I faintly remember they had an episode with a secret agent who could turn invisible. Anyone know what it was called, or what season?
Season 8, episode 814, the name of the movie was “Riding with Death”. starring Ben Murphy. It also had Jim Stafford as a good-ole-boy trucker.
Oh god, Ben Murphy! The memories! We used to call him Action Pants (I don’t know why)! Anyone know what volume of the show it’s on or even if it got to DVD yet?
And the “movie” in question was actually culled from episodes of a short-lived TV series called Gemini Man .
It was from season 8, and one of my favorites. It is, unfortunately, not on DVD yet.
Not released by Rhino yet (if ever), but readily available on DVD from a few sources. As are all MST3K episodes.
I never saw it.
Here’s CandidGamera’s review of Riding With Death.
“Can’t get these…damn glasses…CLEAN…!”
Well, can anything actually be said to be “starring” Ben Murphy? Isn’t it more accurate to say that the camera is pointed at Ben Murphy most of the time?
(riff)
squeak squeak squeak
But wasn’t there another episode that had an “invisible” man? It was a black and white flick and the invisible guy was being used by a criminal to pull off crimes. I think it was in the Joel Era but I could be wrong.
Here it is. Episode 623- THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN with short: “THE DAYS OF OUR YEARS”
Of course, no consideration of invisibility in MST3K would be complete without mention of episode 413, **Manhunt in Space ** (starring Rocky Jones, Space Ranger and his sidekick Winky), which introduced one of my personal all-time favorite examples of bogus science, “cold light.” The scientist in the show explains the principle thusly: in the desert, the heat distorts light, causing people to see things that aren’t there (mirages). Therefore, if light is supercooled instead, the reverse occurs: the light causes people to NOT see what IS there! And this is why spaceships turn invisible when they are cold! It’s beautiful in its perfect internal logic, perhaps even better than the super-albinism formula that Wells used in The Invisible Man.
Wasn’t there a Joel-era serial/short with Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist who turned invisible?
Yes, “The Phantom Creeps.” It was a serial that they had on a few episodes.