Irwin Allen was the most frugal producer in Hollywood. Note the reuse of the Jupiter 2 footage. I see he also managed to hire some unemployed Talosians, from Star Trek, at a good price too. Back in the 70s, whenever I heard the TV announcer say, "An Irwin Allen Production!", I knew we were in for a treat!
@@jaywalker1233 I wasn't criticizing the OP was talking about how Allen reused footage to save money so I mentioned he reused music too. It was not intended as criticism.
Had "25th Century" been picked up, I'm sure they would have "shot a "real" broadcast quality" pilot. This was likely a "presentation film" which, on a slim budget, was intended to sell investors on an actual pilot. Thus the "parts out of the bin" contents. "City Beneath the Sea" was initially offered in this manner. First a 1967 "presentation film" not intended for broadcast, then the "deliverable" telemovie aired on NBC in 1971. And released overseas to theaters.
I was in my single digits back in the sixties and really miss shows like these. All of those shows in the opening credits were some of my favorites. Nothing like watching them on an old black and white TV or misadjusted console sized color TV 😁
Wow I love this show, it had James Darren from Time Tunnel, the spaceship from Lost in Space, props from Time Tunnel and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and music from all of the above and a 1968 Fiat Spider thrown in for good measure. (What every semi evil, quasi alien needs, an Italian sports car) Irwin Allen sure believed the adage, "Waste not, want not".
@nofrackingzone74 It’s not a Fiat Spider (nice car) but a Lotus Elan S2 - maybe 1966 (frameless windows) - with the popup headlights, distinctive door cutout, knock-on wheels, wooden dashboard and switch layout, passenger glovebox and footwell, and Springall spoked alloy steering wheel
Only a small budget "presentation film", so assembly from the parts bin" was acceptable. If the concept had pleased investors and the network, more resources would have been brought forth for a broadcast quality telefilm, maybe with more visuals and music unique to this effort (compare "City Beneath the Sea" test film 1967 with actual broadcast version pilot).
I remember my mom reading in TVG about the show and then nothing. Looks like good 1960s era sci-fi, but gives new meaning to 'camp' with its overused props.
@@TonyDQT I have an IQ of 189. I built a laser when I was 12. What did your useless life do. I have a Doctorate in Theology and help people understand what the scriptures really state.
Interesting bit players: Patrick Culliton of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" as the security guard who gets karate chopped and then almost thrown into the nuclear furnace @ 9:03; Joey Tata is the radar console operator @ 12:41. He appeared in "Batman", "The Time Tunnel" and "Lost in Space".
Robert Dambeck, the wardrobe dept. probably had at least one (AGT) awful green turtleneck, for "Tony Newman" for each day of a 5 day film shoot. Inside each sweater the weekday would be sewn in. Similar to the infamous "Day of the week" parties that Sears or Montgomery Ward catalogs carried for years. I remember seeing them as a kid & wondered who in the world bought them. They really cracked me up. I remember thinking how many folks wore the Monday pair on Friday. THIS IS JUST HILARIOUS !!!!! 🤣😂😆🙃!!!!!!!!! DO THEY EVEN MAKE THOSE THINGS ANYMORE?!!........... .
Allen was one of my favorite producers but afraid he was running out of steam and ideas when he came up with this pilot. Not surprised the networks turned it down.
Irwin's go-to series in the wake of Land of the Giants were "these two": "25th Century" and "City Beneath the Sea". Yes, you're right overall. The 60s high camp and Action fantasy wave had crested. There really would be no place for this afterwards. Fizzle of The Invaders only made this more obvious. I'd like to believe that City Beneath the Sea might have had a slight chance if only on the drawing boards -- early 70s "weather" on prime time was blowing about with more conventional fare. But maybe "City" might have found a brief niche with water and tech, but would promoters find themselves in the same corner where Voyage Bottom Sea was when it needed bigger numbers?
You can’t go off this as any resemblance to Lost in Space as Irwin always used either art or stock footage/re-dressed sets for his presentation films. As a point of interest, we were first mean’t to meet Tomo when he interrupts the Robinson’s dinner from ‘LIS’.
I never new about this show idea from Irwin Allen. He was truly one of those people back then that was ahead of there time in the story idea's dept. But as we can see like all of them back then when the backers of his idea's cut back the money , thinking he could still churn out good product for less money. Well we see how he had to make do with older prop's and set's, shame. We can only guess just how more better these shows could have looked with all new prop's and back ground scene's.
This was a presentation film budgeted at only $100,000. It was necessary to use as many existing props and even artwork as possible. Had the response been better, a full pilot would likely have been commissioned, as was done with "Land Of The Giants" and "City Beneath The Sea". Unfortunately, 'City' didn't get picked up as a series.
People like Irwin Allen and Gene Roddenberry were ahead of their time! And,it seems as though what was science-fiction 50 years ago is now starting to come true! Funny where your imagination can take you! To infinity & beyond!!!
Irwin Allen ...ahead of his time? Yeah like obviously a few decades on there is a real land of giants, cheap cardboard aliens under the sea and a genuine tunnel through time in an undergrond lab! C'mon ...what planet or dimension do you come from to spout this stuff? Irwin Allen was the cheesiest of cheese and the wrongest of wrong in terms of scientific accuracy and prediction. I know they were all just cheaply made entertainments but still they could have made some effort. Its often possible to bend or have speculative science that still looks viable and keep a good story. In fact often they can improve it. Virtually all sci shows of the 1960s , 1970s where hopelessly wrong and in a way almost created a whole new category of 'anti-science' fiction.
@@bbbf09 You're absolutely right. Just listen to that Omeega (as opposed to OMEGA) 3 over infinity bullshit. Lots of recycled blinken lights, the hatch to the Jupiter II and its "navigation" system. Those cheesey 6250 reels for "honest" computing. The "pressure of teleportation through space". What I really dug was the kewl convertible they had stowed in James Darren's spaceship. Those english speaking aliens with the goofy ear lobes had real kooky taste. Of course they did! They were *500* ((GASP!!)) years more advanced!
Appreciate your comment. Irwin was attempting to introduce a number of series as the 60s fantasy action wave crested -- this one and City Beneath the Sea. The Networks were moving fast to return to more conventional fare. But who knows? As a midseason replacement? There was potential here, appreciate your seeing it.😮
We should always retaliate against alien spacecraft that attack our gas stations...it's the American thing to do. Prices are through the roof already...I'd want an all-out attack if they tried that on a Dunkin Donuts!
Funny how every time someone bumps into an electronic panel it explodes loudly with sparks. The dramatic music is the same as on "Lost in Space" and people teleport with the same sound as on "Lost in Space."
neat look at an unmade series idea-yes the Jupiter 2 from Lost in Space-all of the special effects of the Lost in Space pilot were filmed in color with the idea that they might be used later in l.i.s .or as in this case other productions.the season 3 l.i.s episode 'Flight into the Future'has a sequence where the cyclops is chasing Dr.Smith-and the cyclops is in color!
this was actually a TV pilot made for CBS-TV by Irwin Allen and Twentieth Century Fox TV,and it was rumored to be something of a spin-off from "LOST IN SPACE". it had great potential,but CBS passed on it,and the rest is history! but it was still an enjoyable bit of science fiction,watching James Darren do those primative martial arts fight scenes,with his Android double-or watching him drive his sports car out of the Jupiter Two's lower hatch,which is where the Chariot is supposed to be stored.
😅Thank you, appreciate the background. Yes, I had overlooked the report that "25th" was considered to be introduced on Lost In Space. And thus a prospective CBS show rather than ABC. Probably, too, when Space stood a chance at a 4th year renewal.
What did they do with all that dirt and rock when building that complex? Thats approx 9.63x10* 9 power cubic feet of dirt using the volume of a cone with a radios or a 1/4 mile/ Same thing with the time tunnel with those 80 floors. How could the US government keep that a secret when building Project Tic-Toc
Yes, as a Time Tunnel devotee I'm asking myself that question all the time. A very grumpy member of SFWA wrote to TV Guide back in the day demanding an explanation on that!😮
The script by Anthony Wilson was good and only a couple elements are seen here , too bad the script wasn't shot but this was to give an idea of what it would be without shooting the whole thing, this is a lot of action which Allen liked
two James Darrens , but only one gets paid for starring in this vehicle, the stunt double who was shot from behind (and flipped to face the screen according to camera angle shot) But a nice teleportation effect to herald the drone's arrival :)
I don't know why they load all electronic equipment with fireworks that go off at the slightest bump. After all the explosions, the equipment still seems to be functioning correctly so what is the point?
Yeah cars were an arseache also. They blew up after crashing right up until they sorted the problem in the late 90's, they found it was caused by a cinematic cliché somewhere in the fuel tank.
This would have been an interesting show, just iron out some kinks and we would have had a somewhat flawed hit or a one season wonder. Praise be to Irwin Allen.
😮Indeed! The fantasy action wave had crested by this time, and the TV environment might not have been favorable. Would likely have to ride on the appeal of James Darren. Hopefully it could have been a well crafted "one season wonder".😮🎉
Who ever the contractor was that supplied all those consoles and work stations, should be sued! Just touch them the wrong way and they all start to explode! I wonder what Workplace Health and Safety has to say about that? LOL
The alien leader is played by that guy who played one of those annoying Starfleet characters on the original Star Trek series. I'll give his name when I can remember what episode he is in.
The aliens never said they were without emotion. They merely regard Terrans were a immature species in comparison to themselves. Nevertheless, you're right the aliens' belief they are more advanced blind them to their own emotional weakness and arrogance.
In the Lost in Space TV series, they do mention in one of the early first season episodes, that the first time they needed to ride in the Chariot, they had to assemble it; the implication is that it was stowed in kit form in the Jupiter 2.
@@neilruedlinger4851 That was the "full sized' mockup of the Jupiter 2 that was used in a few episodes of Lost In Space. The detached landing legs were used in many more. What a shame that the prop was destroyed soon thereafter... it took up a lot of space in the 20th Century Fox backlot.
Interesting. Thank you. If recall serves, Daktari got shifted from.its hit Tuesday night slot.. to Wed. after CBS dropped Space. But it lost the battle against the new Here Come the Brides and the veteran Virginian. Likely would be "25th Century s" fate too.😮
As noted, idea was to spin it off of a Lost In Space episode. Also at the time, Lost In Space appeared to be in the safe bet for renewal, and the SF Wave on the networks hadn't quite crested yet, but it would quite soon.
Interestingly, "Tonio" was supposed to be introduced on a never-produced episode of "LOST IN SPACE", where he meets the Robinsons on his way to Earth.....
This demo reel & Gene Roddenberry's "Assignment:Earth" episode from Star Trek share a very similar premise. Humans abducted from Earth by an alien civilization who are trained & conditioned by the aliens & returned to Earth with high tech devices. The key difference being that the alien here was trained for evil purposes, while Gary Seven on A:E was sent to assist earth.
theironclads "Assist" has different connotations. You can "help " someone into their grave. Gary 7 was sent to prevent a nuclear holocaust. It says nothing about why the aliens wanted the Earth population preserved It could have been "To Serve Man."
Wait! James Darren didn’t take his shirt off? What’s the point of the show? LOL!!! His hair is immaculate though. I never heard of this until today & I had seen all of the Irwin Allan shows. Granted it didn’t make it to series but I’m just surprised that it’s the first time I’m hearing about the The Man from the 25th Century. It would have gone a season or two.
That epoch in TV history had faded at this point. ABCs Movies of the Week coming in 1969 were a better showcase in which to try out an idea, rather than place all hopes on pilot ideas at this point.😮
This failed pilot resembles Buck Rogers in reverse. A man from the future that returns to Earth. Interesting idea. However, the pilot was a good idea for a television series but it lacked that extra special treatment. Why did they use the same stock footage from Lost In Space, music and sound effects? James Darren looks very young. I was watching him in the season seven of Star Trek DS9 and he didn't age at all.
FortOmnicron54 Irwin Allen was a very cheap person. Soon as shooting from one show was finished, he'd take the props and use them on another show. Sometime without modifying it. And of course this included the musical backgrounds scores, etc. In the documentary "Pioneers of Television", they showed all of the craziness that went on at the studios, while Irwin was making these shows and some of his antics.
FortOmnicron54 This was a test pitch for network execs to get the idea of the proposed show if and when it would be given the go ahead to go into production. So some scenes had only artwork and re-used a lot of stock footage from other shows. Basically if you had a spaceship shot in space you could lift it from a previous show. But the exec's knew that it would be replaced with a new shot. In the Land Of The Giants pitch they again used the Jupiter 2 and shot a few scenes with the little people. But that show was green lit so they built a new spaceship one full size and several scaled miniatures. Irwin did this for all his shows, as many others did as well. Sometimes the network liked something but still showed their advertisers if they would like their product or service played on a proposed new show. If they got enough commercial/advertising money. A show could go into production even if the network didn't think much of it.
This was just a short demonstration Pilot. It would have been ridiculous to spend money on creating props and sets that might never be used; all that could be created later if the concept was picked up by the network.
This concept was actually a good one, but better writing, directing, and acting would have been needed to make it work. But maybe Irwin Allen was the wrong producer to pull it off.
James Darren was so cute...and what a voice!...ADORED him in "Gidget" with Sandra Dee 🤗
Irwin Allen was the most frugal producer in Hollywood. Note the reuse of the Jupiter 2 footage. I see he also managed to hire some unemployed Talosians, from Star Trek, at a good price too. Back in the 70s, whenever I heard the TV announcer say, "An Irwin Allen Production!", I knew we were in for a treat!
He also reused music from previous series.
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But fair do’s, the music from most of these shows was great - well worth hearing again!
@@jaywalker1233 I wasn't criticizing the OP was talking about how Allen reused footage to save money so I mentioned he reused music too. It was not intended as criticism.
@@bentonmarcum8924
didn’t mean it as a rebuke, more of an aside..
Had "25th Century" been picked up, I'm sure they would have "shot a "real" broadcast quality" pilot. This was likely a "presentation film" which, on a slim budget, was intended to sell investors on an actual pilot. Thus the "parts out of the bin" contents.
"City Beneath the Sea" was initially offered in this manner. First a 1967 "presentation film" not intended for broadcast, then the "deliverable" telemovie aired on NBC in 1971. And released overseas to theaters.
Darn 60's technology. You bump into it and it explodes.
Now you know where the intro for "The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen" came from. In Irwin's tradition, nothing is exempt from reuse!
I was in my single digits back in the sixties and really miss shows like these. All of those shows in the opening credits were some of my favorites. Nothing like watching them on an old black and white TV or misadjusted console sized color TV 😁
Always loved Irwin Allen's choice of music and sound effects!
irwin allen was the HG wells of the 60’s and 70s
I'm sure glad we have advanced past 1960s computer technology. Can you imagine having computers around that explode each time you bump into one?
Wow I love this show, it had James Darren from Time Tunnel, the spaceship from Lost in Space, props from Time Tunnel and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and music from all of the above and a 1968 Fiat Spider thrown in for good measure. (What every semi evil, quasi alien needs, an Italian sports car) Irwin Allen sure believed the adage, "Waste not, want not".
I find even with all the things you mentioned it was still....In con se quential
@nofrackingzone74
It’s not a Fiat Spider (nice car) but a Lotus Elan S2 - maybe 1966 (frameless windows) - with the popup headlights, distinctive door cutout, knock-on wheels, wooden dashboard and switch layout, passenger glovebox and footwell, and Springall spoked alloy steering wheel
Only a small budget "presentation film", so assembly from the parts bin" was acceptable. If the concept had pleased investors and the network, more resources would have been brought forth for a broadcast quality telefilm, maybe with more visuals and music unique to this effort (compare "City Beneath the Sea" test film 1967 with actual broadcast version pilot).
Gene Roddenberry and Irwin Allen got drunk together one night, and decided to see who could come up with the best version of Gary Seven.
One of them woke up with a sore rectum
Eres un upupster
Ahora por esa ahuevazon seras odaeteled
Roddenberry's was much better. And Robert Lansing was cuter.
@@mariakelly1059 Roddenberry's was better, but James Darren is cuter.
I wish this would have been made into a series, it looked fascinating!
This is a LOT darker than I expected it to be...and it's pretty good!
I remember my mom reading in TVG about the show and then nothing. Looks like good 1960s era sci-fi, but gives new meaning to 'camp' with its overused props.
Test film only. From the parts bin. If "green lighted, " a better "pilot" would have followed with adequate budget.
I watch all these series when I was a kid in the 60's , and I loved it !!!!!
William Perez
You are old
@@TonyDQT Old is GOOD if you get that far!
Enrique Sanchez
Nah. No need too. 50 is too old already. There is no use after that except wasting space and causing inflation.
@@TonyDQT I have an IQ of 189. I built a laser when I was 12. What did your useless life do. I have a Doctorate in Theology and help people understand what the scriptures really state.
@@davidward1949
now if u can build a machine to quickly transport old people to heaven. that would be something to brag.
Looks great. Wish it had been made as a series.
The premise for "Man From The 25th Century" wasn't bad, but it could have been pulled off much better than this.
Allen was an explosion nut. Everything seemed to blow up at some point in the show as this shows.
IRWIN ALLEN"S EXPLODING ELECTRONICS CABINETS!!!1
It's indestructible... destroys it in no time.
Interesting bit players: Patrick Culliton of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" as the security guard who gets karate chopped and then almost thrown into the nuclear furnace @ 9:03; Joey Tata is the radar console operator @ 12:41. He appeared in "Batman", "The Time Tunnel" and "Lost in Space".
Yes, Fox players frequently found on Irwin's shows...
A pity that 500 years later there is no cure for hair loss
Tony Newman found something to wear other than that awful green turtleneck.
Robert Dambeck, the wardrobe dept. probably had at least one (AGT) awful green turtleneck, for "Tony Newman" for each day of a 5 day film shoot. Inside each sweater the weekday would be sewn in. Similar to the infamous "Day of the week" parties that Sears or Montgomery Ward catalogs carried for years. I remember seeing them as a kid & wondered who in the world bought them. They really cracked me up.
I remember thinking how many folks wore the Monday pair on Friday.
THIS IS JUST HILARIOUS !!!!!
🤣😂😆🙃!!!!!!!!!
DO THEY EVEN MAKE THOSE THINGS ANYMORE?!!...........
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@@sandybulla5623 my mother had them.......😁
@@leilal8053That is awesome! If they still made them, I would have a set for myself now. They are "Crazy Cool." 😀🙃👌👍💙💚💛
Allen was one of my favorite producers but afraid he was running out of steam and ideas when he came up with this pilot. Not surprised the networks turned it down.
This is "The Invaders" the Irwin Allen way.
@@amerigo178True.😮
Irwin's go-to series in the wake of Land of the Giants were "these two": "25th Century" and "City Beneath the Sea".
Yes, you're right overall. The 60s high camp and Action fantasy wave had crested. There really would be no place for this afterwards. Fizzle of The Invaders only made this more obvious. I'd like to believe that City Beneath the Sea might have had a slight chance if only on the drawing boards -- early 70s "weather" on prime time was blowing about with more conventional fare. But maybe "City" might have found a brief niche with water and tech, but would promoters find themselves in the same corner where Voyage Bottom Sea was when it needed bigger numbers?
You can’t go off this as any resemblance to Lost in Space as Irwin always used either art or stock footage/re-dressed sets for his presentation films. As a point of interest, we were first mean’t to meet Tomo when he interrupts the Robinson’s dinner from ‘LIS’.
Well his hair is perfect
Interstellar communication via giant Life-saver candy!
I never new about this show idea from Irwin Allen. He was truly one of those people back then that was ahead of there time in the story idea's dept. But as we can see like all of them back then when the backers of his idea's cut back the money , thinking he could still churn out good product for less money. Well we see how he had to make do with older prop's and set's, shame. We can only guess just how more better these shows could have looked with all new prop's and back ground scene's.
This was a presentation film budgeted at only $100,000. It was necessary to use as many existing props and even artwork as possible. Had the response been better, a full pilot would likely have been commissioned, as was done with "Land Of The Giants" and "City Beneath The Sea". Unfortunately, 'City' didn't get picked up as a series.
Irwin Allen was famous for being a production cheapskate with later shows. It's why he was known by "the suits" as a great producer...
@@RagShop1Thank you@! Nicely explained. Appreciated.🎉😂
@@igorschmidlapp6987It's a presentation film only, for investors to consider. Irwin also could only spend what was allotted to him.
It would be a wonderful TV show...a shame it didn´t work...:-(
If Allen had spent less money on pyrotechnics and more on set design and script writers, maybe he wouldn't be the butt of so many jokes.
People like Irwin Allen and Gene Roddenberry were ahead of their time! And,it
seems as though what was science-fiction 50 years ago is now starting to
come true! Funny where your imagination can take you! To infinity & beyond!!!
+Bryan Briggs Unfortunately, that included a deteriorating standard of living and petty politics that achieved what riots and racism couldn't.
hey traveler
Baloney! Gene Roddenbury never used so much explosives - - for his cardboard and Styrofoam sets would catch on fire :-)
Irwin Allen ...ahead of his time? Yeah like obviously a few decades on there is a real land of giants, cheap cardboard aliens under the sea and a genuine tunnel through time in an undergrond lab!
C'mon ...what planet or dimension do you come from to spout this stuff?
Irwin Allen was the cheesiest of cheese and the wrongest of wrong in terms of scientific accuracy and prediction. I know they were all just cheaply made entertainments but still they could have made some effort. Its often possible to bend or have speculative science that still looks viable and keep a good story. In fact often they can improve it.
Virtually all sci shows of the 1960s , 1970s where hopelessly wrong and in a way almost created a whole new category of 'anti-science' fiction.
@@bbbf09 You're absolutely right. Just listen to that Omeega (as opposed to OMEGA) 3 over infinity bullshit. Lots of recycled blinken lights, the hatch to the Jupiter II and its "navigation" system. Those cheesey 6250 reels for "honest" computing. The "pressure of teleportation through space". What I really dug was the kewl convertible they had stowed in James Darren's spaceship. Those english speaking aliens with the goofy ear lobes had real kooky taste. Of course they did! They were *500* ((GASP!!)) years more advanced!
Love the car coming out of the Jupiter 2
Lotus Elan, 1966 model
Combination of sets of all of Irwin Allen productions.
Test film. Intended to be on the cheap; purpose to sell the idea of an actual pilot to investors.
I really liked it. It was campy in all the right ways. I think it had potential.
Appreciate your comment. Irwin was attempting to introduce a number of series as the 60s fantasy action wave crested -- this one and City Beneath the Sea. The Networks were moving fast to return to more conventional fare. But who knows? As a midseason replacement? There was potential here, appreciate your seeing it.😮
16:23: So the alien spaceship has journeyed to Earth to destroy a gas station? A gas station!
We should always retaliate against alien spacecraft that attack our gas stations...it's the American thing to do. Prices are through the roof already...I'd want an all-out attack if they tried that on a Dunkin Donuts!
I think you mean to time stamp this 12:21
When Solid State Circuitry became available, Irwin must have cried that day.
All In Good Taste!!!!!!! Love The Jupiter 2 From Lost In Space Two Thumbs Up!!!!!!!!!!!
Funny how every time someone bumps into an electronic panel it explodes loudly with sparks. The dramatic music is the same as on "Lost in Space" and people teleport with the same sound as on "Lost in Space."
+wdd3141 For some reason early computers had built in explosives - no one seems to know why..
+wdd3141 It gives new meaning to the term "touch-sensitive".
+wdd3141 As miniaturization went on, the explosive power of computers waned.
+Wafikiri As did Irwin Allen's take on the future as rooms could no longer be filled with flashing lights that did nothing at all.
They even used one the Jupiter 2 crashing scenes to depict the arrival of him on the 20th century Earth!
neat look at an unmade series idea-yes the Jupiter 2 from Lost in Space-all of the special effects of the Lost in Space pilot were filmed in color with the idea that they might be used later in l.i.s .or as in this case other productions.the season 3 l.i.s episode 'Flight into the Future'has a sequence where the cyclops is chasing Dr.Smith-and the cyclops is in color!
"Your life span energy is terminated!"
I plan to use that next time someone screws up!
Hey, wait a second... That's "Vic Fontaine" from Star Trek Deep Space Nine!
That flashing in the beginning can trigger siezures and migraines in some people.
this was actually a TV pilot made for CBS-TV by Irwin Allen and Twentieth Century Fox TV,and it was rumored to be something of a spin-off from "LOST IN SPACE". it had
great potential,but CBS passed on it,and the rest is history! but it was still an enjoyable
bit of science fiction,watching James Darren do those primative martial arts fight scenes,with his Android double-or watching him drive his sports car out of the Jupiter Two's lower hatch,which is where the Chariot is supposed to be stored.
What year was this pilot made?
Early part of 1968
😅Thank you, appreciate the background. Yes, I had overlooked the report that "25th" was considered to be introduced on Lost In Space. And thus a prospective CBS show rather than ABC. Probably, too, when Space stood a chance at a 4th year renewal.
What did they do with all that dirt and rock when building that complex? Thats approx 9.63x10* 9 power cubic feet of dirt using the volume of a cone with a radios or a 1/4 mile/ Same thing with the time tunnel with those 80 floors. How could the US government keep that a secret when building Project Tic-Toc
Yes, as a Time Tunnel devotee I'm asking myself that question all the time. A very grumpy member of SFWA wrote to TV Guide back in the day demanding an explanation on that!😮
I'm Karl Baldwin! I'm one of the Baldwin brothers!
Aloha Karl. That's pretty cool. What was it like growing up as a Baldwin?
The script by Anthony Wilson was good and only a couple elements are seen here , too bad the script wasn't shot but this was to give an idea of what it would be without shooting the whole thing, this is a lot of action which Allen liked
True enough!😅
Which came first, this or Roddenberry's idea for the whole Gary Seven thing? They're basically the same idea.
Except Assignment:Earth was superior.
PLEASE...!!! Don't even compare this piece of crap to GARY SEVEN. You certainly don't know Star Trek, friend.
They were both produced around the same time, in early 1968.
Joe Dokes.
Also throw in Harlan Ellison's 'Man Without Time' (1969).
Hey! That's a young Vic Fontaine from DS9. Actor, singer James Darren.
Surely these are the future guys from Bill and Ted.
The music is straight from Lost in Space and the seen where the spacecraft first enters is the Jupiter ll as well as the footage.
james darren, wow!
the main title looks like Jimmy Darren holding an old Shure mic stand, ready to start crooning.... ;-)
Jupiter 2 with Time Tunnel computers....how quaint!
But I like it, it still something they can build on, I see potential.
Indeed. SF always chancy on the Networks back in the day. If fate had smiled on it, there was something to work with.
two James Darrens , but only one gets paid for starring in this vehicle, the stunt double who was shot from behind (and flipped to face the screen according to camera angle shot) But a nice teleportation effect to herald the drone's arrival :)
His he the guy from time tunnel?.
OMG! Talk about an unsafe work environment! Everything can explode, even the coffee pot!
Lol!
I don't know why they load all electronic equipment with fireworks that go off at the slightest bump. After all the explosions, the equipment still seems to be functioning correctly so what is the point?
Yeah cars were an arseache also. They blew up after crashing right up until they sorted the problem in the late 90's, they found it was caused by a cinematic cliché somewhere in the fuel tank.
Gene Roddenbury didn't use this much pyrotechnics, his cheap sets of styrofoam and cardboard would catch fire ;-)
*Yes. Welcome to Irwin-Allen! The literally **_owned_** bad television in the 50s and 60s (and part of the 70s too!).*
This would have been an interesting show, just iron out some kinks and we would have had a somewhat flawed hit or a one season wonder. Praise be to Irwin Allen.
Based on the " Gary Seven " character from Star Trek episode " Assignment Earth." Or " Dr. Who." In my opinion.
Well said!🎉😮😅
😮Indeed! The fantasy action wave had crested by this time, and the TV environment might not have been favorable. Would likely have to ride on the appeal of James Darren. Hopefully it could have been a well crafted "one season wonder".😮🎉
Who ever the contractor was that supplied all those consoles and work stations, should be sued! Just touch them the wrong way and they all start to explode! I wonder what Workplace Health and Safety has to say about that? LOL
The alien leader is played by that guy who played one of those annoying Starfleet characters on the original Star Trek series. I'll give his name when I can remember what episode he is in.
That's John Crawford. Lots of Irwin Allen shows. And in Trek OS, "Galileo 7".
Didn't the aliens say that they had no emotions? They sounded very emotional when they talked about destroying (killing) people.
Aliens are often like that. Just watch Plan 9 from Outer Soace! ;)
The aliens never said they were without emotion. They merely regard Terrans were a immature species in comparison to themselves. Nevertheless, you're right the aliens' belief they are more advanced blind them to their own emotional weakness and arrogance.
The 25th century must be run by people with a 70 IQ. The earthling capped Mr. Invincible inside 30 seconds with a karate chop!
In the words of Futurama's narrator, "Interesting stuff!"
The Jupiter 2 was carrying a snazzy yellow sportscar ? Guess it doubled as an interstellar car hauler.
Lotus Elan - who knew?!?
I´m surprised the consoles didn´t explode every time they flipped a switch.
Wow! A convertable driving out of the Jupeter 2....thanx TM87♥
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thank you i enjoyed that i dont think id ever seen it before
you have exceeded your life energy quota.....
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They say Irwin Allen liked to reuse his props. Did you guys notice the Jupiter 2 shots. And the Time Tunnel shots.
Test film, made with parts bin parts. A better pilot may have come forth if investment did.
We never saw the show but the sets and footage were used for "The Time Tunnel" and "Lost in Space" which I think were better shows.
I always wondered where they kept that huge chariot inside Jupiter 2. This show he drives a car out of it.
In the Lost in Space TV series, they do mention in one of the early first season episodes, that the first time they needed to ride in the Chariot, they had to assemble it; the implication is that it was stowed in kit form in the Jupiter 2.
@@neilruedlinger4851 That was the "full sized' mockup of the Jupiter 2 that was used in a few episodes of Lost In Space. The detached landing legs were used in many more. What a shame that the prop was destroyed soon thereafter... it took up a lot of space in the 20th Century Fox backlot.
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Space is always a problem - reminds me, I must clear out my loft…
CBS passed the project and chose to renew hit Daktari.
It's easy to see why.
Interesting. Thank you. If recall serves, Daktari got shifted from.its hit Tuesday night slot.. to Wed. after CBS dropped Space.
But it lost the battle against the new Here Come the Brides and the veteran Virginian. Likely would be "25th Century s" fate too.😮
This makes lost in space look like 2001.
Yes. But this was only a small budget presentation film. A better showcase should have come with investor approval.
Star trek music...trippy.
Up front Irwin spend a ton of money on pilot episodes. Then came the reuse of older props.
I Guess I can understand why it didn't, it has a Lost In Space type of look to the show.
As noted, idea was to spin it off of a Lost In Space episode. Also at the time, Lost In Space appeared to be in the safe bet for renewal, and the SF Wave on the networks hadn't quite crested yet, but it would quite soon.
I feel like we already have a famous scifi guy from the 25th century, but I just can't quite place him. Now what the Buck was his name? :)
Wasn't that Roy Rogers who rode the horse named Trigger?
4:57 He goes back to Earth via the Jupiter 2...did the Robinson Family give him a lift back to Earth?
hahaha
Interestingly, "Tonio" was supposed to be introduced on a never-produced episode of "LOST IN SPACE", where he meets the Robinsons on his way to Earth.....
Looks like the Green Ranger.
The " buttheads " from " star trek "
Irwin Allend knew how to recycle ideas the same with director "J. J." Abram,however his are more "copy and paste".
Leave JJ Abrams alone! His Kelvin Timeline Star Trek movies were great!
This demo reel & Gene Roddenberry's "Assignment:Earth" episode from Star Trek share a very similar premise.
Humans abducted from Earth by an alien civilization who are trained & conditioned by the aliens & returned to Earth with high tech devices.
The key difference being that the alien here was trained for evil purposes, while Gary Seven on A:E was sent to assist earth.
theironclads "Assist" has different connotations. You can "help " someone into their grave.
Gary 7 was sent to prevent a nuclear holocaust. It says nothing about why the aliens wanted the Earth population preserved
It could have been "To Serve Man."
@@georgee.williams1449Robert Lansing would never be involved in such a horrible thing!
@@georgee.williams1449Good Lord! You might be right!😂
@@mariakelly90210I hope you're right!😮😅
Too bad they didn't use that ramp on the Jupiter 2 for the Chariot in Lost In Space!
this base is very much like project wildfire from the Andromeda strain
The aliens always claim that they're mentally and morally more advanced than us...but they never are.
That's for sure!😂😮
Don't remember this one at all. Glad my tablet doesn't explode like that when I knock it.
I wonder if he knew Gary Seven from 2nd season Star Trek?
Funny thing is, that's James Darren who later starred in Star Trek DS9 as the holographic crooner, Vic Fontaine. Small world isn't it?
@Kevin McDougall Hmm....I wonder lol.
I didn't know the Jupiter 2 was outfitted with a Porsche?...
Not a Porsche - Lotus Elan
Apparently Irwin Allen used microsoft computers.
Looks like they either found the Jupiter 2 (Lost in Space) or re purposed it. that space ship he took to earth looked vaguely like it. lol
Parts bin was raided for the making of a test film. If investors were impressed, a better equipped actual pilot would come forth.
Allen was a very unsafe man to work for..cheap to actors , crew and sets, but wrote himself a big check...
Wait! James Darren didn’t take his shirt off? What’s the point of the show? LOL!!! His hair is immaculate though. I never heard of this until today & I had seen all of the Irwin Allan shows. Granted it didn’t make it to series but I’m just surprised that it’s the first time I’m hearing about the The Man from the 25th Century. It would have gone a season or two.
I see they used props from all the other shows Jupiter 2for one the crash landing scene
Great fun but I can see why this remained a pilot
That epoch in TV history had faded at this point. ABCs Movies of the Week coming in 1969 were a better showcase in which to try out an idea, rather than place all hopes on pilot ideas at this point.😮
This failed pilot resembles Buck Rogers in reverse. A man from the future that returns to Earth. Interesting idea. However, the pilot was a good idea for a television series but it lacked that extra special treatment. Why did they use the same stock footage from Lost In Space, music and sound effects?
James Darren looks very young. I was watching him in the season seven of Star Trek DS9 and he didn't age at all.
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Irwin Allen was a very cheap person. Soon as shooting from one show was finished, he'd take the props and use them on another show. Sometime without modifying it. And of course this included the musical backgrounds scores, etc.
In the documentary "Pioneers of Television", they showed all of the craziness that went on at the studios, while Irwin was making these shows and some of his antics.
FortOmnicron54 This was a test pitch for network execs to get the idea of the proposed show if and when it would be given the go ahead to go into production. So some scenes had only artwork and re-used a lot of stock footage from other shows. Basically if you had a spaceship shot in space you could lift it from a previous show. But the exec's knew that it would be replaced with a new shot. In the Land Of The Giants pitch they again used the Jupiter 2 and shot a few scenes with the little people. But that show was green lit so they built a new spaceship one full size and several scaled miniatures. Irwin did this for all his shows, as many others did as well. Sometimes the network liked something
but still showed their advertisers if they would like their product or service played on a proposed new show. If they got enough commercial/advertising money. A show could go into production even if the network didn't think much of it.
This was just a short demonstration Pilot. It would have been ridiculous to spend money on creating props and sets that might never be used; all that could be created later if the concept was picked up by the network.
See Reticulun below. This was only a low priced test film, not an actual pilot. Purpose to draw on investors interest.
@@atlien4life284Irwin could only spend what Those At The Top gave him, alas.😮
60's had more hope and imagination for the future
Far livlier!😂😮
so this guy was lost in space.....hence why the Jupiter 2 is here...so tony Newman returns to the time tunnel complex...
LOL...car drives out of the Jupiter 2.
This concept was actually a good one, but better writing, directing, and acting would have been needed to make it work.
But maybe Irwin Allen was the wrong producer to pull it off.
Could've used another conveyance like a beam of light.
I liked it. Too bad it didn't make it.