MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER
3000:
AN UNOFFICIAL EPISODE GUIDE
KTMA-TV CHANNEL 23
THE COMEDY CHANNEL
THE COMEDY CHANNEL/CTV/COMEDY CENTRAL
COMEDY CENTRAL
THE SCI-FI CHANNEL
THE SHORTS
THE TV SPECIALS
And now the legal stuff:
Mystery Science Theater 3000, its related characters and
situations are trademarks of and ©Best Brains
Inc. All rights reserved.
This unofficial episode guide is intended purely for
entertainment purposes; no infringement on the original
copyrights or trademarks is intended or should be inferred. In
particular, this guide is not in any way intended to replace or usurp
the Amazing Colossal Episode Guide.
As with any material on this web site, distribution or
duplication of this information (or Major League Baseball,
for that matter), without our express permission, is prohibited. Please
email Chris Cornell [MSampo@AOL.com]
and Brian Henry [Erhardt4@aol.com]
for permission to use this
material. Thanks.
HISTORY and CREDITS
The history of this guide is a long and tortuous one, but
we'll give you the Reader's Digest version. It originated
as the pet project of one Kevin Kerr. Kevin was later joined in this
grand undertaking by the mighty and powerful
Robert Duncan. Eventually, Mr. Kerr fell away from the project, and the
responsibility was shouldered solely by
Mr. Duncan. As the years passed, he was provided with advice and
additional material from Chris Cornell, Brian
Henry and Jon Whitney. In 1998, Mr. Duncan handed over control of the
project to the maintainers of this site.
We gratefully acknowledge Robert's many years of diligence and devotion
to keeping this project alive.
Updates at last: With
our conversion to a blog-based (Wordpress) format in 2007, and shortly
thereafter we began a weekly episode guide update beginning with season
four (because a rudimentary update had already been done for KTMA
through season three). When we finish season ten, the plan is to circle
back and re-do KTMA through season three, with updates and a chance for
you comment as you can now (or will be able to, eventually) with the
other seasons.
About the KTMA info: Another long and tortuous story.
One area that Robert's episode guide never really
tackled was the season of episodes that ran in 1988-89 on Minneapolis'
KTMA-TV. In fact, until about 1995, very
little was known about those episodes, and what was known was riddled
with errors. A list of KTMA episodes, being circulated on the internet
and being published in the FAQ, listed episodes that never actually
existed and
had several other episodes in the wrong order.
In 1995, a semi-concerted effort was made to clear up the mess.
Internet ancients Matthew Duhan (then the FAQ-keeper)
and Lisa Jenkins (the deeply knowledgeable "Agent J") built upon and
corrected the early work of Rich
Kulawiec, and many other gaps were filled by the two people who
probably have the best copies of all the available
KTMA episodes, Bob Bukoski and Emi Briet. Capping the process was the
marvelous contribution of Julie Walker, then
the Info Club Poobah, who dug into the BBI archives and retrieved a
1988-era list that included all the correct
movie titles and air dates. That list later appeared, in 1996, in The
Amazing Colossal Episode Guide. We'd
like to express our sincere thanks to all of them for their help.
But though the episode titles and air date issues were settled, there
still remained precious little information
about the actual content of these episodes. The most popular guide,
which appeared on several fan web sites (and
which we used here for lack of a better list) often contained only
tantalizing and unhelpful three- and four-word
descriptions of host segments. It also had several gaps. And, though we
posted an open request for help, nobody
was willing to come forward and tackle the big job of expanding and
correcting the info we had...until 1998.
Then, stepping up to the plate, was Joe "Average Joe" Barlow, a
self-described "unapologetic MST3K
fanboy," who, over several months, took time out of school work and
real life to sit down and carefully watch
and annotate every available episode. We think he did a great job, and
we're sure you will, too.
However, as with all the other seasons, we will eventually
revisit this listing as we work our way through weekly episode guide
updates.
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