Some new humanoids have arrived on the planet. While the Robinsons are trying to communicate with them, Dr. Smith is crying doom and gloom and invading armadas.
Admittedly, this was one of the best episodes. The lesson here is that often, people who look and act different from the "norm" are treated with suspicion and hostility.
One of the better episodes of the series, with some moral lessons on prejudice, xenophobia, and the error of listening to fear and war-mongers. ( And EVER giving Smith a laser gun)!!!
One of my favs too! The Taurons energy weapon was so cool that a few years ago I scratch built one from pictures. I put a 1 watt blue laser in the business end. I liked the the alien mother, her eyes expressed so much, you knew exactly how she felt.
I think these aliens where just on vacation. They enjoy camping on alien planets. It's no different for us to go camping and fishing in different places.
1:08. Don: “It’s dematerializing”. The first instance of this in the show, I believe even before Star Trek aired its first episode introducing the transporter, (but after Bewitched, which did this all the time)! Dave’s biggest pet peeve that EVERY alien in the show could travel by blinking in and out! The slow fade-in/fade-out was the coolest method. It really got annoying starting season 2 when it was accompanied by an explosion of flash powder in front of the camera!
Correction: This was actually 1st done in the last episode, Invaders from the 5th Dimension. The aliens “blinked” both Smith and Will inside and outside their spaceship. As far as John and Don are concerned, they only saw Will reappear at the same time as The spaceship was destroyed. In all that excitement and happiness to get Will back, they probably gave no thought that Will just reappeared out of thin air!
“Whose opinion are you going to take? That of a mere child, or mine”? Would have loved to hear John say they are one in the same! You know that’s what he was thinking!
I wish some creative writer could have put together a show based entirely on The Taurons and their entire world. Traveling through space without the need of a spacecraft! My 10 year old self was totally captivated!
Dave, I do appreciate your respect for life, but don’t think many people considered the Cylops as an intelligent being! More like a carnivorous giant bear walking on 2 legs! I was always curious about this creature. What did it live on? Since wildlife food sources seemed rather scarce. Plus how did it, (or they), survive the planet’s hot and cold cycles? Did it grow that big in one cycle? I know, I know! The just used the scenes from the pilot, with no intention of following up! And the planet’s hot and cold orbit was made up for the Hungry Sea, and soon dumped afterwards. As for the Taurons, they did look like humans, but they are an unknown, and humans instinctfuly fear the unknown. Honestly, if this guy showed up at the bus stop when your kid got off, and looking at him like this, wouldn’t you be creeped out??
And without a single line of dialog, Army Vet and former police officer turned actor Don Matheson becomes a favorite of Irwin Allen! I also would have loved to be a fly on the wall to see the original versions of the early episodes BEFORE the Johnathan Harris re-written final versions.
As I understand it, Harris didn’t re-write the shows. Just his own dialog. Later on he worked with Billy and Bob May to work out scenes with Smith, Will, and the Robot! They got a routine going! Harris never re-wrote the plots of the shows, as far as I know!
As I understand it, Harris didn’t re-write the shows. Just his own dialog. Later on he worked with Billy and Bob May to work out scenes with Smith, Will, and the Robot! They got a routine going! Harris never re-wrote the plots of the shows, as far as I know! This probably saved Lost in Space, since the last 2 seasons were so badly written, the only good parts were the ones with Smith, Will, and the Robot riffing off each other!
The first true Smith Scream!! 0:27 (Not counting that blast off scream in ep 1, (supposedly from pain and not hysterical fear)! I thought that thing was going to give him a dental exam, (shame it didn’t sneak behind him while he was bent over)!!
When this episode was in first-run, I was 9 and at home watching it with a really bad cold or the flu or something else nasty. I can remember feeling crappy while I saw that crawly thing move across the ground. I forever associate the memory of that prop with feeling godawfully sick. Kind of funny to think about it now.
Did anyone notice that the matter transfer unit beamed away with the aliens....yet five episodes later there it was again....a bit worse for wear but there again!
That was clearly a different machine in a different location. It looked much older. Perhaps it was sent earlier and malfunctioned, so they later had to send the one in this episode?
6:00 "Now that we have concluded our thorough search of the area, let's get back to the ship" [alien immediately walks out from behind a rock once they leave]
This episode has an exchange reminiscent of Star Trek: During the height of the crisis, Maureen begs John to confront the aliens. John replies that if they were on Earth, he'd know exactly what to do. But in space, they can't know how to handle these sorts of the things. If they were to misstep and it would be so easy to do, they might not know how to recover.
2:17 And Roddenberry used it mainly as a cost-saving measure, so they would not have to show the ship taking off and landing all the time. They didn't have the budget for that.
Actually , if you watched " Rocky Jon nes , space Ranger " from the 50's he had a cold light device on his ship that made it seem invisible. Also the 1936 episode of " Buck Rogers in the 25th century" there was a transporter like device used to get to the underground hide out.
In that cost saving move, they created a whole other bit of futuristic lore. The idea of dissembling matter and reassembling it in another location was mind blowing to me! Of course it didn’t work so well for that “Fly guy”!!
In the TV show, “The Orville”, (which I highly recommend to Star Trek TOS and TNG fans), they don’t have the transporter tech, but use small shuttle craft to transport. But they do have the “Holodeck”, which is overused in the show, sometimes in very, uh “weird ways”!
Good question! There were no other humans to give them a cold. I don’t feel the earth cold virus would be able to lie dormant in the human body that long! I may be wrong. It would have been an interesting episode if they got an alien virus that was far more drastic symptoms. Would have been a good show for Maureen, since she was “supposed” to be a Doctor of Biology in the original pilot! She could have found a vaccine! Instead of just cooking, cleaning, and doing the “space laundry”! Too far progressive for ‘60s television!
@@dwashbur If you really felt that way, then you should give the deed to your home away to the nearest Indian Reservation. I dare you to do so. So many wars have been fought over land and property in all parts of the world. It's very rare for a culture to be able to say they are truly indigenous. BTW, since you are so down on your own country, tell me what parts of Europe we took over after WWI and WWII, besides the few acres we requested to bury tens of thousands of dead US soldiers.
I rent. So I can't. Acknowledging the country's sordid history is not being "down on" it. It's acknowledging history. If you're too ashamed to be able to do that maybe you should ask yourself why. And your question is easy. Military bases all over Germany, France, Belgium, all the NATO countries, you think they don't all answer to us? Nationalism is stupid.