key art promo for the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Turkey Day Potluck of the Stars Marathon for 2024. On the left is an illustration of MST3K's robot characters Tom Servo and Crow seated at a ...

The Sci-Fi Channel Era. by Stephen Swanson. I got into MST3K as an 8-year-old in the summer of 1989, when the show was still in its infancy on KTMA Channel 23.

Roger Corman butchered it. Mystery Science Theater 3000 mocked it. But now, a 4K, original-language restoration of Aleksandr Ptushko’s 1956 epic Ilya Muromets — aka The Sword and the Dragon ...

While the cast, format, and platform has changed over the years, MST3K has maintained a robust fan base. “It’s really getting ridiculous," Hodgson said, incredulously.