SCHLOCK-WIRE: Volume 17 of MST3K Coming From Shout! Factory, Includes 1st Nationally Aired Episode!

Here’s the lat­est from Shout! Factory about their ongo­ing Mystery Science Theater 3000 DVD series.  Volume 17 is going to dish up another quar­tet of fan-favorite episodes, includ­ing the show’s national debut.  Episodes from both the Joel Hodgson and Mike Nelson eras are included and the set is fleshed out with plenty of bonus con­tent.  The set will be avail­able at retail out­lets next but here’s the full details to tide the MSTies over until then.

Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XVII

fea­tur­ing  the very first nation­ally aired episode

THE CRAWLING EYE

and three side –split­ting episodes

THE BEATNIKS, THE FINAL SACRIFICE, and BLOOD WATERS OF DR. Z

along with  4  limited-edition mini –posters and boun­ti­ful bonus features

In Stores Nationwide March 16, 2010 from Shout! Factory

Welcome to the Satellite of Love, the orbit­ing home of leg­endary hosts Joel Robinson and Mike Nelson, along with their robotic com­pan­ions — Crow T. Robot, Tom Servo and Gypsy.  Join them as they embark on their 17^th, and per­haps most impres­sive, vol­ume of gut-busting riffs on the clas­sic cin­e­matic mis­steps of yes­ter­year when Shout Factory, in asso­ci­a­tion with Best Brains, Inc., proudly presents Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XVII 4– DVD box set on March 16, 2010. The 17^th DVD col­lec­tion of the famed MST3K fea­tures the long-awaited episodes The Crawling Eye, The Final Sacrifice, The Beatniks and Blood Waters of Dr. Z, along with a wealth of bonus con­tent includ­ing The Crawling Eye spe­cial intro­duc­tion by Joel Hodgson, Mystery Science Theater Hours wraps on The Beatniks, The Main Event: Crow Vs. Crow at Dragon*Con ’09, a brand-new inter­view with The Final Sacrifice star Bruce J. Mitchell, Blood Waters of Dr. Z photo gallery, orig­i­nal the­atri­cal trail­ers and more!  This col­lectible 4– DVD box set is priced to own at $59.97.

MST3K: THE CRAWLING EYE

Things start to look eerily famil­iar to sci­en­tists Crevett and Brooks when moun­tain climbers begin los­ing their heads in the Trollenberg Mountains . Can the two inves­ti­ga­tors finally uncover the answers they’ve been seek­ing since encoun­ter­ing sim­i­lar tragic acci­dents in the Andes ?

The loyal MSTies asked for it, and now they’ve finally got it! The very first episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fol­low­ing its depar­ture from KTMA is now on DVD, com­plete with the intro­duc­tions of Doctors Forrester and Erhardt, Deep 13 and Joel’s very first Invention Exchange seen on the Comedy Channel!

MST3K: THE BEATNIKS

When a hold-up car­ried out by his two-bit hood­lum friends goes trag­i­cally awry, Eddie Crane’s bright future as a record­ing artist from the mean streets could be in jeopardy.

With a sadis­ti­cally hilar­i­ous game of Rock-Paper-Scissors, a Tony Travis-themed slum­ber party and a full-fledged drama­ti­za­tion of a nobody’s trans­for­ma­tion into a 1950s rock star (and back) star­ring none other than Tom Servo — Joel and the crew of the SOL cer­tainly know how to usher in this Turkey Day favorite’s DVD debut!

Also includes the sec­ond seg­ment of the short “ General Hospital .”

MST3K: THE FINAL SACRIFICE

With the help of a mys­te­ri­ous map and a truck-driving drifter named Rowsdower, young Troy McGreggor sets out on a dark adven­ture across Alberta in search of the answers behind the hooded cult respon­si­ble for his father’s grisly murder.

MSTies have long believed they’d never see this Tjardus Greidanus–directed student-film-turned–MST3K mas­ter­piece on DVD , so we’re espe­cially proud to serve it up! This long-awaited episode also fea­tures “The Canada Song,” a trea­sured song by Tom Servo in one of the host seg­ments. Join Mike and the ’bots of the Satellite of Love as they skewer the beloved “cult” clas­sic that became one of the most requested episodes in the his­tory of Mystery Science Theater 3000.

MST3K: BLOOD WATERS OF DR. Z

Seeking revenge against those respon­si­ble for strip­ping him of his tenure and the denial of human research sub­jects, Dr. Z mutates him­self into a hideous — and mur­der­ous — half-human-half-fish-like creature!

Mike Nelson and the crew of the Satellite of Love — Crow T. Robot, Tom Servo and Gypsy — take on one of the most laugh­able trea­sures ever to grace the MST3K screen with a dis­gust­ing new habit for Crow, a day of fish­ing for the crew and — GASP — an unfor­get­table appear­ance by Brain Guy and Bobo!

The Mystery Science Theater 3000 series was cre­ated by Joel Hodgson and pro­duced by Jim Mallon. After a year on KTMA TV in Minneapolis , its national broad­cast life began in 1989 on the Comedy Channel (later to become Comedy Central), where it ran for seven sea­sons. The show’s final three sea­sons aired on the Sci-Fi Channel.  The premise of the series fea­tures a hap­less man who is trapped by mad sci­en­tists on a satel­lite in space and forced to watch old B-movies of ques­tion­able worth. To keep sane, he’s built two robot side­kicks, and together they do a run­ning com­men­tary on the films, affec­tion­ately mock­ing their flaws with inspired wise­cracks and act­ing as a demented movie the­ater peanut gallery. Series cre­ator Hodgson orig­i­nally played the stranded man, Joel Robinson.  When he left in 1993, series head writer Mike Nelson replaced him as the new B-movie vic­tim Mike Nelson, and con­tin­ued in the role for the rest of the show’s run.  The for­mat proved to be pop­u­lar. During its eleven years and 198 episodes (includ­ing one fea­ture film), MST3K attained a loyal fan base and crit­i­cal acclaim. The series won a Peabody Award in 1993, and was nom­i­nated for writ­ing Emmys^® in 1994 and 1995.

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MST3K: Vol. XVII Welcome to the Satellite of Love, the orbit­ing home of leg­endary hosts Joel Robinson and Mike Nelson, along with their robotic com­pan­ions ? Crow T. Robot, Tom Servo and Gypsy. Join them as they embark on their 17th, and per­haps most impres­sive, vol­ume of gut-busting riffs on the clas­sic cin­e­matic mis­steps of yes­ter­year! With the shock­ing inclu­sion of not one, but two, of the episodes most requested by MSTies around the globe, Mystery Science Theater 3000: XVII promises to be a comedic tour de force to be reck­oned with! Films include The Crawling Eye, The Beatniks, The Final Sacrifice, and Blood Waters Of Dr. Z. View Trailer: player­File = “http://www.mcmediaplayer.com/public/mcmp_0.8.swf”; fpFileURL = “http://www.shoutfactory.com/av/mst3k/volume_xvii/MST17-Trailer-512K.flv”; fpPre­viewImageURL = “http://www.shoutfactory.com/av/mst3k/volume_xvii/MST17-Trailer.jpg”; play­er­Size = “320x240”; col­orScheme = “796d83”; fpBut­tonOpac­ity = “80”; cpHide­Panel = “mouse­out”; cpHid­eDe­lay = “2”;