Mystery Science Theater 3000

Mystery Science Theater 3000 first aired on local TV in the Twin Cities on KTMA-TV, a UHF station (not a cable access channel, as is sometimes reported) from November 24, 1988 to May 1989. The station's declining fortunes forced it to cancel MST3K, but just as its run was ending, the creators used a short "best-of" reel to pitch the concept to executives at the Comedy Channel, a national cable channel that was then being created. It became one of the first two shows picked up by it. After one season there, Comedy Channel and ri ...

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Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Premise, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - History, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - DVD, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The cast, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The guys, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Mads, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Recurring guest characters, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Quotes, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The episodes

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Mystery Science Theater 3000 started with a short run on Minnesota UHF station KTMA channel 23 from November 24, 1988 to 1989. Just as it was ending this local broadcast, it became one of the first two shows picked up by the new Comedy Channel. Subsequent original episodes aired on the Comedy Channel, Comedy Central, and the Sci Fi Channel from 1989 to 1999. The show's run coincided with the growth of the Internet, and numerous fans (MSTies) devoted websites to the series. The Internet also facilitated tape-trading of previous ...

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Mystery Science Theater 3000, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Premise, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - History, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - DVD, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The cast, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The guys, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Mads, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Recurring guest characters, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Quotes, Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The episodes

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The term camp—normally used as an adjective, even though earliest recorded uses employed it mainly as a verb—refers to the deliberate and sophisticated use of kitsch, mawkish or corny themes and styles in art, clothing or conversation. A part of the anti-academic defense of popular culture in the sixties, camp came to academic prominence in the eighties with the widespread adoption of the Postmodern views on art and culture. Today, camp falls into two distinct categories: intentional camp and unintentional camp. Inte ...

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Camp is best explained to those unfamiliar with the concept of camp through the use of examples. Television shows such as The Brady Bunch, Leave It to Beaver, Dragnet, The Lawrence Welk Show, Hee Haw, Sing Along with Mitch, Get Smart,, Laugh-In, Gilligan's Island, Batman, The Love Boat, Saved by the Bell, The Monkees, and The Dukes of H ...

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Comedy Central began on April Fool's Day 1991, after Home Box Office, owned by Time Warner, merged its Comedy Channel with MTV Networks' HA! comedy channel, owned by Viacom. Viacom bought Time Warner's half in April 2003 for $1.225 billion. When the merged channel first aired, it was known as Comedy TV or CTV for short, but copyright issues with the Canadian network CTV forced the name change to Comedy Central. With the exception of cult favorite Mystery Science Theater 3000, the channel had a relatively sm ...

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Comedy Central, Comedy Central - History, Comedy Central - Notable original programming, Comedy Central - Current, Comedy Central - Past, Comedy Central - Notable non-original programming, Comedy Central - External link

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Ator is a character featured in four European movies made in the 1980s. He was created by Italian trash director Joe d'Amato, under the pseudonym David Hills. d'Amato wrote and directed the first, second, and fourth films in the series, himself disregarding the existence of the third. Ator was played in the first three films by Miles O'Keeffe and Eric Allan Kramer in the fourth. Ator - The Character/Controversy. Ator is a musclebound Nordic warrior who does battle against bizarre monsters and fantasy villai ...

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August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. August 8 - Events. 1509 - The Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned in the town of Chittoor in the present-day state of Andhra Pradesh, India. His accession marks the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire after a period of internal strife. 1585 - John Davis enters Cumberland Sound in quest for the Northwest Passage. 1588 - Battle of Gravelines ...

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Rick Sloane (also known as Alice Raley) is an American film director who is infamous for his film Hobgoblins (which was shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000) and the Vice Academy film series. Other related archivesAmerican, Hobgoblins, Mystery Science Theater 3000, film director

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For the number 1960, see 1960 (number). 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). 1960 - Events. 1960 - January. January - State of emergency is lifted in Kenya - Mau Mau Rebellion is officially over January 1 - Independence of Cameroon January 9-11 - Aswan High Dam construction begins in Egypt January 14 - Reserve bank and Commonwealth Bank are created January 21 ...

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This article is in need of attention. You can help Wikipedia by editing it into a better article. Please also consider changing this notice to be more specific. The term B-movie originally referred to a Hollywood motion picture designed to be distributed as the "lower half" of a double feature, often a genre film featuring cowboys, gangsters, or horror. In the days of the major film studios, this was official terminology that also gave rise to the practice of referring to "A-list ...

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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare and one of his best-known and most oft-quoted plays. It was written at an uncertain date between 1600 and the summer of 1602. Hamlet may be the most frequently produced work in almost every western country, and it is considered a crucial test for mature actors. Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy (Act Three, Scene One), the most popular passage in the play, is so well known that it has bec ...

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The OED gives 1909 as the first citation of "camp" in print, with the sense of "ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effeminate or homosexual; pertaining to or characteristic of homosexuals. So as n., ‘camp’ behaviour, mannerisms, etc. (see quot. 1909); a man exhibiting such behaviour." According to the OED, this sense of the word is "etymologically obscure." Though the rise of Postmodernism has made camp a common take on aesthetics, not identified with any specific group , the attitude was originally a distinctive fac ...

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Camp style, Camp style - Origins and development, Camp style - Academic appropriation or proliferation of camp, Camp style - Examples of Camp, Camp style - Source

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This page is intended to be a list of computers in fiction and science fiction. See the List of fictional robots and androids for all fictional computers which are described as existing in a mobile or humanlike form. Computers have often been used as fictional objects in literature, movies and in other forms of media. Fictional computers tend to be considerably more sophisticated than anything yet devised in the real world. It is interesting to note that while science fiction writers have anticipated many of the advances in tec ...

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Television shows and stage plays sometimes include continuing characters — characters who are currently in frequent interaction with the other characters and who influences current story events — who are never seen or heard by the audience and only described by other characters. Radio shows and plays also feature characters who never speak, and books feature characters who are merely referred to. List of unseen characters - Unseen characters in television. Hidden characters appear in all varieties of fiction, ...

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Cult television, like cult figures, cult film and cult radio, attracts a band of aficionados, known as a cult following, devoted to a specific television program or unreal universe. What exactly makes something "cult" is widely debated. Some popular and strongly interconnected definitions are: A genre, covering all programs that play with widely held beliefs and perceptions. This covers most programs in genres like science fiction, fantasy fiction, horror fiction and some forms of comedy films (especially most form ...

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Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian, from the name of his homeland, Cimmeria) is a literary character created by Robert E. Howard in a series of fantasy pulp stories published in Weird Tales in the 1930s. Conan the Barbarian - Setting. The Conan stories take place on Earth, but in the mythical (created by Howard) "Hyborian Age," between the time of the sinking of Atlantis and the rise of the known ancient civilizations. According to Howard himself: "...between the years w ...

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• Conan the Barbarian - The Original Robert E. Howard Conan Stories
• Conan the Barbarian - Conan stories published in Weird Tales
• Conan the Barbarian - Conan stories by Howard not published in his lifetime
• Conan the Barbarian - Unfinished Conan stories by Howard
• Conan the Barbarian - Other Conan related material by Howard
• Conan the Barbarian - Textual history
• Conan the Barbarian - Book editions
• Conan the Barbarian - The Gnome Press editions 1959-1957
• Conan the Barbarian - The Lancer/Ace paperback editions 1966-1977
• Conan the Barbarian - The Donald M. Grant editions 1974-1989
• Conan the Barbarian - The Berkeley editions 1977
• Conan the Barbarian - The Bantam editions 1978-1982
• Conan the Barbarian - The Ace Maroto editions 1978-1981
• Conan the Barbarian - The Tor editions 1982-2004
• Conan the Barbarian - The Gollancz editions 2000-2001
• Conan the Barbarian - The Wandering Star/Del Rey editions 2003-2005
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• Conan the Barbarian - Quotes from Howard's original Conan stories
• Conan the Barbarian - Conan the Barbarian movie quotes

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What's Up, Tiger Lily? is the first film directed by Woody Allen. He also wrote and appeared in the 1966 comedy, which utilized clips from Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Kagi no kagi (literal English title: International Secret Police: Key of Keys, 1965, [1]), a Japanese spy film. Instead of translating the film, he added completely orginal dialog that had nothing to do with the Japanese film. By putting in new scenes and rearranging the order of existing scenes, he completely changed the tone of the film from a lacklu ...

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Béla Lugosi was the stage name of actor Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó (October 20, 1882–August 16, 1956). He was born in Lugos, Transylvania, Austria-Hungary (now Lugoj, Romania), the youngest of four children of a banker. The blue-eyed actor is best known for his portrayal of Dracula in the American Broadway stage production, and subsequent film, of Bram Stoker's classic vampire story. Bela Lugosi - Early career in Hungary. Lugosi started his acting career on the stage in Hungary in several Shakesp ...

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Comedy Central is a cable television channel in the United States. As its name implies, the channel carries predominantly comedy programming, both original and syndicated. While once a small cable network that few watched, in recent years it has grown to be one of the most popular cable channels, earning the praise of many entertainment-based media along the way. Comedy Central - History. Comedy Central began on April Fool's Day 1991, after Home Box Office, owned by Time Warner, merged its Comedy Channel wi ...

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Batwoman, or (less commonly) Bat-Woman, is the name of a fictional character, the female counterpart to DC Comics' popular superhero Batman. She first appeared in Detective Comics #233 (July 1956). Batwoman's real name was "Kathy Kane". Batman co-creator Bob Kane later claimed that he created Batwoman, and indeed that he drew her to resemble his wife. The fact that Kathy Kane's name matches Bob Kane's supports his claim. On the other hand, in the 1950s Kane used "ghost pencillers" such as Sheldon Mold ...

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