Gunslinger comes moseying into town, taking potshots at Chris and Charlotte as they discuss Beverly Garland, Allison Hayes, Roger Corman, the Pony Express, and sex workers of the Old West.

cw: This episode doesn’t get as spicy as the last one, but you saw that last discussion item, right?

Gunslinger (Roger Corman, 1956): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer. Watch on YouTube.

Ask Any Buddy on Kansas City Trucking Co.

Our episode on Swamp Diamonds.

A Part of our Scare-itage on Scanners.

Our episodes on The Painted Hills and The Beast of Hollow Mountain.

Sonoma’s Valley of the Moon Vintage Festival.

We talk about Have Gun Will Travel (the show with Paladin) in our episode on Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster. (Wait, really?)

We’re not gonna link to every Corman film, just go to the episode guide for your favourites.

Roger Corman: How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime.

Three Hours to Kill (Alfred L. Werker, 1954).

Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954).

Mildred Pierce (Michael Curtiz, 1945).

The National Cowboy Museum on the roles of women in the West.

Mary Ellen Pleasant, who, it turns out, did not like the nickname “Mammy”, so we apologize for that.

Anne Seagraves: Soiled Doves: Prostitution in the Early West.

Julia Bulette.

Chris has always wanted a hurdy-gurdy.

The Pony Express National Historic Trail is something you can still explore.

The stagecoach lines of nineteenth-century Texas.

The Texas Almanac of 1870.

Supai, Arizona.

A postal route map of Texas, 1870.

Sam Bass.

Alan Lomax: Sam Bass.

Support us on Patreon and you can listen a special bonus bit that was cut for time from this episode.

MST3K riffed nine chapters of the serial Radar Men from the Moon over the course of season 1. And now that we’ve finally covered all of those episodes, we figured we should probably bring all those plot summaries and most of the relevant segments together in one convenient bonus episode. So enjoy hearing Chris and Charlotte — and old-timers Adam and Beth — talk about the so-called adventures of Commando Cody. Nipple nipple, tweak tweak, fly fly fly!

(Also, this gives Chris a little more time to get over a wrist RSI to edit the Gunslinger episode. Thank you for your patience.)

Radar Men from the Moon (Fred C. Bannon, 1951): IMDb. UnMSTed.

This compilation comes from our episodes on chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, 6, 7 & 8, and 9.

Flash

Flesh Gordon (Michael Beneviste & Howard Ziehm, 1974).

The version of the Transformers theme Adam is talking

Judex (Louis Feuillade, 1916).

Louis Feuillade.

A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune) (Georges Méliès, 1902).

A fluffy moon?

Lunar module feet pics.

Sky Captain and the World of

Red Letter Media on The

The eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980.

Why we dropped that bomb into that volcano.

Ursula K. Le Guin: Tales from Earthsea.

Avatar: The Last Airbender (season 3, episode 6): The Avatar and the Fire Lord.

Bombing volcanoes in Popular Science.

The USGS on what bombing a volcano would actually do.

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After the Robot Holocaust, Chris and Charlotte are left to talk about women with accents, goofy character design, classic 70s cinema, obscure corners of New York City, and avocado recipes.

With the final chapter (sorta) of Radar Men from the Moon.

cw: This episode deals with some adult subject material. Our conversation doesn’t get as explicit as the material we talk about, but you still might not want to let little ones or work colleagues overhear.

Robot Holocaust (Tim Kincaid, 1987): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer. Watch on YouTube.

Radar Men from the Moon, ep. 9 (Fred C. Bannon, 1951): IMDb. UnMSTed. (Our episodes on episodes 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, 6, 7 & 8.)

Muddy Waters: Mannish Boy (I’m a Man).

Our episode on Werewolf.

We discuss the 2003 Sumuru film in our episode on Season 13’s take on The Million Eyes of Sumuru.

Tim Kincaid discussed sequel plans in an article for Cinefantastique.

The Wikipedia articles for Kansas City Trucking Co. (Joe Gage, 1976), El Paso Wrecking Corp. (Joe Gage, 1978), and L.A. Tool & Die (Joe Gage, 1979) are reasonably SFW.

This fan page is NSFW. It was very useful in understanding the nitty-gritty details about the various edits of these films.

Our episodes on The Day Time Ended and Robot Wars.

Dr. Buzz from CopyCat Killers.

Eat My Dust! (Charles B. Griffith, 1976.)

Eileen Barton: If I Knew You Were Comin’ I’d’ve Baked a Cake.

Master Carpenter Norm Abram on YouTube.

A history of Roosevelt Island.

Avocado Buddy has some relevant avocado recipes.

Polly Ann Ice Cream in San Francisco.

Support us on Patreon and you can listen a special bonus bit that was cut for time from this episode.

Track of the Moon Beast pelted Chris and Charlotte with lunar meteorites, and now every night they chat about The Bat-man, the Joker, the ghostwriter, the egotist, and the art of motorcycle maintenance.

Track of the Moon Beast (Richard Ashe, 1976): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer. Watch on YouTube.

Elizabeth I, Elizabeth II, Elizabeth X, Victoria, Queen of the Skithra, Nefertiti.

Lazy Doctor Who.

Sandia Crest.

Shout Factory’s MST3K Volume XXXVIII has the interview with Leigh Drake.

Our episodes on Werewolf and Cry Wilderness.

Our source for the Pomo story of Coyote and Lizard is Wikipedia via Edward S. Curtis, which also doesn't feel like an appropriate way to transmit these stories.

Joe Blasco.

Our episodes on Parts: the Clonus Horror and The Touch of Satan, and The Green Slime.

Frank Larrabee: California Lady.

Batman & Bill (Don Argott & Sheena M. Joyce, 2017).

Batman (Lambert Hillyer, 1943).

The Clock King’s Crazy Crimes and The Clock King Gets Crowned.

Batman: The Golden Age Vol. 1 has the earliest Batman stories.

Robert Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Mark Richardson: Zen and Now: On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Chris’s other podcast on A Study in Scarlet.

Support us on Patreon and you can listen a special bonus bit that was cut for time from this episode.

The Million Eyes of Sumuru is back, and now Chris and Charlotte can talk about Shirley Eaton, Space Sumuru, Fitzcarraldo, Burden of Dreams, and Bikini Kill.

The Million Eyes of Sumuru (Lindsay Shonte, 1967): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer.

Our previous episode on the KTMA take on The Million Eyes of Sumuru.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: There Was an Old Woman.

Colourless Skittles.

Rover.

Skidoo (Otto Preminger, 1968).

George Nader: Chrome.

The Girl from Rio (Jesús Franco, 1969).

Our episode on The Castle of Fu Manchu.

Sumuru (Darrell Roodt, 2003) can be watched on YouTube, even, at least in Canada.

Destroyer: Virgin with a Memory.

Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982).

Burden of Dreams (Les Blank, 1982).

My Best Fiend (Werner Herzog, 1999).

Our episode on Pumaman.

Fred Basset.

Eden Phillpotts’s story Quite out of the Common was later printed in the collection Fancy Free.

Good Morning America bringing their children to work.

A history of Take Your Daughter to Work Day.

A certain song by Bikini Kill.

Support us on Patreon and you can listen a special bonus bit that was cut for time from this episode.

The Magic Sword dangles over Chris and Charlotte while they dawdle over Bert I. Gordon, Estelle Winwood, Basil Rathbone, Sherlock Holmes, and David Lynch.

The Magic Sword (Bert I. Gordon, 1962): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer.

Kayfabe, just in case anyone is totally lost.

We discuss Bert I. Gordon a few times, but especially in our episode on Village of the Giants.

Our episode on The Corpse Vanishes.

We talk about Hellzapoppin’ in our episode on The Rebel Set.

And we talk about Paul Frees in our episode on The Beatniks.

You can listen to our bonus bit on Ed Wood’s later adult films for free over on our Patreon!

Rudolph Grey: Nightmare of Ecstasy.

The Twilight Zone: Long Live Walter Jameson.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Bull in a China Shop. (And There Was an Old Woman, where Estelle kills Charles Bronson!)

Darby O’Gill and the Little People (Robert Stevenson, 1959).

The banshee scene that Chris watched. The scarier banshee scene that terrified Charlotte.

Sean Connery: Pretty Irish Girl.

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sidney Lanfield, 1939); Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (Roy William Neill, 1942); The Woman in Green (Roy William Neill, 1945); Terror by Night (Roy William Neill, 1946).

The episode where Chris talks about A Study in Scarlet on The Spouter-Inn should be coming out soon!

Agatha Christie: The ABC Murders.

Erratum: It’s Captain Hastings, not Colonel Hastings!

They Might Be Giants: She Thinks She’s Edith Head and Mr. Klaw.

St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.

Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977).

Dune (David Lynch, 1984).

Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986).

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992).

The Straight Story (David Lynch, 1999).

Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001).

On the Air.

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Project Moon Base lets Chris and Charlotte walk on the walls and talk about astronauts, feminism, Robert A. Heinlein, Cat-Women, and Joe Cool.

With two episodes of Radar Men from the Moon. Yay.

Project Moonbase (Richard Talmadge, 1953): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer.

Radar Men from the Moon, eps. 7 & 8: IMDb. UnMSTed. (Our episodes on episodes 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, and 6.)

Robert A. Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land, Starship Troopers.

A nice blog post about Heinlein, Project Moon Base, and women.

If you support us on Patreon, you can listen to Chris and Charlotte and a bunch of other Megaphonic hosts talk about The Greatest Story Ever Told.

All about Lagrange points.

Cat-Women of the Moon (Arthur Hilton, 1953).

Our episode on Swamp Diamonds.

Rifftrax: Cat-Women of the Moon.

Joe Montana and his injuries.

Everything Chris knows about American football comes from Joe Bois. Here, enjoy nine hours on the Minnesota Vikings, it's real good.

Support us on Patreon and you can listen a bonus segment that was cut for time from this episode, all about another thing Chris loves — cars!

Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster protects Chris and Charlotte from other kaiju while they talk about Odysseus, Antigone, Paladin, Pink Lady, and Jeff.

Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster / Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (ゴジラ・エビラ・モスラ　南海の大決闘) (Jun Fukuda, 1966): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer.

Our episodes on Godzilla vs. Megalon, Gamera vs. Jiger, and... you know what, you can look up the rest of the Gamera episodes!

We talked about Godzilla Minus One in a Patreon-exclusive bonus bit.

Also, retired hosts Adam and Beth talked with Chris about the original Godzilla movie — immediately after Beth and Chris’s first time watching it!

We talked about Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five during our episode on The Slime People.

Chris misremembered! It’s not Death Island, it’s Devil’s Island.

The kaiju that Charlotte stands up for is apparently a Giant Condor.

The theory that a tragic hero has a flaw, or specifically a hamartia, comes from Aristotle’s Poetics.

Medea (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1969). (The effect used in the trailer is not used in the movie, but the trailer still reflects the movie’s vibes.)

Euripedes: Medea. (But also check out Hecuba!)

Sophocles: Philoctetes. (That book also has Ajax.)

Sophocles: Antigone. (And the episode of Chris’s other podcast about Antigone.)

(Thirty Greek tragedies survive, all by Sophocles, Euripedes, and Aeschylus. Basically. Some asterisks may apply.)

Hawaiian Eye and Hawaii Five-O.

Sid and Marty Krofft talking about Pink Lady and Jeff.

A later episode of Pink Lady (and Jeff). (Or skip ahead to the Abe Lincoln sketch.)

Pink Lady: Kiss in the Dark.

Have Gun Will Travel theme song.

Odetta: Take This Hammer.

Gene Roddenberry and Have Gun Will Travel.

Richard Boone and his face.

Blatz! (Though a jingle with the "kegs, cans, and bottles" line apparently existed.)

Support us on Patreon and you can listen the Megaphonic holiday podcast about Won Ton Ton, the Dog That Saved Hollywood — and you can join us on our friendly Discord.

The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t visits Chris and Charlotte in the middle of the night to talk about adequate holiday movies, big acting choices, delightful ponies, sad ducks, and terrifying descents.

The Christmas that Almost Wasn’t (Il Natale Che Quasi Non Fu) (Rossano Brazzi, 1966): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. HBO promo spot.

Go to our Patreon to hear (for free!) Chris tell Charlotte all about Hard Wood: The Adult Features of Ed Wood.

Dead 2 Rights: Ed Wood Wednesdays.

And if you support us, you can listen to a mammoth discussion of Won Ton Ton, the Dog That Saved Hollywood, which drops on December 26th!

Paul Tripp: The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t (soundtrack album).

Tubby the Tuba (George Pal, 1947).

Tubby the Tuba (Alexander Schure, 1975).

Danny Kaye: Tubby the Tuba.

South Pacific (Joshua Logan, 1958).

My Man Godfrey (Gregory La Cava, 1936).

We discuss Hellzapoppin’ in our episode on The Rebel Set.

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (Stephen Herek, 1989).

The Limelighters: Things Go Better with Coke.

Hark! A Vagrant.

We mention: Chopin and Liszt, Strong Female Characters, and Straw Feminists. The Pride and Prejudice vs. Wuthering Heights comic doesn’t seem to be on the website, but here’s one with Jane Austen and Emily Brontë.

Kate Beaton: Hark! A Vagrant and Step Aside, Pops!. The Princess and the Pony. Ducks: Two Years on the Oil Sands.

Small Fat and Mighty mug.

Kate Beaton’s New Yorker cover.

The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror.

Turns out Sleep No More is closing in a few days!

Update: Some people do live on Ellesmere Island, where the North (geomagnetic) Pole currently is, though the only non-research settlement is on the very southern tip of the island.

Canada Post promises to get letters to Santa, despite their recent strike.

Charlotte at the North Pole.

Support us on Patreon and you can listen the Megaphonic holiday podcast about Won Ton Ton, the Dog That Saved Hollywood — and you can join us on our friendly Discord.

H.G. Wells’ The Shape of Things to Come offer Chris and Charlotte a glimpse into their future, where they will find they have discussed H.G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come, Things to Come, the future of condiments, and the horror of it all.

H.G. Wells’ The Shape of Things to Come (George McCowan,1979): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer.

The Mads Are Back: A Night of Shorts XI.

Hard Wood: The Adult Features of Ed Wood.

Our episodes on Starcrash, Cosmic Princess, and Space Mutiny.

Ontario Place’s Cinesphere.

That’s Messed Up: An SVU Podcast. (Look for the episode with friend-of-MST3K Matthew Lillard!)

H.G. Wells: The Shape of Things to Come.

You know, we somehow forgot to mention this, but of course the MST3K character Dr. Kabahl, the mysterious financier from the future, is based on the Dr. Cabal from this novel and the earlier movie. For some reason Dr. Kabahl doesn’t appear in this episode.

Things to Come (William Cameron Menzies, 1936).

A 1936 New York Times review of Things to Come.

Basic English.

Yuzu kosho, black garlic molasses, and ajvar.

The Horror Host Hall of Fame.

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