• The PROJECT MOON BASE disk will include “Exploring The Look Of MST3K With Director Of Photography Jeff Stonehouse,” and the original trailer.
• The MASTER NINJA I disk will include a new interview with Master Ninja guest star Bill McKinney (who played evil Sheriff Kyle).
• The MASTER NINJA II disk will feature the “Tom Servo Vs. Tom Servo” panel that was held at Dragon*Con 2010.
• The ‘MAGIC VOYAGE OF SINBAD” disk features a new introduction by Trace Beaulieu, and “Mystery Science Theater Hour” wraps.
And I know you’re asking yourself: “I wonder what Bruce Westbrook thinks of all this?” Find out here!
Here’s the release.
Shout! Factory, in association with Best Brains, Inc., is proud to announce MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: VOL. XX will be released on March 8, 2011. Sit back — when you’re not doubled over with laughter, that is — for four classic episodes of this hilarious Peabody Award–winning series. Crow T. Robot, Tom Servo and your host Joel Robinson (Joel Hodgson) are back to riff on your … erm .. favorite movies and television series of yesteryear with all the TLC only the Satellite of Love crew can deliver. And for this XXth volume of the outstanding, groundbreaking series, we’re making it a very special Mystery Science Theater 3000 Joel-bilee. And you’re on the guest list!
The 4-DVD set includes 4 episodes never before released on DVD, Project Moonbase, Master Ninja I, Master Ninja II, and The Magic Voyage Of Sinbad. Through a special offer only from Shout! Factory, fans who order the set at shoutfactorystore.com will receive a free, limited-edition MST3K Stress Ball. [Please use the link at right.]
On Vol. XX’s Project Moonbase, the fate of the free world is in jeopardy when a trip to the Moon to begin establishing a U.S. military foothold in space uncovers a sinister foreign plot. In this classic episode from the series’ first official season, Joel, Tom Servo and Crow invite you to sit in and enjoy as they lovingly mock this sci-fi TV show gone awry, complete with: The wit! The laughter! And, of course, the SPACOM you’ve come to love over the last two and a half decades!
Also includes the shorts Commando Cody & The Radar Men From The Moon, Chapters 7 & 8, as well as bonus features including Exploring The Look Of MST3K With Director Of Photography Jeff Stonehouse, and the original trailer.Master Ninja I finds a Korean War veteran turned master ninja living in Japan who learns of a daughter back in America, and makes it his personal vow to find her despite the consequences of breaking the ninja code he swore to uphold many years ago. Get your tuning forks and pitch pipes ready! It’s time to warm up the ol’ vocal chords for an awful-ly hysterical rendition of Master Ninja’s very own theme song! Sing (and laugh) along with Joel and the Satellite of Love gang as they riff on not one, but two episodes of the series The Master starring Lee Van Cleef and Timothy Van Patten and featuring a young Demi Moore — a combination so deadly, it’ll kill you with laughter. Bonus Features include a new interview with Master Ninja guest star Bill McKinney.
In Master Ninja II, the ongoing adventures of the aging American ninja in search of his long-lost daughter do, in fact, go on . . . and so does the derisive discourse of our MST3K team of “expert”commentators. As if riffing only two episodes of this Lee Van Cleef classic was enough! The crew aboard the Satellite of Love — Joel, Crow and Tom Servo — take on improv, the Cryptkeeper and, of course, two more hilarious episodes of The Master. Tom Servo Vs. Tom Servo Panel At Dragon*Con 2010 is offered here as a bonus feature.
In an effort to bring joy to his people, Sinbad takes off on a mission to find the elusive Bird of Happiness in the Russian morality tale, The Magic Voyage Of Sinbad. No movie is safe from the uproarious, laughter-inducing riffs of the SoL crew, and that goes double for Venice Film Festival Silver Lion Award–winners from Russia. But Joel, Crow and Tom are having their own awards ceremony. Can Magic Voyage Of Sinbad compete? Or, for that matter, survive? Bonus features include a new introduction by Trace Beaulieu, and Mystery Science Theater Hour Wraps.
By the way, for those planning to buy the upcoming releases of “The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies” and “Beginning Of The End,” coming out Feb. 15 for $19.99 if you visit here you can get a $5 discount when you purchase both, together using the coupon code MST3K5OFF.
