An unaired pilot which was shown to the management at KTMA with an introduction by none other than Joel Hodgson. This footage was captured at a Q&A at Archon 32 by Tarantulas in October of 2008

Movie Plot: A submarine crew fight an underwater civilization. Host Segment I: The crew deals with the vacuflowers that grow on the satellite, which makes everyone that smells them obsessed

Movie Plot: Aliens from Mars battle the Earth. Host Segment I: The crew does a skit about the Macy's Thanksgiving parade

Movie Plot: A fugitive alien and a pilot from earth fight a few interplanetary wars. Segment I: Crow tells his version of the first Thanksgiving. Segment II: Joel demonstrates numbchucks

Movie Plot: Japanese monsters Gamera and Barugon fight each other. Intro: Joel explains the show's premise and plays a phone message from a viewer. Segment One: Joel plays more phone messages, some asking for more of the show and another asking them to show the movies unriffed

Movie Plot: The people of Japan deal with the monster named Gamera. Intro: Crow volunteers to be frozen as the SOL's Christmas tree. Segment One: Joel wonders if he should freeze Servo as a lawn ornament next Christmas

Movie Plot: Japanese monsters Gamera and Gaos fight each other. Intro: A caller complains about the Gamera movies, but Joel says that he doesn't choose the movies, the Mad Scientists do. Segment One: Servo hits puberty and gets a new deep voice

Movie Plot: Japanese monster Gamera and another Gamera from the planet Zigra fight each other. Intro: Crow is unfrozen. Segment One: Dr

Movie Plot: Japanese monsters Gamera and Guiron fight each other. Intro: The Mads are out of bad movies, until Dr. Erhardt finds another Gamera movie

Movie Plot: Ants wage an attack against researchers in remote Arizona. Intro: The Mads sell Joel's car to raise $30,000. He then informs them that he had $30,000 hidden under the seats

Movie Plot: Lunar researchers look for minerals on a hostile planet. Intro: The Mads invent 1-D glasses. Dr

Movie plot: Astronauts probing an abandoned spaceship find a female clone whose planet is threatened by pollution and a dictatorship

Movie Plot: An earth army gets alien help to fight a great battle. Intro: Dr. Forrester is in Vegas, leaving Dr

Movie Plot: The inaugural flight of the Concord becomes a disaster as it's sabotaged then a virus gets loose. Cold Open: Joel and the bots sing the SST: Death Flight Theme Song. Intro: Dr

Movie Plot: Q, an evil presence, tries to conquer the world. Intro: The Mads try to find out how mad they really are. Segment One: The bots weld themselves together

Movie Plot: A murderer is running around New Orleans during the Superbowl. Intro: The Mads are almost ready to bring the SOL back to earth, until Crow ruins everything. Segment One: Joel helps Servo experience pain

This week's experiment is disastrous disaster film City on Fire (1979), which assures viewers the events depicted could happen in any city, anywhere. Even, as Tom points out, while we're watching this

Adapted (i.e., shredded and stitched into incoherence) from the 1974 Japanese series Saru No Gundan, Time of the Apes follows the travails of a scientist and two small children who are accidentally frozen and thaw into a future ruled by apes

Movie Plot: The evil Sumuru and her minions try to conquer the world. Intro: The Mads help Joel back into the ship. Segment One: Joel punishes the 'bots for locking him out

Bodies of aliens are examined at a secret lab. Intro: Joel introduces this week's film. Segment One: The ship is hit by a meteor shower

Movie Plot: Postapolcalyptic tale about a guy racing to California. Intro: Dr. Forrester creates cold fusion in Dr

Movie Plot: A dinosaur attacks a lake near Mt. Fuji. Intro: The mads start a "Joel is dead" rumor

Mad scientist Dr. Clayton Forrester figures he can rule the world if he deadens his subjects' brains by making them endure terrible movies. Exploiting his access to nearby satellite-dwellers Mike Nelson and his robot pals, Crow T

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Volume 3 boxset special feature. A compilation of outtakes from the wraparounds of "The Sidehackers"

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Volume 3 boxset special feature. A compilation of outtakes from the wraparounds of "The Atomic Brain"

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Volume 3 boxset special feature. A compilation of outtakes from the wraparounds of "The Unearthly"

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Volume 5 boxset special feature, included with "Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders"

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Volume 5 boxset special feature. Original trailer for "The Touch of Satan"

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Volume 5 boxset special feature. Movie introduction by Mike Nelson

Assignment: Venezuela is a 1956 short film produced by the Creole Petroleum Corporation, created to encourage American employees to work at their location(s) in Venezuela. The short was riffed for the unproduced Mystery Science Theater 3000 CD-ROM. A rough cut of the short was screened for a live audience at ConventioCon ExpoFest-A-Rama 2: Electric Boogaloo

An informational short featuring two enthusiastic teens who witness the amazing telephone technology of the time and speculation for the future. Originally aired with Episode 906: The Space Children, it was included with "Assignment: Venezuela" & "A Case of Spring Fever" in MST3K Volume 7 from Rhino Entertainment

A man faces the consequences of wishing away the existence of springs. Originally aired with Episode 1012: Squirm, it was included with "Assignment: Venezuela" & "Century 21 Calling" in MST3K Volume 7 from Rhino Entertainment. It was later covered by Rifftrax in 2013

Poopie! is the first in a set of the blooper reels from Mystery Science Theater 3000. The outtakes were all taken from host segments running from Season 2 until Season 6

Mike Nelson, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot on Cheap Seats Without Ron Parker

From Playstation Underground Vol 2.1. Mike and the robots riff on various videos from the Playstation Underground series and outtakes from Playstation commercials

A half-hour special in which Mike and the 'bots riff the trailers from the hit movies of the summer of 1997. Trailers riffed in this special were those for: The 5th Element Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World Men in Black Contact Batman and Robin

A behind the scenes look at the making of an MST3K episode

A half-hour special in which Mike and the 'bots riff the trailers for the big movies of the summer of 1998. Trailers riffed in this special were for the following movies: The X Files Ever After Halloween H2O The Truman Show Pi Saving Private Ryan Small Soldiers Godzilla Deep Impact

'The History of MST3K' is a feature included on the 20th anniversary DVD box set. Part one covers the inception and initial development of the series and its early years on local television station KTMA

'The History of MST3K' is a feature included on the 20th anniversary DVD box set. Part two covers the show's move to Comedy Central and the eventual leaving of its creator, Joel Hodgson

'The History of MST3K' is a feature included on the 20th anniversary DVD box set. Part three covers the post-Joel era of the show, including the show's move to the SciFi Channel and the production of 'Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie'

Movie Plot: A small group of people are the only survivors of a nuclear holocaust

This was a half-hour special produced by Comedy Central. It is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of an MST3K episode

The 1992 Turkey Day Special

This half hour special aired before the 1995 Academy Awards. In it, the MST3K cast makes fun of the following movies: Mary Shelly's Frankenstein 4 Weddings and a Funeral Tom & Viv Quiz Show Forrest Gump Queen Margot Priscilla, Queen of the Desert The Lion King Junior Red Heavenly Creatures Little Women Blue Sky Hoop Dreams Pulp Fiction

A half-hour, hilarious infomercial starring Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Trace Beaulieu; advertising the "Poopie" compilation tape of MST3K bloopers

The movie riffed was "Night of the Blood Beast", the same film as episode S07E01. The difference between this episode and that one is that this version aired only twice and the host segments were entirely different and concluded the Thanksgiving story from the Turkey Day marathon segments that had aired all day prior to this episode's debut. It was the non-Turkey Day version that was later used in reruns, other than this thanksgiving version being rerun once, accidentally

A half-hour special aired before the 1998 Academy Awards.In it the MST3K cast makes fun of the following movies: Mrs. Brown Wings of a Dove Good Will Hunting As Good as it Gets Amistad Titanic Jackie Brown Boogie Nights Deconstructing Harry LA Confidential Starship Troopers

4 pm showing We need your help! Mike and the Bots are still stranded at the edge of the universe and won't be able to make it back in time to screen our Saturday movie, 'The Day The World Ended'. In their absence, we need you - the home viewer - to join us on air and supply sarcastic quips, biting commentary and witty remarks when Sci-Fi Channel and The Dominion present. MST3K: THE HOME GAME live on-air IRC chats - Special Bonus - The 4PM and 11PM EST showings will feature all-new interviews with the Brains, and a behind-the-scenes tour of the MST3K studio with Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy

The 1991 Turkey Day Special. TV's Frank tries to keep the Thanksgiving Day dinner party together while Dr. Forrester is distracted by trying to take over the world by showing 30 straight hours of

Promos leading up to Turkey Day, and between-movie spots

The 1991 Turkey Day Special. Promos, and the clips of msties that were shown during the breaks this year

Adam West is your 'cheesy gourmet', serving up the MST3K turkeys! (and appearing in the premier of Zombie Nightmare!)

Promos leading up to Turkey Day, and between-movie spots. Doctor F, Jack Perkins, and pix of 'The Bottles' share the promotional duties. Can Clayton take over the world, and get enough vittles for the Thanksgiving Day dinner, before his mom arrives?

Mike Nelson introduces "Space Mutiny"

Interview with "Tormented" stars Bert I. Gordon, Susan Gordon and Joe Turkel

Mike Nelson introduces "Hamlet"

Mike Nelson introduces "The Girl In Gold Boots"

Interview with Parts: The Clonus Horror director Robert Fiveson

Frank Conniff (TV's Frank) introduces The Lost Continent

Kevin Murphy (Tom Servo) introduces and explains the film "Jack Frost"

Crow T. Robot and Senior Sock on Talk Soup

Joel Hodgson makes an appearance on Space Ghost Coast-2-Coast

A charming rhyme for children that teaches them the alphabet, including many now politically-incorrect things, dangerous sequences, and some plagiarism to boot

In this MST3K short from 1956, an avid fan of shop class explains to a friend all the myriad reasons why industrial arts classes are a necessary part of a young man’s education. (As seen in Experiment 128, "The Skydivers.")

Camcorder footage shot by Jim Mallon of the filming of the last episode. First released in Info Club catalog #136

1013 - DIABOLIK (1/24/68; 1967; Italy; PG-13; 99m) a.k.a

1010 - IT LIVES BY NIGHT (1974; PG; 95m) a.k.a

Today's experiment includes the stilted educational short, What to Do on a Date, which inspires Tom Servo to ask out Gypsy. The feature film is the Roger Corman adventure flick, Swamp Women, starring Mike Connors back when he called himself Touch. A ridiculously easy jailbreak, a woman who seems to be in a swimming pool when she's supposed to be drowning in a swamp, and endless stock footage of a bayou are three features of this cinematic torture instrument

An adventurer sets sail in search of the bird of happiness in Sadko. Crow has trouble with his own lifelong quest and the guys have a meeting of the Junior Jester Club

Start with the The Deadly Bees, but set it in the deep, deep, deep south, replace the female pop singer with a male lead who's also blonde and only slightly less feminine, replace bees with worms, and that's about it. There are lots of worms in this movie, and possibly the best stinger line in series history ("You gonna be da worm face!") Unlike The Deadly Bees this movie has lots and lots of location shots. However they don't make the movie any better--only that much more sad and distressing

In this MST3K short from 1957, a high-energy musical sprite informs a youth named Buzz that joining the school band will improve his confidence and make him more friends. Knew your father, I did! (As seen in Experiment 66, "War of the Colossal Beast.")

In this MST3K short from 1952, teenage Judy tries to impress her brother’s friend by making him dinner, but alas: Alexander only has eyes for appliances and efficiency studies. Produced for the Edison Electrical Institute. (As seen in Experiment 129, "The Violent Years

In this MST3K short from 1956, a young woman is transported into the future by a masked man who escorts her to the General Motors Motorama. (As seen in Experiment 119, "12 to the Moon.")

In this MST3K short, a film about road safety around railroad crossings takes a dark turn when two youths are taken out by a train they didn’t see approaching. Why don’t they look? (As seen in Experiment 115, "Radar Secret Service.")

In this MST3K short from 1960, two city kids spend the summer on their uncle’s dairy farm, where they learn all about modern approaches to milk production, and also how to climb a rope in the barn. (As seen in Experiment 126, "Bloodlust.")

In this MST3K short, four children – with encouragement from their teacher – decide to devote themselves to improving their posture. (As seen in Experiment 67, "The Unearthly.")

In this MST3K short from 1952, young John Taylor faces the consequences of his actions after he gets busted for cheating off his friend Mary’s algebra test. (As seen in Experiment 110, "The Wild World of Batwoman.")

In this MST3K short from 1955, hooligans attack a man for driving too slowly… but later, one of the hooligans realizes they beat up his dad. (As seen in Experiment 113, "The Atomic Brain.")

In this MST3K short from 1947, several college students learn why showering and good hygiene habits are essential considerations for adult life… in excruciating detail. (As seen in Experiment 105, "The Painted Hills.")

In this MST3K short from 1951, awkward teenager Nick summons the courage to ask Kay on a date. With no ideas for what they might do, Nick ponders the merits of bike rides and weenie roasts before suggesting they volunteer at a local scavenger sale. (As seen in Experiment 98, "Swamp Diamonds

In this MST3K short, an ice-skating circus performance includes a depressing number in which a figure skater pretending to be a fawn is shot and killed. As seen in Experiment 92, "Monster A-Go-Go."

In this MST3K short from 1947, the titular Johnny escapes from his parents at the Canadian National Exposition and meets boxer Joe Louis, comedians Olsen & Johnson, and the former Canadian prime minister. (As seen in Experiment 90, "The Rebel Set.")

Motorist Joe Doakes is forced to defend his habit of careless driving in the afterlife. (S02E10 Short 1: As seen in experiment 44 "King Dinosaur")

In Catching Trouble, an overly enthusiastic wildlife trapper torments snakes, wildcats and bear cubs while his taciturn guide watches. (S03E15 Short 2: As seen in experiment 62 "Teenage Caveman")

Poopie! II is the second set of bloopers from Mystery Science Theater 3000. The outtakes were mostly taken from host segments from Season 7 and Season 8. A few were from Poopie Parade of Values and 1st Annual Summer Blockbuster Review

Mystery Science Theater 3000: Serial Variety Pack is a DVD bonus disc made available to early purchasers of Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XXVII directly from Shout! Factory. It was released alongside Volume XXVII on July 27, 2013. The disc features all of the theater segments from the serials The Phantom Creeps and Undersea Kingdom, as well as the TV series General Hospital

Radar Men from the Moon is a 12-part serial produced by Republic Pictures in 1952. It was directed by Fred C. Brannon and features George Wallace as the hero Commando Cody