Season 4
| Ep. # | Featured Film | Original Airdate | Home Video Availability | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 401 | Space Travelers |
1992-06-06 | None | |
| Various obstacles hamper attempts to rescue three NASA astronauts trapped aboard a crippled space capsule. This, the only film ever featured on MST3K to win an Academy Award, features big names like Gregory Peck, Gene Hackman, and David Janssen, and also counted Frank Capra, Jr. as an associate producer. | ||||
| 402 | The Giant Gila Monster |
1992-06-13 | MST3K Collection, Volume 10.2, Standalone DVD | |
| A 30-foot killer lizard is loose in the woods near a bumbling town full of teens. Produced by Ken Curtis. | ||||
| 403 | City Limits |
1992-06-20 | None | |
| In a dystopian future, a teen rides his motorcycle into an abandoned city and gets involved in a gang dispute that centers on taking the city back from an evil corporation. With Rae Dawn Chong, Kim Cattrall, and James Earl Jones, in a minor role. | ||||
| 404 | Teenagers from Outer Space |
1992-06-27 | MST3K Collection, Volume 6 | |
| A group of aliens land on Earth and decide to use the planet as a farm for their livestock. One of the aliens rebels and flees to a small town, where he is pursued by another alien who kills anyone in his path. | ||||
| 405 | Being from Another Planet |
1992-07-04 | None | |
| In California, a mummy found in King Tut's tomb is X-rayed by a university team. The radiation awakens the mummy. It escapes that night and creeps around campus for the next couple of days looking for five missing crystals that were pilfered by a student. Starring Ben Murphy. | ||||
| 406 | Attack of the Giant Leeches |
1992-07-18 | MST3K Collection, Volume 6 | |
| (Short: Undersea Kingdom, Part 1: "Beneath the Ocean Floor") Folks begin vanishing near a Florida swamp, and a game warden discovers the culprits are mutant leeches. The short is the first segment of a 1936 movie serial about a group of Navy men who discover Atlantis. | ||||
| 407 | The Killer Shrews |
1992-07-25 | MST3K Collection, Volume 7 | |
| (Short: Junior Rodeo Daredevils) A hunky skipper makes a delivery to a small island, and learns that the inhabitants include heavy-drinking scientists doing genetic experiments resulting in a pack of omnivorous giant shrews. Starring Ken Curtis, who also produced the film and James Best. In the short, a cowpoke straightens out some wayward kids by making them put on a small-time rodeo. | ||||
| 408 | Hercules Unchained |
1992-08-01 | MST3K Collection, Volume 7 | |
| Queen Lidia casts a spell of amnesia on Hercules (Steve Reeves), who becomes a prisoner in her harem. | ||||
| 409 | Indestructible Man |
1992-08-15 | MST3K Collection, Volume 11 | |
| (Short: Undersea Kingdom, Part 2: "The Undersea City") A convict (Lon Chaney Jr.) dies in the electric chair and is brought back to life by mad scientists. He then sets out to get even with those who squealed on him. This episode features the second of the two installments shown from the 12-part Undersea Kingdom serial. | ||||
| 410 | Hercules Against The Moon Men |
1992-08-22 | MST3K Collection, Volume 7 | |
| Hercules attempts to free a city from a Moon-worshiping cult led by extraterrestrials. | ||||
| 411 | The Magic Sword |
1992-08-29 | None | |
| Sword-and-sorcery film about a prince (Gary Lockwood) rescuing a princess from an evil wizard (Basil Rathbone). | ||||
| 412 | Hercules and the Captive Women |
1992-09-12 | None | |
| Hercules goes to Atlantis to save his son. | ||||
| 413 | Manhunt in Space |
1992-09-19 | MST3K Collection, Volume XIV | |
| (Short: General Hospital, first installment) Edited-together episodes of the 1950s TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. Rocky Jones fights space pirates, the evil Queen Cleolanta, and her lieutenant Atlansan. The short is the first of three brief 1963 segments from the soap opera General Hospital featured on the series. | ||||
| 414 | Tormented |
1992-09-26 | MST3K Collection, Volume 11 | |
| A jazz pianist living at a beachfront community is about to get married, but his troublesome mistress confronts him at the top of a lighthouse. In the argument, she slips and falls; the pianist has a chance to save her, but lets her fall to her death. Her ghost comes to haunt him and disrupt his upcoming nuptials, as his fiance's eight-year-old sister grows suspicious. | ||||
| 415 | The Beatniks |
1992-11-25 | MST3K Collection, Volume XVII | |
| (Short: General Hospital, second installment) A leader of a gang of delinquent teens is heard singing along with a jukebox at a greasy spoon and gets the chance to be a star. His gang, resentful of his success, threaten to ruin his career. Well-known voice actor Paul Frees directed and wrote the music and screenplay to the movie. The General Hospital installment involves a tense celebration at a nurse's house. | ||||
| 416 | Fire Maidens of Outer Space |
1992-11-26 | None | |
| Astronauts travel to a moon of Jupiter and discover a civilization of women. The astronauts help the women battle a monster that has been terrorizing their settlement. | ||||
| 417 | Crash of the Moons |
1992-11-28 | MST3K Collection, Vol. XVIII | |
| (Short: General Hospital, third installment) Edited-together episodes of the 1950s TV series Rocky Jones, Space Ranger. Our hero tries to save two worlds from collision, despite the self-defeating efforts of Cleolanta. With John Banner. The short is the third of three 1963 segments from the soap opera General Hospital. | ||||
| 418 | Attack of the The Eye Creatures |
1992-12-05 | None | |
| Aliens land near a small town and are encountered by a pair of smoochin' teens. While military personnel investigate, the kids band together to fight back against the invasion. Listen for the voice of Peter Graves narrating an Air Force briefing film. | ||||
| 419 | The Rebel Set |
1992-12-12 | MST3K Collection, Volume 12 | |
| (Short: Johnny at the Fair) A coffeehouse owner (Edward Platt) wants to knock off an armored car, and gets three losers to help him. The short, set at the 1947 Canadian National Exhibition, focuses on the explorations of young visitor Johnny, after his parents lose track of him. | ||||
| 420 | The Human Duplicators |
1992-12-26 | None | |
| An alien (Richard Kiel) takes over a professor's mansion-basement laboratory, and makes android clones to infiltrate the government. With Hugh Beaumont | ||||
| 421 | Monster A-Go Go |
1993-01-09 | MST3K Collection, Volume 8 | |
| (Short: Circus on Ice) Authorities and the military search for a missing astronaut believed to have become an irradiated monster. The short offers a look at the 40th Annual Carnival of the Toronto Skating Club. | ||||
| 422 | The Day The Earth Froze |
1993-01-16 | None | |
| (Short: Here Comes the Circus) Nordic fantasy tale, based loosely on the Kalevala, about a wicked witch's schemes to get, and later regain, a magic mill. The short is a look at the Clyde Beatty circus, featuring legendary clown Emmett Kelly. | ||||
| 423 | Bride of the Monster |
1993-01-23 | MST3K Collection, Volume XIX | |
| (Short: Hired!, Part 1) Mad scientist Dr. Eric Vornoff (Bela Lugosi) lives in a remote swampy area attempting to create an army of atomic supermen in his lab with the help of his mutant assistant Lobo (Tor Johnson). He performs Frankenstein experiments on intruders, takes revenge on his critic, and feeds his enemies to a pond-dwelling octopus. Written and Directed by Ed Wood. In the 1941 short, a Chevrolet sales manager wonders why his team is having trouble selling their product door-to-door. | ||||
| 424 | Manos: The Hands of Fate |
1993-01-30 | Standalone VHS, VHS Box Set, Standalone DVD from Rhino, The Essentials, Standalone DVD from Shout! Factory | |
| (Short: Hired!, Part 2) A hapless family on a car trip in rural Texas take refuge at an inn that harbors a deadly cult. In the conclusion of the two-part short, the sales manager hero gets advice from his father. | ||||
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