Last Updated on 25 March 2024

Mystery Science Theater 3000, or MST3K for short, is a TV show featuring a human and a couple of robots trapped in a satellite and being forced to watch the worst movies ever made. The fun for us is watching them make fun of the movies. As one commercial used to say, “It’s like watching really bad movies with three of your funniest friends.” Sometimes the movie wasn’t long enough for the 90-minute (plus commercials) episode, so they would add a “short” at the beginning. For more detailed information, visit my MST3K page.

I found 34 different lists of the “best” or “favorite” episodes of MST3K. Then I averaged them in Excel to create this master ranked list of all 211 episodes. See my Methodology page for the research process that was used, including links to all 34 lists that were averaged. Below is a checklist you can print to track which ones you’ve seen, followed by the ranked list.

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  1. The Final Sacrifice – S09 E10
  2. Mitchell – S05 E12
  3. Manos: The Hands of Fate – S04 E24
  4. Pod People – S03 E03
  5. Space Mutiny – S08 E20
  6. I Accuse My Parents – S05 E07
  7. Werewolf – S09 E04
  8. Time Chasers – S08 E21
  9. The Pumaman – S09 E03
  10. Eegah! – S05 E06
  11. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians – S03 E21
  12. Overdrawn at the Memory Bank – S08 E22
  13. Soultaker – S10 E01
  14. Laserblast – S07 E06
  15. The Touch of Satan – S09 E08
  16. Santa Claus – S05 E21
  17. Hobgoblins – S09 E07
  18. Jack Frost – S08 E13
  19. Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders – S10 E03
  20. Night of the Blood Beast – S07 E01
  21. Cave Dwellers – S03 E01
  22. Prince of Space – S08 E16
  23. MST3K – THE MOVIE (This Island Earth) – S07 E00
  24. Samson vs. The Vampire Women – S06 E24
  25. Gamera – S03 E02
  26. The Giant Spider Invasion – S08 E10
  27. Boggy Creek II – S10 E06
  28. Teenagers from Outer Space – S04 E04
  29. Zombie Nightmare – S06 E04
  30. Final Justice – S10 E08
  31. Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell – S07 E03
  32. The Brute Man – S07 E02
  33. Mac and Me – S12 E01
  34. The Amazing Colossal Man – S03 E09
  35. Danger: Diabolik – S10 E13
  36. The Violent Years – S06 E10
  37. The Day the Earth Froze – S04 E22
  38. Future War – S10 E04
  39. The Beginning of the End – S05 E17
  40. Outlaw (of Gor) – S05 E19
  41. Time of the Apes – S03 E06
  42. Cry Wilderness – S11 E02
  43. Godzilla vs. Megalon – S02 E12
  44. Riding with Death – S08 E14
  45. Squirm – S10 E12
  46. The Girl in Lover’s Lane – S05 E09
  47. Warrior of the Lost World – S05 E01
  48. War of the Colossal Beast – S03 E19
  49. Escape 2000 – S07 E05
  50. Gamera vs. Guiron – S03 E12
  51. The Beast of Yucca Flats – S06 E21
  52. The Giant Gila Monster – S04 E02
  53. The Horror of Party Beach – S08 E17
  54. Attack of the The Eye Creatures – S04 E18
  55. The Girl in Gold Boots – S10 E02
  56. Teen-Age Strangler – S05 E14
  57. Operation Double 007 – S05 E08
  58. The Thing That Couldn’t Die – S08 E05
  59. Avalanche – S11 E04
  60. Agent for H.A.R.M. – S08 E15
  61. The Painted Hills – S05 E10
  62. City Limits – S04 E03
  63. Secret Agent Super Dragon – S05 E04
  64. The Magic Voyage of Sinbad – S05 E05
  65. Lords of the Deep – S12 E03
  66. Daddy-O – S03 E07
  67. Parts: The Clonus Horror – S08 E11
  68. The Side Hackers – S02 E02
  69. The Incredibly Strange Creatures who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies – S08 E12
  70. The Deadly Mantis – S08 E04
  71. Village of the Giants – S05 E23
  72. Girls Town – S06 E01
  73. Danger! Death Ray – S06 E20
  74. Alien from L.A. – S05 E16
  75. The Sword and the Dragon – S06 E17
  76. Monster A-Go-Go – S04 E21
  77. The Magic Sword – S04 E11
  78. 12 to the Moon – S05 E24
  79. The Brain That Wouldn’t Die – S05 E13
  80. Gunslinger – S05 E11
  81. I was a Teenage Werewolf – S08 E09
  82. Reptilicus – S11 E01
  83. San Francisco International – S06 E14
  84. Bride of the Monster – S04 E23
  85. Devil Doll – S08 E18
  86. Tormented – S04 E14
  87. Track of the Moon Beast – S10 E07
  88. Master Ninja I – S03 E22
  89. The Screaming Skull – S09 E12
  90. High School Big Shot – S06 E18
  91. The Killer Shrews – S04 E07
  92. Invasion of the Neptune Men – S08 E19
  93. Devil Fish – S09 E11
  94. Starcrash – S11 E06
  95. Catalina Caper – S02 E04
  96. Fugitive Alien – S03 E10
  97. Star Force: Fugitive Alien 2 – S03 E18
  98. The Undead – S08 E06
  99. Carnival Magic – S11 E12
  100. Gamera vs. Zigra – S03 E16
  101. The Rebel Set – S04 E19
  102. The Christmas that Almost Wasn’t – S11 E13
  103. Angels Revenge – S06 E22
  104. The Incredible Melting Man – S07 E04
  105. Red Zone Cuba – S06 E19
  106. Godzilla vs. The Sea Monster – S02 E13
  107. Horrors of Spider Island – S10 E11
  108. The Starfighters – S06 E12
  109. Ator, the Fighting Eagle – S12 E06
  110. The Creeping Terror – S06 E06
  111. Attack of the Giant Leeches – S04 E06
  112. The Day Time Ended – S12 E04
  113. Quest of the Delta Knights – S09 E13
  114. Revenge of the Creature – S08 E01
  115. The Beatniks – S04 E15
  116. King Dinosaur – S02 E10
  117. The Time Travelers – S11 E03
  118. Hercules Against the Moon Men – S04 E10
  119. The Wild Wild World of Batwoman – S05 E15
  120. Wild Rebels – S02 E07
  121. Terror From the Year 5000 – S08 E07
  122. The Atomic Brain – S05 E18
  123. Blood Waters of Dr. Z – S10 E05
  124. The Leech Woman – S08 E02
  125. Wizards of the Lost Kingdom – S11 E10
  126. Master Ninja II – S03 E24
  127. Robot Holocaust – S01 E10
  128. The Mole People – S08 E03
  129. It Conquered the World – S03 E11
  130. Phase IV – S00 E09
  131. Colossus and the Headhunters – S06 E05
  132. Gorgo – S09 E09
  133. Crash of Moons – S04 E17
  134. Moon Zero Two – S01 E11
  135. Project Moonbase – S01 E09
  136. Atlantic Rim – S12 E02
  137. The Sinister Urge – S06 E13
  138. The Beast of Hollow Mountain – S11 E05
  139. Rocketship X-M – S02 E01
  140. Viking Women vs. the Sea Serpent – S03 E17
  141. Untamed Youth – S01 E12
  142. The Human Duplicators – S04 E20
  143. The Land That Time Forgot – S11 E07
  144. Hamlet – S10 E09
  145. Hercules – S05 E02
  146. Hercules Unchained – S04 E08
  147. Fire Maidens of Outer Space – S04 E16
  148. Doctor Mordrid – S13 E05
  149. The Skydivers – S06 E09
  150. Teen-Age Crime Wave – S05 E22
  151. The Slime People – S01 E08
  152. The Loves of Hercules – S11 E08
  153. Gamera vs. Barugon – S03 E04
  154. Earth vs. the Spider – S03 E13
  155. Lost Continent – S02 E08
  156. The Dead Talk Back – S06 E03
  157. The Crawling Eye – S01 E01
  158. Ring of Terror – S02 E06
  159. Radar Secret Service – S05 E20
  160. Beyond Atlantis – S13 E03
  161. Code Name: Diamond Head – S06 E08
  162. Gamera vs. Gaos – S03 E08
  163. The Unearthly – S03 E20
  164. Yongary: Monster From the Deep – S11 E09
  165. Kitten with a Whip – S06 E15
  166. Killer Fish – S12 E05
  167. The Space Children – S09 E06
  168. Teenage Caveman – S03 E15
  169. The Black Scorpion – S01 E13
  170. Racket Girls – S06 E16
  171. Swamp Diamonds – S05 E03
  172. It Lives By Night – S10 E10
  173. The Crawling Hand – S01 E06
  174. Bloodlust – S06 E07
  175. The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy – S01 E02
  176. Jungle Goddess – S02 E03
  177. Robot Monster – S01 E07
  178. Women of the Prehistoric Planet – S01 E04
  179. The Deadly Bees – S09 E05
  180. The Phantom Planet – S09 E02
  181. Santo in the Treasure of Dracula – S13 E01
  182. Hercules and the Captive Women – S04 E12
  183. Invasion U.S.A. – S06 E02
  184. The Indestructible Man – S04 E09
  185. Manhunt in Space – S04 E13
  186. At the Earth’s Core – S11 E14
  187. Last of the Wild Horses – S06 E11
  188. The Amazing Transparent Man – S06 E23
  189. The Projected Man – S09 E01
  190. Wizards of the Lost Kingdom 2 – S11 E11
  191. Rocket Attack USA – S02 E05
  192. The She Creature – S08 E08
  193. Mighty Jack – S03 E14
  194. Space Travelers – S04 E01
  195. The Hellcats – S02 E09
  196. Being From Another Planet – S04 E05
  197. Stranded in Space – S03 E05
  198. First Spaceship on Venus – S02 E11
  199. The Castle of Fu Manchu – S03 E23
  200. The Corpse Vanishes – S01 E05
  201. Mad Monster – S01 E03
  202. Demon Squad – S13 E06
  203. HG Wells’ The Shape of Things to Come – S13 E10
  204. The Christmas Dragon – S13 E13
  205. Robot Wars – S13 E02
  206. Munchie – S13 E04
  207. The Mask 3D – S13 E11
  208. Gamera vs. Jiger – S13 E07
  209. The Batwoman – S13 E08
  210. The Bubble – S13 E12
  211. The Million Eyes of Sumuru – S13 E09

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