Mystery Science Theater 3000 | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-28

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00:04:19 1 Premise
00:05:53 2 Format
00:09:28 3 Production history
00:09:38 3.1 Concept
00:16:36 3.2 KTMA era (1988–1989)
00:21:22 3.3 Comedy Channel/Comedy Central era (1989–1996)
00:24:21 3.3.1 Writing and taping
00:28:14 3.3.2 Cast changes
00:30:10 3.3.3 Cancellation
00:31:03 3.4 Sci-Fi Channel era (1997–1999)
00:34:38 3.5 Netflix era revival (2017–present)
00:34:50 3.5.1 Kickstarter funding
00:37:38 3.5.2 Casting
00:40:57 3.5.3 Writing and recording
00:47:07 4 Cast
00:47:18 5 Episodes
00:49:16 5.1 Turkey Day marathons
00:50:46 5.2 Home media
00:53:19 6 Adaptations
00:53:28 6.1 Syndication
00:55:06 6.2 Feature film
00:55:47 6.3 Print
00:57:56 6.4 Live shows
01:00:36 6.5 Other appearances
01:02:17 7 Reception
01:03:49 7.1 Reactions by those parodied
01:09:15 7.2 Awards
01:10:20 7.3 Influence
01:16:09 7.4 Fandom
01:18:45 8 Related post-show projects
01:22:57 8.1 Reunions
01:24:58 9 See also



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SUMMARY
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) is an American television comedy series created by Joel Hodgson and produced by Alternaversal Productions, LLC. The show premiered on KTMA (now WUCW) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 24, 1988. It later aired on The Comedy Channel/Comedy Central for seven seasons until its cancellation in 1996. Thereafter, it was picked up by The Sci-Fi Channel and aired for three seasons until another cancellation in August 1999. A 60-episode syndication package titled The Mystery Science Theater Hour was produced in 1995. In 2015, Hodgson led a crowdfunded revival of the series with 14 episodes in its eleventh season, first released on Netflix on April 14, 2017, with another six-episode season following on November 22, 2018. To date, 217 episodes and a feature film have been produced.
The show initially starred Hodgson as Joel Robinson, a janitor trapped against his will by two mad scientists on the Satellite of Love and forced to watch a series of B movies as a part of the scientists' plot to take over the world. To keep his sanity, Joel crafts a number of robot companions—including Tom Servo, Crow T. Robot, and Gypsy—to keep him company and help him humorously comment on each movie as it plays, a process known as riffing. Each two-hour episode would feature a single movie in its entirety, sometimes with various shorts and educational films, with Joel, Tom, and Crow watching in silhouette from a row of theater seats at the bottom of the screen. These scenes were framed with interstitial sketches. The show's cast changed over its duration; most notably, the character of Joel was replaced by Mike Nelson (played by Michael J. Nelson) in the show's fifth season. Other cast members, most of whom were also writers for the show, include Trace Beaulieu, Josh Weinstein, Jim Mallon, Kevin Murphy, Frank Conniff, Mary Jo Pehl, Bill Corbett, Paul Chaplin, and Bridget Jones Nelson. The revival features a primarily new cast, including Jonah Ray as the new human test subject, Jonah Heston, along with Felicia Day and Patton Oswalt as the mads and Baron Vaughn, Hampton Yount, and Rebecca Hanson as the bots.
MST3K's original run did not garner high viewership numbers, but the show's popularity spread through word-of-mouth over the Internet from its fans known as MSTies (or "Mysties"), frequent repeats and syndication, and home media offerings produced by Rhino Entertainment and currently Shout! Factory, who along with Hodgson now own the rights to the show and supported the revived series. MST3K was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME" in 2007, and TV Guide has noted MST3K as one of the top cult television shows. The show won a Peabody Award in 1993, was also nominated for two Emmy Awards in 1994 and 1995, and for the Cable ...