A man and two robots trapped on an Earth-orbiting space station are forced to watch the worst movies ever conceived
With the help of the bots (Crow T. Robot & Tom Servo) Joel Robinson (Seasons KTMA, 1-5, 13), Mike Nelson (Seasons 5-10), Jonah Ray (Season 11-13) & Emily Marsh (Season 13-Present) survived the horrid movies, educational shorts, and movie serials that were sent by the evil Forrester family (Dr. Clayton Forrester on seasons KTMA, Seasons 1-7, Pearl Forrester & Kinga Forrester ) with the help of such sidekicks as TV's Frank, Observer/Brain Guy, and Professor Bobo. The end result gives the creation of one of the best and most creative shows on television. They also had a feature film in 1996 entitled Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie. They also have adventures & fun with time travel, aliens, inventions and much more over many years filled with humor and pop culture.
The show started as a cable access program on KTMA and then was picked up by Comedy Central (Known as The Comedy Channel in the early years). The final seasons were aired on the Sci-Fi Channel.
Hodgson led a crowdfunded revival of the series with 14 episodes in its eleventh season, first released on Netflix on April 14, 2017, with another six-episode season following on November 22, 2018
A second successful crowdfunding effort in 2021 will bring at least 13 additional episodes to be shown through the Gizmoplex, an online platform that Hodgson will develop for future MST3K works that launched in March 2022. As of 2022, 230 episodes and a feature film have been produced as well as three live tours.
in 2023 The show started as a cable access program on Fox, We're aired on 14 seasons
Many films were made fun over the years staring a lot of young & popular talents including Adam West, Tia Carrere, Raul Julia, Lee Van Cleef, Demi Moore and many more.