Project Moon Base
From MST3K
| 109 - Project Moon Base | |
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| Air Date | January 1990 |
| Movie Director | Richard Talmadge |
| Year | 1953 |
| Cast | Ross Ford, Donna Martell, Hayden Rorke |
| Short | Radar Men From the Moon - Chapter 7: Camouflaged Destruction Chapter 8: The Enemy Planet |
| Short Director | Fred C. Brannon |
| Year | 1951 |
| Cast | George Wallace |
| Preceded by | 108 - The Slime People |
| Followed by | 110 - Robot Holocaust |
Contents |
The Short
Synopsis
Cody tries to capture the evil henchmen Graber and Daly, but is tricked and knocked off a cliff. He activates his rocket suit as he falls, but Graber and Daly get away. They succeed in mounting the ray gun in a camouflaged truck and are now prepared to wreak more havoc. Cody sets off in his rocket suit to find the truck, while Ted flies a plane, prepared to drop bombs on the truck when Cody finds it. Once Cody spots the truck, he boards Ted's plane. Graber and Daly stop the truck, activate the ray gun and shoot the plane down.
After narrowly escaping that cliffhanger, Cody and his colleagues discuss how to defend the Earth against Retik’s ray guns. They need to build ray guns of their own, but in order to accomplish this, they need the special moon element 'lunarium.' Cody and his crew take the rocket ship to the moon, where Cody captures one of Retik’s underlings and forces him to divulge where the lunarium is stored. With Ted’s help, Cody blasts into the vault and removes the lunarium. Unable to carry it back to their rocket with their bare hands, they steal a moon tank to transport it. As the two heroes make their getaway, they are chased by moon men in another moon tank. The moon men shoot at Cody's tank, disabling it.
Information
The Movie
Synopsis
Set in the future — 1970, that is — Project Moon Base takes place on a huge space station, where a group of pilots and scientists draw up plans to establish a U.S. military base on the moon. This project is nearly stymied by foreign spy Dr. Wernher (Larry Johns), who is exposed when he cannot answer a few simple questions about the Brooklyn Dodgers (it's that kind of film). The story comes to an abrupt conclusion when female colonel Breiteis (Donna Martell) — pronounced "Bright Eyes"! — and male major Moore (Ross Ford) are married on the surface of the moon, with the President of the United States (Ernestine Barrier) presiding via two-way television. [1]
Information
Project Moon Base is a "feature film" cobbled together from several episodes of the unsold TV science fiction series Ring Around the Moon.[2]
The Episode
Host Segments
Invention Exchange:
Joel - juggling water
Mads - Insect-a-sketch
Segment Two: Crow and Tom pretend they're Commando Cody
Segment Three: Futuristic neckties
Segment Four: The amazing all-purpose mystery substance SPACOM!
Ending Segment: Crow and Tom hang upside down and read letters
Obscure References
| preceded by: Season 0 | MST3K Season 1 | followed by: Season 2 | ||||||
| 1989 - 1990 | ||||||||
| 101 | The Crawling Eye | 1989-11-28 | 106 | The Crawling Hand | 1989-12-26 | 111 | Moon Zero Two | 1990-01-30 |
| 102 | The Robot vs the Aztec Mummy | 1989-12-05 | 107 | Robot Monster | 1990-01-02 | 112 | Untamed Youth | 1990-02-06 |
| 103 | The Mad Monster | 1989-12-12 | 108 | The Slime People | 1990-01-09 | 113 | The Black Scorpion | 1990-02-13 |
| 104 | Women of the Prehistoric Planet | 1990-02-20 | 109 | Project Moon Base | 1990-01-16 | |||
| 105 | The Corpse Vanishes | 1989-12-19 | 110 | Robot Holocaust | 1990-01-23 | |||
