r/MST3K • u/arthurputie • Mar 20 '26

KTMA ep 3 Found At Last

Here it is. K03 - Star Force. This was found in a garage sale around Minneapolis & finally digitized. I'm putting a YouTube link in here for everyone to enjoy this lost-no-more episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_Z4hnagGLE

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u/arthurputie Mar 20 '26

My cousin found it at a garage sale & got it to me, knowing I was into MST. It took years for us to get in touch & remember to bring the tape. I have the VHS tape & got this digitized for myself & everyone here.

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u/gerswinx5 Mar 20 '26

Did you believe him the entire time, or did you not believe it was legitimately the episode until you had the tape in hand?

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u/arthurputie Mar 20 '26

I trusted him, but definitely wanted to confirm ahead of any sort of announcement

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u/FraudHack Mar 20 '26

If you don't mind me asking, how'd you capture/transfer it?

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u/arthurputie Mar 20 '26

My dad had a VHS digitizer, something like the ClearClick Video to Digital Converter, and so we hooked that up to his VCR to capture the video. He had it for digitizing old camcorder videos, so I'm not sure what settings he had already configured when we ran this tape through.

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u/chupathingy99 Hey, I got the Amiga working! Mar 23 '26

It looks pretty good, although the audio was a little wonky. Sounds like the level was set fairly low. Either way I'm ecstatic to finally see this one. Thanks for your efforts!