Jim Mallon

Joel and the Bots spend detention aboard the Satellite of Love viewing and making wisecracks about the made for television movie San Francisco International.

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the series, see four never-before-released episodes and two long-out-of-print episodes that marked the seismic transition that occurred when Joel passed the torch on to Mike.

Joel and the Bots spend detention aboard the Satellite of Love viewing and making wisecracks about the 1958 Italian version of Hercules.

In the film, Dr. Lorenz subdues virgin brides using poisonous corsages in order to extra the glandular fluid he needs to treat the premature aging experienced by his wife. This episode also includes classic invention exchange, an early Servo design, and the third episode of the short "Commando Cody & the radar men from the moon."

In the film, Santa Claus's annual mission of gift delivery is challenged by the Devil, who sends the demon Pitch to prevent Christmas. In the host segments, Crow, Tom, and Mike have a snow day and spend time with Santa Klaws and Mike's family.

From the seventh season of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mike and his robot friends add their comments to the film Laserblast. In the film itself, a teenager stumbles across an abandoned alien weapon that provides him with the ultimate weapon of revenge against the bullies who have tormented him. But the weapon's power source begins to mutate his mind and body.

In the film, a manned space ship plummets back to Earth, killing its astronaut pilot. The pilot is later reanimated, but controlled by an alien who will stop at nothing to protect her spawn. On the Satellite of Love, viewers can choose to either watch the episode as it originally aired with its live Turkey Day host segments or the Crow pregnancy segments added for rebroadcasting. The credits note that this episode introduces Mary Jo Pehl as Pearl...

A grunge punk fights an evil corporation enforcing an evacuation of the Bronx in Escape from the Bronx (1983). Mike and the Bots have "Men's Night" on the SOL and Dr. Forester tries to come up with a way to boost the show's ratings.

Mike and the Bots watch a cheap ripoff of The Most Dangerous Game, while Mother Forrester visits Deep 13.

Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank do their laundry as they force Mike and company to watch The Creeping Terror (1964), a jaw-droppingly bad horror flick about a space alien that looks like a large carpet with people under it.