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Season 1

Ep. # Featured Film Original Airdate Home Video Availability
101 The Crawling Eye
(The Trollenberg Terror)
(1958, B&W, DCA, UK)
11-28-1989 MST3K Collection, Volume XVII
A man discovers that an extraterrestrial force is killing mountain climbers in a small village.
102 The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy
(La momia azteca contra el robot humano)
(1959, B&W, K. Gordon Murray, Mexico)
12-5-1989 MST3K Collection, Volume XV
(Short: Radar Men from the Moon, Part 1: "Moon Rocket") Scientists search for the ancient breastplate of a mummy, culimnating in a mad scientist's attempt to fight the creature through the construction of a robot. The short introduces "Commando Cody", a scientist who dons a helmet and jet pack to thwart the evil plans of Moon Men and their criminal associates.
103 The Mad Monster
(1942, B&W, PRC)
12-12-1989 MST3K Collection, Volume XIV
(Short: Radar Men from the Moon, Part 2: "Molten Terror") A mad scientist turns a man into a werewolf in an attempt to silence his critics. In the short, Commando Cody attempts to escape moon-dwelling aliens while in the possession of an atomic weapon.
104 Women of the Prehistoric Planet
(1966, Color, Realart)
2-20-1990 MST3K Collection, Volume 9
An attempt is made to recover the crew of a spaceship that has crash-landed on an unknown planet.

According to Kevin Murphy in The Amazing Colossal Episode Guide, Comedy Central could not come up for a movie in time to shoot episode 104, so the crew skipped to 105 instead. He confirmed that despite this episode being filmed last, the crew decided not to change the production numbers around.

105 The Corpse Vanishes
(1942, B&W, Monogram)
12-19-1989 MST3K Collection, Volume XVI
(Short: Radar Men from the Moon, Part 3: "Bridge of Death") A reporter attempts to expose a botanist who kidnaps women in a plan to keep his wife healthy and youthful. In the short, Commando Cody pursues gangsters after returning to Earth.
106 The Crawling Hand
(1963, B&W, AIP)
12-26-1989 Standalone VHS, VHS boxset, Stadalone DVD
A teenager becomes possessed by a sentient, disembodied arm of an irradiated astronaut.
107 Robot Monster
(1953, B&W [3-D], Astor)
1-2-1990 MST3K Collection, Volume XIX
(Shorts: Radar Men from the Moon, Part 4: "Flight to Destruction"; Part 5: "Murder Car") After destroying all civilization on Earth, an alien attempts to wipe out the planet's last survivors. In the shorts, Commando Cody's assistant is kidnapped, leading to the pursuit of gangsters working for aliens from the Moon.
108 The Slime People
(1964, B&W, Hansen Enterprises)
1-9-1990 None
(Short: Radar Men from the Moon, Part 6: "Hills of Death") A race of mollusk-like creatures attack Los Angeles, and a group of survivors attempts to escape the area. In the short, Commando Cody pursues gangsters that have caused flooding through the use of an atomic bomb.
109 Project Moonbase
(1953, B&W, Lippert)
1990-01-16 MST3K Collection, Volume XX
(Shorts: Radar Men from the Moon, Part 7: "Camouflaged Destruction"; Part 8: "The Enemy Planet") In a futuristic version 1970, a group of astronauts are infiltrated by a spy, who inadvertently causes the team to become stranded on the Moon. In the shorts, Commando Cody fights gangsters who have acquired another atomic ray, and eventually returns to the moon in an attempt to sabotage moon-dwelling enemies.
110 Robot Holocaust
(1986, Color, Tycill Entertainment/MGM)
1-23-1990 MST3K Collection, Volume XXV
(Short: Radar Men from the Moon, Part 9: "Battle in the Stratosphere") In the future, a group of renegades fight to free mankind by battling the Dark One, the Room of Questions, the Vault of Beasts, and other menacing creations.

The short is interrupted in mid-episode, with the Mads claiming technical difficulties.

111 Moon Zero Two
(1969, Color, Hammer/Warner, UK)
1-30-1990 None
On a colonized moon, a disaffected astronaut-turned-cargo hauler hooks up with a woman who has come looking for her brother, a miner working a distant patch of moonscape.
112 Untamed Youth
(1957, B&W, Warner)
2-6-1990 None
Two hitchhiking sisters (one played by Mamie Van Doren) are sentenced to 30 days labor at a cotton farm run by the corrupt county government.
113 The Black Scorpion
(1957, B&W, Warner)
1990-02-13 None
Giant black scorpions emerge after a Mexican volcano eruption and go on a rampage.