Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988)

Comedy · Sci-Fi

A stranded spaceship pilot captured by mad scientists survives a blitz of cheesy B movies by riffing on them with his funny robot pals.

IMDb rating: 8.6 (27,784 votes)
Episode average: 7.5 -1.1 vs IMDb
Seasons: 11
Streaming (US): Peacock
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 11 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1988)

6.63 avg 22 episodes 6.3 → 6.7 93 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
0	The Green Slime	6.3	304
1	Invaders from the Deep	6.4	307
2	Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars	6.5	293
3	Star Force: Fugitive Alien II	6.8	299
4	Gamera vs. Barugon	6.4	334
5	Gamera	6.6	349
6	Gamera vs. Gaos	6.4	330
7	Gamera vs. Zigra	6.6	315
8	Gamera vs. Guiron	7.0	331
9	Phase IV	6.8	308
10	Cosmic Princess	6.6	282
11	Humanoid Woman	6.5	299
12	Fugitive Alien	6.7	294
13	SST: Death Flight	7.0	298
14	Mighty Jack	6.5	294
15	Superdome	6.3	298
16	City on Fire	6.6	296
17	Time of the Apes	7.0	348
18	The Million Eyes of Sumuru	6.8	292
19	Hangar 18	6.7	284
20	The Last Chase	6.7	284
21	The Legend of Dinosaurs	6.7	287

Season 2 (1989)

6.98 avg 13 episodes 6.9 → 7.0 94 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Crawling Eye	6.9	714
2	The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy	6.4	653
3	The Mad Monster	6.6	540
4	Women of the Prehistoric Planet	7.1	496
5	The Corpse Vanishes	6.9	554
6	The Crawling Hand	7.2	578
7	Robot Monster	7.3	532
8	The Slime People	6.9	447
9	Project Moonbase	6.9	471
10	Robot Holocaust	7.3	529
11	Moon Zero Two	7.2	489
12	Untamed Youth	7.1	468
13	The Black Scorpion	7.0	433

Season 3 (1990)

7.43 avg 13 episodes 7.4 → 7.5 96 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Rocketship X-M	7.4	447
2	The Sidehackers	7.4	626
3	Jungle Goddess	7.4	459
4	Catalina Caper	7.7	664
5	Rocket Attack U.S.A.	7.2	463
6	Ring of Terror	7.5	531
7	Wild Rebels	7.3	483
8	Lost Continent	7.4	546
9	The Hellcats	7.1	486
10	King Dinosaur	7.4	506
11	First Spaceship on Venus	7.1	516
12	Godzilla vs. Megalon	8.2	519
13	Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster	7.5	390

Season 4 (1991)

7.73 avg 24 episodes 8.2 → 7.4 97 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Cave Dwellers	8.2	760
2	Gamera	7.8	589
3	Pod People	8.4	1,076
4	Gamera vs. Barugon	7.4	501
5	Stranded in Space	7.1	439
6	Time of the Apes	8.0	627
7	Daddy-O	7.9	523
8	Gamera vs. Gaos	7.6	493
9	The Amazing Colossal Man	8.2	481
10	Fugitive Alien	7.9	481
11	It Conquered the World	7.9	436
12	Gamera vs. Guiron	8.3	529
13	Earth vs. the Spider	7.8	490
14	Mighty Jack	7.2	458
15	Teenage Caveman	7.5	459
16	Gamera vs. Zigra	7.7	460
17	The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent	7.5	441
18	Star Force: Fugitive Alien II	7.7	481
19	War of the Colossal Beast	7.8	516
20	The Unearthly	7.4	554
21	Santa Claus Conquers the Martians	8.2	825
22	Master Ninja I	7.7	524
23	The Castle of Fu Manchu	7.0	502
24	Master Ninja II	7.4	529

Season 5 (1992)

7.78 avg 24 episodes 7.2 → 9.0 93 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Space Travelers	7.2	414
2	The Giant Gila Monster	8.0	597
3	City Limits	7.3	487
4	Teenagers from Outer Space	8.2	647
5	Being from Another Planet	7.4	497
6	Attack of the Giant Leeches	7.8	578
7	The Killer Shrews	7.8	612
8	Hercules Unchained	7.7	532
9	Indestructible Man	7.3	518
10	Hercules Against the Moon Men	7.7	561
11	The Magic Sword	7.8	523
12	Hercules and the Captive Women	7.5	496
13	Manhunt in Space	7.4	465
14	Tormented	7.9	524
15	The Beatniks	7.7	578
16	Fire Maidens of Outer Space	7.9	416
17	Crash of Moons	7.4	460
18	Attack of the Eye Creatures	8.3	471
19	The Rebel Set	7.7	498
20	The Human Duplicators	7.6	451
21	Monster A-Go Go	7.9	578
22	The Day the Earth Froze	8.1	612
23	Bride of the Monster	8.2	620
24	'Manos' the Hands of Fate	9.0	1,558

Season 6 (1993)

7.83 avg 24 episodes 7.9 → 7.7 93 min avg

Mid-peak

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Warrior of the Lost World	7.9	618
2	Hercules	7.5	448
3	Swamp Diamonds	7.7	543
4	Secret Agent Super Dragon	7.6	545
5	The Magic Voyage of Sinbad	7.7	489
6	Eegah	8.2	819
7	I Accuse My Parents	8.5	836
8	Operation Double 007	8.1	538
9	The Girl in Lovers Lane	8.0	552
10	The Painted Hills	7.8	475
11	Gunslinger	7.7	533
12	Mitchell	8.8	1,045
13	The Brain That Wouldn't Die	8.0	726
14	Teen-Age Strangler	8.1	535
15	The Wild World of Batwoman	7.6	603
16	Alien from L.A.	7.5	551
17	Beginning of the End	7.6	593
18	The Atomic Brain	7.4	572
19	Outlaw of Gor	7.7	557
20	Radar Secret Service	7.3	429
21	Santa Claus	8.3	757
22	Teen-Age Crime Wave	7.7	409
23	Village of the Giants	7.5	513
24	12 to the Moon	7.7	399

Season 7 (1994)

7.52 avg 24 episodes 7.8 → 7.7 92 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Girls Town	7.8	456
2	Invasion USA	7.3	437
3	The Dead Talk Back	7.5	512
4	Zombie Nightmare	7.9	678
5	Colossus and the Headhunters	7.0	406
6	The Creeping Terror	8.0	620
7	Bloodlust!	7.5	522
8	Code Name: Diamond Head	7.2	472
9	The Skydivers	7.7	591
10	The Violent Years	7.6	488
11	Last of the Wild Horses	7.3	456
12	The Starfighters	7.3	522
13	The Sinister Urge	7.8	531
14	San Francisco International	7.5	447
15	Kitten with a Whip	7.5	434
16	Racket Girls	7.3	530
17	The Sword and the Dragon	7.5	471
18	High School Big Shot	7.4	442
19	Red Zone Cuba	7.6	645
20	Danger!! Death Ray	7.7	484
21	The Beast of Yucca Flats	7.7	608
22	Angels Revenge	7.7	565
23	The Amazing Transparent Man	7.1	416
24	Samson vs. the Vampire Women	7.7	558

Season 8 (1995)

7.81 avg 7 episodes 8.0 → 8.2 92 min avg

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
0	Night of the Blood Beast	8.0	329
1	Night of the Blood Beast	7.9	533
2	The Brute Man	7.2	521
3	Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell	7.8	559
4	The Incredible Melting Man	7.9	504
5	Escape 2000	7.7	534
6	Laserblast	8.2	846

Season 9 (1997)

7.74 avg 22 episodes 7.5 → 8.1 92 min avg

Season 9 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Revenge of the Creature	7.5	446
2	The Leech Woman	7.6	436
3	The Mole People	7.6	474
4	The Deadly Mantis	7.4	442
5	The Thing That Couldn't Die	7.5	430
6	The Undead	7.2	473
7	Terror from the Year 5000	7.3	431
8	The She-Creature	7.4	417
9	I Was a Teenage Werewolf	7.4	438
10	The Giant Spider Invasion	8.0	655
11	Parts: The Clonus Horror	7.8	594
12	The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies	7.7	698
13	Jack Frost	7.9	675
14	Riding with Death	8.0	510
15	Agent for H.A.R.M.	7.6	450
16	Prince of Space	8.2	685
17	The Horror of Party Beach	8.0	569
18	Devil Doll	7.2	518
19	Invasion of the Neptune Men	7.5	506
20	Space Mutiny	8.9	1,200
21	Time Chasers	8.4	853
22	Overdrawn at the Memory Bank	8.1	842

Season 10 (1998)

7.74 avg 13 episodes 7.0 → 7.4 92 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 10 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Projected Man	7.0	418
2	The Phantom Planet	7.5	561
3	The Pumaman	8.4	905
4	Werewolf	8.6	1,031
5	The Deadly Bees	7.3	443
6	The Space Children	7.0	388
7	Hobgoblins	8.4	928
8	The Touch of Satan	8.0	804
9	Gorgo	6.9	509
10	The Final Sacrifice	8.9	1,105
11	Devil Fish	7.5	645
12	The Screaming Skull	7.7	530
13	Quest of the Delta Knights	7.4	476

Season 11 (1999)

7.71 avg 13 episodes 8.4 → 8.1 93 min avg

Season 11 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Soultaker	8.4	794
2	Girl in Gold Boots	7.8	703
3	Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders	8.0	754
4	Future War	7.8	771
5	Blood Waters of Dr. Z	7.4	592
6	Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues	8.0	713
7	Track of the Moon Beast	7.7	539
8	Final Justice	8.0	690
9	Hamlet	6.4	567
10	It Lives by Night	7.2	449
11	Horrors of Spider Island	7.7	650
12	Squirm	7.7	580
13	Diabolik	8.1	544