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krpalmerYesterday, I picked up the copy I'd ordered of the deluxe "tinned" edition of the "Mystery Science Theater 3000 20th Anniversary Edition" DVD set. Today, I haven't even taken the shrink wrap off the tin, but I have heard that "Shout! Factory" has just announced a set to follow up. If I had bothered to establish myself on a Mystery Science Theater message board, I might have commented on the news there, but instead I suppose I'm doing it here.
The set is going to be labelled "XIV," which I guess makes the "20th Anniversary Edition" lucky thirteen, and its episodes reach from the show's first season to its tenth. I suppose I'll just have to reacquaint myself with the first season's "Mad Monster" and its instalment of "Commando Cody and the Radar Men from the Moon," but "Manhunt in Space" caught my attention: the two "Rocky Jones" compilations that are part of Mystery Science Theater's fourth season somehow make me think of an earlier and perhaps less ambitious version of Star Trek; an odd note to it is looking at it and remembering reading that it was cancelled because its overhead costs were "too high" (for its era, of course). "Soultaker," of course, features the return "guest appearance" of Joel to the series. "Final Justice," on the other hand, at times made me think that it had been selected just to have Mike "riffing" on a Joe Don Baker movie, given how memorable "Mitchell" had been as the sendoff to Joel... but, again, I'll just have to get around to that episode as well.
The set is going to be labelled "XIV," which I guess makes the "20th Anniversary Edition" lucky thirteen, and its episodes reach from the show's first season to its tenth. I suppose I'll just have to reacquaint myself with the first season's "Mad Monster" and its instalment of "Commando Cody and the Radar Men from the Moon," but "Manhunt in Space" caught my attention: the two "Rocky Jones" compilations that are part of Mystery Science Theater's fourth season somehow make me think of an earlier and perhaps less ambitious version of Star Trek; an odd note to it is looking at it and remembering reading that it was cancelled because its overhead costs were "too high" (for its era, of course). "Soultaker," of course, features the return "guest appearance" of Joel to the series. "Final Justice," on the other hand, at times made me think that it had been selected just to have Mike "riffing" on a Joe Don Baker movie, given how memorable "Mitchell" had been as the sendoff to Joel... but, again, I'll just have to get around to that episode as well.