List of Mystery Science Theater 3000 characters

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Over its run, Mystery Science Theater 3000 has seen the arrival and departure of various characters. It also featured many recurring guest characters. Below is a listing of both the main characters and the recurring characters from the series.

Main characters

Notes

Cambot is a regular character throughout the entire run of the show, but has no performer.

Recurring guest characters

• Magic Voice - a disembodied female voice that warns the crew of upcoming commercial breaks and make other announcements.
• Jerry and Sylvia (various unpaid interns at
  Sylvia and Gerry Anderson, the creative team behind Space: 1999 and Supermarionation shows like Thunderbirds and Stingray
  , some of which were featured as KTMA-season episodes.
• Biography
  program, Perkins first appeared in MST3K simply to annoy the Mads by describing the movie with glowing praise. When MST3K appeared in syndication as The Mystery Science Hour, Nelson's fake "Jack Perkins" hosted the show.
• Torgo (
  Gandalf the White
  ) to accompany TV's Frank to "Second Banana Heaven" and was never seen again (episode 624, "Samson vs. the Vampire Women").
• Jan-in-the-Pan (Mary Jo Pehl) - a woman's severed head from the movie The Brain That Wouldn't Die.
• Pitch (Paul Chaplin) - a devil from the Mexican movie Santa Claus, Pitch was one of the few characters from the Comedy Central seasons to return in the Sci Fi Channel seasons.
• Santa Claus - appeared three times on the show, including a fight with Pitch, bellowing, "I'm here to chew candy canes and kick ass, and I'm all out of candy canes!". Portrayed twice by Kevin Murphy and once by Joel Hodgson.
• The
  microbrewery
  . The Nanites were largely forgotten about during the show's last season, and we are not given an explanation of their fate following the series finale.
  • Kevin Murphy played Wade the Nanite.
  • Paul Chaplin
    played Ned the Nanite.
  • Mary Jo Pehl played Jody the Nanite and Shelli the Nanite.
  • Bridget Jones
    played Slicer the Nanite.
• Ortega (Paul Chaplin) - an unintelligible, decrepit, cigar-smoking henchman from the movie The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, Ortega recurred occasionally in the three Sci Fi seasons.
• "Krankor" (
  turning over
  ").
• The Skeleton Crew is Kinga's house band that plays in intro and outro segments. Har Mar Superstar leads the Skeleton Crew as their director.

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