This Day in Halloween: Writer, creator, and star of "Mystery Science Theater 3000," Joel Hodgson is born in Stevens Point, Wisc. in 1960. / Illustration by Morgan Bryson
Joel Hodgson is born in Stevens Point, Wisc. in 1960. The writer, actor and comedian is best known for creating and starring in Mystery Science Theater 3000, considered by Time Magazine as one of “the 100 greatest TV shows of all time.”