directed by Tom Kennedy. This movie was featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode 405, which first aired on July 4, 1992.-Plot:While Douglas McCadden , a California university professor, explores the tomb of the ancient Egyptian...


(Time Walker)
(1982, Color, New World)
1992-07-04 None
In California, a mummy found in King Tut's tomb is X-rayed by a university team. The radiation awakens the mummy. It escapes that night and creeps around campus for the next couple of days looking for five missing crystals that were pilfered by a student. Starring Ben Murphy
Ben Murphy
Benjamin E. Murphy is an American actor. He is known for his role in the ABC television series Alias Smith and Jones, co-starring as Kid Curry, first with Pete Duel and later with Roger Davis.-Early life:...

.
406 Attack of the Giant Leeches
Attack of the Giant Leeches
Attack of the Giant Leeches is a low-budget 1959 science fiction film from American International Pictures. It was directed by Bernard L. Kowalski, produced by Gene Corman, and the screenplay was written by Leo Gordon. The film is in black and white, and runs for 62 minutes...


(1959, B&W, AIP)
1992-07-18 MST3K Collection, Volume 6
(Short: Undersea Kingdom
Undersea Kingdom
Undersea Kingdom is a Republic Pictures film serial released in response to Universal's Flash Gordon. It was the second of the sixty-six serials made by Republic...

, Part 1: "Beneath the Ocean Floor") Folks begin vanishing near a Florida swamp, and a game warden discovers the culprits are mutant leeches. The short is the first segment of a 1936 movie serial about a group of Navy men who discover Atlantis
Atlantis
Atlantis is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 BC....

.
407 The Killer Shrews
The Killer Shrews
The Killer Shrews is a 1959 science fiction film directed by Ray Kellogg. It has been released on DVD and is considered a cult classic. It was featured in the fourth season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, as well as the first season of the similar show This Movie Sucks!.-Plot:Thorne Sherman and...


(1959, B&W, McLendon Radio Pictures)
1992-07-25 MST3K Collection, Volume 7
(Short: Junior Rodeo Daredevils) A hunky skipper makes a delivery to a small island, and learns that the inhabitants include heavy-drinking scientists doing genetic experiments resulting in a pack of omnivorous giant shrews. In the short, a cowpoke straightens out some wayward kids by making them put on a small-time rodeo.
408 Hercules Unchained
(Ercole e la regina di Lidia)
(1959, Color, Warner, Italy)
1992-08-01 MST3K Collection, Volume 7
Queen Lidia casts a spell of amnesia on Hercules
Hercules
Hercules is the Roman name for Greek demigod Heracles, son of Zeus , and the mortal Alcmene...

 (Steve Reeves
Steve Reeves
Stephen L. Reeves was an American bodybuilder and actor. At the peak of his career, he was the highest-paid actor in Europe.-Childhood:...

), who becomes a prisoner in her harem.
409 Indestructible Man
Indestructible Man
Indestructible Man is an American black-and-white science fiction film, an original screenplay by Vy Russell and Sue Dwiggins for producer-director Jack Pollexfen and starring Lon Chaney, Jr.. It was produced independently, and picked up after completion for distribution in the United States by...


(1956, B&W, Allied Artists)
1992-08-15 MST3K Collection, Volume 11
(Short: Undersea Kingdom, Part 2: "The Undersea City") A convict (Lon Chaney Jr.) dies in the electric chair and is brought back to life by mad scientists. He then sets out to get even with those who squealed on him. This episode features the second of the two installments shown from the 12-part Undersea Kingdom serial.
410 Hercules Against The Moon Men
(Maciste e la regina di Samar)
(1964, Color, Governor (Italy/France))
1992-08-22 MST3K Collection, Volume 7
Hercules attempts to free a city from a Moon-worshiping cult led by extraterrestrials.
411 The Magic Sword
The Magic Sword (film)
The Magic Sword is a 1962 live action fantasy film, mainly aimed at children, based loosely on the medieval legend of St. George and the Dragon.The film appeared on a 1992 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000...


(1962, Color, United)
1992-08-29 None
Sword-and-sorcery film about a prince (Gary Lockwood
Gary Lockwood
Gary Lockwood is an American actor probably best known for his iconic 1968 role as the astronaut Dr. Frank Poole in 2001: A Space Odyssey.-Early life:...

) rescuing a princess from an evil wizard (Basil Rathbone
Basil Rathbone
Sir Basil Rathbone, KBE, MC, Kt was an English actor. He rose to prominence in England as a Shakespearean stage actor and went on to appear in over 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers, and, occasionally, horror films...

).
412 Hercules and the Captive Women
(Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide)
(1961, Color, Wooler Bros (France/Italy))
1992-09-12 None
Hercules goes to Atlantis to save his son.
413 Manhunt in Space
Manhunt in Space
Manhunt in Space is a 75-minute 1954 USA science fiction film, consisting of three consecutive episodes of the TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, which told a continuous story. It was released only on 16mm for home movie rental and television syndication. It was directed by Hollingsworth Morse...


(1954, B&W, ITC)
1992-09-19 MST3K Collection, Volume XIV
(Short: General Hospital
General Hospital
General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....

, first installment) Edited-together episodes of the 1950s TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger
Rocky Jones, Space Ranger
Rocky Jones, Space Ranger is a syndicated science fiction television serial originally broadcast in 1954. The show lasted for only two seasons and, though syndicated sporadically, dropped into obscurity. But because it was recorded on film rather than being broadcast live as were most other TV...

. Rocky Jones fights space pirates, the evil Queen Cleolanta, and her lieutenant Atlansan. The short is the first of three brief 1963 segments from the soap opera General Hospital featured on the series.
414 Tormented
Tormented (1960 film)
For the 2009 film, see Tormented Tormented is a 1960 horror movie directed and produced by Bert I. Gordon for Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, and starring Richard Carlson....


(1960, B&W, Cheviot Productions)
1992-09-26 MST3K Collection, Volume 11
A jazz pianist living at a beachfront community is about to get married, but his troublesome mistress confronts him at the top of a lighthouse; in the argument, she slips and falls. The pianist has a chance to save her, but lets her fall to her death. Her ghost comes to haunt him and disrupt his upcoming nuptials, as his 8-year-old future sister-in-law grows suspicious.
415 The Beatniks
The Beatniks (film)
The Beatniks is a 1960 American film directed by Paul Frees. It was also featured on the movie-mocking program Mystery Science Theater 3000.-Plot:...


(1960, B&W, Barjul)
1992-11-25 MST3K Collection, Volume XVII
(Short: General Hospital
General Hospital
General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....

, second installment) A leader of a gang of delinquent teens is heard singing along with a jukebox at a greasy spoon and gets the chance to be a star. His gang, resentful of his success, threaten to ruin his career. Well-known voice actor Paul Frees
Paul Frees
Paul Frees was an American voice actor and character actor.-Biography:He was born Solomon Hersh Frees in Chicago...

 directed and wrote the music and screenplay to the movie. The
General Hospital installment involves a tense celebration at a nurse's house.
416 Fire Maidens of Outer Space
Fire Maidens from Outer Space
Fire Maidens from Outer Space , released in the USA as Fire Maidens of Outer Space, is a 78-minute black-and-white science fiction feature film...


(1956, B&W, Topaz (England))
1992-11-26 None
Astronauts travel to a moon of Jupiter and discover a civilization of women. The astronauts help the women battle a monster that has been terrorizing their settlement.
417 Crash of the Moons
(1954, B&W, ITC)
1992-11-28 MST3K Collection, Vol. XVIII
(Short: General Hospital
General Hospital
General Hospital is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running American soap opera currently in production and the third longest running drama in television in American history after Guiding Light and As the World Turns....

, third installment) Edited-together episodes of the '50s TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. Our hero tries to save two worlds from collision, despite the self-defeating efforts of Cleolanta. With John Banner
John Banner
John Banner , born Johann Banner, was an American film and television actor, who was born and died in Vienna, Austria....

. The short is the third of three 1963 segments from the soap opera
General Hospital.
418 Attack of the The Eye Creatures
The Eye Creatures
The Eye Creatures is a 1965 science-fiction film about an invasion of an unnamed American countryside by a flying saucer and its silent, shambling alien occupants...


(The Eye Creatures)
(1965, Color, AIP)
1992-12-05 None
Aliens land near a small town and are encountered by a pair of smoochin' teens. While military personnel investigate, the kids band together to fight back against the invasion. Listen for the voice of Peter Graves
Peter Graves (actor)
Peter Aurness , known professionally as Peter Graves, was an American film and television actor. He was best known for his starring role in the CBS television series Mission: Impossible from 1967 to 1973...

 narrating an Air Force briefing film.
419 The Rebel Set
The Rebel Set
The Rebel Set is a 1959 American film directed by Gene Fowler Jr.. It was later featured and riffed on Mystery Science Theater 3000.- Plot summary :Mr...


(1959, B&W, Allied)
1992-12-12 MST3K Collection, Volume 12
(Short: Johnny at the Fair) A coffeehouse owner (Edward Platt
Edward Platt
Edward Cuthbert Platt was an American actor best known for his portrayal of "The Chief" in the 1965-70 NBC/CBS television series Get Smart...

) wants to knock off an armored car, and gets three losers to help him. The short, set at the 1947 Canadian National Exhibition
Canadian National Exhibition
Canadian National Exhibition , also known as The Ex, is an annual event that takes place at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada during the 18 days leading up to and including Labour Day Monday. With an attendance of approximately 1.3 million visitors each season, it is Canada’s largest...

, focuses on the explorations of young visitor Johnny, after his parents lose track of him.
420 The Human Duplicators
The Human Duplicators
The Human Duplicators is an American science fiction film released in 1965 by independent company Woolner Brothers Pictures Inc.-Plot:The plot involves a giant alien named Dr. Kolos who is dispatched to Earth from a faraway galaxy on orders to create android doppelgängers by employing the...


(1965, Color, Woolner/Allied)
1992-12-26 None
An alien (Richard Kiel
Richard Kiel
Richard Dawson Kiel is an American actor best known for his role as the steel-toothed Jaws in the James Bond movies The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker as well as the video game Everything or Nothing, and Mr. Larson in Happy Gilmore...

) takes over a professor's mansion-basement laboratory, and makes android clones to infiltrate the government. With Hugh Beaumont
Hugh Beaumont (actor)
Eugene Hugh Beaumont was an American actor and television director. He was also licensed to preach by the Methodist church...

421 Monster A-Go Go
(1965, B&W, BI&L)
1993-01-09 MST3K Collection, Volume 8
(Short: Circus on Ice) Authorities and the military search for a missing astronaut believed to have become an irradiated monster. The short offers a look at the 40th Annual Carnival of the Toronto Skating Club.
422 The Day The Earth Froze
Sampo (film)
Sampo is a Russian and Finnish language 1959 joint Finnish and Soviet production based loosely on the events depicted in the Finnish national epic Kalevala. A significantly edited version called The Day the Earth Froze was released internationally. This version was later featured in the American...


(Sampo)
(1959, Color, Mosfilm/Suomi-Filmi/AIP, Finland/USSR)
1993-01-16 None
(Short: Here Comes the Circus) Nordic fantasy tale, based loosely on the Kalevala
Kalevala
The Kalevala is a 19th century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Finnish and Karelian oral folklore and mythology.It is regarded as the national epic of Finland and is one of the most significant works of Finnish literature...

, about a wicked witch's schemes to get, and later regain, a magic mill. The short is a look at the Clyde Beatty circus, featuring legendary clown Emmett Kelly
Emmett Kelly
Emmett Leo Kelly , a native of Sedan, Kansas, was an American circus performer, who created the memorable clown figure "Weary Willie", based on the hobos of the Depression era.- Career development :...

.
423 Bride of the Monster
Bride of the Monster
Bride of the Monster is a 1955 sci-fi horror film starring Bela Lugosi, along with Tor Johnson, Tony McCoy and Loretta King Hadler. It was produced, directed and co-written by Edward D. Wood, Jr....


(1956, B&W, Banner)
1993-01-23 MST3K Collection, Volume XIX
(Short: Hired!
Hired!
Hired! is a 1940 short film that was made by the Jam Handy production house for Chevrolet as a training film for sales managers. It was shown in two parts during Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes #423 and #424 .-Plot:In the movie, Mr...

, Part 1) Mad scientist Dr. Eric Vornoff (Bela Lugosi
Béla Lugosi
Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó , commonly known as Bela Lugosi, was a Hungarian actor of stage and screen. He was best known for having played Count Dracula in the Broadway play and subsequent film version, as well as having starred in several of Ed Wood's low budget films in the last years of his...

) lives in a remote swampy area attempting to create an army of atomic supermen in his lab with the help of his mutant assistant Lobo (Tor Johnson
Tor Johnson
Tor Johansson , better known by the stage name Tor Johnson, was a Swedish professional wrestler and actor....

). He performs Frankenstein experiments on intruders, takes revenge on his critic, and feeds his enemies to a pond-dwelling octopus. Written and Directed by Ed Wood. In the 1941 short, a Chevrolet sales manager wonders why his team is having trouble selling their product door-to-door.
424 Manos: The Hands of Fate
Manos: The Hands of Fate
Manos: The Hands of Fate is an American horror film written, directed, produced by, and starring Harold P. Warren. It is widely recognized to be one of the worst films ever made...


(1966, Color, Emerson)
1993-01-30 Standalone DVD from Rhino (out of print), The Essentials (out of print), Standalone DVD from Shout! Factory
(Short: Hired!
Hired!
Hired! is a 1940 short film that was made by the Jam Handy production house for Chevrolet as a training film for sales managers. It was shown in two parts during Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes #423 and #424 .-Plot:In the movie, Mr...

, Part 2) A hapless family on a car trip in rural Texas take refuge at an inn that harbors a deadly cult. In the conclusion of the two-part short, the sales manager hero gets advice from his father.

Season 5

Ep. # Featured Film Original Airdate DVD Availability
501 Warrior of the Lost World
Warrior of the Lost World
Warrior of the Lost World is a 1983 Italian post-apocalyptic science fiction film written and directed by David Worth starring Robert Ginty, Persis Khambatta, and Donald Pleasence...


(1983, Color, Visto International, Italy)
1993-07-24 MST3K Collection, Volume XVI
A nameless hero (Robert Ginty
Robert Ginty
Robert Ginty was an American movie actor, producer, scenarist, and director of movies and TV series episodes.-Early life:...

) and his talking motorcycle fight an evil dictator (Donald Pleasence
Donald Pleasence
Sir Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE, was a British actor who gained more than 200 screen credits during a career which spanned over four decades...

) in a post-apocalyptic world. Also starring are Persis Khambatta
Persis Khambatta
Persis Khambatta was an Indian model, actress and author. She was best known for her role as Lieutenant Ilia in the 1979 feature film Star Trek: The Motion Picture.-Early Life:...

 and Fred Williamson
Fred Williamson
Fred "The Hammer" Williamson is an American actor, architect, and former professional American football defensive back who played mainly in the American Football League during the 1960s.-Football career:...

.
502 Hercules
Hercules (1958 film)
Hercules is a 1958 Italian epic fantasy feature film based upon the Hercules myths and the Quest for the Golden Fleece. The film stars Steve Reeves as the titular hero and Sylva Koscina as his love interest Princess Iole. Hercules was directed by Pietro Francisci and produced by Federico Teti...


(Le fatiche di Ercole)
(1958, Color, Embassy, Italy)
1993-07-17 None
Hercules (Steve Reeves
Steve Reeves
Stephen L. Reeves was an American bodybuilder and actor. At the peak of his career, he was the highest-paid actor in Europe.-Childhood:...

) searches for the Golden Fleece.
503 Swamp Diamonds
Swamp Women
Swamp Women was one of the first films directed by Roger Corman. This adventure/crime/horror film follows undercover police officer Lee Hampton who joins three female convicts and escapes from prison. The escape is part of a larger plot to uncover a cache of diamonds hidden deep within the swamps...


(Swamp Women)
(1956, Color, Woolner)
1993-07-31 MST3K Collection, Volume 10 (out of print), 10.2
(Short: What to Do on a Date) Four women (including Beverly Garland
Beverly Garland
Beverly Garland was an American film and television actress, businesswoman, and hotel owner. Garland gained prominence for her role as Fred MacMurray's second wife, "Barbara Harper Douglas", in the 1960s sitcom My Three Sons...

) break out of prison, hoping to recover a cache of stolen diamonds. In the 1951 short, young Nick hopes to ask schoolmate Kay for a date but can't think of a venue.
504 Secret Agent Super Dragon
Secret Agent Super Dragon
Secret Agent Super Dragon is a 1966 Italian Eurospy spy film, directed by Giorgio Ferroni and starring Ray Danton as the titular secret agent...


(New York chiama Superdrago)
(1966, United Screen Arts, France/Italy/Germany)
1993-08-07 MST3K Collection, Volume 12
A CIA agent battles a Venezuelan crime lord bent on poisoning the U.S. with an exotic mind-altering drug.
505 The Magic Voyage of Sinbad
Sadko (film)
Sadko is a 1952 Russian fantasy film directed by Aleksandr Ptushko. The film is based on an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, which was based on a Russian bylina with the same name, and scored with Rimsky-Korsakov's music from the opera....


(Sadko)
(1952, Color, Filmgroup, USSR)
1993-08-14 MST3K Collection, Volume XX
The titular hero tries to find a mythological bird for a destitute town.
506 Eegah
Eegah
Eegah! is a 1962 horror film starring Arch Hall, Jr., Arch Hall, Sr., Marilyn Manning and Richard Kiel in the titular role....


(1962, Color, Fairway International)
1993-08-28 Standalone DVD (out of print)
A giant caveman (Richard Kiel
Richard Kiel
Richard Dawson Kiel is an American actor best known for his role as the steel-toothed Jaws in the James Bond movies The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker as well as the video game Everything or Nothing, and Mr. Larson in Happy Gilmore...

) stumbles across modern civilization, then kidnaps a teenage girl and her father.
507 I Accuse My Parents
I Accuse My Parents
I Accuse My Parents is an American exploitation film dealing with juvenile delinquency. Produced by PRC, the film was used to teach morals, specifically that parents should take an interest in their children's lives, as well as the consequences of child neglect...


(1944, B&W, Producers Releasing Corp)
1993-09-04 Standalone DVD (out of print)
(Short: The Truck Farmer) A young man gets mixed up with a crime syndicate and blames his inattentive parents. The 1940s-era documentary short explains the then-new techniques that enabled farmers to rush produce to market.
508 Operation Double 007
OK Connery
OK Connery is a 1967 Italian Eurospy spoof of the James Bond series of films. It was retitled Operation Kid Brother in the United States and is also known as Operation Double 007 and Secret Agent 00...


(OK Connery)
(1967, Color, United Artists, Italy)
1993-09-11 None
A plastic surgeon (played by Neil Connery
Neil Connery
Neil Connery is a Scottish retired actor and is the brother of the actor Sean Connery. Neil is known for his role in the movie OK Connery, a James Bond satire and the 1969 film The Body Stealers.-External links:...

, brother of Sean
Sean Connery
Sir Thomas Sean Connery , better known as Sean Connery, is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globes Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930), better known as Sean Connery, is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy...

), who is himself the brother of a secret agent
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...

, combats evil villain Thair Beta (Adolfo Celi
Adolfo Celi
Adolfo Celi was an Italian film actor and director.-Life and career:Born in Messina, Sicily, Celi appeared in nearly 100 movies, specializing in international villains. His most famous role was as Emilio Largo in the 1965 James Bond movie Thunderball...

).
509 The Girl in Lovers Lane
The Girl in Lovers Lane
The Girl in Lovers Lane is a 1959 American film directed by Charles R. Rondeau following the adventures of two drifters that get involved with the residents of the little town of Sherman...


(1960, B&W, Filmgroup)
1993-09-18 MST3K Collection, Volume XV
Drifter Bix Dugan, traveling with rich-kid runaway Danny, becomes involved with a small town waitress.
510 The Painted Hills
The Painted Hills
The Painted Hills, also known as Lassie's Adventures in the Goldrush, is a 1951 action film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and directed by Harold F. Kress...


(1951, Color, MGM)
1993-09-26 None
(Short: Body Care and Grooming) A Lassie
Lassie
Lassie is a fictional collie dog character created by Eric Knight in a short story expanded to novel length called Lassie Come-Home. Published in 1940, the novel was filmed by MGM in 1943 as Lassie Come Home with a dog named Pal playing Lassie. Pal then appeared with the stage name "Lassie" in six...

 movie, set in 1870s California amongst rival gold miners. The 1950s-era short addresses a perceived deficiency in college-student hygiene.
511 Gunslinger
(1956, Color, AIP)
1993-10-09 MST3K Collection, Volume 6, Standalone DVD
After her sheriff husband is killed by outlaws, a woman (Beverly Garland
Beverly Garland
Beverly Garland was an American film and television actress, businesswoman, and hotel owner. Garland gained prominence for her role as Fred MacMurray's second wife, "Barbara Harper Douglas", in the 1960s sitcom My Three Sons...

) takes over as sheriff and cleans up the town.
512 Mitchell
(1975, Color, Allied Artists)
1993-10-23 Standalone DVD (out of print)
A slovenly cop (Joe Don Baker
Joe Don Baker
Joe Don Baker is an American film actor, perhaps best known for his roles as a Mafia hitman in Charley Varrick, deputy sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III in Final Justice, real-life Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser in Walking Tall, brute force with a badge detective Mitchell in Mitchell, James...

) pursues drug traffickers. Also starring are Martin Balsam
Martin Balsam
Martin Henry Balsam was an American actor. He is known for his Oscar-winning role as "Arnold Burns" in A Thousand Clowns and his role as "Detective Milton Arbogast" in Psycho.- Early life :...

, John Saxon
John Saxon (actor)
John Saxon is an American actor who has worked on over 200 projects during the span of sixty years. Saxon is most known for his work in horror films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street and Black Christmas, both of which feature Saxon as a policeman in search of the killer...

, Linda Evans
Linda Evans
Linda Evans is an American actress. She is known primarily for her roles on television, and rose to fame playing Audra Barkley in the 1960s Western TV series, The Big Valley...

, and Merlin Olsen
Merlin Olsen
Merlin Jay Olsen was an American football player in the National Football League, NFL commentator, and actor. He played his entire 15-year career with the Los Angeles Rams and was elected to the Pro Bowl in 14 of those seasons, a current record shared with Bruce Matthews...

.
Joel Hodgson
Joel Hodgson
Joel Gordon Hodgson is an American writer, comedian and television actor. He is best known for creating Mystery Science Theater 3000 and starring in it as the character Joel Robinson. In 2007 MST3K was listed as "one of the top 100 television shows of all time" by Time.com...

's last episode as host. Michael J. Nelson
Michael J. Nelson
Michael John Nelson is a U.S. comedian and writer, most famous for his work on the cult television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 . Nelson was the head writer of the series for most of the show's 11-year run, and spent half of that time playing the on-air host, also named Mike Nelson...

's first episode as Mike Nelson.
513 The Brain That Wouldn't Die
The Brain That Wouldn't Die
The Brain That Wouldn't Die, also known as The Head That Wouldn't Die, is a 1962 science-fiction/horror film directed by Joseph Green and written by Green and Rex Carlton. The film was completed in 1959 under the title The Black Door, but was not released until May 3, 1962, when it was renamed...


(1959, B&W, AIP)
1993-10-30 Standalone DVD (out of print)
When a doctor's fiancee is decapitated, he keeps her head alive in a laboratory and tries to find her a new body.
Michael J. Nelson
Michael J. Nelson
Michael John Nelson is a U.S. comedian and writer, most famous for his work on the cult television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 . Nelson was the head writer of the series for most of the show's 11-year run, and spent half of that time playing the on-air host, also named Mike Nelson...

's first episode as the central character.
514 Teen-age Strangler
Teen-Age Strangler
Teen-Age Strangler is a 1964 crime drama film. It was featured on a Season 5 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 .- DVD releases :...


(1964, Color, Ajay)
1993-11-07 MST3K Collection, Volume 10 (out of print), 10.2
(Short: Is This Love?) A serial killer stalks teenagers in a small town. The 1950s short contrasts the relationships of two young couples.
515 The Wild World of Batwoman
The Wild World of Batwoman
The Wild World of Batwoman is an American science fiction superhero film directed by Jerry Warren. The film stars Katherine Victor as Batwoman, George Andre as Professor G. Octavius Neon, and Steve Brodie as Jim Flanagan....


(1966, B&W, ADP Productions)
1993-11-13 Standalone DVD (out of print)
(Short: Cheating) Crimefighter Batwoman and her loyal young female assistants battle villains Ratfink and Professor Neon. The 1951 short chronicles the downfall of a high school student caught copying his test answers from another student.
516 Alien from L.A.
Alien from L.A.
Alien From L.A. is a 1988 science fiction film that stars Kathy Ireland as a young woman who visits the underground civilization of Atlantis. The film was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.-Plot:...


(1987, Color, Cannon/Golan-Globus)
1993-11-20 None
A clumsy California woman (Kathy Ireland
Kathy Ireland
Kathleen Marie "Kathy" Ireland is an American former model, actress, and entrepreneur. She is the CEO and designer of her eponymous brand product marketing company, Kathy Ireland Worldwide.-Life and career:...

) looks for her father in the lost underground civilization of Atlantis
Atlantis
Atlantis is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 BC....

.
517 Beginning of the End
Beginning of the End
Beginning of the End is a 1957 American science fiction film directed by Bert I. Gordon and starring Peter Graves and Peggie Castle. The film is about an agricultural scientist who has successfully grown gigantic vegetables using radiation...


(1957, B&W, Republic)
1993-11-25 Standalone DVD by Rhino (out of print), Standalone DVD by Shout! Factory
A government researcher (Peter Graves
Peter Graves (actor)
Peter Aurness , known professionally as Peter Graves, was an American film and television actor. He was best known for his starring role in the CBS television series Mission: Impossible from 1967 to 1973...

) experiments with radioactive materials to boost crop production, and inadvertently creates a hungry army of giant grasshoppers.
518 The Atomic Brain
Monstrosity (film)
Monstrosity is a 1964 film directed by Joseph V. Mascelli. It is perhaps better known under its alternate title, The Atomic Brain.-Plot summary:...


(Monstrosity)
(1963, B&W, Emerson)
1993-12-04 MST3K Collection, Volume 3 (out of print), Standalone DVD
(Short: What about Juvenile Delinquency?) A wealthy, aging widow wants to transplant her brain into the body of a young woman. The 1955 short focuses on gang member Jamie, who realizes the dangers of delinquency when his dad is mugged and beaten.
519 Outlaw
Outlaw of Gor
Outlaw of Gor is a 1989 American film directed by John Cardos. It is loosely based on the Gor novel series by John Norman, but has strong plot differences from the original book Outlaw of Gor . It is the sequel to Gor , and is also known as "Gor II". It was parodied on the television show Mystery...


(Outlaw of Gor)
(1989, Color, Cannon Group/Breton Film Productions)
1993-12-11 None
In this sequel to 1988's Gor
Gor (film)
Gor is a 1988 science fiction and fantasy film based loosely on the novel The Tarnsman Of Gor, written by philosophy professor and author John Frederick Lange Jr...

, college professor Cabot returns to the magical planet Gor, and is soon caught up in palace intrigue involving evil sorcerer Xenos (Jack Palance
Jack Palance
Jack Palance , was an American actor. During half a century of film and television appearances, Palance was nominated for three Academy Awards, all as Best Actor in a Supporting Role, winning in 1991 for his role in City Slickers.-Early life:Palance, one of five children, was born Volodymyr...

).
520 Radar Secret Service
(1950, B&W, Lippert)
1993-12-18 None
(Short: Last Clear Chance) A branch of the Secret Service uses radar to track down uranium smugglers. The 1959 educational short, produced by Union Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad
The Union Pacific Railroad , headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, is the largest railroad network in the United States. James R. Young is president, CEO and Chairman....

, teaches drivers to pay better attention when crossing railroad tracks.
521 Santa Claus
(1959, Color, Azteca, Mexico)
1993-12-24 MST3K Collection, Volume XVI
A demon attempts destroy Santa Claus.
522 Teen-Age Crime Wave
(1955, B&W, Columbia)
1994-01-15 None
After breaking out of prison, young fugitives hold a family hostage in a small farmhouse.
523 Village of the Giants
Village of the Giants
Village of the Giants is a 1965 science-fiction/comedy movie with many elements of the beach party film genre. It was produced, directed and written by Bert I. Gordon, and based loosely on H.G. Wells's book The Food of the Gods...


(1965, Color, Columbia)
1994-01-22 None
A gang of teenagers (led by Beau Bridges
Beau Bridges
Lloyd Vernet "Beau" Bridges III is an American actor and director.- Early life :Bridges was born in Los Angeles, the son of actor Lloyd Bridges and his college sweetheart, Dorothy Bridges . He was nicknamed "Beau" by his mother and father after Ashley Wilkes's son in Gone with the Wind, the book...

) eats an experimental chemical (brewed by Ron Howard
Ron Howard
Ronald William "Ron" Howard is an American actor, director, and producer. He came to prominence as a child actor, playing Opie Taylor in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show for eight years, and later the teenaged Richie Cunningham in the sitcom Happy Days for six years...

) which turns them into giants, and they become the capricious rulers of a small town. Tommy Kirk
Tommy Kirk
Thomas Lee "Tommy" Kirk is a former American actor, and later a businessman.-Disney years:Kirk was discovered by talent agents at the age of thirteen in a production of Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California...

 also stars.
524 12 to the Moon
(1960, B&W, Columbia)
1994-02-05 None
(Short: Design for Dreaming
Design for Dreaming
Design for Dreaming is a musical sponsored film about a woman who dreams about a masked man taking her to the 1956 General Motors Motorama at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and Frigidaire's "Kitchen of the Future." The entirety of the dialogue is sung, though the actors...

) A multinational expedition to Earth's moon discovers advanced beings who want no contact with humanity. In the short, a woman dances her way through a futuristic fantasy world of cars and home appliances.

Season 6

Ep. # Featured Film Original Airdate DVD Availability
601 Girls Town
Girls Town
Girls Town is a 1959 film produced by MGM, starring Mamie Van Doren, Mel Tormé and Ray Anthony; Paul Anka also appears in his first acting role. Van Doren stars as a juvenile delinquent who is sent to a girls school run by nuns, where she finds herself unable to help her sister...


(1959, B&W, MGM)
1994-07-16 None
A mysterious death lands a teenage girl (Mamie Van Doren
Mamie Van Doren
Mamie Van Doren is an American actress and singer; who rose to popularity as Universal Pictures's version of 20th Century Fox's Marilyn Monroe....

) in a reform school headed by good-hearted nuns, but the girl's sister is in trouble. With Mel Tormé
Mel Tormé
Melvin Howard Tormé , nicknamed The Velvet Fog, was an American musician, known for his jazz singing. He was also a jazz composer and arranger, a drummer, an actor in radio, film, and television, and the author of five books...

 and Paul Anka
Paul Anka
Paul Albert Anka, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and actor.Anka first became famous as a teen idol in the late 1950s and 1960s with hit songs like "Diana'", "Lonely Boy", and "Put Your Head on My Shoulder"...

602 Invasion U.S.A.
Invasion U.S.A. (1952 film)
Invasion U.S.A. is a 1952 motion picture set during the Cold War and portraying the invasion of the United States by an unnamed Communist enemy meant to be taken as the Soviet Union....


(1952, B&W, Columbia)
1994-07-23 None
(Short: A Date with Your Family
A Date with Your Family
A Date with Your Family is a 1950 10-minute social engineering short film presented by Simmel-Meservey, directed by Edward G. Simmel, and written by Arthur V. Jones to primarily show youth how to act and behave with parents during dinner to have a pleasant time. The subject family consists of a...

) Cautionary tale of a group of ordinary Americans facing the consequences of failing to support their government in fighting Communism, when the Soviets invade the mainland. The 1950 short presents a typical dinner at home for a rigidly polite suburban family. The short is narrated by Hugh Beaumont.
603 The Dead Talk Back
The Dead Talk Back
The Dead Talk Back is a crime/mystery film that, while filmed in 1957, was not released until it was picked up by Sinister Media in 1993. It was featured in a 1994 episode of movie-mocking television series Mystery Science Theater 3000....


(created 1957 but released first 1993, B&W, Headliner Productions)
1994-07-30 MST3K Collection, Volume 8
(Short: The Selling Wizard) A paranormal researcher claims he has invented a radio that can talk with the dead, which he uses to aid in the investigation of a murder committed at his boarding-house residence. The short showcases grocery store refrigeration units.
604 Zombie Nightmare
Zombie Nightmare
Zombie Nightmare is a 1986 zombie-slasher film directed by Jack Bravman. This movie was filmed in the suburbs of Montreal, Canada. It stars Jon Mikl Thor.-Plot:...


(1986, Color, Gold-Gems)
1994-11-24 MST3K Collection, Volume XV
A hit and run victim is brought back from the dead by a voodoo doctor, and then seeks revenge. Adam West
Adam West
William West Anderson , better known by the stage name Adam West, is an American actor best known for his lead role in the Batman TV series and the film of the same name...

 and Tia Carrere
Tia Carrere
Tia Carrere is an American actress, model, voice artist, and singer, perhaps most widely known for her role as Cassandra Wong in the feature films Wayne's World and Wayne's World 2, Queen Tyr'ahnee in Duck Dodgers, and as Sydney Fox in the TV series Relic Hunter.-Early life:Carrere was born in...

 both have supporting roles. Heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 artists Motörhead and a then-unknown Pantera
Pantera
Pantera was an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas. Formed by the Abbott brothers, Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell in 1981, bassist Rex Brown would join in late 1981 with vocalist Terry Glaze. Looking for a new and heavier sound, Pantera had Terry replaced in 1987 with Phil Anselmo as...

 contributed to the movie's soundtrack.
605 Colossus and the Headhunters
Colossus and the Headhunters
Colossus and the Headhunters, also known in its original Italian title as Maciste contro i cacciatori di teste , is a sword and sandal film created in Italy and released in 1960....


(Maciste contro i cacciatori di teste)
(1960, Color, American International)
1994-08-20 None
A Greek hero's men battle a tribe of savages who have abducted a king.
606 The Creeping Terror
The Creeping Terror
The Creeping Terror is a 1964 horror/science fiction film, in which a slug-like monster terrorizes an American town after escaping from a crashed spaceship...


(1964, B&W, Crown International)
1994-09-17 MST3K Collection, Volume 1 (out of print)
A bloblike monster goes on a rampage.
607 Bloodlust!
Bloodlust!
Bloodlust! is a horror/thriller film about a group of young adults who visit a tropical island only to become prey for a sadistic hunter. Filmed in 1959 and released in 1961, the feature was picked up for cinema release by Crown International Pictures...


(1961, B&W, Crown International)
1994-09-03 MST3K Collection, Volume 1 (out of print)
(Short: Uncle Jim's Dairy Farm) A mad game hunter traps youth on his island to add to his trophy collection. Starring Robert Reed
Robert Reed
Robert Reed was a prolific American character actor of stage, film and television. In his first big break, he played Kenneth Preston on the popular 1960s TV legal drama, The Defenders, alongside E. G. Marshall. But he was best remembered for portraying the father, Mike Brady, on the popular...

. The short presents the adventures of a pair of city kids spending their summer at a dairy farm.
First appearance of Mary Jo Pehl
Mary Jo Pehl
Mary Joseph Pehl born February 27, 1960 in Circle Pines, Minnesota, is an American writer, actress and comedienne. She is best known for her various roles on the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000.-Mystery Science Theater 3000:...

 as Pearl Forrester
Pearl Forrester
Pearl Forrester is a character on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 television series, played by Mary Jo Pehl. Forrester was the mother of Dr. Clayton Forrester...

608 Code Name: Diamond Head
Code Name: Diamond Head
Code Name: Diamond Head is a 1977 American spy film starring Roy Thinnes as an undercover counterintelligence officer known as Diamond Head whose mission is to stop a rogue double agent from stealing the formula for a new chemical weapon...


(1977, Color (TV) (NBC), Quinn Martin)
1994-10-01 None
(Short: A Day at the Fair) A failed Quinn Martin
Quinn Martin
Quinn Martin was one of the most successful American television producers. He had at least one television series running in prime time for 21 straight years , an industry record.-Early life:...

 TV pilot follows an undercover agent battling a foreign villain in Hawaii. The short follows a farm family at the county fair.
609 The Skydivers
The Skydivers
The Skydivers is a 1963 film directed by Coleman Francis. It stars Kevin Casey as Beth, Eric Tomlin as Joe, Anthony Cardoza as Harry, and Marcia Knight as Suzy...


(1963, B&W, Crown International)
1994-08-27 MST3K Collection, Volume 1 (out of print)
(Short: Why Study Industrial Arts?) This Coleman Francis
Coleman Francis
Coleman C. Francis was an American actor, writer, producer, and director perhaps best-known for his film trilogy consisting of The Beast of Yucca Flats , The Skydivers , Red Zone Cuba , all three of which were filmed in the general Yucca Mountain, Nevada area and used preoccupation with light...

 film is set at a tiny airfield in a small California town where married couple Harry and Beth run a jump school. When Harry rebukes his old girlfriend, she hooks up with his fired mechanic to seek revenge. The 1956 short explains why boys should take shop class.
610 The Violent Years
The Violent Years
The Violent Years is a 1956 American exploitation film starring Jean Moorhead as Paula Parkins, the leader of a gang of juvenile delinquent high school girls. The film is notable for the input of Ed Wood, Jr...


(1956, B&W, Headliner Productions)
1994-10-08 MST3K Collection, Volume XXII
(Short: Young Man's Fancy) Delinquent girls go on a crime spree in this movie written by Ed Wood. The short, sponsored by the Edison Electric Institute, presents a suburban family's typical day.
611 Last of the Wild Horses
Last of the Wild Horses
Last of the Wild Horses is a 1948 American Western film starring Jane Frazee. It was featured in episode 611 of Mystery Science Theatre 3000....


(1948, B&W, Lippert)
1994-10-15 None
A cowboy stops some cattle rustlers and gets framed for murder. Stars Mary Beth Hughes
Mary Beth Hughes
Mary Beth Hughes was an American film, television, and stage actress best known for her roles in B movies.-Early life and career:...

.
612 The Starfighters
The Starfighters
The Starfighters is an American film released in 1964. It was written and directed by Will Zens and stars future U.S. Congressman Bob Dornan. It is the subject of episode #612 of Comedy Central's Mystery Science Theater 3000. Public votes on the Internet Movie Database consistently place it amongst...


(1964, Color, Riviera)
1994-10-29 MST3K Collection, Volume 12
A film detailing the life of an Air Force pilot-in-training whose father is a congressman.
613 The Sinister Urge
The Sinister Urge (film)
The Sinister Urge is a 1961 crime drama film that was written and directed by Edward D. Wood, Jr. The film was featured in episode 613 of the cult television show, Mystery Science Theater 3000.- Synopsis :...


(1959, B&W, Headliner)
1994-11-05 MST3K Collection, Volume 9 (out of print)
(Short: Keeping Clean and Neat) Cops try to shut down a porn ring in this story written and directed by Ed Wood. The 1956 short encourages children to pay close attention to fashion and meticulous hygiene.
614 San Francisco International
San Francisco International Airport (TV series)
San Francisco International Airport was a television drama aired in the United States by NBC as a part of its 1970-71 wheel series Four in One....


(1970, Color, Universal)
1994-11-19 None
This pilot for the TV series San Francisco International Airport details the hijackings, kidnappings, and marital problems that plague the airport manager. Starring Pernell Roberts
Pernell Roberts
Pernell Elvin Roberts, Jr. was an American stage, movie and television actor, as well as a singer. In addition to guest starring in over 60 television series, he was widely known for his roles as Ben Cartwright's eldest son, Adam Cartwright, on the western series Bonanza, a role he played from...

.
615 Kitten with a Whip
Kitten with a Whip
Kitten with a Whip is a 1959 pulp novel by "Wade Miller", a pseudonym used by the writing team Robert Wade and William Miller. The novel was published by Fawcett's Gold Medal imprint...


(1964, B&W, Universal)
1994-11-23 None
While running for Senator, a soft-hearted man (John Forsythe
John Forsythe
John Forsythe was an American stage, television and film actor. Forsythe starred in three television series, spanning four decades and three genres: as single playboy father Bentley Gregg in the sitcom Bachelor Father ; as the unseen millionaire Charles Townsend on the crime drama Charlie's...

) finds himself alternately cajoled and blackmailed into helping a young woman (Ann-Margret
Ann-Margret
Ann-Margret Olsson is a Swedish-American actress, singer and dancer whose professional name is Ann-Margret. She became famous for her starring roles in Bye Bye Birdie, Viva Las Vegas, The Cincinnati Kid, Carnal Knowledge, and Tommy...

) who has broken out of a reform school and her "friends."
616 Racket Girls
Racket Girls
Racket Girls is an American crime film, directed by Robert C. Dertano, released in 1951 by Screen Classics.-Plot:...


(1951, B&W, Globe Roadshows)
1994-11-26 MST3K Collection, Volume XV
(Short: Are You Ready for Marriage?) A gym owner gets into trouble, becoming the target of the mob and the law. The 1950 short presents a high school couple rushing into marriage, and the marriage counselor who talks them out of it.
617 The Sword and the Dragon
Ilya Muromets (film)
Ilya Muromets , known in the US as The Sword and the Dragon and in the UK as The Epic Hero and the Beast , is a Russian fantasy film directed by the noted fantasy director Aleksandr Ptushko, made at Mosfilm and released in 1956. It is based on the byliny tales of the bogatyr Ilya Muromets...


(Ilya Muromets)
(1956, Color, Mosfilm, USSR)
1994-12-03 None
Barbarians attack Russia in the 13th century, but a valiant man fends off the hordes with wisdom.
618 High School Big Shot
High School Big Shot
High School Big Shot is a 1959 film starring Tom Pittman as Marv Grant, a smart high school student whose plans for getting a college scholarship are threatened by his alcoholic father played by Malcolm Atterbury, and his relationship with the most popular girl in school. The plot is remarkably...


(1953, B&W, Filmgroup)
1994-12-10 None
(Short: Out of This World) A high school dweeb plans a heist to win the favor of a pretty classmate. The short aims at keeping bread truck drivers on the straight and narrow.
619 Red Zone Cuba
Red Zone Cuba
Red Zone Cuba, also known as Night Train to Mundo Fine, is a 1966 American drama film directed by Coleman Francis, who also wrote, produced, and played the starring role...


(Night Train to Mundo Fine)
(1966, B&W, Hollywood Star)
1994-12-17 Standalone DVD by Rhino (out of print), Standalone DVD by Shout! Factory
(Short: Speech: Platform, Posture, and Appearance) Another Coleman Francis
Coleman Francis
Coleman C. Francis was an American actor, writer, producer, and director perhaps best-known for his film trilogy consisting of The Beast of Yucca Flats , The Skydivers , Red Zone Cuba , all three of which were filmed in the general Yucca Mountain, Nevada area and used preoccupation with light...

 film in which an escaped criminal stumbles upon a desolate Army post, takes part in the Bay of Pigs invasion
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the US government, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. The invasion was launched in April 1961, less than three months...

, then goes in search of ore. The short offers advice for public speakers.
620 Danger!! Death Ray
Danger!! Death Ray
Danger!! Death Ray is an 1967 Italian Eurospy secret agent spy film. It was released at a time when the James Bond films, and spy films in general, were very popular internationally. Its original Italian title was Il Raggio infernale, which translates as "The Infernal Beam", and it was also...


(Il raggio infernale)
(1967, Color, Leda Films/Meteor Film, Spain/Italy)
1995-01-07 None
Agent Bart Fargo must save both a stolen death ray and the scientist who created it from an evil organization.
621 The Beast of Yucca Flats
The Beast of Yucca Flats
The Beast of Yucca Flats is a B horror film released in 1961. The film stars Swedish former wrestler Tor Johnson and was both written and directed by Coleman Francis...


(1961, B&W, Crown International)
1995-01-21 MST3K Collection, Vol. XVIII
(Shorts: Money Talks, Progress Island USA) In this Coleman Francis
Coleman Francis
Coleman C. Francis was an American actor, writer, producer, and director perhaps best-known for his film trilogy consisting of The Beast of Yucca Flats , The Skydivers , Red Zone Cuba , all three of which were filmed in the general Yucca Mountain, Nevada area and used preoccupation with light...

 film, A defecting Russian scientist (Tor Johnson
Tor Johnson
Tor Johansson , better known by the stage name Tor Johnson, was a Swedish professional wrestler and actor....

) turns into a monster after being caught in an atomic bomb explosion and wanders around the test range, killing various people. Shorts include
Money Talks, a 1955 outing about the importance of a budget, and Progress Island USA, a 1973 film meant to lure investors to Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

.
622 Angels Revenge
Angels Revenge
Angels Revenge is a 1979 American film directed by Greydon Clark and distributed by Arista Films. It is also known as Angels' Brigade and Seven from Heaven....


(Angels' Brigade)
(1979, Color, Arista)
1995-03-11 MST3K Collection, Volume 2 (out of print)
A rip-off of Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels
Charlie's Angels is a television series about three women who work for a private investigation agency, and is one of the first shows to showcase women in roles traditionally reserved for men...

, with six women fighting drug dealers. Jim Backus
Jim Backus
James Gilmore "Jim" Backus was a radio, television, film, and voice actor. Among his most famous roles are the voice of Mr...

, Jack Palance
Jack Palance
Jack Palance , was an American actor. During half a century of film and television appearances, Palance was nominated for three Academy Awards, all as Best Actor in a Supporting Role, winning in 1991 for his role in City Slickers.-Early life:Palance, one of five children, was born Volodymyr...

, Alan Hale, Jr.
Alan Hale, Jr.
Alan Hale, Jr. was an American film and television actor, best known for his role as Skipper on the popular sitcom Gilligan's Island. Hale was the lookalike son of popular supporting film actor Alan Hale, Sr....

, Pat Buttram
Pat Buttram
Maxwell Emmett "Pat" Buttram was an American actor, known for playing the sidekick of Gene Autry and for playing the character of Mr. Haney in the TV series Green Acres. He had a distinctive voice which, in his own words, "... never quite made it through puberty"...

, and Arthur Godfrey
Arthur Godfrey
Arthur Morton Godfrey was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname, The Old Redhead...

 all have roles.
623 The Amazing Transparent Man
The Amazing Transparent Man
The Amazing Transparent Man is a 1960 science fiction film starring Marguerite Chapman. It is an American B-movie which follows the story of an insane ex-U. S. Army major who uses an escaped criminal to steal materials to improve the invisibility machine his scientist prisoner made. It was one of...


(1960, B&W, AIP)
1995-03-18 None
(Short: The Days of Our Years) A mad scientist gives a convict the power of invisibility, who then uses it to rob a bank. In the 1955 Union Pacific Railroad
Union Pacific Railroad
The Union Pacific Railroad , headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, is the largest railroad network in the United States. James R. Young is president, CEO and Chairman....

-sponsored short, a minister urges workers to be more careful while on the job, to prevent injuries.
624 Samson vs. the Vampire Women
Samson vs. the Vampire Women
Santo vs. las Mujeres Vampiro is a 1962 horror film starring the wrestling superhero Santo. The film was featured on a 1995 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. The film was also featured on the television show Cinema Insomnia.-Plot:Vampire women are awakened by their leader in order to find...


(El Santo contras las mujeres vampiro)
(1961, B&W, AIP-TV, Mexico)
1995-03-25 None
Masked wrestler El Santo battles vampire women who want to capture a young woman destined to become their queen.
Frank Conniff
Frank Conniff
Frank Conniff is a writer and actor who is perhaps best known for his portrayal of TV's Frank on Mystery Science Theater 3000 .-Early work:...

's last episode.

Season 7

Ep. # Featured Film Original Airdate DVD Availability
701 Night of the Blood Beast
Night of the Blood Beast
Night of the Blood Beast is a 1958 American science-fiction horror film about a team of scientists who are stalked by an alien creature, which implants its embryos in an astronaut's body during a space flight. Produced by B movie filmmaker Roger Corman and his brother Gene, the film was one of the...


(1958, B&W, AIP)
1996-02-03 MST3K Collection, Volume XVI
(Short: Once Upon a Honeymoon) An astronaut survives the crash of his capsule, only to learn he has been impregnated by an alien. In the musical short, a woman dreams of redecorating her house.
701T, which features alternate Thanksgiving-themed host segments, was aired only twice. It premiered on Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Day is a holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. Thanksgiving is celebrated each year on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. In Canada, Thanksgiving falls on the same day as Columbus Day in the...

 Day 1995, at the end of the annual "Turkey Day" marathon
Marathon (television)
In television, a marathon is typically the sequential broadcast of a single or a number of related television programs, most notably reflecting a theme....

. The commentary on the film and short is the same in both versions of the episode. First episode with Pearl Forrester as a regular character.
702 The Brute Man
The Brute Man
The Brute Man is a 1946 American horror thriller film starring Rondo Hatton as the Creeper, a murderer seeking revenge against the people he holds responsible for the disfigurement of his face. Directed by Jean Yarbrough, the film features Tom Neal and Jan Wiley as a married pair of friends the...


(1946, B&W, PRC)
1996-02-10 MST3K Collection, Volume XXII
(Short: The Chicken of Tomorrow
The Chicken of Tomorrow
The Chicken of Tomorrow is a 1948 documentary short film about advances in chicken and egg farming. This mini-documentary was narrated by Lowell Thomas and is in the public domain....

) Rondo Hatton
Rondo Hatton
Rondo Hatton was an American actor who had a brief, but prolific career playing thuggish bit parts in many Hollywood B-movies. He was known for his brutish facial features which were the result of acromegaly, a disorder of the pituitary gland.-Biography:Hatton was born Rondo K...

 stars as a disfigured man who takes revenge on the college pals he believes caused his condition. The short is a documentary-style examination of chicken farming.
703 Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell
Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell
Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell, also known as Deathstalker III: The Warriors from Hell, is a 1988 sword and sorcery fantasy film. It is the third film in the Deathstalker tetralogy.-Plot summary:...


(Deathstalker III: Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell)
(1988, Color, New)
1996-02-17 None
The medieval adventures of a sardonic hero, on a quest for three magical stones, who battles the evil sorcerer Troxartes, ruler of Southland.
704 The Incredible Melting Man
The Incredible Melting Man
The Incredible Melting Man is a 1977 American science fiction horror film about an astronaut whose body begins to melt after he is exposed to radiation during a space flight to Saturn, driving him to commit murders and consume human flesh to survive...


(1977, Color, AIP)
1996-02-24 None
An astronaut is exposed to radiation and turns into a mindless, violent, melting monster.
705 Escape 2000
Escape from the Bronx
Escape from the Bronx is a 1983 Italian action film directed by Enzo G. Castellari. Also known as Escape 2000 and Bronx Warriors 2 it was featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 under the Escape 2000 name...


(Fuga dal Bronx)
(1981, Color, FGH/Filmco Ltd/Hemdale, Australia)
1996-03-02 None
An evil corporation wants to raze and rebuild the Bronx, and secretly attempts to kill its obstinate residents. A band of rebels fights back.
706 Laserblast
Laserblast
Laserblast is a 1978 American science fiction film about an unhappy teenage loner who discovers an alien laser cannon and goes on a murderous rampage, seeking revenge against those who he feels have wronged him. The low-budget film was directed by Michael Rae and produced by Charles Band, who is...


(1978, Color, Selected Pictures)
1996-05-18 MST3K 20th Anniversary Edition
A teenager discovers a laser weapon left behind by turtle-like aliens. He uses it for petty revenge, but the weapon slowly changes his personality. With Roddy McDowall
Roddy McDowall
Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude "Roddy" McDowall was an English actor and photographer. His film roles included Cornelius and Caesar in the Planet of the Apes film series...

 and Keenan Wynn
Keenan Wynn
Keenan Wynn was an American character actor. His bristling mustache and expressive face were his stock in trade, and though he rarely had a lead role, he got prominent billing in most of his film and TV parts....

.
Trace Beaulieu
Trace Beaulieu
Trace Beaulieu is an American puppeteer, writer, and actor. He is best known for his roles on Mystery Science Theater 3000 .-Mystery Science Theater 3000:...

's final episode.

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie is a 1996 theatrical adaptation of the television series Mystery Science Theater 3000, produced and set between seasons 6 and 7 of the show. It was released by Gramercy Pictures and Best Brains with distribution held by Universal Pictures...

Featured Film Release Date DVD Availability
This Island Earth
This Island Earth (film)
This Island Earth is a 1955 American science fiction film directed by Joseph M. Newman. It is based on the novel of the same name by Raymond F. Jones. The film stars Jeff Morrow as the alien Exeter, Faith Domergue as Dr. Ruth Adams, and Rex Reason as Dr. Cal Meacham. The film was one of the first...


(1955, Color, Universal International Pictures)
1996-04-19 Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
An atomic scientist is invited to collaborate with other scientists on a mysterious project that has interplanetary consequences.
Though filmed before work began on season 7, MST3K: The Movie started a limited theater run between Escape 2000 (705) and Laserblast (706). The host segments are arranged and executed somewhat differently for the film. Mike and the Bots riff on their own movie's credits at the end.

Season 8

Ep. # Featured Film Original Airdate DVD Availability
801 Revenge of the Creature
Revenge of the Creature
Revenge of the Creature is the first sequel to Creature from the Black Lagoon. The film is notable for being the only 3-D film to be released in 1955; the only 3-D sequel to a 3-D film; and for being the first screen role for Clint Eastwood. The movie was released May 11, 1955, in the United States...


(1955, B&W [3-D], Universal)
1997-02-01 None
The first sequel to Creature from the Black Lagoon
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Creature from the Black Lagoon is a 1954 monster horror film directed by Jack Arnold, and starring Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, and Whit Bissell. The eponymous creature was played by Ben Chapman on land and Ricou Browning in underwater scenes...

, in which the creature is at last captured and taken to a Florida aquarium for study.
Bill Corbett
Bill Corbett
Bill Corbett is an American writer and performer for television, film and theatre. He was a writer and performer on the cult television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 , for which he voiced the robot Crow T. Robot during the show's later seasons on the Sci Fi Channel and played the character...

's first episode as Crow T. Robot
Crow T. Robot
Crow T. Robot is a fictional character from the American science fiction comedy television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 . Crow is a robot, who, along with others, quips and riffs upon poor-quality B movies.- Overview :...

. First appearance of Professor Bobo
Professor Bobo
Professor Bobo is a fictional character who appeared in the final three seasons of Mystery Science Theater 3000, a comedy television series that mocks B-movies...

. Pearl Forrester takes over as lead mad scientist.
802 The Leech Woman
The Leech Woman
-Plot:A mysterious old woman approaches Dr. Paul Talbot and promises to reveal to him the secret of eternal youth. Following her to Africa, he and his wife June Talbot witness the secret ceremony that utilizes orchid pollen and a victim's pineal gland secretions...


(1960, B&W, Universal)
1997-02-08 None
An alcoholic middle-aged woman discovers the secret to renewed (albeit temporary) youth from an African tribe. She steals the tools used in the ritual and returns to America, killing men to maintain her youth.
803 The Mole People
The Mole People
-Plot:The film begins with a narration by Dr. Frank Baxter, an English professor at the University of Southern California, explaining the premise of the movie and its basis in reality...


(1956, B&W, Universal)
1997-02-15 None
Archaeologists find a lost civilization underground, where the title characters are enslaved by an ancient race of Sumerian albinos. Starring John Agar
John Agar
John George Agar was an American actor. He starred alongside John Wayne in the films Sands of Iwo Jima, Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, but was later relegated to B movies, such as Tarantula, The Mole People, The Brain from Planet Arous, Flesh and the Spur, and Hand of Death...

 and Hugh Beaumont
Hugh Beaumont (actor)
Eugene Hugh Beaumont was an American actor and television director. He was also licensed to preach by the Methodist church...

804 The Deadly Mantis
The Deadly Mantis
The Deadly Mantis is a 1957 science fiction film produced by William Alland for Universal-International Pictures. It was directed by Nathan Juran from a screenplay by Martin Berkeley, and starred Craig Stevens, William Hopper, Alix Talton, and Pat Conway...


(1957, B&W, Universal)
1997-02-22 None
An Arctic earthquake causes a giant praying mantis to invade Washington DC and New York.
805 The Thing That Couldn't Die
The Thing That Couldn't Die
The Thing that Couldn't Die is a 1958 American black and white horror film from an original screenplay by David Duncan for Universal-International Pictures, produced and directed by Will Cowan.-Plot:...


(1958, B&W, Universal)
1997-03-01 None
The 400-year-old severed head of a devil-worshiper hypnotizes several people at a ranch in order to be reunited with his body.
First appearance of Observer.
806 The Undead
The Undead (film)
The Undead is a 1957 horror film directed by Roger Corman starring Pamela Duncan, Richard Garland, Allison Hayes, and Val Dufour. It follows the story of prostitute Diana Love who is put into a hypnotic trance by psychic Quintis , thus causing her to regress back to a previous life...


(1956, B&W, AIP)
1997-03-08 None
A hypnotist and "psychical researcher" sends a prostitute back to the 15th century to live a previous life as a woman falsely accused of witchcraft, then follows her back to change the past.
807 Terror from the Year 5000
Terror from the Year 5000
Terror from the Year 5000 is a 1958 American science fiction film directed by Robert J. Gurney Jr. starring Ward Costello, Joyce Holden, John Stratton, Salome Jens and Fred Herrick....


(1958, B&W, AIP)
1997-03-15 None
A time machine brings a woman (Salome Jens
Salome Jens
Salome Jens is an American stage, film and television actress. She is perhaps best-known for portraying the Female Changeling on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.-Life and career:...

) from 5200 A.D. to the present, and she wants to take males to the future. She uses hypnosis to get her way.
808 The She Creature
The She Creature
The She Creature is a 1956 American black-and-white horror film produced by American International Pictures from a script by Lou Rusoff , produced by Alex Gordon and directed by Edward L. Cahn...


(1956, B&W, AIP)
1997-04-05 None
A carnival mesmerist uses hypnosis on a woman to summon the spirit of a murderous female sea creature.
809 I Was a Teenage Werewolf
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
I Was a Teenage Werewolf is a 1957 horror film starring Michael Landon as a troubled teenager and Whit Bissell as the primary adult. It was co-written and produced by cult film producer Herman Cohen, and was one of the most successful films released by American International Pictures...


(1957, B&W, AIP)
1997-04-19 None
Michael Landon
Michael Landon
Michael Landon was an American actor, writer, director, and producer. He is widely known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza , Charles Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie , and Jonathan Smith in Highway to Heaven...

 (at age 20) plays a high school kid who hypnotized into becoming a werewolf.
810 The Giant Spider Invasion
The Giant Spider Invasion
The Giant Spider Invasion is a low-budget 1975 film produced by Transcentury Pictures, a partnership owned by the film's director Bill Rebane. The film is about giant spiders that terrorize the town of Merrill, Wisconsin and the surrounding area. The Giant Spider Invasion was given a U.S. release...


(1975, Cinema Group 75)
1997-05-31 MST3K Collection, Volume 10 (out of print), 10.2
Mutant spider eggs land on Earth via meteor. They start hatching and terrorizing a small Wisconsin town. With Barbara Hale
Barbara Hale
Barbara Hale is an American actress best known for her role as legal secretary Della Street on more than 250 episodes of the long-running Perry Mason television series and later reprising the role in dozens of made-for-TV movies....

 and Alan Hale, Jr.
Alan Hale, Jr.
Alan Hale, Jr. was an American film and television actor, best known for his role as Skipper on the popular sitcom Gilligan's Island. Hale was the lookalike son of popular supporting film actor Alan Hale, Sr....

811 Parts: The Clonus Horror
Parts: The Clonus Horror
Parts: The Clonus Horror, also known as Clonus, is a 1979 science fiction horror film about an isolated community in a remote desert area, where clones are bred to serve as a source of replacement organs for the wealthy and powerful...


(1979, Color, Clonus Associates)
1997-06-07 MST3K Collection, Volume 12
In an isolated community set in a remote desert area, clones are being bred to serve as a source of replacement organs for the wealthy and powerful. Starring Timothy Donnelly
Timothy Donnelly
Timothy Donnelly is an American poet. He earned his BA from The Johns Hopkins University and his MFA in Poetry from Columbia University's MFA Program for Poets & Writers...

. With Peter Graves
Peter Graves
Peter Graves may refer to:* Peter Graves , American actor* Peter Graves, 8th Baron Graves , English actor and peer* Peter Graves , English cricketer...

, Keenan Wynn
Keenan Wynn
Keenan Wynn was an American character actor. His bristling mustache and expressive face were his stock in trade, and though he rarely had a lead role, he got prominent billing in most of his film and TV parts....

, and Dick Sargent
Dick Sargent
Richard Stanford Cox , known professionally as Dick Sargent, was an American actor, notable as the second actor to portray Darrin Stephens on the television series Bewitched...

.
812 The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
-DVD release:The DVD release of Incredibly Strange Creatures features a commentary track by "drive-in movie critic" Joe Bob Briggs.-In popular culture:...


(1964, Color, Fairway)
1997-06-14 MST3K Collection, Volume 9 (out of print), Standalone DVD
A couple of slackers stumble across a cult of monsters at an early-'60s carnival.
813 Jack Frost
(Morozko)
(1966, Color, Gorky Film Studios, USSR)
1997-07-12 MST3K Collection, Vol. XVIII
Filmed version of a Russian folk tale. A woman is forced to slave away, while a young boy with the head of a bear must perform a good deed to reverse the curse.
814 Riding with Death
Gemini Man
Gemini Man is an American action/adventure drama series that aired on NBC in 1976. This is the third of four weekly television series based on the H. G. Wells science fiction novel, The Invisible Man.-Synopsis:...


(Gemini Man: "Smithereens" and "Buffalo Bill Rides Again")
(1976, Color, Universal TV)
1997-07-19 None
Two episodes of the short-lived series Gemini Man edited into one movie. INTERSECT agent Sam Casey (Ben Murphy
Ben Murphy
Benjamin E. Murphy is an American actor. He is known for his role in the ABC television series Alias Smith and Jones, co-starring as Kid Curry, first with Pete Duel and later with Roger Davis.-Early life:...

), who can turn invisible at will, safeguards a super fuel additive and then tackles saboteur Robert Denby.
815 Agent for H.A.R.M.
Agent for H.A.R.M.
Agent for H.A.R.M. is a 1966 science fiction spy thriller directed by Gerd Oswald and starring Peter Mark Richman. It is one of a number of spy thrillers of the time which have conspicuous sci-fi elements...


(1966, Color, Universal)
1997-08-02 None
An American spy protects a scientist from Russian agents.
816 Prince of Space
(Yusei oji)
(1956, B&W, 59 Manly TV, Japan)
1997-08-16 MST3K Collection, Volume 7
Superhero Prince of Space defends Earth from evil aliens, led by the Phantom of Krankor.
817 The Horror of Party Beach
The Horror of Party Beach
The Horror of Party Beach is a 1964 horror film in the beach party genre, directed by B-movie maven Del Tenney, which Tenney himself describes as "a take-off on beach parties and musicals"....


(1964, B&W, 20th Century Fox)
1997-09-06 None
A beach community is plagued by sea monsters created by radioactive waste dumped off the coast.
818 Devil Doll
Devil Doll (film)
Devil Doll is a horror film about an evil ventriloquist, "The Great Vorelli", and his dummy Hugo. Decades after its initial release, it was featured on a 1997 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.-Plot:...


(1963, Associated Film Distributors, US/England)
1997-10-04 MST3K Collection, Volume XIX
A ventriloquist turns to hypnosis to transfer a person's soul into his dummy.
819 Invasion of the Neptune Men
Invasion of the Neptune Men
is a tokusatsu SF/superhero film produced by Toei Company Ltd. in 1961. The movie starred then 22-year old Sonny Chiba as the intergalactic superhero Iron-Sharp...


(Uchu Kaisoku-sen)
(1961, B&W, Toei/TV, Japan)
1997-10-11 None
A costumed hero in a flying rocket-car tries to save Earth from robot aliens.
820 Space Mutiny
Space Mutiny
Space Mutiny is a 1988 South African science-fiction action film about a mutiny aboard the spaceship known as the Southern Sun.- Plot :...


(1988, Color, AIP, South Africa)
1997-11-07 MST3K Collection, Volume 4 (out of print)
A man (Reb Brown
Reb Brown
Reb Brown is an American actor.Known as superhero Captain America in the TV pilot/movies, he's also known for the 1983 cult classic, Yor, the Hunter from the Future, as well as the scifi film, Space Mutiny, and for the collaborations with director Bruno Mattei in films Strike Commando and Robowar ...

) helps the commander of a spaceship (Cameron Mitchell
Cameron Mitchell (actor)
Cameron Mitchell was an American film, television and Broadway actor with close ties to one of Canada's most successful families, and considered, by Lee Strasberg, to be one of the founding members of The Actor's Studio in New York City.-Early life and career:Born Cameron MacDowell Mitzel in...

) fight a mutiny led by the security chief (John Phillip Law
John Phillip Law
John Phillip Law was an American film actor with over one hundred movie roles to his credit. He was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Phyllis Sallee and the brother of actor Thomas Augustus Law .He was best known for his roles as the blind angel Pygar in the science fiction cult...

) who are trying to escape the old ship.
821 Time Chasers
Time Chasers
Time Chasers is a 1994 science fiction film directed by David Giancola and starring Matthew Bruch, George Woodard, and Bonnie Pritchard. The film follows the adventures of an amateur inventor who goes through time with his female accomplice to stop an evil megacorporation intent on changing...


(Tangents) (1994, Color, Edgewood Studios)
1997-11-22 MST3K Collection, Volume 5
A Castleton college professor and a reporter go through time in a modified light plane to stop a corporation from using his invention to accidentally create a dystopian future.
822 Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank was a 1983 television movie. It was produced by Canada’s RSL Productions in Toronto. Financing was provided by WNET/PBS New Jersey, which had hoped to create an entire science fiction series adapting famous works, but due to lack of funding this was the last of three...


(1983, Color (Video), Starmaker Video)
1997-12-06 MST3K Collection, Volume 4 (out of print)
In an Orwellian
Orwellian
"Orwellian" describes the situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free society...

 future, a corporate employee (Raul Julia
Raúl Juliá
Raúl Rafael Juliá y Arcelay was a Puerto Rican actor.Born in San Juan, he gained interest in acting while still in school. Upon completing his studies, Juliá decided to pursue a career in acting. After performing in the local scene for some time, he was convinced by entertainment personality Orson...

) discovers forbidden films inside the computers. He projects himself into one of the films (a rendition of Casablanca
Casablanca (film)
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henreid, and featuring Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson. Set during World War II, it focuses on a man torn between, in...

), much to the dismay of the CEO and the computer itself.

Season 9

Ep. # Featured Film Original Airdate DVD Availability
901 The Projected Man
The Projected Man
The Projected Man is a British science fiction film starring Mary Peach, Bryant Haliday, Norman Wooland, and Ronald Allen. It was released in the United States by Universal Studios, as a double bill with Island of Terror. The plot revolves around a scientist, Dr...


(1966, Color, Universal)
1998-03-14 None
1960s-era British sci-fi movie. A professor develops a teleporter, then teleports himself – with disastrous results.
902 The Phantom Planet
The Phantom Planet
The Phantom Planet is a science fiction film directed by William Marshall.Footage from the film was used in a 2010 advertising campaign for La Quinta Inns and Suites, an American hotel chain...


(1961, B&W, AIP)
1998-03-21 MST3K Collection, Volume 8
In the future, an astronaut crashes on an asteroid populated by Lilliputian aliens at war with another planet. He shrinks to their size and is imprisoned by them.
903 The Pumaman
The Pumaman
The Pumaman was an Italian-produced English-language movie about a superhero of the same name, released in 1980. It was mocked in a 1998 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.-Plot:The villainous Dr...


(L'uomo puma)
(1980, Color, ADM Films, Italy)
1998-04-04 None
A man learns he was born with special powers and becomes the superhero Puma Man. He fights the villainous Dr. Kobras (Donald Pleasence
Donald Pleasence
Sir Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE, was a British actor who gained more than 200 screen credits during a career which spanned over four decades...

), who uses an ancient mind-control mask in his attempts to rule the world.
904 Werewolf
Werewolf (1996 film)
Werewolf is a 1996 direct-to-video horror film that was lampooned in a 1998 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.- Plot :...


(Arizona Werewolf)
(1996, Color, Tozart Publishing)
1998-04-18 MST3K 20th Anniversary Edition
After digging up strange bones, a man becomes a werewolf. Includes Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen
Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez , better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is an American film actor best known for his performances in the films Badlands and Apocalypse Now , and in the television series The West Wing from 1999 to 2006.He is considered one of the best actors never to be...

's brother Joe Estevez
Joe Estevez
Joseph "Joe" Estevez is an American actor, director, and producer.He is the younger brother of actor Martin Sheen and the uncle of Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Renée Estevez, and Ramon Estevez.-Early life:...

 in a minor role.
905 The Deadly Bees
The Deadly Bees
The Deadly Bees is a 1966 British horror–thriller film based on H.F. Heard's 1941 novel A Taste for Honey. It was directed by Freddie Francis, and stars Suzanna Leigh, Guy Doleman, and Frank Finlay. It was released theatrically in the United States in 1967...


(1967, Color, Amicus, UK)
1998-05-09 None
A pop singer goes on vacation to remote Seagull Island. Her host and his neighbor are both beekeepers. She becomes embroiled in their ongoing feud, and soon afterwards people start dying from bee attacks. Features Ron Wood
Ron Wood
Ronald David "Ronnie" Wood is an English rock guitarist and bassist best known as a former member of The Jeff Beck Group, Faces, and current member of The Rolling Stones. He also plays lap and pedal steel guitar....

 in a brief appearance with his then-current band, The Birds
The Birds (band)
The Birds were a popular rhythm and blues band in the United Kingdom during the mid 1960s, although they recorded fewer than a dozen songs and released only four singles. Starting out with a hard R&B sound, they later began infusing it with Motown-style vocal harmonies...

906 The Space Children
The Space Children
The Space Children is a 1958 film directed by Jack Arnold. The movie was mocked on Mystery Science Theater 3000 in 1998 during season 9....


(1958, B&W, Paramount)
1998-06-13 None
(Short: Century 21 Calling) The children of rocket technicians come into contact with a mind-controlling blob. Together they sabotage a rocket launch. The short is a 1962 Bell Company
Bell System
The Bell System was the American Bell Telephone Company and then, subsequently, AT&T led system which provided telephone services to much of the United States and Canada from 1877 to 1984, at various times as a monopoly. In 1984, the company was broken up into separate companies, by a U.S...

 production set at the Seattle's World's Fair
Century 21 Exposition
The Century 21 Exposition was a World's Fair held April 21, 1962, to October 21, 1962 in Seattle, Washington.Nearly 10 million people attended the fair...

, at which then-futuristic telephone innovations are discussed and demonstrated.
907 Hobgoblins
Hobgoblins (film)
Hobgoblins is a 1988 low-budget B-movie directed by Rick Sloane, often seen as a rip-off of Gremlins. It earned infamy after it was shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000 and is often regarded as one of the worst films ever made.- Plot :...


(1987, Color, Rick Sloane Productions)
1998-06-27 MST3K Collection, Volume 8
Several teens pursue aliens that escaped from a movie studio vault.
908 The Touch of Satan
The Touch of Satan
The Touch of Satan is a 1971 horror film. It was directed by Don Henderson, and it starred Michael Berry and Emby Mellay in their debut roles. The film was shot in 1970 in the Santa Ynez, California area and featured the early work from movie makeup artist Joe Blasco...


(1971, Color, Futurama/Dundee)
1998-07-11 MST3K Collection, Volume 5, Standalone DVD
A young man gets lost while driving, and becomes the guest of a young woman who turns out to be a witch.
909 Gorgo
(1960, released 1961, MGM, England)
1998-07-18 None
A sea monster appears off the coast of Ireland and is captured by circus men. The monster's mother comes to its rescue; devastation ensues.
Leonard Maltin
Leonard Maltin
Leonard Maltin is an American film and animated film critic and historian, author of several mainstream books on cinema, focusing on nostalgic, celebratory narratives.-Personal life:...

 makes a guest appearance in this episode.
This episode did not last very long on TV; it was only shown twice on the first day it aired, before a copyright claim was made, forcing Sci-Fi to remove this episode for good.
910 The Final Sacrifice
The Final Sacrifice
The Final Sacrifice is a low-budget Canadian horror film released in 1990. It was directed by Tjardus Greidanus, and stars Christian Malcolm as Troy McGreggor and Bruce J. Mitchell as Zap Rowsdower.-Plot:...


(Quest For the Lost City)
(1990, Flying Dutchman/AIP Home Video, Canada)
1998-07-25 MST3K Collection, Volume XVII
A teen follows a map left for him by his long-dead father, runs afoul of a devil-worshiping cult, then teams up with a beer-guzzling drifter who has a secret.
911 Devil Fish
Monster Shark
Monster Shark is a 1984 Italian horror film, and one of several environmental disaster films to emerge following the success of the 1975 film Jaws, including films such as: Great White, Orca, Piranha, Tentacles and Tintorera.- Plot :The film takes place along...


(Shark rosso nell'oceano)
(1984, Color, Filmes Internationale-Nuovo, Italy)
1998-08-15 MST3K Collection, Volume XIX
A group of Florida scientists discover a gigantic prehistoric shark.
912 The Screaming Skull
The Screaming Skull
The Screaming Skull is a 1958 American horror film, inspired by the short story of the same name written by Francis Marion Crawford. The film stars John Hudson, Peggy Webber, Russ Conway, and Alex Nicol, the film's director...


(1958, B&W, AIP)
1998-08-29 None
(Short: Robot Rumpus) Newly married wife Jenni can't tell if the skull she sees in her new home is a ghostly apparition of her husband's dead first wife, or just hallucinations from her own nervous condition... or something else. The short is a Gumby
Gumby
Gumby is a green clay humanoid character created and modeled by Art Clokey, who also created Davey and Goliath. Gumby has been the subject of a 233-episode series of American television as well as a feature-length film and other media...

 cartoon.
913 Quest of the Delta Knights
Quest of the Delta Knights
Quest of the Delta Knights is a 1993 fantasy/adventure sword and sorcery film that was featured in a September 1998 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000...


(1993, Color, Ramsway JC))
1998-09-26 None
A band of knights seeks to defeat a malevolent ruler by locating a trove of magical inventions. David Warner
David Warner (actor)
David Warner is an English actor who is known for playing both romantic leads and sinister or villainous characters, both in film and animation...

 plays two characters: wise man Baydool and the evil Lord Vultare.

Season 10

Ep. # Featured Film Original Airdate DVD Availability
1001 Soultaker
Soultaker (film)
Soultaker is a 1990 fantasy horror film starring Vivian Schilling, Joe Estevez, and Robert Z'Dar. The film was featured on an episode of movie-mocking TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000. However, despite the negative reception, it won a Saturn Award in 1992 for Best Genre Video Release...


(1990, Color, Pacific West Entertainment / Victory Pictures)
1999-04-11 MST3K Collection, Volume XIV
Two teens are killed in a car wreck, then elude their Grim Reaper (Joe Estevez).
Joel Hodgson
Joel Hodgson
Joel Gordon Hodgson is an American writer, comedian and television actor. He is best known for creating Mystery Science Theater 3000 and starring in it as the character Joel Robinson. In 2007 MST3K was listed as "one of the top 100 television shows of all time" by Time.com...

 and Frank Conniff
Frank Conniff
Frank Conniff is a writer and actor who is perhaps best known for his portrayal of TV's Frank on Mystery Science Theater 3000 .-Early work:...

 guest star in the host segments.
1002 Girl in Gold Boots
Girl in Gold Boots
Girl in Gold Boots is a 1968 crime/drama film about the seedy underworld of Go-Go dancing, directed by Ted V. Mikels, who also directed The Astro-Zombies.- Summary :...


(1968, released 1969, Color, Geneni Film Distributors)
1999-04-18 MST3K Collection, Volume 4 (out of print)
A girl from rural California goes to Los Angeles to work as a go-go dancer. There, she and her friends get involved with drug dealers.
1003 Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders
Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders
Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders is a 1996 fantasy/horror film directed by Kenneth J. Berton. The film stars Ernest Borgnine, who plays a grandfather telling his grandson a story about the wizard Merlin opening up a store in modern-day America...


(1995, filmed 1984 & 1995, Color, Berton Films)
1999-09-12 MST3K Collection, Volume 5
Using a series of flashbacks, a grandfather (Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine is an American actor of television and film. His career has spanned more than six decades. He was an unconventional lead in many films of the 1950s, including his Academy Award-winning turn in the 1955 film Marty...

) tells contemporary stories featuring the legendary wizard Merlin. One story features a book of spells, the other an evil toy monkey. Much of the footage of the second story is taken from the director's earlier film, 1984's The Devil's Gift.
This episode was originally slated to be shown earlier in the season, but because of clearance issues for Sci-Fi Channel, it made its debut a month after the series finale first aired.
1004 Future War
Future War
Future War is a 1997 direct-to-video American science fiction film about an escaped human slave fleeing his cyborg masters and seeking refuge on Earth. It was lampooned in a 1999 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000.- Plot :...


(1994, released 1997, Color, Cine Excel Entertainment / Silver Screen International)
1999-04-25 MST3K 20th Anniversary Edition
An alien race kidnaps Earthlings for use as slaves. One slave escapes to contemporary Los Angeles, where he is hunted by alien cyborgs using dinosaurs as trackers.
1005 Blood Waters of Dr. Z
Zaat
Zaat is a 1972 cult movie that gained significant exposure when it was used in an episode of movie-mocking television series Mystery Science Theater 3000 in May...


(Zaat)
(1972, released 1982, Color, Barton Films)
1999-05-02 MST3K Collection, Volume XVII
A Florida scientist turns himself into a catfish monster and attacks those who wronged him.
1006 Boggy Creek II: And The Legend Continues 
(The Barbaric Beast of Boggy Creek, Part II) (filmed 1983; released 1985; Color, Howco International Pictures)
1999-05-09 MST3K Collection, Volume 5
A professor and his students camp out in the rural Arkansas
Arkansas
Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...

 swamp, in hopes of finding a Bigfoot-like creature.
1007 Track of the Moon Beast
Track of the Moon Beast
Track of the Moon Beast is a 1976 horror film, directed by Richard Ashe and written by Bill Finger and Charles Sinclair.-Plot:Mineralogist Paul Carlson is struck by a lunar meteorite while observing a meteor shower. Lodged in his brain, the meteorite causes him to transform into a strong and...


(1976, Color, Lizard Productions)
1999-06-13 None
A New Mexico mineralogist is struck in the head by a tiny meteor. When the moon becomes full, he becomes a mindless humanoid lizard monster.
1008 Final Justice
(1984, Color, Arista Films)
1999-06-20 MST3K Collection, Volume XIV
A Texas sheriff (Joe Don Baker
Joe Don Baker
Joe Don Baker is an American film actor, perhaps best known for his roles as a Mafia hitman in Charley Varrick, deputy sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III in Final Justice, real-life Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser in Walking Tall, brute force with a badge detective Mitchell in Mitchell, James...

) goes to Malta
Malta
Malta , officially known as the Republic of Malta , is a Southern European country consisting of an archipelago situated in the centre of the Mediterranean, south of Sicily, east of Tunisia and north of Libya, with Gibraltar to the west and Alexandria to the east.Malta covers just over in...

 in pursuit of the criminal that killed his partner.
1009 Hamlet
(Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark)
(1961, B&W, German TV)
1999-06-27 MST3K Collection, Volume 4 (out of print), Standalone DVD
A German television production of the Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...

 play
Hamlet
The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...

.
1010 It Lives By Night
(The Bat People)
(1974, Color, AIP)
1999-07-18 None
A vacationing scientist is bitten by, and then begins turning into, a bat.
1011 Horrors of Spider Island
A Corpse Hangs in the Web
A Corpse Hung in the Web is a 1960 German-Yugoslav science fiction film directed by Fritz Böttger. The film was dubbed and released in the United States as an adult-only feature titled It's Hot in Paradise in 1962, and later re-issued in 1967 in a slightly edited version called Horrors of Spider...


(Ein Toter hing im Netz)
(1960, B&W, Rapid-Intercontinental)
1999-07-25 MST3K Collection, Volume 11
A manager and his all-girl dance troupe survive a plane crash, only to find themselves on an island infested with mutated spiders.
1012 Squirm
Squirm (film)
Squirm is a 1976 "nature-strikes-back" horror film starring Don Scardino and Patricia Pearcy. It was the debut of cult horror director Jeff Lieberman and remains the director's most popular film. Squirm also features early makeup work from Oscar-winning makeup artist Rick Baker...


(1976, Color, AIP/MGM)
1999-08-01 None
(Short: A Case of Spring Fever) Intelligent, flesh-eating worms attack the residents of remote Fly Creek, Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

. The short follows a hapless man whose wish – that springs didn't exist – is granted by a magical creature who wishes to teach him a lesson.
1013 Diabolik
Danger: Diabolik
Danger: Diabolik is a 1968 feature film from Italian filmmaker Mario Bava based on the Italian comic character Diabolik.- About the film :...


(Danger: Diabolik!)
(1968, Color, Paramount)
1999-08-08 None
The skilled thief Diabolik
Diabolik
Diabolik is a fictional character, an anti-hero featured in Italian comics. He was created by sisters Angela and Luciana Giussani in 1962. His stories appear in monthly black and white digest-sized booklets. The character was inspired by several previous characters from Italian and French pulp...

 (John Phillip Law
John Phillip Law
John Phillip Law was an American film actor with over one hundred movie roles to his credit. He was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Phyllis Sallee and the brother of actor Thomas Augustus Law .He was best known for his roles as the blind angel Pygar in the science fiction cult...

) performs daring heists, culminating in the theft of $10 millon, a 13-emerald necklace, and twenty tons of gold.
The last official episode of the series, although Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders
Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders
Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders is a 1996 fantasy/horror film directed by Kenneth J. Berton. The film stars Ernest Borgnine, who plays a grandfather telling his grandson a story about the wizard Merlin opening up a store in modern-day America...

was first shown a month later.

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