MST3K’s 2024 Turkey Day Marathon Includes a ‘Potluck’ of Celebrity Guests — Plus the Return of ‘The Final Sacrifice’!

Jeff Pfeiffer November 27, 10:00 am

MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000, Gypsy, Joel Hodgson, Tom Servo, 1988-1999 — © Comedy Central/ Courtesy Everett Collection

**Original *MST3K* host Joel Hodgson with bots Gypsy, Crow and Tom Servo**

Mystery Science Theater 3000‘s annual fan-favorite Thanksgiving “Turkey Day” marathon returns in 2024 with a lineup of 11 classic episodes, shared by former and current MST3K cast and crew, including hosts/writers/performers such as Joel Hodgson, Felicia Day, Emily Marsh and Mary Jo Pehl, along with celebrity MSTies David Dastmalchian, Mike Flanagan, Bryan Fuller, Mark Hamill, Matthew Lillard and Kumail Nanjiani, all of whom will introduce a favorite MST3K episode.

key art promo for the Mystery Science Theater 3000 Turkey Day Potluck of the Stars Marathon for 2024. On the left is an illustration of MST3K's robot characters Tom Servo and Crow seated at a table, wearing pilgrims hats and holding utensils over plates of steaming food. Around them, turkeys are gathered. The right side lists the title of the marathon, as well as the text: "All Thanksgiving Day Starts 5am ET/2am PT" below that is the show's web address: mst3kturkeyday.com

Courtesy Shout! TV

Hosted by Jonah Ray, this year’s marathon airs on Shout! TV and The MST3K Channel on Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024, beginning at 5am ET.

The lineup features a heaping helping of terrific episodes, including the legendary lampoons of Space Mutiny, Werewolf and, of course, Manos: The Hands of Fate.

Longtime fans will have even more reason to be thankful this Turkey Day, as one of this year’s marathon highlights, airing later in primetime, is the long-awaited return of fan-favorite episode The Final Sacrifice — a low-budget Canadian adventure film featuring the ridiculously named hero Zap Rowsdower — to the world of streaming (I believe the DVD version of that episode is also no longer in print).

The marathon will be available to watch on a wide variety of platforms. For a complete list, visit MST3KTurkeyDay.com.

If you are unable to watch the marathon on Turkey Day itself, because of traveling or uncool relatives who don’t want to turn it on and watch with you, don’t worry: Following the initial presentation of the marathon, it will be rerunning on the Mystery Science Theater 3000 channel and Shout! TV over the rest of the holiday weekend.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Thanksgiving 2024 Turkey Day Potluck of the Stars Marathon Schedule — Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024 (All Times ET)

5am: The Killer Shrews (1959; featured in MST3K Season 4) [introduced by Emily Marsh]

7am: Overdrawn at the Memory Bank (1984; featured in MST3K Season 8) [introduced by Kumail Nanjiani]

9am: Werewolf (1997; featured in MST3K Season 9) [introduced by Bryan Fuller]

11am: The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969; featured in MST3K Season 3) [introduced by Matthew Lillard]

1pm: Space Mutiny (1988; featured in MST3K Season 8) [introduced by Mary Jo Pehl]

3pm: Hobgoblins (1988; featured in MST3K Season 9) [Mike Flanagan]

5pm: Samson vs. the Vampire Women (1962; featured as the season finale of MST3K Season 6, which was the last episode as a series regular for Frank Coniff, aka “TV’s Frank”) [introduced by David Dastmalchian]

7pm: Gamera vs. Jiger (1970; featured in MST3K Season 13) [introduced by Mark Hamill]

9pm: The Final Sacrifice (1990; featured in MST3K Season 9) [introduced by Joel Hodgson]

11pm: Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966; featured in MST3K Season 4) [introduced by Felicia Day]

1am: The Mask (1961; featured in MST3K Season 13) [introduced by Jonah Ray]