# MST3K Invisible Man **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 10, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-invisible-man/429544 "2007-12-10T22:08:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-invisible-man/429544/1 "2007-12-10T22:08:51Z")
I faintly remember they had an episode with a secret agent who could turn invisible. Anyone know what it was called, or what season? ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-invisible-man/429544/2 "2007-12-10T22:23:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-invisible-man/429544/3 "2007-12-10T23:01:55Z")
[QUOTE=h.sapiens] 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. [/QUOTE] 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? ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-invisible-man/429544/4 "2007-12-11T01:07:03Z")
And the “movie” in question was actually culled from episodes of a short-lived TV series called _Gemini Man_ . ---
**Author:** ![Catfood\_Purrito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Catfood\_Purrito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catfood_Purrito)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-invisible-man/429544/5 "2007-12-11T06:57:57Z")
It was from season 8, and one of my favorites. It is, unfortunately, not on DVD yet. ---
**Author:** ![randwill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-invisible-man/429544/6 "2007-12-11T14:53:10Z")
[QUOTE=Mishell] It was from season 8, and one of my favorites. It is, unfortunately, not on DVD yet. [/QUOTE] Not released by Rhino yet (if ever), but readily available on DVD from a few sources. As are all MST3K episodes. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-invisible-man/429544/7 "2007-12-11T15:00:50Z")
I never saw it. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-invisible-man/429544/8 "2007-12-11T15:36:58Z")
[Here’s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8395915&postcount=799) **CandidGamera’s** review of Riding With Death. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-invisible-man/429544/9 "2007-12-11T17:06:38Z")
“Can’t get these…_damn glasses…CLEAN_…!” ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-invisible-man/429544/10 "2007-12-11T17:14:26Z")
[QUOTE=h.sapiens] 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. [/QUOTE] 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) ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-invisible-man/429544/11 "2007-12-11T20:17:57Z")
[QUOTE=Ukulele Ike] “Can’t get these…_damn glasses…CLEAN_…!” [/QUOTE] _squeak squeak squeak_ ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-invisible-man/429544/12 "2007-12-17T20:22:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-invisible-man/429544/13 "2007-12-17T20:30:48Z")
Here it is. Episode 623- THE AMAZING TRANSPARENT MAN with short: “THE DAYS OF OUR YEARS” ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-invisible-man/429544/14 "2007-12-17T23:19:32Z")
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._ ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2007, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-invisible-man/429544/15 "2007-12-17T23:40:12Z")
Wasn’t there a Joel-era serial/short with Bela Lugosi as a mad scientist who turned invisible? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2007, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mst3k-invisible-man/429544/16 "2007-12-18T13:49:35Z")
Yes, “The Phantom Creeps.” It was a serial that they had on a few episodes.