Mystery Science Theater 3000's Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff are back for an all-new holiday special that finds them live-riffing a batch of truly bizarre shorts. But this time: THEY'RE ALL ANIMATED! Following the show, Trace & Frank are joined by animation historian Jerry Beck for a live Q&A discussing Jerry's role in introducing America to Japanese animation, the intricacies of stop-motion animation, and favorite animated Christmas specials!
Mystery Science Theater 3000's Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff return after a brief hiatus for a big Halloween special that finds them live-riffing the 1959 sci-fi schlock classic, THE GIANT GILA MONSTER! A movie that feature far too little monster, and way too much chatting about skid marks.
Now you can enjoy the complete fourth season of The Mads Are Back (twelve episodes total) in this all-new digital box set! This download is yours to keep forever and can be re-downloaded at any time. See below for a list of which episodes are included.
Mystery Science Theater 3000's Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff wrap up four years of monthly livestreams with their sixteenth compilation of vintage shorts: A Night of Shorts 16.
When American foreign news correspondent Larry Stanford meets the elusive Dr. Suzuki in Tokyo, he finds himself succumbing to both infidelity and gallons of alcohol, all before growing a hideous second head in the 1959 horror film... THE MANSTER!
Own the first ten editions of Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff's beloved "A Night of Shorts" livestreams in a single collection: The Mads Are Back: A Night of Shorts I-X: More Shorts For Kay!
A crew of astronauts land on Mars in an attempt to do... something... while they wander around the Red Planet hoping to find... someone... culminating in a 15-minute monologue by the disembodied head of John Carradine! They're not in Kansas anymore... it's The Wizard of Mars!
Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) take on an all-new batch of bizarre vintage shorts, mostly on the topic of child rearing, for A NIGHT OF SHORTS 15!
When Biologist Ted Baxter and Federal Agent William Grant discover a dead body washed up ashore, they begrudgingly uncover a larger conspiracy involving radiation, spearguns, and nosy secretaries in the 1955 sci-fi flick THE PHANTOM FROM 10,000 LEAGUES!
In space, no one can hear you mutiny. Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) riff their way through yet another Hugo Grimaldi picture, this time the 1965 sci-fi stinker, Mutiny in Outer Space!
For the first time ever, you can now own every episode from Season 2 of the monthly comedy variety series The Mary Jo Pehl Show! Relive Mary Jo & her producer Chris Gersbeck offering viewers advice, playing old game shows, watching vintage ads, learning how to play Dungeons & Dragons, and even hosting an entire contest based on designing cult robes and more!
Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) take on an all-new batch of bizarre vintage shorts, including a re-riff on the MST3K classic short, A CASE OF SPRING FEVER ("NO SPRINGS!!!")!
This exclusive digital box set features eight classic B-movies and two shorts originally featured on the cult television program Mystery Science Theater 3000, with all-new riffs written & performed by MST3K's Trace Beaulieu ("Dr. Clayton Forrester") and Frank Conniff ("TV's Frank") over the years during their ongoing livestream series, The Mads Are Back!
Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) revisit an MST3K classic, and quite possibly the worst movie ever (yes... somehow worse than MANOS), THE CREEPING TERROR (1964)!
Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) live-riff their second Jerry Warren picture, against their own will, starring John Carradine in what may be the worst movie they've faced yet: The Incredible Petrified World (1959)!
Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) take on their unluckiest batch of shorts yet with A Night of Shorts 13! Featuring a back-to-basics collection of Coronet shorts that the duo have somehow never riffed, A Night of Shorts 13 features several instant classics from The Mads!
Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) take on the bizarre and hilarious 1949 anti-weed propaganda film SHE SHOULDA SAID NO! (AKA Wild Weed; The Devil's Weed; Marijuana, the Devil's Weed; and The Story of Lila Leeds and Her Exposé of the Marijuana Racket) for a grass-blowing good time on an all-new episode of The Mads Are Back!
Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) revisit one of the most notorious films every shown on MST3K: I ACCUSE MY PARENTS!
Enjoy the third season of The Mads Are Back (twelve episodes total) in this all-new digital box set! This download is yours to keep forever and can be re-downloaded at any time. See below for a list of which episodes are included.
Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) present this special livestream event as they live-riff on an all new batch of bizarre shorts for their TWELTH shorts compilation and Season 3 finale: A NIGHT OF SHORTS XII!
In the not-too-distant future, year 1980, there lived a guy named Captain Frank Chapman, and he kinda… sucked? Revisit the 1961 sci-fi flick THE PHANTOM PLANET, with Mystery Science Theater 3000’s Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff providing necessary (and hilarious) quips on everything from the egregious use of Francis X. Bushman to the seemingly endless array of broken wine glasses.
Relive the top 5 shorts as chosen by fans of The Mads Are Back, Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff's ongoing livestream series that finds them riffing on movies in the same vein as their previous show, Mystery Science Theater 3000!
A group of teens find themselves entangled in a global conspiracy to transform them (and others) into obedient servants, forced to walk aimlessly around an island full of... nothing? Luckily, Trace & Frank are here there to provide something in the way of entertainment as they live-riff on what just may be the worst movie they've ever riffed: TEENAGE ZOMBIES!
DARKSTAR: TERROR AT THE EDGE OF TIME: THE WATCH PARTY, is a movie-length version of the revolutionary video game DARKSTAR: THE INTERACTIVE MOVIE featuring commentary by Mystery Science Theater 3000 alumni and Darkstar cast members Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, Beez McKeever, Mary Jo Pehl and J. Elvis Weinstein.
Own all three Ed Wood movies riffed by Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff, including Glen or Glenda, Bride of the Monster, and Night of the Ghouls!
Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) present this special livestream event as they live-riff on an all new batch of bizarre shorts for their eleventh shorts compilation: A NIGHT OF SHORTS XI!
The dead of night is alive with the dead! Or something... it's hard to tell what's actually going on in an Ed Wood movie, but Trace & Frank do their best with one of the lesser-known "Kelton" movies, and one of Wood's most baffling works overall: NIGHT OF THE GHOULS!
"When life gives you lemons, God opens a window." Join Ruth as she follows her dream of becoming a vlogger after losing her job at a local supermarket.
A suave secret agent with a penchant for both time-travel & racism races against time to stop Los Angeles from being destroyed by a sinister organization of fireworks dealers known only as "The Dragons". Will Justin Power and Espionage Inc. save LA from mass destruction? Unfortunately, there's only one way to find out: by watching Dimension 5!
Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) present this special livestream event as they live-riff on an all new batch of bizarre shorts for: A NIGHT OF SHORTS X!
When space alien "Derek" lands in an unknown/non-regulated filming location, he breaks with his race's tradition of harvesting giant lobsters for food, setting off a chain of events that can best be described as "tedious" in the 1959 sci-fi classic: Teenagers From Outer Space!
When Dr. Paul Carruthers (Bela Lugosi) feels slighted by his employers, he unleashes Hell with wings in the form of a rather floppy-looking bat that attacks its perfume-wearing victims from the night skies in this 1940 horror movie: The Devil Bat!
It's a Halloween miracle as Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff, and Chris Gersbeck throw on some familiar costumes and host an evening of TERRIFYING shorts for their very first Halloween special: A Night of Shorts 9!
Bela Lugosi and Tor Johnson star in this Ed Wood film about a mad scientist and his monstrous sidekick who lure victims to their secret lab, and feed them to a limp octopus once they get bored with them. It’s the 1956 sci-fi classic, Bride of the Monster!
Claude Rains stars as the most annoying man on the planet who is as obsessed with his plants as he is with telling everyone that Earth is about to be attacked by an alien species in this 1961 Italian sci-fi flick, Battle of the Worlds!
Enjoy the entire second season of The Mads Are Back (twelve episodes total) in this all-new digital box set! This download is yours to keep forever and can be re-downloaded at any time. See below for a list of which episodes are included.
Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff live-riff on an all-new batch of demented shorts during their A Night of Shorts 8 livestream!
What happens when you film a movie using leftover sets & costumes and a lackluster script that goes literally nowhere? Cosmos: War of the Planets! An Italian sci-fi flick that makes about as much sense as its title.
A mad scientist and his girlfriend put their relationship to the test after she gets decapitated and he jumps through hoops trying to find her a replacement body, in the schlock classic: The Brain That Wouldn't Die!
Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff live-riff on an all-new batch of demented shorts during their A Night of Shorts 7 livestream!
When a man keeps dreaming of a beautiful woman he's never met, he takes it upon himself to visit a doll shop in the middle of the night, as one does. What he discovers is an evil cult forcing attendees to sit through the world's most boring open mic in The Devil's Hand!
A former Nazi scientist with a lot of time on his hands and very little in the way of home decor plans to travel back in time and stop Hitler's suicide in what may possibly be the lowest budget time travel picture of all time: The Yesterday Machine!
Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff live-riff on an all-new batch of demented shorts during their A Night of Shorts 6 livestream!
It’s a Christmas miracle as Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff riff on a movie they hoped they’d never, ever watch again: Manos: The Hands of Fate. This time with a pristine 1080p print thanks to Ben Solvey’s 4K restoration. Now you can see the pile of dirt Torgo is forced to sleep on!
Q&A GUEST: Jackey Neyman Jones
Astronauts and their rather unhelpful robot companion land on Venus only to stumble upon a group of scantily clad women who worship a pterosaur as God, and aren’t too fond of the Astronauts for killing their God. It’s the 1968 Mamie Van Doren-starring sci-fi flick directed by Peter Bogdanovich, Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women!
Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff live-riff on an all-new batch of demented shorts during their A Night of Shorts 5 livestream!
When the inhabitants of a small Illinois town begin vanishing, it’s up to Ed Nelson and a rag tag team of UFO investigators to solve the case over an excruciatingly-long 60 minutes in the 1958 sci-fi borefest The Brain Eaters!
When a series of killings plague a small Santa Monica beachfront, a conspiracy unravels that is both uninteresting and boring in the schlocky sixties beach party flick, The Beach Girls and The Monster (1965)!
Enjoy the entire first season of The Mads Are Back (thirteen episodes total) in this all-new digital box set! This download is yours to keep forever and can be re-downloaded at any time. See below for a list of which episodes are included.
The Mads’ thirteenth livestream from July 13, 2021, including their post-show Q&A with Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff, hosted by Chris Gersbeck.
The Mads’ twelfth livestream from June 8, 2021, including their post-show Q&A with Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff and very special guest Bridget Nelson (Mystery Science Theater 3000, RiffTrax), hosted by Chris Gersbeck.
The Mads’ eleventh livestream from May 11, 2021, including their post-show Q&A with Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff and very special guest Mike Nelson (Mystery Science Theater 3000, RiffTrax), hosted by Chris Gersbeck.
The Mads’ tenth livestream from April 13, 2021, including their post-show Q&A with Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff and very special guest Kevin Murphy (Mystery Science Theater 3000, RiffTrax), hosted by Chris Gersbeck.
The Mads’ ninth livestream from March 9, 2021, including their post-show Q&A with Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff and very special guest Bill Corbett (Mystery Science Theater 3000, RiffTrax), hosted by Chris Gersbeck.
A recording of The Mads: The Choppers livestream on February 9, 2021. Features the entire film and post-show Q&A with Frank and Trace, plus special guest Carolina Hidalgo.
The Mads’ seventh livestream from January 12, 2021, including their post-show Q&A with Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff and very special guest Mary Jo Pehl (Mystery Science Theater 3000, RiffTrax), hosted by Chris Gersbeck.
A recording of The Mads: Santa Claus vs. The Devil livestream on December 15, 2020. Features the entire film and post-show Q&A with Frank and Trace, plus special guests Andy Kindler & J. Elvis Weinstein.
Gor, a powerful criminal from the planet Arous who takes the shape of a disembodied human brain, assumes the body of scientist Steve March, played with gusto by John Agar. What follows is the schlocky sci-fi classic The Brain From Planet Arous!
The Mads’ fourth livestream from October 20, 2020, including their first live-riff compilation A NIGHT OF SHORTS 1 and a post-show Q&A with Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff and very special guests Rich Koz & Jim Roche (host and producer of MeTV’s Svengoolie), hosted by Chris Gersbeck.
The Mads Are Back! Join Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) for this special livestream event recorded live September 15, 2020 as they live-riff through 1956 film noir Walk The Dark Street, with a Q&A with Frank & Trace, plus special guest Jonah Ray.
The Mads Are Back! Join Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) for this special livestream event recorded live August 18, 2020, as they live-riff through William Castle's 1959 classic, The Tingler, with a Q&A afterwards featuring very special guest Victoria Price, daughter of the legendary horror icon Vincent Price. Hosted by Chris Gersbeck.
Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff, "The Mads" from Mystery Science Theater 3000, took their touring act online on July 21, 2020 with a live-riff of Ed Wood’s GLEN OR GLENDA (1958), and have held the monthly tradition ever since. Presented here is the full recording from The Mads' first livestream, including a post-show Q&A with Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff, hosted by Chris Gersbeck.
Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff riff on the short “Puppetry: String Marionettes” an excerpt from The Mads Are Back: A Night of Shorts 9, recorded live October 11, 2022.
Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff riff on the short “Parents: Who Need Them?” an excerpt from The Mads Are Back: A Night of Shorts 8, recorded live July 12, 2022.
Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff riff on the short “Helping Johnny Remember,” an excerpt from The Mads Are Back: A Night of Shorts 7, recorded live April 12, 2022.
Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff riff on the short, “How Much Affection?” — an excerpt from The Mads Are Back: A Night of Shorts 5, recorded live October 12, 2021.
Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff riff on the short “It Must Be The Neighbors,” an excerpt from The Mads Are Back: A Night of Shorts 6, recorded live January 11, 2022.
Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff riff on the bizarre short “Coffee Break,” an excerpt from The Mads Are Back: A Night of Shorts 4, recorded live July 13, 2021.
Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff riff on the Peter Drucker-starring short “Managing Time,” an excerpt from The Mads Are Back: A Night of Shorts 3, recorded live April 13, 2021.
Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff riff on the Coronet short “How to Keep A Job,” an excerpt from The Mads Are Back: A Night of Shorts 2, recorded live January 12, 2021.
Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff riff on the bizarre educational short “The Cautious Twins,” an excerpt from The Mads Are Back: A Night of Shorts, recorded live October 20, 2020.
