Lost in Irvingland: Return from Outer Space - Lost in Space Season 1 Episode 15 

Love ur COMMENTARY very much, cause I LOVE Lost in Space so much. Even if I m over my 50 s. It was my no. 1 show in the 70. S

When I first saw this episode I thought will went back in time.

This was shown during Christmas never forget this one and the carbon tetrachloride

They weren't lost in space very long at this point and Will still looked exactly like he did when they blasted off. Surely, the town authorities could've looked at newspaper pictures of the Jupiter crew and seen that he was the real Will Robinson, then let Alpha Control verify it. The adults looked pretty silly the way they handled it.

Love the old style phones they were using, and this was supposed to be 1997!

maybe the best episode because it is less sci fi and more family MY !

I was always thought that carbon tetrachloride was a fire extinguisher. Apparently it has multiple uses.

They all watched them take off for space on TV, but no one knows what Will looks like?

That lady looks like "Granny Goodness" who controls the Furies and serves Darkseid.

LOVE it how Carbon Tet (AKA- dry cleaning fluid) is an essential substance for them!

Listening to the wild sound of the monster at the end reminds me that maybe the show's biggest strength is in its use of sound effects and music (not to mention its awesome theme). Even the goofiest looking man-in-a-monster-suit can seem scary with those roars and orchestra stings.

This was my all time fave episode of Lost in Space! TY!

THANK YOU !! THANK YOU !! This particular episode was very popular with kids, and was my personal favorite. [old geezer alert]...remember when kids were outside all day, and all over the neighborhhod?? We would 'act out' TV shows, Lost In Space, Rat Patrol, Man From U.N.C.L.E. As a budding drama-queen, I would pretend to be Will waiting for the return-beam climb, on the roof of our shed and get the other kids to (reluctantly) try to coax me down.

This episode continued "in 2 weeks from tonight". That frame came in after the regular "next week" frame exited to the left of the screen--but they didn't show that here. Possibly a Christmas special the following week.

Brother, this was great ! Wow, just wow , thanks for the memories!

Am I the only one who thought it was a little odd that Will could walk into some general store in Hatfield Corners Vermont, and walk right into an 89 cent bottle of carbon tetrachloride?

I always thought it weird that though this is supposedly 1997, the town looks and acts like 1937. It might have been easier just to explain the matter transfer thingie sent Will back in time, too.

These videos are great! I love it here in Irvingland.

Even in this town people knew about the Robinsons historic flight bit nobody had a picture of them. Not even that reporter!

I remember Reta Shaw as Big Maude, one of the escaped female convicts who held Barney & Floyd captive on The Andy Griffith Show. Damn fine actor. She's almost unrecognizable as that character compared to this.

I guess they decided to cut the part where John asks Will if he has the receipt for the carbon tetrachloride.

Both the black and white and color episodes were excellent. In fact, the episode where they arrive on Earth in 1940 was the best one.

Dr. Smith: "Dr. Smith is incapable of telling a lie." Robot: "Dr. Smith is incapable." Love this episode. It features the terrific Reta Shaw and is one of two episodes featuring a Christmas connection (the other is "The Toymaker"). The boy that talks to Will when they're waiting for the orphanage bus grows up to be a space hippie in Season 3's "The Promised Planet."

Davey;s mom- RITA SHAW mad her last most memorable TV appearance as "The Beast of Bayonne" in The Odd Couple as "Frosty the housekeeper" lol

Wonder if Davey and Aunt Clara went to see the movie Titanic that night after Will left? this Was December 1997 after all

@ 9:25 ... I saw Mrs. Shaw in a Dick van Dyke episode working in the unemployment office 🤣 great comedic actress! Around 11:43 ask him why fools fall in love 🤣🤣🤣🤣 It was always funny to me how John asked Don what the robot is doing here instead of asking the talking machine 🤣 sometimes the blatant absurdity of this episode makes it work well.. I don't know how, but somehow it is amusing, besides annoying! Like how the kind aunt thwarts Will's rescue attempt .... Could it be a metaphor for how the old-fashioned elders can't help with the complex problems of a modern technological age?

6:09 Yes Will Robinson, don't Bogart the apium graveolens.

I was able to ID every episode (Trek too) in the first few seconds. This is one I always welcomed. (In Trek, I hoped for wrinkly shirts -- that meant first season.)

What I don’t understand is how the Robinsons (at least John) know that the teleportion machine was built by the Taurons. Did the Taurons leave an instruction manual printed in several different languages, including English? Did the manufacturer stamp a “Made in Taur” insignia somewhere on the machine? Or maybe the robot used some kind of highly advanced deductive reasoning to figure out who built the machine, and then told the Robinsons at an earlier date? I think a little bit more exposition was needed here. And watching this episode as a ten-year-old, even I thought it strange that the small Vermont town was using oldfashioned telephones at a point 33 years in the future from my point of view. I think touch-tone dialing was already in use by 1967, in a few places.

That phone looks like the same one on Lassie and June Lockhart using it. Rita Shaw appeared in lots of TV shows.

Rita Shaw, as known as Martha in the series The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.

All classic, classic, classic.. Have I mentioned before that classic B&W Season One is far superior to the colored episodes, followed by middle colored Season Two, followed by last colored and short Season Three. They hardly get any better than this, and it certainly is top twelve for me.. :-]

It always amuses me the way people try to read so, so much into these stories/episodes. Just enjoy them as they are, because that is what they are, nothing more and nothing else. They were all written, produced, and filmed purely for television entertainment, and nothing else. No need to analyze anything if it does not "compute" or make sense. Just enjoy the fun, fantasy, and adventure of it all. I am not talking about you, Irving/Author. This is great what you have done on RU-vid here. I am referring to the so-called fans who feel they need to analyze, critique, and put down every single thing that does not seem real, accurate, or make sense to the human eyes or ears or limited thought process lol. You know the type of "fans" I refer to, the ones who rally only care for 25 to 50 percent of the series..or possibly even less. I am a 100 percenter, because I do not take myself too seriously, plus I enjoy them all because they are all pleasantly good and much fun entertainment, maybe to slightly different degrees of course..

Billy Mumy's eye looks puffy in the early scenes. He said he was allergic to the "sand" which was crushed peanut shells and got yucky after a while.

i like that a walkie talkie designed to last in the harsh possibilities of space travel falls four feet into the snow and breaks.

Excellent episode!❤️❤️❤️❤️

18:02 Hey I recognize the tall rube as the basketballer Herman was mistaken for with his Uncle Pat Buttram whose feet caught on fire in The Munsters 🤓😎✌🏼

The Tauran's matter transmitter seems to have devolved from The Sky is Falling.

9:29 Uh no. I recognize her mostly as the housekeeper of Mrs. Muir but also as the leader from TAS Convicts at Large or another Housekeeper type Felix hired to look after Oscar's ulcer who was a Colonel in the Army🤷🏼‍♂️🤓😎✌🏼

somebody just give will a phone!!

This is so unenjoyable it hurts.

I believe they gave the name of the planet before they landed on it.

It seems this story would have been over a lot faster if adults hadn't been so dense. :D

Didn’t they have the equivalence of a brig on that ship so they can lock up Dr Smith where he can’t cause any trouble?

Dr Smith s selfishness not only hurts the Robinsons and major West but Dr Smith as well. But Dr Smith never thinks about that.😢

The egg for the omelet I bet is from one of those ostrich-like animals John mentions (but we don't see) in an early episode. No thank you.

I love your content. I'm remember the sixties had more morality and respect.i watch alot of reuns.i think Don penny will and Judy are still around.

The BIG unanswered question is where’s the big bird that laid that egg?? The only bird I’ve ever seen on this show was the giant chicken monster in season 2!!

Some have suggested that the Robinson are still on Earth and in suspended animation and that's why they constantly refer to imagination and dreams.

No,it’s true.We we’re done with phone operator’s by,wasn’t it 1970?I could be wrong,here?I don’t know?

Picture of will to see if it is him

You are hilarious and insightful! I enjoyed this very much and we'll look for others that you have done. Thanks for making my day and a little more fun in my holiday season a little brighter, so happy holidays and how about my favorite episode the time working? Actually I believe the debt at dr. Smith's one of his more finer hours as a human being and as an actor, especially the final scene where his foot is caught in the door although I thought the scene was rather tense for lost in space that is. By the way, what did you think of Star Trek Continues the Further Adventures of Kirk and Spock Etc, I first thought it was a joke when I when I was listening to it on RU-vid I thought this is a parody this guy's doing it Shatner impression Sparkles electric on from Junior High the the loser when did Leonard Nimoy impersonation contest. And whoever's doing Sulu and McCoy now that's just sad but anywho, as I rode out of sight I said Merry Christmas to all lost in space and good night! PS I live in a hovel and look like one too. Unfortunately I'm not kidding, but anyway has one cell said to the other, adios amoebas!

Irving, common sense is not a prerequisite for entertainment.

Not sure Id want a highly toxic substance as carbon tetrachloride used as a purifying agent with my food. But that's just me.

Thank goodness he got that bottle of carbon tetrachloride. Just too bad that, you know, THE ENTIRE FREAKIN' FAMILY COULDN'T BE RESCUED! :D

does anyone know the name of the episode when Will Robinson is left behind by the space ship and is lost , if i remember correctly he is taken in by a kind all American type family in an All American Town, Thanks

We had.crank phones. In 1997. And.switch.board.opetators.as well.

Oh yes I forgot to say yes that's really me in the picture for some reason the most asked question I've ever had in my life online is is that really you and I'm tempted to always say no it's really you it's a magic mirror but sarcasm is never been my 4K being hopelessly lost in my life on Earth is more my forte unfortunately. But the yes that's really made Irving in case you were going to ask me and I do enjoy your take on Lost in Space, it's not a joke when I said it's the bright spot of my holiday season. I spend my holidays alone not by choice really but maybe in a way that's by choice without family and the few friends I've had I've kind of drank away and I try to volunteer when I can so as not to be completely isolated but for some reason I can flip my hair around and smear on some makeup and Men are well I go to see the wrong type of men usually find me and and I've learned to despise the holidays because of that so usually the Holliday's are lonely but you made this one a lot more fun for me. hope I didn't bring anybody down by my comment I just kind of blurted it out once a year I blurred out my feelings somewhere this time it's on your side Irving I just don't plan it it just comes out when I'm talking but you've got such a great Wit that you made me feel comfortable being myself for a change The Good the Bad and the Ugly if you know what I mean

For the record all writing is bad writing because the reader is always smarter than writer.

This would probably have been an enjoyable episode if you hadn’t cut in every few seconds with your comments……caused me to stop watching.

Why are you explaining a TV show that tells the story you are retelling? This video is pointless.

Aunt Clara looks like Uncle Clarence!

Funny how the writers thought that in 1997 there would still be small towns in the US that used human operators rather than dials on phones. (Actually I looked that up to verify it, and the last manual branch exchange in California, like the one depicted, wasn't shut down until 1991! ).

Carbon tetra-chloride is a real thing and would be useful as depicted. But the writers didn't foresee that it would be obsolete and banned in the US for health and environmental reasons in 1970. And it's funny they thought it would be under a dollar in a local hardware store. I couldn't find the actual price then, but it was banned in the US for consumer use, I'm sure it was much more expensive if you could even get it. The 2024 price for that volume is $230 USD.