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Mystery Science Theater 3000 (abbreviated as MST3K) is an American science fiction comedy film review television series created by Joel Hodgson. The show premiered on KTMA-TV (now WUCW) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 24, 1988.
Sci-fi. Mystery Science Theater 3000 (or MST3K) is the television show for which this wiki is founded. Since the show's humble UHF beginnings in 1988, it has gained a dedicated fanbase that remains to this day. The central premise of the show is that a test subject, typically a hapless blue-collar...
- MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 WAS BORN FROM FINANCIAL RESTRAINTS. After trying his luck on the grander Hollywood stage for a few years, comedian Joel Hodgson moved back to Minneapolis with the idea of launching his own television show.
- THE “3000” IN THE TITLE WAS MEANT TO BE CONFOUNDING. “The 3000 was a joke on all the people that were attaching the year 2000 to various programs,” Hodgson said in a 2011 interview with Art of the Title.
- IN ORDER TO GAUGE THE AUDIENCE’S REACTION, THE PRODUCERS SET UP A PHONE LINE. Even after its initial debut, the creators of MST3K had no idea whether the show had connected with audiences.
- MST3K’S (FIRST) CANCELLATION WAS ALSO BORN FROM FINANCIAL RESTRAINTS. As MST3K’s popularity was rising, the fortunes of its broadcaster—KTMA—were moving in the opposite direction, which led to the show’s (first) cancellation in May of 1989.
Apr 16, 2017 · Mystery Science Theater 3000 ("MST3K" from here on out) is a TV series created by prop-comedian Joel Hodgson, originally airing as local cable-access programming in Minnesota and later picked up by Comedy Central, the Syfy Channel and now Netflix.
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Apr 22, 2014 · To celebrate the 25th anniversary of MST3K ’s national debut, WIRED presents an oral history of the greatest talk-back show ever made. It all begins in the late ’60s in rural Wisconsin, where ...
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Created by Joel Hodgson. With Joel Hodgson, Felicia Day, Patton Oswalt, Rebecca Hanson. Kinga Forrester continues the B-movie watching experiments of her father and grandmother on a new test subject aboard the Satellite Of Love.
Nov 27, 2023 · Why is no other commercial entity seemingly interested or willing to fund the making of more MST3K? Is it even possible to make money on this show, in 2023-2024?
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