Shorts, Volume 1 is a compilation release featuring seven popular shorts from Mystery Science Theater 3000. It was originally released on VHS by Rhino Entertainment in July 1998; it was later re-released on DVD as part of the Volume 2 set from Rhino and its re-issue, Volume II from Shout! Factory. The featured shorts are: The Home Economics Story (Episode #317), Junior Rodeo Daredevils (Episode #407), Body Care and Grooming Episode #510), Cheating (Episode #515), A Date with Your Family (Episode #602), Why Study Industrial Arts? (Episode #609} and The Chicken of Tomorrow (Episode #702).

David, a robotic boy—the first of his kind programmed to love—is adopted as a test case by a Cybertr...

An employee of a secret company operation becomes the victim of the company's special weapons projec...

Year 2038: The mineral resources of the earth are drained, in space there are fights for the last de...

Dr. Clayton Forrester figures he can rule the world if he deadens his subjects' brains by making the...

Calpuina is a night-watchman in a wharehouse, a perfect job for him. When some thieves break in and ...

Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 year...

Puppeton, the town of 31 Minutes, faces such an infernally hot Christmas that Santa Claus cancels hi...

A tormented ghost and people struggling to survive in an apocalyptic world are the protagonists in t...

The explorer craft USS Palomino is returning to Earth after a fruitless 18-month search for extra-te...

In the midst of societal conflict in the futuristic city of Metropolis, Kenichi and his uncle Shunsa...

The Muppets gather to watch their newly-finished big-budget rich-and-famous feature film: a talent a...

Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission...

Jonathan Switcher, an unemployed artist, finds a job as an assistant window dresser for a department...

Carmen and Juni think their parents are boring. Little do they know that in their day, Gregorio and ...

Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointin...

In a futuristic world where women run the show, a shy plastics designer buys a female robot, so he g...

In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to...

When a robot dog from the future pops up in their backyard on a mission to help them, 11-year-old Ja...

Mankind can no longer reproduce because of gene manipulation aimed at making life longer. The clones...

Thelma and Patsy find themselves in a spooky house inhabited by a nut who is a mechanical genius and...