Great Job, Internet!: Intrepid Mystery Science Theater fan finds and uploads lost episode "K03"

Mystery Science Theater 3000 has managed to keep a lot of crappy movies in the public consciousness by sheer mocking will. By torturing Joel (or Mike or Jonah), and their robot friends, Crow and Tom Servo, with bad movies, the Mads have helped cinematic sadists keep bad-movie classics like Manos: The Hands Of Fate and The Final Sacrifice in circulation. But given its public access roots, MST3K has had to work to keep its episodes available to said sadists. One, in particular, has become the Holy Grail of Mystery Science Theater ephemera, a lost episode from 1988 made during the show’s KTMA years. But seemingly out of the ether, a YouTuber named Arthur Putie has found a VHS copy of the show’s third episode, ‌Star Force: Fugitive Alien II, also known as “K03,” and uploaded it to YouTube. On Reddit, they wrote that the tape was “found in a garage sale around Minneapolis & finally digitized.”

The movie in question is a compilation film made of episodes of the Japanese series Star Wolf. However, the Mads would again use the movie against the Satellite of Love a few years later in season three.