THE FUSE

There are 230 episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 on the books. Hopping between KTMA, Comedy Central, Sci-Fi (now Syfy), and Netflix, the show has persevered for nearly 40 years. That said, a series centered around robots riffing on feature-length b-movies can be shaky for long-term legal rights. Like many cult shows before it, some episodes ended up lost, having no home release or backup. Until now, as one mysterious YouTube account has uploaded a personally recorded episode from its original broadcast.