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Re-Watching Mystery Science Theater 3000
OK, I'll be handling this one a little differently than some of the other TV series I've re-watched. I don't own every episode of this, and what I do own isn't in broadcast order, so I'll be watching them as I find them, and updating this initial post as to where they sit in the show's history.
Season One
Show 101: "The Crawling Eye" (11/18/1989)
Show 102: "The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy" (11/25/1989)
Show 103: "The Mad Monster" (12/2/1989)
Show 104: "Women of the Prehistoric Planet" (2/20/1990)
Show 105: "The Corpse Vanishes" (12/9/1989)
Show 106: "The Crawling Hand" (12/16/1989)
Show 107: "Robot Monster" (12/23/1989)
Show 108: "The Slime People" (12/30/1989)
Show 109: "Project Moonbase" (1/6/1990)
Show 110: "Robot Holocaust" (1/13/1990)
Show 111: "Moon Zero Two" (1/20/1990)
Show 112: "Untamed Youth" (1/27/1990)
Show 113: "The Black Scorpion" (2/3/1990)
Season Two
Show 201: "Rocketship X-M" (9/22/1990)
Show 202: "The Sidehackers" (9/29/1990)
Show 203: "Jungle Goddess" (10/6/1990)
Show 204: "Catalina Caper" (10/13/1990)
Show 205: "Rocket Attack U.S.A." (10/27/1990)
Show 206: "Ring of Terror" (11/3/1990)
Show 207: "Wild Rebels" (11/17/1990)
Show 208: "The Lost Continent" (11/24/1990)
Show 209: The Hellcats" (12/8/1990)
Show 210: "King Dinosaur" (12/22/1990)
Show 211: "First Spaceship On Venus" (12/29/1990)
Show 212: "Godzilla vs. Megalon" (1/19/1991)
Show 213: "Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster" (2/2/1991)
Season Three
Show 301: "Cave Dwellers" (6/1/1991)
Show 303: "Pod People" (6/15/1991)
Show 304: "Gamera vs. Barugon" (6/22/1991)
Show 305: "Stranded in Space" (6/29/1991)
Show 306: "Time of the Apes" (7/13/1991)
Show 307: "Daddy-O" (7/20/1991)
Show 308: "Gamera vs. Gaos" (7/27/1991)
Show 309: "The Amazing Colossal Man" (8/3/1991)
Show 310: "Fugitive Alien" (8/17/1991)
Show 311: "It Conquered The World" (8/24/1991)
Show 312: "Gamera vs. Guiron" (9/7/1991)
Show 313: "Earth vs. the Spider" (9/14/1991)
Show 314: "Mighty Jack" (9/21/1991)
Show 315: "Teenage Caveman" (11/9/1991)
Show 316: "Gamera vs. Zigra" (10/19/1991)
Show 317: "The Viking Women and the Sea Serpent" (10/26/1991)
Show 318: "Star Force: Fugitive Alien II" (11/16/1991)
Show 319: "War of the Colossal Beast" (11/30/1991)
Show 320: "The Unearthly" (12/14/1991)
Show 321: "Santa Claus Conquers The Martians" (12/21/1991)
Show 322: "Master Ninja I" (1/11/1992)
Show 323: "The Castle of Fu Manchu" (1/18/1992)
Show 324: "Master Ninja II" (1/25/1992)
Season Four
Show 401: "Space Travelers" (6/6/1992)
Show 402: "The Giant Gila Monster" (6/13/1992)
Show 403: "City Limits" (6/20/1992)
Show 404: "Teenagers From Outer Space" (6/27/1992)
Show 405: "Being From Another Planet" (7/4/1992)
Show 406: "Attack of the Giant Leeches" (7/18/1992)
Show 407: "The Killer Shrews" (7/25/1992)
Show 408: "Hercules Unchained" (8/1/1992)
Show 409: "The Indestructible Man" (8/15/1992)
Show 410: "Hercules Against The Moon Men" (8/22/1992)
Show 411: "The Magic Sword" (8/29/1992)
Show 412: "Hercules and the Captive Women" (9/12/1992)
Show 413: "Manhunt in Space" (9/19/1992)
Show 414: "Tormented" (9/26/1992)
Special: "This is MST3K" (11/14/1992)
Show 415: "The Beatniks" (11/25/1992)
Show 416: "Fire Maidens of Outer Space" (11/26/1992)
Show 417: "Crash of the Moons" (11/28/1992)
Show 418: "Attack of the Eye Creatures" (12/5/1992)
Show 419: "The Rebel Set" (12/12/1992)
Show 420: "The Human Duplicators" (12/26/1992)
Show 421: "Monster-A-Go-Go" (1/9/1993)
Show 422: "The Day The Earth Froze" (1/16/1993)
Show 423: "Bride of the Monster" (1/23/1993)
Show 424: "'Manos': The Hands of Fate" (1/30/1993)
Season Five
Show 501: "Warrior of the Lost World" (7/24/1993)
Show 502: "Hercules" (7/17/1993)
Show 503: "Swamp Diamonds" (7/31/1993)
Show 504: "Secret Agent Super Dragon" (8/7/1993)
Show 505: "The Magic Voyage of Sinbad" (8/14/1993)
Show 507: "I Accuse My Parents" (9/4/1993)
Show 508: "Operation Double 007" (9/11/1993)
Show 509: "The Girl in Lover's Lane" (9/18/1993)
Show 510: "The Painted Hills" (9/26/1993)
Show 511: "Gunslinger" (10/9/1993)
Show 512: "Mitchell" (10/23/1993)
Show 513: "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" (10/30/1993)
Show 514: "Teenage Strangler" (11/7/1993)
Show 515: "The Wild, Wild World of Batwoman" (11/13/1993)
Show 516: "Alien from L.A." (11/20/1993)
Show 517: "Beginning of the End" (11/25/1993)
Show 518: "The Atomic Brain" (12/4/1993)
Show 519: "Outlaw" (12/11/1993)
Show 520: "Radar Secret Service" (12/18/1993)
Show 521: "Santa Claus" (12/24/1993)
Show 522: "Teenage Crime Wave" (1/15/1995)
Show 523: "Village of the Giants" (1/22/1994)
Show 524: "12 To The Moon" (2/5/1994)
Season Six
Show 601: "Girls Town" (7/16/1994)
Show 602:"Invasion USA" (7/23/1994)
Show 603: "The Dead Talk Back" (7/30/1994)
Show 604: "Zombie Nightmare" (11/24/1994)
Show 605: "Colossus and the Headhunters" (8/20/1994)
Show 606: "The Creeping Terror" (9/17/1994)
Show 607: "Bloodlust!" (9/3/1994)
Show 608: "Code Name: Diamond Head" (10/1/1994)
Show 609: "The Skydivers" (8/27/1994)
Show 610: "The Violent Years" (10/8/1994)
Show 611: "Last of the Wild Horses" (10/15/1994)
Show 612: "The Starfighters" (10/29/1994)
Show 613: "The Sinister Urge" (11/5/1994)
Show 614: "San Francisco International" (11/19/1994)
Show 615: "Kitten With A Whip" (11/23/1994)
Show 616: "Racket Girls" (11/26/1994)
Show 617: "The Sword and the Dragon" (12/3/1994)
Show 618: "High School Big Shot" (12/10/1994)
Show 619: "Red Zone Cuba" (12/17/1994)
Show 620: "Danger!! Death Ray" (1/7/1995)
Show 621: "The Beast of Yucca Flats" (1/21/1995)
Show 622: "Angel's Revenge" (3/11/1995)
Show 623: "The Amazing Transparent Man" (3/18/1995)
Show 624: "Samson vs. The Vampire Women" (3/25/1995)
Season Seven
Show 701 (and 701T): "Night of the Blood Beast" (11/23/1995) 701T, ...
Show 702: "The Brute Man" (2/10/1996)
Show 703: "Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell" (2/17/1996)
Show 704 "The Incredible Melting Man" (2/24/1996)
Show 705: "Escape 2000" (3/2/1996)
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie - "This Island Earth" (4/19/1996)
Show 706: "Laserblast" (5/18/1996)
Unproduced CD-ROM: "Assignment: Venezuela"
Miscellany:
"MST Poopie!"
"The MST Scrapbook"
Season Eight
Show 801: "Revenge of the Creature" (2/1/1997)
Show 802: "The Leech Woman" (2/8/1997)
Show 803: "The Mole People" (2/15/1997)
Show 804: "The Deadly Mantis" (2/22/1997)
MST3K - The Home Game: "The Day the World Ended" (2/25/1997)
Show 805: "The Thing That Couldn't Die" (3/1/1997)
Show 806 "The Undead" (3/8/1997)
Show 807: "Terror from the Year 5000" (3/15/1997)
Show 808: "The She-Creature" (4/5/1997)
Show 809: "I was a Teenage Werewolf" (4/19/1997)
Show 810: "The Giant Spider Invasion" (5/21/1997)
Show 811: "Parts - The Clonus Horror" (6/7/1997)
Show 812: "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and ...
Show 813: "Jack Frost" (7/12/1997)
Show 814: "Riding With Death" (7/19/1997)
Show 815: "Agent for H.A.R.M." (8/2/1997)
Special: "The Making of Mystery Science Theater 3000" (8/15/1997)
Show 816: "Prince of Space" (8/16/1997)
Special: "First Annual Mystery Science Theater 3000 Summer Blockbuster Review" (9/2/1997)
Show 817: "The Horror of Party Beach" (9/6/1997)
Show 818: "Devil Doll" (10/4/1997)
Show 819: "Invasion of the Neptune Men" (10/11/1997)
Show 820: "Space Mutiny" (11/8/1997)
Show 821: "Time Chasers" (11/22/1997)
Show 822: "Overdrawn At The Memory Bank" (12/6/1997)
Miscellany: "MST Poopie! II"
Season Nine
Show 901: "The Projected Man" (3/14/1998)
Special: "Mystery Science Theater 3000 Academy of Robots' Choice Awards Preview Special" (3/19/1998)
Show 902: "The Phantom Planet" (3/21/1998)
Show 903: "Puma Man" (4/4/1998)
Show 904: "Werewolf" (4/18/1998)
Show 905: "The Deadly Bees" (5/9/1998)
Show 906: "The Space Children" (6/13/1998)
Show 907: "Hobgoblins" (6/27/1998)
Show 908: "The Touch of Satan" (7/11/1998)
Show 910: "The Final Sacrifice" (7/25/1998)
Show 911: "Devil Fish" (8/15/1998)
Show 912: "The Screaming Skull" (8/29/1998)
Special: "Second Annual Mystery Science Theater 3000 Summer Blockbuster Review" (9/4/1998)
Show 913: "Quest of the Delta Knights" (9/26/1998)
Season Ten
Show 1001: "Soultaker" (4/11/1999)
Show 1002: "Girl in Gold Boots" (4/18/1999)
Show 1003: "Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders" (9/12/1999)
Show 1004: "Future War" (4/25/1999)
Show 1005: "The Blood Waters of Dr. Z" (5/2/1999
Show 1006: "Boggy Creek II: And The Legend Continues" (5/9/1999)
Show 1007: "Track of the Moon Beast" (6/13/1999)
Show 1008: "Final Justice" (6/20/1999)
Show 1009: "Hamlet" (6/27/1999)
Show 1010: "It Lives By Night" (7/18/1999)
Show 1011: "Horrors of Spider Island" (7/25/1999)
Show 1012: "Squirm" (8/1/1999)
Show 1013: "Diabolik" (8/8/1999)
Miscellany: "The Last Dance-RAW"
Season Eleven
Show 1101: "Reptilicus" (4/14/2017)
Show 1102: "Cry Wilderness" (4/14/2017)
Show 1103: "The Time Travelers" (4/14/2017)
Show 1104: "Avalanche" (4/14/2017)
Show 1105: "The Beast of Hollow Mountain" (4/14/2017)
Show 1106: "Starcrash" (4/14/2017)
Show 1107: "The Land That Time Forgot" (4/14/2017)
Show 1108: "The Loves of Hercules", first broadcast 4/14/2017
Show 1109: "Yongary", first broadcast 4/14/2017
Show 1110: "Wizards of the Lost Kingdom", first broadcast 4/14/2017
Show 1111: "Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II", first broadcast 4/14/2017
Show 1112: "Carnival Magic", first broadcast 4/14/2017
Show 1113: "The Christmas That Almost Wasn't", first broadcast 4/1...
Show 1114: "At the Earth's Core", first broadcast 4/14/2017
Season Twelve "The Gauntlet"
Show 1201: "Mac and Me" , first broadcast 11/22/2018
Show 1202: "Atlantic Rim", first broadcast 11/22/2018
Show 1203: "Lords of the Deep", first broadcast 11/22/2018
Show 1204: "The Day Time Ended", first broadcast 11/22/2018
Show 1205: "Killer Fish", first broadcast 11/22/2018
Show 1206: "Ator the Fighting Eagle", first broadcast 11/22/2018
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Show 509: "The Girl in Lover's Lane", first broadcast 9/18/1993
The Film: From 1960, a tales of two drifters who find love and murder in a small town. Jack Elam plays a creepy guy. (Go figure!) Fairly depressing stuff.
The Host Segments: Crow and Servo decide to give each other belly buttons. The Mads invent Evil Event Days for baseball games. Joel and the Bots invent Doc Martens for Don Martin. Joel,Crow and Servo sing a train song. Crow and Servo plot to give Joel a beating. Crow is Jack Elam. Joel encourages Crow and Servo to create alternate endings for the movie. Doctor F drives a railroad spike through Frank's head.
Favorite Lines:
- "And there's a good chance we're doing something incredibly stupid!"
- "Big Stupid?"
- "Watch out for Sleestaks!"
- "I'm not Jack Elam anymore!"
Rating: A pretty good episode. Some good riffs in this.
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I've heard they're coming back. They should do something about Struck By Lightning, the very short lived TV show where Jack Elam played the Frankenstein Monster. "Your great-grandfather was Dr. Frankenstein. He's the one that made me. I'm the Monster! I was his monster! Now I'm your monster!" "What about a woman? Will you make me a woman?"
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Show 1003: "Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders", first broadcast 9/12/1999
The Film: From 1995, A grandfather (Ernest Borgnine) tells his grandson stories of Merlin in the modern day world, trying to recover lost mystical objects. Really cheesy. Sort of like someone tried to cross "The Princess Bride" with "The Night Gallery".
The Host Segments: Mike and the bots are into 1920's college pranks. Pearl experiments with giving Tom absolute authority. Crow and Servo review each other. It gets hostile real fast. Servo turns Mike into a baby, sort of. Mike reads Ernest Borgnine's children's books. Bobo is on the SOL posing as the evil monkey from the movie.
Note: This was broadcast sometime after the final episode, as there was a last-minute dispute over the rights to use the movie.
Rating: An OK episode.
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The Baron said:Show 424: "'Manos': The Hands of Fate", first broadcast 1/30/1993
Tom Neyman, who played "The Master" in this film, has passed away.
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Show 1010: "It Lives By Night", first broadcast 7/18/1999
The Film: From 1974, a man turns into a bat after being bitten by a bat. A fairly predictable film.
The Host Segments: Mike tries out color therapy on Crow and Servo. Pearl has Bobo spray poison on the SOL. Crow tries to prove that he looks more like Mary Tyler Moore than the woman in the movie. Crow and Servo give Mike rabies shots because he feel asleep eating a pastry. Mike shows up his new mustache to Pearl, but she likes Crow's better. Servo is a franchisee of the Buddy Ebsen Hat Distressing Corporation. Pearl forces Bobo and Observer to watch slides of her various honeymoons.
Rating: An OK episode.
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Show 1012: "Squirm", first broadcast 8/1/1999
The Short: "A Case of Spring Fever" (1940) is a bizarre little film in which a malign sprite shows a man what the world would be like without springs in it. No idea why this was made. Was there a large anti-spring movement back then? This short was parodied way back in Show 317, despite the fact that it wasn't actually shown on-air until several years later.
The Film: A Southern town is set upon by a certain congress of impolitic worms. This picture plays into every Northerner's stereotyped image of life in the rural South. and the riffing plays into that,
The Host Segments: Mike, Crow and Servo do the annual SOL Safety Check. Pearls holds the first annual Castle Forrester Fair. Crow and Servo have a giant pig. Crow summons up Mikey, the Mike Sprite (Patrick). Servo is a Southern belle. Mike and Crow apply Yankee therapy to cure him. Mike tries to create a race of super-worms. Crow dresses as the little sister from the movie. Pearl makes Observer do bungee jumping.
Rating: An OK episode.
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Show 1006: "Boggy Creek II: And The Legend Continues", first broadcast 5/9/1999
The Film: From 1985, a college professor and some interns search for a swamp monster.
The Host Segments: Mike and Crow are having their Cub Scout den meeting. Servo shows up dressed as a Brownie. Pearl is doing potato-based mad science. Bobo messes it up. Mike, Crow and Servo have unhelpful flashbacks. Pearl has Observer sing a song about a creature living in Castle Forrester, i.e., Bobo. Servo goes in for whittling in a big way. Crow lights a fire on the bridge. Pearl has opened a gift shop. A local boy (Bradley J. Keely) comes in, but Bobo spoils the gag.
Favorite Lines:
- "Just think of me as a She-belo." "Um...no."
- "The Razorback hat lacks the quiet dignity of the cheese wedge."
- "Hey, the Tomb of the Unknown Cracker."
Rating: An OK episode.
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That finishes off Season Ten, but I'm still not quite done with this thread, yet.
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Unproduced CD-ROM: "Assignment: Venezuela"
The Short: From 1956, this shows an American oilman arriving in Venezuela, settling into his new job, learning Spanish and waiting for his family to join him. Essentially a propaganda piece for Creole Petroleum.
Note: Apparently this was filmed for a CD-ROM that was never made. It seems to be from the later Comedy Central, since it features Mike as host and Trace as Crow. It is an extra on the "Killer Shrews" DVD.
Rating: A mildly amusing curiosity.
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Miscellany: MST Poopie!
A thirty minute collection of outtakes from the Comedy Central seasons. Fun, if you like outtakes, which I do. They do drop a few s-bombs, if you are bothered by that kind of thing.
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Miscellany: "MST Poopie! II"
More outtakes, this time from Seasons Seven and Eight. This is the sort of thing that you will like if you like this sort of thing.
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