Tom Servo is a fictional character from the American science fiction comedy television show Mystery Science Theater 3000. Tom is one of two wise-cracking, robotic main characters of the show, built by
Tom Servo
Kevin Murphy, pictured in 2012, who operated and voiced Servo after Josh Weinstein
Mystery Science Theater 3000 is an American science fiction comedy television series created by Joel Hodgson. The show premiered on KTMA-TV in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on November 24, 1988. It then move
Tom Servo
…Tom Servo is a fictional character from the American science fiction comedy television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K). Tom is one of two wise-cracking, robotic main characters of the show, built by Joel Robinson to act as a companion and help stave off madness…
An example of MST3K's "Shadowramma" effect used as the central motif for the show. Here, Tom Servo (left), Joel Robinson, and Crow T. Robot, in silhouette, are watching the short Mr. B Natural in the 1991 episode featuring War of the Colossal Beast
MST3K cast and crew members Pehl (left), Beaulieu, Hodgson, Weinstein, and Conniff, as part of the post-show project Cinematic Titanic in 2011
The 'bots of MST3K as they appeared through the majority of its run: Gypsy (left), Crow T. Robot, and Tom Servo. The 'bots were created by Hodgson and fashioned out of common household objects.
Nelson, Corbett, and Murphy, the primary actors in the Sci-Fi channel era, as part of their RiffTrax panel in 2009