Lost In Space - Dr. Smith 

Me too! Getting old dude

Lol !!

@@TheGuru12163 Me three (I know you remember that reference😁)

Me too..when kids could dream and use their imaginations. Glad I grew up long before this technology that is 2021 today. Oh the pain! The pain!

Yep, the pain is right ! Humanity hasn't even so much as left earth's orbit in decades, for crying out loud. Except for unmanned probes, of course. What a travesty.... after all that original optimism ! Okay, I'll climb down from my soapbox now. Thanks. 👌🏾☮️

Yeah. After a few seasons it started to get corny. The first season was more believable

Most of love the serious episodes of LIS

With all respect, I must disagree. “Playing it straight” Irwin Allen Style would have made this show no more memorable or lasting than his other shows like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel or Land of the Giants. All OK to So-So shows, but none nearly as memorable and syndicated as LIS. SMITH & ROBOT 4 EVER!

Another faux "Mid-Atlantic" actor's accent.

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@@XavierKatzone Yep, but definitely better than his native Noo Yawk accent. The "deese and dose" accent, as Harris himself referred to it. 😌

Where did _you_ get the "idea" that he was supposed to be "British"? lol

And Johnathan Harris was NOT British . He and his family fled Russian and were Jewish fleeing persecution during Communism .

Good for u , u youngens need to see what everyone is copying & remaking 😁

I started watching it as a teenager in re-runs, in 1978. On a color tv, in my maternal grandparents' kitchen. The door to their living room looked like the doors in the "state rooms" The light in the kitchen somewhat resembled the "bubble" of the Robot B9's head.

Yeah he at first deliberately soften his character to deceive the Robinsons and prey on their mercy but later they grew on him especially the kids

One of Harris's best scenes is in "The Time Merchant", where he has a chance to stay on Earth in 1997 but learns (via a message relayed from the Merchant) that the LACK of his extra weight aboard the J II will cause the ship to be destroyed in an uncharted asteroid belt before the family comes out of hypersleep. "Penny, Judy...my dear William", he laments, "No I can't do it!" -- and he and the Robot plot to sneak aboard the ship to prevent the tragedy.

@Kevin McDougall Robert Kinoshita.

Remember Robby's guest-appearances on Lost in Space?

@@richardranke7878 "War Of The Robots" and "Condemned Of Space."

After he became human, I loved the B9 Robot!

Yup..its true! I was about that age too when it was aired by Malaysian national TV in early 1970's. So nostalgic. Now l'm a 53 yrs old grandaddy.

6-9 years old for me!

Doctor Smith is mad funny

Love it.I was so young, 7 and watched on ch 30 in st.louis mo.at 3pm after school at Griffith elementary.

Me too! I combed my short hair like his. I found a similar, very ugly, shirt. It was my favorite shirt.

Very canny of you, on both counts. agree

Judy surely forgot Dr. Smith was a cold blooded murderer...she stood up for him on several of the first season episodes.

Gee smh thanks for giving us a heads up on *spoiler alert* 👍 im only on episode 2 on the Netflix series 🤫🤔😒😔

Yeah, he ruined it.

Yes it is a bygone era. We will never experience those times again. I get nostalgic thinking of them. Not just the show itself but the memories from the years we lived trough when we watched it.

I loved it to Tracy back when live was so much simpler l was about 6 old then l wish l could go back l miss that life

I still do, at age 60. 👍🏾

All the black and white episodes were the best ones- not long after the switch to color however, the series began it's decline. But great memories from those times will keep it popular even after we from that generation are no more.

@Kevin McDougall , wow. I didn't know that. Wasn't Jim also the narrator for Lost In Space?

@Kevin McDougall , thanks for clearing that up for me. And Happy New Year .

@Kevin McDougall , Ah! No problem. I need to do that everyday.😄😄

One may assume that they created night and day inside the spacecraft as on earth. In other words they passed through during a sleep period.

It must have been one of those really small galaxies...

I'd forgotten about that one ! 😁 And the "comets" that can fry the Robinsons to a crisp with their intense "heat". 😊🤔😌😁

In fact, I've heard that NASA had approached Allen to technical consultancy. He dismissed their offer. In fact beginning in season two, the show came to focus even more on Jonathan Harris/Dr. Smith and his constant scheming against the Robinsons

The first season was amazing. Unfortunately, Irwin Allen didn't care much for science fiction or for good story-writing. If something got him good ratings, that's all that mattered to him. "Lost in Space" was competing with the "Batman" TV show at the time, and when Irwin saw how successful it was, he changed the direction of "Lost in Space" to try to compete with it. He dumbed the show WAY down in seasons 2-3, and we got Space Pirates, Space Hippies, Space Banditos, Space Miner 49ers, etc.

I was a little 6 yr old kid when I first saw Smith activate the Robot. Most amazing thing I have ever seen! I remember it like it was yesterday. It was 54 years ago I go

I loved the direction the show went. You can’t have too much Dr Smith, accept it.

@@smartluck100 the robot had such potential with a mini drone. Aux rocket pack and tv transmission's but that was never explored. Just that inane visit to a giant robot

A GREAT. PLEASURE. TO. WATCH. ESPECIALLY. DR. SMITH.

That was a great episode!

I forgot how bad he was lol.

I never knew. I never saw this scene before. Always hated him (character) and never could figure out why John and Don didn’t ditch him on some planet or shoot him out into vacuum early on…but then remembered why Gilligan always ruined every rescue attempt. It’s a show. 😀

@@Andrew-13579 Dr. Smith morphed into some kind of anti-hero....Didn't he get more fan mail than the cast? Kinda weird!! And he also bought lollipops for the crew.....or so I heard....

I know what you mean....."Oh, the pain! The pain!"...... Sorry, I couldn't resist. 👌🏾👍🏾

yes I agree...after this episode..the producers thought he was far too scary..so they mellowed him...which is a shame..

I know right: bravery was NOT one of his greatest traits!

It wasn't only that. By that time, Fox and CBS were putting heavy pressure on Irwin Allen to cut back on the violence and lighten up the initially dark tone of the series. Mr. Harris undoubtedly knew of this, and simply fell in with them, as it were. It should also be remembered that, by that time, there was a widespread call by the FCC and other groups to tone down television violence, which had reached its peak with "The Untouchables" only a few years earlier. Such cartoon series as "Space Ghost" and "The Herculoids," now considered classics of the period, were also cancelled for the same reason. Subsequent attempts to revive these series proved to be miserable failures, as they "dumbed down" the original characters to the point that viewers in general found them disappointing.

@@GlamRockCowboy Not only Space Ghost & Herculoids, The Wild Wild West and Wacky Races were canceled to tone down the violence.

Also Jonny quest

I believe that the episode where the Robinsons returned to their ship, after the big freeze, they would find Dr .Smith frozen to death.

Allens PILOT EPS always had a good storyline but as series progressed they degraded to silliness and the MOTW Genre

I agree! The "silly" version later was fun, but I loved how scary The Robot was originally, and how Smith just wanted to kill everyone.

@@deeesher I enjoyed the voice of the robot, cold, inhuman and would do anything that Smith said.

Both versions of Dr.Zachary Smith were evil. The one in the regular show was comically evil-more like Sylvester or Wile E.Coyote.In the pilot he was more like The Master

The character was changed since Johnathan Harris felt that if he had remained as that character, he would not have been on the show for very long so he took a more comedic approach to playing the villain.

@@ace942 yeah i did hear that some where, thanks

It was a very large room too, that would never have fit into the ship as seen from the outside, not to mention the pod. Where did they have room for the pod?

Right..... especially Will (who NEVER seemed to heed his parent's advice). 👌🏾

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May actually voiced the robot during filming. This was how he synchronized the chest plate lights with the dialog. Tufeld's voice was dubbed in late during post-production.

+HAL 9000 How cool would it have been if they had recorded and saved Bob May saying the lines during taping or rehearsal how cool it would have been to actually hear him saying the dialog too. From interviews and from I have heard and read of Mr. May he had quite the sense of humor.

Funny how he's a medical doctor for the first episodes than we are told he's only a "full-fledged doctor of Galactic and Environmental Psychology" pretentious Earth school, eh? "Galactic" before they even colonized one star system?

cowardly space queen. LOL

@@craig9563 you think she alive

Jonathan Harris took control of the writing for his character. Had Smith remained a cold evil spy-villain, he would have been killed off in the early episodes. Harris re-writing Smith as a comic villain saved his character (and the show). 83 episodes was a good run!

Overpopulation was a big concern prior to the early '70s, when the Green Revolution in agriculture sharply boosted crop yields per hectare -- especially in the Third World.

because you cannot kill the monster without becoming the monster yourself

Why destroy the radio transmitter? The Robinsons and Maj West are frozen solid. No chance they would emerge from the tubes and be able to call for help with the cabin pressurization system destroyed.

😁😁😁Nice touch! Hall 9000 giving advice to the B9 Robot!

Normajean McCracken --- Rick Grimes sure could've used that robot--- destroy the walker herd! Destroy destroy!!

@@badideabearcub2747 but the POD BAY DOORS Came in the third season, though

to remotely take over, or at least give them telemetry to analyze. BY destroying it, that remote possibility is removed. The loss of Jupiter II must remain a mystery.

I always wondered why they didn't just put him in suspended animation in one of the freezing tubes.

@@markcadieux3445 Don did, actually -- but the robot was programmed (by Smith of course) to release him [Operation Rescue, as the robot called it].

I read that unlike Gene Roddenberry, Irwin Allen didn't care about his shows after he sold them; only that they made money. He would put everything into the pilot in order to sell it, but once sold, he would do anything to keep the money coming in and that's why he let Jonathan Harris's character take over, because it brought in ratings and money. Greed has no taste, unfortunately.

That promo, was VERY effective! It hooked me instantly. LOS was the one show I was looking forward for school starting for for the very first time.

He was still cowardly, disloyal and greedy though to the end.

You mean Mitt Romney , lol

The robot was named "Friday" in Japanese version.

According to the Alpha Control Reference Manual, the guard named Ssgt Joseph McWilliams was found dead from a broken neck. Not sure if it is considered canon, but according to this book Dr. Smith did in fact kill the guard.

As a matter of curiosity, Smith's blow looked pretty authentic and effective to me. To someone knowledgeable about such things, as depicted, would that have likely resulted in inflicting a broken neck? In any event, isn't it likely that the dumpster and its contents, if not vaporized in the launch, wouldn't at least, have been irredeemably irradiated, and have to be remotely disposed of, afterwards, validating Smith's decision to dispose of the body, by that means? While not surprising such a detail might not be illustrated, where exactly, is the dumpster? As one would be led to think, from the scene, it would appear to be directly below the Jupiter. However, the establishing shot of the launch platform, clearly shows that's not the case. There is a walkway, some distance underneath the ship, but there doesn't appear an object situaited on it, though from the perspective of that defining view, it MIGHT just be hard to discern. ???

Agreed I liked the cold blooded evil Smith more than the cowardly bumbling one he became

I had always thought he killed the guard. The look on his face and the pause when he feels for a pulse indicates that the guard is dead and Smith has really stepped in it. What has always puzzled me though is WHERE did the guard come from? He seems to have been luring in the shadows the entire time that Smith is re-programming the robot. When he appears, he is no where near the ladder or the elevator.

Makes me wonder why Dr Smith was so keen to return to Earth - after all, he'd be in deep doggy doo doo's if he did!

It specialized in crash landings!

Maybe David but she took a Lickin and she kept on tiking. That's what counts

patterend at the BATMAN SERIES and it went doownhill