Fugitive Alien is back for season 3, so Chris and Charlotte finally get to talk about forklifts, forklifts, forklifts, forklifts, and tongue twisters.

Fugitive Alien (スターウルフ) (Minoru Kanaya & Kiyosumi Kuzakawa, 1978 / 1986): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Watch on YouTube.

Our previous episode on the KTMA version has more behind-the-scenes details about this “movie”.

The National Hat Museum in Portland.

Chris was in Liminal’s production of Far Away by Caryl Churchill. (Chris’s hat isn't in the publicity shot of hats.)

That top 100 episodes list.

Trix. Deadlift. Guido.

Forklift racing.

Competitive forklift driving.

The Stapler Cup.

Jack Perkins: Finding Moosewood, Finding God.

Syd Field: Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting.

Some articulation exercises.

UPDATE: It has been found! Thanks, listeners. Morton Thiokol was the contractor that manufactured the O-rings that failed and led to the Challenger explosion. (I haven’t found evidence of anyone else abbreviating the name like Tom does, but that has to be the reference.)

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The KTMA version of Fugitive Alien is not as excited about that forklift as it could be, but it will listen to Chris and Charlotte talk about pulp sci fi, adaptations of adaptations, Phantom of the Paradise, misfit media, and Winnipeg.

Fugitive Alien (スターウルフ) (Minoru Kanaya & Kiyosumi Kuzakawa, 1978 / 1986): MST3K Wiki. IMDB.

Puttin’ on the Hits.

Edmond Hamilton: The Weapon from Beyond. (And the Starwolf series in general. And much of his early work can be found on Project Gutenberg.)

Captain Future. A sample of the anime.

Women in refrigerators.

“The Lem story” refers to Stanisław Lem’s novel Solaris, which we discussed in our previous episode.

We discussed Eiji Tsuburaya in our episodes on Mighty Jack and Time of the Apes.

Branded to Kill (殺しの烙印) (Seijun Suzuki, 1967). (cw: eye stuff!)

Major Matt Mason and friends.

Tennessee Ernie Ford: Sixteen Tons.

Pannekoeken news.

That scene from Taxi! (Roy Del Ruth, 1932).

Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma, 1974).

Paul Williams on The Muppet Show.

Phantom of Winnipeg (Malcolm Ingram & Sean Stanley, 2019).

If you want to watch Phantom of Winnipeg, your best bet is to buy it directly from the producers.

My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2007).

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First Spaceship on Venus (a.k.a. The Silent Star) won’t respond to Chris and Charlotte’s messages about rampant sarcasm, post-war cinema, Stanisław Lem, Britney Spears, and My Demon Lover.

First Spaceship on Venus (a.k.a. The Silent Star / Der schweigende Stern / Milcząca Gwiazda) (Kurt Maetzig, 1960): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer. Watch on YouTube.

Our episode on 12 to the Moon, which is not the same movie as First Spaceship on Venus.

Our episode on Johnny at the Fair.

Charles Pachter: Invocation. (He goes by Charles, not sure why Chris thought it was “Charlie”!)

Abe Vigoda, remembered.

Matt Baume on Barney Miller.

Kids in the Hall: Sarcastic Guy.

James Lileks: The Gallery of Regrettable Food.

The Silent Star, uncut.

Stanisław Lem wrote The Astronauts, Solaris (look for Bill Johnston’s translation), Tales of Pirx the Pilot, The Cyberiad, Summa Technologiae (so maybe it has been translated in full?), A Perfect Vacuum, Imaginary Magnitude, and much more...

Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972) vs. Solaris (Steven Soderbergh, 2002).

Ehe im Schatten (Marriage in the Shadow) (Kurt Maetzig, 1947).

Bambi.

The Wind Cannot Read (Ralph Thomas, 1958).

The Bitter and the Sweet (also called The Sweet and the Bitter) (James Clavell, 1967).

The (Super) Mars Snooper.

Lester Flat and Earl Scruggs: The Ballad of Jed Clampett. (Paul Henning is the composer.)

Alexander Calder.

Crossroads (Tamra Davis, 2002)

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott, 1994).

My Demon Lover (Charlie Loventhal, 1987).

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Last of the Wild Horses needs to give Chris and Charlotte a year of rest so they can come up with more fun facts about Robert Lippert, mirror universes, unexpected riffers, John Wayne, and Louis L’Amour.

Last of the Wild Horses (Robert L. Lippert, 1948): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Watch on YouTube.

De Quervain’s tenosynovitis.

Our episodes on Rocketship X-M and King Dinosaur. I guess we haven’t done Lost Continent or Radar Secret Service yet?

The tragedy of the commons.

Mirror, Mirror.

Unexpected riffers! Our episodes on Hercules and the Captive Women (not Hercules, like Chris says), Quest of the Delta Knights, Time Chasers, and The Bicycle Driver.

The Mads Are Back: A Night of Springtime Shorts.

Outkast: Roses.

Frith Films by Emily Benton Frith.

The Clangers.

An article on Jacksonville in AAA’s magazine, Via, from Sept/Oct of 2024.

The Pendleton Round-Up.

An article about Des Moines from Travel + Leisure.

John Wayne Birthplace and Museum.

Bucking Broadway (John Ford, 1917). (The moment Chris points Charlotte to.)

Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939).

We talk about Geronimo in our episode on Final Justice. (Also, RIP Joe Don Baker.)

Louis L’Amour: Hondo. (This is a novelization of the movie (John Farrow, 1953), which is based on a Louis L’Amour story called The Gift of Cochise. Complicated.)

Louis L‘Amour: The Louis L’Amour Collection (the audiobook).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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