Turkey Day

Turkey Day is a Thanksgiving Day marathon of MST3K episodes. It originally ran on Comedy Central and was first held in 1991 to commemorate the show's third anniversary. Special bumper segments were shown between episodes and each Turkey Day marathon from 1992 onwards featured the premiere showing of at least one new episode. Its initial run was from 1991 through 1995.

In 1997, The Sci-Fi Channel ran a Thanksgiving Day marathon, although it was not labeled "Turkey Day".

In 2013, the tradition was revived by Shout! Factory, with six episodes selected by Joel streaming online at mst3kturkeyday.com starting at noon.^[1]^[2] The announcement of the stream garnered significant media attention.^[3]^[4]^[5] Joel and Shout! Factory have hosted a new six-episode marathon every year since.

Turkey Day '18 was aired before Thanksgiving (on Sunday, November 18th) because Season 12 was set to debut on Netflix on Thanksgiving Day and Shout! wanted to make sure people were free to watch it.^[6] It was the first Turkey Day marathon to not run on Thanksgiving Day.

List of Turkey Day marathons

Comedy Central

Sci-Fi Channel

Sci-Fi Channel's Thanksgiving Marathon ("Turkey Day '97")

Online

In 2014, Shout! Factory released Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Turkey Day Collection, a DVD set styled as a "Thanksgiving Day Marathon in a Box".

Recurring Experiments

MST3K 303 - Pod People (1991, 2014, 2016, 2020)
MST3K 301 - Cave Dwellers (1991, 2013, 2019)
MST3K 321 - Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1992, 1994, 2015)
MST3K 512 - Mitchell (1993, 1994, 1995, 2013, 2016, 2019)
MST3K 422 - The Day the Earth Froze (1993, 1994, 2017, 2020)
MST3K 507 - I Accuse My Parents (1993, 2013, 2019, 2020)
MST3K 424 - "Manos" The Hands of Fate (1993, 1995, 2016)
MST3K 505 - The Magic Voyage of Sinbad (1993, 2014, 2021)
MST3K 513 - The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1993, 2021)
MST3K 511 - Gunslinger (1994, 2021)
MST3K 701 - Night of the Blood Beast (1995, 2017, 2020)
MST3K 810 - The Giant Spider Invasion (1997, 2014, 2021)
MST3K 820 - Space Mutiny (2013, 2016, 2019)
MST3K 904 - Werewolf (2013, 2019)
MST3K 903 - The Pumaman (2014, 2016)
MST3K 910 - The Final Sacrifice (2013, 2016)

References

[1] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20131124104401/http://www.mst3kturkeyday.com/mst3k/redditama.html

[2] ttp://splitsider.com/2013/11/joel-hodgson-is-bringing-back-mst3ks-turkey-day/

[3] ttp://www.avclub.com/article/in-the-nottoodistant-future-the-return-of-mst3ks-t-105800

[4] ttp://popwatch.ew.com/2013/11/18/mst3k-turkey-day-2013/

[5] ttp://io9.com/mystery-science-theater-thanksgiving-day-marathon-retu-1467455682

[6] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8c0SI4qflQ&feature=youtu.be

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