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 Post subject: Lost in Space
PostPosted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 11:52 am 
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I've been watching the first season of Lost in Space on Hulu. One of the great things about Hulu is that they'll include the pilots for these series in their menu. I don't think that I'd ever seen the unaired pilot to Lost in Space. I hadn't seen the pilot to Alias Smith and Jones since it was first aired as the ABC Tuesday Movie of the Week.

The LIS pilot drags a bit in places (as seen through my current, jaded eyes) but it holds up as an interesting semi-serious sci-fi pilot. The special effects are damn good for a 60's TV show. A great mixture of fake machinery and real tech. I still get a chill watching Guy Williams hover through the air strapped to his Bell Rocket Belt.

I can see now how we were lured into this show as kids. Billy Mumy running off to rescue his dad and Don, taking down a realistic, cycloptic giant with one blast of his electric pistol... this was live action Jonny Quest.

But the adventure gives way to the comedy as the first season runs on. Jonathan Harris turns from menace to whacky uncle. When the second season arrives in color (and no series was soooooooo affected by the change to color as this one was) the show becomes a day-glo H.R. Puffinstuff without the songs.

A great first season, some high points in the later two seasons. It was great fun for little kids at the time. Great fun for us as pre-teens as we rolled our eyes and laughed along with the show in syndication. Sort of the same reaction we had with Adam West's Batman... appreciating the show as serious action as kids, then getting the camp humor as we aged.


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 Post subject: Lost in Space
PostPosted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:04 pm 
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Lost in Space was my favorite show as a kid, and I watched the reruns for years afterwards. The actually did a pretty seamless job of integrating Dr. Smith into the original pilot, all of his footage was filmed and added after the fact.

The "Mr. Nobody" episode, in which Penny befriends an ancient, noncorporeal intelligence, holds up as pretty great sci-fi TV.

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 Post subject: Lost in Space
PostPosted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:11 pm 
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Lost in Space was my favorite show as a kid, and I watched the reruns for years afterwards. The actually did a pretty seamless job of integrating Dr. Smith into the original pilot, all of his footage was filmed and added after the fact.

The "Mr. Nobody" episode, in which Penny befriends an ancient, noncorporeal intelligence, holds up as pretty great sci-fi TV.

The two-parter with Michael Rennie as "The Keeper" is probably my favorite storyline. Almost the entire cast of characters is shown to be self-sacrificing and heroic, making Smith's selfishness even more apparent. (Coincidentally, they were using the score to The Day the Earth Stood Still to fill in some of the episodic music during the first season. So you can hear some TDTESS tunage as Rennie minds his menagerie.)


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 12:17 pm 
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 Post subject: Lost in Space
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I had no idea these were even out!

Just looked on Amazon..... kinda high. Must be out of print. :(

Hulu here I come!


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 12:55 am 
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RobertSwanderson wrote:
I've been watching the first season of Lost in Space on Hulu. One of the great things about Hulu is that they'll include the pilots for these series in their menu. I don't think that I'd ever seen the unaired pilot to Lost in Space. I hadn't seen the pilot to Alias Smith and Jones since it was first aired as the ABC Tuesday Movie of the Week.

The LIS pilot drags a bit in places (as seen through my current, jaded eyes) but it holds up as an interesting semi-serious sci-fi pilot. The special effects are damn good for a 60's TV show. A great mixture of fake machinery and real tech. I still get a chill watching Guy Williams hover through the air strapped to his Bell Rocket Belt.

I can see now how we were lured into this show as kids. Billy Mumy running off to rescue his dad and Don, taking down a realistic, cycloptic giant with one blast of his electric pistol... this was live action Jonny Quest.

But the adventure gives way to the comedy as the first season runs on. Jonathan Harris turns from menace to whacky uncle. When the second season arrives in color (and no series was soooooooo affected by the change to color as this one was) the show becomes a day-glo H.R. Puffinstuff without the songs.

A great first season, some high points in the later two seasons. It was great fun for little kids at the time. Great fun for us as pre-teens as we rolled our eyes and laughed along with the show in syndication. Sort of the same reaction we had with Adam West's Batman... appreciating the show as serious action as kids, then getting the camp humor as we aged.


Amen bro. The first season, the black and white episodes, was awesome!!! And I love all that retro spaceship, ray gun robot stuff. And the chariot, man that was just great!! And I had a huge crush on Judy.

I have a fondness for the negative universe episodes, where we see the bad John who is dressed in the black outfit (me and my love for reverse colors and bad guys again :D)

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 Post subject: Lost in Space
PostPosted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:02 am 
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Allen Berrebbi wrote:
Amen bro. The first season, the black and white episodes, was awesome!!! And I love all that retro spaceship, ray gun robot stuff.

I think of Lost in Space (and Irwin Allen's other TV shows) as the last gasp of 50's sci-fi.


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:38 am 
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Boy did the movie get it wrong. They were better off doing a movie sequel with a grown up Will and judy and Don's kids and whoever else was alive.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:46 am 
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The movie was perfectly cast and horribly written. For someone to watch those TV episodes and come to the conclusion that the movie should be a study of a neglected Will Robinson left to be turned into a villain by Dr. Smith... that's just insane. I'm glad that Mumy and Harris didn't return to be associated with that train wreck.


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RobertSwanderson wrote:
The movie was perfectly cast and horribly written. For someone to watch those TV episodes and come to the conclusion that the movie should be a study of a neglected Will Robinson left to be turned into a villain by Dr. Smith... that's just insane. I'm glad that Mumy and Harris didn't return to be associated with that train wreck.


Disagree on the perfectly cast part but agree with everything else.

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 Post subject: Lost in Space
PostPosted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:21 pm 
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The movie mainly suffered from Heather Graham keeping her clothes on.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:27 pm 
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I liked the movie.


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 Post subject: Lost in Space
PostPosted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:29 pm 
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So did I. Heather Graham was in it, albeit clothed.

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:42 pm 
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Hank wrote:
The movie mainly suffered from Heather Graham keeping her clothes on.


June Robinson should've spanked her for that. And then they could switch places.


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 1:50 pm 
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Oh my.


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 Post subject: Lost in Space
PostPosted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 2:31 pm 
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I remember having liked the after-school reruns I saw when I was little, but don't actually recall a great deal about any individual episode.

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 Post subject: Lost in Space
PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 2:47 pm 
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Anyone hear about or see this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_Sp ... _TV_series

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 3:04 pm 
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It never made it very far. I was working for a WB affiliate at the time and it didn't even make it to the "look at what we're working on" stage. I never saw the pilot.


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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 3:12 pm 
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Well it can't be Lost in Space without a cool looking robot, the one in the pic for the second series looks like it was influenced by Buck Rogers...

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:24 pm 
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And I saw no reason for the family changes either.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:35 pm 
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Allen Berrebbi wrote:
And I saw no reason for the family changes either.


It was the WB in the early 2000's. You sandwich in as many young hot actors as possible. If Telemundo did a version of Lost in Space, I'd expect them to all be Hispanic.


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PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 4:35 pm 
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Good cast, though. Jayne Brook, Adrianne Palecki and Mike Erwin are all favorites of mine.

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