Watch MST3K Episodes The Official Way! A Complete Guide
Mystery Science Theater 3000 is available in all sorts of formats and we're here to help you keep track of where you can watch and how.
Hey, so great news. Mystery Science Theater 3000 is coming back for its twelfth season. Pretty rad, right? You already knew that, sure, but just repeating it puts me in a truly happy mood.
Even with the current season streaming on Netflix (and you’ll note we didn’t include those episodes in here because, well, you know where you can watch season 11 already without our help, right?), one of the wonderful things about MST3K is knowing that it’s so, so hard to see everything. It’s not a show really known for binge-watching. There are over 200 episodes out there and they’re all an hour and a half long without commercials. Due to the fairly lax narrative, it’s easy to be a huge fan of the show without having seen even a tenth of what it has to offer.
Binge-watching MST3K isn’t so cut and dry. Yes, there are the “keep circulating those tapes” ways, but you aren’t exactly going to get the best quality. Fact is, MST3K is available on so many different formats and every single one is scattershot. Hell, some episodes are simply unavailable anywhere due to rights issues from the targeted movies.
We’ve got you covered. Here’s a list of every single episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and where to go to watch them, officially. Here are the different places you can find the show in general:
YouTube: MST3K has an official YouTube channel and occasionally puts up full episodes for free. Not only that, but the episodes are annotated, so you can get explanations for the more obscure references. It’s like Pop-Up Video, only with less Rick Astley.
RiffTrax: MST3K’s most popular spiritual successor has been releasing MST3K episodes every Monday or so. Each one is available to download for $9.99. They also have the more obscure Film Crew, a short-lived DVD series where Mike, Bill, and Kevin tried riffing with a different narrative. They will soon be including the episodes of season 11.
Amazon: Via Amazon’s streaming, you can watch MST3K through various ways. For $2.99, you can rent individual episodes. For $5.99-11.99, you can own them. Also, for $2.99, you can get a subscription to Shout Factory TV, which gets you most episodes.
DVD: The DVD situation is a bit dicey. Rhino Home Video took care of releasing MST3K on DVD for years and put forth a bunch of box sets that would feature four discs. Then Shout Factory took over and Rhino’s stuff went out of print. Shout Factory’s continued from where they left off and has been gradually rereleasing the old sets. In other words, there are plenty of episodes that are out there in DVD form, but currently out of print. I’m not counting them. Then there’s stuff like the Godzilla movies where they were released in a set, only to be pulled and replaced due to rights issues.
Shout Factory: While Shout Factory is a good place to buy MST3K on DVD, they also have several episodes available digitally. They used to cost $9.99, but have since been available for free on ShoutFactoryTV.
iTunes: With a huge list of episodes ot choose from, the $5.99-$7.99 buying price isn’t bad. Then again, it’s $3.99 to rent.
VHX: The streaming site has episodes for $9.99 and get the whole lot of them for $299.99. What’s interesting is that if you backed the Bring Back MST3K Kickstarter, through VHX you can get access to the first two episodes from the KTMA-TV season from 1988-89. Believe me, they’re only worth it for the historical value. The KTMA-TV stuff is ROUGH, man.
Netflix: Netflix has a handful of old episodes on there. As it is right now, they’re lumped together in their own order as “season two.” It’s also the home to all the new episodes. Netflix can cost $7.99-$11.99 a month.
It should be noted that Hulu used to have a ton of episodes up, but then dropped the show completely.
Otherwise, I’m going to italicize the episodes that are so tied up in rights issues that we’re not likely to see them ever released officially. And if this is all too overwhelming, use this fan-approved list of The Top 100 MST3K Episodes Ever as your guide.
SEASON ONE
101. The Crawling Eye
102. The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy
103. The Mad Monster
104. Women of the Prehistoric Planet
105. The Corpse Vanishes
106. The Crawling Hand
107. Robot Monster
108. The Slime People
109. Project Moon Base
110. Robot Holocaust
111. Moon Zero Two
112. Untamed Youth
113. The Black Scorpion
SEASON TWO
201. Rocketship X-M
202. Sidehackers
203. Jungle Goddess
204. Catalina Caper
205. Rocket Attack USA
206. Ring of Terror
207. Wild Rebels
208. Lost Continent
209. The Hellcats
210. King Dinosaur
211. First Spaceship on Venus
212. Godzilla vs. Megalon
213. Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster
SEASON THREE
301. Cave Dwellers
302. Gamera
303. Pod People
304. Gamera vs. Barugon
305. Stranded in Space
306. Time of the Apes
307. Daddy-O
308. Gamera vs. Gaos
309. The Amazing Colossal Man
310. Fugitive Alien
311. It Conquered the World
312. Gamera vs. Guiron
313. Earth vs. the Spider
314. Mighty Jack
315. Teenage Cave Man
316. Gamera vs. Zigra
317. Viking Women and the Sea Serpent
318. Star Force: Fugitive Alien II
319. War of the Colossal Beast
320. The Unearthly
321. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
322. Master Ninja I
323. The Castle of Fu Manchu
324. Master Ninja II
SEASON FOUR
401. Space Travelers
402. The Giant Gila Monster
403. City Limits
404. Teenagers from Outer Space
405. Being from Another Planet/Time Walker
406. Attack of the Giant Leeches
407. The Killer Shrews
408. Hercules Unchained
409. Indestructible Man
410. Hercules Against the Moon Men
411. The Magic Sword
412. Hercules and the Captive Women
413. Manhunt in Space
414. Tormented
415. The Beatniks
416. Fire Maidens of Outer Space
417. Crash of the Moons
418. Attack of the Eye Creatures
419. The Rebel Set
420. The Human Duplicators
421. Monster A-Go-Go
422. The Day the Earth Froze
423. Bride of the Monster
424. Manos: The Hands of Fate
SEASON FIVE
501. Warrior of the Lost World
502. Hercules
503. Swamp Diamonds
504. Secret Agent Super Dragon
505. The Magic Voyage of Sinbad
506. Eegah
507. I Accuse My Parents
508. Operation Kid Brother
509. The Girl in Lovers’ Lane
510. The Painted Hills
511. Gunslinger
512. Mitchell
513. The Brain That Wouldn’t Die
514. Teen-Age Strangler
515. The Wild Wild World of Batwoman
516. Alien from LA
517. Beginning of the End
518. The Atomic Brain
519. Outlaw (of Gor)
520. Radar Secret Service
521. Santa Claus
522. Teen-Age Crime Wave
523. Village of the Giants
524. 12 to the Moon
SEASON SIX
601. Girls Town
602. Invasion USA
603. The Dead Talk Back
604. Zombie Nightmare
605. Headhunters
606. The Creeping Terror
607. Bloodlust!
608. Code Name: Diamond Head
609. The Skydivers
610. The Violent Years
611. Last of the Wild Horses
612. The Starfighters
613. The Sinister Urge
614. San Francisco International
615. Kitten with a Whip
616. Racket Girls
617. The Sword and the Dragon
618. High School Big Shot
619. Red Zone Cuba
620. Danger!! Death Ray
621. The Beast of Yucca Flats
622. Angels’ Revenge
623. The Amazing Transparent Man
624. Samson vs. the Vampire Women
SEASON SEVEN
701. Night of the Blood Beast
702. The Brute Man
703. Deathstalker and the Warriors of Hell
704. The Incredible Melting Man
705. Escape 2000
706. Laserblast
SEASON EIGHT
801. Revenge of the Creature
802. The Leech Woman
803. The Mole People
804. The Deadly Mantis
805. The Thing That Couldn’t Die
806. The Undead
807. Terror from the Year 5000
808. The She Creature
809. I Was a Teenage Werewolf
810. The Giant Spider Invasion
811. Parts: The Clonus Horror
812. The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
813. Jack Frost
814. Riding with Death
815. Agent for HARM
816. Prince of Space
817. The Horror of Party Beach
818. Devil Doll
819. Invasion of the Neptune Men
820. Space Mutiny
821. Time Chasers
822. Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
SEASON NINE
901. The Projected Man
902. The Phantom Planet
903. The Pumaman
904. Werewolf
905. The Deadly Bees
906. The Space Children
907. Hobgoblins
908. The Touch of Satan
909. Gorgo
910. The Final Sacrifice
911. Devil Fish
912. The Screaming Skull
913. Quest of the Delta Knights
SEASON TEN
1001. Soultaker
1002. Girl in Gold Boots
1003. Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders
1004. Future War
1005. Blood Waters of Dr. Z
1006. Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues
1007. Track of the Moon Beast
1008. Final Justice
1009. Hamlet
1010. It Lives By Night
1011. Horrors of Spider Island
1012. Squirm
1013. Diabolik
EXTRA
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
Shorts Volume 1
Shorts Volume 2
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