Actually, the funny thing about the Sandy Frank debate is that Sandy Frank probably doesn't own the rights to his Gamera/Japanese stuff anymore either. After all that NAFTA stuff went down, all the rights for all that dubbed stuff went back to the original copyright holders in their respective countries. Meaning that Sandy Frank can take his bitterness and shove it: they're still in legal limbo, but considering you can buy a copy for nearly nothing, it's no real biggie. Plus you can
download them for nothing.
And MST3K does now have the rights to a few of their shorts which includes Mr. B Natural. They just can't air War of the Colossal Beast which was the episode in which it was included. Sadly, most of Bert I. Gordon's films are for some reason not available: The Magic Sword was going to be released through Rhino but was cancelled and replaced by the Season One stinkfest The Crawling Hand, which Rhino had the rights to anyway. Which makes this more interesting is that Gordon is friendly with the MST3K crew to the extent of showing up at one of their conventions as a guest of honor and his grasshopper movie Beginning of the End is available as a MSTed movie both on VHS and DVD! Most likely the films are caught up like most American International movies in legal limbo due to different people holding different movies rights...this is also why Season 8's I was a Teenage Werewolf will probably never see the light of day, Sci-Fi Channel or otherwise.
Also, there are a few Season 8 episodes Sci-Fi still shows: Giant Spider Invasion was on a few weeks ago and still a few more turn up like Time Chasers, Space Mutiny, etc.