DVDs

THE MST3K DVD LIST

Welcome to the MST3K DVD list. The list of MST3K episodes that have been released on DVD, in order of their release on DVD, is as follows. 

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Episode 506- Eegah

Released: April. '00
Host: Joel
Episode info:
First shown: 8/28/93
Opening: Deep frozen Crow
Invention exchange: Pork-orina, replacing Frank's blood
Host segment 1: Subtle forms of hell
Host segment 2: The bots alter Joel's face to look like Arch Hall Jr.
Host segment 3: Why '60s sitcoms are run by single dads
End: Washing the movie off the bots, letter, Frank's fluid change
Stinger: "Fake it." "That's what I've BEEN doing. Now I'm getting sick!"
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: DVD starts with menu screen featuring Crow, Gypsy and Tom on the SOL set, their mouths moving animatedly. On the hexfield behind them are scenes from the movie (with shadowrama) mixed in with a generic starfield. Joel version of theme song plays. Clicking on "special features" whisks us via a quick camera pan to a screen that offers a choice of Web information (a static screen that shows Rhino's web address) and a screen that shows other MST3K titles from Rhino.
Extra features: The uncut version of the film, on the same side of the disk as the MST3K episode. Also, you can enable or disable an icon to appear, when playing the MST3K version, every time you get to a scene that was cut out of the original version for the MST3K version. If you click on that icon, the DVD will switch to that point in the uncut version, so that you can view the missing footage. Clicking "enter" again takes you back to the MST3K version. In each chapter selection screen, different incidental music from the movie plays.
DVD face: Scene from movie.
Episode 513- The Brain That Wouldn't Die
Released: April '00
Host: Mike (his first episode as host)
Episode info:
First shown: 10/30/93.
Opening: Mike's been in training.
Invention exchange: The gutter-bumber-shoot, the dream buster.
Host segment 1: Mike tries to get control of the SOL, but that's not cheese!
Host segment 2: Designing hats for Jan in the pan.
Host segment 3: The movie's hateful message; Mike shares an embarrassing moment from his past.
End: A visit from Jan on the Hexfield; Dr. F. is inspired!
Stinger: "Who's to tell me to blow if I don't want to?"
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: DVD starts with a menu screen similar to the one in the "Eegah" DVD, except footage from "The Brain That Wouldn't Die" is on the hexfield, while suspenseful music from the movie plays. The scene index for the MST3K version plays different incidental music from the movie on each screen. The scene index for the uncut version of the movie has no audio.
Extra features: This is a two-sided disk, and the uncut version of the movie is on the other side of the disk from the MST3K version. When you click on "Play Uncut Version" a screen pops up with extremely detailed and slightly silly instructions on how to manage the complex process of turning the disk over. Obviously, since the uncut version and the MST3K version are on two different sides of the disk, it does not feature the "play the scene that was cut" feature that the "Eegah" disk has. The menu is the same on both sides of the disk, and on both sides. If you click "special features," you are whisked to a menu screen that offers either Web site information or other MST3K titles, same as on the "Eegah" DVD. Of course, when you using the side that has the uncut movie on it and you click "play MST3K version," you get the same "how to flip over the disk" screen.
Disk face: See note about two-sided disks.
Episode 515- The Wild Wild World of Batwoman (with short: "Cheating")
Released: January '01
Host: Mike
Episode info:
First shown: 11/13/93.
Opening: The game is blackjack.
Invention exchange: Atomic powered hair dryer, razor-back.
Host segment 1: There are unanswered questions about the short, so Mike assigns essays.
Host segment 2: The bots write essays, but Crow cheats!
Host segment 3: Mike, Tom & Gypsy meet to decide what to do about Crow.
End: Crow responds to the charges against him, letter, Dr. F. likes his new atomic hair style.
Stinger: A batgirl puts the bite on the wormy guy.
Movie info: click here.
Short info: click here. 
What you'll see: DVD starts with an ad for "Brain in a Box: The Science Fiction Collection." Then we go to the main menu, which has the same visuals as the "Eegah" main screen, except that clips from "Batwoman" are playing on the Hexfield and the Joel-era version of the theme song plays. Chapter index pages, surprisingly, feature background audio that comes from the movie "Eegah." This disk uses the "quick camera pan" extensively as a connector between features. The chapter selection page for the uncut version of the movie has no audio. Clicking on "Other Rhino titles" takes you to a page that offers short snippets from Episode 513- The Brain that Wouldn't Die, Episode 506- Eegah and Episode 517- The Beginning of the End.
Extra features: The uncut version of the movie; although the uncut version is on the same side of the DVD as the MST3K episode, it does not feature the "play the scene that was cut" feature that the "Eegah" disk has.
DVD face: Purple with a starfield.
Rhino screwup: Although this is a Mike episode, Joel is shown on the cover and mentioned in the cover copy.
Episode 517- The Beginning of the End
Released: January '01
Host: Mike
Episode info:
First shown: 11/25/93.
Opening: Wrong number.
Invention exchange: Re-comfy bike, new playing cards.
Host segment 1: Mike calls the Mads and catches them off guard.
Host segment 2: Crow's latest screenplay: "Peter Graves Goes to the University of Minnesota."
Host segment 3: Tom's standup routine is heavy on grasshopper jokes.
End: "No grasshoppers before this film," post-card, Bert I. Gordon special effects, Mads are boxing.
Stinger: "Alright, men. Into the woods!"
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: DVD starts with ad for "Brain in a Box." Then we go to the main menu, which has the same visuals as the "Eegah" main screen, except that clips from "Beginning of the End" are playing on the Hexfield and the Joel-era version of the theme song plays. Chapter index pages, surprisingly, feature background audio that comes from "Eegah"! The chapter selection page for the uncut version of the movie has no audio. This disk uses the "quick camera pan" pan extensively as a connector between features. Clicking on "Other Rhino titles" takes you to a page that offers short snippets from Episode 513- The Brain that Wouldn't Die, Episode 506- Eegah, and Episode 517- The Beginning of the End.
Extra features: The uncut version of the movie; although the uncut version is on the same side of the DVD as the MST3K episode, it does not feature the "play the scene that was cut" feature that the "Eegah" disk has.
DVD face: Purple with a starfield.
Rhino screwup: Although this is a Mike episode, Joel is shown on the cover and mentioned in the cover copy.
Episode 424- Manos, The Hands of Fate (with short: "Hired--Part 2")
Released: November '01
Host: Joel
Episode info:
First shown: 1/30/93
Opening: Joel programs the bots to agree with everything he says.
Invention exchange: Chocolate bunny guillotine, the cartuner.
Host segment 1: Gypsy's big scene is ruined, Frank apologizes.
Host segment 2: Why Torgo is a monster.
Host segment 3: Joel dons a Manos cape, Dr. F. apologizes.
End: The bots reenact the lady wrestling scene, Torgo's pizza arrives.
Stinger: "Why don't you guys leave us alone?"
Movie info: click here.
Short info: click here.
What you'll see: DVD starts with door sequence leading to menu screen with Torgo's Theme playing.
Extra feature: The original MST3K "Poopie" Reel.
DVD face: SOL set.
Episode 512- Mitchell
Released: November '01
Host: Joel (with Mike in supporting role)
Episode info:
First shown: 10/23/93.
Opening: Joel's toothpicky creation.
Invention exchange: Daktari stool; the Mads are being audited, so they've hired a temp by the name of Mike.
Host segment 1: Gypsy overhears the Mads plotting Mike's death and thinks they're talking about Joel.
Host segment 2: A worried Gypsy tries to think of a way to get Joel off the SOL; Crow and Tom are no help.
Host segment 3: Mike learns of a hidden escape pod, and gives Gypsy control.
End: Joel is ejected into the escape pod, leaving behind a plaque and a final word; Dr. F. is furious...until Mike presents his time card.
Stinger: "Your lying through your teeth!" "Buzz off!" "No, you buzz off!" "I SAID BUZZ OFF, KID!"
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: DVD starts with Joel-era door sequence leading to menu screen with Mitchell theme playing and a montage of scenes from the movie playing in the background. Scene index has J&TB saying "MITCHELL!" followed by some wackachicka music from the movie.
Extra feature: The movie's trailer.
DVD face: Silver with the spaghetti ball logo and the title of the movie.
Episode 507- I Accuse My Parents (with short: "The Truck Farmer")
Released: March '02
Host: Joel
Episode info:
First shown: 9/4/93
Opening: Tom Servo is naked!
Invention exchange: Cake 'n' shake, junk drawer organizer
Host segment 1: Joel analyzes the bots' art therapy projects
Host segment 2: J&TB reenact the night club scene from the movie
Host segment 3: J&TB analyze troubled Jimmy from the movie
End: J&TB reenact the cafe scene from movie, letter, digging out Rodney
Stinger: "What? What's so funny?"
Movie info: click here.
Short info: click here.
What you'll see: DVD starts with Joel-era door sequence leading to menu screen with Tom singing, "They laughed when I accused my parents and I killed them, let's see if they'll be laughing nowwwww," followed by snippets of dialog from the movie. Video snippets from the movie move across the screen in the background. Clicking on the "scene index" button brings down a red curtain. It rises again to reveal the scene index, with the MST3K "love theme" playing in the background.
Extra features: None.
DVD face: Silver with the spaghetti ball logo and the title of the movie.
Episode 619- Red Zone Cuba (with short: "Speech: Platform Posture and Appearance")
Released: March '02
Host: Mike
Episode info:
First shown: 12/17/94,
Opening: Tonight's lotto numbers.
Intro: Frank owes the mob $50 large, but they stomp Dr. F. instead; M&TB hit the casino.
Host segment 1: Frank exhorts the nearly-dead Dr. F.
Host segment 2: Mike is Carol Channing; Dr. F. gets "hope you die" wishes.
Host segment 3: Dr. F. lives, dies, and lives again, but the mob says otherwise.
End: M&TB sing a happy, upbeat song, Dr. F. is feeling better.
Stinger: Blind lady playing piano.
Movie info: click here.
Short info: click here.
What you'll see: DVD starts with Mike-era version of the door sequence, leading to a main menu screen that features clips visuals from the episode and audio from the movie (the military guy giving the Bay of Pigs invasion force their orders). The only options are "play movie" and "scene selection." The scene index has a still from the door sequence in the background; the audio is the "love theme."
Extra features: None.
DVD face: Silver with the spaghetti ball logo and the title of the movie.
Episode 106- The Crawling Hand
Released: June '02
Host: Joel
Episode info:
First shown: approx. 12/89.
Opening: Joel explains the premise.
Invention exchange: Safety saw, limb lengthener.
Host segment 1: J&TB bowl, but Crow and Tom don't want to play any more games with Joel.
Host segment 2: J&TB do Shatner with the crawling hand.
Host segment 3: Why is dismembered hand scary?
End: Good thing/bad thing, letter, Larry is very happy.
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: This is a two-sided disk, with the uncut version of the movie on one side and the MST3K version on the other. On the MST3K version side, the DVD starts with the Joel-era door sequence, leading to a short clip of the hand climbing a wall, leading to the main menu screen. On the right hand side of the screen, short clips of the hand attacking people in the movie are interspersed with clips of Joel and the bots being "attacked" by a hand in host segment 2. Incidental music from the movie plays. Options are: "play movie," "scene index" and "play trailer." No matter which one you pick, you hear a scream, and the hand slides in from the top left of the screen and clicks the button next to your choice. The scene index has the MST3K "love theme" for background audio. On the "uncut version" side, the DVD starts with a menu screen featuring a still shot of our hero, Paul, and the hand. Options are "play movie" or "scene index." There is no audio on the main screen or scene index.
Extra features: The uncut version of the movie and the theatrical trailer.
Disk face: See note about two-sided disks.
Episode 209- The Hellcats
Released: June '02
Host: Joel
Episode info:
First shown: 12/8/90.
Opening: J&TB have colds.
Invention exchange: Sign language translator, "NOOOO!"
Host segment 1: Tom's flashback: J&TB do Shatner with the crawling hand (from #106).
Host segment 2: Crow's flashback: Zero gravity humor lesson (from #201).
Host segment 3: Joel's flashback: Binocular matte lesson (from #203).
End: Gypsy's diary entry, letter, all get emotional (even the Mads).
Stinger: Trumpeter makes unintelligible comment and is dunked.
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: This is a two-sided disk, with the uncut version of the movie on one side and the MST3K version on the other. On the MST3K version side, the DVD starts with the Joel-era door sequence, leading to a shot of the title screen with Joel and the bots silhouetted below. Servo cruises by on a motorcycle, and we get the main menu screen. There's a wavy peace sign, and clips of the movie run on the upper right and bottom left of the screen, while the opening theme from the movie plays. Options are: "play movie," "scene index" and "play trailer." No matter which one you pick, Servo cruises by on a motorcycle again and changes the screen. The scene index has the MST3K "love theme" for background audio. On the "uncut version" side, the DVD starts with a menu screen featuring several stills from the film and that peace sign. Options are "play movie" or "scene index." There is no audio on the main screen or scene index.
Extra features: The uncut version of the movie and the theatrical trailer.
Disk face: See note about two-sided disks.
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 1
Released: Nov. '02
Contains episode 204- Catalina Caper, episode 606- The Creeping Terror, episode 607- Bloodlust (with short: "Uncle Jim's Dairy Farm") and episode 609- The Sky Divers (with short: "Why Study Industrial Arts?"). The outer sleeve, which holds the folding case that holds all four DVDs, has a little wheel you can turn to see Joel, Mike, Dr. F., Frank, Tom Servo and Crow making little comments in word balloons, along with your basic promotional copy. The folding inner case has photos from the Mike-era "movie sign" door sequence in each of the four bays where the DVDs go. There's a little pocket that holds a small pamphlet describing each episode. One panel has photos of both J&TB and M&TB, and another contains brief descriptions of each of the four films. All four disks are two-sided, with the uncut version of the movie on one side and the MST3K version on the other. On all four, on the "uncut version" side, the DVD starts with a menu screen featuring several stills from the film. Options are "play movie" or "scene index." There is no audio on the main screen or scene index.
 
INDIVIDUAL DISKS
 
Episode 204- Catalina Caper
Host: Joel
Episode info:
First shown: 10/13/90.
Opening: The bots say their prayers.
Invention exchange: Tank tops, tickle bazooka.
Host segment 1: Joel vapor-locks as he remembers the '60s.
Host segment 2: Song: "Creepy Girl."
Host segment 3: TV's Frank has a Tupperware party.
End: Charting the film, letter.
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: On the MST3K version side, the DVD starts with the Joel-era door sequence, leading to a shot of the title screen with Joel and the bots silhouetted below. Some of the animated fish from the opening title sequence of the movie swim in, and behind them arrives an animated TV screen showing clips of the movie and host segments, while incidental music from the movie plays. Options are: "play movie," "scene index" and "play trailer." If you choose "scene index," the image blurs as if it was underwater, fading into the scene index, which has a short snippet Little Richard singing "At the Party" for background audio.
Extra features: The uncut version of the movie and the theatrical trailer.
Disk face: See note about two-sided disks.
 
Episode 606- The Creeping Terror
Host: Mike
Episode info:
First shown: 9/17/94
Opening: Tom is a security guard
Intro: Laundry day in Deep 13, Dr. F. makes the bots pretentious poseurs
Host segment 1: Crow makes a flag for the SOL
Host segment 2: M&TB stick it to "Love American Style"
Host segment 3: Mike sets up his stereo system
End: Crow and Tom want Gypsy to swallow them, letters, Dr. F. "presses" Frank about the laundry
Stinger: "My God! What is it?"
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: On the MST3K version side, the DVD starts with the Mike-era door sequence, leading to a screen featuring a shot of the monster in the movie, some clips from the movie running in the background, Mike and Crow silhouetted below. Tom Servo is not there, instead he's sticking out of the monster, waving his arms helplessly. Incidental music from the film plays. Options are: "play movie," and "scene index." If you choose "scene index," the image wipes and switches to the scene index, which has different annoying incidental music from the movie playing.
Extra features: Just the uncut version of the movie--no trailer on this one.
Disk face: See note about two-sided disks.
 
Episode 607- Bloodlust (with short: "Uncle Jim's Dairy Farm")
Host: Mike
Episode info:
First shown: 9/3/94
Opening: Tom is Crow's therapist
Intro: Dr. F. redecorates Deep 13 for his mother's visit, but she's more pleased to see Frank
Host segment 1: Crow's veg'able stand gets run over by Servo's car!
Host segment 2: Square dancing
Host segment 3: Crow ruins Mystery Murder Dinner Theater
End: The bots think Mike is hunting them, letters, Dr. F.'s mom and Frank go out on the town
Stinger: Guy gets an arrow in the stomach
Movie info: click here.
Short info: click here.
What you'll see: On the MST3K version side, the DVD starts with the Mike-era door sequence, leading to a screen featuring an animated island at nighttime with a large moon above shimmering water. Three little animated signs drop down containing your three options. Mike and the bots are silhouetted below. Overwrought incidental music from the film plays. Options are: "play movie," "scene index" and "play trailer." If you choose "scene index," the moon in the image moves forward and we can see a skull face in it as it and switches to the scene index, which has different annoying incidental music from the movie playing. On the "uncut version" side, the DVD starts with a menu screen featuring several stills from the film. Options are "play movie" or "scene index." There is no audio on the main screen or scene index.
Extra features: The uncut version of the movie and the theatrical trailer.
Disk face: See note about two-sided disks.
 
Episode 609- The Sky Divers (with short: "Why Study Industrial Arts?")
Host: Mike
Episode info:
First shown: 8/27/94
Opening: Tom's planetarium show is disrupted
Intro: Swing choir competition
Host segment 1: Shop class isn't going well
Host segment 2: Crow puts himself in a "double jock lock"
Host segment 3: Tom bombs Crow
End: Crow and Tom struggle in their parachutes, letter, Frank dodges ball
Stinger: "I don't know. I feel real free up there in the high blue sky."
Movie info: click here.
Short info: click here.
What you'll see: On the MST3K version side, the DVD starts with the Mike-era door sequence, leading to a screen showing an aerial shot looking down at some coastline. A plane flies by, from the left, with Servo at the controls, then in flies by, from the right, with Crow at the controls. The plane says "MST3K" on the side. Then the plane flies up from below and we hear Servo yell "GERONIMO!!!!!!" The plane brings with it the title and the menu containing your three options; clips from the movie play alongside. Mike and the bots are silhouetted below. Overwrought incidental music from the film plays. Options are: "play movie," "scene index" and "play trailer." Whichever option you choose, the plane flies up from below, wiping the screen. The scene index has the MST3K "love theme" playing. The stills on the "uncut version" side include a lovely shot of Petey Plane!
Extra features: The uncut version of the movie and the theatrical trailer.
Disk face: See note about two-sided disks.
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 2
Released: Feb. '03
Contains episode 301- Cave Dwellers, episode 303- Pod People, episode 622- Angels' Revenge and Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Shorts, Vol. 1. The outer sleeve, which holds the folding case that holds all four DVDs, shows a 1940s-era New York street scene (Flatiron building clearly visible) and above the sky line is a space where, using a wheel you can turn on the side of the box, you can see images of Miles O'Keefe and his sidekicks, Trumpy, the "semi-nude club" and several of those oh-so-fearsome vigilante gals. There are also two smaller holes below that also reveal different pictures as the wheel is turned. There is also a little tab you can pull that makes a small zeppelin on the box, with the words "Volume 2" on it. The folding inner case has a desert scene (why desert?), and an object that vaguely represents each of the movies can be seen in each of the four bays where the DVDs go--from left, a pair of shorts hanging on a line between two cactuses, the Angels' armored van, a spider (??), and a pod-like egg. On the back of the folding inner case, there is (from left) a black and white photo from the same 40s era of people waiting outside a movie theater with Joel and the bots in color in the foreground, a panel with brief descriptions of each of the four films, a panel with the same New York street scene as the cover, but with Joel and Mike and the bots above the skyline and a panel with a different black and white city street scene, with Mike and Tom Servo in color looking out from a manhole. In this last panel there is a pocket that holds a small pamphlet that lists the chapter indexes of all four disks, and the other MST3K tapes and DVDs available from Rhino. All four disks are one-sided--none contain the uncut version of the movie as some previous releases have. The faces of all four disks are silver, with the MST3K "spaghetti-ball" logo,. the standard "DVD" logo, the Rhino logo, the name of the movie and some basic catalog information.
 
INDIVIDUAL DISKS
 
Episode 301- Cave Dwellers
Host: Joel
Episode info:
First shown: 6/1/91
Opening: J&TB consider new names
Invention exchange: Smoking jacket, robotic arm wrestling
Host segment 1: Reenacting the half-screen slo-mo credits
Host segment 2: Giving extraordinary names to ordinary things
Host segment 3: Foley demonstration by Joel
End: J&TB rail against the movie, the Mads are delighted
Stinger: "Thong! The fish is ready!"
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: The DVD starts with the Joel-era door sequence, leading to a shot of the title screen with a "cave wall" background (torch flickering in bracket on the wall). Shadowrama at the bottom. "Cave Dwellers" logo amid-most. On the right side of the screen we can see alternating clips of from the movie and from host segment 1, along the keyboard music from host segment 1. Options are: "play movie" and "scene index." If you select "scene index," there is a short scene of marauders riding, with Shadowrama at the bottom, then the index. There is no audio in the scene index screens.
Extra features: None.
 
Episode 303- Pod People
Host: Joel
Episode info:
First shown: 6/15/91
Opening: A reading from Crow's one man show
Invention exchange: Monster chord, public domain karoke machine
Host segment 1: J&TB record "Idiot Control Now" and it stinks!
Host segment 2: New Age music from Some Guys in Space
Host segment 3: "You are magic, aren't you, Trumpy?!"
End: Song: "Will There Still Be a Clown in the Sky?"
Stinger: "It stinks!"
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: The DVD starts with the Joel-era door sequence, leading to a title screen with a pink background, a "Pod People" logo--a planet, with a white sphere orbiting it. Shadowrama at the bottom. Tom Servo flies by on a rocket to reveal the options: "play movie" and "scene index." On the far left quarter of the screen are clips from the movie and host segments. Music is a sort of generalized dramatic music that I don't think is from the film. If you select "scene index," the title screen disassembles, then the index. There is no audio in the scene index screens.
Extra features: None.
 
Episode 622- Angels' Revenge
Host: Mike
Episode info:
First shown: 3/11/95
Opening: Crow thinks that he has amnesia
Intro: Desperate for ratings, Dr. F. turns M&TB into the cast of "Renegade"
Host segment 1: Crow latest screenplay is a "black-sploitation" film
Host segment 2: Mike does his Fonz, Crow and Tom disapprove
Host segment 3: Aaron Spelling's house passes by
End: The shame-o-meter, the Mads are Bobby Riggs and Billy-Jean King
Stinger: "Shine your love!"
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: The DVD starts with the Mike-era door sequence, leading to a title screen black background, with red and yellow stars floating by. Movie title logo amid-most, on the right half of the screen clips from the movie and host segments run. Shadowrama at the bottom. Options: "play movie" and "scene index." Disco music plays. If you select "scene index," there is a star wipe, then the index. There is no audio in the scene index screens.
Extra features: None.
 
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Shorts, Vol. 1
Hosts: Joel and Mike
Episode info:
"The Home Economics Story"
"Junior Rodeo Daredevils"
"Body Care & Grooming"
"Cheating"
"A Date With Your Family"
"Why Study Industrial Arts?"
"Chicken of Tomorrow"
What you'll see: The DVD starts with a title screen that looks like a blackboard in a classroom. A projector screen comes down and clips from the shorts run as the words "Shorts 1" with a circle around the "1" appear in chalk-like writing on the blackboard. The sound of a projector is heard. Shadowrama at the bottom. Options: "play movie" and "scene index." If you select "scene index," the screen rolls back up and behind it on the blackboard is the screen index. There is no audio in the scene index screens.
Extra features: None.
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 3
Released: April '03
Contains episode 202- The Sidehackers, episode 320- The Unearthly (with shorts: "Posture Pals" and "Appreciating Our Parents"), episode 518- The Atomic Brain (with short: "What About Juvenile Delinquency?"), Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Shorts, Vol. 2. The outer sleeve, which holds the folding case that holds all four DVDs, shows door 6 of the Mike-era door sequence. Within it, you can pull a tab that opens to reveal door 5, which contains a tab that, when pulled, reveals door 4, which contains a tab that, when pulled reveals door 3, etc. The folding inner case has four views, in each of the bays where they disks go, that are apparently meant to be views out various portholes of the Satellite of Love. They are (from left) a view of Earth, a view of Crow flying a small spaceship, an upside down view of Gypsy and a view of Tom Servo tethered to the space station. On the back of the folding inner case, there is (from left) a panel showing a theater, with curtains framing the upper and right edges and shadowrama at the bottom, on the screen is a rocket flying through space with "Volume 3" on the side and the four titles in the collection below it; a panel with brief descriptions of each of the episodes featured in the set; a panel showing door 6 of the Mike-era door sequence and a panel with the other half of the first panel--again a theater, curtains frame the left and top, theater seats at the bottom, on the movie screen the "spaghetti ball" logo. In this last panel there is a pocket that holds a small pamphlet that lists the chapter indexes of all four disks, and the other MST3K tapes and DVDs available from Rhino. All four disks are one-sided--none contain the uncut version of the movie as some previous releases have. The faces of all four disks are silver, with the MST3K "spaghetti-ball" logo,. the standard "DVD" logo, the Rhino logo, the name of the movie and some basic catalog information.
 
INDIVIDUAL DISKS
 
Episode 202- The Sidehackers
Host: Joel
Episode info:
First shown: 9/29/90.
Opening: Wash day on the SOL.
Invention exchange: Joel's pet slinky, Dr. F.'s slinky body.
Host segment 1: Song: "Sidehackin'."
Host segment 2: Terminology for the sport of sidehacking.
Host segment 3: J&TB have Rommel hats; JC and Gooch on the Hexfield.
End: Song: "Only Love Pads the Film," letters, Frank "will" push the button.
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: The DVD starts with the Joel-era door sequence, leading to a title screen with sidehacking footage behind Joel singing "Only Love Pads the Film." Shadowrama (minus Joel) at the bottom. Options are: "play movie," "scene index" and "extra footage." If you select "scene index," a checkered flag goes past wiping to the index. There is no audio in the scene index screens.
Extra features: The "extra footage" is alternate takes of the host segments, both SOL takes and Deep 13 takes, including footage shot in between takes and one take where Joel didn't know they were filming. They seem to have had a lot of trouble with the "slinky-train" invention exchange.
 
Episode 320- The Unearthly (with shorts: "Posture Pals" and "Appreciating Our Parents")
Host: Joel
Episode info:
First shown: 12/14/91
Opening: Making a funny home video
Invention exchange: Hard pills to swallow, celebrity products
Host segment 1: "Appreciating Gypsy"
Host segment 2: The many faces of Tor Johnson
Host segment 3: Combination of games based on the movie
End: Dead End Kids lingo, letter, and Dr. F does his Dead End Kid
Stinger: "Time for go to bed!"
Movie info: click here.
Shorts info: click here and here.
What you'll see: The DVD starts with the Joel-era door sequence, leading to an almost static title screen static screen showing the spooky house from the film on the right side of the screen and a scary monster face on the left side. Options: "play movie," "scene index" and "extra footage. Music is a sort of generalized dramatic music that I don't think is from the film. If you select "scene index," the title screen fuzzes out with a musical chord playing, then the index. There is no audio in the scene index screens.
Extra features: The "extra footage" is alternate takes of the host segments, both SOL takes and Deep 13 takes, including footage shot in between takes. Somewhat amusing to recall that MST3K spoofed Trace's future employer "America's Funniest Home Videos."
 
Episode 518- The Atomic Brain (with short: "What About Juvenile Delinquency?")
Host: Mike
Episode info:
First shown: 12/4/93
Opening: Final dress rehearsal for "Love Letters"
Invention exchange: The Mads, Crow and Tom Servo
Host segment 1: Tom is Weather Servo 9
Host segment 2: Mike demonstrates chin puppetry
Host segment 3: Magic Voice chats with the film's voice-over guy
End: Crow is Hank Kimball--The Fugitive, letters, "Dr." Frank meets Dr. Fist
Stinger: Spanish for "AAAAAAAH!"
Movie info: click here.
Short info: click here.
Rhino screwup: As with the VHS version of this episode, the stinger is not included.
What you'll see: The DVD starts with the Mike-era door sequence, leading to a title screen showing a porthole through which we see faces from both the movie and the host segments. Shadowrama at the bottom. Options: "play movie," "scene index" and "extra footage. Music is a sort of generalized suspense music that I don't think is from the film. If you select "scene index," a civil defense symbol fills the screen, then the index. There is no audio in the scene index screens.
Extra features: The "extra footage" is alternate takes of the host segments, both SOL takes and Deep 13 takes, including footage shot in between takes. Some sound problems in this batch.
 
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Shorts, Vol. 2
Hosts: Joel and Mike
Episode info:
"Catching Trouble"
"What To Do On A Date"
"Last Clear Chance"
"A Day At The Fair"
"Keeping, Clean & Neat"
"The Days of Our Years"
What you'll see: The DVD starts with a title screen that looks like a blackboard in a classroom. A projector screen comes down and clips from the shorts run as the words "Shorts 2" with a circle around the "2" appear in chalk-like writing on the blackboard. The sound of a projector is heard. Shadowrama at the bottom. Options: "play movie" and "scene index." If you select "scene index," the screen rolls back up and behind it on the blackboard is the screen index. There is no audio in the scene index screens.
Extra features: None.
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 4
Released: Nov. '03
Contains episode 820- Space Mutiny, episode 822- Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, episode 1002- Girl in Gold Boots and episode 1009- Hamlet. The outer sleeve, which holds the folding case that holds all four DVDs, shows a moonscape (whatever happened to the spaghetti ball?) with the title over it in red lettering. "Orbiting" the moon are four small circles with shots from each movie in them, and one raised "button" that reads "Vol. 4." I can't make out the background shot tinted red on the back of the case--the text cites each movie with a sample riff and some basic info about the movie. Four ovals at right show shots from the each movies. The folding inner case has a shot from each movie behind the bays where they disks go. They are (from left) Girl in Gold Boots, Hamlet, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank and Space Mutiny. On the back of the folding inner case, there is (from left) a nice color shot of Mike and the bots, a panel giving synopses of each of the movies, a duplicate of the front outside sleeve and again that red tinted shot from the back of the outer sleeve. I still can't make out what is pictured. In this last panel there is a pocket that holds a small pamphlet that lists the chapter indexes of all four disks, and the other MST3K tapes and DVDs available from Rhino. All four disks are one-sided--none contain the uncut version of the movie as some previous releases have. The faces of all four disks have the moonscape from the front cover, the standard "DVD" logo, the Rhino logo, the name of the movie and some basic catalog information.
 
INDIVIDUAL DISKS
 
Episode 820- Space Mutiny
Host: Mike
Episode info:
First shown: 11/7/97
Opening: Crow and Tom think Mike's encyclopedias are outdated
Intro: Mike has new encyclopedias; Pearl, Bobo and Observer are in prison
Host segment 1: Mike's tea time is interrupted by the bots trashing some escape pods
Host segment 2: Crow's a Bellerian...or is he?; Bobo's escape plan fails
Host segment 3: Servo installs railings
End: Tom is buff, Crow less so. Meanwhile Pearl, Bobo and Observer escape, and a fire begins!
Stinger: Our hero bravely screams like a girl and bails out
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: The DVD starts with the Mike-era door sequence, leading to a title screen with photos of the main characters of the movie behind a grid, and the title at the top left. Tom Servo floats by on a space ship of some sort. Music is sort of generalized space opera music that I don't think is from the movie. Options are: "play movie" and "scene index." If you select "play movie" you go right to Mike's short (39 seconds) intro and then right into the episode. If you select "scene index," the scene just kind of blips to the index. There is no audio in the scene index screens.
Extra features: Mike's new intro.
 
Episode 822- Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
Host: Mike
Episode info:
First shown: 12/6/97
Opening: Crow wants to cash in on his catchphrase: "You know you want me, baby!"
Intro: Mike tries to find himself a catchphrase, while Public Pearl TV begins its dubious pledge drive
Host segment 1: Crow & Tom order a monkey, which escapes and throws stuff
Host segment 2: While Mike continues to struggle with Henry the monkey, PPTV presents a preview of "Pearl! Pearl! Pearl! Pearl! Pearl!"
Host segment 3: Tom asks to be doppled to the nanite world, and soon regrets it
End: Bobo tries and fails to talk Henry down, so Mike takes deplorable action. Meanwhile, Pearl is counting her ill-gotten gain
Stinger: "'m I nuts?"
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: The DVD starts with the Mike-era door sequence, leading to very technological screen title screen with the title at the top. Options: "play movie" and "scene index." Music is a sort of general techno music that I don't think is from the film. If you select "play movie" it takes you right to Mike's short (30 seconds) intro and then right into the episode. If you select "scene index," a bubble from the left-lower corner of the screen takes over the screen revealing the index. There is no audio in the scene index screens.
Extra features: Mike's new intro.
 
Episode 1002- Girl in Gold Boots
Host: Mike
Episode info:
First shown: April 18, 1999.
Opening: Crow explains his WWBSMD bracelet; Pearl has evil plans.
Intro: More bracelets; Pearl, seeking board certification from the Institute of Mad Scientists, impresses the visiting inspector.
Host segment 1: Crow exacts petty, childish revenge on Mike.
Host segment 2: Crow is shakin' his moneymaker, much to Mike's dismay.
Host segment 3: Mike sings in the rain, causing much havoc.
End: The movie has caused M&TB dress like the ugly thug in the movie and chuckle; this fails to impress the inspector--but Brain Guy does!
Stinger: "Oh, God, I wish I had that pretty mind back!"
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: The DVD starts with the Mike-era door sequence, leading to a title screen showing dancing girls from the movie. Shadowrama at the bottom. Options: "play movie," "scene index," "trailer" and "TV spot." Music is go-go dancing music from the film. If you select "play movie" it cuts right to a short (43 seconds) and from there directly into the opening theme of the show. If you choose "scene index," the picture dissolves into several pieces and moves left off the screen, revealing the index. There is no audio in the scene index screens.
Extra features: Mike's new intro, a theatrical trailer and a TV spot.
 
Episode 1009- Hamlet
Hosts: Mike
Episode info:
First shown: June 27, 1999
Opening: Tom Servo is now Htom Sirveaux.
Intro: Crow has a name change too; Mike interrupts Pearl's plan with Three Card Monty -- which she loses, allowing
Mike to pick the movie.
Host segment 1: Crow & Tom's plan to be the ghost of one of Mike's dead relatives quickly unravels.
Host segment 2: Crow & Tom give Mike a preview of their percussion version of "Hamlet."
Host segment 3: Time once again to play "Alas Poor Who?"
End: Crow & Tom show off their Hamlet action figure, with real soliloquy action; in Castle Forrester, a snotty
Fortenbras demands his due.
Stinger: Claudius does a double take.
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: The DVD starts a Mike-era door sequence, into a screen that shows a black-and-white wall reminiscent of the dull set in the movie. It says "Hamlet" across the top, and a flaming torch hangs over a screen showing scenes from both the movie and host segments. Music is the dreary dirge from the movie. Choice are: "play movie" and "scene index." If you select "play movie," we go right to Mike short (32 seconds) intro and then right into the opening theme. If you chose "scene index," a gray concrete wall slides down and then slides back up to reveal the screen index. There is no audio in the scene index screens.
Extra features: Mike's new intro.
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 5
Released: March '04
Contains episode 821- Time Chasers, episode 908- The Touch of Satan, episode 1003- Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders and episode 1006- Boggy Creek II. The outer sleeve, which holds the folding case that holds all four DVDs, shows a hovering, silvery UFO using a Forrester green light beam to either project the title into thin air or to beam it up into the ship. The entire incident appears to be occurring in an Area 51-type military base complete with an electric fence and at least one tank and a truck on the scene. When you open the inner sleeve the first time, the left panel is a desert scene with that flying saucer in the sky. The right panel shows the same scene, except that the saucer has landed, a ramp has been deployed and along with Mike, Crow and Tom, something that looks vaguely like the Brain from the planet Aros has emerged. The left panel has a pocket in it containing a little blue-silver pamphlet that lists all the chapters of all four disks. Open the inner case up further and you see the four disk holding bays. Behind each one is the same desert scene with the saucer in the air--in each one the saucer has a beam emanating from it and inside the beam, on the ground, is a shot from the film. For the Boggy Creek disk, it shows a hot pants-clad research assistant in typical panic mode. For the Merlin disk, it shows Merlin. For the Time Chasers disk, it shows our hero and heroine in typical panic mode. And for the Touch of Satan disk, it shows our hero in typical dull surprise mode. The back panel has the usual synopses of each film. These are all one-sided disks. The top side of each disk has the desert scene with the saucer, along with the usual information.
 
INDIVIDUAL DISKS
 
Episode 1006- Boggy Creek II
Host: Mike
Episode info:
First shown: May 9, 1999.
Opening: Crow and Mike's Cub Scout meeting is crashed by Servo the Brownie.
Intro: Now Servo's a Flemish glass blower; Pearl's potato-powered evil plan.
Host segment 1: M&TB's flashbacks get fuzzier and fuzzier.
Host segment 2: Pearl cooks up a monster legend, complete with haunting, evocative folk song.
Host segment 3: Tom takes up whittling in a big way.
End: Crow's tends to his fires; Pearl's legend biz gets kicked in the ankle
Stinger: "I saw the little creature." "Nooo!!"
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: The DVD starts with the Mike-era door sequence, leading to a title screen showing something approximating the Professor's proximity device. As the hand sweeps around, it show an object coming closer and closer, then reaching the base--then running off in terror. This happens twice, then the whole thing repeats. Options: "play movie," "scene index." Music is suspense music from the film. If you select "play movie" it cuts right to a short (48 seconds) message from Mike, and from there directly into the opening theme of the show. If you choose "scene index," the device hand sweeps around, wiping away the title screen, and revealing the index. There's more suspense music in the scene index screens.
Extra features: Mike's intro.
 
Episode 1003- Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders
Host: Mike
Episode info:
First shown: September 12, 1999.
Opening: M&TB are into 1920s-era college pranks.
Intro: Pearl's latest IMS assignment makes Servo a despotic ruler, briefly, though Bobo taints the control group.
Host segment 1: "Niche reviewers" Crow and Servo review each other; both get panned.
Host segment 2: Servo acquires a magical spell book, which turns Mike into an infant. Waah.
Host segment 3: Mike shows off his collection of Ernest Borgnine children's books, which are decidedly dark.
End: Pearl sends Bobo to the SOL disguised as an evil toy monkey, but M&TB send him back; Pearl sums up her progress, while Brain Guy tries the vacuum-bump bit on Bobo.
Stinger: Little kid sings: "Rock 'n' roll martian..."
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: The DVD starts with the Mike-era door sequence, leading to a title screen showing an otherworldly landscape with four randomly placed spheres and two marble obelisks on either side of the screen, with Shadowrama at the bottom. Between the two obelisks, smoke travels upward and behind the smoke (and the title) is Merlin's face. Options: "play movie," "scene index" and "Interview with Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy." Music is suspenseful "la-la-la" music from the film. If you select "play movie" it cuts right to a short (32 seconds) message from Mike, and from there directly into the opening theme of the show. If you choose the "interview," you get a the interview. If you choose "scene index," smoke obscures the title screen, revealing the index. There's more suspense music in the scene index screens.
Extra features: Mike's intro; interview with Mike and Kevin.
 
Episode 821- Time Chasers
Host: Mike
Episode info:
First shown: 11/22/97
Opening: Mike explains what's happened since the last show, but Tom just needs him to say "Lost in Space"
Intro: Mike & Pearl have a nice chat
Host segment 1: Tom sends Crow back in time to convince Mike the dude to stop taking temp jobs
Host segment 2: Crow succeeds and, returning to the SOL, finds Mike's surly big brother Eddie in Mike's place, and learns that Mike's new future was worse than the old one
Host segment 3: Having seen the future, Crow returns to the past to keep Crow from performing his mission
End: Mike refuses to say what needs to be said, and, during another nice chat, Pearl points out a troubling detail
Stinger: "Matt, it's time for you decide if you're gonna be one of my team players or not."
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: The DVD starts with the Mike-era door sequence, leading to a title screen with brightly colored streaks flashing across the screen in a diagonal. In the upper right hand, scenes from the movie are shown. Shadowrama at the bottom. Options: "play movie," "scene index." Music is suspense music from the film. If you select "play movie" it cuts right to a short (55 seconds) message from Mike, and from there directly into the opening theme of the show. If you choose "scene index," the screen shrinks down and then when it expands back out, we see the index. There's more suspense music in the scene index screens.
Extra features: Mike's intro.
 
Episode 908- The Touch of Satan
Host: Mike
Episode info:
First shown: 7/11/98
Opening: The bots seek wassail
Intro: Mike finds a wassail loophole; Steffi the babysitter's reign of terror
Host segment 1: Mike learns that walnut ranching is hard work
Host segment 2: Crow tries a test to see if he's a witch
Host segment 3: Grandma Servo attacks
End: Crow sells his soul to Stan; storytime with Steffi
Stinger: "This is where the fish lives."
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: The DVD starts with the Mike-era door sequence, leading to a title screen showing the title wreathed in red fire in the upper left hand corner, a pentagram through which we can see scenes from the movie and the episode in the upper right, shadowrama at bottom. Options: "play movie," "scene index" and "trailer. Music is piano suspense music from the film. If you select "play movie" it cuts right to a short (37 seconds) message from Mike, and from there directly into the opening theme of the show. If you choose "scene index," the pentagram swoops at you, wiping away the title screen and revealing the index. If you choose "trailer," it cuts right to the very odd trailer. There more suspense music in the scene index screens.
Extra features: Mike's intro, the trailer.
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Essentials
Released: March '04
This was a bit of a change-up from the pattern that Rhino has set: it was released to retail outlets as a first-ever two-disc set, and a bonus third disc was included for people who ordered it through a special web site. The good news was that one disc featured one of the most requested episodes of all time, episode 321- Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. The bad news was the second disc featured an episode that had previously been released, episode 424- "Manos" The Hands of Fate. The bonus disc contained Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Shorts, Vol. 3. The sleeve has a large "spaghetti ball" logo set against a starry sky with shadowrama below, and five circular graphics "orbiting" the logo. The SOL can also be seen in the distance. On the back, along with promotional copy and photos, Crow and Tom Servo can be seen peeking out from behind a boulder--behind them is a rocky barren moonscape. The discs are one-sided, dark blue with title information on a silver background. Inside is a standard disc holder with no graphics. The bonus disc, if included, is inside a plain paper sleeve stuck loosely in the case.
 
INDIVIDUAL DISKS
 
Episode 424- "MANOS" The Hands of Fate
Host: Joel
Episode info:
First shown: 1/30/93
Opening: Joel programs the bots to agree with everything he says.
Invention exchange: Chocolate bunny guillotine, the cartuner.
Host segment 1: Gypsy's big scene is ruined, Frank apologizes.
Host segment 2: Why Torgo is a monster.
Host segment 3: Joel dons a Manos cape, Dr. F. apologizes.
End: The bots reenact the lady wrestling scene, Torgo's pizza arrives.
Stinger: "Why don't you guys leave us alone?"
Movie info: click here.
Short info: click here.
What you'll see: DVD starts with door sequence leading to menu screen with Torgo's Theme playing.
Extra feature: The original MST3K "Poopie" Reel.
 
Episode 321- Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Host: Joel
Episode info:
First shown: 12/21/91
Opening: Crow and Tom are looking at Christmas catalogs
Invention exchange: Wish squisher, misfit toys
Host segment 1: Song: "A Patrick Swayze Christmas"
Host segment 2: J&TB look over tapes of cheesy Christmas specials
Host segment 3: J&TB read their Christmas essays
End: "Angels We Have Heard Are High," stocking time, letter, Mads exchange gifts
Stinger: Bad martian's derisive laughter
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: The DVD starts with the Joel-era door sequence, leading to a title screen--a rough approximation of the control panel on the martian space ship in the film. A funky version of "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" plays. Shadowrama at bottom. On the control panel, the options are: "play movie" and "scene index." Clips from the episode play on a screen at top right. If you select "play movie" it goes directly into the opening theme of the show. If you choose "scene index," a second verse of the song begins and the scene flips to reveal the index.
Extra features: None.
 
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Shorts, Vol. 3
Hosts: Joel and Mike
Episode info:
"Speech: Using Your Voice"
"Aquatic Wizards"
"Is This Love?"
"Design for Dreaming"
"The Selling Wizard"
"Out of this World"
"Once Upon A Honeymoon"
What you'll see: The DVD starts with a title screen that looks like a blackboard in a classroom. A projector screen comes down and clips from the shorts run as the words "Shorts 3" with a circle around the "3" appear in chalk-like writing on the blackboard. The sound of a projector is heard. Shadowrama at the bottom. Options: "play movie" and "scene index." If you select "scene index," the screen rolls back up and behind it on the blackboard is the screen index. There is no audio in the scene index screens.
Extra features: None.
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 6
Released: October '04
Contains episode 404- Teenagers From Outer Space, episode 406- Attack of the Giant Leeches (with short: Undersea Kingdom Pt. 1), episode 511- Gunslinger and Mr. B's Lost Shorts??!! The outer sleeve, which holds the folding case that holds all four DVDs, shows the silhouettes of the Bots and their human companion sitting in a convertible at a drive-in movie theater. On the screen is a facsimile of the spaghetti ball logo. On the back is synopses of each episode. When you open the inner sleeve the first time, the left panel is shows Joel, Crow and Tom below a logo that says "Satellite Drive-In Theater and above a marquee that says "Starring Joel Hodgson - Tom Servo and Crow." The right panel shows a drive-in theater marquee listing the four episodes in the set. The left panel has a pocket in it containing a pamphlet that lists all the chapters of all four disks. Open the inner case up further and you see the four disk holding bays. Behind each one a drive-in scene and up on the screen is a shot from the film. These are all one-sided disks; each one has a replica of the image on the front of the package along with the requisite info.
  
INDIVIDUAL DISKS
 
Episode 404- Teenagers From Outer Space
Host: Joel
Episode info:
First shown: 6/27/92
Opening: Joel uses behavior modification to prevent a recurrence of the "NBC Mystery Movie" gag
Invention exchange: Scratch and sniff report card, resusci-Annie ventriloquist doll
Host segment 1: Reel to real
Host segment 2: J&TB recreate a pre-movie no-littering short
Host segment 3: A really boss-looking space ship visits
End: Duct tape fashion statements, letters, Dr. F. dines with a friend
Stinger: "When we return to our planet, the high court may well sentence you to TORTURE!!"
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: The DVD starts with the Joel-era door sequence, leading to a title screen--a flying saucer rotates over a moonscape with standard-issue 60s rock playing and the title above. Shadowrama at bottom. Options are: "play movie" and "scene index." If you select "play movie" it goes directly into the opening theme of the show. If you choose "scene index," the saucer swoops toward you to reveal the index. Ethereal music plays behind the scene index choices.
Extra features: None.  
Episode 406- Attack of the Giant Leeches (with short: Undersea Kingdom Pt. 1)
Host: Joel
Episode info: 
First shown: 7/18/92 
Opening: Shutting off the holo-clowns 
Invention exchange: Patches the leech, insty-adolescence kit 
Host segment 1: Taking over the world and what you'd wear to do it 
Host segment 2: Talking about dreams over coffee 
Host segment 3: Song: "Danger to Myself And Others" 
End: Understanding the leeches, letter, Patches has been on Frank too long 
Stinger: Billy gets into it.
Movie info: click here.
Short info: click here.
What you'll see: The DVD starts with the Joel-era door sequence, leading to a title screen--a swamp scene with the title in wavery letters. Scenes from the episode run at lower left. Shadowrama at bottom. Options are: "play movie" and "scene index." If you select "play movie" it goes directly into the opening theme of the show. If you choose "scene index," a giant leech swims past to reveal the index. Ethereal music plays behind the scene index choices.
Extra features: None.
Episode 511- Gunslinger
Host: Joel
Episode info:
First shown: 10/9/93
Opening: "Blowing" up Tom's head
Invention exchange: The scanner planner, new whiffle items
Host segment 1: Funeral talk
Host segment 2: The Gypsy Express
Host segment 3: Tom demonstrates quantum linear super-position
End: The '70s: A pretty foul decade, deep fried letter, Dr. F. scans Frank!
Stinger: "What about our clothes?"
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: The DVD starts with the Joel-era door sequence, leading to a title screen--a vague approximation of the opening title sequence, with "Happy Trails"-esque music playing. Shadowrama at bottom. Options are: "play movie" and "scene index." If you select "play movie" it goes directly into the opening theme of the show. If you choose "scene index," the scene gets several bullet holes in it, then a circular wipe reveals the index. Ethereal music plays behind the scene index choices.
Extra features: Coming soon.
Mr. B's Lost Shorts??!!
Hosts: Joel and Mike
Episode info:
"Mr. B Natural"
"X Marks the Spot"
"Hired!--Part 1"
"Design for Dreaming"
"Johnny at the Fair"
"Are You Ready for Marriage?"
What you'll see: The DVD starts with a title screen that pans across a teacher's desk and to a blackboard in a classroom. The title is written on the blackboard and a projector screen comes down and clips from the shorts run. The sound of a projector is heard. Shadowrama at the bottom. Options: "play" and "scene index." If you select "scene index," the screen rolls back up and behind it on the blackboard is the screen index. Goofy 50s music plays.
Extra features: None.
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 7
Released: April '05
Contains episode 408- Hercules Unchained, episode 410- Hercules Against the Moon Men and episode 816- Prince of Space, episode 407- The Killer Shrews (with short: Junior Rodeo Daredevils and three bonus shorts [Assignment: Venezula, Century 21 Calling and A Case of Spring Fever]). The outer sleeve, which holds the folding case that holds all four DVDs, shows a section of what appears to be a 1950s living room--kitchy wallpaper, an old-fashioned TV and, in the foreground a hand holding a remote pointed at the TV. On the back of the sleeve is the view from behind the TV--the back of the TV and part of a face looking out over it. The back contains promotional copy and info on the episodes. On the front of the inner container shows a modern and up scale with an image of the spaghetti ball logo and shadowrama on a more expensive-looking TV and a hand in the foreground holding a modern remote. On the back is more info on each movie. When you open the inner sleeve the first time, the left panel shows a NASA astronaut standing on the moon. The MST3K logo is in his visor. In the foreground is an alien hand holding an alien-looking remote pointed at the astronaut. In this panel is a pocket containing a pamphlet with all the chapter listings for all four DVDS and promotions for other DVDs on the back. With the pamphlet out of the pocket, in the astronaut's visor we can see a still from "Prince of Space." On the right-hand panel is an image of what appears to a geeky basement--a rough brick wall, a computer with an image of a Hercules movie on it--and in the foreground is a hand holding the computer's mouse like a remote. Open the inner case up further and you see the four disk holding bays. Each disc has a blue starfield background with the logo at the top above the title. "Hercules Unchained" is designated Disk 1. At the bottom it has the hand holding the old fashioned remote. The bay behind it has the image from the back of the outer sleeve, of the back of the old TV and a man's face peeking over it. "Hercules Against the Moon Men" is designated Disk 2. At the bottom of the disk is the hand holding the modern remote from the front of the inside holder. In the bay behind the disk is an image from behind the back of the modern TV with a little old lady's face peeking over it. "Prince of Space" is designated Disk 3. At the bottom of the disk is the alien hand holding the alien remote. In the bay behind it is a shot of the alien peeking over something I can't make out. "The Killer Shrews" is designated Disk 4. At the bottom of the disk is the hand holding the computer mouse as if it were a remote. In the bay behind it is a shot from behind the computer with a guy's face peeking over it. These are all one-sided disks.
   
INDIVIDUAL DISKS
 
Episode 408- Hercules Unchained
Host: Joel
Episode info:
First shown: 8/1/92
Opening: Wash and wax day for the bots
Invention exchange: Decorator roaches (Steve Reeves visits!), the Steve-o-meter
Host segment 1: Gypsy is the Helenistic ideal
Host segment 2: The water of forgetfulness, etc.
Host segment 3: What are Hercules and the nice lady doing?
End: The meaning of the Hercules movies
Stinger: The queen recalls Herc
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: The DVD starts with the Joel-era doorway sequence, leading to a screen with the title of the movie at the top and below the left half of the screen has an image of ancient steps with "Play Movie" and "Scene Index" on them. On the right half of the screen scenes from the movie and from some host segments run in a loop. Shadowrama at the bottom. Dramatic music plays that may be from the movie, but I don't think so. When you click on "Play Movie" the episode starts with no seque. When you click on "Scene Index" the title at the top of the screen falls and the image fades into the scene index, which has five hexfield viewscreen-like windows and a set up in the corner for switching to the next set of screens. Etheral music plays.
Extra features: None.
 
Episode 410- Hercules Against the Moon Men
Host: Joel
Episode info:
First shown: 8/22/92
Opening: Crow and Tom run away (briefly)
Invention exchange: DEEP HURTING!, super freak-out kit
Host segment 1: The amazing BOOBY trap illusion
Host segment 2: Newly muscular Crow and Tom consider tough guy names
Host segment 3: Song: "Pants!"
End: Wayne Rogers syndrome, letters
Stinger: Old guy gets skewered
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: The disk starts with a Joel-era door sequence that leads into a screen with the title of the movie in the upper right in front of a moving starfield. A red planet or moon is seen in the upper left corner. Herc stands holding a spear on a desolate landscape. A moon man peeks from behind a peak and a statue is at the lower right. Shadowrama below. Directly below the title are the two options: "Play" and "Scene Index." When you hit "Play" the episode starts without segue. When you hit "Scene Index" an image of the muscular Servo from Host Segment 2 moves from left to right, wiping the screen to reveal a similar scene index to the previous disck. The same ethereal music plays.
Extra features: None.
Episode 816- Prince of Space
Host: Mike
Episode info:
First shown: 8/16/97 
Opening: Crow and Tom's "Dog and Bear" game gets out of hand Intro: Bobo, then the Widowmaker, then the SOL are dragged into a wormhole 
Host segment 1: M&TB are unstuck in time 
Host segment 2: Mike is transformed into a small robot 
Host segment 3: The wormhole deposits M&TB in a rather lovely sylvan glen 
End: All seems normal again on the SOL (except for the presense of Krankor), but Pearl and Observer have arrived on Earth in Roman times! 
Stinger: The Phantom says: "Hah! Hah! Hah! Hah! Hah! Hah! Hah!"
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: The disk begins with a Mike-era door sequence revealing a screen with the title of the film in large letters upper right. Below it in smaller type are the two choices: "Play Movie" and "Scene Selection. Behind the text are images of the Phantom and Prince of Space. A death ray thingy revolves at left. Tom Servo flies back and forth in a space ship--and is therefore NOT in the shadowrama below! Spacy sounds play. If you hit "Play Movie," the episode starts with no seque. If you hit "Scene Index" everything explodes in a white light and dissolves into the same hexfieldesque scene index as the previous two disks.
Extra features: None.
Episode 407- The Killer Shrews (with short: Junior Rodeo Daredevils and three bonus shorts [Assignment: Venezula, Century 21 Calling and A Case of Spring Fever])
Host: Joel
Episode info:
First shown: 7/25/92
Opening: Joel has presents
Invention exchange: The Mads prepare to destroy Earth, but are stopped by Jim Henson's Edgar Winter Babies
Host segment 1: Joel vapor-locks while trying to do Will Rogers
Host segment 2: While presenting the Killer Shrews game, the bots snap
Host segment 3: J&TB concoct the Killer Shrew drink
End: The shrewbots attack scientist Joel, letter, Frank isn't feeling good
Stinger: "Any unusual experiment can produce unusual results."
Movie info: click here.
Short info: click here.
What you'll see: The disk begins with a Joel-era door sequence that leads to a screen that has the title of the film in wavy letters in the upper left. The audio is Joel and the bots singing their jingle for the Killer Shrew board game in Host Segment 2. In the background is a still shot of a giant shrew from the film, attacking. Fog seems to flow in from the lower left. A strip of "film" extends diagonaly from the title toward the Shadowrama at bottom. It has four "cells"--the first two have short clips from the movie, the next has clips from the host segments and bottom on shows the first screen of the scene index. Next to the "film strip" are your three choices: "Play Movie," "Scene Selection" and "Bonus Features." If you click on the first, the episode begins without seque. If you click on "scene selection" the bottom frame of the film strip enlarges to fill the screen. The usual ethereal music plays. If you click on "bonus features" it switches without seque to a screen that says "Bonus Features" in the upper left and has options to select one of the three shorts. The "Assignment Venezuela" menu also includes chapter selections. No music plays
Extra features: Assignment: Venezuela
"Assignment:Venezuela"
"Century 21 Calling"
"A Case of Spring Fever
Goofs: In the intitial run of this set, Disk 4 contained a slightly edited version of the film. About 45 seconds, just as the film begins was cut. If, on your copy, the film begins with the titles zooming up on the screen, you have the slightly edited version. In the complete version, there is a short bit narration setting up the premise that shrews are really bloodthirsty and will eat anything. Rhino has offered to replace anyone who got the edited version with a disk that includes the missing footage. Write to drrhino@rhino.com to request one.
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 8
Released: November '05
Contains episode 907- Hobgoblins, episode 902- Phantom Planet, episode 421- Monster A-Go-Go (with short: Circus on Ice) and episode 603- The Dead Talk Back (with short: The Selling Wizard.) The outer sleeve, which holds the folding case that holds all four DVDs, shows a scene that appears to be a junkyard or landfill at night, with the spaghetti ball logo rising poover a mound of refuse and a jumble of items. On the back of the sleeve is some brief promotional copy and info on the movies. The front of the inner container shows the same scene. The back has chapter indexes for all four discs. When you open the inner sleeve the first time, the left panel shows a desolate highway setting, also at night. In this panel is a pocket containing a sheet with promotions for other MST3K DVDs. On the right-hand panel is an abandoned drive-in movie theater, strewn with abandoned cars and refuse. On the screen is a scene from, I think, Hobgoblins, and the spagetti ball logo. Open the inner case up further and you see the four disk holding bays. The disk with "Hobgoblins" had been designated Disk 1. The image on it is a sewer grate with the name of the show spray painted on it and a newspaper lying across it that says "HOBGOBLINS" in the giant headline. The disk with "Phantom Planet" on it has been designated Disk 2. It has a black background and some aging stickers and masking tape containing the info. The disk containing "Monster A-Go-Go" has been designated Disk 3. It has been made to look like the top of an metal barrel with various stickers on it. The disk with "The Dead Talk Back" has been designated Disk 4--it has been made to look like a truck wheel with info painted on it. In the bays behind each disk is a different landfill scene. These are all one-sided disks.
   
INDIVIDUAL DISKS
 
Episode 907- Hobgoblins
Host: Mike
Episode info:
First shown: 6/27/98
Opening: Unintentional on-turning
Intro: M&TB mistreat Pearl's couch, and soon regret it
Host segment 1: Crow presents: "Let's Talk Women!"
Host segment 2: Bobo calls Crow's crisis hotline
Host segment 3: Pearl is only briefly fooled by Mike's cutouts
End: Servo has solved the Rick Sloane problem...or has he?; Pearl expresses her disappointment
Stinger: The hobgoblins go for a ride
Movie info: click here.
What you'll see: The DVD starts with the Mike-era door sequence leading to a screen with clips from the movie playing in the background, still from the movie in circles in the foreground. Shadowrama underneath, and for some reason Servo is standing and is highlighted. The two options are "Play Movie" and "Scene Index." When you click on the former, the episode begins with no segue. When you click on the later, the words "SCENE INDEX fill the screen and we fade into the now-familiar hexfield format.
Extra features: None.
 
Episode 902- Phantom Planet
Host: Mike
Episode info:
First shown: 3/21/98
Opening: Crow and Tom challenge Mike to an Andy Rooney-off