The Mads Are Back: The Complete Fourth Season
Trace Beaulieu & Frank Conniff, "The Mads" from Mystery Science Theater 3000, took their touring act online beginning July 21, 2020 with a live-riff of Ed Wood’s GLEN OR GLENDA (1958), and concluded on July 9, 2024 after a highly successful four year run.
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.
Each episode is being offered as it originally aired, complete with intro, movie & post-show Q&A, as well as a "movie only" version if you want to just experience the riffs!
Season 4 contains the following episodes:
The Mads Are Back: I Accuse My Parents (w/ special Q&A guest Myka Fox)
The Mads Are Back: She Shoulda Said 'No'! (w/ special Q&A guest Rachel Lichtman)
The Mads Are Back: A Night of Shorts 13 (w/ special Q&A guest Dave Hill)
The Mads Are Back: The Incredible Petrified World (w/ special Q&A guest Ken Plume)
The Mads Are Back: The Creeping Terror (w/ special Q&A guest Kliph Nesteroff)
The Mads Are Back: A Night of Shorts 14 (w/ special Q&A guest Steve Stoliar)
The Mads Are Back: Mutiny in Outer Space (w/ special Q&A guest Kim "Howard" Johnson)
The Mads Are Back: A Night of Shorts 15 (w/ special Q&A guest Steve Darnall)
The Mads Are Back: The Wizard of Mars (w/ special Q&A guest Julie Klausner)
The Mads Are Back: The Manster (w/ special Q&A guest Bonnie Burton)
Also included as streamable bonus features are the pre-show reels that preceded each event, and any trailers associated with Season 4!
Frank Conniff is a comedy writer and performer who began his TV career writing for the Peabody award-winning series Mystery Science Theater 3000, where he also played “TV’s Frank,” the bumbling yet lovable mad scientist sidekick. He then went on to be a writer, producer and actor on the ABC TV series Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and he was a writer and producer on The Drew Carey Show on ABC, The New Tom Green Show on MTV, and the satirical series O2BE on the Oxygen Network, where he was also a cast member. He was head writer of the animated Nickelodeon series, Invader Zim, and also was a writer and producer for the Air America Radio network, where he provided material for on-air personalities Rachel Maddow, Marc Maron, Lizz Winstead, Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo, and Randi Rhodes. He was a writer and performer on Viewpoint with John Fugelsang on Current TV, and on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell on the FXX network, and he also writes and performs on The Jimmy Dore Show on Pacifica Radio.
Trace Beaulieu is a comic actor, writer, performer. He was a founding member of the Emmy- nominated, Peabody Award-winning, cult hit show Mystery Science Theater 3000. In addition to writing, occasionally directing, designing and building sets and props, Trace performed the puppet character Crow T. Robot, and mad scientist Dr. Clayton Forrester. He repeated these roles in the 1996 film version of the show, MST3K: The Movie. Trace wrote for ABC’s America’s Funniest Videos for nine seasons. He played a recurring character on Freak and Geeks, and has had cameo appearances on The West Wing and Arrested Development. For six years, he toured with the original cast of MST3K in a live movie riffing show called CINEMATIC TITANIC. Trace is currently the voice of A.R.T. the robot on Paul Feig’s Other Space on Yahoo TV.
