Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #400 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-10-28
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Limited Edition, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 420 minutes

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Mystery Science Theater 3000 celebrates its 20th anniversary with a specially packaged DVD set housed in a limited-edition tin box featuring 4 custom lobby cards and a figurine of Crow T. Robot! Features four of the show's most-requested episodes--First Spaceship on Venus (1960), Laserblast (1978), Werewolf (1996), and Future War (1997).

The Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning TV show Mystery Science Theater 3000 became a pop culture landmark in the '90s by poking fun at horrible movies of every genre and time period, and letting us listen in. They made the unwatchable essential viewing.

Bonus Features:
* "The Oral History of MST3K" feature in three parts.
* 2008 Comic-Con MST3K Reunion Panel, featuring Joel Hodgson, Mike Nelson, Jim Mallon, Kevin Murphy, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Mary Jo Pehl, Bill Corbett, J. Elvis Weinstein, Paul Chaplin and Bridget Jones-Nelson. Moderated by Patton Oswald.
* Original film trailers.
* "Variations On A Theme Song", featuring all six versions of the theme song.
* Limited-edition version comes in a tin box with 4 lobby cards and a figurine of Crow T. Robot, all exclusive to this set.

Customer Reviews

they need to be working!
messrs. nelson, mallon, and murphy are too damned talented and funny not to be working. with all the mediocrity that passes for humor these days, we need these guys more than ever.
as the film crew they did good work; so i'm begging; please shout!factory,
contract these three to cheese more bad movies. you'd be doing a great service to us consumers who appreciate intelligent humor.also, there will never be a shortage of bad movies. each new year provides more and more dreck that needs a good cheesing.a good example would be spielberg's remake of 'war of the worlds.' that movie just begs for nelson, mallon and murphy.
whatever, you decide shout! factory, i'll still love you for releasing the complete "freaks and geeks" box set. imo, the best dvd release ever!

Damn, I'm excited!!
I ordered this set before they revealed their choice for the four movies, and I am so BEYOND thrilled and excited, I can't even tell you!
Future War is one of the most hilarious, AWFUL, fantastic episodes the team ever did, and I have been crossing all my fingers and toes that they would release it some day.
And to top that off, a movie with Joe Estevez? Is it my birthday? How did they know?
I love you, MST3K team. And I love whomever we have to blame for this set!

A 20th anniversary edition worthy of a 20th anniversary
I whole-heartedly agree with reviewer B.Vereen ... 'Laserblast' from 1978 is pretty much worth the price of admission to this box set. MST3K (arguably. My Argument) was at its best when they picked on the low-rent offerings of the late 1970s (Angel's Revenge, Parts: The Clonus Horror, etc.). These movies are bad, but also highly entertaining, and 'Laserblast' - about a boy, a found lasergun, and the damage that ensues - is really highly entertaining. It was the last show for Comedy Central and Mike and Bots really gave it the old community college try. It's one of their funniest episodes ever. -- Also included in the set is 'Werewolf' with Joe Esteves (or, as Mike drily points out "Can a movie actually STAR Joe Esteves?"). It stars a beautiful woman with an indecipherable accent and some werewolves (I think) and this episode also stands as one of their best. The bumper segments for the SCIFI channel are sometimes too ambitious and busy, but the movies never disappoint. As a 20th anniversary offering, this box set delivers the goods.