For kids, the J2 was an ideal home. It was safe & secure, made of cosmium steel and with a forcefield "fence" for extra protection. Even the windows had blast shields when needed. Inside it was a clean & orderly retreat from a world that children don't fully understand nor can deal with. Plus, Mom (Maureen) was always there and Dad (John) was always ready to defend it, whether with bare hands or laser rifles and pistols. Both were loving and wise.
The Jupiter 2 was great because it was the ultimate RV, a Winnebago to the stars. You'd travel someplace new, park on the surface, unpack and set up a little camp area outside the door, then break out the smaller vehicle to do some sightseeing in the vicinity.
It has always been my favorite. My mom made me a birthday cake of the Jupiter 2 for my birthday when I was 5 or 6. That's always been my favorite cake. The ship setting in a small diorama of a planetary landing. It was so much fun I was sad when we had to cut it.
The favorite TV show of my childhood when I was growing up in England in the 60's. Loved the show and of course the Jupiter 2, which was such an amazing spaceship. It instilled in me a life-long love of space and astronautics.
This is so very well done that you wish that someone had gotten the money together to buy all of these famous scifi props and made a museum for all us fans.
The biggest mystery for me is, what special sound effects were used to generate the different stages of the Jupiter 2's engine. From powerful sound of liftoff from earth in episode 1, The Reluctant Stowaway, which also used an anti-gravity drive, used to escape the gravity pull from earth. The anti-gravity drive was never meantioned in the show, and the 250 mega watts of power definitely had an unpleasant experience for Dr. Smith. The glow around the Jupiter 2 at liftoff was produced by the anti-gravity drive. The special sound effects was well done also when the Jupiter 2's engine went through the 4 stages of power before lifting off without the use of the anti-gravity drive. This video was Absolutely Awesome!!
I saw this video about a year ago and I am still blown away by the awesome special effects of this project. Outstanding job to all the people involved in making this RUclips masterpiece! 😃👍
My favorite part of the Jupiter Two is the flight control dome on the bridge. Seems like Dr. Smith was always trying to divert the ship's course in hopes getting rich.
An actual museum with full size models of all these SCIFI ships and other props that you could actually tour like old battleships and submarines would be awesome! I think a lot of people would love it, you could make an entire theme park on this premise.
One of my all time Favorite shows. Of all the things I saw on the show, the one I would like to have today would be the washing machine. In one of the shows, Miss Robinson dumps a hamper of clothes in. Closes the lid and presses a few buttons and in three seconds you hear a beep. The clothes are clean, folded and shirk rapped. Ready to put away. What a time saver.
I love the heck out of the Jupiter - even though its design could never allow for the 3 deck space, nor storage for the Chariot or the escape pod. Still its a fun TV show. I bet hardcore logic-oriented scientists lost a lot of sleep worrying how people could buy into the big lie - LoL
Great show! I loved the Jupiter 2! I went crazy looking for a model back in 69-70. J.C. Penny was selling them. The last one they had sold before I got there and they were discontinued. Didn't get one until nearly 30 years later! My favorite part of that ship is that elevator!
I was 6-8 yo during the TV presentation and I could never understand how many things could be kept in that spaceship. It was evident that the size of the ship (compared with the cast) in outdoor scenes, was the same of an ordinary truck, It was a time of innocence in television without correct notion of proportionality. But however that's my favorite serie of childhood (Time Tunnel also) and what made me study engineering.
It was the same principle as in "Gilligan's Island:" how did they have all those non-essential items in the confined space of the SS Minnow or the Jupiter II? LOL, both shows were strictly designed to be fun! Actually, it all worked for us as kids...except when they got to the LIS episode, "The Space Creature" in season three. When they tried to make us believe that there was this huge "power core" beneath deck two, even we kids couldn't swallow that!
I thought the same, and, though I still do, since encountering a geodesic dome house, I found that a circular structure seems much smaller from the outside than it actually is because it immediately begins to slope away from you to either side no matter at what point you are standing. That circle of the J2 would have covered a lot of ground, if the prop had been complete. My main problem was that the lower level seemed just as high as the upper, even though on the miniature, it appears noticeably lower. Then, in the 3rd season, they actually gave it a third level where the reactor core was ensconced.
Even as a kid I always laughed at how they wanted us to believe that the Jupiter 2 carried seven humans, a big robot, all of the equipment and supplies, including the food, AND the Chariot, in that small spaceship. The Chariot alone was nearly half the size of the ship.
Shows like Lost In Space was a time were people had such a imagination. Back in the day when we watched this show, it just captivated us. In which brought new inventions and new shows. What great shows and a great era to be a kid. I'm so fortunate we had shows like this and all the other show we all loved. Running home from getting off the bus to watch these shows. Space Giants, Ultraman, Johnny Socko, my goodness so many great shows back then.
The space 1999 eagle is my idea of what a space utility vehicle would be. The military has a vehicle called a HEMTT (pronounced HEMIT), which is a general purpose transport vehicle. You could put any kind of shelter, or payload on the back. In the space 1999 series, there were different modules that the eagle could carry, like cargo, personnel, mobile labs etc. Practical and modular.
I wish someone would actually make a show like this. Not to have real, working spaceships, but full-sized mockups that you could go inside of. I'd love to be able to walk around the inside of the Jupiter 2 or a Space 1999 Eagle.
Wow, the robot spider-walker from Johnny Quest in the opening scene, nice little cameo there. Yeah, I wish there was such a thing as a sci-fi airshow, I personally love the concept of this that everything was built as a real aircraft in the Sci-Fi Airshow universe instead of models and mockups as was the case in real life for all these classic films and TV shows. Personally, the one I'd really like to have a ride in would be the Orion III from 2001 (AKA the Pan-Am Space Clipper), to LEO and back, have to confess it's one of my favorites. Maybe you could do a video on that one sometime? Cheers, Brendan O.
A staple of my childhood. I really appreciate whomever had the foresight and dedication to preserve it. Great shows back then: Munsters, Beaver, My Three Sons, Twilight Zone, Mr. Ed...
Best kids sci fi show ever. Most imaginative hands down. The ship clearly has zero room for a lower deck but they always show the family on the ladder or elevator going there. All my best memories of pure imaginary fun were from these many great episodes. The one in the shrinking robot they were stuck inside of....the one where dr. Smith and will could see earth from a window in a traveling space junk ship, and had to choose either saving Penny...or getting back to Earth by stepping through the port as time ran out....i still have strong memories of all these episodes...a part of me forever.
Why is the J2 is so popular? It was the perfect home! Safe & secure: with the force field up and running and esp with the metal panels drawn over all the windows, NOTHING could get in to you. You were safer than a turtle in his shell! Next, it was always clean and orderly inside: no mess, no chaos. That also made it peaceful to your mind. It had lasers handguns, a first aid kit, flashlights and fire extinguishers near the main exit, so you were prepared for any emergency. Next, the galley was always stocked with food. It had cool things, like radar/scanner, seismograph, a "radiotelescope", its own science laboratory, intercoms in each bedroom, those cool Murphy beds -- too many things to count! Plus, if you didn't like someplace, you could (when you had fuel and things were all working), just get up and fly away to someplace better. Last, but not least, mom was always there! She made the J2 a warm home, a loving retreat, a safe sanctuary from the world.
Yup. Except that it wasn't "regular people ..." ("One of the original Star Wars film model makers from ILM, William (Bill) George, and crew manage to create this magnificent short film of a fictional Sci-Fi Air Show.")
That was very clever! And i too love the Jupiter 2!!! Liked how in the LIS movie, the original Jupiter 2 was the launch vehicle (Jupiter 1) to get the new Jupiter 2 in space.
I watched the show in 1967 back in Brazil but still love it. The Jupiter II along with the Enterprise are my favorite spaceship due to their unique design.
All this takes me back to when I was 10 years old and watched the first episode of "Lost In Space" in glorious black and white on our families old Admiral T.V.. The thing is that the Jupiter II was a spacecraft that appeared a lot larger on screen then it appears to me now. After all, where was the Chariot and the rest of their equipment stored? Still, allot of the technology that made the spacecraft work was really ahead of it's time in thought and planning. For example; The use of suspended animation to preserve the crew during a long, long flight, the fact that the ship was computer controlled and the addition of a robot, who was there to intervene during the flight, or later in ground planet bound activities. Seventy-six years, the time it would take to travel to Alpha Centaur,i is a long time. Can you imagine the type of individuals it would take to make such a journey? And it's a good thing that Major West had a pretty daughter in the form of the commanders daughter to grow closer to. A fact, that interestingly enough, wasn't lost on me.
Extremely well done! Wonderful idea. I wish I could go to a real scifi airshow like this! People take notice. This is what you call ...... Thinking outside of the box!
This was fun. I am a outdoors person I love the shot with the ramp down and picnic table outside "Jupiter 2 space RV." all they need is stickers of other planets on the back to show where they have been.
As a kid when watching the show, I would always think to myself. "There is no way that all that stuff could fit inside a ship that small!!!" You know like the chariot. The laser drill etc.etc .etc.. never made any sense.
That's what I thought too. Even if they had to assemble everything, there still would not have been enough room. The only big thing that they had room for was the shuttle. It was in its own compartment on the first level. I could never figure out how they had 2 levels.
Same here and it's why I hate the house on the tv show Everybody loves Raymond. Those types of Cape Cod houses had one bedroom upstairs and with slanted ceilings that you were forever bumping your head into where as on the show it had three commodiusly large bedrooms with no sloping ceilings as depicted in the exterior.
What a fun video! It looked almost real, and with great attention to detail! Love the collection of props you showed here! As for me, I wish I could have a collection of all the cool LIS ship models...not just the J2, but also the ones from "The Derelict," "Invaders from the Fifth Dimension," "The Keeper," "The Sky Pirate," etc!
Well done!! What a dream it would be to be able to walk into the deck of the J2, check out the three (Burroughs) B-205 consoles at the view port, take the elevator down to the lower deck, talk to the Robot, tour the environmental sciences lab, THEN climb the ladder down into the Power Core room! (Yeah, right!) It would be a dream come true! I often imagined that the actors on LIS were so lucky to be working on such fantastic sets. Sad that it was all junked only after a short three years. Oh, and I LOVE the 'ROBOT SPY' spider from the 'Jonny Quest' cartoon! That cracked me up! Thanks for the excellent video!
One of the main reasons I like to watch the show is to see the putterer 2 especially the interior of the ship. That is the part of the show I watch most intently. I liked it better when they were in actually in space rather then Stranded on a planet ,Though still interesting. It was where ever they went ,Stranded on a planet or traveling light years in space,They were always at home in the Jupiter 2 .
I love the Jupiter 2! I realized even as a young kid that it had a Dr. Who tele box effect going on: the interior was FAR larger than the exterior volume led you to believe. Great video!!
Quinn Martins The Invaders, Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek,( The Enterprise and the Shuttle craft) Irwin Allen's Voyage to the the Bottom of the sea,( the Sea view and the Flying Sub) The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, (the Jupiter 2) and Land of the Giants, ( The Spin-drift), Gerry Anderson's Space:1999 ( Moon base Alpha and the Eagle) I remember them all on TV in the 60's and 70's. I also remember the spacecraft 20th Century Fox used on Planet of the Apes........ Growing up and being part of those TV shows was an experience. They weren't OVERLY COMPLICATED and confusing as today's movies and TV shows are. the were simple, practical shows that made it easy for the audience to identify with. If only they could bring that concept back to TV or the theaters, it might help for sure.
@@3v3rb0t True. The times he's standing and speaking in the "open air" but was clearly recorded in an enclosed space. Too bad - everything else was so nicely done...if he'd just paid a little more attention to this type of detail....
I always loved this show from my childhood in 60s to this day - especially the beautiful Jupiter 2. How I dreamed of flying through space in this ship!
That's so weird how they're greenscreened over it. At least they lit it fairly well, but it's still pretty obvious. Acting like they're standing in a parking lot with this thing but you hear like.. cable access commercial quality audio with the small room echo. lol
They are not the only greenscreened things in the video - the Jupiter 2 model itself is greenscreened into the outdoor scene there (it's actually only a few feet in diameter).
Just before the start of the second season in 1966 my father bought a Zenith 25 inch color console TV, which was fantastic because Lost in Space was going to be broadcast in Color that year. The Zenith had a 25 inch TV, a stereo record player that had speeds from 16, 33, 45 & 78 rpm's and an AM & FM/Stereo radio. I remember it cost $800 in 1966 (almost $6,000 in 2017 dollars). That was the first time I ever heard of or saw an FM radio and in 1966 there were only 2 FM stations available in our area and they both played only Classical Music, but that was about to change.
To capture a childs imagination they had the perfection dimensions for the ship as it encourages more vivid imagination and bewilderment how a ship so small could be so large and roomy inside.
This must be what Heaven will be like! Man! Talk about realism! I honestly was ready to plan a trip out there to see this! This shows what a modern day version of the show would be like with todays CGI. I loved the last scene that spoke of the Jupiter being home (I always felt that way!) I hope some wealthy person will see this and realize the potential for creating a REAL theme park of all the TV spaceships! I know we'd all go! Whoever made this was a true fan and captured the dream. God bless!
4:30 "...two paper plates..." I made a number of iterations of that. One or two of the final versions had a threaded bolt and a domed chrome lugnut through the center of the ship to keep the upper and lower sections from collapsing. It was fairly intricate and it took me a minute or so before I remembered the details of the actual construction.
This video is amazing! Just the other day, I referenced how cool it would be if the next space faring group were to back a family to explore the cosmos just like the Robinsons using the Jupiter 2!
I was 10 when i first saw lost in space and I asked my dad how it was able to pack all the things in it like the hover packs and the rover etc. the force field stuff and the family. I loved the show but it really irked me that the maths didn't add up.. still great to see it.
She always reminded me of "Mary Anne" from Gilligan's Island. The blonde (what's her name, anyway?) and Ginger were supposed to be the sexy females in those shows, but the cute and wholesome ones were, by far, the fan favorites.
MaskedMan66 : I know. I was just being facetious. She portrayed a rather forgettable character. Insert blonde here; must have beautiful blonde in show. Angela Cartwright was a show biz veteran by the time of LIS.
Great "virtual tour"; wish this was a real thing, but for production value, considering this was created using a virtual set, I'd say they did a pretty great job!
For a moment I thought OMG where and when was this!???!!!! I'd have loved to have seen all of these scale models!!! Then reality slapped me in the face! 😭😳🤪🤣🤣🤣
This would've been perfect except for the echo off the walls where the greenscreen was being recorded, so it's obvious that none of the people were actually outdoors. Almost sounds like the voices were recorded in a tiled bathroom.
As well as intentionally jiggling the camera around in order to gratuitously show off the motion-tracking when in reality they'd probably have a locked down camera.
One of my favourite ships also. I loved the fact that it was a spaceship & a campervan rolled into one. Plus you could crash it and it would still be in tact for the next episode. They don’t make em like they used to.
I love the Jupiter 2 but the one problem I always had with it was that it was way too small for 7 people to live and work in. Also, it was too small to store the Chariot in. The model of the Jupiter 2 should have been at least ten times bigger than what was portrayed on TV.
For kids, the J2 was an ideal home. It was safe & secure, made of cosmium steel and with a forcefield "fence" for extra protection. Even the windows had blast shields when needed. Inside it was a clean & orderly retreat from a world that children don't fully understand nor can deal with. Plus, Mom (Maureen) was always there and Dad (John) was always ready to defend it, whether with bare hands or laser rifles and pistols. Both were loving and wise.
See, I didn't need to go see a Therapist! You just explained why I loved the show as a child lock in!
The Jupiter 2 was great because it was the ultimate RV, a Winnebago to the stars. You'd travel someplace new, park on the surface, unpack and set up a little camp area outside the door, then break out the smaller vehicle to do some sightseeing in the vicinity.
By some combination of chance or foresight, this ship is here with us today & those of us who love her are so grateful.
Love the Jupiter II. I was 10 years old when this show aired and loved it!!!!!
Yes Me too 10!
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@@mikehartsook5281 Just a baby!!!!
It has always been my favorite. My mom made me a birthday cake of the Jupiter 2 for my birthday when I was 5 or 6. That's always been my favorite cake. The ship setting in a small diorama of a planetary landing. It was so much fun I was sad when we had to cut it.
The favorite TV show of my childhood when I was growing up in England in the 60's. Loved the show and of course the Jupiter 2, which was such an amazing spaceship. It instilled in me a life-long love of space and astronautics.
This is so very well done that you wish that someone had gotten the money together to buy all of these famous scifi props and made a museum for all us fans.
The biggest mystery for me is, what special sound effects were used to generate the different stages of the Jupiter 2's engine. From powerful sound of liftoff from earth in episode 1, The Reluctant Stowaway, which also used an anti-gravity drive, used to escape the gravity pull from earth. The anti-gravity drive was never meantioned in the show, and the 250 mega watts of power definitely had an unpleasant experience for Dr. Smith. The glow around the Jupiter 2 at liftoff was produced by the anti-gravity drive. The special sound effects was well done also when the Jupiter 2's engine went through the 4 stages of power before lifting off without the use of the anti-gravity drive. This video was Absolutely Awesome!!
I love that show, when I was a kid, I played hours and hours, with my block friends pretending to be lost in space!!! what a days!!!!
I saw this video about a year ago and I am still blown away by the awesome special effects of this project. Outstanding job to all the people involved in making this RUclips masterpiece! 😃👍
blown away by the awesome special effects, LMAO!
@@dragonfly492 you do realise it's not....ummm....real...
My favorite part of the Jupiter Two is the flight control dome on the bridge. Seems like Dr. Smith was always trying to divert the ship's course in hopes getting rich.
An actual museum with full size models of all these SCIFI ships and other props that you could actually tour like old battleships and submarines would be awesome! I think a lot of people would love it, you could make an entire theme park on this premise.
👍🙂👍
The licensing fees from the studios would be a killer.
One of my all time Favorite shows. Of all the things I saw on the show, the one I would like to have today would be the washing machine. In one of the shows, Miss Robinson dumps a hamper of clothes in. Closes the lid and presses a few buttons and in three seconds you hear a beep. The clothes are clean, folded and shirk rapped. Ready to put away. What a time saver.
I remember two episodes that featured the "Jupiter Two" close up with people exiting and entering it! "The Derelict" and "A Hostile Planet"!
amazing is all I can say, it looks like we were really there at the airshow.
I love the heck out of the Jupiter - even though its design could never allow for the 3 deck space, nor storage for the Chariot or the escape pod. Still its a fun TV show. I bet hardcore logic-oriented scientists lost a lot of sleep worrying how people could buy into the big lie - LoL
Awwww.... I wish a show like this would happen again and that I could go. Can we still see that replica of the Jupiter 2 in 2022?
Great show! I loved the Jupiter 2! I went crazy looking for a model back in 69-70. J.C. Penny was selling them. The last one they had sold before I got there and they were discontinued. Didn't get one until nearly 30 years later! My favorite part of that ship is that elevator!
Here's that elevator: ruclips.net/video/85mMZFIyFkY/видео.html
I was 6-8 yo during the TV presentation and I could never understand how many things could be kept in that spaceship. It was evident that the size of the ship (compared with the cast) in outdoor scenes, was the same of an ordinary truck, It was a time of innocence in television without correct notion of proportionality. But however that's my favorite serie of childhood (Time Tunnel also) and what made me study engineering.
Me too LOL
It was the same principle as in "Gilligan's Island:" how did they have all those non-essential items in the confined space of the SS Minnow or the Jupiter II? LOL, both shows were strictly designed to be fun! Actually, it all worked for us as kids...except when they got to the LIS episode, "The Space Creature" in season three. When they tried to make us believe that there was this huge "power core" beneath deck two, even we kids couldn't swallow that!
This show did not compute...
I thought the same, and, though I still do, since encountering a geodesic dome house, I found that a circular structure seems much smaller from the outside than it actually is because it immediately begins to slope away from you to either side no matter at what point you are standing. That circle of the J2 would have covered a lot of ground, if the prop had been complete. My main problem was that the lower level seemed just as high as the upper, even though on the miniature, it appears noticeably lower. Then, in the 3rd season, they actually gave it a third level where the reactor core was ensconced.
Even as a kid I always laughed at how they wanted us to believe that the Jupiter 2 carried seven humans, a big robot, all of the equipment and supplies, including the food, AND the Chariot, in that small spaceship. The Chariot alone was nearly half the size of the ship.
At 6:52 - Jupiter 2 over Chicasaw Falls, MI in 1947 - Visit To A Hostile Planet. Who noticed that? Very cool
I did ...!
Shows like Lost In Space was a time were people had such a imagination. Back in the day when we watched this show, it just captivated us. In which brought new inventions and new shows. What great shows and a great era to be a kid. I'm so fortunate we had shows like this and all the other show we all loved. Running home from getting off the bus to watch these shows. Space Giants, Ultraman, Johnny Socko, my goodness so many great shows back then.
Wow! Very impressive! Of course, my fave ship after the Jupiter 2 really is the Eagle, so I especially appreciated the nod.
The space 1999 eagle is my idea of what a space utility vehicle would be. The military has a vehicle called a HEMTT (pronounced HEMIT), which is a general purpose transport vehicle. You could put any kind of shelter, or payload on the back. In the space 1999 series, there were different modules that the eagle could carry, like cargo, personnel, mobile labs etc. Practical and modular.
This was always my idea of the 'ideal home' since first watching L.I.S. In 1966.
As much as I adore the original USS Enterprise bridge, the Jupiter 2 just feels much homier because it's smaller and more manageable.
Ahh, the beloved Jupiter 2! Always ready to whisk a 10 yo boy away to wherever his imagination could take him and safely bring him home....
So True!
I wish someone would actually make a show like this. Not to have real, working spaceships, but full-sized mockups that you could go inside of. I'd love to be able to walk around the inside of the Jupiter 2 or a Space 1999 Eagle.
Wow, the robot spider-walker from Johnny Quest in the opening scene, nice little cameo there.
Yeah, I wish there was such a thing as a sci-fi airshow, I personally love the concept of this that everything was built as a real aircraft in the Sci-Fi Airshow universe instead of models and mockups as was the case in real life for all these classic films and TV shows.
Personally, the one I'd really like to have a ride in would be the Orion III from 2001 (AKA the Pan-Am Space Clipper), to LEO and back, have to confess it's one of my favorites. Maybe you could do a video on that one sometime?
Cheers,
Brendan O.
Lockheed P-3 Orion...? Avion de patrouille maritime ...?
@@yannickmadec2050
Non, je voulais dire l'avion spatial fictif Orion III du film 2001 : L'Odyssée de l'espace.
A staple of my childhood. I really appreciate whomever had the foresight and dedication to preserve it. Great shows back then: Munsters, Beaver, My Three Sons, Twilight Zone, Mr. Ed...
00:58 - "Chicasaw Falls indeed! WAIT FOR ME!" ;)
Best kids sci fi show ever. Most imaginative hands down. The ship clearly has zero room for a lower deck but they always show the family on the ladder or elevator going there. All my best memories of pure imaginary fun were from these many great episodes. The one in the shrinking robot they were stuck inside of....the one where dr. Smith and will could see earth from a window in a traveling space junk ship, and had to choose either saving Penny...or getting back to Earth by stepping through the port as time ran out....i still have strong memories of all these episodes...a part of me forever.
What a concept, a scifi air show! I want to believe!!!
Why is the J2 is so popular? It was the perfect home! Safe & secure: with the force field up and running and esp with the metal panels drawn over all the windows, NOTHING could get in to you. You were safer than a turtle in his shell! Next, it was always clean and orderly inside: no mess, no chaos. That also made it peaceful to your mind. It had lasers handguns, a first aid kit, flashlights and fire extinguishers near the main exit, so you were prepared for any emergency. Next, the galley was always stocked with food. It had cool things, like radar/scanner, seismograph, a "radiotelescope", its own science laboratory, intercoms in each bedroom, those cool Murphy beds -- too many things to count! Plus, if you didn't like someplace, you could (when you had fuel and things were all working), just get up and fly away to someplace better. Last, but not least, mom was always there! She made the J2 a warm home, a loving retreat, a safe sanctuary from the world.
It never ceases to amaze me the cool videos regular people can put together. nice work guys.
Yup. Except that it wasn't "regular people ..."
("One of the original Star Wars film model makers from ILM, William (Bill) George, and crew manage to create this magnificent short film of a fictional Sci-Fi Air Show.")
That was very clever! And i too love the Jupiter 2!!! Liked how in the LIS movie, the original Jupiter 2 was the launch vehicle (Jupiter 1) to get the new Jupiter 2 in space.
I loved the elevator on the Jupiter 2.
And of course the Robot 🤖
The B9 Robot ROCKS!🤖
I love the whole series of Lost in Space
Not season 2, I hope...
Best thing I have seen in years!
My favorite spaceship... ever!
As informative, as it is visually stunning!
I watched the show in 1967 back in Brazil but still love it. The Jupiter II along with the Enterprise are my favorite spaceship due to their unique design.
cool how the Galileo from trek cruised by in the background!
what about the cargo carrier from Star Trek the Motion Picture? it flew by in the upper right corner.
All this takes me back to when I was 10 years old and watched the first episode of "Lost In Space" in glorious black and white on our families old Admiral T.V..
The thing is that the Jupiter II was a spacecraft that appeared a lot larger on screen then it appears to me now. After all, where was the Chariot and the rest of their equipment stored? Still, allot of the technology that made the spacecraft work was really ahead of it's time in thought and planning. For example; The use of suspended animation to preserve the crew during a long, long flight, the fact that the ship was computer controlled and the addition of a robot, who was there to intervene during the flight, or later in ground planet bound activities.
Seventy-six years, the time it would take to travel to Alpha Centaur,i is a long time.
Can you imagine the type of individuals it would take to make such a journey? And it's a good thing that Major West had a pretty daughter in the form of the commanders daughter to grow closer to. A fact, that interestingly enough, wasn't lost on me.
Great video ! I always wanted to have a house with the Jupiter II main deck and door. As a matter of fact, I still want it.
Me too and it better have an electric door on the front
So wonderful to see it it brings back lots of great memories I would love to see it again in live person
Extremely well done! Wonderful idea. I wish I could go to a real scifi airshow like this! People take notice. This is what you call ......
Thinking outside of the box!
This was fun. I am a outdoors person I love the shot with the ramp down and picnic table outside "Jupiter 2 space RV." all they need is stickers of other planets on the back to show where they have been.
They had to assemble the chariot. It was packed away. Watch some of the first episodes. I think Don West sez: "let's assemble the chariot"
Apparently is was a quick assembly and breakdown. They always managed to take it with, even when leaving on short notice.
This makes me happy. It's a joy to see these sci-fi icons from my child hood.
This vid was REALLY well done, presented as though all the CGI ships were actually there and functioning. Lots of fun! 😊
Except that they're not "CGI ships." All of them are practical miniatures.
When i hit the lottery, i am having a life size j2 in the yard as my mancave.
Wow! Someone built a full-size Eagle? Very nice. I'd like to see that one close-up and also the Jupiter 2.
Solid content...loved seeing the "spider" from Johnny Quest stroll across the screen!! Cheers 🐍
Danger, Will Robinson. DANGER!!!!
Dr.Smith....you have lost your membership card...in the human race!
Run Will Robinson!
This show was my favorite of all time during my childhood. So great!!
As a kid when watching the show, I would always think to myself. "There is no way that all that stuff could fit inside a ship that small!!!"
You know like the chariot. The laser drill etc.etc .etc.. never made any sense.
That's what I thought too. Even if they had to assemble everything, there still would not have been enough room. The only big thing that they had room for was the shuttle. It was in its own compartment on the first level. I could never figure out how they had 2 levels.
Same here and it's why I hate the house on the tv show Everybody loves Raymond. Those types of Cape Cod houses had one bedroom upstairs and with slanted ceilings that you were forever bumping your head into where as on the show it had three commodiusly large bedrooms with no sloping ceilings as depicted in the exterior.
It was a fantasy world ...that's how it all fit!!!... lol
What a fun video! It looked almost real, and with great attention to detail! Love the collection of props you showed here! As for me, I wish I could have a collection of all the cool LIS ship models...not just the J2, but also the ones from "The Derelict," "Invaders from the Fifth Dimension," "The Keeper," "The Sky Pirate," etc!
I grew up in the 60s and 70s watching "Lost in space" what a time to be a kid in those days.
Ben Rayonez And that incomparable John Williams music! What memories.
Every day after school.
@@tommytruelick1871 Every Wednesday night @ 8:00pm on CBS channel 2 for me, (I'm a bit older than you!)
It was actually 7pm on Wednesdays!!
Well done!! What a dream it would be to be able to walk into the deck of the J2, check out the three (Burroughs) B-205 consoles at the view port, take the elevator down to the lower deck, talk to the Robot, tour the environmental sciences lab, THEN climb the ladder down into the Power Core room! (Yeah, right!) It would be a dream come true! I often imagined that the actors on LIS were so lucky to be working on such fantastic sets. Sad that it was all junked only after a short three years. Oh, and I LOVE the 'ROBOT SPY' spider from the 'Jonny Quest' cartoon! That cracked me up! Thanks for the excellent video!
Yeah, didn't some evil oriental genius send that robot spider out in a saucer from his castle stronghold in the carpathians or something?
Yes, it was the EVIL Dr. Zin! NOT a fine wine.
My favorite sci-fi space ship of all time
Haha, this is great! Love how you talk about it as it was actually launched - complete with hd-blur and excellent NASA-style muzak
One of the main reasons I like to watch the show is to see the putterer 2 especially the interior of the ship. That is the part of the show I watch most intently. I liked it better when they were in actually in space rather then Stranded on a planet ,Though still interesting. It was where ever they went ,Stranded on a planet or traveling light years in space,They were always at home in the Jupiter 2 .
I love the Jupiter 2! I realized even as a young kid that it had a Dr. Who tele box effect going on: the interior was FAR larger than the exterior volume led you to believe. Great video!!
I never understood why they decided to redesign it for the movie. The ship was iconic.
The Jupiter 2 is the most poorly designed miniature in history, when bumped up against what it was supposed to be portraying.
Quinn Martins The Invaders, Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek,( The Enterprise and the Shuttle craft) Irwin Allen's Voyage to the the Bottom of the sea,( the Sea view and the Flying Sub) The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, (the Jupiter 2) and Land of the Giants, ( The Spin-drift), Gerry Anderson's Space:1999 ( Moon base Alpha and the Eagle) I remember them all on TV in the 60's and 70's. I also remember the spacecraft 20th Century Fox used on Planet of the Apes........ Growing up and being part of those TV shows was an experience. They weren't OVERLY COMPLICATED and confusing as today's movies and TV shows are. the were simple, practical shows that made it easy for the audience to identify with. If only they could bring that concept back to TV or the theaters, it might help for sure.
Guy Williams played Zorro in earlier movies!
And television.
What a waste ...not using Guy William's more. The $$ though was very good for him...
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Wow what they can do with CG now, the amount of stuff they had going on in that video is just amazing.
No, it isn't. lol
Well nice to know how many models made to make the TV show and what size they were. Brings Back Many Old Memories .
WOW, for a minute I was fooled to believe all those sci-fi spacecrafts were life size, they're just CGI effects!
At 4:30, you can see proof that this was CGI. There is a "ship" flying in the air.
So that's what they are.
The sound design is what throws it off. That and the lighting is off
@butchtropic uh I was talking about this video.
@@3v3rb0t True. The times he's standing and speaking in the "open air" but was clearly recorded in an enclosed space. Too bad - everything else was so nicely done...if he'd just paid a little more attention to this type of detail....
Fascinating. Thank you for posting this. I assumed it was all just a set, and had no idea there was really a full-size model.
The Jupiter 2WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. ONE OF THE GREATEST SITCOMS EVER.
I always loved this show from my childhood in 60s to this day - especially the beautiful Jupiter 2. How I dreamed of flying through space in this ship!
That's so weird how they're greenscreened over it. At least they lit it fairly well, but it's still pretty obvious. Acting like they're standing in a parking lot with this thing but you hear like.. cable access commercial quality audio with the small room echo. lol
I noticed that too. A bunch of us at our studio were shaking our heads at the audio. Lol nice attempt though if you're willing to suspend belief.
It's the first thing that hits you. He should have worn a lav mike.
All that effort on the effects spoiled by mediocre audio.
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They are not the only greenscreened things in the video - the Jupiter 2 model itself is greenscreened into the outdoor scene there (it's actually only a few feet in diameter).
Just before the start of the second season in 1966 my father bought a Zenith 25 inch color console TV, which was fantastic because Lost in Space was going to be broadcast in Color that year. The Zenith had a 25 inch TV, a stereo record player that had speeds from 16, 33, 45 & 78 rpm's and an AM & FM/Stereo radio. I remember it cost $800 in 1966 (almost $6,000 in 2017 dollars). That was the first time I ever heard of or saw an FM radio and in 1966 there were only 2 FM stations available in our area and they both played only Classical Music, but that was about to change.
Yeah I always thought the scale of the ship was waaaayyy off.... It should be 500% bigger
they did it based off of the original movie, not the (way better) NETFLIX tv show version
@@patblogz2908 Correction. It was based on the original TV series in 1965. Not the movie.
Oh so correct!
To capture a childs imagination they had the perfection dimensions for the ship as it encourages more vivid imagination and bewilderment how a ship so small could be so large and roomy inside.
Space 1999 was fantastic but wow the Jupiter 2 has captured my heart. It was like camper with light speed.
"The pain, ohhh, the pain. Come here and help me you Bubble Headed Booby."
funny
My favorite show when I was a kid. But looking now, I remember so much stuff in deck below, but not in this one.
I loved Lost In Space, but really I would have thrown Dr. Smith out in flight, really!
I think they tried that, lol!
William Butler I would have shot Dr Smith AND Gillian !!
@Scott Halloween 😀😁😂😅 agreed!
He did cause it to happen.
I think major West would agree with you!
This must be what Heaven will be like! Man! Talk about realism! I honestly was ready to plan a trip out there to see this! This shows what a modern day version of the show would be like with todays CGI. I loved the last scene that spoke of the Jupiter being home (I always felt that way!) I hope some wealthy person will see this and realize the potential for creating a REAL theme park of all the TV spaceships! I know we'd all go! Whoever made this was a true fan and captured the dream. God bless!
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE JOKING YOU MEAN THERE IS NO SCI FI AIR SHOW.THIS WOULD BE UNBELIEVABLE IF IT EXISTED.
But I did enjoy watching the various ships flying by during the report. lol
I loved the show always thought how cool it would be to see the actual ship and here it is
Well done! Too bad about the audio...
Nearly perfect, guys!
4:30 "...two paper plates..."
I made a number of iterations of that. One or two of the final versions had a threaded bolt and a domed chrome lugnut through the center of the ship to keep the upper and lower sections from collapsing. It was fairly intricate and it took me a minute or so before I remembered the details of the actual construction.
WHAT??? Never made a model KIT? I had one!! had the upper and lower deck.
This was funny, the cheesy CGI...
I didn't want to point out that one mistake. But I remember seeing the model kit.
This video is amazing! Just the other day, I referenced how cool it would be if the next space faring group were to back a family to explore the cosmos just like the Robinsons using the Jupiter 2!
At the very least they should have the actor that played Will Robinson on the Jupiter 2 with the robot.
When I was a kid, I stapled 2 paper plates together too!
I used scotch tape!
Prepare to be sued for copyright infringement.
@@MediaWatchDawg Yeah- especially if you spray painted it silver LOL!!
I was 10 when i first saw lost in space and I asked my dad how it was able to pack all the things in it like the hover packs and the rover etc. the force field stuff and the family. I loved the show but it really irked me that the maths didn't add up.. still great to see it.
Penny was CUTE!!!!
yeah, BUT NOT NOW :(
frase1234 Eh, shuddup, Angela Cartwright is still cute as a button with those eyes and that smile.
She always reminded me of "Mary Anne" from Gilligan's Island. The blonde (what's her name, anyway?) and Ginger were supposed to be the sexy females in those shows, but the cute and wholesome ones were, by far, the fan favorites.
Agent Fungus Marta Kristen played Judy Robinson.
MaskedMan66 : I know. I was just being facetious. She portrayed a rather forgettable character. Insert blonde here; must have beautiful blonde in show. Angela Cartwright was a show biz veteran by the time of LIS.
I was hoping you would show more of the inside
Colonial Shuttle in the back ground :)
Whoah! .. I am currently in the process of watching the whole series on Hulu. I am really into it!
The questions now 2 years later is have you watched any of them more than once?😉
@@louieflash7190 good question! Eh. You know I think I revisited maybe a few of the episodes randomly.... But that's a no for at least 95%!
@@rsalek Well you need to get busy, bro. "Never fear, Smith is here"😀
Thank you so much for posting this. Classic.
Great "virtual tour"; wish this was a real thing, but for production value, considering this was created using a virtual set, I'd say they did a pretty great job!
For a moment I thought OMG where and when was this!???!!!! I'd have loved to have seen all of these scale models!!! Then reality slapped me in the face! 😭😳🤪🤣🤣🤣
The first few seconds I was thinking along the same lines, but then reality set in.
WOW I NEED TO GO TO THAT SHOW
This is hilarious! What a great job-- really well done. I enjoyed every minute of it.
Amazing! Nice too see J2. Regards from Brazil.
This would've been perfect except for the echo off the walls where the greenscreen was being recorded, so it's obvious that none of the people were actually outdoors.
Almost sounds like the voices were recorded in a tiled bathroom.
My thoughts exactly.
As well as intentionally jiggling the camera around in order to gratuitously show off the motion-tracking when in reality they'd probably have a locked down camera.
David Roberts Wow, the stupidity of your comment.
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Always wondered how they got a lower level into the J2. Does not seem tall enough.
at 5:22...a destroyed Jupiter 2....one word heartbreaking lol
AWESOME JOB!!!! LOST IN SPACE 4 LIFE . . . AND>> (( NEVER FEAR SMITH IS HERE )) RIP JANATHAN HARRIS
Yes they DID make a plastic model kit of it .
I had one !
Do your research !
2019
One of my favourite ships also. I loved the fact that it was a spaceship & a campervan rolled into one. Plus you could crash it and it would still be in tact for the next episode.
They don’t make em like they used to.
So, is this a CG model or a full size practical model. Your work is so great, it is hard to really tell.
I love the Jupiter 2 but the one problem I always had with it was that it was way too small for 7 people to live and work in. Also, it was too small to store the Chariot in. The model of the Jupiter 2 should have been at least ten times bigger than what was portrayed on TV.