Peter Graves! Billy Crystal! Doug McClure! Lorne Green! Burt Convy! Burgess Meredith! Martin Milner! Robert Reed! John de Lancie! Regis! Its a stampede of TV has-beens!
This is where they really start to hit their stride during the KTMA season. This is one of my favorites from the season, and now I can actually SEE it! Every other copy I've seen of this episode looks like absolute crap.
In the beginning, there was KTMA. And it was...rough, but it had its moments towards the end. Yes, the primordial ooze of MST3K. Coming to you from the Twin Cities' lowest rated UHF station for one season in 1988-89 before MST3K went national.
For 30 years, the KTMA episodes have been hard to watch for MSTies. And not just because of the quality of the show itself, it was LITERALLY hard to watch. And hear. Existing and widely circulated taped copies were multiple VHS generations old, the picture dark and muddy, had stretching and blurring and tape hits, and static-y, fuzzy sound.
No more. I've sourced the best available copies for the best-looking video, cleaned up the audio myself, and am uploading them to Youtube for MSTies at-large.
Ladies and gentlemen, presenting my newest project: KTMA IN HQ!
Don't worry, the Broadcast Editions aren't going anywhere and will return soon.
We're almost certainly never getting full-pristine KTMA episodes off the original master tapes, but that's no reason these episodes have to be intolerable to watch.
The episodes I'm going to uploading are MILES better than the DAP versions widely circulating here on Youtube. Open one and compare. These will have better color, picture quality, resolution and sound.
