In the not too distant future, somewhere in time and space, Mike Nelson and his robot pals Tom Servo and Crow T Robot will return to the Satellite of Live and once again riff on cheesy movies. If this reads like gibberish, you are not familiar with Mystery Science Theater 3000 , which originated on a Minneapolis UHF channel in 1988, and ran for seven seasons on Comedy Central, and three on the Sci Fi channel before vanishing for 18 years and re-emerging on Netflix in 2017. The cast and crew