TELEVISION - May 18, 1993 - Los Angeles Times

By SUSAN KING

May 18, 1993 12 AM PT

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Changing Hosts: Joel Hodgson, star of Comedy Central’s cult series “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” is stepping down as Joel Robinson, the tormented Gizmonics Institute employee, who, with his robot companions Tom Servo and Crow, is forced to watch bad movies. Replacing Hodgson will be head writer and frequent guest star Mike Nelson, who will take over in a special episode midway through the fifth season of 24 episodes currently in production.

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Susan King

Susan King is a former entertainment writer at the Los Angeles Times who specialized in Classic Hollywood stories. She also wrote about independent, foreign and studio movies and occasionally TV and theater stories. Born in East Orange, N.J., she received her master’s degree in film history and criticism at USC. She worked for 10 years at the L.A. Herald Examiner and came to work at The Times in January 1990. She left in 2016.

TELEVISION - May 18, 1993

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