Great music by John Williams. He is credited in the Lost in Space TV show as "Johnny Williams" which gives you some idea how old this series is. I think some of the music was also from "The Day the Earth Stood Still." (the Theremin stuff by Bernard Hermann)
Im reading alot of the comments first of all Lost In Space was not a low budget show. It had one of the most expensive pilots ever made for a tv show in its time.The reason the show became "Camp" is it was competing up against Batman,The ratings began to drop so in order to maintain the audience hence came the camp ,schlock part of it.Afterall Batman was total schlock.At the end of the 3rd season all the actors were told there would be a 4th season,then for some unknown reason it was canceled.
GREAT post - Thank You. Good info too, filmed in color because of budget, etc. Many fun comments as well. Nice to know so many have experienced something very similar in watching the various seasons. Loved this show in strip syndication - every day after Jr high school my best friend Randy & i watched. Didn't know how much fun it was, really. Times gone by.
Love this show since I was 4 in 1965, and when the Jupiter 2's engines whent to a high whine, and the ship started glowing with electrostatic corona and lifted off the Earth at Alpha Control in Florida, I was hooked with the awe and beauty and high adventure of it all, and I kn ew what I wanted to do with my life, and after years of hard styud, I am doing it. John William's masterful and exciting music, and LB A bbot's and the Lydecker Bros. masterful SPFX made it all so cool and realistic!
wow. that brings back memories! i used to have a lost in space toy set. the jupiter 2 was made of styrofoam and the battery powered chariot was guided by small, yellow plastic tubing.
Probably my favorite piece of LIS tech. It was so much cooler than the Robot or the Jupiter 2 because for the most part, it was real, not a special effect or a prop. "The Hungry Sea" which had the whirlpool and featured the Chariot extensively, was one of my favorite episodes. Keep your Hummers and Winnebagos. I'd rather have a Chariot any day. It would be the ultimate RV camper. Except for its lack of kitchen and bathroom.
Beautiful cinematogrphy.... Those shots are still more evocotive of an "alien planet" than the stuff you see today. I take it these were all shots with the full scale chariot? No miniatures? The whole show had a great "Major Matt Mason" vibe to it. (At least in the beginning.) Yeah, sad that the series "devolved" into kid's fantasy. You can blame the popularity of "Batman" and the "Monkees" for that.
Exciting stuff indeed. Irwin Allen at his creative peak in the mid 1960s. THe technology and vehicles still have not dated, although computers, lasers and communication devices have gotten a lot smaller in 46 years.
I think it would be neat if they could remaster the entire first season of Lost in Space on DVD and make DVDs of the first season in color, in my opinion, all three seasons of the show should have been done in color.
I must say I completely disagree with you on this. The black-and-white gives the first season a grittiness and seriousness it rarely had in the second and third. The starkness of the B&W also gave it a more otherworldy quality and made the soundstage backgrounds look at least somewhat believable. When the show went to color, the backgrounds just looked cheap, overlit and gaudy to put it mildly. The B&W also went better with John Williams' moody score.
@buddy51 Your comment is spot on! Black and white not only made the first season better, it was necessary to convey the desolation and mystery of an alien planet. I was 10 years old when LIS first came out, and from the very first episode I was hooked. I was LITERALLY wide-eyed at scenes like this one! The scenes where the chariot crosses the alien landscape (much expanded with this clip) together with John Williams' music, made me feel these people were truly on an alien planet.
As I remember it, while not as specific as some to what episode it was said, I do recall hearing that they'd assemble the Chariot.
Also, in season 1, the Jupiter 2 had crash landed, deep enough that the main hatch was even with the ground, and the ship seemed to be one level. Season 2, they were back flying, and the J2 became 2 levels, and was on extendable retracting landing legs. Season 3, I recall at least one episode where Will Robinson went down to the power core on the 3rd level down.
@EMS8643 Season I was two levels to the Jupiter II, if you recall. The labs, Galley, Staterooms, Robot Magnetic Lock, and atomic otor power core were all on the lower level. I love the Jupiter II, its a wonderful design that still has not dated, even after 46 years! I love the new Moebius Models Jupiter II, Chariot, Space Pod, Flyiing Sub and Seaview all-plastic model kits! Perfect for lighting and miniature filming! I have the DVD-sets of LOST IN SPACE SEASON I, and Volume I,Season II.
@EMS8643 Actually, there is barely enough room in the Jupiter II as designed for a lower level, and no room ro a thrid level. THe power-core hyper-atomic magnetic drive was outside the main hull. THe Drive also acts as the onboard artificial gravity generator. THe entire ship is a buig capacitor, the displacement current inside the capacitor was felt as onboard gravity, just like on Earth (Earth-surface (-), Ionosphere (+). The design of the Jupiter II is actually brilliant.
I wish Irwin Allen would have brought them back to earth or ended up on Alpha Centuri instead of leaving them lost. He left the Spindrift on the giant planet and left the time travellers lost in time even though I heard there was a final episode where they came back but it was never aired.
lost in space low budget? Just the blueprints for the Sets cost around $100.000 in 1964! He had 3 sound stages with 3 different Jupiter 2's sets! One for the Upper level, other the Lower level, other the "alien planets and ships! Allen spare no expense in creating a first class show! Unfortunately he lost interest (like a typical Gemini)
Fascinating when you're a child; ridiculous when you're an adult. Even the premise; a family, with children, no less (who would be utterly useless on a space mission) going to Alpha Centauri. Really? Four years distant IF traveling at the speed of light? Who knows how many years at much lesser speed? That would be condemning the entire family to a purposeless hell, with no hope of ever having a life. Beyond absurd.
I'm right there with you guys. LIS was great its first season (I was 10 too) and to see the chariot for the first time in color as it traversed the alien landscape is a major thrill! In season 2, the chariot was relegated more as a prop.
I was about the same age as you when the show was on TV. that vehicle always stuck out in my mind, I always wanted to own one! What a cool machine that still looks great nearly 45 years later.
Hi everyone i really loved watching the chariot crawl across the ground. Was wondering if this vehicle is privaely owned by anyone today and if it is what price was paid to get it.
I wonder if the movie prop Chariot survived intact and someone owns it now ? It would be worth millions I bet . Especialy after watching that hollywood treasure show where the sci fi items get auctioned for fortunes!
@vassephardi The first season was done in black and white which was standard for tv shows of the time. However, anticipating that they'd be doing the show in color soon, they filmed scenes like this "in color" to use as stock footage on any future shows where the chariot was written into the script. It was mainly a way of saving money, as they wouldn't have to re-shoot these kind of scenes later.
how the heck did they do the aerial shots starting at 1:09 and 1:56 & 2:09??? It looked like it was being filmed on a steady cam (not available in 1960) while they drove along on top of an 18 wheeler 40 feet in the air!
The amount of dust left by the Chariot's tracks suggest a helicopter wasn't used or the shot would have been ruined.
So... somebody suspended in a bucket at the end of a very long boom?? ( otherwise known as "operation flying trapeze" LOL )
I was damn near obsessed with this show as a child! This color footage is amazing! Forty-five years later it still looks new! I always wanted to ride in the Chariot! I love LIS! Wish it had gone on to a fourth season.
Just FYI, I just finished editing a new book on the making of the LiS pilot which will be published by ARA Press next month. In it, you'll learn that the Chariot was built on the running gear of a Thiokol Spryte snowcat.
@hagerty1952 It was the same snowcat that was featured in the pilot episode of VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA: "Eleven Days to Zero". Eddie Albert was in the cast. I firs saw that episode in 1964 when I was three years old!
LIS had such a wonderful and unique look to everything in it. From the waaaay cool look of the Jupiter II--with its spinning lights-- to the interiors of the ship with the hibernation tubes and the center "guidance console". The laser handguns, the robot, and not to mention the look of the Chariot.
Can any LIS fans out there tell us who were the people who did the terrific production designs on this show? I can't seem to find anything specific in the show credits on my dvds....
@farmerne Art Creber designed the original "Gemini 12" saucer for the pilot episode. He and Robert Kinoshita altered it slightly for the series when the ship became the "Jupiter 2." Kinoshita also designed the Robot and several of the props.
You have to admit, this clip is more than just a little goose-bumpy! I'd never seen the color footage before. I think this was filmed around Craters Of The Moon, Idaho, US, but I'd sure like to be corrected if that's wrong. The Chariot was always my favorite LIS Tech-Mech, and not only does this clip make me believe they are on an alien world, it helps me remember what the "future" looked like. Bravo!
@filmguy24p Actually, it was filmed in Red Rock Canyon in southern California. It was some of the second unit "stock" footage they were building up. It was shot in January 1965.
@hagerty1952 This appears to be Trona Pinnacles and not RRC. Been to both and there are no pinnacles at RRC. From seeing all the footage though on LIS, it appears it was shot in both Trona and Red Rock but this footage is Trona. Been to many numerous times and still love it there!
@oklahomasupercell Thanks for the comment. I couldn't tell you definitively from personal experience, but the author of the book I mentioned a couple of comments back spent a little over a decade visiting the Fox archives researching the show, and he has the call sheets for the second unit that say "Red Rock Canyon." I have no reason to doubt him, but, he might be mistaking some other second unit work (such as the rocket belt sequences) for this particular Chariot drive.
I watched both shows from the date of their premiere and found Lost in Space to be repeatedly disappointing. It could have been so much better but they never took the genre seriously enough.
@petruscephas Agreed, about CBS not taking the genre seriously. But even NBC, with Star Trek, sold out in the long run (or maybe, the short run). This footage beats the snot out of anything Justman and Roddenberry did over at Desilu; despite their more "serious" attitude. Seeing this footage convinces me that CBS/20th Century and Irwin Allen could have blown us away with this show. Hell, I'm blown away by this 4 decades later! Instead, the only blowing was the wind of our exasperated guffaws!
@petruscephas Star Trek was better because the stories were better, regardless of the devices. Star Trek used the best of the science fiction writers of that era. You can see the roots of Star Trek episodes in writings of Bradbury or Twilight Zone or even Shakespeare.
Star Trek had nothing to equal stuff like this. Lost In Space was great for the first half of the first season. Then, like all Irwin Allen shows it got real dumb. The Jupiter 2 is still the coolest space ship and it's engine noise is super cool also. The Chariot was very realistic. Remember when Don West said that they would "assemble" the chariot on the first planet. I wonder where they stored it on the Jupiter 2?
@49bobbyk Your comments about the Jupiter II are spot on. I was 10 years old when I saw the first episode(s), and the ship and the sound was waaaaay better than any other "space ship" up to that time---including the Enterprise. It had such a wonderfully futuristic and streamlined look, and the sound f/x was very unique. And the interior just blew me away also. The shots (and sounds) of the Jupiter swooping over the alien landscape are still spectacular today.
Exciting stuff! Gotta dig that excellent music from multi-time Oscar and Grammy winner Johnny Williams! (EARTHQUAKE, THE TOWERING INFERNO, JAWS, STAR WARS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, INDIANA JONES, ET: THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, etc)!
2nd unit footage from the pilot "No Place To Hide". the other footage was the crash of the Jupiter 2, the Cyclops and John Robinson flying the Jet Pack. absolutely spectacular.
Regardless of what anyone might think of the show you must admit that it has the best background music of any television show ever. John Williams is indeed a maestro.
I'm just surprised they could go all that distance and not run into a Cartwright or Virginia City or Matt Dillon for that matter... And there was always a robber behind every rock or a band of Utes... Heck, they could have run into Lucy out looking for Uranium!
It really is good footage, better that I ever remember seeing in the show. Seems to me all I remember was shot on a set, not out in the open like this. This almost looks more like a 1970's movie rather than a B&W TV show.
Saw some of it as a kid on re-runs..never noticed it was a s.c. "PistenBully".. Always thought it was some very well made.big-scale model. Looks bloody good in colour, and not half as outdated as some Sci-Fi TV-produce of these days...
@UFOSPACE1999 If you recall from the thrid episode: Island in the Sky, "We'll ASSEMBLE the Chariot, it'll get us over this rough terrain." - Major Donald West.
I went to Trona Pinnacles on my vacation to LAX. I recomend anyone take time to visit the place, it is soooo cool and unreal. I could almost imagine seeing the chariot off in the distance.
I went to Trona Pinnacles on my vacation to LAX. I recomend anyone take time to visit the place, it is soooo cool and unreal. I could almost imagine seeing the chariot off in the distance.
Its a shame they editted it to B/W cos the colours in this are great. Does anyone know what real life vehicle was used for the base of The Chariot? Was it from a civilian or military vehicle? Ive always wondered and I have a couple of candidates in mind, but itd be nice to know for sure.
@paullubliner The Snowcat from LOST IN SPACE was indeed a retrofitted snowcat from ELEVEN DAYS TO ZERO, the COLOR pilot of VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (1964-68). It was made by Morton Thiokol, same company that makes the Space Shittles infamous solid-fuel twin rocket boosters. Its a shame the military of every country has decided to secretise the REAL space technology the governments of the world have had since the 1940s.
Like zooeyhall, I was also 10 when it first aired. I loved cuddling on the floor in front of our black and white TV and watching LIS with the lights out. I was so fascinated with space travel. It was 1965, and the Jupiter 2 launch, I remember, was set in 1998! 1998 was so far into the future! I also remember Jupiter 2 was being launched for man's colonization of space.
LOST IN SPACE. The one and only. THe first season was scary and adventuresome sci-fi/adventure, but later colour episodes many fans felt were insulting. If Irwin had used real science-fiction writers, like on STAR TREK a year later, LOST IN SPACE might have been better, and had a long run on CBS, as THE TWILIGHT ZONE did! Nevertheles, all three seasons on LOST IN SPACE had some thrilling and entertaining episodes.
Amazing! If we still had the Australian 'Lost in Space' fanclub I would show this! (Apparently somebody from Australia went to the Sherman Grinberg Library to retrieve some black and white stock footage from 'Lost in Space,' but was told it had been thrown away five years ago.)
The color television yoke assembly was very involved and so is the alignment procedures in regards to the delta pitcure tube, also built by RCA. Therefore, the color in this film looks better than if you showed it on a color TV at the time. For example, showing a movie such as Ben Hur on any television would be absurd.
There's just not enough room on here to give people an entire disseration regarding the hisatory of color television. As I alluded to earlier, CBS was slow in transitioning to color. Perry Mason was certainly the super show for CBS and putting it in color would have ruined the sophistication that was Perry Mason and they knew it. Perry Mason remained in black and white for that reason. That attitude remained which relatews to such classic movies as Double Indemnity.
First, people need to get a sort of reference for color television in general. As usual RCA was and is the historic groundbreaker under the auspices of Davisd Sarnoff. Along with that was the broadcasting station, NBC. I'll get back to CBS here in a sec., which was the station that apparently had the Lost in Space series, you say? Anyways the easiest shows to broadcast in color would be rather obvious; cartoons. Hanna Barbera had the most popular ones on the market.
So this footage was shot in the 60's ?? It's incredible and I'm glad it survived. The 1st couple of seasons were great and then it got so camp. What were the writers and producers thinking !?! This series could have rivelved Star Trek but no, enter the Carot Man. sigh.
@frantic1971 BUT this is shot on 35mm film...and there are zero visual effects here...just a camera man shooting a chariot going through a California Desert..NOT much visuals in that.....
I got rid of TV watching in my house over 8 years ago.
It was a little tough for about the first 4 or 5 months, after that it was all down hill.
Broadcast TV is not even a thought anymore ... AT ALL! I mean the big screen is still in the den & when we feel like a movie we rent or by a DVD & have a movie night, but that's it.
Now a days, the COMPUTER is the new enemy, the new heroin :O(
So did I ! I was 4 when LIS came out, and I was entrhalled from the opening episode on, every Wednesday night!
The combination of the timeless- and logical design of the props and sets, designed by Bill Creber (PLANET OF THE APES, FANTASTIC VOYAGE) ane the SPFX masters LB ABBOTT, and Howard and Theodore Lydecker, and Oscar winner John Williams stirring music, made you feel they were trillions of miles far out in space, on an alien planet on the edge of the galaxy. "TO BE CONTINUED..."!
It's great to hear the entire sequence as written rather than the chopped up versions necessary when editing the show.
Compare this sequence with some of the "Tatooine" music (especially the sand crawler) and you'll see that Williams was expanding on the ideas he'd developed for LiS.
@hagerty1952 Exactly right. You can hear threads of LOST IN SPACE all thru STAR WARS, and SUPERMAN, and RADERS OF THE LOST ARK. Every hit movie you can think of, John Williams wrote the music for. I thought his music for LOST IN SPACE was thrilling, and brilliant. Still shines, 45 years later! I remember seeing the pilot episode of Lost in space in 1965 when I was 4 years old. Immediately, I knew I wanted to be involved in advanced space propulsion, and for the last 21 years, I have been!
If you recall from the third episode, ISLAND IN THE SKY, Major West (good friend Mark Goddard, who I saw a couple months ago again at CHILLER THEATRE) said after the crash lading on Priplanus" "We'll ASSEMBLE the Chariot. It'll get us over this rough-terrain". So the Chariot came like a model-kit somewhere in the bowels of the lower-deck. The Jupiter 2 in the first pilot HAD NO lower deck! The space pod just barely fits past the rear-landing leg-stairwell. I have loved LIS for over 44-years.
It's interesting you would bring that up. My sister told me she saw one episode where the Jupiter 2 is sitting in the ground on some planet like it was for most episodes. The side of the ship opens up and out comes the Chariot. I have never been able to find this episode.
Funny, in later episodes, the Jupiter-2 had a CHARIOT RAMP! I never saw this! In the third episode (the crash-which is spectacular high-adventure), Major West speaks of having to have the family help to ASSEBLE the Chariot. (!) THat aside, the effects were all done winning LB Abbott,(THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE) and the designs were all Bill Creber, and Bob Kinoshita at 20th Century Fox, and the Lydecker Bros. See AVATAR. Its the best movie of all time. Get the new MOEBIUS Jupiter 2, I LOVE MINE!
@rainlori I was just thinking the same thing ... no way the chariot fits into the Jupiter 2 but they always had it with them.... a damn cool ride tho...
THis is the music of Academy and emmy and grammy-award-winning composer/conductor John ("Johnny" Williams, and has scored every hit movie for the last 36-years. This music makes you bileive the family Robinson is starship-wrecked on a Mars-like alien planet somewhere near the centre of the Main-Sequence stars of the Milky Way. The show has held me spellbound since the pilot episode, in mid-Sept., 1965. Irwin was like Jules Verne, and HG Wells, helping to create the Shape of THINGS TO COME.
This was one of the believable things they had on the show. Surely they could have gotten better writers for this series. I grew up watching this in the 60's. I thought it was pretty good at the time, but it went down hill quickly after the 1st season. The remake was terrible. It was off the other end of the chart. A family surviving in space could have been a well done show if the writers weren't smoking something.
I think that can be said about some of the other sci-fi series as well - the production companies manage to get the financing to make a sci-fi series, get realistic and believable looking futuristic sets and uniforms, then turn the episode into a bad LSD trip. Maybe it was the psychadelic 60's, but it does seem a shame.
Around 0:46, the camera tilts down to show the treads as the chariot drives by. At first, I thought this was not to show the stunt doubles. But actually the front right corner window is missing. Must have been a breezy ride for anyone in the right seat.
Series would have been a lot better and lasted longer if it weren't for so many stupid episodes like the talking carrot. If they had more serious episodes of a lost family trying to survive in space, it would have been better and if Smith didn't become such a pussy soon after the first several shows. Originally, he was more of an evil bad ass that knocked out security guards and threw the body out the Jupiter trash chute and blasted aliens with the laster pistol. After that, he became a wimp.
film is in very good condition--any idea where it was filmed-and during the first season--how did don assemble the chariot so quickly--i dont think-J2 wouldve lifted off with the chariot on board-intact--as billy m says--lis was what it was.
Both the Landram and the Snow Cat that this vehicle was built around wer made by Morton Thiokol, yes the same NASA subcontractor that makes the solid-rocket boosters for the space shuttle, and the lower stage of the new moon-ship, Aries. I'm watching 2001:A SPACE ODYSSEY on 50-inch Hi Def plasma flatscreen now, and I saw it in CINERAM and sterophonic sound in Manhattan in 1968, when I was in the 1st grade. Now we live in the future, and Lost in Space hardware still looks fresh.
This footage is amazing. I was about 6 when this was shot and it' looks as if it were filmed just a week ago.
This was a great show and it's a shame they don't or won't make something with such a simple yet enjoyable theme. Where in the world did you find this footage?
Cool clip. so i now have a copy.. I have noticed that there is quite a lot of recycling going on in all the seasons recordings.. Still a loved the show. Would be kinda cool to see all the B&W stuff remastered into colour. eve if just to compare the two versions.
Bet there was a lot of out takes .. wonder how much has survived ??
I downloaded this excellent video a couple of years ago and keep watching it over and over again. It is a pure fusion of audio and visual perfection. Alpha if you're reading this is it possible for me to get this in top-notch perfect quality via a file-sharing website or such?
I especially like your clever edit of the audio. I would love a copy of that by email if possible.
MOEBIUS MODELS came out with a fantastic all polystyrene Chariot last year. Find it in most hobby shops, or order online! They also make a great SPACE POD, SEAVIEW, FLYING SUB, and they are coming out with an 18" JUPITER-2 this December, 2009!!!
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Here it is December 31st 2011 tomorrow is Jan 1 2012 this show keeps on ticking and holds up just as well as any star trek show ever did!!!!!!
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Great music by John Williams. He is credited in the Lost in Space TV show as "Johnny Williams" which gives you some idea how old this series is. I think some of the music was also from "The Day the Earth Stood Still." (the Theremin stuff by Bernard Hermann)
KneelB4Bacon 1 month ago
I always enjoy watching this rare color footage from LIS' season 1 here....
MrReilly067 1 month ago
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Machi74005 2 months ago
Wow i was 5 years old in 1965 and i loved lis specifically the Chariot. dint know what its name was .and did not see it much but i really wanted one.
O7ROADKING 3 months ago
Im reading alot of the comments first of all Lost In Space was not a low budget show. It had one of the most expensive pilots ever made for a tv show in its time.The reason the show became "Camp" is it was competing up against Batman,The ratings began to drop so in order to maintain the audience hence came the camp ,schlock part of it.Afterall Batman was total schlock.At the end of the 3rd season all the actors were told there would be a 4th season,then for some unknown reason it was canceled.
mgrella63 3 months ago
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mgrella63 3 months ago
GREAT post - Thank You. Good info too, filmed in color because of budget, etc. Many fun comments as well. Nice to know so many have experienced something very similar in watching the various seasons. Loved this show in strip syndication - every day after Jr high school my best friend Randy & i watched. Didn't know how much fun it was, really. Times gone by.
RevRonL 3 months ago
Ive wanted to drive this since i was 5... im totally building one when i get the chance.lol
Kryptoskryptos 3 months ago
I would think , the sun was brighter in those years , more of a yellow color , we need more Chariots :) QC
Quaaludedude714 3 months ago
It really needs a wider wheelbase.
glimmer2158 5 months ago
Wow, those moving shots are pretty sweet.
FrictionControl 5 months ago
Love this show since I was 4 in 1965, and when the Jupiter 2's engines whent to a high whine, and the ship started glowing with electrostatic corona and lifted off the Earth at Alpha Control in Florida, I was hooked with the awe and beauty and high adventure of it all, and I kn ew what I wanted to do with my life, and after years of hard styud, I am doing it. John William's masterful and exciting music, and LB A bbot's and the Lydecker Bros. masterful SPFX made it all so cool and realistic!
Beamshipcaptain 5 months ago
osti que cé bon
SuperSpelletier 5 months ago
At least the Robinsons were lucky in that they always landed on planets with breathable atmosphere....
MerleOberon 8 months ago 2
WOW!, the desert does look like another PLANET! Thanks for POSTING!
TheMusicgirl7777 8 months ago
wow. that brings back memories! i used to have a lost in space toy set. the jupiter 2 was made of styrofoam and the battery powered chariot was guided by small, yellow plastic tubing.
ralexnicholas 8 months ago
OMG, great find!
infidelpuppy 9 months ago
Probably my favorite piece of LIS tech. It was so much cooler than the Robot or the Jupiter 2 because for the most part, it was real, not a special effect or a prop. "The Hungry Sea" which had the whirlpool and featured the Chariot extensively, was one of my favorite episodes. Keep your Hummers and Winnebagos. I'd rather have a Chariot any day. It would be the ultimate RV camper. Except for its lack of kitchen and bathroom.
RoyKnable 10 months ago
So, when does John stop the Chariot and exclaim.. "Damn you, you blew it up!"
visor109 10 months ago
Beautiful cinematogrphy.... Those shots are still more evocotive of an "alien planet" than the stuff you see today. I take it these were all shots with the full scale chariot? No miniatures? The whole show had a great "Major Matt Mason" vibe to it. (At least in the beginning.) Yeah, sad that the series "devolved" into kid's fantasy. You can blame the popularity of "Batman" and the "Monkees" for that.
InCameraFX 11 months ago
Exciting stuff indeed. Irwin Allen at his creative peak in the mid 1960s. THe technology and vehicles still have not dated, although computers, lasers and communication devices have gotten a lot smaller in 46 years.
Beamshipcaptain 11 months ago
I think it would be neat if they could remaster the entire first season of Lost in Space on DVD and make DVDs of the first season in color, in my opinion, all three seasons of the show should have been done in color.
saints093 11 months ago
@saints093
I must say I completely disagree with you on this. The black-and-white gives the first season a grittiness and seriousness it rarely had in the second and third. The starkness of the B&W also gave it a more otherworldy quality and made the soundstage backgrounds look at least somewhat believable. When the show went to color, the backgrounds just looked cheap, overlit and gaudy to put it mildly. The B&W also went better with John Williams' moody score.
buddy51 6 months ago 2
@buddy51 Your comment is spot on! Black and white not only made the first season better, it was necessary to convey the desolation and mystery of an alien planet. I was 10 years old when LIS first came out, and from the very first episode I was hooked. I was LITERALLY wide-eyed at scenes like this one! The scenes where the chariot crosses the alien landscape (much expanded with this clip) together with John Williams' music, made me feel these people were truly on an alien planet.
frantic1971 6 months ago
As I remember it, while not as specific as some to what episode it was said, I do recall hearing that they'd assemble the Chariot.
Also, in season 1, the Jupiter 2 had crash landed, deep enough that the main hatch was even with the ground, and the ship seemed to be one level. Season 2, they were back flying, and the J2 became 2 levels, and was on extendable retracting landing legs. Season 3, I recall at least one episode where Will Robinson went down to the power core on the 3rd level down.
EMS8643 11 months ago
@EMS8643 Season I was two levels to the Jupiter II, if you recall. The labs, Galley, Staterooms, Robot Magnetic Lock, and atomic otor power core were all on the lower level. I love the Jupiter II, its a wonderful design that still has not dated, even after 46 years! I love the new Moebius Models Jupiter II, Chariot, Space Pod, Flyiing Sub and Seaview all-plastic model kits! Perfect for lighting and miniature filming! I have the DVD-sets of LOST IN SPACE SEASON I, and Volume I,Season II.
Beamshipcaptain 11 months ago
@EMS8643 Actually, there is barely enough room in the Jupiter II as designed for a lower level, and no room ro a thrid level. THe power-core hyper-atomic magnetic drive was outside the main hull. THe Drive also acts as the onboard artificial gravity generator. THe entire ship is a buig capacitor, the displacement current inside the capacitor was felt as onboard gravity, just like on Earth (Earth-surface (-), Ionosphere (+). The design of the Jupiter II is actually brilliant.
Beamshipcaptain 11 months ago
I wish Irwin Allen would have brought them back to earth or ended up on Alpha Centuri instead of leaving them lost. He left the Spindrift on the giant planet and left the time travellers lost in time even though I heard there was a final episode where they came back but it was never aired.
Tazzman 11 months ago
lost in space low budget? Just the blueprints for the Sets cost around $100.000 in 1964! He had 3 sound stages with 3 different Jupiter 2's sets! One for the Upper level, other the Lower level, other the "alien planets and ships! Allen spare no expense in creating a first class show! Unfortunately he lost interest (like a typical Gemini)
saltof1 11 months ago
Is there anything else in color from thi 1st season?
michaelhviper 11 months ago
No license plate?? No inspection sticker?? I'll bet they're smuggling illegal aliens!!
CounterCultureLives 11 months ago 2
Fascinating when you're a child; ridiculous when you're an adult. Even the premise; a family, with children, no less (who would be utterly useless on a space mission) going to Alpha Centauri. Really? Four years distant IF traveling at the speed of light? Who knows how many years at much lesser speed? That would be condemning the entire family to a purposeless hell, with no hope of ever having a life. Beyond absurd.
DoctorLawyerWhatever 11 months ago
Now I know where they got the design for the AMC Pacer.
at90percent 1 year ago
Two comments:
1. That machine looks rather expensive ... I can't imagine Irwin Allen (the producer) springing for that:
2. I think it's funny that the Chariot has its own motif in the music score.
MarcellusTheGreen 1 year ago
you are right, considering how low budget the series was - I wonder how he managed to pay for such an amazing and expensive-looking vehicle.
Dukeoftruth 1 year ago
We love the Trona area!!!
PuzzlingEvidenceTV 1 year ago
LOL, I keep thinking maybe a 100ft giant will appear here somewhere!
jsgold2000 1 year ago 2
I'm right there with you guys. LIS was great its first season (I was 10 too) and to see the chariot for the first time in color as it traversed the alien landscape is a major thrill! In season 2, the chariot was relegated more as a prop.
mrgears 1 year ago
I was about the same age as you when the show was on TV. that vehicle always stuck out in my mind, I always wanted to own one! What a cool machine that still looks great nearly 45 years later.
Dukeoftruth 1 year ago
Hi everyone i really loved watching the chariot crawl across the ground. Was wondering if this vehicle is privaely owned by anyone today and if it is what price was paid to get it.
superheat01 1 year ago
I wonder if the movie prop Chariot survived intact and someone owns it now ? It would be worth millions I bet . Especialy after watching that hollywood treasure show where the sci fi items get auctioned for fortunes!
flyingscience 1 year ago
I don't understand why they would record footage in color and then convert it to black and white. What is the reasoning for that? I don't get it.
vassephardi 1 year ago
@vassephardi The first season was done in black and white which was standard for tv shows of the time. However, anticipating that they'd be doing the show in color soon, they filmed scenes like this "in color" to use as stock footage on any future shows where the chariot was written into the script. It was mainly a way of saving money, as they wouldn't have to re-shoot these kind of scenes later.
almightycatman 1 year ago
@almightycatman Oh. Interesting.
vassephardi 1 year ago
Star Trek never had anything to equal the Chariot or the Robot. And of course the music of John, then Johnny Williams was excellent.
49bobbyk 1 year ago
how the heck did they do the aerial shots starting at 1:09 and 1:56 & 2:09??? It looked like it was being filmed on a steady cam (not available in 1960) while they drove along on top of an 18 wheeler 40 feet in the air!
The amount of dust left by the Chariot's tracks suggest a helicopter wasn't used or the shot would have been ruined.
So... somebody suspended in a bucket at the end of a very long boom?? ( otherwise known as "operation flying trapeze" LOL )
Billbear4 1 year ago
I was damn near obsessed with this show as a child! This color footage is amazing! Forty-five years later it still looks new! I always wanted to ride in the Chariot! I love LIS! Wish it had gone on to a fourth season.
kevinhof63 1 year ago
@kevinhof63 Me too!
Just FYI, I just finished editing a new book on the making of the LiS pilot which will be published by ARA Press next month. In it, you'll learn that the Chariot was built on the running gear of a Thiokol Spryte snowcat.
hagerty1952 1 year ago
@hagerty1952 It was the same snowcat that was featured in the pilot episode of VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA: "Eleven Days to Zero". Eddie Albert was in the cast. I firs saw that episode in 1964 when I was three years old!
Beamshipcaptain 1 year ago
@Beamshipcaptain Thanks. I'll have to check it out!
hagerty1952 1 year ago
LIS had such a wonderful and unique look to everything in it. From the waaaay cool look of the Jupiter II--with its spinning lights-- to the interiors of the ship with the hibernation tubes and the center "guidance console". The laser handguns, the robot, and not to mention the look of the Chariot.
Can any LIS fans out there tell us who were the people who did the terrific production designs on this show? I can't seem to find anything specific in the show credits on my dvds....
farmerne 1 year ago
@farmerne Art Creber designed the original "Gemini 12" saucer for the pilot episode. He and Robert Kinoshita altered it slightly for the series when the ship became the "Jupiter 2." Kinoshita also designed the Robot and several of the props.
Haselius00 1 year ago
top notch.
2ndAsstJizzMopper 1 year ago
You have to admit, this clip is more than just a little goose-bumpy! I'd never seen the color footage before. I think this was filmed around Craters Of The Moon, Idaho, US, but I'd sure like to be corrected if that's wrong. The Chariot was always my favorite LIS Tech-Mech, and not only does this clip make me believe they are on an alien world, it helps me remember what the "future" looked like. Bravo!
filmguy24p 1 year ago
@filmguy24p Actually, it was filmed in Red Rock Canyon in southern California. It was some of the second unit "stock" footage they were building up. It was shot in January 1965.
hagerty1952 1 year ago
@hagerty1952 This appears to be Trona Pinnacles and not RRC. Been to both and there are no pinnacles at RRC. From seeing all the footage though on LIS, it appears it was shot in both Trona and Red Rock but this footage is Trona. Been to many numerous times and still love it there!
oklahomasupercell 1 year ago
@oklahomasupercell Thanks for the comment. I couldn't tell you definitively from personal experience, but the author of the book I mentioned a couple of comments back spent a little over a decade visiting the Fox archives researching the show, and he has the call sheets for the second unit that say "Red Rock Canyon." I have no reason to doubt him, but, he might be mistaking some other second unit work (such as the rocket belt sequences) for this particular Chariot drive.
hagerty1952 1 year ago
Star Trek kicked ass. Lost in Space blew chunks.
I watched both shows from the date of their premiere and found Lost in Space to be repeatedly disappointing. It could have been so much better but they never took the genre seriously enough.
petruscephas 1 year ago
@petruscephas Agreed, about CBS not taking the genre seriously. But even NBC, with Star Trek, sold out in the long run (or maybe, the short run). This footage beats the snot out of anything Justman and Roddenberry did over at Desilu; despite their more "serious" attitude. Seeing this footage convinces me that CBS/20th Century and Irwin Allen could have blown us away with this show. Hell, I'm blown away by this 4 decades later! Instead, the only blowing was the wind of our exasperated guffaws!
filmguy24p 1 year ago
@filmguy24p,
Point well taken. I have just always felt that Star Trek was the superior sci-fii show of the two and I watched both of them.
petruscephas 1 year ago
@petruscephas Star Trek was better because the stories were better, regardless of the devices. Star Trek used the best of the science fiction writers of that era. You can see the roots of Star Trek episodes in writings of Bradbury or Twilight Zone or even Shakespeare.
porter4 1 year ago
@porter4
Agreed. Star Trek was the superior show, hands down.
petruscephas 1 year ago
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filmguy24p 1 year ago
What's the Chariot doing on Sha Ka Ree? :-)
FreedomZealot 1 year ago
4X4 adventures! " go anywhere" even to other planets !LOL
weldon0m 1 year ago
I believe that is Tonopah State Park near Las Vegas.
Ccrazyfella 1 year ago
Star Trek had nothing to equal stuff like this. Lost In Space was great for the first half of the first season. Then, like all Irwin Allen shows it got real dumb. The Jupiter 2 is still the coolest space ship and it's engine noise is super cool also. The Chariot was very realistic. Remember when Don West said that they would "assemble" the chariot on the first planet. I wonder where they stored it on the Jupiter 2?
49bobbyk 1 year ago
@49bobbyk Your comments about the Jupiter II are spot on. I was 10 years old when I saw the first episode(s), and the ship and the sound was waaaaay better than any other "space ship" up to that time---including the Enterprise. It had such a wonderfully futuristic and streamlined look, and the sound f/x was very unique. And the interior just blew me away also. The shots (and sounds) of the Jupiter swooping over the alien landscape are still spectacular today.
frantic1971 1 year ago
Awsome footage and background music!!!!
How the heck did they fit the Chariot in the Jupiter II ???????
vinny3888s 1 year ago
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vinny3888s 1 year ago
Freakin Amazing..................Love it!
redmark19666 1 year ago
Exciting stuff! Gotta dig that excellent music from multi-time Oscar and Grammy winner Johnny Williams! (EARTHQUAKE, THE TOWERING INFERNO, JAWS, STAR WARS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, INDIANA JONES, ET: THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, etc)!
Beamshipcaptain 1 year ago
where is being chased by a spaghetti strainer
TEMPmichaelhansen 1 year ago
2nd unit footage from the pilot "No Place To Hide". the other footage was the crash of the Jupiter 2, the Cyclops and John Robinson flying the Jet Pack. absolutely spectacular.
saml760 1 year ago
I always wondered, where in the Jupiter II was the Chariot stowed?
markd60 1 year ago
Great stuff! So... ALIEN!
TheThirdEdge 1 year ago
Regardless of what anyone might think of the show you must admit that it has the best background music of any television show ever. John Williams is indeed a maestro.
IstvanN1961 1 year ago
I'm just surprised they could go all that distance and not run into a Cartwright or Virginia City or Matt Dillon for that matter... And there was always a robber behind every rock or a band of Utes... Heck, they could have run into Lucy out looking for Uranium!
It really is good footage, better that I ever remember seeing in the show. Seems to me all I remember was shot on a set, not out in the open like this. This almost looks more like a 1970's movie rather than a B&W TV show.
Nash1a 1 year ago
hmm vegetation..
TheLeatheryman 1 year ago
@TheLeatheryman And clouds..
pikeystudmuffin 1 year ago
Too cool!
prisonermn 1 year ago
Saw some of it as a kid on re-runs..never noticed it was a s.c. "PistenBully".. Always thought it was some very well made.big-scale model. Looks bloody good in colour, and not half as outdated as some Sci-Fi TV-produce of these days...
diakrite 1 year ago
WOW! Seeing this brings me back......."1,000 Thank You's" for posting!
Modeltrainguy 1 year ago
Weirdly, one of my childhood dreams to live in the truck, not practical for the actors, but if only it were so..
mikekingphoto 1 year ago
How did they fit all that shit and thischariot on the space ship????!!!!
FormerADTMan 1 year ago
@FormerADTMan UR right...how did they put this huge Chariot and PLUS that lil flying thing in that SMALL spaceship....IRWIN?
UFOSPACE1999 1 year ago
@UFOSPACE1999 If you recall from the thrid episode: Island in the Sky, "We'll ASSEMBLE the Chariot, it'll get us over this rough terrain." - Major Donald West.
Beamshipcaptain 1 year ago
@FormerADTMan Reverse engineered Time Lord technology?
GoblinXXX 1 year ago
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I went to Trona Pinnacles on my vacation to LAX. I recomend anyone take time to visit the place, it is soooo cool and unreal. I could almost imagine seeing the chariot off in the distance.
morg8339 1 year ago
I went to Trona Pinnacles on my vacation to LAX. I recomend anyone take time to visit the place, it is soooo cool and unreal. I could almost imagine seeing the chariot off in the distance.
morg8339 1 year ago
Its a shame they editted it to B/W cos the colours in this are great. Does anyone know what real life vehicle was used for the base of The Chariot? Was it from a civilian or military vehicle? Ive always wondered and I have a couple of candidates in mind, but itd be nice to know for sure.
pathdaly 1 year ago
@pathdaly SNOWCAT from Morton Thiokol
Beamshipcaptain 1 year ago
@Beamshipcaptain
Thanks for that. My choice of candidates was wrong then.
pathdaly 1 year ago
Mommy Im scared
votrep1 1 year ago
Hey, its Tatooine!
Geekman100 1 year ago
Looks just like our Delica L300!!!
esirenbotdon 1 year ago
Alpha if youre still around is there any chance of you re--uploading this mini-masterpiece in HD?
rumbers 1 year ago
Also, the Chariot was built from the Seaview's "Snowcat."
paullubliner 1 year ago
@paullubliner The Snowcat from LOST IN SPACE was indeed a retrofitted snowcat from ELEVEN DAYS TO ZERO, the COLOR pilot of VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (1964-68). It was made by Morton Thiokol, same company that makes the Space Shittles infamous solid-fuel twin rocket boosters. Its a shame the military of every country has decided to secretise the REAL space technology the governments of the world have had since the 1940s.
Beamshipcaptain 1 year ago
Second Unit was shot entirely in color.
paullubliner 1 year ago
WOW!
That is some great cinematography...nothing about it looks dated at all, and it's very dynamic footage. Great camera angles, great shots...beautiful!
PromusKaa 1 year ago
Like zooeyhall, I was also 10 when it first aired. I loved cuddling on the floor in front of our black and white TV and watching LIS with the lights out. I was so fascinated with space travel. It was 1965, and the Jupiter 2 launch, I remember, was set in 1998! 1998 was so far into the future! I also remember Jupiter 2 was being launched for man's colonization of space.
misyespitelk 1 year ago
@misyespitelk oct 1997
mgrella63 1 year ago
woww, this music are so good
AlbertRingo 1 year ago
LOST IN SPACE. The one and only. THe first season was scary and adventuresome sci-fi/adventure, but later colour episodes many fans felt were insulting. If Irwin had used real science-fiction writers, like on STAR TREK a year later, LOST IN SPACE might have been better, and had a long run on CBS, as THE TWILIGHT ZONE did! Nevertheles, all three seasons on LOST IN SPACE had some thrilling and entertaining episodes.
Beamshipcaptain 1 year ago
Amazing! If we still had the Australian 'Lost in Space' fanclub I would show this! (Apparently somebody from Australia went to the Sherman Grinberg Library to retrieve some black and white stock footage from 'Lost in Space,' but was told it had been thrown away five years ago.)
Eligius4917 1 year ago
Great clip and brilliant music score by John Williams or Johnny as he was listed on the original credits.
TK42138 1 year ago
The color television yoke assembly was very involved and so is the alignment procedures in regards to the delta pitcure tube, also built by RCA. Therefore, the color in this film looks better than if you showed it on a color TV at the time. For example, showing a movie such as Ben Hur on any television would be absurd.
stratoleft 1 year ago
There's just not enough room on here to give people an entire disseration regarding the hisatory of color television. As I alluded to earlier, CBS was slow in transitioning to color. Perry Mason was certainly the super show for CBS and putting it in color would have ruined the sophistication that was Perry Mason and they knew it. Perry Mason remained in black and white for that reason. That attitude remained which relatews to such classic movies as Double Indemnity.
stratoleft 1 year ago
First, people need to get a sort of reference for color television in general. As usual RCA was and is the historic groundbreaker under the auspices of Davisd Sarnoff. Along with that was the broadcasting station, NBC. I'll get back to CBS here in a sec., which was the station that apparently had the Lost in Space series, you say? Anyways the easiest shows to broadcast in color would be rather obvious; cartoons. Hanna Barbera had the most popular ones on the market.
stratoleft 1 year ago
So this footage was shot in the 60's ?? It's incredible and I'm glad it survived. The 1st couple of seasons were great and then it got so camp. What were the writers and producers thinking !?! This series could have rivelved Star Trek but no, enter the Carot Man. sigh.
hope2prosper 1 year ago 3
man in Imax that would look better than Avatar. It was pretty good on a 10 inch BW and rabbit ears though back in the day.
biukucanoe 1 year ago 3
My last comment I meant to say "real bush adventure up here" I've got to watch my editing. LOL.
TroyLindley 1 year ago
I live in Alaska and I would love to have the chariot
for some real bush adventure up her. It is built on a snowcat Chassis.
TroyLindley 1 year ago
The fanciest CGI today can't even BEGIN to equal the true wonder of something like this.
frantic1971 2 years ago 22
@frantic1971 BUT this is shot on 35mm film...and there are zero visual effects here...just a camera man shooting a chariot going through a California Desert..NOT much visuals in that.....
UFOSPACE1999 1 year ago
@UFOSPACE1999 did someone twist your arm and make u watch this?
beasst94 1 year ago
I loved this series!
4-5 years old, I could still come and go when it was on. Then TV changed to colourTV! WOW KIDS!
THATS WHEN TV REALLY BECAME THE CRUEL AND INHUMANE DRUG AS IT STILL IS TODAY!
97% of us are not even aware of these facts!
YOU ARE MANIPULATED AND SUBJUGATED WHENEVER AND WHEREVER POSSIBLE
TAKE BACK YOUR LIFE PEOPLE AND BREAK FREE FROM THE TV
AND ALL YOU PSYCHOS IN MEDIA REGAIN AND RESTORE YOUR SELF-RESPECT AND SPEND QUALITY TIME WITH YOUR CHILDREN!
Fabulous Music tho!.
JoLo16108 2 years ago
Spend quality-time with your children WATCHING LOST IN SPACE season 1 on a 50-inch plasma flat-sreen, in Dolby digital surround!
Beamshipcaptain 2 years ago
I got rid of TV watching in my house over 8 years ago.
It was a little tough for about the first 4 or 5 months, after that it was all down hill.
Broadcast TV is not even a thought anymore ... AT ALL! I mean the big screen is still in the den & when we feel like a movie we rent or by a DVD & have a movie night, but that's it.
Now a days, the COMPUTER is the new enemy, the new heroin :O(
sowhatdude1 1 year ago
Judy was so hot..!
Craigbe 2 years ago 4
@Craigbe Yes, but I was a Penny fan - her dark hair and cute face
sp1midholm 2 years ago 4
Spectacular footage! Spectacular music!
I was 10 when LIS came out, and scenes like this--even in black and white---had me awestruck. I really believed these people were on an alien planet.
zooeyhall 2 years ago 27
So did I ! I was 4 when LIS came out, and I was entrhalled from the opening episode on, every Wednesday night!
The combination of the timeless- and logical design of the props and sets, designed by Bill Creber (PLANET OF THE APES, FANTASTIC VOYAGE) ane the SPFX masters LB ABBOTT, and Howard and Theodore Lydecker, and Oscar winner John Williams stirring music, made you feel they were trillions of miles far out in space, on an alien planet on the edge of the galaxy. "TO BE CONTINUED..."!
Beamshipcaptain 2 years ago
@zooeyhall you old!
chelectonus 1 year ago
@zooeyhall Absolutely right!! The music is spectacular. One of my favorite parts in this clip start @ 1:37. I've found memories of the show/music.
Jm4steam 1 year ago
@Jm4steam Agreed!
It's great to hear the entire sequence as written rather than the chopped up versions necessary when editing the show.
Compare this sequence with some of the "Tatooine" music (especially the sand crawler) and you'll see that Williams was expanding on the ideas he'd developed for LiS.
hagerty1952 1 year ago
@hagerty1952 Exactly right. You can hear threads of LOST IN SPACE all thru STAR WARS, and SUPERMAN, and RADERS OF THE LOST ARK. Every hit movie you can think of, John Williams wrote the music for. I thought his music for LOST IN SPACE was thrilling, and brilliant. Still shines, 45 years later! I remember seeing the pilot episode of Lost in space in 1965 when I was 4 years old. Immediately, I knew I wanted to be involved in advanced space propulsion, and for the last 21 years, I have been!
Beamshipcaptain 1 year ago
@zooeyhall me too :)
xxkil 1 year ago
Brings back good memories, love the music, too.
thugzapper 2 years ago 2
Could someone please explain where the chariot (and the pod, and the whole lower deck) fitted in the somewhat slimline Jupiter 2?
rainlori 2 years ago
If you recall from the third episode, ISLAND IN THE SKY, Major West (good friend Mark Goddard, who I saw a couple months ago again at CHILLER THEATRE) said after the crash lading on Priplanus" "We'll ASSEMBLE the Chariot. It'll get us over this rough-terrain". So the Chariot came like a model-kit somewhere in the bowels of the lower-deck. The Jupiter 2 in the first pilot HAD NO lower deck! The space pod just barely fits past the rear-landing leg-stairwell. I have loved LIS for over 44-years.
Beamshipcaptain 2 years ago
It's interesting you would bring that up. My sister told me she saw one episode where the Jupiter 2 is sitting in the ground on some planet like it was for most episodes. The side of the ship opens up and out comes the Chariot. I have never been able to find this episode.
DoctrWatson 2 years ago
Funny, in later episodes, the Jupiter-2 had a CHARIOT RAMP! I never saw this! In the third episode (the crash-which is spectacular high-adventure), Major West speaks of having to have the family help to ASSEBLE the Chariot. (!) THat aside, the effects were all done winning LB Abbott,(THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE) and the designs were all Bill Creber, and Bob Kinoshita at 20th Century Fox, and the Lydecker Bros. See AVATAR. Its the best movie of all time. Get the new MOEBIUS Jupiter 2, I LOVE MINE!
Beamshipcaptain 2 years ago
@rainlori I was just thinking the same thing ... no way the chariot fits into the Jupiter 2 but they always had it with them.... a damn cool ride tho...
Monkberry50 2 years ago
THis is the music of Academy and emmy and grammy-award-winning composer/conductor John ("Johnny" Williams, and has scored every hit movie for the last 36-years. This music makes you bileive the family Robinson is starship-wrecked on a Mars-like alien planet somewhere near the centre of the Main-Sequence stars of the Milky Way. The show has held me spellbound since the pilot episode, in mid-Sept., 1965. Irwin was like Jules Verne, and HG Wells, helping to create the Shape of THINGS TO COME.
Beamshipcaptain 2 years ago
"Will! Wiiill!"
Beamshipcaptain 2 years ago
The show had great props and style- but the writting was so cartoonish...always loved the gear and the concept, though.
DontPanic6X7 2 years ago
This was one of the believable things they had on the show. Surely they could have gotten better writers for this series. I grew up watching this in the 60's. I thought it was pretty good at the time, but it went down hill quickly after the 1st season. The remake was terrible. It was off the other end of the chart. A family surviving in space could have been a well done show if the writers weren't smoking something.
dhansel001 2 years ago 3
I think that can be said about some of the other sci-fi series as well - the production companies manage to get the financing to make a sci-fi series, get realistic and believable looking futuristic sets and uniforms, then turn the episode into a bad LSD trip. Maybe it was the psychadelic 60's, but it does seem a shame.
EdinburghGuy 2 years ago
Actually, in those days they just smoked tobacco. And drank hard-liquor. And that was the problem.
Beamshipcaptain 2 years ago
Cool music.
bballervirgo1 2 years ago
all looks fake to me, never saw those camera angles in the series
conhawks 2 years ago
I love this show! The chariot mobile was so cool!
patsaxon 2 years ago
The only way to travel! I remember watching this series whilst a young boy!
girona25 2 years ago
Around 0:46, the camera tilts down to show the treads as the chariot drives by. At first, I thought this was not to show the stunt doubles. But actually the front right corner window is missing. Must have been a breezy ride for anyone in the right seat.
giles526 2 years ago
Series would have been a lot better and lasted longer if it weren't for so many stupid episodes like the talking carrot. If they had more serious episodes of a lost family trying to survive in space, it would have been better and if Smith didn't become such a pussy soon after the first several shows. Originally, he was more of an evil bad ass that knocked out security guards and threw the body out the Jupiter trash chute and blasted aliens with the laster pistol. After that, he became a wimp.
fortknoxguy 2 years ago 2
film is in very good condition--any idea where it was filmed-and during the first season--how did don assemble the chariot so quickly--i dont think-J2 wouldve lifted off with the chariot on board-intact--as billy m says--lis was what it was.
simonmoves 2 years ago
Whatever happened to the chariot? That was one cool ride.
flapdoodle64 2 years ago
It later showed up on Battle Star Galatica as the Land Ram.
doginstine 2 years ago
Both the Landram and the Snow Cat that this vehicle was built around wer made by Morton Thiokol, yes the same NASA subcontractor that makes the solid-rocket boosters for the space shuttle, and the lower stage of the new moon-ship, Aries. I'm watching 2001:A SPACE ODYSSEY on 50-inch Hi Def plasma flatscreen now, and I saw it in CINERAM and sterophonic sound in Manhattan in 1968, when I was in the 1st grade. Now we live in the future, and Lost in Space hardware still looks fresh.
Beamshipcaptain 2 years ago
Good to see this stuff.
othur 2 years ago
This footage is amazing. I was about 6 when this was shot and it' looks as if it were filmed just a week ago.
This was a great show and it's a shame they don't or won't make something with such a simple yet enjoyable theme. Where in the world did you find this footage?
This is quite a find and thanks for sharing it.
gekko14 2 years ago 2
I love this Tv series forever.
alschilling 2 years ago 2
Me too...love it forever
FilmsRreel 2 years ago
One of my farvorite shows of all time. I never realized how good the music was for LIS!
solovoyager 2 years ago 2
So where was this filmed? Mars?
angrydoug 2 years ago
Yes Doug, this was filmed on Mars
kurva2 2 years ago 3
LOL
angrydoug 2 years ago
That thing is so cool. It makes todays SUV's look like a joke and the Chariot is almost 50 years old.
MartyInLa 2 years ago 4
Cool clip. so i now have a copy.. I have noticed that there is quite a lot of recycling going on in all the seasons recordings.. Still a loved the show. Would be kinda cool to see all the B&W stuff remastered into colour. eve if just to compare the two versions.
Bet there was a lot of out takes .. wonder how much has survived ??
Dave UK
davey2108 2 years ago
Get the DVD LOST IN SPACE FOREVER. All the SPFX footage including this and out-takes, are on the special features!
Beamshipcaptain 2 years ago
What a desert landscape! It really looks like another planet!!!
mbaquara 2 years ago 2
Some few thrird season episodes were filmed on location. Get teh DVD boxed-sets.
Beamshipcaptain 2 years ago
I downloaded this excellent video a couple of years ago and keep watching it over and over again. It is a pure fusion of audio and visual perfection. Alpha if you're reading this is it possible for me to get this in top-notch perfect quality via a file-sharing website or such?
I especially like your clever edit of the audio. I would love a copy of that by email if possible.
rumbers 2 years ago
nice vid';-)
tacticalbattledroid 2 years ago
was there ever a model of it ready made or construction kit
paulboon 2 years ago
MOEBIUS MODELS came out with a fantastic all polystyrene Chariot last year. Find it in most hobby shops, or order online! They also make a great SPACE POD, SEAVIEW, FLYING SUB, and they are coming out with an 18" JUPITER-2 this December, 2009!!!
Beamshipcaptain 2 years ago
i just loved this a t v back in 1965 when i was 14 i did a very detailed drawing of it
paulboon 2 years ago 4
Where the heck were they going?
rickey5353 2 years ago
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I Love this show, my favorite episodes are the ones with the cyclops giant and the bush creature from the episode "The Raft"
Warhammerdude980 2 years ago
I love this show, my favorite episodes are the ones with the cyclops giant and the Bush creature from the episode "The Raft."
Warhammerdude980 2 years ago 3
HOW GLORIOUS IT IS!!!
coolspindrift 2 years ago
The first season was the best of this sometimes silly series. Seeing the awesome chariot and landscape in colour is amazing. Thanks for posting.
cabanaboy69 2 years ago 4
muito bom gostei