7 years later - and this sums up exactly as I feel too. I watched this show religiously as a teen. As a 40 year old, I still watch. Love and Peace to all my fellow mst3k'rs
The best thing about this film is Cameron Mitchell's performance. "I can't devote my whole life to this one man..." I have 15 other films to shoot this afternoon.
Holy crap, you're right! He played Zefram Cochran, inventor of the warp drive. Star Trek, Buck Rogers and Space Mutiny... quite the melange of sci-fi bit-players!
Yep, that's him - it's really a shame that he hasn't reached the same level in the MST3k pantheon as Joe Don Baker or Jack Palance...he deserves our RESPECT and ADMIRATION for his CONTRIBUTION TO THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MOTION PICTURES!!!
It's okay. Pretty heavy-handed, and the professor's humor is painfully lame. It could have gone somewhere, but it would have needed better writers. And as Joel and the 'Bots imply with their riffs at 1:25:12 the action sequences are all pretty derivative. I see why it wasn't picked up.
Omg, I just about died when the astronauts we're shaking around and Joel and the boys said "we're doing acting exercises, we're bacon! We're bacon!" I DID acting exercises we're I WAS bacon!! LMAO😂😂😂
I guess Joel, or Mike did too. Lol Gotta love bacon. Even though I'm Canadian, I hate Back bacon. Just the regular strips for me! Sorry, you were talking about acting. Ooops. Cheers from Canada
Totally agree. This film is now in my top 5 that they ever covered! If you watch a 2nd time. For the most part, they keep the riffing to a minimum. Joel and Mike must have seen the potential with this one too. Surprised it wasn't picked up for at least one season. There's tons of potential for story lines there and they kept Cameron Mitchell's character alive, so the producers were probably thinking they had a winner. I'm going to do some research, need more info :) Cheers from Canada
"..Will somebody close those fucking doors!!!" Cameron Mitchell, as featured on RLM's, "Best of the Worst" program on UA-cam. Mitchell was also the first entrant into their Hall of Fame, if my memory serves me correctly. Cheers from Canada
Man, I watch this episode, I hear the end theme, I feel all nostalgic, especially when I see "keep circulating the tapes" then BAM "copyright 1991 best brains inc." and it still strikes me that it was that long ago...I remember... people used to laugh more then…there were concerts in the park...
Surprised I never dropped a comment on this one. This really rocketed up the charts for favorite MST3K episodes after a repeat viewing. It's up there with the Joe Don Baker ones and some others. I couldn't find a moment here that dragged in the movie especially since the riffs were always so spot on to like everything.
Ah, Film Ventures International. If you see that credit, you can be assured that the footage shown during the opening and ending credits will have nothing to do with the actual film and will be in fact swiped from a completely different movie. (See also "Cave Dwellers," "Pod People," "Being From Another Planet" and the "Master Ninjas.")
The Master Ninjas (Masters Ninja?) at least pretended it had footage of Lee van Cleef karate-chopping random things. It may not have actually _been_ him, but that was true of most of the movie so who knows.
Every time he opens the history book and says “This only goes back about 35 years” - how could he know that?? I know it’s the least of this movie’s problems, but geez.
Glenn Corbett piloting a cutting edge spacecraft. It's what Star Trek: First Contact would have looked like had they not cast James Cromwell as Zefram Cochrane.
I actually kind of liked this movie. It reminded me of a lot of old sci-fi's with it's crappy made up science, used to explain why the locations and etc. look exactly like earth. I could have seen this being an interesting series. At least looking from my perspective back on it. I don't see it being popular back then, but I might enjoy watching the videos on youtube
Completely agree. It’s not full of new ideas but I like the overall tone of the production. The script has some good moments. Acting is occasionally above average. Plus the MST3k treatment is way funnier than the episode gets credit for.
Or twilight zone or outer limits or goosebumps or tales from the crypt or quantum leap or incredible hulk or star search or name that tune or tj hooker or miami vice or general hospital or gunsmoke or something or whatever.
Chicago-born actor Tim O'Connor is in this, I recognized him instantly with that gravel-y yet articulate voice. I know him best from the epic Columbo episode "Double Shock" (S2E8), my fave episode. He plays a sketchy lawyer -- so good! Anyway he was in a bunch of stuff: Buck Rogers, Naked Gun Two anD A Half, and has made a trillion guest appearances on TV shows like Walker (!!!), Doogie Howser MD, Murder She Wrote, and other retro shows.
Is it just me, or is it funny that Benedict scoffs at the doctor in the hospital at wasting time on the hero saying "I can't devote my life to this man, THIS ONE MAN" but maybe three scenes later he gives a speech to the doctor about how "ONE MAN ALONE wanted to be dictator, ONE MANE ALONE thought he was God!" Oh, so now one man is important, eh?
Also they had JUST established that they've been keeping him there for a week so far. One work week on a special project is hardly wasting your whole life, Benedict.
So basically someone really liked that episode of Star Trek where the alien planet modeled itself after Nazi Germany, and decided to try and make an entire film like it, only with overtones of Soviet Russia to make it seem more modernized. I guess it sort of works, despite the obviously minimal budget they had. Also, those snippets of Windows 95 and AOL commercials sure trigger some flashbacks.
🌎Oh yeah, a doppelgänger Earth, where they drive the same 1970s model automobiles, use the same alphabet, speak English. That's made for TV science for you🌎🚀
Same plot as 1969's "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun'...I've read that if there was a twin planet on the opposite side of the sun from us we'd be aware of it due to our being able to measure its gravitational effect on the sun - so obviously this movie is a work of fiction!
I liked the 2 seconds of The Stones' "Start Me Up" Windows 95 commercial. That was more nostalgic than Star Trek TOS' Zephram Cochran piloting that school milk carton through space.
Dear analogkid01...thank you for being my go-to page...you are like the macaroni and cheese of the internet...I have many other viewing choices...but I keep returning to your uploads. Hero. Cheesy Goodness.
Love that the great Steve Franken is also in this episode. He almost stole the show from Peter Sellers in the Blake Edwards film THE PARTY, and he performed in everything from drama to comedy to sci-fi to I don't know what else.
“In seven days you’ll be close enough for us to skin-paint you on radar.” Cuz our radar only goes as far as you’ll be when you’re seven days closer than you are now. Even though our radio can reach you right now, when you’re seven days further away from us than you’ll be seven days from now, which is when our radar will be able to detect you.
To a native speaker of American English, the phrase "It's outside of " implies proximity. You usually pick the closest major city and go from there. You might say that Cary, North Carolina is outside of Raleigh. That gets you to the general area of the map and then you look around there. Saying Cary is outside Fayetteville sends people in the wrong direction. It would sound a little less strange to hear "Cape Kennedy, it's a space launch center outside Cocoa Beach."
And let me tell you...not many things excite me as much as watching bad 70s sci-fi TV pilots. I had to break up with my ex-girlfriend because she was threatened by the idea of bringing a copy of "The Fantastic Journey" to bed.
Cave Dwellers, yeah...it's a Film Ventures International thing. They work in mysterious ways. MST3k can't complain, though - the credits really add to the overall "wtf?" effect.
"Feel free to look around, you won't find any obscene books here."
Crow: "Then why bother?"
😂🤣😂🤣
Brilliant comedy. I still watch these episodes over and over, they never get old. Thankfully we have the Internet, UA-cam and Digital Archive Project.
7 years later - and this sums up exactly as I feel too. I watched this show religiously as a teen. As a 40 year old, I still watch. Love and Peace to all my fellow mst3k'rs
Same to you, my riffing friend :)
Cheers from Canada
The best thing about this film is Cameron Mitchell's performance.
"I can't devote my whole life to this one man..." I have 15 other films to shoot this afternoon.
“Stick it baldy” 😂😂😂
LMAOOOOOOOO
Holy crap, you're right! He played Zefram Cochran, inventor of the warp drive.
Star Trek, Buck Rogers and Space Mutiny... quite the melange of sci-fi bit-players!
Yep, that's him - it's really a shame that he hasn't reached the same level in the MST3k pantheon as Joe Don Baker or Jack Palance...he deserves our RESPECT and ADMIRATION for his CONTRIBUTION TO THE ART AND SCIENCE OF MOTION PICTURES!!!
This movie is SO COOL! This must be what paranoid psychosis feels like!
This isn't the worst movie they've ever done, it's actually kind of a fun idea.
It's the same premise as Gamera vs. Guiron - another planet in Earth's orbit on the far side of the sun.
It's okay. Pretty heavy-handed, and the professor's humor is painfully lame. It could have gone somewhere, but it would have needed better writers. And as Joel and the 'Bots imply with their riffs at 1:25:12 the action sequences are all pretty derivative. I see why it wasn't picked up.
"A special patient in room 420." - Now I see what inspired this ridiculous plot!
Probably just a coincidence, since this film was released in 1973:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)
i noticed that too!
*Inspired* seems like too strong a word for this. :P
@@naturesinterface6663 isn't that the plot to Rolling Kansas?
Omg, I just about died when the astronauts we're shaking around and Joel and the boys said "we're doing acting exercises, we're bacon! We're bacon!" I DID acting exercises we're I WAS bacon!! LMAO😂😂😂
I guess Joel, or Mike did too. Lol
Gotta love bacon. Even though I'm Canadian, I hate Back bacon.
Just the regular strips for me!
Sorry, you were talking about acting. Ooops.
Cheers from Canada
This was actually very good. Like a Twilight Zone episode.
Totally agree. This film is now in my top 5 that they ever covered!
If you watch a 2nd time. For the most part, they keep the riffing to a minimum.
Joel and Mike must have seen the potential with this one too.
Surprised it wasn't picked up for at least one season. There's tons of potential for story lines there and they kept Cameron Mitchell's character alive, so the producers were probably thinking they had a winner.
I'm going to do some research, need more info :)
Cheers from Canada
came here to say the same thing. you beat me to it by 4 years. :D
Cameron Mitchell's speech at 29 minutes in is also precious. This man is the auteur of shlock. A treasure.
"..Will somebody close those fucking doors!!!"
Cameron Mitchell, as featured on RLM's, "Best of the Worst" program on UA-cam.
Mitchell was also the first entrant into their Hall of Fame, if my memory serves me correctly.
Cheers from Canada
Friend or enemy?
Man, I watch this episode, I hear the end theme, I feel all nostalgic, especially when I see "keep circulating the tapes" then BAM "copyright 1991 best brains inc." and it still strikes me that it was that long ago...I remember... people used to laugh more then…there were concerts in the park...
@@markmcelroy1872 lol I was born that year, great time to be born!!!
Every day was the fourth of July.
@@markmcelroy1872 Same bro. I only found out about mst3k from my dad's old tapes.
@@Sarkkoth isn't it great having a cool dad?
And if you bent over to tie your shoe a dinosaur would run up and bite you on the ass.
Surprised I never dropped a comment on this one. This really rocketed up the charts for favorite MST3K episodes after a repeat viewing. It's up there with the Joe Don Baker ones and some others.
I couldn't find a moment here that dragged in the movie especially since the riffs were always so spot on to like everything.
I love the joe don baker ones too lol
“My God you’re ugly” “Some borscht doctor Stalin?!”
Would life be effing depressing if I hadn't found mst3k..
Thank you so much for all of the episodes you've uploaded, analogkid.
I sure do miss this show. I always loved their thanksgiving marathons. thanks for uploading all these analogkid01
they're back! and they do the marathons on here now!
Man, I fulled up SO many videotapes on those Merrythons!
4:45 - I love how Frank breaks the detonator.
‘I heard there was a special patient in room 420.’
Smells funny in there
Watch T.V.'s Frank utterly destroy the prop at 4:45 lol!
But I love the way they never used to do 2nd takes. Everything that's on camera STAYS in.
@@jondunmore4268 "Keep rolling! Always keep rolling!!"
And they kept going like champs.
Ah, Film Ventures International. If you see that credit, you can be assured that the footage shown during the opening and ending credits will have nothing to do with the actual film and will be in fact swiped from a completely different movie. (See also "Cave Dwellers," "Pod People," "Being From Another Planet" and the "Master Ninjas.")
I wonder what they'd have said if Bing Crosby Productions hadnt been plastered...
I was wondering because I recognized that intro scene. I saw that movie, it's like a "Gor" ripoff, but who knows which came first.
The Master Ninjas (Masters Ninja?) at least pretended it had footage of Lee van Cleef karate-chopping random things. It may not have actually _been_ him, but that was true of most of the movie so who knows.
Every time he opens the history book and says “This only goes back about 35 years” - how could he know that?? I know it’s the least of this movie’s problems, but geez.
I love the running gag of Joel and the bots thinking the film is over, getting up, then having to sit down again.
Glenn Corbett piloting a cutting edge spacecraft. It's what Star Trek: First Contact would have looked like had they not cast James Cromwell as Zefram Cochrane.
I actually kind of liked this movie. It reminded me of a lot of old sci-fi's with it's crappy made up science, used to explain why the locations and etc. look exactly like earth. I could have seen this being an interesting series. At least looking from my perspective back on it. I don't see it being popular back then, but I might enjoy watching the videos on youtube
Completely agree. It’s not full of new ideas but I like the overall tone of the production. The script has some good moments. Acting is occasionally above average. Plus the MST3k treatment is way funnier than the episode gets credit for.
The Perfect Order "Burger, Fries & a Shake"
LOL!
This feels like it should have been a Star Trek episode
Or twilight zone or outer limits or goosebumps or tales from the crypt or quantum leap or incredible hulk or star search or name that tune or tj hooker or miami vice or general hospital or gunsmoke or something or whatever.
The leading man actual played Zephram Cochran in an old star trek original series episode 🖖
I love the quick bit of the AOL free trial commercial, haven't seen that in ages!
Same goes for Psychic Readers Network @1:26:19!
...although it was just a cheap knockoff of Psychic Friends Network - Dionne Warwick!
8:50 "We're doing acting improv! We're bacon!"
+bjwwilcera That brought a tear to my eye when they did that....too funny!
Wake up snake and bacon!
Ooooh '72 Plymouth Fury....... Classy
one of my all time favorite episodes.
Chicago-born actor Tim O'Connor is in this, I recognized him instantly with that gravel-y yet articulate voice. I know him best from the epic Columbo episode "Double Shock" (S2E8), my fave episode. He plays a sketchy lawyer -- so good! Anyway he was in a bunch of stuff: Buck Rogers, Naked Gun Two anD A Half, and has made a trillion guest appearances on TV shows like Walker (!!!), Doogie Howser MD, Murder She Wrote, and other retro shows.
Is it just me, or is it funny that Benedict scoffs at the doctor in the hospital at wasting time on the hero saying "I can't devote my life to this man, THIS ONE MAN" but maybe three scenes later he gives a speech to the doctor about how "ONE MAN ALONE wanted to be dictator, ONE MANE ALONE thought he was God!" Oh, so now one man is important, eh?
Its called a character arc. This is actually a very good movie! Uh wait... no... let me check my notes... no, yeah, this movie sucks.
Also they had JUST established that they've been keeping him there for a week so far. One work week on a special project is hardly wasting your whole life, Benedict.
Having Cameron Mitchell turn up in this movie felt like an RLM x MST3K crossover episode 😆😂
This was actually a really good show.
Yes! One of those cases where they lampoon an actually decent movie.
Every time I heard Stryker, I kept thinking of Ted Stryker from Airplane....sigh.
prismstudios001 *punch*
or Stryker from Mortal Kombat 3...
Same. "Stryker! Stryker!" *punch*
That's an entirely different movie, altogether.
Stephen Murphy “A prison picture? What is it?”
Fun Fact: Lew Ayres is buried next to Frank Zappa (whose grave is unmarked.)
It’s Cameron Mitchell from space mutiny!
Around 14:30...the guy in the greyish shirt, that's Commander "Santa Claus" from Space Mutiny hahaha
Cameron Mitchell. A good actor actually.
I like how the Ward E sets were leftovers re-used from the film "The Andromeda Strain".
So basically someone really liked that episode of Star Trek where the alien planet modeled itself after Nazi Germany, and decided to try and make an entire film like it, only with overtones of Soviet Russia to make it seem more modernized. I guess it sort of works, despite the obviously minimal budget they had.
Also, those snippets of Windows 95 and AOL commercials sure trigger some flashbacks.
🌎Oh yeah, a doppelgänger Earth, where they drive the same 1970s model automobiles, use the same alphabet, speak English. That's made for TV science for you🌎🚀
Worked in Star Trek...."miri" and "bread and circuses"
@@TheCastellan Star trek has universal translators mate. No one spoke English, and in fact, most people on EARTH didn't speak English....
Such a rock-stupid premise really ...astonishing really
Same plot as 1969's "Journey to the Far Side of the Sun'...I've read that if there was a twin planet on the opposite side of the sun from us we'd be aware of it due to our being able to measure its gravitational effect on the sun - so obviously this movie is a work of fiction!
I love how Joel revives the bots with confetti.
Yeah, Glenn Corbett here played Zefram Cochrane (inventor of the warp drive) in the episode you mentioned.
This movie is actually called “The Stranger”.
This was a tv pilot for a proposed tv show so take it for what it is...not that bad. Could have been an interesting show.
hence, no ending. He's still stuck there. meh
Side Hackers is less unexciting, yet more unimpressive than Mighty Jack.
An episode so nice it ended twice.
Thanks for the upload :)
"Already this movie is like going to the dentist..." ~ I love this fucking show, watched it a million times and never gets old. Ha.
The credits are from "Prisoners of the lost Universe" which is AMAZING
You're very welcome, may they bring joy and happiness to you and your family during this difficult time.
You, sir, are my hero. Thank you, in the name of all mankind, and please, accept this internets as your reward for uploading all these episodes.
Fun fact: the scenes in the credits are from Prisoners of the Lost Universe, which Rifftrax recently released!
(It's a pretty bad movie, too.)
But how do they relate to one another, its like what pod people did lmao. what was Film Ventures International smoking?
Duly Noted!
@@elminster710 Or Cave Dwellers.
@@elminster710 it was how they promoted the other movies they owned the rights to..so crack. They were smoking crack.
My face m3k line ever, said about a dude with a big round glass space helmet: "Look at that idiot. Stuck in space. Head looks like a gumball machine."
It's been a while since I watched MST3K....LOL !!
Welcome back!
Plymouth: Official car of the Perfect Order.
Plymouths are still manufactured on Terra, where gas is still 1.80 a gallon.
$1.78 per gallon at my store 3-26-20.
I liked the 2 seconds of The Stones' "Start Me Up" Windows 95 commercial. That was more nostalgic than Star Trek TOS' Zephram Cochran piloting that school milk carton through space.
Just to add to Tim O'Connor's sci-fi resume:
He was in two episodes of Wonder Woman, in one of them he played a Space Alien named Andros.
I guess the movie just… forgot about the gunshot wound.
Dear analogkid01...thank you for being my go-to page...you are like the macaroni and cheese of the internet...I have many other viewing choices...but I keep returning to your uploads. Hero. Cheesy Goodness.
Comfort series
Burger, fries and a shake, if not the perfect order, is the standard.
lol @ Frank breaking the handle on the tnt plunger. Thanks for all the uploads analogkid01 u rock.
Love that the great Steve Franken is also in this episode. He almost stole the show from Peter Sellers in the Blake Edwards film THE PARTY, and he performed in everything from drama to comedy to sci-fi to I don't know what else.
20:02 (After they shoot up the elevator thinking the guy was in it.)
Joel: "Now we make him talk." X-D
analogkid01 Thank you for your upload efforts. I can't stop watching MST3K episodes.
What else really matters these days huh? Certainly not reality~
4:47
ALL: Boingee banga ka bonga?
[alarm buzzing]
JOEL: OH, MOVIE SIGN!!
Is it just me, or do a lot of these actors look like the marionette puppets from "The Thunderbirds" Saturday morning TV show from the '60s?
They do, don't they?
Also kinda seems a little like Gerry Anderson's doppleganger.
612Tiberius I thought of that too!😁 although I thought of Capt. Scarlet
Holy shit! You are 100 percent right. How did you catch That? Good eye.
...almost like the Thunderbirds puppets were modelled on the beauty standards of the day, huh?
Or even specifically on famous actors.
“In seven days you’ll be close enough for us to skin-paint you on radar.”
Cuz our radar only goes as far as you’ll be when you’re seven days closer than you are now.
Even though our radio can reach you right now, when you’re seven days further away from us than you’ll be seven days from now, which is when our radar will be able to detect you.
Yes, radar can reach them, but SKIN-PAINTING is a fine art that can't be wasted on anything further than 7 days out.
@@jondunmore4268
Perhaps they’re talking about a different kind of “skin painting?”
1:27:10 - "Boy, this is the biggest basement I've ever seen!"
Yeah? Wait till you see Cameron Mitchell's spaceship!
Funny that Tom Servo keeps falling in to the Marvin the Paranoid Android more and more
Excellent mst3k and a halfway decent movie!
Hey! The long-anticipated return of Tibby! How I'd missed him!
I feel like doctors see this kinda stuff and laugh, but then gaslight the shit out of their patients anyways.
Can I have some borscht, Dr. Stalin?!
The endless Jamie Gumb references from Crow were priceless!
Thank you for leading me to that blog list of episodes! I like it VERY MUCH.
OMG! At 30:55, the other guy in the scene with Dr. Huer is wearing a Shatner Turbo 2000!
(That's a "Night Court" reference, kids... Look it up.)
Lmao
AvengerII nice ref!
"Cape Kennedy, it's a space launch center outside of Orlando" Yeah, and New York is a city outside of Washington DC.
+rlrsk8r1 Cape Kennedy is only 57 miles from orlando, Washington DC is 226 miles from New york...not really sure I see your comparison
To a native speaker of American English, the phrase "It's outside of " implies proximity. You usually pick the closest major city and go from there. You might say that Cary, North Carolina is outside of Raleigh. That gets you to the general area of the map and then you look around there. Saying Cary is outside Fayetteville sends people in the wrong direction.
It would sound a little less strange to hear "Cape Kennedy, it's a space launch center outside Cocoa Beach."
Its in Florida.
Oh you mean Esther Rolle.
"a special patient in room 420." oh, now i get it. you gotta be stoned to get this movie lol
thank you so much for all the uploads!
And let me tell you...not many things excite me as much as watching bad 70s sci-fi TV pilots. I had to break up with my ex-girlfriend because she was threatened by the idea of bringing a copy of "The Fantastic Journey" to bed.
Thanks for posting these. They've been real helpful during the social distancing.
Good for you. I also had a girlfriend who resented my enjoyment of such things. Screw that. Live free or die.
So that's why this film isn't annotated?
This movie shud have been a musical.
suzanne vega 1:12:12
This is soothing entertainment during tough times ❤️ Simple, silly, creative, fun
00:08:37 We're bacon!
1:00:07 😂I had jello today
Hmm, the perfect order for one world. Now where have I heard that before?
Joel pretended to feed a fake turtle... Why not? After all, it's just a TV show so I should just relax! :)
So Dr. Huer's in this?!?!? I keep expecting to see Twiki and Dr. Theopolis! Maybe even Buck and Wilma...
Cave Dwellers, yeah...it's a Film Ventures International thing. They work in mysterious ways. MST3k can't complain, though - the credits really add to the overall "wtf?" effect.
It’s Danny from Time Travelers!
Stryker's a good cop!
The Perfect Order sounds like 1984 (the book).
Cameron Mitchell Must have barrowed William Shatner's "TJ Hooker" wig.
According to star trek that guy invented the space warp.
Tibby in a callback! Oh, Tibby!
Tv actors I remember watching as a kid in the 70s & 80s. It’s like time traveling!
It's cute that Servo says "Mike Nelson" at 1:32:10.
Glen Corbett always reminded me of one of the Tracey brothers from Thunderbirds.
Boy, do you know how many TV series would be wiped out if this room was blown up? 28:10
Space 1984.
lol exactly!
I gotta say, they got right on the stranded in space, part.
Cameron Mitchell looking here like a low-rent Cliff Robertson.
I could tell by the thumbnail this was going to be a good one!! Laughing out loud!!!....old school eye lift is distracting!