Mystery Science Theater 3000: LOST CONTINENT

February 25, 2015 9:57 PM - Season 2, Episode 8

(1951, B&W, Lippert, Rock Climbing, Joker) "The INCREDIBLE speed of Atomic Power! The FANTASTIC Thrills of the prehistoric past!" A plane carrying important instruments vital to national defense crashes on top of a mountain, and so Our Heroes spend sevenbleen kadowsand years climbing it. In fact they're still climbing it now. Oh, and there's dinosaurs, enjoy! The infamous rock climbing episode, last seen in Joel's 2014 Turkey Day show, back for another round. Good luck with this one.... YouTube (1h37m) Original airdate uncertain; November 24, 1990?

Daddy-O - Annotated MST3K (Satellite News's page on the episode is currently down.)

IMDB (2.9 stars)
"Major Joe Nolan heads a rescue mission in the South Pacific to recover a downed atomic rocket. The crew crashlands on a mysterious island, and spends much time rock-climbing. They meet up with a native girl, a big lizard, and some dinosaurs."
Directed by Samuel Newfield.
Written by Richard H. Landau, Carroll Young and Orville H. Hampton.
Starring Cesar Romero, Hillary Brooke and Chick Chandler.

posted by JHarris (8 comments total)

We got a request last week to have a later showing, so my plan is to revise the schedule and have two showings of the movie separated by some shorts. I plan on starting the first one at 6 PM Eastern, and the second one around 8 PM. Again, the URL will be posted here before the show.
posted by JHarris at 9:59 PM on February 25, 2015

"Sadly", I won't be able to make it for all the rock climbing action this week. I'll see you all next week. Have fun watching tonight.
posted by hobgadling at 6:37 AM on February 26, 2015 [1 favorite]

It's going to be weird watching an MST3K episode NOT centered around a biker gang
posted by hellojed at 1:46 PM on February 26, 2015

The room is at:
http://sync-video.com/r/rVwT0xs5
Two showings tonight, at 6 and 8 PM ET, though I might not be in the room myself for all of both.
posted by JHarris at 2:20 PM on February 26, 2015

I was not prepared for the amount of rock climbing in that episode
posted by hellojed at 10:04 PM on February 26, 2015 [2 favorites]

NO ONE EVER IS.
posted by JHarris at 11:57 PM on February 26, 2015 [3 favorites]

I'm sorry to say it hellojed, but next week we have another biker movie, in fact it's a very biker movie, bikier than the others, in fact the bikiest movie MST did: 209 THE HELLCATS.
posted by JHarris at 12:36 AM on February 27, 2015

I think that might actually be a worse movie than Manos, which is saying something. This one could have only been improved by the presence of a biker gang. Who...climbed rocks. On their bikes.
posted by ilana at 8:19 AM on February 27, 2015 [1 favorite]