Great 60's televison. I wish Irwin Allen had stayed at Fox and made a Lost in Space movie in the 70's around the time he started making those big disaster pictures. The cast would have still been young enough to pull it off. And he could have brought the Robinson family home. The New Line feature version was all wrong. It missed Irwin's touch.
"A problem every teenager can relate to, what'll I do for a boyfriend". Apparently Stephanie Meyer thought this was still the biggest problem teenagers faced in the early 21st century.
My mom used to tell me the only peace and quiet they ever had around the house was only for an hour each week when they would park my butt in front of the tv to watch LOST IN SPACE ....you couldn't get a peep out of me!!!! hahahahahahaha good times...good times!!!
Love it. Another great thing about good sci-fi is that it is usually a good depiction of the future which we are entering this depiction now. There is something trying to sabotage our entering into the space community – and it ain't Doctor Smith this time =]
Does anybody realize that all three networks tried their hands at sci-fi/adventure shows in the mid 60's. Lost in Space on CBS, Batman on ABC and Star Trek on NBC. Along with the launch of NASA.
@collegeman1988 Speak for yourself. Me and my family are just passing through. Earth looked like a decent place to stop for a bite to eat. We don't think the ranchers out west will really miss a few cattle or whatever you call those creatures with 4 legs.
The series would have done better without so many dumb episodes like the one with talking carrots, space hippies, goofy pirates. Some of those episodes were some dumb I could hardly watch as a kid. To me about half the shows were worth watching. One of my favorites was when they went back in time and scared the hell out of the locals in a small town.
@fortknoxguy Was that supposed to be the year 1947? I remember that one I had wished they would have stayed and at least lived their lives out on Earth....
Yes, 'spacemouse', as previosuly mentioned, several music cues from the 1960-'61 season of "THE TWILIGHT ZONE" were used in this "sales pitch".
The narrator is the same one who also played the "news commentator" in the original unaired pilot: Irwin Allen's "good luck charm", Don Forbes [he narrated Allen's 1953 underwater documentary, "The Sea Around Us", which won an Academy Award].
I had such a crush on "Penny"! I didn't know what those feelings were at the time. I was too young... She was cute,sweet and innocent; like we all were back then.
@WC3POchannel10A I don't recall Judy being stuck up why would you say that? The stuck up one was Dr. Smith who cared about himself first and formost more so than anyone else did.
@silversurferss7 Neither Smith nor the robot were intended for the series. After the pilot Johnathan Harris as added to give the show plot ideas (Hence the guest star credit). He was supposed to be killed off after the sixth episode but got so much fan mail that they decided to make him a regular instead.
@acholl980 ......Sometimes, an accident can reap big benifits! Glad they didn't "kill off" Smith, he was the main star of the show for me! If they did stop him, I probably would'nt have ran home so fast from school to see it!
For its first two seasons this was one of the best sci-fi television shows ever, but the final two seasons were too stupid even for me, an eight-year old kid. Guys dressed in carrot outfits...PLEASE! lol. Still, thanks for posting this and reminding everyone what a great show it was in the beginning. :)
@Mykki1003 blame Batman for that. When ABC debut it opposite the Robinsons the Caped Crusader clobbered them in the ratings. Irwin Allen retaliated and show just got silly.
This is elequent good no-nonsense science fiction that transcends the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000, 2040s, even I venture to say that no other science fiction will exceed Lost in Space. This is right to the point of a warm loving cohesive family without all the colorful, blown-out of proportion make-up, and over-exaggerated space ships shooting out of no where. The Jupiter 2 looks more believable and can relate to easily and still be amazed to watch it glide with unique sound effects of a saucer.
@minpinful 83 episodes of Lost in Space were produced from 1965-67. I'll gladly put up all those Lost in Space classic epiosdes against any new TV show, especially any reality TV program.
@RCmack Yes, LOST IN SPACE, especially in the Black and white Season 1 (1965-66) was high adventure, with world-class special effects by Oscar Winner LB Abbott, and the Lydecker Bros. from Republic Pictures.
@LandondeeL This was before Smith or the robot were included. They were not included until after CBS reviewed at the original pilot. Smith and the Robot weren't brought in until the series went into series production.
The heroic approach shots of the Jupiter 2 relative to ground structure were always my favorites, the most thrilling, of my childhood viewing. This feeling's stayed with me for 46 years. And counting, hopefully.
The Family Robinson comes across this dude that, although they never straight out say it, was the Fallen Lucifer imprisoned in a dimension that smells of brimstone and burning fires. Then when Prof. Robinson asks him why he was imprisoned there he simply says "I led a rebellion, and when I was captured they put me here. But I'll get back at them".
Shouldn't they have made to Alpha centauri with out the excess body weight of the
Russian sabateur called Smith,that overwhelmed the astro navigator which was calculated to the ounce for their mission ? if not for the re tooling of the Sales presentation & the pilot we wouldn't have experienced the Bubble headed Boobie
@tjfreak The meteor storm they encountered presumably threw the ship off course so they went to another solar system. Thus so what if they didn't go to Alpha Centauri they had their objective met by going to another habitable planet.
Lost in Space was as good as it gets for the first half of the first season. The effects, the Jupiter 2, the Chariot, the Robot, all were excellent. Better than Star Trek. But as with all Irwin Allen shows the show got really silly. I still think that the effect of the Jupiter 2 entering the atmosphere of the first planet they landed on is one of the best effects I have ever seen on TV. The sound of the Jupiter 2 engine is soooo cool. And of course I always wanted the Robot for my own.
@49bobbyk Totally agreed. But the Searl Inverse Gravity Vehicles that I am now in charge of (they are silent in flight), and the Humanoid RObots now in Japan and south Korea are more sphisticated humanoid robots than ANY of the robots on Lost in Soce! WE LIVE in an age of science fiction, where for the last 34 years, all the biggest movies have been sciece fiction! But I agree, the first season of Lost in Space was cool, and thrilling beyond belief! THe next year, all new TV shows were in COLOR!
I agree that if Lost in Space would have stayed true to the first season it would have gone down in history as being one of the greatest sci fi series ever. Don't get me wrong. I'm a huge fan of the show. But season two was a joke. I seriously believe the entire writing and production staff must have experimented with LSD over summer break after the first season. There is no excuse for how season two went. A come back was made with season three, but it was still no match to season one.
sweet i havent seen this for years i dont care for details i just love the drs crazy vocabulary,its the only reason i watched it and the crazy robot lets see if its as good without being 15 years old smoking pot.
I love LIS because the science is so screwy... the writers always had problems distinguishing galaxies from solar systems. 5000 light years in any direction doesn't even come close to the nearest galaxy.
Its very strange, both Lost in Space and Star Trek had to change their Pilot movies because the network executives didn't think they were sci fi enough...........in some cases they were right but i wish these shows never were cancelled. They were cancelled too soon and before they should have!
Season 1 was real good but they should have had Dr. Smith as a normal person or scientist or left him out of the show. His acting was wonderful but His character was just way to stupid it ruined the show in my opinion. So I only bought season 1, but still love it.
They sent one family out to colonize Alpha Centauri. I am assuming Don was intended to be the breeding bull of the new society with Penny and Judie as his mates? I guess Will was thrown in there in case something happened to Don? Talk about the perfect incest colony.
Still a good program in the early days until it got silly.
@oceansdoor Hmmmm now that youve said that it seems right! LOL! Honestly I dont know......Gleek sounds familiar too.......I know Chim Chim is the chimp in Speed Racer.....Damn these 70's shows had TOO MANY CHIMPS!!!! I cant keep 'em straight!!
@9114102349 Bloop= species, Debbie= Pet's name? That makes sense. What was "Gleek" then? Wait.....Oh God, I think that was that purple monkey owned by the WonderTwins from the Superfriends....Where the sister was like...." Form of a Giant Squid with Wings"......and the brother was like "Form of a ........an.....um.......ice cube....no wait....an Ice spear!...no.....an Ice....um....form of an Ice skateboard..or."....And she'd be like..."Just sit this one out bro...I got this one!" .....
CBS turned down the more cerebral science fiction concept of a guy named Gene Roddenberry and chose Irwin Allen's more family-oriented action/adventure show Lost in Space. Wonder how history would've been different if they chose the other way.
I don't believe I ever watched any b&w episodes. By the time I got involved, it was in color, and Dr. Smith was annoying me.
This promo film says that the older daughter has her eye on her dad's handsome assistant. But as I remember, these two were married. Was that changed in the reworked pilot?
I do recall seeing clips from the blast-off scenes in at least one later episode. I remember thinking it looked big-budget; the set was large and there were lots of extras.
I know which promo you're talking about, 'Actionguy'- it was also comprised of scenes from the unaired version of the pilot, using music cues from the "TWILIGHT ZONE" episodes "Nervous Man In A Four Dollar Room" (Jerry Goldsmith) and "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" (Fred Steiner). A video collector friend of mine had it in his "archive" years ago, but he passed away, and I don't know what happened to his tapes...other collectors have that promo, I'm sure.
There is a TV spot promoting "Lost in Space" that aired during the late summer of 1965 and I haven't seen it in many, many years. It is part of the collection of the Museum of Television History, but has never shown up anywhere else.
It also featured music from "The Twilight Zone" just as this promo did.
5 stars for season 1 and season 3's Antimatter man. The rest was turned campy in order to compete with the 60's batman with Adam West and Burt Ward. Or so I read, bad move, because even season 1 holds up today. Who knows, if they didn't change the format, we might of got more than 3 seasons.
I always thought the Chariot was solar-powered with a solar collector above the rear compartment with the solar batteries underneath that solar collector.
"The Great Vegetable Rebellion" also a great score by Alexander Courage (especially a beautiful passage during Dr. Smith's monologue when he muses on how deliciously happy he is to be a celery stalk). As for Debbie, 'strongsock', she was a basically a chimp that was outfitted with an exotic fur hat to look like an alien pet {a "bloop"} Penny had adopted...she continued into the series, but abruptly vanished after the beginning of season three.
As previously mentioned, 'skyy', Irwin Allen's "good luck charm", Don Forbes (he intiially narrated Allen's 1953 documentary "The Sea Around Us", which won an Academy Award, and Irwin often used him as a voice-over after that) narrated this "sales reel" as well as appearing as the "News Commentator"; his role was larger in the unaired version of the pilot, as Dick Tufeld had to re-record several of his lines concerning "Gemini 12" and its "98 year voyage" for the version that was broadcast...
Side Note: John Williams (yes, that one) scored the series - he's credited as "Johnny" Williams... in the music beds you can hear some of the undertones (so to speak) of the score he wrote for 'The Poseidon Adventure'.
Apparently this is before they decided to add Dr Smith to the cast. Most of the black & white episodes were good, then the show got really stupid. Too bad...
This presentation shows how Lost in Space wasn't so campy in the beginning as it became later on. If only the entire show had been like of the more serious content of this preview.
@buccaneer43207 -- Thanks. I remember watching Lost In Space when I was a kid and thought how far away 1997 was. Now it has come and gone! All that comes out of Hollywood is nothing but filth and a waste of my time. Even TV Land is worthless. I stopped watching it when the added Rosanne and Married With Children to their line up. Hallmark used to be ok, but it is nothing more than the "Golden Girls" and "Martha Stewart" Channel. I guess I'll have to wait to be get Retro TV.
I posted this same video a year or so back but it was banned by FOX due to copyright reasons. I don't understand why they ban some videos from FOX and not others!
I was born in 1957. Shame on me that the night this premiered, i did not watch it because i thought there would be monsters on it! As I recall , batman premiered the same night or was it the Munsters? Either way, I missed the first half hour. Took many years before I saw all the episodes, but I still have never seen the first episode in its entirety. Nothing will match the black and white crash scenes and the cinematography out the window of the jupiter 2.
I wanted a model of the Jupiter II so bad when I was a kid. Of course, they're available now, but my priorities have changed. This show was my all-time favorite when I was younger and I had a major crush on Angela Cartwright. However, I grew older and realized that a description I heard from a book on TV Sci-Fi was that this show rarely "got above the level of a Saturday morning kid's show." I still love the thing anyway.
@ff85258 In the first "Lost In Space" pilot ("No Place To Hide"), there is a reference to a log entry by Professor Robinson (Guy Williams) in the year 2000 suggesting that the spaceship had crashed six months earlier, suggesting that the ship had been in flight (and the Robinsons and Don West in suspended animation) for over two years.
I didn't see the unaired pilot. I was referring to this particular network presentation. I was 6 when this show first aired and always held a special place for it in my heart. But, i must say, that Star Trek stole LIS's thunder for me as I got older.
He saw it on the "radio-telescope", if you remember the entire unaired pilot, NO PLACE TO HIDE, or the Season one episone THERE WERE GIANTS IN THE EARTH. I have enjoyed LOST IN SPACE SINCE SEPTEMBER, 1965.
the show started out so much more realistic than the episides i remember. after a while it was just dr smith ruining thier chances for rescue every week
Had LOST IN SPACE been serious, like THE OUTER LIMITS, or the 21st century BATTLESTAR, it may have been a bigger classic, like STAR TREK, but it still has a great deal of appeal, and the designs have not really dated. Love the Jupiter II, Chariot, Forcefield Projector, Space Pod, Robot, but today, we have sophisticated humanoid robots and androids.
Another thought: There's a sense of comfort that sets in with these old shows..
We see John and Don exploring an old cave with weapons drawn....the Jupiter hurls thru space amid the soothing, futuristic strains of John Williams music..
It takes us back to a better day, and we take the trip all over again. We think about where we were when we first saw that episode, or think about our childhood and our favorite toys, and we're little again.
Well, I'm a tail end boomer, as I was 6 in 1970, and watching LIS in rerun, and growing up with a plethora of UHF stations with other of Allen's shows, like "The Time Tunnel" on WTAF 29 (Philly)
It was just such a great time...The Night Gallery, Star Trek, LIS, WPIX 11 and Chiller Theatre.
I could go on forever, but suffice to say, TV was GREAT, and not filled with the GARBAGE that passes for entertainment today. Long live childhood!
You're just a tad younger than I... I had the same excitement about Wednesday nights, 7:30. No matter what was going on in my life, and it wasn't always happy, I lived for LIS broadcasts!
Indeed! I also got see watch Ultraman, Johnny Sokko And His Flying Robot and other Japanese live action wonders, and Friday and Saturday night were filled with monster movies.
My cousins had old Aurora monster kits, and old monster magazines, the sky was the limit.
I can't even begin to tell you how I still live for this old stuff. I wear my love for it like a badge (to the criticism of some around me) but hey, they don't know what they missed!
The new 20" diameter Moebius Models JUPITER-2 has hit hobby shops all over the country!!! Over 200 parts, fully-detailed upper-deck. Get yours before they are sold out!!!
Johnny Harris made the initial changes himself because he didn't wish to be killed off after five or six episodes. He wished to remain employed. This series was better than being out on the street!!!
Anyone remember "Wreck Of The Robot" from season two? That was a weird one.
These 3 faceless, whispering aliens in glittering hats and cloaks coerce the Robinsons into surrendering the Robot for research purposes, only to find out the created a device that would control all Earth machinery.
That episode gets the vote just for the aliens looking so weird...if I remember right, they were called the Zaticons, and showed up later in "The Galaxy Gift" in season three.
@Shawnster65 The Galaxy Gift was the season 2 finale and a personal favorite as Dr. Smith thinks he back on Earth in Chinatown San Francisco. Love it.
I always thought "The Great Vegetable Rebellion" was another good script from Peter Packer and a good episode until the carrot showed up. Then it became "perfectly silly" as Maureen would tell John a few minutes later. (Turning smith into a celery stalk didn't help matters.) Perhaps had they had they not used that carrot outfit, and used even something as simple as a gas cloud or rock monster...changed the main title .. it may not have been so absurdly funny. Budget restrictions I suppose?
Good point: Allen was very lavish in his visions and ideas, and re-used his props and slightly altered them for his other shows to help keep costs down.
Be that as it was, his last show, "Land Of The Giants" was very lofty and needed a lot of props\camera work to give the illusion of the people being only 6 inches tall.
Ultimately, Allen's imagination was bigger than his budget and that's what hurt him the most.
Notice the music heard in this "pitch"; it's from CBS' stock music library, originally written for and used on "THE TWILIGHT ZONE", particularly the episodes "Nervous Man In A Four Dollar Room" [Jerry Goldsmith], "The Trouble With Templeton" [Jeff Alexander], "Elegy" [Nathan Van Cleave] and "Perchance To Dream" [Van Cleave].
mANY PEOPLE DON'T that All in the family's Carrol Occonnor was offered the role of Dr. Smith , but turned it down . Ha there ever been a tv biography on Guy Williams ??/
yeah unfortunately, the direction was forced due to the popularity of wild 60s shows, like Batman and a host of others. The seriousness in the theme of the show was sacrificed to try to keep an audience, of which Mark Goodard and Marta Kristen complained. In fact in one script June Lockheart and Guy Williams were written out and don't appear because they laughed so hard at it and made fun of it....!!!
absolutely correct, the show started out very serious, and was well written in the beginning episodes, but as the times changed so did it's writers who made this series too ridiculous to survive very much longer.
there could have also been a budget problem when recruiting good writers, that also could have contributed to the breakdown of the format. but it was entertaining none the less.
someof the First Season was downright chilling. Remember the season ender, "Follow The Leader" where Prof. Robinson was possessed by the spirit of a vicious alien warrior?
"Invaders From The Fifth Dimension" comes to mind also, as does the infamous Cyclops episode, "There Were Giants On The Earth."
Had the show stayed this serious all thru it's run, no telling where it might have gone.
@flipside1545 Iriwn Allen was light years ahead in his visions, too. I'd like to think that some of the folks working for NASA today got their inspiration from LIS and other shows, and that Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea gave kids then the idea to explore the deep seas as they became marine biologists later in life. Imagination was endless, and the sky had no limits.
@Shawnster65 Your're absolutely right on those episodes, especially where Prof. Robinson is possessed. There were several other good episodes during the first season. The Attack of the Monster Plants episode was interesting in that Judy was duplicated by the plants. I have this episode on VHS, but the last part with whatever happened to the plant duplicate of Judy is apparently missing. Does anyone know where the duplicate Judy ended up?
Yes, sad the series turned into the silly show it did when it started out with so much promise as a great action adventure sci fi show. I've heard the popularity of the silly Batman series influenced the direction CBS took the show at the time. The Jupiter 2 is still the greatest flying saucer of all time, tho.
Nice preview....however, the series became silly as the writers started to run out of ideas....jeez....they landed on a planet with Carrot people for pete's sake.
The Great Vegetable Rebellion is the unanimous favorite episode of the cast. It was so bizarre that it was considered a challenge simutaneously to suppress the laughter. Mark Goddard turns his head away from the camera in one scene to hide a wide grin.
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There are a LOT better TV writes than Peter Packer. SAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION, STARGATE SG-1, these shows ran for a decade and more, with pretty consistently great stories. Irwin Allen was great at one time, but even his movies became predictable, trite, and formulaic. He died in 1991. I love all his work nonetheless, as I was born in 1961, when VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA first came out, which was a rrip off of 20,000 Leagues under the sea, which came out 6 years earlier from Disney.
It's a shame what happened to this show. Lost in Space started out as a very promising adventure series. At the time it was the most expensive TV pilot episode ever produced. The first 5 or 6 episodes were quite good for the time. That it soon decayed into campiness is a crime.
This "preview" was never shown on TV, 'paul'. This was shown as a "sales pitch" to potential sponsors in the spring of 1965, utilizing footage from the unaired version of the pilot episode, "No Place To Hide" (which did NOT feature "Dr. Smith" and the "Robot" among the cast; they were added in the "reconstituted" first episode, "The Reluctant Stowaway").
the origianl pilot there was no robot or dr smith, they re shot the premier episode with dr smith and robot, if you ever seen the pilot, not even close to being good as it became, the evil dr smith was great idea
My favorite show as a kid. Funny, no mention of Dr. Smith. I wonder if that was a curve they wanted to save for the premier. He was, after all the reason they got lost.
Irwin Allen tapped the talents of John Williams for the Themes for all his TV shows, and all his hit movies. He penned the themes for all three seasons of LIS, and LAND OF THE GIANTS, and THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, and THE TOWERING INFERNO, and the movie EARTHQUAKE. Not to mention JAWS, STAR WARS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, SUPERMAN, INDIANA JONES, ET,every hit movie of the last 40-years wer penned by living-legend John Williams, my favorite composer since 1965.
Although Lost in Space did represent a step up for Johnny Williams, he had been performing and scoring for television and movies BEFORE. So it's not really accurate to say he got his "start" with this series. (And I still DIG all the music, themes and sequences, from Lost in Space!)
Irwin Allen is one of my favorite TV producer-directors, next to Gene Roddenberry, and Gerry Anderson in the UK. He had a habit of producing extra special, high-quality pilot episodes of shows, or excellent first-seasons, at least, thten, without exception, every one of his great shows nosedived inlater seasons, as if he was intentionally sabotaging them, and they all started of BRILLIANTLY. His choice of writing-talent varied widely. After a while, the writers ran out of good ideas. A shame.
Yes, the difference between Season 1 and Seasons 2 and 3 of Lost in Space is like night and day. In the final season, the episode where Dr. Smith became a space hippie is beyond camp. It's on YouTube.
i think he did a class act with pilots and initial shooting, and then he always reverted to his true inner corniness/overdone schmaltz- just like his 50's movies. im afraid that was the real allen- corny. sorta like u dont really know a spouse till much later.
Great 60's televison. I wish Irwin Allen had stayed at Fox and made a Lost in Space movie in the 70's around the time he started making those big disaster pictures. The cast would have still been young enough to pull it off. And he could have brought the Robinson family home. The New Line feature version was all wrong. It missed Irwin's touch.
dancingdog60 2 weeks ago
"A problem every teenager can relate to, what'll I do for a boyfriend". Apparently Stephanie Meyer thought this was still the biggest problem teenagers faced in the early 21st century.
Sailorsega 3 weeks ago
Even though the series is great it would have been fun to see what the proposed series would have been like
filmviewergirl 1 month ago
Really interesting video thanks for uploadng
Ashen83 1 month ago
My mom used to tell me the only peace and quiet they ever had around the house was only for an hour each week when they would park my butt in front of the tv to watch LOST IN SPACE ....you couldn't get a peep out of me!!!! hahahahahahaha good times...good times!!!
TheHyperdrive99 1 month ago 2
Judy didn't need a boyfriend-- in 2080------there must be some type of alternative pleasure device.
piranalu 3 months ago
I loved Alpha Control.
WC3POchannel10A 3 months ago
hmm... Sounds like a winner. OK, we'll take three seasons worth, but NO talking veggies!
bryanttillman 4 months ago
How the hell did the chariot fit in the space ship ????
nikstiks 4 months ago
@nikstiks And the hydroponic garden and all that other stuff too...
63gstone 3 months ago
What a presentation!
armandx10 6 months ago
Love it. Another great thing about good sci-fi is that it is usually a good depiction of the future which we are entering this depiction now. There is something trying to sabotage our entering into the space community – and it ain't Doctor Smith this time =]
Alfdehombre24 6 months ago
I met June Lockhart back in the 80's.
danielseaman007 6 months ago
Does anybody realize that all three networks tried their hands at sci-fi/adventure shows in the mid 60's. Lost in Space on CBS, Batman on ABC and Star Trek on NBC. Along with the launch of NASA.
acholl980 6 months ago
no temais smith esta aqui
don't fear ... smith is here ...
mxijel 6 months ago
2011 and families still aren't in space together.
collegeman1988 7 months ago
@collegeman1988 Speak for yourself. Me and my family are just passing through. Earth looked like a decent place to stop for a bite to eat. We don't think the ranchers out west will really miss a few cattle or whatever you call those creatures with 4 legs.
fortknoxguy 6 months ago
CBS was very wise to fund this show. I loved it when I was six years old.
RaineStudio 7 months ago
The series would have done better without so many dumb episodes like the one with talking carrots, space hippies, goofy pirates. Some of those episodes were some dumb I could hardly watch as a kid. To me about half the shows were worth watching. One of my favorites was when they went back in time and scared the hell out of the locals in a small town.
fortknoxguy 7 months ago
@fortknoxguy Was that supposed to be the year 1947? I remember that one I had wished they would have stayed and at least lived their lives out on Earth....
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Yes, 'spacemouse', as previosuly mentioned, several music cues from the 1960-'61 season of "THE TWILIGHT ZONE" were used in this "sales pitch".
The narrator is the same one who also played the "news commentator" in the original unaired pilot: Irwin Allen's "good luck charm", Don Forbes [he narrated Allen's 1953 underwater documentary, "The Sea Around Us", which won an Academy Award].
fromthesidelines 8 months ago
I had such a crush on "Penny"! I didn't know what those feelings were at the time. I was too young... She was cute,sweet and innocent; like we all were back then.
Lambertinitamika 9 months ago 11
@Lambertinitamika And Judy seemed so stuck up.
WC3POchannel10A 3 months ago
@WC3POchannel10A Judy was the 'Ginger' (Gilligan's Island) of space travel..!
Lambertinitamika 3 months ago
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@WC3POchannel10A Judy was the 'Ginger' (Gilligan's Island) of space travel..!
Lambertinitamika 3 months ago
@WC3POchannel10A I don't recall Judy being stuck up why would you say that? The stuck up one was Dr. Smith who cared about himself first and formost more so than anyone else did.
hydrolito 3 months ago
@Lambertinitamika
She's been married since 1976 - give it up...
excidedous 2 months ago
@Lambertinitamika .....I have heard other guys say the same about their crush on Penny! It is so cute.
nchevrea 2 months ago
.....Yeah, where the hell is Mr. Smith!!! Without him, we're really LOST!!
silversurferss7 10 months ago 2
@silversurferss7 Neither Smith nor the robot were intended for the series. After the pilot Johnathan Harris as added to give the show plot ideas (Hence the guest star credit). He was supposed to be killed off after the sixth episode but got so much fan mail that they decided to make him a regular instead.
acholl980 6 months ago
@acholl980 ......Sometimes, an accident can reap big benifits! Glad they didn't "kill off" Smith, he was the main star of the show for me! If they did stop him, I probably would'nt have ran home so fast from school to see it!
silversurfers7 6 months ago
For its first two seasons this was one of the best sci-fi television shows ever, but the final two seasons were too stupid even for me, an eight-year old kid. Guys dressed in carrot outfits...PLEASE! lol. Still, thanks for posting this and reminding everyone what a great show it was in the beginning. :)
Mykki1003 10 months ago
@Mykki1003 blame Batman for that. When ABC debut it opposite the Robinsons the Caped Crusader clobbered them in the ratings. Irwin Allen retaliated and show just got silly.
acholl980 6 months ago
What ... no Dr Smith?
bustermk2 10 months ago
This is elequent good no-nonsense science fiction that transcends the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000, 2040s, even I venture to say that no other science fiction will exceed Lost in Space. This is right to the point of a warm loving cohesive family without all the colorful, blown-out of proportion make-up, and over-exaggerated space ships shooting out of no where. The Jupiter 2 looks more believable and can relate to easily and still be amazed to watch it glide with unique sound effects of a saucer.
jabrown45100 10 months ago
Lost in Space was one of my fav shows as a kid. Still love it and have all the DVD's.
This promo must have been made for the original pilot which was changed when they added Dr. Smith's Character played by Jonathan Harris.
Check out Bill Mumy's website, he's a really cool guy and accomplished musician now. You can find his site at billmumy.com
EastCoast20 10 months ago
That background music sort of sounds like The Twighlight Zone...
spacemouse1 10 months ago
wheres dotor smith did he not couse the ship to go off curse
wilhat 11 months ago
they plyed it straight first, then it went downhill and everything was shot to hell!
oluham 11 months ago
What a load of sheeyit! Irwin Allen, a notorious cheapskate, cut every stinking corner to make that TV show.
MarcellusTheGreen 11 months ago
@minpinful 83 episodes of Lost in Space were produced from 1965-67. I'll gladly put up all those Lost in Space classic epiosdes against any new TV show, especially any reality TV program.
Lost in Space wins!!
RCmack 1 year ago
@RCmack Yes, LOST IN SPACE, especially in the Black and white Season 1 (1965-66) was high adventure, with world-class special effects by Oscar Winner LB Abbott, and the Lydecker Bros. from Republic Pictures.
Beamshipcaptain 11 months ago 5
2000 A.D.? What happened?
daven58100 1 year ago
Does anyone have a copy of the LIS TV promo that aired in the summer of 1965? I know it's out there because I remember it well!
Actionguy1 1 year ago
No mention of Dr. Smith, the real star of the show! What were the suits at CBS thinking?
LandondeeL 1 year ago
@LandondeeL This was before Smith or the robot were included. They were not included until after CBS reviewed at the original pilot. Smith and the Robot weren't brought in until the series went into series production.
Actionguy1 1 year ago
The heroic approach shots of the Jupiter 2 relative to ground structure were always my favorites, the most thrilling, of my childhood viewing. This feeling's stayed with me for 46 years. And counting, hopefully.
TralfazConstruction 1 year ago
Does anyone know the episode with Lucifer?
The Family Robinson comes across this dude that, although they never straight out say it, was the Fallen Lucifer imprisoned in a dimension that smells of brimstone and burning fires. Then when Prof. Robinson asks him why he was imprisoned there he simply says "I led a rebellion, and when I was captured they put me here. But I'll get back at them".
vassephardi 1 year ago
Shouldn't they have made to Alpha centauri with out the excess body weight of the
Russian sabateur called Smith,that overwhelmed the astro navigator which was calculated to the ounce for their mission ? if not for the re tooling of the Sales presentation & the pilot we wouldn't have experienced the Bubble headed Boobie
& Smith..
tjfreak 1 year ago
@tjfreak The meteor storm they encountered presumably threw the ship off course so they went to another solar system. Thus so what if they didn't go to Alpha Centauri they had their objective met by going to another habitable planet.
LBSmith2 1 year ago
Now all we get on tv are stupid reality shows that cost $1.99 to produce.
itsmegp46 1 year ago
Lost in Space was as good as it gets for the first half of the first season. The effects, the Jupiter 2, the Chariot, the Robot, all were excellent. Better than Star Trek. But as with all Irwin Allen shows the show got really silly. I still think that the effect of the Jupiter 2 entering the atmosphere of the first planet they landed on is one of the best effects I have ever seen on TV. The sound of the Jupiter 2 engine is soooo cool. And of course I always wanted the Robot for my own.
49bobbyk 1 year ago
@49bobbyk Totally agreed. But the Searl Inverse Gravity Vehicles that I am now in charge of (they are silent in flight), and the Humanoid RObots now in Japan and south Korea are more sphisticated humanoid robots than ANY of the robots on Lost in Soce! WE LIVE in an age of science fiction, where for the last 34 years, all the biggest movies have been sciece fiction! But I agree, the first season of Lost in Space was cool, and thrilling beyond belief! THe next year, all new TV shows were in COLOR!
Beamshipcaptain 1 year ago
In the 60's this was the #1 space show on TV until star trek came.
Comexjoe 1 year ago
How many seasons did it run?
zestyguy87 1 year ago
@zestyguy87 3 years
buubacous 1 year ago
I agree that if Lost in Space would have stayed true to the first season it would have gone down in history as being one of the greatest sci fi series ever. Don't get me wrong. I'm a huge fan of the show. But season two was a joke. I seriously believe the entire writing and production staff must have experimented with LSD over summer break after the first season. There is no excuse for how season two went. A come back was made with season three, but it was still no match to season one.
rocknjerr 1 year ago
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MrBBMovies 1 year ago
sweet i havent seen this for years i dont care for details i just love the drs crazy vocabulary,its the only reason i watched it and the crazy robot lets see if its as good without being 15 years old smoking pot.
560287144602817 1 year ago
Frozen solld. I think not
weenyone 1 year ago
and people thought it would be that easy! lol
... the year 2000! wow lol
chelectonus 1 year ago
and people thought it would be that easy! lol
chelectonus 1 year ago
thats some sophisticated equipment!
sean57 1 year ago
wackiness....pure and simple!
vomit49894 1 year ago
I love LIS because the science is so screwy... the writers always had problems distinguishing galaxies from solar systems. 5000 light years in any direction doesn't even come close to the nearest galaxy.
marcparella 1 year ago
Funny - they're using the same sets from Time Tunnel, another Irwin Allen production
ManhunterXtreme 1 year ago
Its very strange, both Lost in Space and Star Trek had to change their Pilot movies because the network executives didn't think they were sci fi enough...........in some cases they were right but i wish these shows never were cancelled. They were cancelled too soon and before they should have!
redmark19666 1 year ago
Season 1 was real good but they should have had Dr. Smith as a normal person or scientist or left him out of the show. His acting was wonderful but His character was just way to stupid it ruined the show in my opinion. So I only bought season 1, but still love it.
Hutzjohn 1 year ago
They sent one family out to colonize Alpha Centauri. I am assuming Don was intended to be the breeding bull of the new society with Penny and Judie as his mates? I guess Will was thrown in there in case something happened to Don? Talk about the perfect incest colony.
Still a good program in the early days until it got silly.
MilitiaHQ 1 year ago
I thought the name of Penny's monkey was named BLOOP. It seemed like its name was Bloop
oceansdoor 1 year ago
@oceansdoor Hmmmm now that youve said that it seems right! LOL! Honestly I dont know......Gleek sounds familiar too.......I know Chim Chim is the chimp in Speed Racer.....Damn these 70's shows had TOO MANY CHIMPS!!!! I cant keep 'em straight!!
frankensteinmoneymac 1 year ago
@frankensteinmoneymac Are you talking about Debbie the Bloop?
9114102349 1 year ago
@9114102349 Bloop= species, Debbie= Pet's name? That makes sense. What was "Gleek" then? Wait.....Oh God, I think that was that purple monkey owned by the WonderTwins from the Superfriends....Where the sister was like...." Form of a Giant Squid with Wings"......and the brother was like "Form of a ........an.....um.......ice cube....no wait....an Ice spear!...no.....an Ice....um....form of an Ice skateboard..or."....And she'd be like..."Just sit this one out bro...I got this one!" .....
frankensteinmoneymac 1 year ago
when I was a kid, I wanted to get Penny going..
oceansdoor 1 year ago
@oceansdoor Especially in season 3! Penny Robinson ROCKED. And she could dance up a storm also!
Beamshipcaptain 1 year ago
i heard lost in space was set for season four but new guys at cbs cut the shows budget and the episodes were getting to expensive to make,
andyseaview 1 year ago
2000AD LOL!
wobblydangly 1 year ago
CBS turned down the more cerebral science fiction concept of a guy named Gene Roddenberry and chose Irwin Allen's more family-oriented action/adventure show Lost in Space. Wonder how history would've been different if they chose the other way.
neonknights 1 year ago
I don't believe I ever watched any b&w episodes. By the time I got involved, it was in color, and Dr. Smith was annoying me.
This promo film says that the older daughter has her eye on her dad's handsome assistant. But as I remember, these two were married. Was that changed in the reworked pilot?
I do recall seeing clips from the blast-off scenes in at least one later episode. I remember thinking it looked big-budget; the set was large and there were lots of extras.
hebneh 1 year ago
I know which promo you're talking about, 'Actionguy'- it was also comprised of scenes from the unaired version of the pilot, using music cues from the "TWILIGHT ZONE" episodes "Nervous Man In A Four Dollar Room" (Jerry Goldsmith) and "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" (Fred Steiner). A video collector friend of mine had it in his "archive" years ago, but he passed away, and I don't know what happened to his tapes...other collectors have that promo, I'm sure.
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
Has anyone got some episodes to upload?I'd love to see some!
sallylea1 1 year ago
@sallylea1
fancast.com has most if not all episodes which you can watch for free.
rredhawk 1 year ago
There is a TV spot promoting "Lost in Space" that aired during the late summer of 1965 and I haven't seen it in many, many years. It is part of the collection of the Museum of Television History, but has never shown up anywhere else.
It also featured music from "The Twilight Zone" just as this promo did.
Has anyone out there any access to it?
Actionguy1 1 year ago
it was new for its time
this is the pilot
TEMPmichaelhansen 1 year ago
5 stars for season 1 and season 3's Antimatter man. The rest was turned campy in order to compete with the 60's batman with Adam West and Burt Ward. Or so I read, bad move, because even season 1 holds up today. Who knows, if they didn't change the format, we might of got more than 3 seasons.
Ghosty714 1 year ago
I always thought the Chariot was solar-powered with a solar collector above the rear compartment with the solar batteries underneath that solar collector.
altfactor 1 year ago
"The Great Vegetable Rebellion" also a great score by Alexander Courage (especially a beautiful passage during Dr. Smith's monologue when he muses on how deliciously happy he is to be a celery stalk). As for Debbie, 'strongsock', she was a basically a chimp that was outfitted with an exotic fur hat to look like an alien pet {a "bloop"} Penny had adopted...she continued into the series, but abruptly vanished after the beginning of season three.
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
As previously mentioned, 'skyy', Irwin Allen's "good luck charm", Don Forbes (he intiially narrated Allen's 1953 documentary "The Sea Around Us", which won an Academy Award, and Irwin often used him as a voice-over after that) narrated this "sales reel" as well as appearing as the "News Commentator"; his role was larger in the unaired version of the pilot, as Dick Tufeld had to re-record several of his lines concerning "Gemini 12" and its "98 year voyage" for the version that was broadcast...
fromthesidelines 1 year ago
Was my favorite show for the first season. Late it became the same plot fro every show. The monster went downhill with the budget.
dahsuerk 1 year ago
Side Note: John Williams (yes, that one) scored the series - he's credited as "Johnny" Williams... in the music beds you can hear some of the undertones (so to speak) of the score he wrote for 'The Poseidon Adventure'.
Andrewm714 1 year ago
Apparently this is before they decided to add Dr Smith to the cast. Most of the black & white episodes were good, then the show got really stupid. Too bad...
GarandLuvr 1 year ago
This presentation shows how Lost in Space wasn't so campy in the beginning as it became later on. If only the entire show had been like of the more serious content of this preview.
michiganmoviefan 1 year ago 2
This trailer almost makes the show look watchable....
cxpage 1 year ago
@buccaneer43207 -- Thanks. I remember watching Lost In Space when I was a kid and thought how far away 1997 was. Now it has come and gone! All that comes out of Hollywood is nothing but filth and a waste of my time. Even TV Land is worthless. I stopped watching it when the added Rosanne and Married With Children to their line up. Hallmark used to be ok, but it is nothing more than the "Golden Girls" and "Martha Stewart" Channel. I guess I'll have to wait to be get Retro TV.
schs1977 1 year ago
who the shit is debby the ewok?
strongsock 1 year ago
Listen to the music at 2:25 - 2:45. Does anyone else hear the Gilligan's Island theme?
Great find, BTW.
bzert281 1 year ago
@bzert281 yeah...sounds just like it!!
flipside1545 1 year ago
I posted this same video a year or so back but it was banned by FOX due to copyright reasons. I don't understand why they ban some videos from FOX and not others!
alpha1productions 1 year ago
Um! I THOUGHT it was supposed to be 1997.
Sheri451 1 year ago
@Sheri451 - You are correct. Sometime in October 1997, not 2000 AD.
schs1977 1 year ago
That's a great presentation. First few shows were very exciting to me as a kid. Show turned stupid fast, though.
pwnUgood 1 year ago
Where's my jet pack, teleporter and "atom-powered" car? What happened to the future?
MowgliX 1 year ago
I was born in 1957. Shame on me that the night this premiered, i did not watch it because i thought there would be monsters on it! As I recall , batman premiered the same night or was it the Munsters? Either way, I missed the first half hour. Took many years before I saw all the episodes, but I still have never seen the first episode in its entirety. Nothing will match the black and white crash scenes and the cinematography out the window of the jupiter 2.
gk10002000 1 year ago 2
I wanted a model of the Jupiter II so bad when I was a kid. Of course, they're available now, but my priorities have changed. This show was my all-time favorite when I was younger and I had a major crush on Angela Cartwright. However, I grew older and realized that a description I heard from a book on TV Sci-Fi was that this show rarely "got above the level of a Saturday morning kid's show." I still love the thing anyway.
leotard7230 1 year ago
of wich year is this serie ?
cataaa12 1 year ago
Did Gig Young Narrate this clip?
skyy3838 1 year ago
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EdnMike 1 year ago
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EdnMike 1 year ago
The Robinson Family space ship wrecked in the year 2000 AD.....Ha Ha Ha
ff85258 1 year ago
@ff85258 In the first "Lost In Space" pilot ("No Place To Hide"), there is a reference to a log entry by Professor Robinson (Guy Williams) in the year 2000 suggesting that the spaceship had crashed six months earlier, suggesting that the ship had been in flight (and the Robinsons and Don West in suspended animation) for over two years.
altfactor 8 months ago
@altfactor Thanks thats very interesting. As a child I loved the show even if they were all reruns in the 70's.
ff85258 8 months ago
I didn't see the unaired pilot. I was referring to this particular network presentation. I was 6 when this show first aired and always held a special place for it in my heart. But, i must say, that Star Trek stole LIS's thunder for me as I got older.
kurtb8474 1 year ago
Ha! 3:44 Will Robinson blasts the giant without checking if it's hostile or not.
kurtb8474 1 year ago
He saw it on the "radio-telescope", if you remember the entire unaired pilot, NO PLACE TO HIDE, or the Season one episone THERE WERE GIANTS IN THE EARTH. I have enjoyed LOST IN SPACE SINCE SEPTEMBER, 1965.
Beamshipcaptain 1 year ago
@kurtb8474 Of course it was hostile - it had cornered his dad and West in a cave.
dhucke4assembly 1 year ago
TEN MILLION FAMILIES A YEAR? Gad! They'd empty out the world in a couple of weeks!
kurtb8474 1 year ago
the show started out so much more realistic than the episides i remember. after a while it was just dr smith ruining thier chances for rescue every week
wavejump1100 1 year ago 2
Did the narrator say 2080 ? Its odd the series lowered the year to sometime in the 1990s when the show began.
PriceScottie 1 year ago
born in 1959, i remember watching this show, it seemed so realistic, esp the b&w episodes!
1clarinet1981 1 year ago
that jet pack is sooooo phony
biukucanoe 1 year ago
sci fi museum in Seattle has the jupiter 2 launch set
biukucanoe 1 year ago
Had LOST IN SPACE been serious, like THE OUTER LIMITS, or the 21st century BATTLESTAR, it may have been a bigger classic, like STAR TREK, but it still has a great deal of appeal, and the designs have not really dated. Love the Jupiter II, Chariot, Forcefield Projector, Space Pod, Robot, but today, we have sophisticated humanoid robots and androids.
Beamshipcaptain 2 years ago
@Beamshipcaptain
Another thought: There's a sense of comfort that sets in with these old shows..
We see John and Don exploring an old cave with weapons drawn....the Jupiter hurls thru space amid the soothing, futuristic strains of John Williams music..
It takes us back to a better day, and we take the trip all over again. We think about where we were when we first saw that episode, or think about our childhood and our favorite toys, and we're little again.
It's magic.
Shawnster65 1 year ago 2
This is a very sweet remembrance. On behalf of all the Boomer Lost in Space fans, thanks
keithcop 1 year ago
Well, I'm a tail end boomer, as I was 6 in 1970, and watching LIS in rerun, and growing up with a plethora of UHF stations with other of Allen's shows, like "The Time Tunnel" on WTAF 29 (Philly)
It was just such a great time...The Night Gallery, Star Trek, LIS, WPIX 11 and Chiller Theatre.
I could go on forever, but suffice to say, TV was GREAT, and not filled with the GARBAGE that passes for entertainment today. Long live childhood!
Shawnster65 1 year ago
You're just a tad younger than I... I had the same excitement about Wednesday nights, 7:30. No matter what was going on in my life, and it wasn't always happy, I lived for LIS broadcasts!
keithcop 1 year ago
Indeed! I also got see watch Ultraman, Johnny Sokko And His Flying Robot and other Japanese live action wonders, and Friday and Saturday night were filled with monster movies.
My cousins had old Aurora monster kits, and old monster magazines, the sky was the limit.
I can't even begin to tell you how I still live for this old stuff. I wear my love for it like a badge (to the criticism of some around me) but hey, they don't know what they missed!
Shawnster65 1 year ago
The new 20" diameter Moebius Models JUPITER-2 has hit hobby shops all over the country!!! Over 200 parts, fully-detailed upper-deck. Get yours before they are sold out!!!
Beamshipcaptain 2 years ago
The original pilot was fantastic... before they added Dr Smith and then quickly turned his character from sinister to silly.
Phoenix28562 2 years ago 4
Johnny Harris made the initial changes himself because he didn't wish to be killed off after five or six episodes. He wished to remain employed. This series was better than being out on the street!!!
hobokenplayboy 2 years ago 6
@hobokenplayboy Exactly right! Don would have killed him otherwise. He had to be a little
endearing to be allowed on the ship. A pure bad guy needs his own ship to last. ; )
The writing was what got silly, not his acting.
EchoPlexHead 11 months ago
Anyone remember "Wreck Of The Robot" from season two? That was a weird one.
These 3 faceless, whispering aliens in glittering hats and cloaks coerce the Robinsons into surrendering the Robot for research purposes, only to find out the created a device that would control all Earth machinery.
That episode gets the vote just for the aliens looking so weird...if I remember right, they were called the Zaticons, and showed up later in "The Galaxy Gift" in season three.
Shawnster65 2 years ago 4
@Shawnster65 The Galaxy Gift was the season 2 finale and a personal favorite as Dr. Smith thinks he back on Earth in Chinatown San Francisco. Love it.
marcparella 1 year ago
@marcparella
Right-O, thanks for the 411.
I remember Dr. Smith thinking he
was back in Chinatown, and instead
of people, there were these big fly-like creatures the Zaticons created.
Debbie also had a hotdog and a baseball pennant if I remember right, and came back with it thru the portal from her trip to "Earth."
The Zaticons were in an earlier episode from Season Two, "Wreck Of The Robot." And, they always creeped me out as a kid.
Shawnster65 1 year ago
I always thought "The Great Vegetable Rebellion" was another good script from Peter Packer and a good episode until the carrot showed up. Then it became "perfectly silly" as Maureen would tell John a few minutes later. (Turning smith into a celery stalk didn't help matters.) Perhaps had they had they not used that carrot outfit, and used even something as simple as a gas cloud or rock monster...changed the main title .. it may not have been so absurdly funny. Budget restrictions I suppose?
SPSiamese01 2 years ago 20
"Budget restrictions I suppose? "
Good point: Allen was very lavish in his visions and ideas, and re-used his props and slightly altered them for his other shows to help keep costs down.
Be that as it was, his last show, "Land Of The Giants" was very lofty and needed a lot of props\camera work to give the illusion of the people being only 6 inches tall.
Ultimately, Allen's imagination was bigger than his budget and that's what hurt him the most.
Shawnster65 2 years ago 5
@SPSiamese01 MOISTURE! MOISTURE!
ahz123 1 year ago
I can't wait for this to be on TV.
uwajimya1 2 years ago
Well, if this came to my door I would certainly buy it!!! Yeah, I remember the carrot man!! Hey-it does strike the imagination...
pete0969wi 2 years ago
the footage seen in this presentation is from the LIS pilot "No Place To Hide" the one without Dr. Smith and the robot.
saml760 2 years ago
Notice the music heard in this "pitch"; it's from CBS' stock music library, originally written for and used on "THE TWILIGHT ZONE", particularly the episodes "Nervous Man In A Four Dollar Room" [Jerry Goldsmith], "The Trouble With Templeton" [Jeff Alexander], "Elegy" [Nathan Van Cleave] and "Perchance To Dream" [Van Cleave].
fromthesidelines 2 years ago 3
mANY PEOPLE DON'T that All in the family's Carrol Occonnor was offered the role of Dr. Smith , but turned it down . Ha there ever been a tv biography on Guy Williams ??/
tubagee 2 years ago
i saw carrol o connor in an old episode of "outer limits" where he played a martian with a startlingly accurate bbc english accent.
good job he turned down "lost in space"- i cant see jonathan harris as archie bunker
j43ms 2 years ago
never scene a show change direction in such a BIG way in my life
brucedavis76 2 years ago
yeah unfortunately, the direction was forced due to the popularity of wild 60s shows, like Batman and a host of others. The seriousness in the theme of the show was sacrificed to try to keep an audience, of which Mark Goodard and Marta Kristen complained. In fact in one script June Lockheart and Guy Williams were written out and don't appear because they laughed so hard at it and made fun of it....!!!
firebirdhome 2 years ago 5
absolutely correct, the show started out very serious, and was well written in the beginning episodes, but as the times changed so did it's writers who made this series too ridiculous to survive very much longer.
there could have also been a budget problem when recruiting good writers, that also could have contributed to the breakdown of the format. but it was entertaining none the less.
markynj 2 years ago 5
Serious is an understatement,
someof the First Season was downright chilling. Remember the season ender, "Follow The Leader" where Prof. Robinson was possessed by the spirit of a vicious alien warrior?
"Invaders From The Fifth Dimension" comes to mind also, as does the infamous Cyclops episode, "There Were Giants On The Earth."
Had the show stayed this serious all thru it's run, no telling where it might have gone.
Shawnster65 2 years ago 17
@Shawnster65 you are soo right!!!
flipside1545 1 year ago
@flipside1545 Iriwn Allen was light years ahead in his visions, too. I'd like to think that some of the folks working for NASA today got their inspiration from LIS and other shows, and that Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea gave kids then the idea to explore the deep seas as they became marine biologists later in life. Imagination was endless, and the sky had no limits.
Shawnster65 1 year ago
@Shawnster65 Your're absolutely right on those episodes, especially where Prof. Robinson is possessed. There were several other good episodes during the first season. The Attack of the Monster Plants episode was interesting in that Judy was duplicated by the plants. I have this episode on VHS, but the last part with whatever happened to the plant duplicate of Judy is apparently missing. Does anyone know where the duplicate Judy ended up?
LBSmith2 1 year ago
Yes, sad the series turned into the silly show it did when it started out with so much promise as a great action adventure sci fi show. I've heard the popularity of the silly Batman series influenced the direction CBS took the show at the time. The Jupiter 2 is still the greatest flying saucer of all time, tho.
1timysand 2 years ago 2
Nice preview....however, the series became silly as the writers started to run out of ideas....jeez....they landed on a planet with Carrot people for pete's sake.
Fooblestheclown 2 years ago
The Great Vegetable Rebellion is the unanimous favorite episode of the cast. It was so bizarre that it was considered a challenge simutaneously to suppress the laughter. Mark Goddard turns his head away from the camera in one scene to hide a wide grin.
Episode writer Peter Packer stated:
"I DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING ELSE IN MY HEAD!!"
hobokenplayboy 2 years ago 2
This comment has received too many negative votes show
There are a LOT better TV writes than Peter Packer. SAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION, STARGATE SG-1, these shows ran for a decade and more, with pretty consistently great stories. Irwin Allen was great at one time, but even his movies became predictable, trite, and formulaic. He died in 1991. I love all his work nonetheless, as I was born in 1961, when VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA first came out, which was a rrip off of 20,000 Leagues under the sea, which came out 6 years earlier from Disney.
Beamshipcaptain 2 years ago
I am a LIS fan!
othur 2 years ago
i love all the flashing lites they look like lite brites
Jamison42166 2 years ago
"Network Sales Presentation" from the original year 1965, right???
TEMPmichaelhansen 2 years ago
Watching this on Saturday nights with my sisters
glued to the seats.Then re enacting the episode
with 2 lounge chairs together infront of our 3 panel window.Then watching it everday in re-runs.
reticulan5 2 years ago 2
Oh William, the pain the pain!
Warning! Warning! I'm warning you!
Shut up you Bubbleheaded Booby!
RIP Dr Smith You were the best!
fiddlerpin 2 years ago 5
It's a shame what happened to this show. Lost in Space started out as a very promising adventure series. At the time it was the most expensive TV pilot episode ever produced. The first 5 or 6 episodes were quite good for the time. That it soon decayed into campiness is a crime.
astron1000 2 years ago 4
This "preview" was never shown on TV, 'paul'. This was shown as a "sales pitch" to potential sponsors in the spring of 1965, utilizing footage from the unaired version of the pilot episode, "No Place To Hide" (which did NOT feature "Dr. Smith" and the "Robot" among the cast; they were added in the "reconstituted" first episode, "The Reluctant Stowaway").
fromthesidelines 2 years ago
we never got the preview in the uk it just suddenly arrived one saturday afternoon about 5pm in november 1965 it was the talk of the school on monday
paulboon 2 years ago
This was my all time favorite show when I was a kid.
PsychProfessor 2 years ago 2
no robot no doctor smith damn pilot
tigueritosweb 2 years ago
How do they know what all those flashing lights mean?
KCLJD 2 years ago
the origianl pilot there was no robot or dr smith, they re shot the premier episode with dr smith and robot, if you ever seen the pilot, not even close to being good as it became, the evil dr smith was great idea
ftlshome1 2 years ago 2
My favorite show as a kid. Funny, no mention of Dr. Smith. I wonder if that was a curve they wanted to save for the premier. He was, after all the reason they got lost.
ronbass 2 years ago
Love this history. Thanks for posting.
JONESIE27 2 years ago
Star Wars composer John Williams ironically got his start with Lost in Space when he was known as little Johnny Williams.
007ObiWan 2 years ago 2
Irwin Allen tapped the talents of John Williams for the Themes for all his TV shows, and all his hit movies. He penned the themes for all three seasons of LIS, and LAND OF THE GIANTS, and THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, and THE TOWERING INFERNO, and the movie EARTHQUAKE. Not to mention JAWS, STAR WARS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, SUPERMAN, INDIANA JONES, ET,every hit movie of the last 40-years wer penned by living-legend John Williams, my favorite composer since 1965.
Beamshipcaptain 2 years ago
Although Lost in Space did represent a step up for Johnny Williams, he had been performing and scoring for television and movies BEFORE. So it's not really accurate to say he got his "start" with this series. (And I still DIG all the music, themes and sequences, from Lost in Space!)
kneejerker 2 years ago
Irwin Allen is one of my favorite TV producer-directors, next to Gene Roddenberry, and Gerry Anderson in the UK. He had a habit of producing extra special, high-quality pilot episodes of shows, or excellent first-seasons, at least, thten, without exception, every one of his great shows nosedived inlater seasons, as if he was intentionally sabotaging them, and they all started of BRILLIANTLY. His choice of writing-talent varied widely. After a while, the writers ran out of good ideas. A shame.
Beamshipcaptain 2 years ago
Yes, the difference between Season 1 and Seasons 2 and 3 of Lost in Space is like night and day. In the final season, the episode where Dr. Smith became a space hippie is beyond camp. It's on YouTube.
007ObiWan 2 years ago 3
i think he did a class act with pilots and initial shooting, and then he always reverted to his true inner corniness/overdone schmaltz- just like his 50's movies. im afraid that was the real allen- corny. sorta like u dont really know a spouse till much later.
jmm1000 2 years ago
When Rosie O'Donnell asked JFK Jr. what his favorite show was when he was a kid, he said Lost in Space.
007ObiWan 2 years ago 2