Watching the Un-MSTied versions

I mentioned a while back that I was watching the movies that Mystery Science Theater 3000 riffed. The original versions. Without the riffing.

Why am I doing this? Heck, I don't know. Lots of things I do for no good reason. It's what I do.

Anyway, I've actually seen most of the movies. I've got 25 more to go.

Let's do some numbers real quick. There are 213 episodes of MST3K, counting the revival series on Netflix, and the local season on KTMA TV-23 in Minneapolis way back in 1988-89. There's also the movie from the "pilot" episode, which was really just a demo reel, not an actual pilot episode. That brings us up to 214 episodes.

Now, keep in mind that nine of the movies from the KTMA season were later re-done in Season 3 on Comedy Central. That means there are 205 movies to watch. Well, I've watched 155 of them. That means there are exactly 50 more to go. Here they are, in episode order, with alternate titles, or sometimes, original titles, listed along with them.

• The Green Slime
• Invaders from the Deep
• Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars
• SST - Death Flight
• Superdome
• The Legend of Dinosaurs
• The Slime People
• Untamed Youth
• Women of the Prehistoric Planet (The Prehistoric Planet)
• Wild Rebels
• Lost Continent
• Godzilla vs. Megalon
• Pod People (The Pod People) (The New Extraterrestrials)
• Daddy-O
• Master Ninja I
• Master Ninja II
• Warrior of the Lost World
• Secret Agent Super Dragon
• Teen-Age Strangler (Terror in the Night)
• Teen-Age Crime Wave
• Village of the Giants
• The Dead Talk Back
• Code Name: Diamond Head
• Last of the Wild Horses
• The Starfighters
• The Sinister Urge
• San Francisco International
• Kitten with a Whip
• Red Zone Cuba (Night Train to Mundo Fine)
• Escape 2000 (Escape from the Bronx) (Bronx Warriors 2)
• The Mole People
• The Thing That Couldn't Die
• The She-Creature
• Agent for H.A.R.M.
• Prince of Space
• Devil Doll
• Invasion of the Neptune Men
• Space Mutiny (Mutiny In Space)
• Time Chasers (Tangents)
• Werewolf (Arizona Werewolf)
• The Deadly Bees
• The Space Children
• The Touch of Satan
• Quest of the Delta Knights
• Soultaker
• Final Justice
• Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark
• Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II
• Carnival Magic
• At the Earth's Core

All of the other movies, the other 155 movies, I've watched. Some I watched before there was an MST3K. I enjoyed some of them. Some, I absolutely hated. Which movies fall into which category is something I'll get into when I'm done watching them all.

Of course, that assumes I'll be able to watch them all. But, I know me. I'll figure out a way. In fact, 17 of these 50 are, or have been, recently available on DVD. The other 33 might be difficult. However, many of those have shown up online, though sometimes just briefly. There are only about four that I've not seen as available online or on DVD, even if briefly. I suspect I'll be able to see them all before the year is out.

I'll keep you posted.