Prince of Space (episode)
From MST3K
| 816 - Prince of Space | |
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| Air Date | August 16, 1997 |
| AKA | Yusei oji Invaders from the Spaceship The Star Prince |
| Movie Director | Eijiro Wakabayashi |
| Year | 1959 |
| Cast | Tatsuo Umemiya (as Tatsuya Umemiya) Joji Oka |
| Preceded by | 815 - Agent for H.A.R.M. |
| Followed by | 817 - The Horror of Party Beach |
Contents |
The Movie
Synopsis
A group of space men from the planet Krankor are led by their leader, Phantom, to invade Earth. But a superhero named Prince of Space (actually a bootblack in disguise) arrives to defeat the spacemen. Although the weapons of the aliens cannot harm the Prince of Space, the Phantom continues to fight, and many plot twists (including capturing a group of elderly scientists) ensue. [1]
Information
The Episode
Host Segments
Prologue: Crow and Tom's game of Dog and Bear gets out of hand.
Segment One: Bobo finds a suitable spot to go to the toilet, but it turns out to be a wormhole, through which The Widowmaker and a unwilling Satellite of Love enter to chase after him.
Segment Two: Due to the effects of the wormhole, each member of the SOL is moving at a different temporal speed, which makes convesation problematic, but provides ample chances for the theft of Crow's chicken puppet.
Segment Three: Due to the effects of the wormhole, our Mike is replaced with version from alternate universe where he is also a robot. What little respect Crow and Tom have for Mike is lost as they can't take the ventriloquist dummy styled robot seriously.
Segment Four: Due to the effects of the wormhole, Mike and the Bots are transported to a lovely sylvan glen. Tired of all the wackiness, Mike just goes for a walk.
Closing (Segment Five): Everything appears to be back to normal, complete with a visit from Krankor, and they're even back around the Earth, but Pearl and Brain Guy have reason to suspect they've traveled back in time to Ancient Rome...
Stinger: The Phantom of Krankor's trademark laugh.
Other Notes
Guest Stars
- Krankor: Bill Corbett
- Callipygeas: Kevin Murphy
- Flavia: Bridget Jones
Obscure References
- ("I'm Prince... of Space!") "Ah, hoo-hoo!"
Crow is singing in the style of the singer Prince.
- We were supposed to meet those Heaven's Gate people here.
Heaven's Gate was a small cult of people that believed that there was a spaceship carrying Jesus following right behind the Hale Bopp Comet. When Hale Bopp passed, they killed themselves.
- Great Hall designed by The LEGO Corporation.
Reference to a toy company that makes interchangeable brick toys.
Video Release
- Commerically released on DVD by Rhino in April 2005 as part of The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection: Volume 7, a 4-DVD set with Hercules Unchained, Hercules Against the Moon Men, and The Killer Shrews.
| preceded by: Season 7 | MST3K Season 8 | followed by: Season 9 | ||||||
| 1997 | ||||||||
| 801 | Revenge of the Creature | 1997-02-01 | 809 | I Was a Teenage Werewolf | 1997-04-19 | 817 | The Horror of Party Beach | 1997-08-16 |
| 802 | The Leech Woman | 1997-02-08 | 810 | The Giant Spider Invasion | 1997-05-31 | 818 | Devil Doll | 1997-10-04 |
| 803 | The Mole People | 1997-02-15 | 811 | Parts: The Clonus Horror | 1997-06-07 | 819 | Invasion of the Neptune Men | 1997-10-11 |
| 804 | The Deadly Mantis | 1997-02-22 | 812 | The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies | 1997-06-14 | 820 | Space Mutiny | 1997-11-07 |
| 805 | The Thing That Couldn't Die | 1997-03-01 | 813 | Jack Frost | 1997-07-12 | 821 | Time Chasers | 1997-11-22 |
| 806 | The Undead | 1997-03-08 | 814 | Riding with Death | 1997-07-19 | 822 | Overdrawn at the Memory Bank | 1997-12-06 |
| 807 | Terror from the Year 5000 | 1997-03-15 | 815 | Agent for H.A.R.M. | 1997-08-02 | |||
| 808 | The She-Creature | 1997-04-05 | 816 | Prince of Space | 1997-08-16 | |||
