Episode "Island in the Sky" reply to uploaded video Icarus crash Planet of the Apes, 20th Century Fox sound effects/Batmobile • Icarus (1966 Batmobile...
one of the best scenes ever. Don in the tube, camera showing out the window. I was just in Palmdale California and not that far from where the scenes were filmed, the pinnacles of Trinoba or something like that
I first saw this episode at 12 years of age, the landing, the music and visuals of the terrain have stayed with me ever since. ( I'm now 64).Steve Sydney Australia.
was just thinking he same thing - I bought property in the desert and when I watched this just realized it was because the terrain looked like this! ahh the memories ...
The most chilling part of this episode is (for me) after Don enters the freezing tube and the camera pans to the main window. It emphasizes that there is NOBODY at the controls and the J2 is coming in on a wing and a prayer. They crash, but a few degrees either way and they would have been destroyed (suspension of disbelief, I know, I know)
One word....incredible. Watched as a 10 year old in 1965.....68 years old now. Still get goosebumps. Wish you had shown the entire scene.....Dr. Smith going into the freezing tube, Maureen going down below to be with the kids, being strapped in and smiling at one another for reassurance. So moving. I'll never get tired of this scene in particular. Better than anything today.
I would give that title to the climax in the Star Trek episode "The Doomsday Machine." However, this scene IS so very close. Both are better than what is produced today.
Absolutely magnificent - the Jupiter II is fighting with everything it has against that gravity well to maintain a survivable descent angle - the Major in the tube is motionless, but the gyros are off the chart - and so was Johnny Williams!
I feel the same way! The engine sounds from the Jupiter 2 are beyond comprability!!! Still trying to find out exactly how they made those engine sounds. I have heard two different rumors... One that it was supposedly some type of turbine and the other one was supposedly the motor out of a freezer! Anybody know exactly what they did and how they did it? Would love to know the answer. :-)
@@rickdj - Your first theory is correct. From what I've read online the effect was created by mixing the sounds of steam turbines (which is the dominant sound heard), with low notes from an organ (with good speakers you can hear the deep, resonant tones), and the sounds from two theremins. For my money the best spaceship sound ever!
@@Inflec cool... Do you happen to have the links where you found this? I would love to read up on it and see exactly how the things cane together.... Did not know they used theremins!!! Awesome!
@@rickdj - It was a comment I saw years ago to another RU-vid vid about Lost In Space. I just don't remember the title or the uploader, but it made the most sense considering what is heard when that sound is played. I remember someone (maybe it was from that same posting), mentioning that this sound was used for the first time in a movie predating LIS by several years. Believe it was called "Desk Set" But like you, I would love to hear something from one of the foley people on precisely how this effect was conceived and recorded. It just conveys the sense of the awesome power of the Jupiter's engines so well. Nothing else compares.
Absolutely magnificent - the Jupiter II is fighting with everything it has against that gravity well to maintain a survivable descent angle - the Major in the tube is motionless, but the gyros are off the chart - and so was Johnny Williams!
Exactly, the atomic engines are *screaming* as they fight the J2 to a survivable landing; and the occupants are *untouched*. That's the future I'm signing up for!
Ok, so why do I get emotional reading what you guys wrote about an inanimate object doing its best to fight to keep the Robinson family alive? And one that's a work of fiction as well?? Amazing...
The most thrilling and exciting sequence in Television of the 20th Century, and I saw it back in October of 1965! WOW. John Williams' masterful score brings it to life!
The crash scenes were always my favorite, suspenseful and exciting with cool music. I used to re-enact them all the time with a Jupiter 2 made out of paper plates. As a kid in the 60’s you played with what you had.
Absolutely spot on. As a kid in the 60s we did play with what we had. When some neighbor bought a new stove or refridgerator, us kids would fight over the empty shipping carton and pretend it was a secret hideout or spaceship or submarine. We pretended - which is a word unknown to present generations.
Nothing on TV up to that time could compare to this scene. Irwin Allen probably had studio executives saying “We can’t do that” or “it’ll never work.” But he stuck to his vision and we’re all left with an indelible memory.
To this day, the sound effects\visual effects are truly amazing, as well as a good dose of John Williams' music to go with it. The scene of the Jupiter passing that one tall rock with the sun behind it really sets an atmosphere..never seen anything like that before as a kid and as an adult 50 years later, it STILL holds up!
Love it The score for this TV show and the sound effects where absolutely the best in television history Really liked the more sci fi serious episodes of the first season ..fantastic. 62 yrs and still feel the music.
To this day nothing can beat this crash scene. Well orchestrated with the state of the art (back then) scenery with the music. Very nice indeed. I do not believe even Star Trek or other sci-fi shows to match what we just saw. Two thumbs up.
Lost in Space was actually off to a good start. It wasn't until a half dozen episodes into season 1 that it turned campy. In fact, 20th Century Fox had a bigger budget with more special effects than NBC/Desilu did for Star Trek in the beginning. This is the best crash landing sequence ever done on television. Even the best Trek episodes avoided crash landing and take-off sequences.
The single most exciting Television action sequence of the 20th century, accompanied by Oscar(tm) winner John Williams (STAR WARS, SUPERMAN, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, INDIANA JONES, Etc.).
This scene influenced me so much, I decided to make super 8 movies, recreating some of the special wire work of the flying miniature Jupiter 2. I learned about the legendary work of the Lydecker Brothers (who had worked on the tv series) I did countless experiments of flying a Jupiter 2 model in my back yard, flying it on wire supports. Some of my fondest memories growing by in the 60s and early 70s.
I would not trade any of the junk TV today for this. This scene, music, sound effects still gives me a chill. Having said that, Lost In Space was my favorite show as a child until it got goofy in the third season also, the episode "Follow the Leader" was awesome. Guy Williams is at his best in that episode!
I saw documentary about Lost in Space and they talked about this scene and the practical effects in it just amazing, I also seem to remember that this shot was done in color but the changed to black white.
That 1st season, done in B&W actually Enhances its Presense and impact.. if they were to remaster it in color, it would Lessen it...even today, when rewatching the B&w episodes, they are just so damn cool and give you a feeling that would be diminished if it were colorized...
wonderful scene, and such an awesome ship, look how the auto-pilot was still steering around mountains searching for a landing area , jupiter 2 was a tough saucer that was way ahead of it's time!
I have the Blu Ray set which of course is great but god how I wish they could have mixed it in 5.1. Watching this scene is full surround mix ...... Nirvana!
really, today's cgi looks so real, not hokey like back then. We just didn't know any better. I was a teenager at the time and loved every minute of it.
@@mikeyoung9810 This crash scene was different which is why it's still talked about today. It used a real balance model on a wire following a glide slope to an intended point. The movements were just as authentic as any real aircraft. Slight movements on its roll axis, probably due to wind and even heating in the desert, was as any aircraft would experience on an approach. These small effects, coupled with the angle which it was filmed, made this very real looking. The first view of it passing a pinnacle with the alien sun peaking from behind gave it an otherworldly quality that set the tone for the rest of this scene. It looked and sounded like it was a real flying saucer on an approach. There is no substitute for the real thing. The outside view, not the interior view, definitely holds up today against even the best CGI.
The Best Spaceship Sound Ever. And the interior shot with Major West riding out the crash in the Freezing Tube, with the popping sound of the Ship's Computer. Classic!
Always loved this particular segment of the TV show! When you hear those atomic motors and especially the shot when the Jupiter 2 is coming from left to right out of the cloud cover and the music is absolutely phenomenal anybody know how they created those motor effects? If so please share. Always wanted to learn how they did it. Thank you so much for sharing 😀
I said it Before, And I'll Say it Again. Those ATOMIC Engine's Screaming, COOLEST SOUND AROUND WITHOUT A DOUGHT And when they were able to Power Up For Liftoff the sound was AWESOME 🚀🪐🌜 !!!
i can still remember the awe my 10 year old self experienced during that crash. Unfortunately the series went down hill from there - even to mini-me. By the final season, when the show started using props like beach balls for mines, and previous-episode stock-shots for everything else, The Robinsons were truly lost.
Great video! Thanks for uploading! I was 8 years old when I saw this episode for the very first time in September of 1965. It's still an amazing crash scene, especially when you consider it was done over 50 years ago!
I agree about how this makes me feel like I did when I watched this for the first time as a young person, puts my emotions and feelings and memories right back as it was then. What a simple life it was then, no worries. I wish I could relive my childhood again, if even for just a little while. B9 was my favorite.
one of the best scenes ever filmed. Don in the freeze tube, the view out the window. Just stunning cinematography. I worked out in Palmdale ca and was not that far from where that scenery was filmed as well as many of the chariot scenes, the pinnacles of Troba. Next trip out to CA I will go visit them
I keep coming back to watch this over and over. Almost like I have to periodically. I was a big Lost in Space fan. One year for my birthday, my dad got me the Lost in Space gun. I was totally surprised and stoked!
What really makes the scene are the shots from inside the ship at the planet's craggy surface erratically speeding by below. The sound effects and music do the rest. It's so good that you never think of looking for wires on the model in the exterior shots, but those are seamless, too. I hadn't seen this for decades. Now that found it, I can't help watching it again and again.
Good point! Also the area they used for the crash landing sequence really LOOKS like an alien planet-the rocks and their strange shapes and all...and if you look at some of the photos the Curiosity Rover brought back from Mars, it could easily be Mars!
@@kainnosgoth7336 Actually, I think it's Earth. They flew a stunt plane over some of the more forbidding deserts in the West. At that time, that's the only way they could've gotten those shots. Simple but effective. BTW, a crash like that should've unsurvivable. And when talk about (retro) rockets, launched from where? But that was believable in 1964, and good SF.
@@wentshow Gotcha' :-) What I meant is that the outcroppings of rocks and the desert locale reminds you of some of the photos of Mars. And yes, VERY simple but effective locales! As to the crash landing: Well, we ALL know that, as Major West once said in an episode, "any landing you can walk away from is a good landing". So, for the sake of the show, ALL landings had to be good ones, LOL. Damn right on it being good science fiction too!
@@wentshow Another thought came to mind too-the close up scene of the underside of the Jupiter at around 1:43 as it barely skims over the rocks and through the mist is visually striking as well. Irwin Allen was determined to make the show as visually amazing as possible, and he succeeded in ways that all of us are talking about even until today!
@@kainnosgoth7336 Yes, he was amazing about executing the early episodes. He would capture his audience early, and they'd keep coming back as the show progressed. However, LiS deteriorated quickly. What they started out with vs. what they ended with were totally different shows that coincidentally had the same cast. One of excellent quality, the other was embarrassing, low-budget schlock, considered bad even at the time.
Definitely my favorite special effects scene from LiS! Even 50+ years later, it still holds up. It even occurred to me that the seemingly erratic flight path of the Jupiter 2 could be explained by Terrain-Following Radar (that first came out in the early 1960's,) "searching" for a relatively safe place to make an emergency landing.
I had to grin the other day when I turned on my old Hoover carpet cleaner and noticed that a bearing must be going bad in the motor. It started howling just like the sound that the Jupiter 2 makes.
Wow and yes one of the best sci-fi space ship crash scenes ever on T.V. Or film,the music,the view from inside the ship as the ship is hurtling to a crash thru the mountains with the clouds in the sky and the shadows of the ship reflecting of off the smoke and the smoke rising from nearby volcanoes or steam vents like in Yellowstone is simple of high quality the only ship crashing like that that can compare is from Star Trek generations and even that crash scene is not the same ...great scene
Hate to admit it, but I well remember this from the original broadcast ! Great acting, and special effects camera work ! Sound affects are absolutely great !
over fifty years later and being physically bothered like Dr. Smith was, I return to my youth and feel like a kid every every time I see this scene and hear Johnny Williams exciting clanging bell music as the ship looses it's orbit. This scene still excited the hell outta me and I have to literally watch it four times over just to get my fill. It still holds up better than a lot of crappy CGI today. This is my most favorite early episode when the show was solid Sci Fi adventure and still held the interest of the adults.
I make my daughters and grand kids watch it all the time (Papa is nuts, and they all know it, so...). Every time we get together for large family events, I always pretend that the paper plate I'm holding is the Jupiter 2, and I make it crash land on the kitchen counter (with appropriate music and sound effects, of course).
Thank you for posting this. I played it over our surround sound system and rattled the walls. . I'm sitting there yelling "Sing to me, baby!". Meanwhile, my wife is wondering if she should call the Men in the White Coats.
This scene Still looks incredible, with the sounds, visuals and music score !! one of my favorite lost in space moments... the ship visuals coming in just b4 crashing are insane..Now go back to the era when this was produced...it would have been off the charts back then.
Of course id did not. Irwin Allen had a history of lavish and first rate shows when they started, but after a while, the shows always deteriorated, and become formulaic and awful, insulting their fans! Same thing unfortunately happened to Irwin Allen's movies.
@James Brice , Actually, they did. By the third season, it was still one of the most highly budgeted shows on the air (though significant cast salary raises, played a role). Allen wanted a jump on their number for the fourth season, which had been assumed to be going forward, with little qualifications. However, CBS wished to cut the budget, which was anathema to Allen. This is all reputed, as for some odd reason, a decision that didn't take place at the dawn of TV, should be readily found in network documentation, one would think, at the least, But, every account I've read, offers several possible scenarios for the ultimate choice to drop it, though says the actual reason is unknown, suggesting that it never will be. I've long wondered, if Allen was really that disappointed with the outcome (though he apparently did have new plot ideas), as he was very invested with pre-production on LOTG (Lurch's well known vocal, prominently heard in the foreground!!!🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️).
Russell Anderson - Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, Fantastic Voyage, The Poseidon Adventure,, The Towering Inferno were all solid Irwin Allen films from beginning to end. I’ll give you The Swarm - lol.🤣
Wonderful Lost In Space I was 9 years old in the 70s watching this show. The effects for its time has been superb convincing and fantastic locations. I still wander how the Jupiter was able to fly from one end past those towering rocks and mountain background before crash landing. Truly remarkable fantastic work. I'm now 59 and still a child at heart I continue to watch this show and other classis just as I did back in the day. From Melbourne Australia.👍
One of the sound effects you hear from this scene was later used in 1968's Planet of the Apes during the opening crash scene, along with sound effects from the Batmobile from the 1965 Batman tv series.
This scene was awesome, and then later Professor Robinson goes up in the Bell Rocket Belt. These scenes haven't been topped by any sci fi science. And it's true sci fi, not Star Wars fantasy crap.
Even as a child, the inconsistency of this show drove me nuts. The tube looked more dangerous than strapped in a chair, no way there was a second d deck OR third....remember the scene in the core? I also noticed things like the shape of the Jupiter being different on the crash set than when in space. But I loved every episode, even the stupid ones like the dumb carrot guy..lol
ohhhh those chiming clanging bells and John William's music. Still exciting. Over fifty years later and my poor body is physically in pain just like Dr. Smith was. When I see video clips like this I return to my youth and I feel like a kid every every time I see this particular scene and when I hear Johnny Williams exciting clanging bell music as the ship looses it's orbit. This scene still excites the hell outta me and I have to literally watch it four times over just to get my fill. It still holds up better than a lot of crappy CGI today. This is my most favorite early episode when the show was solid Sci Fi adventure and it held the interest of the adults before they went over to Star Trek.
@@quadsman11 , Sorry, but I'll think you will find, that far more young men were beguiled and entranced by Angela Cartwright's superlative beauty and allure, which only became ever more stunning, in the decade to come!!!!
@@mitchellmelkin4078 You'll get no argument outta me ! Wouldn't have minded being stranded with any of these gorgeous women ( as they became of legal age ) Angela, of course ! But gorgeous all of them, anyway you look at it for sure !
One of John Williams's best. All that nasally brass, chimes. Gives the scene weight. The genius of JW (and Goldsmith and others) is that they are dramatists. At 1:22 shit gets serious! I never realized its just a minor scale working upward. Genius.
TB1M1, It's quite interesting to note, that in all of the comments that I've come across, he has hardly ever, if at all, ventured any statements about his work on the show. Perhaps, being associated with what he perceived it devolved into, was reason enough. But as you imply, his work here, was inventive, extremely thoughtful, as well as being rousingly exciting, when called for. There are a number of RU-vid videos that focus on his cues, especially, the remarkable ones that populated Mr. Nobody. You might look for them. The commenters on these, seem quite musically erudite, and you will find a number of quotes citing the show's soundtrack as among the best ever composed for TV!!! I guess that Williams wasn't even nominated for the Best Music Emmy, especially in this first season, because Academy members, simply didn't take the show seriously.
@@mitchellmelkin4078 JW music was amazing, but also that of the other composers, Alex Courage Herman Stein etc.. but JW music in the first episodes was amazing. the hungry sea when the sun comes. etc
My favorite crash landing of any spaceship in sci fi history. Began watching this show when it was brand new in 1965. I was 5 years old. Glued to it for at least a decade to follow. Still my favorite show of all time. The special effects, sound effects, and John Williams score are legendary. Best dramatic score ever for a TV show as far as I'm concerned. Never get tired of hearing the entire score from the first season.
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Brian Kelly (below says he was 3 years old being fascinated by Lost in Space). I was also 3 years old and I can remember growing up in the city in an 1890s Queen Anne home and my Aunt had a new midcentury modern ranch and they had an auxiliary circuit breaker that consisted of a 3 button by 3 button panel of red buttons and every time I visited her I would press those buttons then they rush to find out why all the lights went out and find me there pushing the buttons. They would ask me why andI said because I wanted to make the house fly into space like Will Robinson and the Robot. How could you get mad at a 3-4 year old who thinks they can made a 1960s midcentury modern ranch fly thru space. Actually there was a little intelligence there. I was smart enough to reallize that n 1890s Queen Anne house couldnt fly...but maybe...a new 1960s modern ranch could...if I pressed the right buttons. LOL. I still kinda chuckle how innocent I was as a child
Brian Kelly (below says he was 3 years old being fascinated by Lost in Space). I was also 3 years old and I can remember being in my 1 piece pajamas dragging my toy train that tooted when being dragged...sitting down in front of the TV and just being fascinated. My mother and father could always count on me being a good little boy that day because I wanted to watch that weeks episode.
Still holds up today. Interestingly, Major West rides out the crash in the freezing tube in order to match and use pilot footage of the Gemini 12 crash. Not sure but I think the full size Jupiter 2 seen at the end is the same full size prop used in episode 2, The Derilict, rather than the campsite set we saw through most of the series.
