It’s starting to dawn on me that almost every official DVD release of an MST3K episode has errors of some kind, like missing audio or video, or serious video glitches that have accumulated in the master tapes. Some episodes have been released twice - from Rhino and Shout! Factory - with each release featuring egregious errors the other doesn’t have and vice versa. And then you have eleven episodes that have flat out never been released on DVD except for their host segments on the most recent volume, and some of those released segments have video issues. And then there are the fan-traded copies, which have their own tradeoffs. It is utterly maddening.

Would there be any interest in a project with the goal of definitively reconstructing the unreleased episodes in their complete, originally broadcasted form using the best quality sources, while also identifying released-but-problematic episodes and reconstructing them with the same amount of care? I have edited video for years and have the obsessive eye for detail needed to reconstruct these episodes as precisely as possible, so I would like to take on the actual reconstruction, but I don’t really have that much good source material for MST3K episodes besides a handful of Rhino and Shout! volumes.