Mystery Science Theater 3000
Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders
Season 10, Episode 3 · Aired 1999-09-12
Synopsis
In the 1996 movie, Ernest Borgnine plays a grandfather telling his grandson two tales of Merlin's shop of mystical wonders. Merlin has come from the past to open a shop in the present and teach people about the wonders of magic. When he loses his artifacts, two tales of so-called horror ensue, one of which is a reedit of the movie The Devil's Gift, which may have been a ripoff of Stephen King's short story "The Monkey".
In the series
This episode is part of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1988–1999) on KTMA/Comedy Central/Sci-Fi.
Silhouette riffing on bad movies — thrift-store cinema as religion.
Key cast
- Joel Hodgson as Joel Robinson
- Mike Nelson as Mike Nelson
- Trace Beaulieu as Crow T. Robot / Dr. Forrester
- Kevin Murphy as Tom Servo