List of DVD releases

The following is a series of lists detailing all commercial DVD releases of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and related spin-off productions.

MST3K

Home video rights for MST3K originally were held by Rhino Entertainment and they began releasing episode on VHS in 1996. In 2000, they began releasing DVDs of individual episodes. In late 2002, they began the "collection" format, releasing four episodes (or specials) together. When rights shifted to Shout! Factory in 2008, Shout! continued to release four episode sets. In 2011, Shout! began re-releasing single episode DVDs of material previously released by Rhino, but now out of print.

In addition to the TV episodes released by Rhino and Shout!, Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie has also been released on DVD by various companies.

Finally, Best Brains, Inc. re-released some of their self-produced video compilations on DVD.

Rhino single episode releases

The first Rhino DVDs were single disc releases of material previously available on VHS. When releases resumed after a break, it was with four-disc sets. One final single-disc release came out in 2008. The Giant Gila Monster was released to make the episode available to those who had purchased the original, withdrawn version of The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Volume 10, which had featured Godzilla vs. Megalon.

Episode Number	Featured Film	Release date
506	Eegah	April, 2000
513	The Brain That Wouldn't Die	April, 2000
515	The Wild Wild World of Batwoman	January, 2001
517	Beginning of the End	January, 2001
424	Manos, the Hands of Fate, with bonus Poopie!	November, 2001
512	Mitchell	November, 2001
507	I Accuse My Parents	March, 2002
619	Red Zone Cuba	March, 2002
106	The Crawling Hand	June, 2002
209	The Hellcats	June, 2002
N/A	Shorts, Volume 3 (bonus disc)	March, 2004
402	The Giant Gila Monster	February, 2008

Rhino collections

Rhino began releasing collections in 2002, continuing to release episodes previously available on VHS. Some early sets were filled out with compilations of shorts, which had also been avilable on VHS. Episodes were not generally collected together in any kind of theme and were often not even arranged in episode order. One set, Volume 10, was recalled because Rhino did not actually have the rights to one of the included titles, Godzilla vs. Megalon. It was replaced by Volume 10.2, which fetaured The Giant Gila Monster, instead.

Volume	Episodes	Release date
Volume 1	The Skydivers, The Creeping Terror, Bloodlust!, Catalina Caper	November, 2002
Volume 2	Angels Revenge, Cave Dwellers, Pod People, Shorts, Volume 1	February, 2003
Volume 3	The Atomic Brain, The Unearthly, The Sidehackers, Shorts, Volume 2	April, 2003
Volume 4	Girl in Gold Boots, Hamlet, Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, Space Mutiny	November, 2003
Volume 5	Boggy Creek II: and the Legend Continues…, Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders, Time Chasers, The Touch of Satan	March, 2004
The Essentials	Manos, the Hands of Fate, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, Shorts, Volume 3 (limited offer)	March, 2004
Volume 6	Attack of the Giant Leeches, Gunslinger, Mr. B's Lost Shorts, Teenagers from Outer Space	October, 2004
Volume 7	Hercules Unchained, Hercules Against the Moon Men, Prince of Space, The Killer Shrews	April, 2005
Volume 8	Hobgoblins, The Phantom Planet, Monster A-Go Go, The Dead Talk Back	November, 2005
Volume 9	Women of the Prehistoric Planet, Wild Rebels, The Sinister Urge, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies	May, 2006
Volume 10	Godzilla vs. Megalon, Swamp Diamonds, Teen-Age Strangler, The Giant Spider Invasion	August, 2006
Volume 11	Ring of Terror, The Indestructible Man, Tormented, Horrors of Spider Island	February, 2007
Volume 12	The Rebel Set, Secret Agent Super Dragon, The Starfighters, Parts: The Clonus Horror	October, 2007
Volume 10.2	The Giant Gila Monster, Swamp Diamonds, Teen-Age Strangler, The Giant Spider Invasion	February, 2008

Shout! Factory collections

The sets from Shout! Factory picked up where Rhino had left off with mostly four-disc collections. After the "Anniversary Edition", the numbering continued from Rhino's (with the Anniversary Edition being the 13th volume), though they switched to Roman numerals.

Volume	Episodes	Release date
20th Anniversary Edition	First Spaceship on Venus, Laserblast, Werewolf, Future War	December 2, 2008
Volume XIV	Mad Monster, Manhunt in Space, Soultaker, Final Justice	February 3, 2009
Volume XV	The Robot vs the Aztec Mummy, The Girl in Lovers Lane, Zombie Nightmare, Racket Girls	July 7, 2009
Volume XVI	The Corpse Vanishes, Warrior of the Lost World, Santa Claus, Night of the Blood Beast	December 1, 2009
Volume XVII	The Crawling Eye, The Beatniks, The Final Sacrifice, Blood Waters of Dr. Z	March 16, 2010
Volume XVIII	Lost Continent, Crash of Moons, The Beast of Yucca Flats, Jack Frost	July 13, 2010
Volume XIX	Robot Monster, Bride of the Monster, Devil Doll, Devil Fish	November 9, 2010
Volume XX	Project Moon Base, Master Ninja I, Master Ninja II, The Magic Voyage of Sinbad	March 8, 2011
MST3K vs. Gamera	Gamera, Gamera vs Barugon, Gamera vs Gaos, Gamera vs Guiron, Gamera vs Zigra	August 2, 2011
Volume XXII	Time of the Apes, Mighty Jack, The Violent Years, The Brute Man	December 6, 2011
Volume XXIII	King Dinosaur, The Castle of Fu Manchu, Code Name: Diamond Head, Last of the Wild Horses	March 27, 2012
Volume XXIV	Fugitive Alien, Star Force: Fugitive Alien II, The Sword and the Dragon, Samson vs. the Vampire Women	July 31, 2012
Volume XXV	Robot Holocaust, Operation Double 007, Kitten with a Whip, Revenge of the Creature	December 4, 2012
Volume XXVI	The Magic Sword, Alien from L.A., Danger!! Death Ray, The Mole People	March 26, 2013
Volume XXVII	The Slime People, Rocket Attack U.S.A., Village of the Giants, The Deadly Mantis	July 27, 2013
25th Anniversary Edition	Moon Zero Two, The Day the Earth Froze, The Leech Woman, Gorgo (with bonus episodes Mitchell & The Brain That Wouldn't Die)	November 19, 2013
Volume XXIX	Untamed Youth, Hercules and the Captive Women, The Thing That Couldn't Die, The Pumaman	March 25, 2014
Volume XXX	The Black Scorpion, Outlaw, The Projected Man, It Lives by Night	July 29, 2014
The Turkey Day Collection	Jungle Goddess, The Painted Hills, The Screaming Skull, Squirm	November 25, 2014
Volume XXXII	Space Travelers, Hercules, Radar Secret Service, San Francisco International	March, 2015

Shout! Factory single episode releases

All Shout! Factory singles feature episodes that were previously available on DVD. Unlike Rhino's single-disc releases, most Shout! Factory singles are "manufacture-on-demand" titles. Only the two-disc Special Edition of Manos: The Hands of Fate is a standard commercial release.

Episode Number	Featured Film	Release date
517	Beginning of the End	February 15, 2011
812	The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?	February 15, 2011
511	Gunslinger	June 21, 2011
1009	Hamlet	June 21, 2011
619	Red Zone Cuba	August 16, 2011
320	The Unearthly	August 16, 2011
424	Manos: The Hands of Fate	September 13, 2011
518	The Atomic Brain	October 18, 2011
908	The Touch of Satan	October 18, 2011
515	The Wild Wild World of Batwoman	March 20, 2012
1002	Girl in Gold Boots	March 20, 2012

Shout! Factory bonus disc releases

On occasion, Shout! has offered bonus discs with the purchase of a particular MST3K set directly from Shout! Factory's web site. Each of these bonus discs come in separate packaging from the set with which they were released.

Title	Contents	Available with
Radar Men from the Moon	Radar Men from the Moon	Volume XXV
Serial Variety Pack	The Phantom Creeps, Undersea Kingdom, General Hospital	Volume XXVII

MST3K: The Movie releases

• Image Entertainment - May 27, 1998
• Universal (Region 2, Germany) - March 15, 2007
• Universal - May 6, 2008
• Shout! Factory - September 3, 2013 in a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack "Collector's Edition"

Best Brains releases

• Play MSTie for Me - Triple Decker DVD (contains all three original VHS volumes of "Play MSTie for Me")
• Tom Servo's Favorite Host Segments Vol. I with bonus feature, Poopie!

Mike Nelson commentaries

In 2004, Michael J. Nelson began working with Legend Films, releasing various public domain films newly colorized and featuring a "MST3K-like" commentary by Mike.

• Reefer Madness - April 20, 2004
• Night of the Living Dead - September 7, 2004
• Carnival of Souls - March 29, 2005
• House on Haunted Hill - September 6, 2005, repackaged alongside the film The Last Man on Earth (which has no Mike commentary) as The Vincent Price Double Feature, January 25, 2011
• Plan 9 from Outer Space - June 27, 2006
• Little Shop of Horrors - June 27, 2006

RiffTrax

In 2005, Mike Nelson and Legend launched RiffTrax, an online service where Mike (and, eventually guests) would riff various films, releasing only an .mp3 of the riff, thereby circumventing the need to license the films or limit themselves to public domain features. In 2009, DVDs of various public domain films (some already released with a "Mike solo" riff) and collections of shorts were released by Legend. Also in that year, RiffTrax began a series of live theatrical broadcasts, which were later released on DVD. The final category is "Christmas with Rifftrax", which features either a set of shorts or a feature and shorts, along with "host segments" with Mike, Bill and Kevin.

Shorts collections

• The Best of Rifftrax Shorts, Vol. 1, June 16, 2009
• The Best of Rifftrax Shorts, Vol. 2, June 16, 2009
• Shorts-Tacular Shorts-Straveganza, January 26, 2010
• Wide World of Shorts, January 26, 2010
• Shorts-A-Poppin, September 14, 2010
• Rifftrax Plays with Their Shorts, September 14, 2010
• Order in the Shorts, January 25, 2011
• Shortstoberfest, January 25, 2011
• Shorts to-Go, July 19, 2011
• Olde Tyme Shorts Roundup, July 19, 2011
• Hand-Crafted Artisanal Shorts, March 27, 2012
• Shorts to Astonish!, December 5, 2012
• May the Shorts Be with You, October 21, 2013

Feature films

• Carnival of Souls, June 16, 2009
• House on Haunted Hill, June 16, 2009
• Little Shop of Horrors, June 16, 2009
• Missile to the Moon, June 16, 2009
• Night of the Living Dead, June 16, 2009
• Plan 9 from Outer Space, June 16, 2009
• Reefer Madness, June 16, 2009
• Swing Parade, June 16, 2009
• Planet of Dinosaurs, January 26, 2010
• Voodoo Man, January 26, 2010
• Maniac November 30, 2010
• Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny, March 8, 2011
• The Crater Lake Monster March 6, 2012
• The Galaxy Invader, March 6, 2012
• Ghosthouse, November 15, 2013
• The Guy from Harlem, April 15, 2014

RiffTrax Live!

• Plan 9 from Outer Space, January 25, 2010
• Christmas Shorts-Straveganza, September 14, 2010
• House on Haunted Hill, May 17, 2011
• Reefer Madness, May 17, 2011
• Jack the Giant Killer, May 1, 2012
• Manos: The Hands of Fate, May 6, 2014
• Birdemic, November 11, 2014

Christmas with Rifftrax

• Magic Christmas Tree, May 1, 2012
• Santa's Village of Madness, November 25, 2013

Combo packs

• Double Feature: The Best of Rifftrax Shorts, Vol. 1 / Night of the Living Dead, March 2, 2010

The Film Crew

In 2005, Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy formed The Film Crew, recording four episodes for Rhino. Legal wrangling with Jim Mallon led to a delay and a change of distributor, to Shout! Factory. The episodes finally saw DVD release in 2007.

• Hollywood After Dark, July 10, 2007
• Killers from Space, August 7, 2007
• The Wild Women of Wongo, September 11, 2007
• The Giant of Marathon, October 9, 2007

Cinematic Titanic

In 2007, MST3K creator Joel Hodgson announced his new project, Cinematic Titanic, where he and his fellow riffers would riff on bad movies in much the style as on MST3K, including a silhouette of the riffers superimposed on the film's image. Throughout 2008 and 2009, seven studio recorded episodes were released. Since then, five additional DVDs have been released, featuring recordings of Cinematic Titanic's live performances.

Studio episodes

1. The Oozing Skull, January 9, 2008
2. The Doomsday Machine, June 19, 2008
3. The Wasp Woman, August 7, 2008
4. Legacy of Blood, October 9, 2008
5. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, November 20, 2008
6. Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks, January 8, 2009
7. Blood of the Vampires, March 19, 2009

Live DVDs

• East Meets Watts, December 16, 2009
• The Alien Factor, February 23, 2010
• Danger on Tiki Island, June 16, 2010
• War of the Insects, December 2, 2011
• Rattlers, July 17, 2012

Other releases

Star Wait

Star Wait is a documentary fan film that covers a group of Star Wars fans waiting in line to see Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones. It was released on DVD in 2005 to coincide with the DVD release of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. The extras include commentaries on the various chapters of the documentary. Two segments are riffed by Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu and Josh Weinstein, the first time they riffed together since Season 1 of MST3K.

Three Stooges

Beginning in 2004, Legend Films released a series of DVDs featuring Three Stooges material in the public domain. Three of these releases have connections to MST3K.

• The Three Stooges in Color, April 26, 2005
  • "Comedy Wraparounds by The Film Crew (Mike Nelson and the cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000)"
• The Three Stooges - Greatest Routines, March 27, 2007.
  • "Hosted by Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy of Mystery Science Theater and Rifftrax.com"
• The Three Stooges in Swing Parade, March 27, 2007
  • "Contains bonus commentary by Mike Nelson of Rifftrax"
• The Three Stooges Triple Whammy, March 27, 2007
  • Greatest Routines alongside the Three Stooges "Extreme Rarities" and "Live and Hilarious" discs (which do not feature Mike or Kevin)

See also

• List of Episodes Released
• List of VHS releases
• List of Blu-ray releases
• List of Laserdisc releases