Episode 178
July 25, 2025
Good Job, Bud!
MST3K 906 • The Space Children
Hosted by Charlotte Wells and Chris Piuma
The Space Children telepathically command Chris and Charlotte to discuss peep shows, touch tones, Professors, Uncles Fester, and a former child actor.
With the short: Century 21 Calling.
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Show Notes.
The Space Children (Jack Arnold, 1958): MST3K Wiki. IMDB. Trailer.
Century 21 Calling (Robert W. Larsen, 1962): IMDB. UnMSTed.
The Great Betrayal (1974) is on The Scare Archives Volume 2: Danger Stories.
Staplerfahrer Klaus – Der erste Arbeitstag (Forklift Driver Klaus – The First Day on the Job) (Stefan Prehn and Jörg Wagner, 2000) (with English subtitles). Read more about it. (Warning: comedy gore.)
Frank Conniff: Twenty-Five Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever, the audiobook.
The Mads Are Back riffed Century 21 Calling in their A Night of Springtime Shorts show, which we discussed in our episode on Last of the Wild Horses.
A history of the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair, Century 21 Exposition.
The adult zone of Seattle World’s Fair.
We discuss the 1970 Osaka World’s Fair in our episode on Gamera vs. Jiger.
Expo 2025 is happening right now in Osaka!
DTMF signaling, aka Touch-Tone dialing.
Home automation in the 1970s (and today).
Our episodes on Revenge of the Creature, This Island Earth and The Brute Man (with the short, The Chicken of Tomorrow).
A scene from The Kid (Charlie Chaplin, 1921).
The California Child Actors Bill and Coogan Accounts.
We discuss both Won Ton Ton: The Dog that Saved Hollywood and The Greatest Story Ever Told with other Megaphonic hosts in our Patreon-exclusive holiday specials.
The Beverly Hillbillies: Jed Gets the Misery.
Them! (Gordon Douglas, 1954).
Our episode on Village of the Giants.
Macbeth (Orson Welles, 1948).
Dr. Cyclops (Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1940).
Michel Ray de Caravalho. And an interview with him.
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