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Even as a kid, I thought that Don should have taken Dr Smith out behind some rocks and not come back with him. Always in love with Penny. Angela Cartwright.
Give us more indepth Lost In Space. Thanks so much for this on Christmas morning Australia time. My favourite childhood series. The musical score of LOS is a massive feature....above its station.
Great job! Never noticed John Williams in the credits. Thanks for the heads up. Make sure you track down the chariot. I think somebody is fixing it up.
Hello :-) yes, I know who has the chariot. He's had it for ages and has been planning to restore it, but that never happened. I'm planning to do a video on The Chariot in January :-) merry christmas, Dan
I agree :-) I'm doing a video in January about why exactly the show changed and got silly. It's not really for the reasons most people think. Merry Christmas :-) Dan
I grew up with Lost In Space, first in the original run and then in reruns. It was one of my first great loves, and I am still enormously fond of it to this day, having amassed quite a collection of B9 Robots over the years, including some of the rarest toys based on the character (including the Remco toy, the Mexican version, the Brazilian version, and the AHI Japanese toy, among many others....I think the recent Diamond Select Robots are some of the nicest ones ever made). And without Jonathon Harris as Dr. Smith and the B9 Robot I personally don't think the series would have ever achieved the iconic status it did.
Happy Xmas, Just found your channel, as a youngster in late 60s London I loved "Lost in Space" and still do,thereafter it was not reshown on tv until the 80s back then no dvds and vids of these programs was hard to get, im just reconnecting with things I loved back then and it's great. Best wishes to yourself,family,friends and fellow viewers.
Likewise. As a grade-school kid, I had a crush on Penny. In adulthood, verging on lecherous male senior citizen, Judy and Maureen look pretty darn hot....
I read on a Lost in Space Fan Website, and on Wikipedia, that the Jupiter 2 had what's called an Anti-Gravity Drive, and was only used 1 time. This Anti-Gravity Drive was used to escape Earth's Gravity as part of the Ship's Propulsion System. It produced 250 Mega-Watts of power, with each rotation of The Power Fusion Core beanath The Ship, producing the glow as the Jupiter 2 Lifted Off into space. Also in the rarely seen pilot, No Place to Hide. Now while The Robinson Family, and Major Don West were catching up on some Zzzzzz's in the Freezing Tubes, Dr. Smith felt the Full Power of The Jupiter 2 during Liftoff. Just before the Famous Serious Scream at Liftoff, an Electrical Static sound is heard just before Dr. Smith's Scream. The Anti-Gravity Drive definitely had an unpleasant effect, because Dr. Smith wasn't looking to well as he unstrapped himself from the Launch Couch. Sweating, and almost fell flat on his face, before trying to get in touch with Aeolus 14-Umbra. Now I guess you can tell I'm a Big Fan of Lost in Space.🤣 But I just wonder how come the Anti-Gravity Drive was never mentioned in the show?? The glow around The Jupiter 2 during Liftoff from Earth, put me in mind of the movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still, when The Flying Saucer had the glowing effect. Some people don't realize. But Jonathan Harris was going to be killed off after about the 1st 5 Episodes of Lost in Space, and he knew that he wanted to continue to work. So he began to sneak in what The Actor loved doing best. Comedic Villainy. And as they say, The Rest is History. Jonathan Harris created a Character that wasn't on One Single Piece of Paper. Because of His Talent, The rest of The Cast, and Crew were Employed for 3 seasons. Lost in Space was cancelled for the reason Irwin Allen wanted to spend More Money on Special Effects for Season 4, and the other Networks didn't pick up the show because of what Irwin wanted to spend. The upper deck of The Jupiter 2 alone coast around 350k. That was a lot of money during that time period. Thanks for letting me Rant!!🤣🤣🤣🌌
Thanks Dan. Ive watched the pilot many times, and what a brilliant move by Irwin to edit in the new footage for the series. The man didnt like to waste anything. Looking forward for more. Merry Christmas!
"The man didnt like to waste anything" That's for sure. But it would have still been so much better if they had toned down the goofiness and made it a bit more serious.
I would like to know your position on the _name_ of the robot. Yes, we all know he's a model B9. But the lettering on his crate, as well as his repetition of the moniker, "General Utility NonTHeorizing Environmental Robot". For me, he's always GUNTHER. People disagree. And that's fine. EDIT: theory.
You know, since the first season was my favorite, I've only ever referred to him as robot. I know they called him B9 later in the series, but to me he's just the robot :-) Merry Christmas Dan
Thanks Dan that was incredible! Very well done. I grew up on Lost in Space (born 1961) and all us six kids were glued to the only TV in the house every week without fail.
Irwin Allen was a visionary, a spokesman for the world of tomorrow. Lost In Space took place in 1997, and spoke of a world where anything would be possible. Irwin was telling us to embrace the future, because 1997 would be here one day, and that hi-tech would play a much bigger part in our lives that just a TV show. And what a way he did it too!
Great video. LOST IN SPACE was one of my favorite video. I can honestly say that it groomed me for a career at NASA that lasted for over 30 years !!! Again , Thanks for this great video !!! 🤖🤖🤖
As a kid, I only liked it when they were actually IN SPACE...with the Jupiter 2 flying off everywhere it was WONDERFUL...but then...got close to a planet.. and then....CRASH.. another couple of months wandering around an "deserted" busy planet , with aliens coming across them at every turn..
The actor was putting on the accent, he's from Brooklyn, I think. He learnt the British (Stewie) accent from old movies. Played it camp comedy. He married his childhood sweetheart and had a child. Acted seriously in many early TV shows with famous actors. So had the chops. Should the director have allowed him to make it a kids show? We didn't notice it was camp comedy as kids.
I lived this show watching reruns throughout the 70s where I learned about the transition from black and white television from it and many other shows from the 60s.
Because season 1 was shot in B&W I always thought it ot gave the epsodes a Twiight Zone vibe. It certainly made their situations look more immediate and dire.When the show went to color the whole thing looked like a cartoon.
I'd like to learn why CBS chose to reconfigure LIS as children's television starting with episode 5. The first four episodes were surprisingly good but when evil Col. Smith became sniveling Dr. Smith, the whole thing went down the drain. It seems that in that era CBS programming executives couldn't make a good decision to save their lives, fortunately Charles Schulz was able to override the wretched things they wanted to do to A Charlie Brown Christmas.
That's a common internet myth that was dismantled by both Bill Mumy and Mark Goddard at convention appearances over the years. They said LIS was always intended (by Irwin Allen, CBS and the main sponsor General Mills cereal) to be a children's show and the cartoon silly opening credits that we saw starting September 1965 clearly show that with the characters acting goofy and dancing on a line waving at the camera, etc. The story editor Anthony Wilson based Dr. Smith on Long John Silver ('pirate with a heart of gold') from 'Treasure Island'. And even in the 4th episode (There Were Giants In The Earth) Smith is already being depicted as 'sniveling' with his own unique whimsical music cue that lasted throughout the series. I would recommend Marc Cushman's three volume history of the show which is very accurate.
There is another story that while Roddenberry was going around the stations trying to sell star trek. They took the idea and changed it to lost in space.
Lost in space was such a great show in the beginning. Then, instead of a show with some solid thought-provoking Sci-Fi concepts, it became the Will Robinson - Dr. Smith show. Much like Family Matters became The Urkel Show.
One of my favorite episodes is "The Prisoners Of Space" from Season Two. The situational music from "The Day The Earth Stood Still" during the courtroom scenes was chilling. Add to it the set pieces, the mist crawling along the floor, and the gallery of space monsters headed by Judge Iko, and it's a space monster lover's dream!
Lost In Space was filmed for a young audience. Planet Of The Apes..... Wasn't Not Star Trek, or Logan's Run Or Any other Sci Fi show LIS was like the Leave It To Beaver of space shows
My favorite show when I was a kid. The 7:30 time slot was perfect for me and I hated Star Trek. Too much kissing. I'm sure my first crush was on Penny but I liked Haley Miles too around that time. Anyway I got to meet her, Judy and Bill Mumy at a Sci-fi convention and I got her autograph. I was too embarrassed to say I was in love with her.
Danger, Will Robinson! Your timeline is accurate except for two KEY events: science fiction author/screenwriter Ib Melchior wrote a TV show treatment called Space Family Robinson in 1960. It was pitched around town, and though never picked up, it was a known property that was eerily similar to Irwin Allen's show. Also, in 1962, Gold Key comics released their own Space Family Robinson comic book which was similar to Melchior's treatment. Of course some of the similarities stemmed from the novel Swiss Family Robinson which inspired them all. But too many of the specific sci-fi details from both Melchior's treatment AND the comic book make Allen's claim of originality to be... well, let's just say a bit disingenuous. Eventually when the dust settled, Gold Key received the rights to call their comic The Space Family Robinson Lost in Space, and Melchior received a 75K settlement to quit bugging Irwin Allen for screen credit and a piece of the show's profits.
Also, the very first Advertisement CBS did for that 1965 'Lost in Space' promo, to sell the series to the public and to their network affiliates... featured the background music from, 'The Twilight Zone.' CBS got so much mileage from using those TZ musical beds for various CBS shows over the years.
I loved Lost in Space, my. Dad was always working Dr. Robinson was a father figure for me . The moral and ethics in the scripts were spot on. The only episode I didn't like was the carrot man!
Dr. Smith and the robot turned Lost in Space into a CLOWN SHOW with most of the episodes revolving around Smith's antics, sabotage, and greed with the robot as comic relief!
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My younger brother Bob and I watched the opening episode of "Lost in Space" on September 15, 1965, with our grandfather, and the three of us liked the show for its sci-fi adventure and special effects. I was 11 years old. I watched the first 10-12 episodes, and I enjoyed it very much, especially when the focus was on the Robinson family and their struggle. The scenes with Doctor Smith and the Robot were always distracting. If I had DVR in those days, I would have forward-fasted those scenes. When the Robinsons returned from their investigation of the planet, we had more Doctor Smith and the Robot, and fewer and fewer scenes with the Robinson family. The show got extremely silly - and while some may have enjoyed the stupidity of the scenes with Smith and the Robot - I grew more and more bored. Eventually, after the first season ground to an end, "Lost in Space" as a sci-fi series had completely lost me! Yes, I wanted to see what would happen to the Robinsons in seasons two and three, but all the nonsense with Smith, the Robot, and Will were like fingernails on a blackboard. On September 8, 1966, two days after my 12th birthday, I was rescued by "Star Trek." NOW, this was a sci-fi show! I fell totally in love with "Star Trek," and now, weeks away from my 70th birthday, I have loved "Star Trek" for 60+ years. Thank you Gene Roddenberry. So, what happened to "Lost in Space," Smith and Will and the Robot continued to drive what started with a great premise into the ground. A "carrot" monster! Oh, the PAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I loved the show when it was serious but gradually came to hate the Smith character. The manufactured dangers through his machinations were never believable. They would have jettisoned him at the first attempt of him endangering the children. Anyway, still happy memories.
1965 was perfect for this the entire country was hooked on our astronauts and the space race against Russia to get to the moon first it was the perfect show for that moment in time.
I grew up with lost in space. A lot of people will say that Doctor Smith and the robot ruined a great science fiction show. But what they failed to realize is this was 1960s. Me and my brothers used to get so mad at Doctor Smith, my mother would laugh. We wanted to reach into the television set and kill him. Without Doctor Smith and the robot, the show would never have survived. The there was not enough understanding of science. Fiction shows back then to make this thing go week after week month after month year after year.. Kids would have lost interest in the show. It was not geared towards adults to begin with. I love it then and I still love it today. I have the entire series collection. And I watch it faithfully once or twice a year during a binge watch.
As a youngun (it debuted on my 7th birthday!) I sure hated Dr. Smith and struggled with why they would continually allow him to stay around when all he did was subvert the family and cause life threatening chaos. He eventually became more of a comedy character and was less threatening. I too would have prefered it be more sci-fi and not all these campy weekly characters that happened to land on the same planet. Still, I loved the show and there was nothing quite like the Space Family Robinson.
🔔 It is one of the great tragedies of television that the series went into the toilet after the first 5 episodes. For example imagine if Dr. McCoy had been Dr. Smith instead on Star Trek? 🤦 😵
I'd love to see you talk about Scott O'Brien's ill-fated 2003 pitch for an animated Lost in Space show. I've always wondered what the backstory on that was.
I'm planning videos on not only that, but the cartoon from the '70s and also the Robinsons first TV pilot, which failed. Thanks for writing and Merry Christmas :-) Dan
@MediaMasterDesign That's stellar! I'm so glad to see another channel on here repping LiS. And with way better production values than my videos, too. I commend you, sir.
@@MoviesMusicMonsters With the advancement of A.I. I wonder if someone will come up with a "live-action" "new version" using A.I. to recreate the original actors. Hmmmm
Same here; I couldn't stand him. One minute he's a buffoon and the next he's a traitorous conniving coward. I think the show would've lasted much longer if Allen had stuck to his original concept instead of turning it into the "Dr. Smith Show"
Absolutely! This crock of shit of a sci-fi serial poisoned my mind against such shows. I refused to get involved with Star Trek because of this travesty. I did eventually watch Star Trek on a dare. Glad I was convinced to watch it.
@@alfredoprime5495 Actually the show's ratings never budged in three years. It always came up second place behind NBC's 'The Virginian' so people who want to argue that 'Dark Smith' or 'Comedic Smith' would have made any difference are missing the point. CBS was willing to do two more seasons of LIS but they couldn't get along with the always difficult Irwin Allen so it got cancelled.
@MrPeterbs , Couldn't get along with Allen can stretch to cover quite a few reasons. I've tried to ascertain an actual and defining explanation and am reasonably certain it's been lost to time, which is surprising as one would think some corporate paper trail from as recently as 1968 would have endured. Do you know of something which can be conclusively sourced?
Interesting how this video popped up as a suggestion on yutube after I have been watching season 1 today on Amzon. Finished The Hungry Sea a little while ago. Just as good as it was the first time I saw it in the late 60s. The data provided by your video has allowed me to draw a favorable conclusion and it does compute. Now I will proceed to watch Waren Oats, the cowboy astronaut. Merry Christmas!
There's actually a very logical reason. I'm planning a video on that topic shortly. It wasn't any of the actors false, the order came directly from cbs. Stay tuned :-) Dan
Wish you talked about the financing of the show. Star Trek gives a shout-out to Lucille Ball. Well, Red Skelton's Van Bernard Productions helped finance Lost in Space.
That is true. One thing I'm trying to do on this channel is keep videos relatively General on subjects, but you're right I should have mentioned that for sure :-) thanks so much for reaching out, Dan
I was in Grade school and all the kids had seen the pre-season ads for L.I.S. Everyone was excited and the first episode was great... and a bit scary! But in a wonderful and imaginative way, for an 8 year-old. A true shame that CBS and Allen had to flip it into the Dr. Smith Comedy Revue. "pretty-pretty, oh-so-pretty Doctor Smith".. [RETCH!]
Season 1 was best story wise. Season 2 color and few good episodes made it pretty good I got my Lost in Space lunch box and Thermos. Season 3 Only a few good episodes but all was lost in the end way too campy. Nonetheless many fond memories. Year one I thought Penny was yuck due to my immaturity then by season 2-3 I had a big crush on her. In the early 70's I threw out my luchbox and Thermos. WHAT A DOPE! I would give anything to have those back.
I am a FIRST gen Lost in Space camper as they were being made & released dates ( hated it when they said they would not be shown for 2 weeks!!!) I was born on 6-19-1958
I was born in 57 and I saw this religiously. But I was scared as a kid so I would hide behind the couch with a scary episodes. But me and all my friends always watch Lost in Space and we talked about it the next day
I love your channel Sir. I absolutely loved the 1960s Lost in Space series. Your content on it is Amazing. I have never seen all of this behind the scenes information presented at one place since your channel began. Bravo sir. !!! And thank you. !!!!
The feature movie "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" is much better than the show... The unaired pilot for LiS in 1965 (with the"Gemini 12", no Smith, no Robot) was decent, and got parts reworked into the first few episodes. It can be found "out there"...
You know it! "Two American scientists trapped in a swirling maze of past and future ages, in America's first top secret time travel project, The Time Tunnel! Tony Newman and Doug Phillips now stumble helpless towards a new, fantastic adventure, somewhere along the infinite corridors of time..."
Fantastic work Dan only I thought John Williams wrote the scores to 4 of the first 5 shows: 'The Reluctant Stowaway', 'Island in the Sky', 'There Were Giants in the Earth' and 'The Hungry Sea'. Williams best work in my opinion... I never tire of listening to them.
Yes, but there's actually a very convoluted backstory as to why Lost in Space took a turn towards silliness. It's not really the explanation we were told by the cast, it's interesting. I'm going to do a video on that in January :-) Merry Christmas, Dan
He may ruined a show that could have been a great sci-fi show, but he turned it into a great popular show that lasted 3 seasons. The same number of seasons the original Star Trek lasted.
Exactly. Him, The Robot, and Will, forming the triad, made the show a pop culture icon. Without Harris' great comic chops LiS would have been as dry as Allen's other shows. The ones that time and the general public have forgotten.
First season very good .. SYFY. . Season 2 -3 it Lost the edge ... still a lot of good episodes.. Jupiter 2 , pod and robot great models .. Need to reboot ..U.F.O , TIME TUNNEL . CAPTAIN SCARLET, FANTASTIC JOURNEY , LAND OF THE GAINTS AND LOST IN SPACE. ... very important stay in same Format ... with props and models are the ✨ stars
Lost In Space was my favorite show as a kid and I still have fond memories as a 60 year old. And now you are my favorite RU-vidr, helping to keep Lost In Space alive.
A big fan of the 1960s Lost in Space was Parker Posey, who said she would get out of bed early to watch Lost in Space reruns when she was a child. Her portrayal and re-imagining of Dr. Smith in the 2018 Lost in Space remake resulted in a much more believable and enigmatic character, I think. If it wasn't for her I probably would have abandoned the 2018 Lost in Space after the first season.
Parker Posey was an enormous fan of the show. Kevin Burns actually gave her a bunch of Jonathan Harris's ascots that he wore around his neck. I'm going to do a couple videos on the Netflix Lost in Space this year :-) thanks for reaching out, Dan :-)
Not only did they add a lower deck: sleeping quarters etc., subsequently there was an even lower deck which consisted of shelving, food supplies and other stores. Then in one episode there was yet one more lower deck where there was some kind of crawl space for a power plant or propulsion system / engine room. From the space ship’s side profile none of this would have fit.
