>From: People Weekly*

Date: December 31, 1990 to January 7, 1991

Headline: Picks & Pans

Subline: Best of Tube

Author: [unknown]

Page(s): 15

Note: MST3K one of top 10 shows.

MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000

Joel Hodgson is main heckler at a loopy outer space drive-in movie that shows only turkey leftovers from the '40s and '50s. This may be TV's cheesiest-looking series--and funniest. (The Comedy Channel)

>From: The Milwaukee Journal*

Date: May 30, 1992

Headline: Drama's out, laugh machines in

Author: Drew, Mike

Page(s): D4

Increasingly, cable is choosing comedy to fill its vast programing holes. Partly because there's so much humor elsewhere on the tube, cable couldn't support two all-comedy channels. So several months ago, the Comedy Channel and Ha! combined. Milwaukee's Warner and Viacom systems carry the result--CTV: the Comedy Network.

Wisely, it salvaged "Mystery Science Theater 3000," which returns Saturday at 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Once again, former Wisconsinite Joel Hodgson and robot friends comment over, around and through the sound track of a truly rotten movie.

Saturday, it's an Italian bomb called "Cave Dwellers." The theme: a prehistoric warrior protects the globe from a primative bomb.

"Go, for the welfare of all mankind," says a voice on the soundtrack.

Adds Hodgson, "Take a sweater and be back by 10." Rated ***