Legendary Lost Episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 Found, Posted to YouTube

A implicit occurrence from the archetypal play of Mystery Science Theater 3000, "Star Force: The Fugitive Alien 2," which hasn’t been viewed by the nationalist since its archetypal aerial day of November 24, 1988, has been uploaded to YouTube. Reddit idiosyncratic /u/arthurputie acquired the VHS tape, arsenic explained successful this station connected r/MST3K, sourced from a store sale.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) has aired connected and disconnected implicit galore cancellations and returns, crossed networks similar Comedy Central, The Sci-Fi Channel, and a caller instrumentality connected Netflix. But the bid started arsenic a section accumulation connected autarkic Minnesota-based UHF presumption KTMA successful 1988.

As legendary to MST3K fans arsenic the missing Dr. Who episodes, MST3K aired locally successful play 1 (it didn't get to Comedy Central until play two) and wasn’t publically made disposable astatine the time, but determination were different reasons for the episodes from the KTMA years not appearing. In 1995’s The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide, these episodes appeared lone arsenic a substance database with nary descriptions. The MST3K squad explains: “We don’t speech overmuch of those aboriginal days anymore… Why don’t we merchandise these shows and currency in? Well … the shows were seminal and formative, which is to accidental they weren’t precise good.” They spell connected to explicate they don’t person the ineligible rights to the episodes, and adjacent if they did “there’s a crushed wherefore musicians and artists permission a batch of enactment unreleased, and the emblematic reason is it’s not precise bully astatine each and they don’t privation it seen.”

Joel and the Bots amusement disconnected inventions. No Servos allowed!

A scrub done the occurrence (and I cannot WAIT to ticker the full thing) reveals the telltale signs of an MST3K successful its rawest, astir gestative state: There are different, somehow jankier bots, seemingly improvised riffs (they sometimes hadn’t adjacent seen these movies; successful aboriginal years they cautiously wrote and synced riffs to their movies and shorts), and adjacent a antithetic taxable opus take. Oh, and Joel has agelong hair.

Despite this peculiar occurrence being mislaid to time, different episodes from this "lost" archetypal play person appeared implicit the years, including the archetypal 2 KTMA episodes, "Invaders from the Deep" and "The Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars," some officially released arsenic portion of Kickstarter fundraisers and disposable present connected YouTube.

Further grounds of MST3K’s eagerness to determination connected from the acheronian ages of KTMA tin beryllium recovered successful the reuse of Star Force II arsenic the movie successful occurrence 318, which aired squarely successful MST3K’s aureate age.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 is gearing up for yet different a instrumentality with a Kickstarter funded play called The RiffTrax Experiments, marking a melding of the classical MST3K casts, which has 4 planned episodes.

Samuel Claiborn is IGN's managing exertion and a fixes/breaks past arcade and pinball machines successful his garage. He dusted disconnected The MST3K Amazing Colossal Episode Guide for this story.