Lost in Space Original Series, Behind the Scenes, guest, Marta Kristen "Judy Robinson" Interview! 

Thank you for watching my channel! If you enjoyed this video, please LIKE & SUBSCRIBE to my channel. I have fun talking about television from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s television shows and often with the stars of the shows.. __

I am completely mesmerized by Marta’s beauty. I feel that she is the personification of love. What a stunning lady ❤️

Great interview with the fabulous Marta.

I really enjoyed this interview. Marta Kristen is a class act and I really enjoy hearing about her acting and theater stories and experiences. I was a teenager when Lost In Space was on TV. I really liked her Lorelei character. I had the biggest crush on her.

Jeez! she looks fantastic!

wow she is amazing today as allway. a big fan. love judy. we played lost in space as a Kid great show. Love Marta Kristen. allways.

She is still as lovely as ever. Wonderful interview.

I’ve met her twice and she is so sweet, fun and of course, beautiful.

i was late teen when this legendary tv show was airing. i so enjoyed JOHNATHON acting . I really connected with him. And the ROBOT was hilarious.i was disappointed when the show was cancelled like many other fans. i still buy tootsie roll pops.

Similar to Marta, I am heavily into the arts. I'm also born, raised and living in New York City. I hope to meet her one day. 💚

Lovely. Thank you for posting.

Jonathan Harris was one of the NICEST people I have ever met! I asked if I could get a picture with him and he said in his distinctive voice "Why yes dear! Give me your hands!" I have a great photo of him holding my hands. One of my most prized possessions.

Fantastic interview! Thanks for doing a great job!

Wow She is still so Beautiful and so Nice!! I met her twice shes a class act

Thanks for this .. Lost in Space brings back so many great memories of school days and even sparked an interest in space ! Marta looks so youthful .. I think all that "space travel" has been good to her :)

Lost In Space is my very Favorite Show! Loved Marta and Mark s Characters! Whis they could of had a good Romance! I am 63

From an Italian Australian i would like to say... I was an 10 year old boy when in 1967 in Australia i first watched lost in space. What a great cast it was .....It had Zorro and June Lockhart who"s father was an actor in major films (played the judge in Miracle on 34 street) and first saw June as a very young sister to Alvin York in seargent York. Bill Mumy who was already famous,Angela Cartwright from offcourse the Sound of music and TV, to The faboulus Johnathan Harris And the dashing Mark Goddard. But the biggest crush i had was for Judy Robinson...Oh dear what a beautiful Honey....She looks absolutely nice Today and its a testament to a beautiful soul that she looks great in her older days.....Please tell her that some people and shows made a difference to peoples life even though we dont really know them....Judy is a treasure to humanity because of her inner beauty. (Marta Kristen Of Course)

She's still quite beautiful. Glad to see she's doing well.

Great interview / thanks :_)

Such an awesome interview! I love Marta!

Fantastic interview with Marta Kristen! I've had the honor of meeting her once and she is just so sweet. She sincerely enjoys meeting her fans and making them feel special. This was my first visit to your channel, I have liked and subscribed and looking forward to more great interviews. Thanks John.

I thoroughly enjoyed this interview. Thanks for doing what you do!

Unbelievable. You've knocked it out of the ballpark again and transported me back in time to one of my favorite shows. I love that it's on Spotify also-Marta has had such an interesting life and your method of interviewing and preparation puts you above all others. I can't thank you enough for what you do, but trust me, you continue to outdo yourself with each successive interview. I can't wait until the next one. Thank you so much John-my gratitude for your time and efforts. Peace.

I would have LOVED to hear Jonathan Harris with his Bronx accent. It's so hard to imagine.

She's blessed with eternal beauty

Marta is still beautiful….I was 11 when I first saw her I’m Lost In Space and fell in love😊…I’m from Michigan….

Oh this is a treasure! Such wonderful interview.

what a joy! thanks to both you and your guest marta kristen :) i'll have to work on finding & buying a new guinea judy robinson postage stamp LOL :)

Marta, it must be great to age and stay beautiful. I will even say that you got more beautiful. Lovely eyes and smile. It was great to listen to you.

Marta Kristen is one of the HOTTest women I ever saw on any TV show. Lost In Space is my most favorite series episodes show. always loved Marta! but like she said she didn't have a lot of scripted. I LOVED the Lost In Space series episodes from day one & could NOT wait until the next episode each week. I hated it when they said it would not be on for 2 weeks!!! my next BEST series episode show is Gilligan's Island. I was born on 6-19-1958 & always LOVED Lost In Space & then Gilligan's Island. today is 7-24-22 I still watch & LOVE them both!!

We ironically recently re watched her episode on Leave it to Beaver. She was Eddie Haskell's girlfriend for the episode, such a standout! (Wally and Dudley)

Hi Marta. Love the interview. I was born in 1959 and saw every show as a kid and had a major crush on you as a kid and now. You look fantastic then and now. Please contact me because I am a huge fan. Thank you.

A beautiful person on the inside as well as the outside.

Still lovely!

Still so beautiful!!

Marta kept herself youthful and beautiful.

Thanks Marta! You made LIS ! Wish you had more lines.

i think they should make her life story. would Be amazing. great show Keep it comeing.

Wonderful Interview & Such a Sweet Women !💖

I think Marta was my first love. She still gets my heart racing. Was I the only 6 year old in love with her?

Marta looks awesome now! Great genes obviously

Great addition. I've always had a crush on Marta since I was a kid. Will you be able to get both June Lockhart and Mark Goddard on your show? At 96 and apparently still sharp June should have a lot of great stories to tell. Mark should be a load of fun too.

I wish the series had allowed June Lockhart to keep some of her real life rebelliousness in the character, instead of forcing her to do that always grinning happy homemaker persona. I liked the Maureen that stood her ground against her colleagues in the early shows, and made her voice heard.

Guy Williams had so much charisma. A balance of intelligence and machismo. He'd have been great in Star Trek or any other tv show.

Marta's is as beautiful now or more so than during the Lost in Space series, and a beautiful person. Would love to know you better. You are Awesome 💋

Born February 26, 1945 in Oslo, Norway Birth Name Birgit Annalisa Rusanen Height 5' 4" (1.63 m) Mini Bio (2) Marta Kristen was born Birgit Annalisa Rusanen, on February 26, 1945, in Oslo, Norway, to a Finnish mother and a German soldier who was killed towards the end of World War II in Europe. Marta was only two months old when she was left in an orphanage. In 1949, Dr. and Mrs. Harold Soderquist of Detroit, Michigan adopted her, and brought her to America; she was renamed Martha Soderquist. In 1959, the family moved to L.A. and she attended Santa Monica High School for a year; she later graduated from Hollywood Professional School. Producer/director James B. Harris discovered the pretty, petite aspiring actress; he arranged for her to get an agent, and she was quickly booked for TV programs, such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) and The Loretta Young Show (1953) (aka "The New Loretta Young Show"). In 1963, Marta met a graduate student and, 6 months later, they got married. Her career took off and she made a splash as the mermaid "Lorelei" in Beach Blanket Bingo (1965). She would be best-known and remembered, however, for her signature role of "Judy Robinson" in Lost in Space (1965). However, the show was not as great as expected. Marta later said in an interview, "The show had so much promise. When it started to be silly, we all began to look at each other and say, 'We're in an episode with talking vegetables?' Five years of the Actors Studio, and I'm doing this?" Even worse, the show did not feature her prominently -- in the most popular episode, Lost in Space: The Sky Pirate (1966), in which actor Albert Salmi (like Marta, of Finnish descent) guest-starred, she had only one word of dialogue (she gets to say "good-bye" to the pirate). Offscreen, Marta tried to find her roots, but it was not until 1969, pregnant with her first child and traveling alone through Europe looking for her long-lost relatives, that Marta was able to find her biological mother in Finland; she also met her older sister for the first time, whom she didn't know about. Later that year, Marta returned to the USA, and her daughter Laura was born. Marta concentrated on raising her daughter, and instead of doing television or films, she appeared in over 40 TV commercials, which required less time away from home. Marta and her first husband divorced in 1973. In 1974, she met Kevin Kane, an attorney; they were married until his death in 2016. Marta has remained moderately active in TV and movies, even appearing in the big screen version of Lost in Space (1998). And she discovered more family members in 1997, half-siblings -- a younger brother in Australia and a sister in Finland -- about whom she had known nothing. Having always put her family ahead of her career, Marta revealed, in an interview, that she was "co-parenting my daughter's child, Lena. I used to do a lot of theater and traveled a lot. But those things are out of the picture for the next couple of years". - IMDb Mini Biography By: kdhaisch@aol.com Marta Kristen will be forever known as "Judy Robinson" in the cult 1960s science fiction series, Lost in Space (1965), produced by Irwin Allen. Kristen expected more from her character when she got the role, she also wanted a romance between Judy and series co-star Don West (Mark Goddard) to happen. But when Kristen mentioned the idea to Irwin Allen, her producer was uncomfortable with such a storyline happening in a kid's show. In one very early episode, when the space castaways go for a drive in the "chariot", we see a bit of soft romance happen between Judy and Don, but it only lasts for a second. Despite not getting to do much in the series, when Judy was on screen, her male viewers watched with joy. And Kristen admits to being a fan of her episode, Lost in Space: Attack of the Monster Plants (1965), where an evil double of Judy is created by a giant plant. Judy also got things to do in later color "Lost In Space" episodes, like Lost in Space: A Visit to Hades (1966) and Lost in Space: Visit to a Hostile Planet (1967). Kristen appeared in The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen (1995) show. She still appears at sci-fi conventions in the USA and she even went as far as Australia to see fans a few years back. - IMDb Mini Biography By: StuOz Family (2) Spouse Kevin Kane (4 May 1974 - May 2016) (his death) (1 child) Oswald Gooden (2 November 1963 - 9 March 1974) (divorced) (1 child) Parents Soderquist, Harold Rusanen, Helmi Trivia (7) She was born out of wedlock in Norway to a Finnish mother and had a German soldier for a father. The German army was occupying Norway at the time. Her father was later killed in combat. She was left, by her mother in an Oslo orphanage at the age of two months. In 1949 she was adopted by an American couple and grew up in the United States. She occasionally does nostalgia shows with Angela Cartwright. In 1964 she auditioned for the role of Liesl Von Trapp in The Sound of Music (1965). Was considered for the lead role in Lolita (1962), which eventually went to Sue Lyon. Her original American name was Martha, but upon embarking on an acting career she changed it to the more European-sounding "Marta". Has a daughter, Lora Alison Treadwell who was born on November 11, 1969 in Los Angeles with her now ex-husband, Terry J. Treadwell, a psychologist. Stuntman Robert 'Buzz' Henry taught her how to ride for the movie Savage Sam (1963).

The LOOK of the 5 early episodes is still a huge turn-on for me. Gorgeous use of B&W. Anything that looks that good should keep an audience for both kids and adults. The robot is still my favorite film robot of all time. He has SOME kinship with today's Mars rovers - certainly in his function. Maybe one day some robotics whiz will build a real working robot following B9's design, just to prove it could work. And with AI yet.

It's Bill Mumy (MOOOOMY) (Not MEEUUUMY) there is no accent to it. He corrected that in another video, seemingly not into the mispronunciation. I grew up calling him Billy "MUMMY" oops :)) sorry Mr Mumy.

Fun interview. BTW Billy Mumy is pronounced moo-me, not myoo-me

Thanks to RU-vid, I looked at every single work with and/or by Chaplin. Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, W.C. Fields, and the Marx Brothers are, imo, the pillars of all comic artistry. Chaplin the reigning emperor , of course. Everyone else you could name comes after them.

35:07 Many props were borrowed leftovers from... Cleopatra . If you'll notice : LOTS of Egyptian statues in the alien caves of Lost in Space. I guess they looked weird and surreal . This interview was good but it could have been a little better - I like to hear specific details about specific episodes .

Sounds like Maritia has God in her heart ❤️ from her suffering from her past and making good from it and her Love for life Amen 🙏

The Judy Robinson postage stamp...

Marta, you are still so beautiful

She’s very nice and looks great. Sad that the the show went from the excellent season 1 to a mostly embarrassing 2 and 3. Imagine if they used John, Maureen, Just and Don more.

So CBS turned LIS into a kiddie show! I didn't know that. It's a shame.

Still very pretty. I know it sounds rather shallow. Ok, she's quite bright as well.

Better looking now ...

I've been in and out of nursing homes several times, the staff was nice, but overwhelmed, it's not a place you want to be if you require timely care.

One thing I often find amusing about tv show familes is that there's ZERO resemblance between them. To the point where there's no way any dna sharing going on there. In the Robinsons' case, one kid is Irish, another looks Italian, and, of course, Judy is Swedish.

To Marta's closing comment, in this era where now every biological definition of gender is copacetic, ageism is still the last bastion of prejudice in this country. It keeps them from work they're still capable of doing; it keeps people from listening to them as much as they would any TikTok no-brainer; and it makes people forget that longevity has standards we hadn't seen before. Anyone look at Donna D'Errico, lately, at age 54??? (That, of course, is a more superficial example). They still get asked by idiots, "are you retired?" It's gotta change. Bill Maher talks about this a lot.

Martha really never was given a true chance to shine, unfortunately her character was given the least amount of screen time.