"Making of 'MST3K'" feature with Mike Nelson and Bill Corbett interviews

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    GIST TV Science Fiction Feature http://www. gist.com/tvllistings/scifi/feature

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    Who can turn the worldon with their smiles?Who can take a nothingfilm and suddenly makeit all seem worthwhile?5L Why, Minneapolis'second best-known TV characters, and youshould know it! And if with each glance andevery little movement they show it, well, we'llsee it, when the half-hour Making of MysteryScience Theater 3000 premieres on Friday,Aug. 15 at, um, 5:58 p.m. ET? Hey, who's

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    shows, it was like Crow was recovering from a strpke!" Corbesince settled into the role.MSI3K's home-made, do-it-yourself look-it's sort of a real-lHome lmprovemenl "Tool Time"-gives it a sort of approachmost other shows don't have; imagine Roseanne giving a TVher set. And even with a fan club, a book, a sporadic newslea couple of "ConventioCon ExpoFeslA-Rama"s, the series'relatively small but devoted audience always loves to know mNot that there's that much to know-the making-of special ona half-hour. "lt's not rocket science," deadpans Nelson-ironicsince Volkswagen-minibus-rocket science is an integral partshow. But what secrets willbe unlocked? Will people be shodiscover Crow and Servo are actually puppets? "lf someonelaughs Nelson, "they need serious, instantaneous help. Buthopefully it won't shock people to learn we actually write all ocomments, that they aren't spontaneously ad-libbed."

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    special later this year, there's gonna be a whole.lot of puppetalgoin'on.Photo of Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy courtesy of Sci-Fi Channel; photoChaplin, Mary Jo Piehl and Mike Nelson courtesy of Sci-Fi ChannelGIST's previous TV Sci-Fi articles:. Alien Nation's Gary Graham. Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman's Teri H. Mission Genesrs. S/rders' Jerry O'Connell. The X-Files'David Duchovny

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