MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000:
AN UNOFFICIAL EPISODE GUIDE
KTMA-TV CHANNEL 23
THE COMEDY CHANNEL
THE COMEDY CHANNEL/CTV/COMEDY CENTRAL
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THE SHORTS
New Commentary
We'll be updating this episode guide with comments and
observations...eventually. This process began
with the work done on the KTMA section by Joe Barlow (see below). I've got three seasons done so far. Yes,
we know further updates are taking forever. Other things have
intervened. We hope to get back on it soon. He hopes to eventually do
this for all
eleven seasons of the series. Enjoy!
--Chris "Sampo" Cornell
LEGALITIES
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.
PLEASE NOTE: In particular, this guide is not in any way intended to replace or usurp the fine, brilliant
and positively breathtaking Amazing Colossal Episode Guide available at your local book store.
Please buy several copies of this fine book, preferably by clicking HERE.
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. We'll take
it from here, buddy. :-)
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, that
was circulating 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. If you have any
corrections, additions, or love letters to send to Joe, you can reach him by clicking here.
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