A couple of corrections: It was Gilligan's Island that was canceled because of Gunsmoke not Lost In Space. The full size Jupiter 2 appears in the first season as well as "Visit To A Hostile Planet". "Princess In Space" was filmed after "The Time Merchant" even though it was broadcast before the latter.
I always thought it was kind of funny when they’d be landing on an alien planet or wherever, and there would already be a perfectly sized white circle there to mark out their landing spot! 😃
@@outsider238 Did you say the 3rd season was your favorite? Because the 3rd season was also my favorite...because they traveled more and I found the new theme very entertaining. And we also finally got to see Penny transform into a new person. I know many people prefer the first season...but not me...I love the 3rd season best. I also wonder what new hairdo Judy and Penny would have had during season 4
I can’t thank you enough for the detailed dissection of this TV series. I am 67 years old born in 1955 and I grew up with this serious, and have bonded to it ever cents. I don’t have words to thank you enough for taking the time to point out these things that I don’t think I ever noticed while I was watching. And thanks to all the actors and my love Angela Cartwright for giving us this gift. Peace.
I was wondering if you’ve done any other introspection and analysis of other popular shows of the time perhaps such as Star Trek or Addams family, etc. If you have let me know and I’ll look them up. Peace.
@@Dr.scottcase88 Yes! I did a series for "I Dream Of Jeannie" and "My Favorite Martian". Check them out of you're interested. I think you'll find them interesting as well.
Growing up in 1960's Perth, Western Australia, we only had 3 channels and all our TV was black and white back then. British and U.S. shows didn't get to us for about 3 years and I'm sure the local TV networks deliberately waited until they could buy 'second hand' shows at a cheap rate. How would we know? Perth was very isolated, no internet, overseas travel was very expensive and even long distance phone calls were $$$ so most of us had no idea we were so far behind. Lost in Space premiered here in 1968 at 7:30 Friday nights which was pretty well prime-time back then. It was HUGE! I don't recall a show getting so much pre-publicity and the yanks were making great progress with getting to the moon so the timing was perfect. Aged 8, I was madly in love with Judy even though Marta Kristen seemed to be made of wood! I wanted to be Don when I grew up - you know, feisty and fearless and would put people like Smith back in his box. And the B9 robot inspired me to a career in electronics, instrumentation and science. Modern TV shows don't inspire the young to anything other than defeatism and hopelessness. Thanks for making these videos about a golden era in American TV.
Regarding that scratch on the Robot at around 41:58 I believe that scratch was from a Season 1 episode (I can't remember the title of that episode) where Dr. Smith found a diamond and deliberately scratched the Robot's bubble.
Yeah but that was two seasons prior and the Robot didn't have that scratch all through the rest of the series. Plus the original scratch looked different. Also they wouldn't have actually scratched the bubble just for that one scene so they probably used chalk or some kind of removable marker.
Thank you for putting together this compilation of bloopers. I was in 5th, 6th, and 7th grade when these episodes came out. I enjoyed these shows so much on Wednesday evenings. Will was just a few years older than me, and I identified with him. As a child watching these shows in simpler times, they were magic. Thanks again.
I remembered Will from the theatre movie Dear Brigitte with Bardot (he was like a child genius in it). And Cartwright from Sound of Music. And i think Natalie Wood would have made a better JUDY, so blah in her Forever Engagement while June Lockhart throws out her bra and moves in with some young guy like Doris Day
@@outsider238 does anyone know the name of song of The Mysterious bell sound when they about to land on The clone photo planet you can also hear in the previous episode The Anti Matter Man when Will The Anti Matter John Robinson and the Robot travel through dimensions ?
The set dressing in the Power Core room were surplus bits from the IBM AN/FSQ-7 computer, which was a US Air Force computer used for the SAGE National defense system. These appreared in dozens of TV shows and Movies, including Time Tunnel, Batman, The Man from UNCLE and The Towering Inferno, among many others. Ironically, although it was always shown as some kind of giant super-computer, it ws actually a tube-based computer, built in the mid-1950's. However, it was one of the biggest and most visually impressive computers ever built.
I remember a scene in The Great Vegetable Rebellion where Mumy pricks his finger on a vine, which looked like Christmas tinsel. Anyway, he has a pained reaction to it for a brief moment.
Thank you for an interesting video. ❤️😍❤️ love Lost In Space. It was unique, and the cast was great, adore the Robot. Great learning more about the cast and show.
I was always fascinated watching the Robot noticing different things going on with him. The guys that had to maintain him must have had their hands full!
@@outsider238 I was always fascinated by that robot too. No doubt the crew must have been busy with it. All the staging etc. I played so much with my Remco that only the base was left. Other than loving all the Dr Smith robot lines, one stated by Will....Don't cry Robot, you'll rust your computer tapes.
@Jm4steam Haha! Yeah I still have my Remco as well. I treated him with kid gloves. I wanted that robot so bad when those came out and it was a lot of money for my parents to afford back then so I treated him like a museum piece!
The hero Robot was on display at Marineland of the Pacific in Palos Verdes, CA, in the 70’s. I believe Marineland was owned by 20th Century Fox at the time, and they had a room with a bunch of artifacts from various Irwin Allen and 20CF shows and movies. I was there with my parents in July of ‘76, when I was 11 years old, and the Robot was one of the coolest things in the world for me then. I remember seeing the large filming model of the Seaview, and the Penguin’s submarine from the 1966 Batman movie, among other things. The Robot was still mostly as it was while filming LIS. It had the protective cover (painted red) over the neon tubes, and the torso and tread section were painted an odd matte light grey, with shiny Mylar tape (or something similar) accents on the circumferential ridges on the torso, but it was otherwise intact and unaltered, before it was cannibalized for that Skatebirds show, and long before the Kevin Burns restoration. It was in a large plexiglass case, with a button on the case that looked like it might activate the Robot in some way, but it didn’t do anything when we were there. My parents eventually had to drag me away, but not before my dad took a picture of my standing next to it, which I still have to this day. We had no idea it was there when we went to Marineland while visiting family in CA - it was one of the weirdly luckiest days of my life.
Amazing! I was also there in July 1976 while visiting my family in Orange County. It was awesome to see the Robot, the Seaview and the Penguin's submarine.
On the scene where Will Robinson is sitting at the edge of a Fantastic Voyage capillary with a Dr. Smith mask on, there's a couple of large arc type devices on either side with blue lights in them. I'm pretty sure that they're from Irwin Allen's "The Time Tunnel." They're the arcs that close in and reveal the image from the past or future in the near part of the tunnel. In the back is one of the Time Tunnel's computers.
I remember I was a small child when this series first started. I had seen it advertised on TV and was really excited wanting to see it. I was a big fan of all of the space activity that the US and NASA was involved in and such as mercury and Gemini and couldn't get enough. I remember the evening of the premiere of the show I was outside playing in the yard and it was sundown starting to get dark. I having a good time by myself and Mom stuck her head out the screen door and yelled at me,"that new show is coming on that you were wanting to watch" I completely forgotten that that was the evening that it started and if not for her I would have missed it, LOL. I ran inside and there was still a commercial plane but then the show started in black and white because we all had black and white TVs in and it was also filmed in black and white. All the high contrast with it being a night time seeing at night launch just added to the intrigue as far as my little brain and I was glued to it. 😂 All of the mission control setup and then the launch with the lights revolving around the bottom and the sound and then the absolute chaos when Dr Smith sabotage yes send everything haywire and all the forces of the ship moving so quickly making him scream in agony and pass out it was so impactful on me I will hooked!!! 🫣 Will Robinson and I were sort of the same age and I lived each adventure like I was right there, it was so great. 👍🏻 But that first episode and that evening I remember every detail like it was yesterday and how it impacted me, I am now 65 years old and still get a kick out of it. There had never been anything on TV like that show, and people have to understand these days that we only had three channels then that we could pick up on the antenna and those channels went off the air at 10:30 or midnight and there was nothing on TV with a test pattern until around 6:30 in the morning. This is when TV did not rule our lives. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
William! That was an excellent comment! You really brought me back to my childhood! 😄 I felt the same watching it back then! And the test pattern! I forgot about those! I remember turning on the TV in the morning waiting for the test pattern to go off and the channel beginning their broadcast for the day. We only had a black and white TV so when we were finally able to afford a color TV, I was shocked to see how everything looked in color! Thank you for the walk down Memory Lane! 😁
I waited for a month for the premiere of the show as well, and the day it was to air, our tv died. To this day, I rejoice that my grandparents said I could come over to see the premiere on their set. A lot of people wouldn't give up their regular shows for anyone, grandchild or not.
I was in 5th grade, and was attending Conformation Classes at my Church..so I could take Communion ! Well, the classes were on Wednesday evening the Same Time Lost in Space was on TV, I was SO unhappy about missing the show. Now I watch the show I can Hardly watch it...It's SO Corney ! Irwin Allen's shows & movies were pretty Lame..Especially Land of the Giants. The cast was ALWAYS running from the giants and stopping to Catching there Breaths. Always !! lol !
William Scroggin • I'm with ya on the 60's TV experience. CBS, NBC, and ABC, that was it. In central Indiana we did have a station out of Bloomington. It was channel 4 but it was always snowy and they had the "technical difficulties" a lot. When something was broken or messed up we would say it's channel 4'ed. We didn't have a color TV until '69. BTW dad bought the color TV specifically for watching the moon landing but the Apollo 11 coverage was in black and white anyway. 😆😃🤣 👈 me and my 2 brothers.
Buying the blu-ray of LIS was fantastic. Best digital transfer I ever saw except maybe 2001 but that movie had a headstart since it was filmed in 70mm.
Michael Conrad played on Hill Street Blues with Daniel J Travanti, billed as Dan Travanti, who played as one of the motorcycle riders on Collision of Planets.
I read somewhere where Johnathan Harris said many times the glue holding monster costumes together was still wet when they were taping. They really threw this thing together. My favorite episodes: * Trip Through the Robot * The Keeper * The Golden Man * Fugitives in Space * The Colonists * Two Weeks in Space
I appreciate you doing this compilation. I've noticed a lot of them myself because I was addicted to the show when I was a kid. And intentionally over looked them because I didn't want to ruin it for myself. Lol
Hahaha!!! Yeah, even as a kid I noticed some of these as well. But now they just make me appreciate more what all goes into making a TV show. Especially back then. 😁
The second lizard footage is from The Lost World (1960). Irwin Allen produced and directed that film for Fox. He used footage on his other shows as well.
15:01 is the most fascinating episode when I was a kid because in several episodes (I think) we saw that door that went TO the reactor room and of course Will was never allowed to go in there. Then in this episode we finally get to see what's in there.....and we weren't disappointed. The special effects and set decorators did a GREAT job with this scene.
I was also intrigued by the reactor room door as a kid. It looked like something that would make me want to see inside even if I wasn't supposed to! LOL
Worth noting... those explosions were practical effects done live. In an interview, Jonathan Harris did say they were LOUD. Over on that other show, Shatner says he and Nimoy both suffered lifelong tinnitus while filming the explosion scene in the ST ep "Errand of Mercy." That kind of effect would never be done that way today. (Although ST Discovery has a thing for flame-throwers on the bridge.)
I remember William Shatner talking about that explosion. It's amazing they were willing to risk so many possible accidents on set. But then again, sometimes it's the actors that insist on doing their own stunts. That one with Bill Mumy is shocking that they had him do that. Especially as a child actor.
Not sure when "Princess Of Space" was aired, but there was a error when computating Penny Robinson's chronological age. She was supposed to be 13 years old, but clearly looks a year or two older than that!
When they finished season three, and were going to come back for season four, everyone was contacted over the summer hiatus being told the show was cancelled, the budget was one of the reasons, so I believe.
You said the writer was out of ideas with the veggie episode. They should have hired new writers and whatever other show makers they needed. The show was at its peak in season three. I’m also surprised another network didn’t pick it up.
@@gingerhill9044 Yes. I can see if Jonathan Harris didn’t want to continue, or maybe any of the other stars, but this show had high viewership so it had to be making the studio and network money.
The last shot of the robot with the black tape on one of his ears, you'll notice that both ears are straight up whereas some shots have the red ear horizontal.
Definitely a "Tardis effect" going on with the Jupiter 2. It was so much larger inside than it was outside. You had to make room for the space pod, the chariot, all those bedrooms, that third power level, and somewhere, there had to be a bathroom.
Maybe it is because of the Invaders from the 5 Dimension. They had a ship that was " Bigger on the inside than on the outside." When their ship self destructed it could of distorted reality and a new reality replace it but the Roberson don't remember the previous reality. In the new reality the Jupiter is bigger on the inside than the outside. In the new reality bigger on the inside than the outside is normal.
If the Enterprise with over 400 personal can go on a five year mission with no bathroom then the Jupiter II can go without one. (Scotty did explain why no bathroom. Why do you think everyone has a phaser?
@@francisdhomer5910 LOL I do have a copy of the Enterprise deck plans and there are bathrooms all over the place. I wonder if they just never told Scotty and he thought he'd just use the transporter room.
Around 11:11 Will (looking like Dr Smith) comes out of the tube. Look at the 2 grey semicircle shaped things either side of the tube, with blue lights. I think they're part of the Time Tunnel
the monster - close-up of a lizard with head attachments, was footage from Allen's feature Lost World, starring Michael Rennie. the control panels(with loads of small flashing lights) you see on the ship, show up in other series of Allen's series. the master of disasterwas also master of re-using props and stock footage. the studio loved his economy-minded approach, I guess; it improved the bottom line.I think the robot, designated as model B-9, at some stage was a great creation, its bubble head had internal structure like a vacuum tube - still in use back then, whilst the transistor brcame more used in electronics. all in all, the show was kept fast-paced, so mistakes were tolerated, acceptable for cost and scheduling reasons.I think like TOS Star Trek,LIS will re-run frever,LIS will get funnier as time passes, imo - a family that goes on an inter-stellar camping excursion. thanks for vid. I remember kids and adults became hooked on viewing it. like Phil Silvers show, it could have been renamed the Jonathan Harris Show, mebe :). unlike the long, boring LIS movie, it had charisma and some wit. my 2 cents...in sme ways, similar to fate of transfer of Batman to the big screen. in the 60's (post WW2) most people wanted to laugh, more than just watch a series of FX scenes with wooden acting, such productions will be mainly forgotten. good.
Standard dialog for a season 3 episode of Lost In Space: Will Robinson: "Gee Mom, why can't I go hang out with the aliens?" Mrs. Robinson: "John, what do you think?" Prof. Robinson: "It's okay as long as you bring Dr. Smith and the robot with you!" Robot: "It does not compute!" Dr. Smith: (screams hysterically)
My favorite show of all time. I once had the good fortune of spending an afternoon with June Lockhart. She was so nice & generous with her time. She was a guest speaker at a convention & I was a radio host who interviewed her. During the interview we hit it off & she invited me to come out to the convention the following day as her guest. I did & we just spent the afternoon just chatting about her time on the show & what the other cast members were doing. She also shared a good deal about her family including her daughter Ann Lockhart & her time spent on Battlestar Galactica. This was back in the 90s. I remember that afternoon fondly. She was very nice & for a fan of LIS since the 60s like myself it was truly a once in a lifetime experience.
@@Daehawk I can totally dig it. I had a crush on Veronica Cartwright back in the 60s even though she was like a teen & I was only about 9 or 10 at the time. I thought she was fine but also an older woman! LOL
@@kennyspaulding796 Totally. The first time I saw her on BSG back in the 70s I said to myself, Wow! There's no doubt she's June Lockhart's daughter. Spending an entire afternoon with June Lockhart was very cool. She was very easy to converse with and really down to Earth.
@@johnnie2638 I was the same age as you, and while Angela was always very pretty, I didn't find her crush-worthy until the 3rd season, when she "blossomed" and filled out that silver space-suit so nicely. Marta was always super-hot!
Another fun video of bloopers. You mentioned that the bubble on the robot was the face and head. All these years I did not know that. I did like the first season as it was more serious and not so silly and I enjoyed all the guest stars they had on the show. Thanks for all of your work making these videos.
It's much easier to see these bloopers now with DVD and HD releases, but back in the day, the audience viewed these shows through rather grainy pictures on their televisions. Producers knew these limitations with broadcast television and used it to their advantage with lower fidelity production techniques that saved the shows money
This was a very amusing and fascinating video! It was so hilarious seeing all of the bloopers. You have a great eye for some of this stuff. I might even get a copy just to watch!! Thanks for a great video!!
we never noticed bloopers back in the 60s because we were all watching tv on small black and white sets that usually had poor reception LOL, we had like 3 tv stations back when i was a kid hahahaha
At 40:20 that patch is probably from damage repair. That is also why the ribs are missing. Although why they would have patched the panel but not fix the ribs doesn't make sense either.
The view masters by GAF were so crystal clear I loved them had a blast with the lost in space version especially when they are in the ice house where people were frozen I believe are an ice prison
16:38 -- hahahahahaha -- I always considered the Robot's "face" as those slats, not the bubble - that is SO funny. How do you know that was meant to be his "eyes" up there?
Thank you for this. It brings back so many great memories from my childhood. I was in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade while this was new on TV. My brother and sister and I never missed an episode. Even though we were young, we noticed many of the screw ups and used that as evidence to try to prove to each other that the show was fake as if it was otherwise real. I recall commenting every time that when the robot had to traverse down some step(s) or across some large rocks which would be impossible with his treads, the camera would just cut away and in the next scene he was at the bottom of the steps or on the other side of the rocks. When we visited our cousins and neighborhood friends we would argue for hours about what parts of the show were fake and which were 'real'. The screw ups, pathetic props, poor camera work, and weak editing was actually what made it most appealing to us kids. Too funny.
But if you watch episode 1 season 1 you'll see the robot can actually use his treads independently like feet , a very slow and lumbering walk but still a walk , that would explain how he manages steps and transverse some rocky spots, I believe they only showed him using that capability once in all three seasons
That panel was actually to straighten out the crinkly sort of texture that the stunt AK* body double robot had on it's body, I don't know if it was sort of sheet metal or plastic but that was eactly what it was for was to make it appear smoother.
The scratch on the robot's bubble was from an earlier episode when Smith tested a diamond to see if it was real - but I can't remember which episode without watching them all again.
That was all the way from season 1. His bubble wasn't scratched after that episode. This scratch was from something else. It might have just been something on it that they didn't wipe off.
Just wanted to chime in.. I was a kid in the 60's and watched this prime time. Back in the 2000's, my son was an artist and sculptor. He displayed his work at Wonderfest in Louisville, KY. I met Mark Goddard, Bob May and Marta Kristen. I also met the builder of a replica robot who worked for Eastman Kodak. Mark Goddard was absolutely hilarious! Bob May came across as a used car salesman and milked out his part on Lost in Space for the rest of his life. Marta decades later was still very attractive.
Wow, all three videos were AWESOME...very good detective work!!!!!!!!! I so enjoyed watching them!!! I love that you use the B9 Robot as your thumbnail for this channel, I use a pic of the B9 as my wallpaper on my iPhone and iPad!!!!!
Was always a huge fan of this series. Back when they made the theatrical movie in 1998, the was going to make a TV rescue movie with the surviving original cast and I was so pumped for that. Why it fell through who knows, but it was something the fans would’ve loved.
in middle school i built my own jupiter 2 only about 6 inches around, and no problem putting in a space pod with it not showing in the front window. I remember the poles to the tripod legs were made of mini-straws. Front window was soft vinyl like the freeze-tubes inside. Silver paint back then came off on your fingers. I also recall spilling the blue paint on my bed and hiding it so mom doesnt see it. Sold it to a kid for $10 because others said i was a big baby to have made it.
I enjoy your enthusiasm. It was a great show, I looked forward to watching it every day after school and even now the characters are entertaining enough for reruns. I was fortunate to work on the Fox lot from 1999 to 2009, it's remarkable walking past those soundstages knowing what has happened within those walls all these decades.
Back in those days as a 6-year-old I could hardly wait until the next episode. _Lost In Space_ was a *cool* show! I remember seeing Michael Conrad on some episodes of _The Rockford Files._
Anything you see on the edge of the frame would not have been visible on CRTs because they'd fall in the overscan area. Only now can we see this because the entire film aperture is visible on modern flat screen TVs.
As far as the robot being able to step up onto an even surfaces since the beginning of the season you could see a separation in his legs all the way down to the tracks and the ground. I as an imaginative person always figured the robot would be able to circumnavigate formidable environments. Otherwise what good would it be. Just my two cents. I love anything sci-fi Lost in space keep going this is a great thing that I'm watching even if I disagree from time to time. Thank you for going to the work to do it
I'm not sure if I ever saw those episodes. I only just saw the "entire" series on YT a few years ago and I seem to recall his episodes weren't allowed to be shown. Maybe I'm getting it mixed up with McHale's Navy because I saw all of those on YT at the same time and I think there was a few of those that couldn't be shown because of someone that was in a few episodes. I DO know there were a few Beverley Hillbillies episodes I couldn't see at that same time. I just finished the, "Man From U.N.C.L.E." collection about 4 months ago, then, "Chuck" about a month later, then, "Hogan's Heroes" and just finished, "F Troop" about 2 weeks ago. I'm considering getting, "I, Spy:" or "Mission: Impossible", next. Remember the tail end of the LIS pilot where they thought they were finally safe and then we saw aliens watching them in the weeds? If Packer had no more ideas left, why didn't they finish making that episode instead that stupid vegetable one?
My wife thought Lost was on the same line of Star Trek. Once I got her into it, I always wondered where the main actors went to. Harris, Mumy & The Robot ruled the show. Loved it, as it was funny, instead of being a fantasy show.. 🛸
Started watching the show in the mid to late 70s as a kid.. at that time it was only aired in reruns during the summers. My sister and I lived at the public swimming pool but we had to be home by 3:30 .. it was The Munsters, Lost in Space then 2 episodes of the Flintstones after that it was dinner time. lots of fond memories. Now I have the set on Blu ray mostly for nostalgia
I have really enjoyed this series of videos...thank you so much. Some added information for you: - The full size mock up J2 did, indeed, deteriorate badly but not because it was left unprotected. There are number of production photos taken for the first Apes move wherein you can see the J2 in the background on its castor wheels (it could be wheeled about) and covered with a big tarp. The tarp, sadly, did not keep out the humidity and the hull of the ship was painted masonite. The humidity and termites just ate it all up. Towards the end of its time on the lot a son of a Fox exec wanted to transfer the ship to another location so he could keep it. An inspection was done with a view to putting it on a truck. It was so badly termite-ridden that it was decided to bulldoze it. The landing legs were kept and you can see them used as props in the second Apes movie where they represent buckled landing gear of the crashed astronaut's ship. -The bluray team made a search for bloopers in the Fox film archive but they were never found. Many believe that Irwin was not fond of having a record of mistakes and they were routinely destroyed as they happened. -There may have been as many as three stunt robots because they kept getting so badly banged up. -Peter Packer had, indeed, run dry of ideas BUT a couple of new writers were being considered for the proposed fourth season and I believe that a couple of scripts were actually written. -None of the actors knew that the Junkman episode would be their last. They were told to report back after the filming hiatus for the new season. The first they knew that things were finished was most likely phone calls from their respective agents. Poor Bill (at that time "Billy") was so upset be cried for many hours. He really loved working with Jonathan and that love was mutual, I'm sure. The filming crew and Irwin loved them as well. They never missed their stage marks, they rarely fluffed their lines and there was a real chemistry between Jonathan, Bill and Bob May.
Thank you for the excellent information! It's a real shame that the Jupiter 2 couldn't be saved but man, where the heck would you keep it? Haha! It's really too bad that the bloopers couldn't be found or were destroyed. I, as well as other LIS fans would love to see them. I bet there was some funny and interesting bloopers! I would love for there to have been a fourth season. It would have been cool to see what they came up with! Thank you for the excellent comment!
@@outsider238 Apparently the young man had a farm or similar to park the J2. The construction blueprints still exist so an enterprising (no pun intended to Trekkers!) builder could duplicate it. That's how they made the recent Chariot replica. Kevin Burns (RIP) of Synthesis Entertainment (LIS rights holder) sent a copy of the blueprints to the builder. I would love to see a replica made of the J2, wouldn't you? There were stuff ups on set during filming...squib explosions going off too late or too early and props failing to do what they were supposed to do. Actors fluffing their lines, of course (but rarely Bill, Jonathan or Bob) and unintended crack ups, especially during "The Great Vegetable Rebellion," as you know. The best person to ask about bloopers would be Bill Mummy. He doesn't accept FB PMs but you can contact him via his agent, Sharron Elkabas...you can Google her contact details.
@@tripsadelica It would be fantastic to see a replica of the full size Jupiter 2 built. Kevin Burns owned parts of the original robot including the original neon, the Bermuda Shorts, the stone molds for the torso, arms and legs as well as the jigs for the Robot's collar pieces. He also had the "Duplicate Robot". Do you know what became of those after Kevin's passing?
I have to disagree with you about 'The Promised Planet'. I was 10 years old when I saw it and had always identified with Penny. To see her break out of her straight-laced shell and act like a hippy was so memorable for me because I was also a straight-laced kid and wanted to be a hippy so much! But I was a few years too young. Thanks for these vids you're making. You have a great voice and sense of humor and, except for the above mentioned episode, your opinions are spot on!
Awesome stuff! I probably noticed some of this as a kid but because I was a kid it didn't really register or I didn't care. Also remember we were watching it on 19" TV's. Loved this show so much.
One thing I can tell you is that at a sci fi convention many years ago before they died, I got to meet Bobby, Dick and Mark Goddard. (at other events thru the years I also got to meet everyone else except Guy) and Bobby May was asked how many robot costumes there were and he said there were at least 3, the hero one, the lighter stunt one you talk about here and one of which also had a lighter weight mid section that he would wear occasionally in close ups without ANY of the leg part down, not just the rubber tread section, which was out of camera shot. After getting the discs of the show, I checked out certain scenes to see if I could see any differences in some close ups of the robot and if you pause and look closely, you can indeed tell which one was the lighter weight mid section by a slight change in the tone of the paint, variations in the buttons and other small details such as the thickness of the silver raised lip of the suit around the tube light in front inconsistent with the hero costume and I am talking about scenes other than those you featured here as that same lighter weight version was also used in season 2. Might still not explain that back section cut out but interesting nonetheless.
That would make sense. A third torso just for close ups from the waist up. There is a picture floating around showing Bob in that costume where there's no legs at all. Just Bob's legs sticking out. We (The B9 Builders Club members) just assumed they used the same torso for the hero and "Bermuda Shorts" version.
What do you mean as kids we didn't notice? I noticed most of these as a kid. The hokey backdrops, the cables, the bad special effects,a nd so on. I think that is why it became such a campy show instead of serious. I think they may have wanted to play it off more serious, like Star Trek originally, but th eDr. Smith angle turned it into anything but serious. There was the store room, utility room, the backroom for the computers, and such that seemed to be the same access way into the "scuttlehole" or an area around the ring of the ship where the outer panels angled down. But once inside, the room was larger than the rest of the ship. The location of the space pod was in the outer ring, which should have been angled but inside the pod was taller than a standing man. this season allowed the Jupiter 2 to be as roomy inside as Doctor Who's TARDIS or the Weasley's tent. How many noticed the really big goof? The trip was to Alpha Centauri, the closest solar system to our own. It was going to take over 5 years to get there, but magically, they made it to other planets by mistake. Now wait, how far are those other planets? MUCH further than Alpha Centauri, so they should have taken years to get there. Even a "hyperdrive" excuse was crazy, as then why didn't they just use hyperdrive to get back to where they wanted to be?
Oh wow, the Viewmaster! Yes, I had this episode on my Viewmaster!! A great piece of kit for the time :) It was the first time I learned that the Robot's claws were red!
Hi outsider238, my name is Gerry from Sydney, Australia. You have shattered me... I watched Lost in Space in the 60's when I was a kid and all my life I thought it happened on a real planet. Now, after watching your series, I realise it was made in a film studio (LOL) So, I am still a fan and would like to add some bloopers and observations to your list !! Firstly: My favourite episode: His Majesty Smith Blast off into space: Dr Smith's statue is drunk on Cosmonium and smashes the charriot window...but next scene John arrives on the jetpack and shoots the monster away....you can see the charriot windows are not damaged. Lasers: The effects people seem to do freeze-frame whenever the lasers are used, presumeably to make it easier to add the laser effect. But when Hapgood carves his name into a rock, you can see the laser doesn't quite match his hand movement...probably too hard to do laser in motion effect at that time...also, in the closing scene of One of Our Dogs is Missing, you can see the light come on on the laser pistol but no laser beam...maybe because it was a motion scene....i think the the light on the laser pistol was used so that actors would know when they are being shot at? Campsite: The bottom edge around the Jupiter2 looks different to the one that flies in space...btw, we never get to see what's around the other side of the ship .... actors often come and go from around that left side side of the ship. The Keeper: At the end of part 1 when Dr Smith releases the monsters, he and the robot escape and run down the ramp of the Keeper's space ship....if you look closely...it looks to me like Dr Smith is holding the robot's shoulder lug to help balance the robot....dont want the robot to fall over again! Jelly Bowls: They are used with flashing lights in many episodes where the aliens wave their hands over them to make something happen. The Challenge: Quano and Will take spears into the cave to fight the monster and Quano trips over a rock and gets knocked out. The close up of Quano tripping on the rock is such bad acting...he pretended to trip on the rock! His Majesty Smith: I love the scene when the Master makes a duplicate of Dr Smith....it looks to be done in one take and Dr Smith would have had to really scramble to get around to the other side in time. You can see the master is waving the controls while watching and waiting until Smith is ready and the background sound effects mask any commotion. At the end of the episode, the Master says "even your forcefield(s) cannot stup us but the Android Nexus says "forcefield" A lot of series 1 episodes have double shadows on the ground, presumeably from multiple studio lights. Curse of Cousin Smith: The close up of cousin smith doing card tricks is obviously a card-sharp, not the actor. I want their washing machine: It washes, dries, presses and wraps clothes in plastic, all in 10 seconds and in one take! Stunt Doubles: (here are a few but I am sure there are many more) * One of our Dogs is Missing: Judy and Don rolling down off the rock when escaping the monster * Space Prime Evils: Dr Smith and Don are trapped underground. A stunt double for Dr Smith can be seen walking down the rocks. * Trip Through the Robot: Dr smith is caught in some machinery...obvious stunt double Hey, that's all for now! Thanks for the great series, Gerry
Hi Gerry! Thank you for the comment! You bring up some very interesting points! I never noticed the glass on the Chariot not being broken in that scene! I did mention the light on the laser gun in "One Of Our Dogs Is Missing" in my season 1 blooper video. They did have to freeze in order for the effect of the laser to look right as they couldn't make the laser follow the motion of the actors back then or it was very expensive to do so. They would also freeze frame the scene sometimes so the actors wouldn't have to but it was more obvious. Also the light let the special effects guys know when to add in the laser effects. I always noticed the bottom of the full size Jupiter 2 looked off. Like they should have covered it with more sand so that you can't see that's it's vertical on the bottom! Haha! The others I noticed as well but I didn't know if I should mention them since they weren't as bad as the other bloopers. I felt bad enough tearing the show apart as it was! 🤣😆
Nice retrospective, thanks! To me, season 3 took the best aspects of seasons 1 and 2, and had a new titles sequence to give the new show a sense of excitement, which was badly needed by then. Season 3 did get tropey with the Smith/Will/Robot triple act, but it's still fun. A shame 3 was the last. The veggie rebellion episode is loony enjoyable fun. The hiplie episode is like watching a clown car train wreck - cringeworthy yet fun at the same time. Good callout for the blu-ray set! Those commentaries are worth the price. The time merchant episode, if i recall, explains the real worth of Dr Smith. Had he not been there, the Robinsons would all have died. It's a nice touch, especially for a seemingly throwaway kid show. Irwin Allen loved reusing props. Perhaps too often, which also shows how precious little they got to spend, especially in scripts where they say they're not familisr with humans but - oops - there are human statues. Like the episode where Smith steals the shuttlecraft lander and opens the door to find the necklaced blobby clone critter that wants to know why humans are different (not a bad episode as it gives the main actors a chance to do other than their regular stuff!) Definitely wish they had a 4th year... did ratings dip and the network wanted to wring out as many episodes as possible with even less funding?
Excellent comment! I was told that the ratings were still very good for a fourth season but the studio wanted to cut the budget and Irwin Allen refused and simply decided to not go with a fourth season unfortunately.
I immensely enjoyed your three presentations. You certainly have the show pegged! I always thought it was uncanny how Dr. Smith suddenly had uniforms and his own quarters even though he was allegedly a stowaway. Also, the little custom-made niche for Bloop. Like the dog that you pointed out; the monkey also disappeared. I imagine it would be more economical to not procure animals and trainers on the set, not to mention zookeepers. Perhaps they had additional space for the 1st floor and the space pod after the cages were removed! Your productions were very informative. Thanks for all of your hard work and for your stellar series!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that! I'm so glad you enjoyed this mini series! There were a lot of things that didn't make sense on that show but we sure loved it anyway! 😁
Love season 3 just like you and like they are in the Jupiter 2 and flying and landing more. Love listening to the Jupiter 2 flying and landing..The opening theme and the count down are so great.
Yeah - Star trek had been on for a year by then, and they knew the audience wanted more. Plus, lots of people already know, but John Williams wrote both themes.
Someone apparently got their shows mixed up in relation to the Gunsmoke story. It was actually Gilligan's Island that was supposed to have come back for a 4th season after the 66-67 season, and didn't because of Gunsmoke. This is the blurb about that from the Gilligan's Island Wikipedia page. "During the 1966-1967 television season, Gilligan's Island aired on Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time. Though the sitcom's ratings had fallen well out of the top-30 programs, during the last few weeks of its third season, the series was still winning its timeslot against its main competition, The Monkees, which aired at the same time on NBC-TV. Therefore, CBS assured Sherwood Schwartz that Gilligan's Island would definitely be picked up for a fourth year. CBS, however, had signaled its intention to cancel the long-running Western series Gunsmoke, which had been airing late on Saturday nights during the 1966-1967 television season. Under pressure from CBS network president William S. Paley and his wife Babe, along with many network affiliates and longtime fans of Gunsmoke, CBS rescheduled the Western to an earlier time slot on Mondays at 7:30 p.m. eastern time. As a result, Gilligan's Island was quietly canceled at practically the last minute, while the cast members were all on vacation. Some of the cast had bought houses near the set, based on Sherwood Schwartz's verbal confirmation that the series would be renewed for a fourth season." I believe the reason Lost In Space didn't return for a fourth season was because of Irwin Allen not wanting to cut the budget. Also, June Lockhart didn't start working on Petticoat Junction until the 1968-69 season, so she wasn't doing both shows simultaneously.
Loved The show when I was a kid, but looking back it was so silly, but it's funny the things you miss until they are pointed out. Great video, it brings back some really great memories 😊.
Thankyou for the great memories. As a kid it was my favourite show on TV & I used to race home from school every day to watch it. The alien monsters were so real then .
Fantastic. I'm just surprised that you didn't include the episode when Will is transported back to Earth during his time period (not back in time.) I would love to have heard your comments about a small town in the late 20th Century still using phones from the 1920s.
That was my favorite episode! I was also hoping you would include it. As for the phones, the Andy Griffith show also had the old phone type in the sheriff's office and in the kitchen of his house.
Fourth season and cancellation of a classic: whatever the odds of surviving being lost in space, art can never survive the demands money makes of imagination. The ultimate blooper. Loved the work and love you put into this. Happy New Year.
It's probably something that maybe only a female viewer would notice, but I on reflecting on the "Visit" episode noted that Marta Kristen's hairstyle had changed - without notice - particularly in the scenes where Craig (Robert Pine) takes her prisoner...and after John and Don come to her rescue, Judy's hair reverts to the way it was at the beginning of the episode! And nobody comments or just completely ignores it! :D
Hi, Andrew from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia here. I loved this show as well as Star Trek TOS. Being a gay Aussie, I loved the high camp stuff in it. Johnathon Harris scream was a total pisser. I loved the outtakes. I bought the Blu-ray discs but I'm redoing my man cave with better equipment. It's a legend of a series. Space 1999 was not far off. It's sad that many of the actors we love to this day have passed away. Boy it was fun. Kids today have no clue. Cheers Andrew.
Hi Andrew! Thank you for watching! I loved Space 1999 as well. I agree, it's sad that we've lost so many of these fine people that made these shows such wonderful memories of our childhood. But we're not getting old at all! 🤣😅
I absolutely adore this series you’ve made. Lost in Space had an amazing sense of drama and adventure, even if you had to overlook some silliness. My hat’s off to you for your time, dedication, and your keen eye in making this. I think I’m really going to enjoy your channel. Allow me to point out a blooper in a blooper. In the fire Marshall Smith scene of Visit to a Hostile Planet, I’m pretty sure that black plastic sheeting had not been invented, or at least wasn’t in wide use.
Watching this is a lot of fun, thank you for your hard work. I watch Lost in Space on a local station at midnight each weeknight. Two nights ago was the Great Vegetable Rebellion, so I thought last night would be Junkyard in Space, but it was Fugitives in Space, which is an excellent episode and as you mentioned, Michael Conrad plays Creech. That whole judge and jury set must have cost a lot to make with a lot of effort and time as well. James Millhollin was absolutely superb as Willoughby in the Rebellion. He's one of my favorite characters from the show - the personality, outfit, look and of course the actor, made Willoughby come to life. All those qualities despite having a heart made of lettuce poor fella. Professor Robinson, even asks him if he'd like to join them, as they prepare to leave, but he graciously declines explaining that Tybo will need him. I think we can tell James very much enjoyed playing him. I'm old enough to have enjoyed the re-runs from about 1970 or so - always been a favorite of mine. I look forward to seeing what else is on your channel. Cheers, Logan.
Great work grew up with and still watch on blueray collection. By the by that dragon scene in "day at the zoo" that switches monsters are from A.I.Ps 1960s opus "Goliath vs. the dragon" and irwin Allen's own alligator dinosaur from his "the lost world"
Growing up as a little kid in the early 70s, I always wanted some of the mens velour uniforms. All of the colors used were pretty cool. Also, if there would have been a 4th season, I always wondered what colors they would have chosen for their velour uniforms.
They were pretty cool. It's too bad Velour doesn't hold up well over the years when it comes to colors. So many costumes made for shows back then out of Velour have faded pretty badly over time.
I'm watching the whole series again as we speak. Sadly on DVD (I don't have the BluRays so no commentary for me) - but its still terrific fun to watch. I really like the craziest episodes: teenage hippies in control of serious adults, motorbike rocket riding space hippies demolishing a planet, Dr Celery Smith, and also the campy acting / stories, the reused sound effects, props, and scenery, the way the Pod and huge extra level on the Jupiter 2 just appeared (no explanation), and so on. The story I remembered most from the 1970's was Journey Through the Robot. The whole series has such a charm and innocence that is so refreshing today. Just such a shame Guy Williams left acting for good after Lost in Space wrapped ... blame in on The Vegetable Rebellion ??
12:50 Independently blinking lamps will do that sometimes. They used a flexing bi-laminate contact in them that would bend when heated, cutting off the current flow to the filament.
Really enjoy your commentary. You are outstanding at pointing out interesting facets of the show. Also really enjoy your playful affection for this ridiculous TV series. It’s amazing how much you find to appreciate in this program. Your love for lost in space is obvious and infectious! I was eight years old when the TV series premiered. I had huge high hopes for it. I was obsessed with lost in space for about six or seven episodes. Then it turned stupid. Stupid even in the eyes of an eight-year-old. And over time I slowly had to admit to myself that lost in space was utterly totally lost in dumbness. My interest waned.
Thank you so much! I think when the show turned campy, it really divided the audience. Some loved the direction it took, some didn't. I think the first season is most people's favorite. But it started changing relatively early on. I love it because of how cheesy it is and watching it as an adult now makes me realize how much they were able to get away with back then involving production, sets and props. The Robot was the main reason I watched the show and my eyes were glued to the TV whenever he was on.
My goodness, how long did it take you to go through all those episodes in detail and find a fraction of a second's worth of a misplaced foot? I got exhausted watching this, i can't imagine how you didn't go insane reviewing all that footage. Now that is dedication, not to mention the commentary. 👍
Hahaha!! Thank you! It did take quite a bit of time to do this series. I'm so happy so many people have enjoyed it though! It makes it all worth it! 😁😃
A couple of corrections: It was Gilligan's Island that was canceled because of Gunsmoke not Lost In Space. The full size Jupiter 2 appears in the first season as well as "Visit To A Hostile Planet". "Princess In Space" was filmed after "The Time Merchant" even though it was broadcast before the latter.
I always thought it was kind of funny when they’d be landing on an alien planet or wherever, and there would already be a perfectly sized white circle there to mark out their landing spot! 😃
@@macfixer01 Hahaha!!! Yeah that never made any sense! 😆
Jonathan Harris becomes Pied Piper on Land of the giants.
I think you meant "latter", not "later"---"...even thought it was broadcast before the 'latter'."
@@outsider238 Did you say the 3rd season was your favorite? Because the 3rd season was also my favorite...because they traveled more and I found the new theme very entertaining. And we also finally got to see Penny transform into a new person. I know many people prefer the first season...but not me...I love the 3rd season best. I also wonder what new hairdo Judy and Penny would have had during season 4
I can’t thank you enough for the detailed dissection of this TV series. I am 67 years old born in 1955 and I grew up with this serious, and have bonded to it ever cents. I don’t have words to thank you enough for taking the time to point out these things that I don’t think I ever noticed while I was watching. And thanks to all the actors and my love Angela Cartwright for giving us this gift. Peace.
Thank you once again! I'm so glad you've enjoyed this series. It was a labor of love! 😁
I was wondering if you’ve done any other introspection and analysis of other popular shows of the time perhaps such as Star Trek or Addams family, etc. If you have let me know and I’ll look them up. Peace.
@@Dr.scottcase88 Yes! I did a series for "I Dream Of Jeannie" and "My Favorite Martian". Check them out of you're interested. I think you'll find them interesting as well.
Lost in Space is my favorite show of all time! So much fun to watch. I couldn't wait to get home from school to watch it on reruns in the afternoon!❤
I agree! One of my all time favorites too! 😁
Me Too in Australia in 70's reruns
Growing up in 1960's Perth, Western Australia, we only had 3 channels and all our TV was black and white back then. British and U.S. shows didn't get to us for about 3 years and I'm sure the local TV networks deliberately waited until they could buy 'second hand' shows at a cheap rate. How would we know? Perth was very isolated, no internet, overseas travel was very expensive and even long distance phone calls were $$$ so most of us had no idea we were so far behind. Lost in Space premiered here in 1968 at 7:30 Friday nights which was pretty well prime-time back then. It was HUGE! I don't recall a show getting so much pre-publicity and the yanks were making great progress with getting to the moon so the timing was perfect. Aged 8, I was madly in love with Judy even though Marta Kristen seemed to be made of wood! I wanted to be Don when I grew up - you know, feisty and fearless and would put people like Smith back in his box. And the B9 robot inspired me to a career in electronics, instrumentation and science. Modern TV shows don't inspire the young to anything other than defeatism and hopelessness. Thanks for making these videos about a golden era in American TV.
Regarding that scratch on the Robot at around 41:58 I believe that scratch was from a Season 1 episode (I can't remember the title of that episode) where Dr. Smith found a diamond and deliberately scratched the Robot's bubble.
Yeah but that was two seasons prior and the Robot didn't have that scratch all through the rest of the series. Plus the original scratch looked different. Also they wouldn't have actually scratched the bubble just for that one scene so they probably used chalk or some kind of removable marker.
Yes, and thank you for correcting me on that. I need to go back and watch my LIS DVD collection again. I sure enjoy your videos!@@outsider238
Thank you for putting together this compilation of bloopers. I was in 5th, 6th, and 7th grade when these episodes came out. I enjoyed these shows so much on Wednesday evenings. Will was just a few years older than me, and I identified with him. As a child watching these shows in simpler times, they were magic. Thanks again.
Sorry for the late response. Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed this. Yes we really grew up with some great shows back then!
Me too
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I remembered Will from the theatre movie Dear Brigitte with Bardot (he was like a child genius in it). And Cartwright from Sound of Music. And i think Natalie Wood would have made a better JUDY, so blah in her Forever Engagement while June Lockhart throws out her bra and moves in with some young guy like Doris Day
@@outsider238 does anyone know the name of song of The Mysterious bell sound when they about to land on The clone photo planet you can also hear in the previous episode
The Anti Matter Man when Will
The Anti Matter John Robinson and the Robot travel through dimensions ?
The set dressing in the Power Core room were surplus bits from the IBM AN/FSQ-7 computer, which was a US Air Force computer used for the SAGE National defense system. These appreared in dozens of TV shows and Movies, including Time Tunnel, Batman, The Man from UNCLE and The Towering Inferno, among many others. Ironically, although it was always shown as some kind of giant super-computer, it ws actually a tube-based computer, built in the mid-1950's. However, it was one of the biggest and most visually impressive computers ever built.
That's so cool that they were able to repurpose all that equipment and make it part of the sets!
Dr. Smith. " Oh ! the pain ! The pity of it all ! lol
I remember a scene in The Great Vegetable Rebellion where Mumy pricks his finger on a vine, which looked like Christmas tinsel. Anyway, he has a pained reaction to it for a brief moment.
I'll have to look for that scene!
What a GREAT series! The "Shlockeyness" of the sets and the characters made the programs endearing.
15:42 - control panels from The Time Tunnel another Irwin Allen show.
Season three brought back more serious stories for a while the Jupiter 2 becomes a character and the Space Pod was awesome Had the View Master
I also like that they were moving back in space again and not stuck on a planet.
Thank you for an interesting video. ❤️😍❤️ love Lost In Space. It was unique, and the cast was great, adore the Robot. Great learning more about the cast and show.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😁
The View Master! That's a blast from the past.
Good video. Enjoy all the little things. I think you see a lift for the robot once in the series, when the full JP II mock up is used.
I was always fascinated watching the Robot noticing different things going on with him. The guys that had to maintain him must have had their hands full!
@@outsider238 I was always fascinated by that robot too. No doubt the crew must have been busy with it. All the staging etc. I played so much with my Remco that only the base was left. Other than loving all the Dr Smith robot lines, one stated by Will....Don't cry Robot, you'll rust your computer tapes.
@Jm4steam Haha! Yeah I still have my Remco as well. I treated him with kid gloves. I wanted that robot so bad when those came out and it was a lot of money for my parents to afford back then so I treated him like a museum piece!
One of my favorite shows as a kid.. it really brought back some memories 😊
At 11:00 not just Fantastic Voyage bits, the arc pieces with the lights were Time Tunnel parts.
Yes! You are correct!
The hero Robot was on display at Marineland of the Pacific in Palos Verdes, CA, in the 70’s. I believe Marineland was owned by 20th Century Fox at the time, and they had a room with a bunch of artifacts from various Irwin Allen and 20CF shows and movies. I was there with my parents in July of ‘76, when I was 11 years old, and the Robot was one of the coolest things in the world for me then. I remember seeing the large filming model of the Seaview, and the Penguin’s submarine from the 1966 Batman movie, among other things. The Robot was still mostly as it was while filming LIS. It had the protective cover (painted red) over the neon tubes, and the torso and tread section were painted an odd matte light grey, with shiny Mylar tape (or something similar) accents on the circumferential ridges on the torso, but it was otherwise intact and unaltered, before it was cannibalized for that Skatebirds show, and long before the Kevin Burns restoration. It was in a large plexiglass case, with a button on the case that looked like it might activate the Robot in some way, but it didn’t do anything when we were there. My parents eventually had to drag me away, but not before my dad took a picture of my standing next to it, which I still have to this day. We had no idea it was there when we went to Marineland while visiting family in CA - it was one of the weirdly luckiest days of my life.
Amazing! I was also there in July 1976 while visiting my family in Orange County. It was awesome to see the Robot, the Seaview and the Penguin's submarine.
On the scene where Will Robinson is sitting at the edge of a Fantastic Voyage capillary with a Dr. Smith mask on, there's a couple of large arc type devices on either side with blue lights in them. I'm pretty sure that they're from Irwin Allen's "The Time Tunnel." They're the arcs that close in and reveal the image from the past or future in the near part of the tunnel. In the back is one of the Time Tunnel's computers.
Yes those are definitely from The Time Tunnel. I forgot to mention those! 😄
I remember I was a small child when this series first started. I had seen it advertised on TV and was really excited wanting to see it. I was a big fan of all of the space activity that the US and NASA was involved in and such as mercury and Gemini and couldn't get enough. I remember the evening of the premiere of the show I was outside playing in the yard and it was sundown starting to get dark. I having a good time by myself and Mom stuck her head out the screen door and yelled at me,"that new show is coming on that you were wanting to watch" I completely forgotten that that was the evening that it started and if not for her I would have missed it, LOL. I ran inside and there was still a commercial plane but then the show started in black and white because we all had black and white TVs in and it was also filmed in black and white. All the high contrast with it being a night time seeing at night launch just added to the intrigue as far as my little brain and I was glued to it. 😂
All of the mission control setup and then the launch with the lights revolving around the bottom and the sound and then the absolute chaos when Dr Smith sabotage yes send everything haywire and all the forces of the ship moving so quickly making him scream in agony and pass out it was so impactful on me I will hooked!!! 🫣 Will Robinson and I were sort of the same age and I lived each adventure like I was right there, it was so great. 👍🏻 But that first episode and that evening I remember every detail like it was yesterday and how it impacted me, I am now 65 years old and still get a kick out of it.
There had never been anything on TV like that show, and people have to understand these days that we only had three channels then that we could pick up on the antenna and those channels went off the air at 10:30 or midnight and there was nothing on TV with a test pattern until around 6:30 in the morning. This is when TV did not rule our lives. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
William! That was an excellent comment! You really brought me back to my childhood! 😄 I felt the same watching it back then! And the test pattern! I forgot about those! I remember turning on the TV in the morning waiting for the test pattern to go off and the channel beginning their broadcast for the day. We only had a black and white TV so when we were finally able to afford a color TV, I was shocked to see how everything looked in color! Thank you for the walk down Memory Lane! 😁
I waited for a month for the premiere of the show as well, and the day it was to air, our tv died. To this day, I rejoice that my grandparents said I could come over to see the premiere on their set. A lot of people wouldn't give up their regular shows for anyone, grandchild or not.
@@jmen4ever257 That was so nice of your grandparents! It's so nice that they let you do that!
I was in 5th grade, and was attending Conformation Classes at my Church..so I could take Communion ! Well, the classes were on Wednesday evening the Same Time Lost in Space was on TV, I was SO unhappy about missing the show. Now I watch the show I can Hardly watch it...It's SO Corney ! Irwin Allen's shows & movies were pretty Lame..Especially Land of the Giants. The cast was ALWAYS running from the giants and stopping to Catching there Breaths. Always !! lol !
William Scroggin • I'm with ya on the 60's TV experience. CBS, NBC, and ABC, that was it. In central Indiana we did have a station out of Bloomington. It was channel 4 but it was always snowy and they had the "technical difficulties" a lot. When something was broken or messed up we would say it's channel 4'ed. We didn't have a color TV until '69.
BTW dad bought the color TV specifically for watching the moon landing but the Apollo 11 coverage was in black and white anyway.
😆😃🤣 👈 me and my 2 brothers.
Buying the blu-ray of LIS was fantastic. Best digital transfer I ever saw
except maybe 2001 but that movie had a headstart since it was filmed in 70mm.
Yes! The blurays look fantastic! They were very nicely done! 😁
Thank you for all those bloopers. They're great- I really miss that series.
Michael Conrad played on Hill Street Blues with Daniel J Travanti, billed as Dan Travanti, who played as one of the motorcycle riders on Collision of Planets.
I read somewhere where Johnathan Harris said many times the glue holding monster costumes together was still wet when they were taping. They really threw this thing together. My favorite episodes:
* Trip Through the Robot
* The Keeper
* The Golden Man
* Fugitives in Space
* The Colonists
* Two Weeks in Space
Trip through the robot was my mum's favourite episode.
At 11:00 you can see props from “the time tunnel“ on either side of the “vein“ from fantastic voyage
Yes that's exactly what those are. I forgot to mention them. 😳
I appreciate you doing this compilation. I've noticed a lot of them myself because I was addicted to the show when I was a kid. And intentionally over looked them because I didn't want to ruin it for myself. Lol
Hahaha!!! Yeah, even as a kid I noticed some of these as well. But now they just make me appreciate more what all goes into making a TV show. Especially back then. 😁
The second lizard footage is from The Lost World (1960). Irwin Allen produced and directed that film for Fox. He used footage on his other shows as well.
15:01 is the most fascinating episode when I was a kid because in several episodes (I think) we saw that door that went TO the reactor room and of course Will was never allowed to go in there. Then in this episode we finally get to see what's in there.....and we weren't disappointed. The special effects and set decorators did a GREAT job with this scene.
Yes it was very cool to finally see what was down there. Probably a nice place to relax to get away now and then. 😁
I was also intrigued by the reactor room door as a kid. It looked like something that would make me want to see inside even if I wasn't supposed to! LOL
Love your videos thanks for making these .
Thank you so much! I'm glad you like them! 😁
Worth noting... those explosions were practical effects done live. In an interview, Jonathan Harris did say they were LOUD. Over on that other show, Shatner says he and Nimoy both suffered lifelong tinnitus while filming the explosion scene in the ST ep "Errand of Mercy." That kind of effect would never be done that way today. (Although ST Discovery has a thing for flame-throwers on the bridge.)
I remember William Shatner talking about that explosion. It's amazing they were willing to risk so many possible accidents on set. But then again, sometimes it's the actors that insist on doing their own stunts. That one with Bill Mumy is shocking that they had him do that. Especially as a child actor.
June Lockhart told an interviewer that her biggest on-set challenge was "...avoiding getting killed by the explosions".
@@roberthaworth8991 Haha! There were some biggies on that show!
The explosives and gas bombs used in that era were also very nasty smelling and toxic as well. Not everything was so good in the good old days 😄
Not sure when "Princess Of Space" was aired, but there was a error when computating Penny Robinson's chronological age. She was supposed to be 13 years old, but clearly looks a year or two older than that!
This show should have had 5 seasons
When they finished season three, and were going to come back for season four, everyone was contacted over the summer hiatus being told the show was cancelled, the budget was one of the reasons, so I believe.
@@JohnLee-pt5jz They should have had 2 more seasons and Penny and Judy 2 more hairdos
You said the writer was out of ideas with the veggie episode. They should have hired new writers and whatever other show makers they needed. The show was at its peak in season three. I’m also surprised another network didn’t pick it up.
@@jokoolone it should have went for at least 5 seasons
@@gingerhill9044 Yes. I can see if Jonathan Harris didn’t want to continue, or maybe any of the other stars, but this show had high viewership so it had to be making the studio and network money.
The last shot of the robot with the black tape on one of his ears, you'll notice that both ears are straight up whereas some shots have the red ear horizontal.
The red ear is actually horizontal in that scene. It was always the yellow one that was straight up through all the color episodes.
Definitely a "Tardis effect" going on with the Jupiter 2. It was so much larger inside than it was outside. You had to make room for the space pod, the chariot, all those bedrooms, that third power level, and somewhere, there had to be a bathroom.
Maybe it is because of the Invaders from the 5 Dimension. They had a ship that was " Bigger on the inside than on the outside." When their ship self destructed it could of distorted reality and a new reality replace it but the Roberson don't remember the previous reality. In the new reality the Jupiter is bigger on the inside than the outside. In the new reality bigger on the inside than the outside is normal.
@@frankreynolds445 That makes sense. But it still doesn't seem big enough for a bathroom.
And also remember... Will had room to actually stand up and hide in his closet in the episode "2 weeks in Space".....figure that one out!!??
If the Enterprise with over 400 personal can go on a five year mission with no bathroom then the Jupiter II can go without one. (Scotty did explain why no bathroom. Why do you think everyone has a phaser?
@@francisdhomer5910 LOL I do have a copy of the Enterprise deck plans and there are bathrooms all over the place. I wonder if they just never told Scotty and he thought he'd just use the transporter room.
Around 11:11 Will (looking like Dr Smith) comes out of the tube. Look at the 2 grey semicircle shaped things either side of the tube, with blue lights. I think they're part of the Time Tunnel
Yes they were! 😂 I forgot to mention those!
the monster - close-up of a lizard with head attachments, was footage from Allen's feature Lost World, starring Michael Rennie.
the control panels(with loads of small flashing lights) you see on the ship, show up in other series of Allen's series. the master of disasterwas also master of re-using props and stock footage. the studio loved his economy-minded approach, I guess; it improved the bottom line.I think the robot, designated as model B-9, at some stage was a great creation, its bubble head had internal structure like a vacuum tube - still in use back then, whilst the transistor brcame more used in electronics.
all in all, the show was kept fast-paced, so mistakes were tolerated, acceptable for cost and scheduling reasons.I think like TOS Star Trek,LIS will re-run frever,LIS will get funnier as time passes, imo - a family that goes on an inter-stellar camping excursion. thanks for vid. I remember kids and adults became hooked on viewing it. like Phil Silvers show, it could have been renamed the Jonathan Harris Show, mebe :). unlike the long, boring LIS movie, it had charisma and some wit. my 2 cents...in sme ways, similar to fate of transfer of Batman to the big screen. in the 60's (post WW2) most people wanted to laugh, more than just watch a series of FX scenes with wooden acting, such productions will be mainly forgotten. good.
The robots name might be related to Gunter Wendt who was a launch pad leader at NASA during the time the show originally aired?
As a kid I adored this show! I especially enjoyed the banter between the Robot and Dr. Smith and the way they would verbally insult each other.
Dr. Smith, Will Robinson and the Robot are my favorite characters! 😊❤️
@@richardwilliams4976 Especially when Dr. Smith calls the Robot a "Digitized Dunce". :o)
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How about when Dr. Smith called the Robot a Nervous Ninny or Bubble - Headed Booby!!! 🤣😂🤣
@@richardwilliams4976 Wasn't there a "precarious pipsqueak" in there too somewhere?
Standard dialog for a season 3 episode of Lost In Space:
Will Robinson: "Gee Mom, why can't I go hang out with the aliens?"
Mrs. Robinson: "John, what do you think?"
Prof. Robinson: "It's okay as long as you bring Dr. Smith and the robot with you!"
Robot: "It does not compute!"
Dr. Smith: (screams hysterically)
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My favorite show of all time. I once had the good fortune of spending an afternoon with June Lockhart. She was so nice & generous with her time. She was a guest speaker at a convention & I was a radio host who interviewed her. During the interview we hit it off & she invited me to come out to the convention the following day as her guest. I did & we just spent the afternoon just chatting about her time on the show & what the other cast members were doing. She also shared a good deal about her family including her daughter Ann Lockhart & her time spent on Battlestar Galactica. This was back in the 90s. I remember that afternoon fondly. She was very nice & for a fan of LIS since the 60s like myself it was truly a once in a lifetime experience.
I had a crush on her daughter Ann even if I was just 10 years old :) . I loved Lost in Space reruns too after seeing BSG.
@@Daehawk I can totally dig it. I had a crush on Veronica Cartwright back in the 60s even though she was like a teen & I was only about 9 or 10 at the time. I thought she was fine but also an older woman! LOL
Johnnie • that must have been great, what an experience. I forgot about Ann Lockhart she sure does look a lot like her mom.
@@kennyspaulding796 Totally. The first time I saw her on BSG back in the 70s I said to myself, Wow! There's no doubt she's June Lockhart's daughter.
Spending an entire afternoon with June Lockhart was very cool. She was very easy to converse with and really down to Earth.
@@johnnie2638 I was the same age as you, and while Angela was always very pretty, I didn't find her crush-worthy until the 3rd season, when she "blossomed" and filled out that silver space-suit so nicely. Marta was always super-hot!
Actually Guy Williams and June Lockhart (and Angela Cartwright) do appear in the episode “Castles In Space”. They are in the very last scene.
Another fun video of bloopers. You mentioned that the bubble on the robot was the face and head. All these years I did not know that. I did like the first season as it was more serious and not so silly and I enjoyed all the guest stars they had on the show. Thanks for all of your work making these videos.
It's much easier to see these bloopers now with DVD and HD releases, but back in the day, the audience viewed these shows through rather grainy pictures on their televisions. Producers knew these limitations with broadcast television and used it to their advantage with lower fidelity production techniques that saved the shows money
This was a very amusing and fascinating video! It was so hilarious seeing all of the bloopers. You have a great eye for some of this stuff. I might even get a copy just to watch!! Thanks for a great video!!
Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it. I did seasons 1 and 2 as well. 😁
28:42 Nope. Conrad played Police Sergeant Phil Esterhauz who ran the morning roll call in the station.
we never noticed bloopers back in the 60s because we were all watching tv on small black and white sets that usually had poor reception LOL, we had like 3 tv stations back when i was a kid hahahaha
At 40:20 that patch is probably from damage repair. That is also why the ribs are missing. Although why they would have patched the panel but not fix the ribs doesn't make sense either.
The view masters by GAF were so crystal clear I loved them had a blast with the lost in space version especially when they are in the ice house where people were frozen I believe are an ice prison
Yes! They were HD before HD! 😄😁
16:38 -- hahahahahaha -- I always considered the Robot's "face" as those slats, not the bubble - that is SO funny. How do you know that was meant to be his "eyes" up there?
Both Bob May and Jonathan Harris have mentioned that his eyes were in the bubble. 😁
@@outsider238 -- Hahahaha- and only since you mentioned it have I noticed that yes, Dr Smith always looks up at his bubble to speak to him.
Thank you for this. It brings back so many great memories from my childhood. I was in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade while this was new on TV. My brother and sister and I never missed an episode. Even though we were young, we noticed many of the screw ups and used that as evidence to try to prove to each other that the show was fake as if it was otherwise real. I recall commenting every time that when the robot had to traverse down some step(s) or across some large rocks which would be impossible with his treads, the camera would just cut away and in the next scene he was at the bottom of the steps or on the other side of the rocks. When we visited our cousins and neighborhood friends we would argue for hours about what parts of the show were fake and which were 'real'. The screw ups, pathetic props, poor camera work, and weak editing was actually what made it most appealing to us kids. Too funny.
But if you watch episode 1 season 1 you'll see the robot can actually use his treads independently like feet , a very slow and lumbering walk but still a walk , that would explain how he manages steps and transverse some rocky spots, I believe they only showed him using that capability once in all three seasons
That panel was actually to straighten out the crinkly sort of texture that the stunt AK* body double robot had on it's body, I don't know if it was sort of sheet metal or plastic but that was eactly what it was for was to make it appear smoother.
The scratch on the robot's bubble was from an earlier episode when Smith tested a diamond to see if it was real - but I can't remember which episode without watching them all again.
That was all the way from season 1. His bubble wasn't scratched after that episode. This scratch was from something else. It might have just been something on it that they didn't wipe off.
Just wanted to chime in.. I was a kid in the 60's and watched this prime time. Back in the 2000's, my son was an artist and sculptor. He displayed his work at Wonderfest in Louisville, KY. I met Mark Goddard, Bob May and Marta Kristen. I also met the builder of a replica robot who worked for Eastman Kodak. Mark Goddard was absolutely hilarious! Bob May came across as a used car salesman and milked out his part on Lost in Space for the rest of his life. Marta decades later was still very attractive.
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Loved this show. I feel like there were episodes I've never seen (if you can imagine that.) Thanks for this great series of videos.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed them! Go catch those episodes you missed! 😁
That was GILLIGAN'S ISLAND that was already renewed for a fourth season but was cancelled to save GUNSMOKE and in fact occurred a year earlier.
Wow, all three videos were AWESOME...very good detective work!!!!!!!!!
I so enjoyed watching them!!!
I love that you use the B9 Robot as your thumbnail for this channel, I use a pic of the B9 as my wallpaper on my iPhone and iPad!!!!!
Was always a huge fan of this series. Back when they made the theatrical movie in 1998, the was going to make a TV rescue movie with the surviving original cast and I was so pumped for that. Why it fell through who knows, but it was something the fans would’ve loved.
They shelved it because sadly, Jonathan Harris passed away before filming could begin.
in middle school i built my own jupiter 2 only about 6 inches around, and no problem putting in a space pod with it not showing in the front window. I remember the poles to the tripod legs were made of mini-straws. Front window was soft vinyl like the freeze-tubes inside. Silver paint back then came off on your fingers. I also recall spilling the blue paint on my bed and hiding it so mom doesnt see it. Sold it to a kid for $10 because others said i was a big baby to have made it.
I enjoy your enthusiasm. It was a great show, I looked forward to watching it every day after school and even now the characters are entertaining enough for reruns. I was fortunate to work on the Fox lot from 1999 to 2009, it's remarkable walking past those soundstages knowing what has happened within those walls all these decades.
That's so cool that you worked there!
EPISODE starting at 31:59 Billy on his left eye, has a pigs stye. thats what we call it. see it in the corner.
Back in those days as a 6-year-old I could hardly wait until the next episode. _Lost In Space_ was a *cool* show! I remember seeing Michael Conrad on some episodes of _The Rockford Files._
I was shocked to find out that was Michael Conrad under all that makeup! 😁
Anything you see on the edge of the frame would not have been visible on CRTs because they'd fall in the overscan area. Only now can we see this because the entire film aperture is visible on modern flat screen TVs.
As far as the robot being able to step up onto an even surfaces since the beginning of the season you could see a separation in his legs all the way down to the tracks and the ground. I as an imaginative person always figured the robot would be able to circumnavigate formidable environments. Otherwise what good would it be. Just my two cents. I love anything sci-fi Lost in space keep going this is a great thing that I'm watching even if I disagree from time to time. Thank you for going to the work to do it
I'm not sure if I ever saw those episodes. I only just saw the "entire" series on YT a few years ago and I seem to recall his episodes weren't allowed to be shown. Maybe I'm getting it mixed up with McHale's Navy because I saw all of those on YT at the same time and I think there was a few of those that couldn't be shown because of someone that was in a few episodes. I DO know there were a few Beverley Hillbillies episodes I couldn't see at that same time.
I just finished the, "Man From U.N.C.L.E." collection about 4 months ago, then, "Chuck" about a month later, then, "Hogan's Heroes" and just finished, "F Troop" about 2 weeks ago. I'm considering getting, "I, Spy:" or "Mission: Impossible", next.
Remember the tail end of the LIS pilot where they thought they were finally safe and then we saw aliens watching them in the weeds? If Packer had no more ideas left, why didn't they finish making that episode instead that stupid vegetable one?
My wife thought Lost was on the same line of Star Trek. Once I got her into it, I always wondered where the main actors went to. Harris, Mumy & The Robot ruled the show. Loved it, as it was funny, instead of being a fantasy show.. 🛸
Started watching the show in the mid to late 70s as a kid.. at that time it was only aired in reruns during the summers. My sister and I lived at the public swimming pool but we had to be home by 3:30 .. it was The Munsters, Lost in Space then 2 episodes of the Flintstones after that it was dinner time. lots of fond memories. Now I have the set on Blu ray mostly for nostalgia
I have really enjoyed this series of videos...thank you so much. Some added information for you:
- The full size mock up J2 did, indeed, deteriorate badly but not because it was left unprotected. There are number of production photos taken for the first Apes move wherein you can see the J2 in the background on its castor wheels (it could be wheeled about) and covered with a big tarp. The tarp, sadly, did not keep out the humidity and the hull of the ship was painted masonite. The humidity and termites just ate it all up. Towards the end of its time on the lot a son of a Fox exec wanted to transfer the ship to another location so he could keep it. An inspection was done with a view to putting it on a truck. It was so badly termite-ridden that it was decided to bulldoze it. The landing legs were kept and you can see them used as props in the second Apes movie where they represent buckled landing gear of the crashed astronaut's ship.
-The bluray team made a search for bloopers in the Fox film archive but they were never found. Many believe that Irwin was not fond of having a record of mistakes and they were routinely destroyed as they happened.
-There may have been as many as three stunt robots because they kept getting so badly banged up.
-Peter Packer had, indeed, run dry of ideas BUT a couple of new writers were being considered for the proposed fourth season and I believe that a couple of scripts were actually written.
-None of the actors knew that the Junkman episode would be their last. They were told to report back after the filming hiatus for the new season. The first they knew that things were finished was most likely phone calls from their respective agents. Poor Bill (at that time "Billy") was so upset be cried for many hours. He really loved working with Jonathan and that love was mutual, I'm sure. The filming crew and Irwin loved them as well. They never missed their stage marks, they rarely fluffed their lines and there was a real chemistry between Jonathan, Bill and Bob May.
Thank you for the excellent information! It's a real shame that the Jupiter 2 couldn't be saved but man, where the heck would you keep it? Haha! It's really too bad that the bloopers couldn't be found or were destroyed. I, as well as other LIS fans would love to see them. I bet there was some funny and interesting bloopers! I would love for there to have been a fourth season. It would have been cool to see what they came up with! Thank you for the excellent comment!
@@outsider238 Apparently the young man had a farm or similar to park the J2. The construction blueprints still exist so an enterprising (no pun intended to Trekkers!) builder could duplicate it. That's how they made the recent Chariot replica. Kevin Burns (RIP) of Synthesis Entertainment (LIS rights holder) sent a copy of the blueprints to the builder.
I would love to see a replica made of the J2, wouldn't you?
There were stuff ups on set during filming...squib explosions going off too late or too early and props failing to do what they were supposed to do. Actors fluffing their lines, of course (but rarely Bill, Jonathan or Bob) and unintended crack ups, especially during "The Great Vegetable Rebellion," as you know. The best person to ask about bloopers would be Bill Mummy. He doesn't accept FB PMs but you can contact him via his agent, Sharron Elkabas...you can Google her contact details.
@@tripsadelica It would be fantastic to see a replica of the full size Jupiter 2 built. Kevin Burns owned parts of the original robot including the original neon, the Bermuda Shorts, the stone molds for the torso, arms and legs as well as the jigs for the Robot's collar pieces. He also had the "Duplicate Robot". Do you know what became of those after Kevin's passing?
No...but if you contact Kevin's partner at Synthesis I feel sure he will tell you. Good luck and, again, thanks.
@@tripsadelica Okay, thank you very much! I appreciate it! 😁
31:30 "the white powder" is what you would find in a FIRE EXTINGUISHER
That makes sense. It sure made a mess!
I have to disagree with you about 'The Promised Planet'. I was 10 years old when I saw it and had always identified with Penny. To see her break out of her straight-laced shell and act like a hippy was so memorable for me because I was also a straight-laced kid and wanted to be a hippy so much! But I was a few years too young. Thanks for these vids you're making. You have a great voice and sense of humor and, except for the above mentioned episode, your opinions are spot on!
Awesome stuff! I probably noticed some of this as a kid but because I was a kid it didn't really register or I didn't care. Also remember we were watching it on 19" TV's. Loved this show so much.
The third season is my favorite too! Also, the opening theme was way better than the old one.
I agree! Loved the look and feel of the third season for sure!
Thank you for Posting I Love Lost In Space .
One thing I can tell you is that at a sci fi convention many years ago before they died, I got to meet Bobby, Dick and Mark Goddard. (at other events thru the years I also got to meet everyone else except Guy) and Bobby May was asked how many robot costumes there were and he said there were at least 3, the hero one, the lighter stunt one you talk about here and one of which also had a lighter weight mid section that he would wear occasionally in close ups without ANY of the leg part down, not just the rubber tread section, which was out of camera shot. After getting the discs of the show, I checked out certain scenes to see if I could see any differences in some close ups of the robot and if you pause and look closely, you can indeed tell which one was the lighter weight mid section by a slight change in the tone of the paint, variations in the buttons and other small details such as the thickness of the silver raised lip of the suit around the tube light in front inconsistent with the hero costume and I am talking about scenes other than those you featured here as that same lighter weight version was also used in season 2. Might still not explain that back section cut out but interesting nonetheless.
That would make sense. A third torso just for close ups from the waist up. There is a picture floating around showing Bob in that costume where there's no legs at all. Just Bob's legs sticking out. We (The B9 Builders Club members) just assumed they used the same torso for the hero and "Bermuda Shorts" version.
Mark Goddard is still alive, I think. I met him a couple years ago. Did you mean Guy?
@@gorymarty56 Yes he is still alive
At 11:00, aren't the curvy things on either side with the blue lights part of the Time Tunnel?
Yes they are! I totally forgot to mention those! 😳
What do you mean as kids we didn't notice? I noticed most of these as a kid. The hokey backdrops, the cables, the bad special effects,a nd so on. I think that is why it became such a campy show instead of serious. I think they may have wanted to play it off more serious, like Star Trek originally, but th eDr. Smith angle turned it into anything but serious. There was the store room, utility room, the backroom for the computers, and such that seemed to be the same access way into the "scuttlehole" or an area around the ring of the ship where the outer panels angled down. But once inside, the room was larger than the rest of the ship.
The location of the space pod was in the outer ring, which should have been angled but inside the pod was taller than a standing man. this season allowed the Jupiter 2 to be as roomy inside as Doctor Who's TARDIS or the Weasley's tent.
How many noticed the really big goof? The trip was to Alpha Centauri, the closest solar system to our own. It was going to take over 5 years to get there, but magically, they made it to other planets by mistake. Now wait, how far are those other planets?
MUCH further than Alpha Centauri, so they should have taken years to get there. Even a "hyperdrive" excuse was crazy, as then why didn't they just use hyperdrive to get back to where they wanted to be?
Oh wow, the Viewmaster! Yes, I had this episode on my Viewmaster!! A great piece of kit for the time :) It was the first time I learned that the Robot's claws were red!
Hi outsider238, my name is Gerry from Sydney, Australia.
You have shattered me... I watched Lost in Space in the 60's when I was a kid and all my life I thought it happened on a real planet.
Now, after watching your series, I realise it was made in a film studio (LOL)
So, I am still a fan and would like to add some bloopers and observations to your list !!
Firstly: My favourite episode: His Majesty Smith
Blast off into space: Dr Smith's statue is drunk on Cosmonium and smashes the charriot window...but next scene John arrives on the jetpack and shoots the monster away....you can see the charriot windows are not damaged.
Lasers: The effects people seem to do freeze-frame whenever the lasers are used, presumeably to make it easier to add the laser effect. But when Hapgood carves his name into a rock, you can see the laser doesn't quite match his hand movement...probably too hard to do laser in motion effect at that time...also, in the closing scene of One of Our Dogs is Missing, you can see the light come on on the laser pistol but no laser beam...maybe because it was a motion scene....i think the the light on the laser pistol was used so that actors would know when they are being shot at?
Campsite: The bottom edge around the Jupiter2 looks different to the one that flies in space...btw, we never get to see what's around the other side of the ship .... actors often come and go from around that left side side of the ship.
The Keeper: At the end of part 1 when Dr Smith releases the monsters, he and the robot escape and run down the ramp of the Keeper's space ship....if you look closely...it looks to me like Dr Smith is holding the robot's shoulder lug to help balance the robot....dont want the robot to fall over again!
Jelly Bowls: They are used with flashing lights in many episodes where the aliens wave their hands over them to make something happen.
The Challenge: Quano and Will take spears into the cave to fight the monster and Quano trips over a rock and gets knocked out. The close up of Quano tripping on the rock is such bad acting...he pretended to trip on the rock!
His Majesty Smith: I love the scene when the Master makes a duplicate of Dr Smith....it looks to be done in one take and Dr Smith would have had to really scramble to get around to the other side in time. You can see the master is waving the controls while watching and waiting until Smith is ready and the background sound effects mask any commotion. At the end of the episode, the Master says "even your forcefield(s) cannot stup us but the Android Nexus says "forcefield"
A lot of series 1 episodes have double shadows on the ground, presumeably from multiple studio lights.
Curse of Cousin Smith: The close up of cousin smith doing card tricks is obviously a card-sharp, not the actor.
I want their washing machine: It washes, dries, presses and wraps clothes in plastic, all in 10 seconds and in one take!
Stunt Doubles: (here are a few but I am sure there are many more)
* One of our Dogs is Missing: Judy and Don rolling down off the rock when escaping the monster
* Space Prime Evils: Dr Smith and Don are trapped underground. A stunt double for Dr Smith can be seen walking down the rocks.
* Trip Through the Robot: Dr smith is caught in some machinery...obvious stunt double
Hey, that's all for now! Thanks for the great series, Gerry
Hi Gerry! Thank you for the comment! You bring up some very interesting points! I never noticed the glass on the Chariot not being broken in that scene! I did mention the light on the laser gun in "One Of Our Dogs Is Missing" in my season 1 blooper video. They did have to freeze in order for the effect of the laser to look right as they couldn't make the laser follow the motion of the actors back then or it was very expensive to do so. They would also freeze frame the scene sometimes so the actors wouldn't have to but it was more obvious. Also the light let the special effects guys know when to add in the laser effects. I always noticed the bottom of the full size Jupiter 2 looked off. Like they should have covered it with more sand so that you can't see that's it's vertical on the bottom! Haha! The others I noticed as well but I didn't know if I should mention them since they weren't as bad as the other bloopers. I felt bad enough tearing the show apart as it was! 🤣😆
Real planet is called earth.
Nice retrospective, thanks!
To me, season 3 took the best aspects of seasons 1 and 2, and had a new titles sequence to give the new show a sense of excitement, which was badly needed by then.
Season 3 did get tropey with the Smith/Will/Robot triple act, but it's still fun.
A shame 3 was the last.
The veggie rebellion episode is loony enjoyable fun.
The hiplie episode is like watching a clown car train wreck - cringeworthy yet fun at the same time.
Good callout for the blu-ray set! Those commentaries are worth the price.
The time merchant episode, if i recall, explains the real worth of Dr Smith. Had he not been there, the Robinsons would all have died. It's a nice touch, especially for a seemingly throwaway kid show.
Irwin Allen loved reusing props. Perhaps too often, which also shows how precious little they got to spend, especially in scripts where they say they're not familisr with humans but - oops - there are human statues. Like the episode where Smith steals the shuttlecraft lander and opens the door to find the necklaced blobby clone critter that wants to know why humans are different (not a bad episode as it gives the main actors a chance to do other than their regular stuff!)
Definitely wish they had a 4th year... did ratings dip and the network wanted to wring out as many episodes as possible with even less funding?
Excellent comment! I was told that the ratings were still very good for a fourth season but the studio wanted to cut the budget and Irwin Allen refused and simply decided to not go with a fourth season unfortunately.
I immensely enjoyed your three presentations. You certainly have the show pegged! I always thought it was uncanny how Dr. Smith suddenly had uniforms and his own quarters even though he was allegedly a stowaway. Also, the little custom-made niche for Bloop. Like the dog that you pointed out; the monkey also disappeared. I imagine it would be more economical to not procure animals and trainers on the set, not to mention zookeepers. Perhaps they had additional space for the 1st floor and the space pod after the cages were removed! Your productions were very informative. Thanks for all of your hard work and for your stellar series!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that! I'm so glad you enjoyed this mini series! There were a lot of things that didn't make sense on that show but we sure loved it anyway! 😁
I missed the dog.
This was terrific, thank you mate.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😁
Love season 3 just like you and like they are in the Jupiter 2 and flying and landing more. Love listening to the Jupiter 2 flying and landing..The opening theme and the count down are so great.
I agree! The third season seemed like they freshened everything up. It had more interesting stories.
Yeah - Star trek had been on for a year by then, and they knew the audience wanted more. Plus, lots of people already know, but John Williams wrote both themes.
@@SiriusJMoonlight I think Star Trek's theme was composed by Alexander Courage.
@@outsider238 I meant both themes for Lost in Space.
@@SiriusJMoonlight Oh yes. 😁
Someone apparently got their shows mixed up in relation to the Gunsmoke story. It was actually Gilligan's Island that was supposed to have come back for a 4th season after the 66-67 season, and didn't because of Gunsmoke. This is the blurb about that from the Gilligan's Island Wikipedia page. "During the 1966-1967 television season, Gilligan's Island aired on Mondays at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time. Though the sitcom's ratings had fallen well out of the top-30 programs, during the last few weeks of its third season, the series was still winning its timeslot against its main competition, The Monkees, which aired at the same time on NBC-TV. Therefore, CBS assured Sherwood Schwartz that Gilligan's Island would definitely be picked up for a fourth year. CBS, however, had signaled its intention to cancel the long-running Western series Gunsmoke, which had been airing late on Saturday nights during the 1966-1967 television season. Under pressure from CBS network president William S. Paley and his wife Babe, along with many network affiliates and longtime fans of Gunsmoke, CBS rescheduled the Western to an earlier time slot on Mondays at 7:30 p.m. eastern time. As a result, Gilligan's Island was quietly canceled at practically the last minute, while the cast members were all on vacation. Some of the cast had bought houses near the set, based on Sherwood Schwartz's verbal confirmation that the series would be renewed for a fourth season." I believe the reason Lost In Space didn't return for a fourth season was because of Irwin Allen not wanting to cut the budget. Also, June Lockhart didn't start working on Petticoat Junction until the 1968-69 season, so she wasn't doing both shows simultaneously.
Thank you for the clarification! 😁
Loved The show when I was a kid, but looking back it was so silly, but it's funny the things you miss until they are pointed out. Great video, it brings back some really great memories 😊.
Thank you! It's definitely a guilty pleasure! 😁😆
Thankyou for the great memories. As a kid it was my favourite show on TV & I used to race home from school every day to watch it. The alien monsters were so real then .
Thank you! I agree it was definitely a favorite! So many great shows back then!
Fantastic. I'm just surprised that you didn't include the episode when Will is transported back to Earth during his time period (not back in time.) I would love to have heard your comments about a small town in the late 20th Century still using phones from the 1920s.
They did say it was a very backward town.
I should have mentioned that. It never made sense to me at all! 😄
That was my favorite episode! I was also hoping you would include it. As for the phones, the Andy Griffith show also had the old phone type in the sheriff's office and in the kitchen of his house.
@@jillwilliams7342 We had one when I was growing up but it was more of a nostalgia thing that my dad wanted and we used it all the time. Haha!
Fourth season and cancellation of a classic: whatever the odds of surviving being lost in space, art can never survive the demands money makes of imagination.
The ultimate blooper.
Loved the work and love you put into this.
Happy New Year.
Thank you so much! Happy New Year! 😁
It's probably something that maybe only a female viewer would notice, but I on reflecting on the "Visit" episode noted that Marta Kristen's hairstyle had changed - without notice - particularly in the scenes where Craig (Robert Pine) takes her prisoner...and after John and Don come to her rescue, Judy's hair reverts to the way it was at the beginning of the episode! And nobody comments or just completely ignores it! :D
We never see the Space Pod in the first two seasons because the Jupiter 2 is always (crashed) landed on some planet.
That full size Jupiter 2 was in no way large enough to house everyone including a 2nd level.
I agree! Plus they only ever showed 2 crew cabins and they would have needed room for two more and there wasn't enough room for two more! 😆
Hi, Andrew from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia here. I loved this show as well as Star Trek TOS. Being a gay Aussie, I loved the high camp stuff in it. Johnathon Harris scream was a total pisser. I loved the outtakes. I bought the Blu-ray discs but I'm redoing my man cave with better equipment. It's a legend of a series. Space 1999 was not far off. It's sad that many of the actors we love to this day have passed away. Boy it was fun. Kids today have no clue. Cheers Andrew.
Hi Andrew! Thank you for watching! I loved Space 1999 as well. I agree, it's sad that we've lost so many of these fine people that made these shows such wonderful memories of our childhood. But we're not getting old at all! 🤣😅
I absolutely adore this series you’ve made. Lost in Space had an amazing sense of drama and adventure, even if you had to overlook some silliness. My hat’s off to you for your time, dedication, and your keen eye in making this. I think I’m really going to enjoy your channel. Allow me to point out a blooper in a blooper. In the fire Marshall Smith scene of Visit to a Hostile Planet, I’m pretty sure that black plastic sheeting had not been invented, or at least wasn’t in wide use.
Thank you very much! I appreciate that! I think you're right about that plastic. Someone else pointed that out and it's definitely a blooper! 😄
Watching this is a lot of fun, thank you for your hard work. I watch Lost in Space on a local station at midnight each weeknight. Two nights ago was the Great Vegetable Rebellion, so I thought last night would be Junkyard in Space, but it was Fugitives in Space, which is an excellent episode and as you mentioned, Michael Conrad plays Creech. That whole judge and jury set must have cost a lot to make with a lot of effort and time as well. James Millhollin was absolutely superb as Willoughby in the Rebellion. He's one of my favorite characters from the show - the personality, outfit, look and of course the actor, made Willoughby come to life. All those qualities despite having a heart made of lettuce poor fella. Professor Robinson, even asks him if he'd like to join them, as they prepare to leave, but he graciously declines explaining that Tybo will need him. I think we can tell James very much enjoyed playing him. I'm old enough to have enjoyed the re-runs from about 1970 or so - always been a favorite of mine. I look forward to seeing what else is on your channel. Cheers, Logan.
Wow! Thank you so much! I really appreciate that! I'm very happy that you enjoyed this series. It was definitely fun to make. 😁
I loved this show as a kid. I don't think I ever missed an episode.
@@invisilbeempire I don't understand the question.
Great work grew up with and still watch on blueray collection. By the by that dragon scene in "day at the zoo" that switches monsters are from A.I.Ps 1960s opus "Goliath vs. the dragon" and irwin Allen's own alligator dinosaur from his "the lost world"
Growing up as a little kid in the early 70s, I always wanted some of the mens velour uniforms. All of the colors used were pretty cool. Also, if there would have been a 4th season, I always wondered what colors they would have chosen for their velour uniforms.
They were pretty cool. It's too bad Velour doesn't hold up well over the years when it comes to colors. So many costumes made for shows back then out of Velour have faded pretty badly over time.
I liked their uniforms too especially the girls and the mother. I also wondered how they kept their hairstyles so nice living on the spaceship.
@@outsider238 I remember wearing a lot of velour tops in the seventies.
At 26:50, could possibly naming the robot GUNTER be an homage to the famous NASA Pad Leader Günter F. Wendt ("I wonder where Gunter went")?
I'm watching the whole series again as we speak. Sadly on DVD (I don't have the BluRays so no commentary for me) - but its still terrific fun to watch. I really like the craziest episodes: teenage hippies in control of serious adults, motorbike rocket riding space hippies demolishing a planet, Dr Celery Smith, and also the campy acting / stories, the reused sound effects, props, and scenery, the way the Pod and huge extra level on the Jupiter 2 just appeared (no explanation), and so on. The story I remembered most from the 1970's was Journey Through the Robot. The whole series has such a charm and innocence that is so refreshing today. Just such a shame Guy Williams left acting for good after Lost in Space wrapped ... blame in on The Vegetable Rebellion ??
12:50 Independently blinking lamps will do that sometimes. They used a flexing bi-laminate contact in them that would bend when heated, cutting off the current flow to the filament.
Really enjoy your commentary. You are outstanding at pointing out interesting facets of the show. Also really enjoy your playful affection for this ridiculous TV series. It’s amazing how much you find to appreciate in this program. Your love for lost in space is obvious and infectious! I was eight years old when the TV series premiered. I had huge high hopes for it. I was obsessed with lost in space for about six or seven episodes. Then it turned stupid. Stupid even in the eyes of an eight-year-old. And over time I slowly had to admit to myself that lost in space was utterly totally lost in dumbness. My interest waned.
Thank you so much! I think when the show turned campy, it really divided the audience. Some loved the direction it took, some didn't. I think the first season is most people's favorite. But it started changing relatively early on. I love it because of how cheesy it is and watching it as an adult now makes me realize how much they were able to get away with back then involving production, sets and props. The Robot was the main reason I watched the show and my eyes were glued to the TV whenever he was on.
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My goodness, how long did it take you to go through all those episodes in detail and find a fraction of a second's worth of a misplaced foot?
I got exhausted watching this, i can't imagine how you didn't go insane reviewing all that footage.
Now that is dedication, not to mention the commentary. 👍
Hahaha!! Thank you! It did take quite a bit of time to do this series. I'm so happy so many people have enjoyed it though! It makes it all worth it! 😁😃