With the release of the third Mystery Science Theater 3000 box set, I have been wondering about the future of this series on DVD. I believe there are only 2 episodes currently available on VHS but not DVD. After these come out, will the releases come to a hault? Or will Rhino begin releasing episodes that have never been on home video before? I know there are many episodes we have no chance of ever seeing (due to rights issues), but aren't there still a good number that have the potential to be released?

Here is the list of MST3K episodes currently available on DVD:


106 - The Crawling Hand
202 - The Sidehackers
204 - Catalina Caper
209 - The Hellcats
301 - Cave Dwellers
303 - Pod People
320 - The Unearthly + Posture Pals + Appreciating Our Parents
424 - Manos, the Hands of Fate + Hired! (Part 2)
506 - Eegah!
507 - I Accuse My Parents
512 - Mitchell
513 - The Brain That Wouldn't Die
515 - The Wild World Of Batwoman + Cheating
517 - Beginning of The End
518 - The Atomic Brain + What About Juvenile Delinquency
606 - The Creeping Terror
607 - Bloodlust + Uncle Jim's Dairy Farm
609 - The Skydivers + Why Study Industrial Arts
619 - Red Zone Cuba + Speech: Posture & Appearance
622 - Angels' Revenge

The Shorts Volume 1
The Shorts Volume 2

MST3K: The Movie



So does anyone have any info as to which of the remaining episodes have a chance at being released, and which ones don’t?

For reference, here’s the complete list of episodes by season:




Season 0:

K00 - The Green Slime
K01 - Invaders from the Deep
K02 - Revenge of the Mysterons
K03 - Star Force: Fugitive Alien 2
K04 - Gamera VS. Barugon
K05 - Gamera
K06 - Gamera VS. Gaos
K07 - Gamera VS. Zigra
K08 - Gamera VS. Guiron
K09 - Phase IV
K10 - Cosmic Princess
K11 - Humanoid Woman
K12 - Fugitive Alien
K13 - SST Death Flight
K14 - Mighty Jack
K15 - Superdome
K16 - City on Fire
K17 - Time of the Apes
K18 - The Million Eyes of Su-Maru
K19 - Hanger 18
K20 - The Last Chase
K21 - Legend of the Dinosaur


Season 1:

101 - The Crawling Eye
102 - The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy + Radar Men from the Moon 1
103 - The Mad Monster + Radar Men from the Moon 2
104 - Women of the Prehistoric Planet
105 - The Corpse Vanishes + Radar Men from the Moon 3
106 - The Crawling Hand (On DVD)
107 - Robot Monster + Radar Men from the Moon 4 / 5
108 - The Slime People + Radar Men from the Moon 6
109 - Project Moon Base + Radar Men from the Moon 7 / 8
110 - Robot Holocaust + Radar Men from the Moon 9
111 - Moon Zero Two
112 - Untamed Youth
113 - The Black Scorpion

Season 2:

201 - Rocketship X-M
202 - The Side Hackers (On DVD)
203 - Jungle Goddess + The Phantom Creeps 1
204 - Catalina Caper (On DVD)
205 - Rocket Attack USA + The Phantom Creeps 2
206 - Ring of Terror + The Phantom Creeps 3
207 - Wild Rebels
208 - The Lost Continent
209 - The Hellcats (On DVD)
210 - King Dinosaur! + X Marks the Spot
211 - First Spaceship on Venus
212 - Godzilla vs. Megalon
213 - Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster

Season 3:

301 - Cave Dwellers (On DVD)
302 - Gamera
303 - Pod People (On DVD)
304 - Gamera vs. Barugon
305 - Stranded in Space a k a "The Stranger"
306 - Time of the Apes
307 - Daddy-O + Alphabet Antics
308 - Gamera vs. Gaos
309 - The Amazing Colossal Man
310 - Fugitive Alien
311 - It Conquered the World + Snow Thrills
312 - Gamera vs. Guiron
313 - Earth vs. the Spider + Speech: Using Your Voice
314 - Mighty Jack
315 - Teenage Caveman + Aquatic Wizards + Catching Trouble
316 - Gamera vs. Zigra
317 - Viking Women and the Sea Serpent + The Home Economics Story
318 - Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
319 - War of the Colossal Beast + Mr. B Natural
320 - The Unearthly + Posture Pals + Appreciating Our Parents (On DVD)
321 - Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
322 - Master Ninja I
323 - Castle of Fu Manchu
324 - Master Ninja II

Season 4:

401 - Space Travelers a k a "Marooned"
402 - The Giant Gila Monster
403 - City Limits
404 - Teenagers from Outer Space
405 - Being from Another Planet
406 - Attack of the Giant Leeches + Undersea Kingdom 1
407 - The Killer Shrews + Junior Rodeo Daredevils
408 - Hercules Unchained
409 - Indestructible Man + Undersea Kingdom 2
410 - Hercules Against the Moon Men
411 - The Magic Sword
412 - Hercules and the Captive Women
413 - Manhunt in Space + General Hospital
414 - Tormented
415 - The Beatniks + General Hospital
416 - Fire Maidens of Outer Space
417 - Crash of the Moons + General Hospital
418 - Attack of the (the) Eye Creatures
419 - The Rebel Set + Johnny at the Fair
420 - Human Duplicators
421 - Monster a-Go Go + Circus on Ice
422 - The Day the Earth Froze + Here Comes the Circus
423 - Bride of the Monster + Hired! (Part 1)
424 – Manos, the Hands of Fate + Hired! (Part 2) (On DVD)

Season 5:

501 - Warrior of the Lost World
502 - Hercules
503 - Swamp Diamonds + What to Do on a Date
504 - Secret Agent Super Dragon
505 - The Magic Voyage of Sinbad
506 – Eegah!
507 - I Accuse My Parents + The Truck Farmer
508 - Operation Double 007
509 - The Girl in Lovers Lane
510 - The Painted Hills + Body Care and Grooming
511 - The Gunslinger
512 - Mitchell (On DVD)
513 - The Brain That Wouldn't Die (On DVD)
514 - Teen-age Strangler + Is This Love?
515 - The Wild World of Batwoman + Cheating (On DVD)
516 - Alien from L.A.
517 - Beginning of the End (On DVD)
518 - The Atomic Brain + What About Juvenile Delinquency (On DVD)
519 - Outlaw a k a "Outlaw of Gor"
520 - Radar Secret Service + Last Clear Chance
521 - Santa Claus
522 - Teen-age Crime Wave
523 - Village of the Giants
524 - 12 to the Moon + Design for Dreaming

Season 6:

601 - Girls Town
602 - Invasion USA + A Date with Your Family
603 - The Dead Talk Back + The Selling Wizard
604 - Zombie Nightmare
605 - Colossus and the Headhunters
606 - The Creeping Terror (On DVD)
607 - Bloodlust! + Uncle Jim's Dairy Farm (On DVD)
608 - Code Name: Diamond Head + A Day at the Fair
609 - The Skydivers + Why Study Industrial Arts (On DVD)
610 - The Violent Years + A Young Man's Fancy
611 - Last of the Wild Horses
612 - The Starfighters
613 - The Sinister Urge + Keeping Clean and Neat
614 - San Francisco International
615 - Kitten with a Whip
616 - Racket Girls + Are You Ready for Marriage?
617 - The Sword and the Dragon
618 - High School Big Shot + Out of This World
619 - Red Zone Cuba + Speech: Posture & Appearance (On DVD)
620 - Danger!! Death Ray
621 - The Beast of Yucca Flats + Money Talks! + Progress Island U.S.A.
622 - Angels Revenge (On DVD)
623 - The Amazing Transparent Man + The Days of Our Years
624 - Samson vs. the Vampire Women

Season 7:

701 - Night of the Blood Beast + Once Upon a Honeymoon
701T original, Turkey Day version of Episode 701
702 - The Brute Man + Chicken of Tomorrow
703 - Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell
704 - The Incredible Melting Man
705 - Escape 2000 a k a "Escape from the Bronx"
706 - Laserblast

Season 8:

801 - The Revenge of the Creature
802 - Leech Woman
803 - The Mole People
804 - The Deadly Mantis
805 - The Thing That Wouldn't Die
806 - The Undead
807 - Terror from the Year 5000!
808 - The She Creature
809 - I was a Teenage Werewolf
810 - Giant Spider Invasion
811 - Parts: The Clonus Horror
812 - The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and
Became Mixed-Up Zombies
813 - Jack Frost
814 - Riding with Death
815 - Agent for H.A.R.M.
816 - Prince of Space
817 - Horror of Party Beach
818 - Devil Doll
819 - Invasion of the Neptune Men
820 - Space Mutiny
821 - Time Chasers
822 - Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

Season 9:

901 - The Projected Man
902 - Phantom Planet
903 - Puma Man
904 - Werewolf
905 - The Deadly Bees
906 - The Space Children + Century 21 Calling
907 - Hobgoblins
908 - The Touch of Satan
909 - Gorgo
910 - The Final Sacrifice
911 - Devil Fish
912 - The Screaming Skull + Robot Rumpus
913 - Quest of the Delta Knights

Season 10:

1001 - Soul Taker
1002 - Girl in Gold Boots
1003 - Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders
1004 - Future War
1005 - Blood Waters of Dr. Z
1006 - Boggy Creek II
1007 - Track of the Moon Beast
1008 - Final Justice
1009 - Hamlet
1010 - Bat People a k a "It Lives By Night"
1011 - The Horrors of Spider Island
1012 - Squirm + A Case of Spring Fever
1013 - Diabolik

I doubt that Rhino will be able to obtain rights to all these movies. I suggest going to www.dapcentral.org ... they're a group that is digitally archiving MST3K episodes... and reading their FAQ.

hehe... i just watched Eegah!

I'm sure Rhino will release a ton of the Sci-Fi channel episodes once Sci-Fi lets them.

On the most recent news at mst3kinfo.com it says no more Rhino MST3K DVD releases are planned for this year, even though Gunslinger is still out on VHS only. It says Rhino is looking into aquiring rights to more for 2003, so we can only hope. I hope the current sets sold well enough that Rhino sees the potential.

You can still get the other episodes that arent released through other sources. They are pretty good quality and they'll likley never get an official release. Besides, they said keep circulating those tapes! That could include dvds i guess.

I would love to see MST3K Godzilla and Gamera sets, but I'm sure that Toho and Daiei won't let that happen (especially Toho).

K00 - The Green Slime
K01 - Invaders from the Deep
K02 - Revenge of the Mysterons
K03 - Star Force: Fugitive Alien 2

These will probably never be seen. No fan copies are known to exist. Everything else not put out by Rhino and a bunch of specials can be downloaded. Check out www.dapcentral.org for the details. Read their FAQ and you can learn how to complete your MST3K collection.

Hopefully Rhino can release more DVDs in the future, but this is better than nothing.

I never really saw many of the Comedy Central episodes. I barely remember what Joel even looks like.

I know a lot of the episodes are prevented from being released by rights issues, but what I don't understand is that there are a number of movies that were used that are currently available as public domain-sourced DVD releases, such as "Swamp Diamonds", "The Giant Gila Monster", "Tormented" and so on. If anyone can put these movies out on disc, why cant Rhino?

It might have to do with the network that originally showed maybe still having syndication rights. The movie itself may be PD, but the MSTing of it is copyright-able.

Must have 212 - Godzilla vs. Megalon!!!

I believe this is the truth of it. Sandy Frank owns the rights to almost all of the Japanese movies they did like Godzilla and Gamera because they used the syndicated versions. Getting those rights back is now pretty much impossible.

Any chance the MSTing side was recorded seperate, and could be 'tossed' on top of the public domain version?

(Farfetched, and likely sounding dumb, but hope is eternal for this MST3k fan)

Problem with that, as I understand it, is SCIFI doesn't even own all of the SCIFI episodes. I know 'DIABOLIK' has recently been added to the list of one's they've lost the rights to.

I really really really really really really like this show, have all the DVDs including the movies, I hope more are released.

This is true and very confusing considering they were using the Sci-Fi library to get episodes. I guess Sci-Fi only had the rights to many of the movies for a limited time.

Considering Toho won't let Columbia Tristar release regular versions of the Big G movies, I think it will be cold day in you know where before we see the MSTy versions.

Sigh. You're probably right about not getting Godzilla vs. Gamera anytime soon. Well, with my top choice gone, I'd want:

522 - Teen-age Crime Wave
421 - Monster a-Go Go
601 - Girls Town
602 - Invasion USA

Hey look, I just designed Volume 4! Rhino, are you listening?

Bumping old thread.

We haven't had much MST3K talk around here lately. Has anyone heard any info or rumors about a possible Volume 4?

The last I heard was that Rhino was done for 2003, then not too long ago something changed and they have something interesting planned for 4th Qtr. No clue as to what.

Most recent thing I've heard was in this thread:
http://dvdtalk.com/forum/showthread....ighlight=mst3k

Posted by darkside

KICK A$$

Freaking sweet. I'm glad I asked.

going by the "exciting 4th quarter release" it could be:

1) Rhino got the rights to the Sci-Fi library

2)Laserblast

3)a seasonal set, including Santa Clause Vs. the Martians (drool)

4) Mst3K the movie, SE (have no idea about the rights issue)

I would consider any and all new MST3k DVDs exciting, but they never said that about any of their other past releases, so maybe it would be something truely BIG. (maybe The Amazing Collosal Man back in print?)

What do yo guys think?