This is the tiem for discussion of Mystery Science Theater 3000, which
is currently shown on Comedy Central (52 on Columbia Cablevision) at
12:30 AM, 10 AM, and 7 PM Each Saturday.

131 responses total.

Oop,s I meant item, not tiem.

Anyway, I have a request for information on MST3K fans.  Apparently
Comedy Central wants to do promotional stuff of some sort, and they
need info.  To read this request, just type

        !more /u/robh/News/mst3k

at the Picospan prompt.

Help!  Due to a miscommunication between myself and my housemate, I managed
to tape every episode of Turkey Day EXCEPT "Teenagers from Outer Space."
Can anyone out their lend me a copy for dubbing purposes?  I'd also
like the segway with Dr. Forrester and Frank, between TFOS and "Hercules
Unchained."

For all those interested, I have two new files from Usenet in
my directory - ~robh/mst3kdrink contains the MST3K Drinking Game,
and ~robh/psxmas contains the lyrics and chords for "A Patrick
Swayze Christmas".

Now that the login has your attention...

I just received  a package from Lisa Jenkins in Minnesota.
It has two episodes from KTMA, the small independent station
which originallly showed MST3K, and nine of the first-season
episodes, which are no longer shown on Comedy Central.  I'd
love to get together and have a mass showing for everyone in
the SciFi conference, but I can't make my place available.

So, anybody want to play host?  When's a good time?

Just read in the paper today in a very small paragraph - Joel Hodgeson is
going to 'retire' as host on the Satelite of Love to write for the show.
Mike Nelson is to replace him.  

So what do you think of Joel and the Bots without Joel?

Better than no Bots *and* no Joel.

From what I heard, Joel Hodgson will stay on as a writer/consultant/
whatever.  Good enough, if that's what he wants.  Certainly Mike Nelson
has shown he's a good actor.

I like Joel.  I haven't been watching MST3K for very long, so I'm not
ready to see him replaced.  Sigh.

This show is Grrr8! Especially Crow!

"We're gonna ride our Bicycles, We're gonna fill our hearts with love..
"We'll be lost for days and days, Corn-job will be blamed...."

UGH! Joel is one of the best parts of the show. I don't think the show i'll
do too well without him.......

I dunno... Mike was great as a number of the sketch characters.  I have
fairly high hopes.

That's about as painful as a cattle prod to the shoulder can be!
AAAAARGH!

I really would miss Joel. I just can't visual`sniff'ize  some other `sniff'
guy taking TomServo over `sniff' that heatduct!!!!! BOO-HOO!!!
I go be sad now.

Remember, though, that's what people said when Josh Weinstein (Dr.
Larry Erhardt, the first voice of Tom Servo) left.  Now people barely
even remember him.

Yes, But No Man (Or woman, so shut up all you politically correct jerks) has
the soothing, almost comatose voice joel has!!!!!

How long has MST3K been in existence?

The first program was broadcast on KTMA-TV in Minneapolis on
Thanksgiving Day, 1988.  The Comedy Channel picked them up the
following fall.

Getting back to the Joel thing.... What's gonna happen to him, (Beside starting
to write for the show)

Dunno.  Everyone involved is sworn to secrecy.  They ain't tellin'.

All they have said is it won't be like "Bewitched".  There *will*
be an explanation on the show for the change.

Oyve'......This not good news....

new season on the 17th?  thats what the CC commercials have been saying...
no pictures of anyone but Joel yet, though...   <sigh> I don't know...

YES!!! Joel's a survivor.....He's here to stay.

Nope.  The change will be in the twelfth episode of the season, in
October.

For everyone's edification...

July 17th       Hercules
July 24th       Warrior of the Lost World
July 31st       Swamp Diamonds
August 7th      Secret Agent Super Dragon
August 14th     The Magic Voyage of Sinbad
August 21st     Eegah!
August 28th     I Accuse My Parents

Darn it, I deleted the rest of the list.  Anyway, this puts "Mitchell,"
the last Joel episode, on October 2nd.

(skeez, come on, Joel *wants* to leave!  What do you want to do, chain
him to his theater seat?)

"Hercules", eh?  A truly classic turkey.

I take it "The Magic Voyage of Sinbad" is not one of the Ray
Harryhausen Sinbad flicks.  Those were actually pretty good.

You're absolutely correct.  Oh, what the heck, here goes...

(Yes, 511 is missing, the person who did this list forgot it...)


x 501 Warrior Of The Lost World
x 502 Hercules
x 503 Swamp Diamonds
x 504 Secret Agent Super Dragon
x 505 Magic Voice Of Sinbad
x 506 Eegah!
x 507 I Accuse My Parents
  508 Operation Double 007 (is it "Operation Kid Brother"?)
  509 Girl In Lover's Lane
x 510 The Painted Hills
x 512 Mitchell
x 513 The Brain That Wouldn't Die
  514 Teenage Strangler - (1964)
  515 Wild World of Batwoman (1966) aka She Was a Hippy Vampire
x 516 Atomic Brain (1963) aka Monstrosity
x 517 Beginning of the End 
x 518 Radar Secret Service (?)




501 - WARRIOR OF THE LOST WORLD (Italy, 1983) Science Fiction;
Robert Ginty, Donald Pleasence, Persis Khambatta. Directed by David 
Worth. A professor and his daughter recruit a cycle riding daredevil
to overthrow a malevolent tyrant.

502 - HERCULES (Italy, 1959) Adventure; Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina,
Fabrizio Mioni, Ivo Garrani, Gina Rovere, Arturo Domenici, Directed
by: Pietro Francisci. The King of Colchis sends the Greek strongman
on a series of perilous missions in an effort to turn Hercules'
attentions away from his daughter.

503 - SWAMP DIAMONDS, aka SWAMP WOMEN (USA 1955) Drama; Michael Connors,
Marie Windsor, Beverly Garland. Directed by Roger Corman. Three tough female
prisoners escape from jail and make their way to loot concealed in a swamp.

504 - SECRET AGENT SUPER DRAGON (USA 1966) Mystery; Ray Danton, Marisa
Mell. A secret agent discovers that college students are being drugged
through candy and gum by an international organization that seeks to conquer
the United States.

505 - MAGIC VOYAGE OF SINBAD (USA/USSR 1962) Fantasy; Edward Stolar,
Anna Larion, Maurice Troyna, N. Malishyovskiy, B. Surovtsev, Y. Leonidov.
Directed by Aleksandr Ptushko and James Landis. Sinbad sets out to find
happiness for his people by capturing the legendary Phoenix.

506 - EEGAH! (USA 1963) Science Fiction; Arch Hall, Jr., Marilyn Manning,
Richard Kiel, William Watters, Directed by Nicholas Merriwether. A
lovestruck prehistoric caveman kidnaps a modern-day teenager in the desert.

507 - I ACCUSE MY PARENTS (USA 1943) Drama; Mary Beth Hughes,
Robert Lowell. Due to parental neglect, a young man becomes involved
with fast women, smuggling and manslaughter.

510 - THE PAINTED HILLS (USA 1951) Western; Paul Kelly, Gary Gray,
Bruce Cowling, Art Smith, Ann Doran. Directed by Harold Kress. A wealthy
gold prospector is murdered by his greedy partner and his dog sets out to
avenge his master's death.

512 - MITCHELL (USA 1975) Drama; Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam, John Saxon,
Linda Evans, Merlin Olsen, Morgan Paull. Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen. A
maverick cop stalks a major narcotics trafficker in his quest to destroy a
big-city drug syndicate.

513 - THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN'T DIE (USA 1959) Horror; Jason Evers,
Virginia Leith, Adele Lamont, Paula Maurice, Bruce Brighton, Doris Brent.
Directed by Joseph Green. A mad scientist keeps his dead fiancee's head
alive while searching for a suitable body.

516 - THE ATOMIC BRAIN, aka MONSTROSITY (USA 1964) Horror; Frank Gerstle,
Erika Peters, Judy Bamber, Frank Fowler, Marjorie Eaton, Margie Fisco.
Directed by Joseph Mascelli. A mad scientist creates a trio of horrible
creations after being hired to transplant an elderly widow's brain into a
younger woman's body.

517 - BEGINNING OF THE END (USA 1957) Sci-Fi; Peter Graves, Peggie Castle,
Morris Ankrum, Richard Benedict, James Seay, Thomas Browne Henry. Directed
by Bert I. Gordon. The US Army is called to action when radiation transforms
normal grasshoppers into mutated giants.

518 - RADAR SECRET SERVICE (USA 1950) Drama; John Howard, Adele Jergens,
Tom Neal. RADAR is used to search for a gang that hijacked a load of uranium
ore.

Wow -- thanks for the preview.  Some interesting choices there.  No Sandy
Frank Japanese scifi, thank goodness.  I always relate best to the good
ol' made-in-America turkeys.

Re: the end of #24:   Kill him with a forklift!  Hi-ki-ba!  Hoi!

You die joe! Jim kata!

To the contrary :) I find Mike Nelson's voice to be very velvety and
smooth!  I enjoyed his cameo appearances as Jack Perkins, etc.
I think it'll be a good change.

MST3000 makes me laugh so hard I need to keep a box of Kleenex
to wipe away the tears and blow my nose.  It's the only TV show
that's ever cracked me up so consistently.  I've been watching
the late-night repeats whenever I can, and might start taping the
ones I don't catch.  

Well, my response is not quite that extreme but it's in the same
direction.  Since I'm relatively new to MST3K-watching, a lot of the
late-night repeats are new to me.

I agree with md....Funniest thhing iv'e seen since that response hoolie made
about how in shape he was.....hahah...Crack-up city..

Ugh.

Season Five (the current season) has been -- without any doubt -- the
most consitently funny season.  "Girl in Lover's Lane" and "The Painted
Hills" were outstanding again.  No clunkers so far this year!

Yat another of vidar's irrelevant responses.

Supposedly, there is going to be a showing of "Mitchell" -- the transfer
episode -- at EMU on the 23rd.  I don't know the times and/or places or
requirements for being in the au~rdience.  This is part of some kind
of college tour.  Anybody at EMU know the poop?

I've asked for info on alt.tv.mst3k - as soon as I get anything, I'll
put it here.  Some of the other stops have limited it to students of
the college they're visiting.  Bad sign.

I have seen the new MST3K, with "Mike"......Not funny

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