Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Season 1

Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Season 1

Season 1

The premiere season on Comedy Central. (The KTMA episodes are listed as specials as they pre-date this season)

Network
Episodes13
DatesNov 24, 1988 - Feb 13, 1990
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Episodes

The Crawling Eye
Season 1Episode 1120 min

The Crawling Eye

Joel comments to Doctor Forester about getting in trouble for launching him up into the space station after Doctor Forester makes a comment about him and his sidekick having to lay low. Joel, Tom Servo, and Crow are forced to watch an old movie about a non-Earthly crawling eye.

Nov 19, 1989
The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy
Season 1Episode 2120 min

The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy

On the Invention Exchange, Joel comes up with something for motorcycles. Doctor Forester and Larry come up with something to make people leave a party. As a prelude to the Robot Vs. The Aztec Mummy, the crew are forced to watch the first chapter of Radar Men From the Moon featuring Commando Cody. The Aztec Mummy has to defend ancient treasure from a crooks lusts when he builds a robot to take on the ancient mummy while the crew watches.

Dec 5, 1989
Mad Monster
Season 1Episode 3120 min

Mad Monster

To get revenge on his peers who scorned him, a scientist injects his gardener with wolf blood, turning him into a werewolf of sorts. The scientist then unleashes the beast to kill his enemies one by one.

Dec 12, 1989
Women of the Prehistoric Planet
Season 1Episode 4120 min

Women of the Prehistoric Planet

Feb 20, 1990
The Corpse Vanishes
Season 1Episode 5120 min

The Corpse Vanishes

Joel and the robots are forced to watch a old Bela Lugosi movie about a mad scientist who is kidnapping brides in an attempt to keep his wife young. Also features a chapter of the Commander Cody serial as a lead in to the movie.

Dec 19, 1989
The Crawling Hand
Season 1Episode 6120 min

The Crawling Hand

The crew of the Satellite of Love are forced to watch The Crawling Hand, a B movie about an astronaut who disappears and then a strange disembodied hand shows up and starts killing people near the ocean. The Invention Exchange for this week is Joel developing a special saw and Doctor Forester developing an extendable arm that can compensate for Mister Reed of the Fantastic 4's special power.

Dec 26, 1989
Robot Monster
Season 1Episode 7120 min

Robot Monster

The feature movie, the 1953 Robot Monster, is short enough that there's time for two shorts: chapters 4 and 5 of Radar Men from the Moon. Nothing happens in any of them.

Jan 2, 1990
The Slime People
Season 1Episode 8120 min

The Slime People

Joel's invention allows a person to imitate a cartoon character. Chapter 6 of Commander Cody Radar Men From The Moon serial is riffed by the Satellite of Love's crew before the main event of The Slime People. After the short, Joel, Crow and Tom Servo poke fun at slimy creatures from below the Earth who attack all the surface dwellers in LA.

Jan 9, 1990
Project Moonbase
Season 1Episode 9120 min

Project Moonbase

Joel shows Crow and Tom Servo how he can juggle water, and then they're forced to watch chapter 7 and 8 of Comando Cody and Radar Men From The Moon before the main movie starts. The movie takes them to the moon on the big screen. In the Invention experiment, the guys invent ties of the future.

Jan 16, 1990
Robot Holocaust
Season 1Episode 10120 min

Robot Holocaust

Clayton and Larry present Chapter 9 of Robot Men from the Moon. When the film breaks, they cut to the main movie, Robot Holocaust, a 1987 movie which features a band of adventurers wandering an apocalyptic wasteland and a series of basements battling the robot Dark One and his incomprehensibly accented assistant Valeria.

Jan 23, 1990
Moon Zero Two
Season 1Episode 11120 min

Moon Zero Two

The Mads send Moon Zero Two, a bizarre Hammer 1960s flick which combines an animated sequence, cheesy special effects, the "acting" of James Olson and his disturbingly large forehead, Bond-style music, and a plot taken from an American Western.

Jan 30, 1990
Untamed Youth
Season 1Episode 12120 min

Untamed Youth

Feb 6, 1990
The Black Scorpion
Season 1Episode 13120 min

The Black Scorpion

Joel and the bots take on The Black Scorpion, a 1957 Mexican-American movie with special effects by Willis O'Brien. A drooling over-sized black scorpion takes on the Mexican government and nobody wins.

Feb 13, 1990

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