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Turkey Day Marathon This Weekend

Join the cast and crew of Mystery Science Theater 3000 as they welcome a cavalcade of celebrity fans to this year’s Turkey Day celebration.

The fun starts bright and early at 5 am ET on November 28th on Shout! TV and The MST3K Channel.

Hosted by Jonah Ray, this year’s marathon features a heaping helping of MST3K stalwarts including Joel Hodgson, Felicia Day, Emily Marsh and Mary Jo Pehl, as well as celebrity MSTies David Dastmalchian, Mike Flanagan, Bryan Fuller, Mark Hamill, Matthew Lillard and Kumail Nanjiani, all of whom will share a favorite MST3K episode with their fellow fans. Plus, the long-awaited return of fan-favorite episode Final Sacrifice to the world of streaming will give us even more reason to be thankful this Turkey Day.

A complete schedule and a list of the channels where you can watch the marathon is here.

RIP Earl Holliman

STUDIO CITY, CALIF. — Earl Holliman, the actor best known for playing Angie Dickinson’s boss on the 1970s NBC cop drama Police Woman, died at his home here Nov. 25. He was 96.

Holliman won a best supporting actor Golden Globe for playing Katharine Hepburn’s kid brother in “The Rainmaker.”

MSTies will remember Joel and the bots’ tribute to him in episode 418- ATTACK OF THE THE EYE CREATURES, which included the observation that Holliman “would have been William Shatner, had there not already been one.”

The Hollywood Reporter has the story.

Thanks to Tim for the heads up.

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RIP Bent Mejding

Danish actor and director, known for his work in “A Royal Affair” (2012), “Brothers” (2004) and the TV series “Matador” (1978-1982) has died. He was 87.

MSTies may remember his work his role as Svend Viltorft in the movie in episode 1101- REPTILICUS.

Thanks to Gordon for the heads up and for finding this obit in Danish