Thanks for doing this. I'm 62 and watched Lost in Space from day 1. Have the complete series and still watch to this day. Talk about reusing props the creature on the episode The Raft, was also used in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, another great series. Personally I feel the first season had the best stories, The Magic Mirror, My Friend Mr Knowbody, Return from Outer Space (Mumys) favorite among others. Thanks again.
We had a black and white set until the late 1970s, so I never realized the robot was gold for an episode, or that the costumes had become so bright after season 1. We loved the show all the same, for its cliffhangers as much as for its tech scenery.
Here is a bit of trivia that many modern RUclips watchers don't know. The two theme songs of this show were composed by a young "Johnny Willians". And he is now the most famous movie theme composer in history as "John Williams", beginning with "Jaws" , "Star Wars (almost all of the movies), ", Raiders of the Lost Arc" (and other Indiana Jones movies), "E.T."., "Shindler's List", "Superman", and many, many more. Willians is now the most Academy Award nominated and wining composer! I love the second theme song as it has more bright and accented trumpet sections, which is one of John Williams' traits in movie themes, especially "Star Wars".
It is interesting that earily in John Williams carreer (aka Johny Williams) he got his start on Irwin Allan productions such as Lost In Space, The Time Tunnel, and Land of the Giants. All shows were low budget TV productions that were elevated by the theme song and episode music. I believe if not for his work, these shows would have had far less impact.
I'm 64. Because of "Lost In Space" , I got my college degree in electronics and built my own robot. "Zoe the Robot" ( on You-Tube) - I think that I wanted to be "Will Robinson".
I think it’s sad that Irwin Allen felt the need to “teach Jonathan Harris a lesson“. That man was older already and was enjoying the fact that he was the Breakout star of Lost in Space. Why couldn’t Irwin Allen allow him to enjoy that portion of his career instead of knocking him down a peg. That’s the problem with that business. No one is ever happy when their colleagues are successful.
I don't think Irwin would have fired Jonathan no matter what. He knew that Jonathan and the Robot were the show. From what I was told, Jonathan got his raise anyhow!
the only leverage Harris had was "I want a raise or Im going to quit". Allen had a lot invested in the series by that point.... so... two can play that game. You signed a contract, Im holding you to it.
I think Jonathan Harris' character was out there to keep the show moving and viable to the demographic it was intended for. While I would have preferred the show stick to its more serious scientific beginnings, the young people it was aimed at entertaining would have been turned off by the show, eventually. Remember, the space race was on. I can remember discussions in science class in school about all the problems that would need to be overcome in the space environment. Lost In Space could have addressed demonstrated possible solutions to these problems. Remember, it was set 30 years in the future from when it aired in the sixties. I can recall an episode in season one where June Lockhart was reading an orange colored text book with a look of fascination. That Scholastic science text book was one of my elementary school text books. The future looked bright for all of us youngsters from the mid sixties. Our Saturday morning cartoons illustrated that enthusiasm.
Johnathon Harris was also very claustrophobic. In season one when Don puts Smith in the freezing tube before the crash, you can see Harris's fingertips slightly touching the Plexiglas while inside the tube. This was all Harris can do without having a panic attack. It was his way of dealing with his phobia.
Watching this series as a kid, Trip Through the Robot was my favorite episode until seeing The Anti-Matter Man. The Keeper episode was awesome and quite scary. As an adult, any scene with Marta Kristen has my thumb over the pause button.
24:42 That stage design is called a "cyclorama" and it creates the illusion of depth and a sky. It was used a lot on "Star Trek", they had a painted sky for Talos IV in "The Cage", and used gel lights on a cyclorama for the rest of the show's run. It just looks chintzier on "Lost in Space" because the set is smaller.
I was seven years old when _Lost In Space_ became a series and I was addicted from the first episode. The opening music always got me excited. I made my own Jupiter Two flying saucer by taping two paper plates together and drawing little windows on it. Like an annoying little kid I ran around the house with it. "Beep-beep boop beep boop! Look out everybody! Here's comes the Jupiter Two about to crash into another freaky planet!" lol 😝 Did you ever notice how much bigger the Jupiter Two looked inside than it was on the outside? When it was landed they only showed that front part where the hatch was. Even at age seven it looked wrong. I remember trying to figure out the size based the ship's curve and thinking "That's way too small." I knew _Lost In Space_ was on its last legs when they had Judy and Penny go-go dancing on pedestals.
I was about 8 when LIS debuted. I remember stapling two aluminum pie plates together, and glueing some kind of half round piece on top, sort of copying the J2. Then I flung it in the air like a frisbee and took pictures of it, and then tried to convince friends I saw a UFO!
I was about 10 and was jealous of Billy Mummy having a robot of his own SO I built my own from a wooden vegetable crate, the kind stores use to throw away, a couple pieces of 2 x 4 scrap from my dad's remodel of our house and a styrofoam space helmet toy I had. He did NOT do anything BUT he did look cool! And after a lifetime of building props for movies I count him as my first prop!
My sister and I built a few spaceships from used boxes at the grocery store. We’d cut holes for viewports, and draw insignia on the outside, and a control panel on the inside. We’d get in and be off to the universe!
You ever notice they never commented on the astrogator. In some scenes it was absent from the flight deck altogether. In earliest episodes, the dome elevated up to the glass dome on top of the vehicle. I guess it was a way for it to get a fix on where it was in the heavens. There were a couple of episodes where the astrogator dome was parked up inside the top dome of the space craft. Later, it was just shown as a frosted over flashing light. That detail could have been better developed in other episodes, I think. Cultivating food, corraling animals, water acquisition and storage. Those were all challenges that would have had to have been solved. They started out doing that then it got campy. Even at the age of seven I would have liked to have seen it continue as in the earliest episodes.
Your childhood memory of Christmas and the gift your parents were able to provide you just touched me so much! That type of memory is priceless and the love I heard in your voice for your parents is just beautiful.
I think,I remember the episode;Trip through the 🤖 Robot?I haven’t seen this since the late 1970”s,in re-runs,of course.I think,this is the only episode that I remember.
That episode had me on the edge of my seat as the robot was shrinking back to normal size and the opening grew too small to go back in to rescue Will. A lot of props and creative thinking went into to that episode.
This show was called "Uchuukazoku Robinson" (Space Family Robinson) in Japan, and the Robot was called Friday, a reference to "Robinson Crusoe." This. is another US series still fondly remembered by the Japanese of my generation.
Thank you for these blooper videos , I'm 55 Now and was raised on Lost In Space , It's really great to see the Blue ray versions and have a breakdown :) QC
I had forgotten how many episodes I really loved as a kid until watching your blooper videos. Thanks so much for taking the time and effort to share these, though they are obviously a labor of love on your part. I remember when I was bored in church as a kid, I would endlessly draw the Robot on the Sunday programs with the little pencils that were meant to be used with the tithe envelopes. 😀 "Trip Through the Robot" was my all-time favorite. It fired my imagination so much that 50 years later I still recall most of the episode vividly.
Once again, thank you for putting this together. You did a meticulous introspection of the ingredients that went into the show. I’m entirely grateful as I loved the show in watched it religiously, and once again, I will say that I was madly in love with Angela Cartwright.
@@birdlover6842 ...once she hit Puberty , I don't think she ever looked good - not even in the 3rd Season & is chubby as an adult. I wasn't blind - I liked other girls & women on TV at the time - but this show the thought never occurred to me that anyone was attractive ...
Irwin Allen also used various props and monster costumes that were only slightly altered from Lost in Space in his other show, “Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea”. You’d see something that was supposed to be a space monster, now with fins and gills altered to become a sea monster.
@@kenwittlief255 I heard about that somewhere. That was a real and very expensive computer and they were damn sure they were going to get their money out of it. I just did a google image search to confirm what I thought I heard. It was a Burroughs Datatron. But was that a different network? Both were CBS shows I thought. Star Trek was NBC.
There is a prop in Airplane II (1982) and Shatner interacts with, pointing out that he has no idea what it does. "It just keeps blinking back and forth, and back and forth. I can't take it anymore!" The same prop was in a Star Trek TNG episode, possible more than one. I think I even saw in on Voyager. I can't help but crack up a bit every time I see it being taken seriously.
I’ve been enjoying these. Just discovered the three seasons are on Hulu. Watched the first five episodes….it’s really campy😂😂😂but in the 60’s. It all seemed real😊
@@kjohnson5932 oh yeah! Loved all that crazy campy stuff. It's what stirrs the imagination into creating reality in the future. Wristwatch cellular phones anyone? Dick Tracy had it first.
Watching this as a kid the same age as Billy Mumy, I couldn't figure out why the crew didn't just ditch (exile or do away with) Dr. Smith who was responsible for all their troubles.
Originally they did plan to get rid of Dr Smith early in the series. He was only necessary to be the cause of the ship going off course and becoming lost. In the first few episodes his character is very dark and evil. It was Harris' idea for Dr Smith to have a change of heart, turn over a new leaf, and turn into the scheming "get back to Earth' character that kept him on the show. Otherwise he would have been disposed of in some way after the 3rd or 4th episode of the 1st season, and Harris would have been out of a job. BTW this is why he was billed as 'special guest star'... he was not intended to be a permanent part of the cast.
I thought the same about "Gilligan's Island". Gilligan seemed to foil every opportunity they ever had to get off the island. If it had been a drama, I'm pretty sure they would have offed him early on. Keeping him around kept it a comedy.
@@kenwittlief255 I would respectfully correct you about your "billing" assertion. Harris had asked Allen for the "special guest" billing as Harris, himself, couldn't see the longevity of such a ghastly character as Dr Smith for more than a handful of episodes. You can see for yourself in this seven minute interview: ruclips.net/video/-Hg9LPr-Glc/видео.html
J.r. Of Dallas is the epitome of this theory. Absolute evil yet the show was based on him being evil every episode. I tried watching it again, and after the first season it just is ridiculous. Even family would not have tolerated his behavior.
You really know your Lost In Space, I am damn impressed! You discovered things I only a few have noticed, and a few things I never did. What a great analysis. This video is a lot of fun to watch!
An amazing analysis and a bounty of bloopers of this cult classic! Thanks for all your hard work! I found Lost in Space as a kid in the 1990z and have been recently going through it again and these videos are such a treat . Well done good sir!
It was pure magic for me when I was 7 in 1966, seeing a color TV show for the very first time. I thought Dr. Smith made the show but Billy Mumy's intelligence made me want to study hard in school.
At 64, they are still a treat for me and Im 8 years old sitting as close as I can to our tv console /record/ stero player and radio, because I was not going to miss one single second of that show. For that one hour I was in space with the crew ! I loved all of them , loathed the mean professor Smith for what he had done and did to them, adored Will Robinson and was jealous of Penny for being so close to him. I would later attend Providence High School , Burbank Ca, accross the street from the studios and around the corner from NBC, where Angela Cartright , had also attended school and graduated. I even got to meet Billy Mummy at one of our fairs...made my day!
The audio of Bob’s voice where he ends with “destroy” is odd. He says “Which jacket precedes into what extra report…destroy.” At least that’s what it sounded like when I threw a filter on it and slowed it down. Sounds like gibberish to me but I don’t know that episode. It doesn’t help that someone else is yelling on top of it. I really enjoy your videos. Thanks!
You know, it never occurred to me that that was Bob May's voice. I always thought the robot's brains were scrambled after sustaining a hit from one of those alien's explosive charges. So that scene may have been a save for a time when Dick Tufeld was not available to do a voiceover. Similar to the episode when John Robinson was firing a laser at a creature from a volcanic quick sand pit and no laser beam came out of his gun. The mat special visual effects editor forgot to insert the laser beam into the final print.
This is so much fun seeing all these bloopers I never noticed when I watched the show. I saw an interview by the actor that played Judy (Marta ?) I'm sorry I can't remember her name. She was saying how the director was half asleep all the time and they could have stood on their heads and he would say it was a take (or what ever they say when it's a good shot) She said he hardly gave any direction at all. It was done rather cheaply but was a successful show. Thanks for the great video and I subscribed!
I heard those voice changes on the robot. I figured that he was short circuiting from bad guy trama, but you cleared it up. Pretty funny. This show is extremely addictive as well as Space 1999 and Star Trek, Preciate yall putting this cool series together. Danger, Danger Will Robinson!👍
Great fun to watch! Never thought of the second season being so entertaining. Thanks for pulling these interesting nuggets of trivia out of the episodes.
@@thetruthhurts6652 The carrot man was in season 3 "The Great Vegetable Rebellion". I agree the second season was the weakest one. It did have several good episodes in it though.
There is a great gag at the end of S2 E11 West of Mars. Definitely deserves to be on your list of oddities. The episode is over and it's running the scene from the next episode. In it, Dr Smith finds a lyre and plays 3 notes. Now remember this is a CBS show. But the 3 notes he plays are the NBC tri-tone which NBC used to play as their station identifier at the top of every hour. Back to Lost in Space, Dr Smith play those infamous 3 notes and next find himself falling into the fiery pit of hell. Its a brilliant gag, but the best part is in the actual episode S2 E12. In the beginning of that episode, it's 3 other notes entirely. So if someone calls threatening to sue, they can pull out the actual episode and say, "No, its not your tri-tone at all." Meanwhile this little gem stays hidden at the end of the previous episode S2, E11 West of Mars.
@@adriansherlockdamondark.1094 Its a great gag isn't is? The rivalry between networks when it was just the 3 biggies was much more pronounced. Although I don't think it was as venomous as the rivalry you see today between the various TV new organizations. It was more like a friendly rivalry.
These are so interesting to watch. I would have never known about most of these bloopers, although I did feel quite a few oddities about the Robot throughout the series. I knew some of those props were re-used but never realized how many. One thing that makes me laugh is that nearly every alien that they came across flew off in the same exact style spaceship. I wonder if there was an intergalactic company that built them for everyone in the universe. You can sure see how the production company did some budgeting, but still, Lost In Space is literally a great colorful show!
Heart warming to hear about your parents getting you the Remco Robot for Christmas. And you've kept it in good condition all these years. I did not realize the episode The Mechanical Men just used Remco Robots, but of course, they had been released in '66. Logan.
This was my favorite show , along with some other ones in the mid sixties, how time passes it was fun to watch, doctor smith like always the cowardly fool, he made the show interesting, it had a lot of imagination, I was in my early teens when the show came out, the robot was also my favorite, it would be nice to have a remake of this show today , this was early tv compared to some of the trash tv today, thanks you tube for showing this , show some episodes to relive those times.
I was only 9 when LIS started. Im curious - Star Trek was on in the same time period - did you watch both? Im not sure I saw any episodes of Star Trek when it originally aired. I thnk maybe Bewitched? It must have been on as the same time as some other program my family watched.
The sperical object in the foreground at 19:50 is obviously a bowling ball, due to two finger holes clearly visible. I am surprised that the narrator did not catch this blooper.
3:36 Maureen told Dr. Smith to tell John face to face, because she knew Smith was a coward & it was a terrible thing he did. She wanted to make sure he suffered, & she wasn’t about to let him off so easy. Still… She was compassionate, & made Will accompany the feeble coward Smith for support.
In the explosion that Mummy is next to, in reality he was six feet from the blast point, and there no real fire there, just spark pots and flash pots. While very bright, it's not particularly hot. While it would not be good for him to get a spark in the eye, he does cover his face from it. Flash pots used a very small amount of black powder, when they went off the would throw material into the air, which would ignite. But burn incredibly fast, with very little heat. Depending on the colour of flash you wanted, that would determine what the other material was added. Even flour would make a lovely cold explosion. Magnesium powder would often be added to create a shower of sparks. They burned super fast and rarely caught anything on fire. You can see a very clear line at the bottom of the explosion to show you how far away Mummy was standing. The camera perspective helps a lot here, he's closer than maybe he should be, but barely close enough to even feel the heat of the explosion. Great video by the way. Love all the Robot stuff.
I'm sure they took all the necessary precautions to protect him. But man, if they ever did anything like that today, there would be all kinds of crazy going on! 😄
@@outsider238 There is an explosion in an episode of Doctor Who, that nearly blew Sylvester McCoy off his feet, he was WAY to close to this one. ruclips.net/video/5Pm2LQIWipw/видео.html
Thank goodness for suspension of disbelief.....which as a kid, I had in spades. Loved this show. I wished that I was Billy Mumy. He always got to do such fun stuff. Great presentation. Reminds me of the Frank Zappa tune "Cheepnis"...which is on youtube.
@@outsider238 Is everything really cool to you? Surely there must be one scene which isn't? Is there any chance you can get through various clips without using the word cool? That's the only gripe i have when you have produced a good vid to do with the series which i watched way back in the 60's
He mentioned that in the last episode The Galaxy Gift that John and Don were not in that episode. In reality, they were for only a brief scene. They were in the chariot saying the radiator block was frozen while on the radio with Maureen.
The lower section of the "Lady Robot" (seen in "The Ghost Planet" and season three's "Deadliest Of The Species") was initially shown as the damaged antenna in need of repair and reason for Professor Robinson's spacewalk in season one. The urgent take-off from the Nerim induced doom of the first season's planet shows the Jupiter 2's landing gear retracting even though the ship implicitly belly landed during the crash sequence in season one (and subsequent episodes showing it obviously rested as such). The Jupiter 2's proportions are off probably due to its original design as a single deck spaceship (it explains why some scenes show an extremely large viewport). Yes, Dr. Smith and the Robot were add-ins after the unaired pilot episode was filmed. Usually overlooked is that the lower deck was also an addition.
Yeah but it was clearly indicated in the first episode. They talked about the galley and state room compartments. So it was always a two level ship. The power core scene had me baffled.
The green prop at 19min 34 sec in was also an "alien spaceship" in Voyage (Season 3: Terrible toys)...used with the 8ft seaview in a number of scenes filmed in the green tank
@@outsider238 There are multiple props swapped between the two series, you could do a long vlog on that for sure, here's another one for free the red arch set with pipes on the side that they walk through used in the Dream Monster ( 21min 57 secs) was also a part set in Voyage (Deadly Invasion season 3- underwater Sato 6 base set) ! www.vttbots.com/Graphics/invasion15.jpg There are literally 100s of swap overs from costumes, actors and props. Great Vids thank you.
Speaking of Irwin's tightness $$ on special effects, loved the cheesy use of Xmas tree tinsel slowly blowing around as a "force field" in many scenes .. 🤭
This was really a fun video. More than words can say. Lost in Space was such a fun, campy TV show....like Bat Man I guess. They just had a lot of fun with it and we enjoyed watching it. It came along right when average ordinary people were finally getting color TV sets so it was doubly fun for that reason.
Another cool video! Not a blooper but just a fun fact, a lot of people don’t realize that the Johnny Williams credited for the show’s music is today the great composer John Williams. Starting at about 8:05 There is a metal bird on a pole to the left of the robot. At about 26 minutes there are two of them against the back wall, although it’s hard to see if they’re identical or not because one is turned? When I saw the first one I wondered if it could’ve been Alonzo Tuckers metal parrot too? These just look like cast figurines though, not moveable. Yeah Irwin Allen was the master of cheap though. I didn’t realize that about the drill being a reuse of the snorkel from Fantastic Voyage, but I recognize it now. That was a cool movie at the time at the time but really had a lot of flaws from a technological standpoint, even with suspending disbelief on the whole shrinking thing. For example shrinking something doesn’t mean you decrease the mass. Given the density of blood hasn’t changed, even under power was it even possible for it to float? When the tiny sub settled on the floor of a blood vessel it would drop through the body, the table, and the floor probably! Well anyway, getting off the subject but it would be another good video. You also mentioned John and Don not being in the Galaxy Gift episode, I wonder if it was cost savings to pay for the guest star, or if that’s one of the situations where Irwin was mad at them over something so they were written out? I’ve seen mention in another video that the reason (I think it was John and Maureen) were locked up in the cage during the vegetable revolt episode was because they kept laughing and Irwin got mad? Pretty sure there was something similar that happened with the episode where Smith was shown some premonition where the Robinsons were burying a bad circuit board (seriously?) and talking about it in glowing terms, so Smith thought they were burying him? Well enough rambling, looking forward to your season three video!
I noticed that bird. I think it's a different bird though. They used some really odd props for set dressing on a lot of episodes. But I like the imagery it created. I'll be discussing what happened to June Lockhart and Guy Williams in the third season video. I really liked Fantastic Voyage. The special effects were really good for the time. I'm not really sure why Don and John weren't on The Galaxy Gift. It may not have been the last episode filmed for the second season. I don't think it was to save money though. They were paid even if they weren't on the episode because of their contracts. I'm happy to hear that you're enjoying these videos! Season three will be coming soon! 😁
I actually love looking for this stuff and seeing those errors in tv shows. It's just entertaining to do and see and give a glimpse of the special effects of the day.
I totally agree! Even as a kid I used to see these type of things and it always made me more interested in the behind the scenes of a show or movie almost more than the show itself.
Interesting stuff for the fans. Actually, in the episode “The Galaxy Gift”, Guy Williams and Mark Goddard do appear. They are in one brief scene where they are in the chariot communicating with Maureen who is in the Jupiter 2. They are discussing about her bitter cold weather pattern caused by the Saticons.
Also in Prisoners of Space when the fence is put up and in a scene later on there's a noticeable gap between the bottom of the fence and the ground on the first section as it starts from the left that looks wide enough for someone to crawl under. Later in the episode they cover this area with bushes.
I'd have to watch the episode, and stop it and slo mo it, but at 15:40 with Will reacting to the explosion (sparks), it appears that the surface of the sand has maybe been built up a little, directing the majority of the effect away from Mumy, though I believe his response was genuine
It wasn't an actual blooper but after you hear Bob May say "DANGER DANGER" they are on approach to the stairs, even back then I wondered how the robot got inside as they were all obviously approaching the steps.
I do too. More than anything, I've always been interested in how TV shows and movies are made and bloopers are a cool, unintended look behind the scenes that we'd normally not get to see.
18:27 West of Mars, that aired 30 November 1966. Don't forget that as odd as the town set is, you had the same thing in the Star Trek episode Spectre of the Gun, that aired 25 October 1968 that also featured a stylized Western town that was nothing but facades since there was no money in the budget for anything else.
In the trailer for the end of this episode, they showed the trailer for Blast off into Outer Space like they did for the end of Season One which was appropriate since the Jupiter 2 would be blasting off into space for a new adventure for the Season Three debute of "Condemned of Space"
Excellent job finding all those mistakes and editing it together. A lot of work for sure. Irwin Allen also used the Fantastic Voyage set to film a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode where the diving bell is eaten by a whale.
At the end of the season one episode, when they aired the teaser for season two, I well remember yelling, "COLOR! LOS is going to color!!" I was filled with joy.
Professor John Robinson and Major Don West were often refining fuel for the spaceship and looking for other minerals so often went off without the others.
@@outsider238 I have a signed letter and handwritten envelope from Jonathan Harris. I was part of the Lost in Space message board and arguing in favor of his changing the character. He greatly appreciated my response.
About Albert Salmi.(capt tucker). I lived a couple blocks from his house where he lived in Spokane Washington in 1989 when he killed his wife then himself. His daughter said in an interview that he wasn't in an argument with his wife like you say. She said he loved his wife very much and she was dying of a sickness and in great pain. He ended her pain and knew he couldn't go on without her so he ended his life too.
At 11:27 in this, the robot is saying, "Crush, Kill, Destroy,,," over and over! Holy crap! I haven't heard that since the series was on, which makes me really freakin' old. But I remember him doing that! Good ol' days. "Oh, the PAIN, the pain...."
At the 18:50 mark on the walls of the western town that didn't connect, I'm pretty sure that Star Trek did the same thing in an episode where Kirk , Spock, Scotty, McCoy and Chekov had to fight the Earps at the OK Corral. The town was very similar.
LIS "West of Mars" western town's incomplete buildings were somewhat the same as Star Trek's "Spectre of the Gun" town's buildings. Both were interesting in looks.
@@outsider238 You should do a series on LIS vs Star Trek season by season. I noticed when re-watching LiS that there would be a plot device on Lost in Space that was echoed [usually more professionaly cough cough] the next year on Star Trek, like LiS had a spore-spewing flower then the next year they had one on Star Trek, season 2 LiS has the minimal-set western followed the next year on ST with the minimal set OK Corral, etc. It's been a while but I swear there are more than a dozen LiS epps that feature something like a space prison or museum owned by a powerful dude or accidentally breaking a local law etc that would show up the very next year on Star Trek.
@@rafaelallenblock Someone at Star Trek was a secret Lost In Space fan! Haha! I never noticed that until you mentioned it. Many shows actually had about 5-6 plots that they would use over and over but just put a different spin on it every week so the audience wouldn't notice. But they did it so well! 😁
@@outsider238 It's interesting because both shows ran three seasons, just offset by one. I remember clearly as a kid watching season 1 of LiS and sorta liking it but being a bit of a sci-fi geek, I noticed lots of crazy stuff [like who goes outside during a comet flyby for two episodes instead of just waiting, then being burned up by a chunk of ice???] and the next year when TOS started I was like, yeah, this is what LiS SHOULD have been. But a few years ago I was binge watching LiS and started to notice things they ripped off on TOS but of course they ALL ripped off Outer Limits etc. and there was a lot of incestuous moves by talent and crew. I just thought it would be interesting if someone did even like a side-by-side of LiS epps "ripped off" by Roddenberry. Fun channel BTW love the rubber hand pointer]
@@rafaelallenblock Haha! Thank you! Yeah there was a lot of borrowing of ideas on shows back then. It was a great time for television during that time. So many sci-fi and fantasy shows. Bewitched, Jeannie, Flying Nun, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone just to name a few. I loved them all!
The costumes for season 2 were a holdover from the final 10 episodes from season 1. Penny's costume was yellow like Judy's, but for season when it went to color, Penny's outfit changed to red so it would not match Judy's
Anyone ever notice that Penny's jacket was the same pattern as the play clothes in the Sound of Music? The clothes Julie Andrews made out of curtains so the children could play without damaging their regular clothes.
Thanks for doing this. I'm 62 and watched Lost in Space from day 1. Have the complete series and still watch to this day. Talk about reusing props the creature on the episode The Raft, was also used in Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, another great series. Personally I feel the first season had the best stories, The Magic Mirror, My Friend Mr Knowbody, Return from Outer Space (Mumys) favorite among others. Thanks again.
I can't thank You enough Lost In Space team for what entertainment You have given Us All
We had a black and white set until the late 1970s, so I never realized the robot was gold for an episode, or that the costumes had become so bright after season 1. We loved the show all the same, for its cliffhangers as much as for its tech scenery.
Here is a bit of trivia that many modern RUclips watchers don't know. The two theme songs of this show were composed by a young "Johnny Willians". And he is now the most famous movie theme composer in history as "John Williams", beginning with "Jaws" , "Star Wars (almost all of the movies), ", Raiders of the Lost Arc" (and other Indiana Jones movies), "E.T."., "Shindler's List", "Superman", and many, many more. Willians is now the most Academy Award nominated and wining composer!
I love the second theme song as it has more bright and accented trumpet sections, which is one of John Williams' traits in movie themes, especially "Star Wars".
I preferred the second theme song, too. You misspelled "Ark" and "Schindler's."
You can actually hear hints of the Star Wars Wagnerian-inspired musical motif in the second theme song.
Adore John Williams music. He is a master at his craft. 🥰
It is interesting that earily in John Williams carreer (aka Johny Williams) he got his start on Irwin Allan productions such as Lost In Space, The Time Tunnel, and Land of the Giants. All shows were low budget TV productions that were elevated by the theme song and episode music. I believe if not for his work, these shows would have had far less impact.
I'm 64. Because of "Lost In Space" , I got my college degree in electronics and built my own robot. "Zoe the Robot" ( on You-Tube) - I think that I wanted to be "Will Robinson".
I think it’s sad that Irwin Allen felt the need to “teach Jonathan Harris a lesson“. That man was older already and was enjoying the fact that he was the Breakout star of Lost in Space. Why couldn’t Irwin Allen allow him to enjoy that portion of his career instead of knocking him down a peg. That’s the problem with that business. No one is ever happy when their colleagues are successful.
I don't think Irwin would have fired Jonathan no matter what. He knew that Jonathan and the Robot were the show. From what I was told, Jonathan got his raise anyhow!
the only leverage Harris had was "I want a raise or Im going to quit".
Allen had a lot invested in the series by that point.... so... two can play that game. You signed a contract, Im holding you to it.
I think Jonathan Harris' character was out there to keep the show moving and viable to the demographic it was intended for. While I would have preferred the show stick to its more serious scientific beginnings, the young people it was aimed at entertaining would have been turned off by the show, eventually. Remember, the space race was on. I can remember discussions in science class in school about all the problems that would need to be overcome in the space environment. Lost In Space could have addressed demonstrated possible solutions to these problems. Remember, it was set 30 years in the future from when it aired in the sixties. I can recall an episode in season one where June Lockhart was reading an orange colored text book with a look of fascination. That Scholastic science text book was one of my elementary school text books. The future looked bright for all of us youngsters from the mid sixties. Our Saturday morning cartoons illustrated that enthusiasm.
Always enjoy anything on lost in space
Johnathon Harris was also very claustrophobic. In season one when Don puts Smith in the freezing tube before the crash, you can see Harris's fingertips slightly touching the Plexiglas while inside the tube. This was all Harris can do without having a panic attack. It was his way of dealing with his phobia.
Watching this series as a kid, Trip Through the Robot was my favorite episode until seeing The Anti-Matter Man. The Keeper episode was awesome and quite scary. As an adult, any scene with Marta Kristen has my thumb over the pause button.
mine too
During the original run, I was in love with Penny ….
@@sking2173 Me too! Remember when Penny had the “bloop bloop” monkey kind of pet? I think her name was Debbie? Got a kick out of that!
We loved the cheap set and props because it was easier for our neighborhood to replicate it when we recreated episodes for neighborhood plays.
I love the way a lot of props were used many times in different episodes!
These are pretty funny, thanks. I always think of the Conan interview with Jonathan Harris when Harris refers to Irwin Allen’s cheapness 😅
I love that interview! 🤣
24:42 That stage design is called a "cyclorama" and it creates the illusion of depth and a sky. It was used a lot on "Star Trek", they had a painted sky for Talos IV in "The Cage", and used gel lights on a cyclorama for the rest of the show's run. It just looks chintzier on "Lost in Space" because the set is smaller.
I was seven years old when _Lost In Space_ became a series and I was addicted from the first episode. The opening music always got me excited.
I made my own Jupiter Two flying saucer by taping two paper plates together and drawing little windows on it. Like an annoying little kid I ran around the house with it. "Beep-beep boop beep boop! Look out everybody! Here's comes the Jupiter Two about to crash into another freaky planet!" lol 😝
Did you ever notice how much bigger the Jupiter Two looked inside than it was on the outside? When it was landed they only showed that front part where the hatch was. Even at age seven it looked wrong. I remember trying to figure out the size based the ship's curve and thinking "That's way too small." I knew _Lost In Space_ was on its last legs when they had Judy and Penny go-go dancing on pedestals.
I was about 8 when LIS debuted. I remember stapling two aluminum pie plates together, and glueing some kind of half round piece on top, sort of copying the J2. Then I flung it in the air like a frisbee and took pictures of it, and then tried to convince friends I saw a UFO!
I was about 10 and was jealous of Billy Mummy having a robot of his own SO I built my own from a wooden vegetable crate, the kind stores use to throw away, a couple pieces of 2 x 4 scrap from my dad's remodel of our house and a styrofoam space helmet toy I had. He did NOT do anything BUT he did look cool! And after a lifetime of building props for movies I count him as my first prop!
My sister and I built a few spaceships from used boxes at the grocery store. We’d cut holes for viewports, and draw insignia on the outside, and a control panel on the inside. We’d get in and be off to the universe!
You ever notice they never commented on the astrogator. In some scenes it was absent from the flight deck altogether. In earliest episodes, the dome elevated up to the glass dome on top of the vehicle. I guess it was a way for it to get a fix on where it was in the heavens. There were a couple of episodes where the astrogator dome was parked up inside the top dome of the space craft. Later, it was just shown as a frosted over flashing light. That detail could have been better developed in other episodes, I think. Cultivating food, corraling animals, water acquisition and storage. Those were all challenges that would have had to have been solved. They started out doing that then it got campy. Even at the age of seven I would have liked to have seen it continue as in the earliest episodes.
Your childhood memory of Christmas and the gift your parents were able to provide you just touched me so much! That type of memory is priceless and the love I heard in your voice for your parents is just beautiful.
Thank you! I've been blessed with wonderful parents. That robot toy will always be very special. 😍
"Trip Through the Robot" was my all time favorite episode.
I love that episode too! 😁
Mine too.
I think,I remember the episode;Trip through the 🤖 Robot?I haven’t seen this since the late 1970”s,in re-runs,of course.I think,this is the only episode that I remember.
That episode had me on the edge of my seat as the robot was shrinking back to normal size and the opening grew too small to go back in to rescue Will. A lot of props and creative thinking went into to that episode.
This show was called "Uchuukazoku Robinson" (Space Family Robinson) in Japan, and the Robot was called Friday, a reference to "Robinson Crusoe." This. is another US series still fondly remembered by the Japanese of my generation.
Every morning before school I used to finish my homework while watching reruns .memories
Thank you for these blooper videos , I'm 55 Now and was raised on Lost In Space , It's really great to see the Blue ray versions and have a breakdown :) QC
Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying them! Always loved this show. I agree, the blurays are fantastic!
Awesome Job, I just missed getting a bunch of stuff done because I couldn't stop watching this. lol
I had forgotten how many episodes I really loved as a kid until watching your blooper videos. Thanks so much for taking the time and effort to share these, though they are obviously a labor of love on your part. I remember when I was bored in church as a kid, I would endlessly draw the Robot on the Sunday programs with the little pencils that were meant to be used with the tithe envelopes. 😀
"Trip Through the Robot" was my all-time favorite. It fired my imagination so much that 50 years later I still recall most of the episode vividly.
That's so cool. "Trip Through The Robot" was one of my favorites as well. I'm happy that you enjoyed these videos! 😁
Once again, thank you for putting this together. You did a meticulous introspection of the ingredients that went into the show. I’m entirely grateful as I loved the show in watched it religiously, and once again, I will say that I was madly in love with Angela Cartwright.
Haha! Thank you! I'm so happy that you're enjoying these! They took a lot of time to make but I'm glad people are getting enjoyment out of them! 😁
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...once she hit Puberty , I don't think she ever looked good - not even in the 3rd Season & is chubby as an adult. I wasn't blind - I liked other girls & women on TV at the time - but this show the thought never occurred to me that anyone was attractive ...
I dug Penny too!
Great memories of my teenage years, race home from school to watch these series, good stuff.....
Irwin Allen also used various props and monster costumes that were only slightly altered from Lost in Space in his other show, “Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea”. You’d see something that was supposed to be a space monster, now with fins and gills altered to become a sea monster.
somehow the same computer panels of lights were in the Batcave - on a different network!
@@kenwittlief255 I heard about that somewhere. That was a real and very expensive computer and they were damn sure they were going to get their money out of it. I just did a google image search to confirm what I thought I heard. It was a Burroughs Datatron. But was that a different network? Both were CBS shows I thought. Star Trek was NBC.
There is a prop in Airplane II (1982) and Shatner interacts with, pointing out that he has no idea what it does. "It just keeps blinking back and forth, and back and forth. I can't take it anymore!" The same prop was in a Star Trek TNG episode, possible more than one. I think I even saw in on Voyager. I can't help but crack up a bit every time I see it being taken seriously.
@@Robert08010 Computers were expensive and not very common back then. So they might have been willing to rent it out to recoup some of the cost.
Angela Cartwright made that exact same observation.
I’ve been enjoying these. Just discovered the three seasons are on Hulu. Watched the first five episodes….it’s really campy😂😂😂but in the 60’s. It all seemed real😊
@@kjohnson5932 if you were an adult back when these shows aired, would you have watched them?
@@BEDBUGSEPPY I think so, the selection was limited and it was entertaining 😊. Do you remember watching Batman in Prime time? Maybe 1966/67…
@@kjohnson5932 oh yeah! Loved all that crazy campy stuff. It's what stirrs the imagination into creating reality in the future. Wristwatch cellular phones anyone? Dick Tracy had it first.
Watching this as a kid the same age as Billy Mumy, I couldn't figure out why the crew didn't just ditch (exile or do away with) Dr. Smith who was responsible for all their troubles.
Originally they did plan to get rid of Dr Smith early in the series. He was only necessary to be the cause of the ship going off course and becoming lost. In the first few episodes his character is very dark and evil. It was Harris' idea for Dr Smith to have a change of heart, turn over a new leaf, and turn into the scheming "get back to Earth' character that kept him on the show. Otherwise he would have been disposed of in some way after the 3rd or 4th episode of the 1st season, and Harris would have been out of a job. BTW this is why he was billed as 'special guest star'... he was not intended to be a permanent part of the cast.
I thought the same about "Gilligan's Island". Gilligan seemed to foil every opportunity they ever had to get off the island. If it had been a drama, I'm pretty sure they would have offed him early on. Keeping him around kept it a comedy.
@@kenwittlief255 I would respectfully correct you about your "billing" assertion. Harris had asked Allen for the "special guest" billing as Harris, himself, couldn't see the longevity of such a ghastly character as Dr Smith for more than a handful of episodes.
You can see for yourself in this seven minute interview: ruclips.net/video/-Hg9LPr-Glc/видео.html
J.r. Of Dallas is the epitome of this theory. Absolute evil yet the show was based on him being evil every episode. I tried watching it again, and after the first season it just is ridiculous. Even family would not have tolerated his behavior.
as a 7yr old The Astral Traveler terrified me with banzai scream of the swamp monster, the only episode I can say ever frightened me
That scream was freaky!
You really know your Lost In Space, I am damn impressed! You discovered things I only a few have noticed, and a few things I never did. What a great analysis. This video is a lot of fun to watch!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😁
Best TV space show ever
Enjoyed this very much. I still have my original lost in space robot as well, but it sure got played with! Still, I enjoy all the memories it holds.
An amazing analysis and a bounty of bloopers of this cult classic! Thanks for all your hard work! I found Lost in Space as a kid in the 1990z and have been recently going through it again and these videos are such a treat . Well done good sir!
Thank you so much! I really appreciate it! It was fun rewatching the entire series to make these videos. I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😁
It was pure magic for me when I was 7 in 1966, seeing a color TV show for the very first time. I thought Dr. Smith made the show but Billy Mumy's intelligence made me want to study hard in school.
@@ChatGPT1111 He was definitely a positive influence for kids back then!
At 64, they are still a treat for me and Im 8 years old sitting as close as I can to our tv console /record/ stero player and radio, because I was not going to miss one single second of that show. For that one hour I was in space with the crew ! I loved all of them , loathed the mean professor Smith for what he had done and did to them, adored Will Robinson and was jealous of Penny for being so close to him. I would later attend Providence High School , Burbank Ca, accross the street from the studios and around the corner from NBC, where Angela Cartright , had also attended school and graduated. I even got to meet Billy Mummy at one of our fairs...made my day!
@@desertedenblooms That's really cool! They were definitely a positive and great influence for kids back in the day!
The audio of Bob’s voice where he ends with “destroy” is odd. He says “Which jacket precedes into what extra report…destroy.” At least that’s what it sounded like when I threw a filter on it and slowed it down. Sounds like gibberish to me but I don’t know that episode. It doesn’t help that someone else is yelling on top of it. I really enjoy your videos. Thanks!
Thank you! The episode is called "The Ghost Planet". I agree, it's very difficult to hear what Bob is yelling.
You know, it never occurred to me that that was Bob May's voice. I always thought the robot's brains were scrambled after sustaining a hit from one of those alien's explosive charges. So that scene may have been a save for a time when Dick Tufeld was not available to do a voiceover. Similar to the episode when John Robinson was firing a laser at a creature from a volcanic quick sand pit and no laser beam came out of his gun. The mat special visual effects editor forgot to insert the laser beam into the final print.
18:36 - The Trek episode "Spectre of the Gun" also used a similar set. It gave the story a dream-like quality.
This is so much fun seeing all these bloopers I never noticed when I watched the show. I saw an interview by the actor that played Judy (Marta ?) I'm sorry I can't remember her name. She was saying how the director was half asleep all the time and they could have stood on their heads and he would say it was a take (or what ever they say when it's a good shot) She said he hardly gave any direction at all. It was done rather cheaply but was a successful show. Thanks for the great video and I subscribed!
Thank you so much! 😁
I heard those voice changes on the robot. I figured that he was short circuiting from bad guy trama, but you cleared it up. Pretty funny. This show is extremely addictive as well as Space 1999 and Star Trek, Preciate yall putting this cool series together. Danger, Danger Will Robinson!👍
Trip through the robot is one of my favorite episodes.
Great fun to watch! Never thought of the second season being so entertaining. Thanks for pulling these interesting nuggets of trivia out of the episodes.
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed this! 😁
The second season was aweful. Remember the plant people and the carrot man?
@@thetruthhurts6652 The carrot man was in season 3 "The Great Vegetable Rebellion". I agree the second season was the weakest one. It did have several good episodes in it though.
@@thetruthhurts6652 I fully agree with you. The first season was always my favorite before the show went in a corny direction.
There is a great gag at the end of S2 E11 West of Mars. Definitely deserves to be on your list of oddities. The episode is over and it's running the scene from the next episode. In it, Dr Smith finds a lyre and plays 3 notes. Now remember this is a CBS show. But the 3 notes he plays are the NBC tri-tone which NBC used to play as their station identifier at the top of every hour. Back to Lost in Space, Dr Smith play those infamous 3 notes and next find himself falling into the fiery pit of hell. Its a brilliant gag, but the best part is in the actual episode S2 E12. In the beginning of that episode, it's 3 other notes entirely. So if someone calls threatening to sue, they can pull out the actual episode and say, "No, its not your tri-tone at all."
Meanwhile this little gem stays hidden at the end of the previous episode S2, E11 West of Mars.
Watch NBC and be damned for all eternity, eh?
@@adriansherlockdamondark.1094 Its a great gag isn't is? The rivalry between networks when it was just the 3 biggies was much more pronounced. Although I don't think it was as venomous as the rivalry you see today between the various TV new organizations. It was more like a friendly rivalry.
These are so interesting to watch. I would have never known about most of these bloopers, although I did feel quite a few oddities about the Robot throughout the series. I knew some of those props were re-used but never realized how many. One thing that makes me laugh is that nearly every alien that they came across flew off in the same exact style spaceship. I wonder if there was an intergalactic company that built them for everyone in the universe. You can sure see how the production company did some budgeting, but still, Lost In Space is literally a great colorful show!
"Zoe the Robot" thinks that those "Generic" space ships were built by "Ford Rocket Motor Company" 😉
@@thomasmaiden3356 I think they were built by Penny's secret spaceship company "Angela Acme." :-)
Heart warming to hear about your parents getting you the Remco Robot for Christmas. And you've kept it in good condition all these years. I did not realize the episode The Mechanical Men just used Remco Robots, but of course, they had been released in '66. Logan.
Yes I cherish that robot! 😍 I know it wasn't an easy thing for my parents to afford. I wish I could have one of the ones they used on that episode! 😁
This was my favorite show , along with some other ones in the mid sixties, how time passes it was fun to watch, doctor smith like always the cowardly fool, he made the show interesting, it had a lot of imagination, I was in my early teens when the show came out, the robot was also my favorite, it would be nice to have a remake of this show today , this was early tv compared to some of the trash tv today, thanks you tube for showing this , show some episodes to relive those times.
I was only 9 when LIS started. Im curious - Star Trek was on in the same time period - did you watch both?
Im not sure I saw any episodes of Star Trek when it originally aired. I thnk maybe Bewitched? It must have been on as the same time as some other program my family watched.
I watched lost in space more, but alternated on some weeks.
My friends and I watched both shows and played them on the school playground.
But Lost in Space viewership was significantly higher than Star Trek.
The sperical object in the foreground at 19:50 is obviously a bowling ball, due to two finger holes clearly visible. I am surprised that the narrator did not catch this blooper.
I did notice it but forgot to mention it. ☺️😊
3:36 Maureen told Dr. Smith to tell John face to face, because she knew Smith was a coward & it was a terrible thing he did. She wanted to make sure he suffered, & she wasn’t about to let him off so easy.
Still… She was compassionate, & made Will accompany the feeble coward Smith for support.
Kinda dumb. Why would she risk injury to her son for the sake of teaching an old man a lesson he shouldn't have had to learn in the first place?
Love it! Keep ‘em coming! Thanks for sharing Roy. Happy days and model on! 😎
Thank you Peter! I appreciate it! 😁
In the explosion that Mummy is next to, in reality he was six feet from the blast point, and there no real fire there, just spark pots and flash pots. While very bright, it's not particularly hot. While it would not be good for him to get a spark in the eye, he does cover his face from it.
Flash pots used a very small amount of black powder, when they went off the would throw material into the air, which would ignite. But burn incredibly fast, with very little heat. Depending on the colour of flash you wanted, that would determine what the other material was added. Even flour would make a lovely cold explosion. Magnesium powder would often be added to create a shower of sparks. They burned super fast and rarely caught anything on fire.
You can see a very clear line at the bottom of the explosion to show you how far away Mummy was standing. The camera perspective helps a lot here, he's closer than maybe he should be, but barely close enough to even feel the heat of the explosion. Great video by the way. Love all the Robot stuff.
I'm sure they took all the necessary precautions to protect him. But man, if they ever did anything like that today, there would be all kinds of crazy going on! 😄
@@outsider238 There is an explosion in an episode of Doctor Who, that nearly blew Sylvester McCoy off his feet, he was WAY to close to this one. ruclips.net/video/5Pm2LQIWipw/видео.html
Thank goodness for suspension of disbelief.....which as a kid, I had in spades. Loved this show. I wished that I was Billy Mumy. He always got to do such fun stuff. Great presentation. Reminds me of the Frank Zappa tune "Cheepnis"...which is on youtube.
And he worked with an amazing array of people too!
Clearly season 1 was the best but I will always have a soft spot in my heart for the entire series.
Haha! I agree. I love it all. Even some of the clunker episodes. 😁
@@outsider238 FAVE Great VEGGIE REBELLION and Visit to a HOSTILE PLANET
@@rsprockets7846 I love those episodes!
@@outsider238 Is everything really cool to you? Surely there must be one scene which isn't? Is there any chance you can get through various clips without using the word cool? That's the only gripe i have when you have produced a good vid to do with the series which i watched way back in the 60's
@@simonwarner6594 Sorry.
Nice job. I thought I had caught every single blooper over the years, but you pointed out a few I had never noticed!
He mentioned that in the last episode The Galaxy Gift that John and Don were not in that episode. In reality, they were for only a brief scene. They were in the chariot saying the radiator block was frozen while on the radio with Maureen.
I'm glad I have the 17 disc DVD collection on Blur Ray. Always at my fingertips
I agree! The blurays are fantastic! 😁
This is awesome!!! I love your little pointer hand! 😎
The lower section of the "Lady Robot" (seen in "The Ghost Planet" and season three's "Deadliest Of The Species") was initially shown as the damaged antenna in need of repair and reason for Professor Robinson's spacewalk in season one.
The urgent take-off from the Nerim induced doom of the first season's planet shows the Jupiter 2's landing gear retracting even though the ship implicitly belly landed during the crash sequence in season one (and subsequent episodes showing it obviously rested as such).
The Jupiter 2's proportions are off probably due to its original design as a single deck spaceship (it explains why some scenes show an extremely large viewport).
Yes, Dr. Smith and the Robot were add-ins after the unaired pilot episode was filmed. Usually overlooked is that the lower deck was also an addition.
Yeah but it was clearly indicated in the first episode. They talked about the galley and state room compartments. So it was always a two level ship. The power core scene had me baffled.
The green prop at 19min 34 sec in was also an "alien spaceship" in Voyage (Season 3: Terrible toys)...used with the 8ft seaview in a number of scenes filmed in the green tank
I didn't know that. Very cool! Those props sure got around!
@@outsider238 There are multiple props swapped between the two series, you could do a long vlog on that for sure, here's another one for free the red arch set with pipes on the side that they walk through used in the Dream Monster ( 21min 57 secs) was also a part set in Voyage (Deadly Invasion season 3- underwater Sato 6 base set) !
www.vttbots.com/Graphics/invasion15.jpg
There are literally 100s of swap overs from costumes, actors and props. Great Vids thank you.
@@rar321blue They sure got their money's worth out of those! 😅
Another EXCELLENT review!! Great job! I enjoyed every moment… :) LOST IN SPACE will always have a special spot in heart. Take care and be safe. :)
Thank you so much!! I'm glad you enjoyed this one as well! 😁😄
Speaking of Irwin's tightness $$ on special effects, loved the cheesy use of Xmas tree tinsel slowly blowing around as a "force field" in many scenes .. 🤭
Hahaha!!! Yes and the tin foil balls for meteors! 🤣😅
This was really a fun video. More than words can say. Lost in Space was such a fun, campy TV show....like Bat Man I guess. They just had a lot of fun with it and we enjoyed watching it. It came along right when average ordinary people were finally getting color TV sets so it was doubly fun for that reason.
VERY MUCH ENJOYED ! ! !
THANKS 🙂😎👍
Compared to the junk we see nowadays on the small screen, "LIS" looks like great TV!
awesome coverage. i had a toy robot, loved it. crush, kill, destroy!
Hahaha!! Thank you! I try to get any robot toy or model I can find! 😁
Another cool video! Not a blooper but just a fun fact, a lot of people don’t realize that the Johnny Williams credited for the show’s music is today the great composer John Williams. Starting at about 8:05 There is a metal bird on a pole to the left of the robot. At about 26 minutes there are two of them against the back wall, although it’s hard to see if they’re identical or not because one is turned? When I saw the first one I wondered if it could’ve been Alonzo Tuckers metal parrot too? These just look like cast figurines though, not moveable. Yeah Irwin Allen was the master of cheap though. I didn’t realize that about the drill being a reuse of the snorkel from Fantastic Voyage, but I recognize it now. That was a cool movie at the time at the time but really had a lot of flaws from a technological standpoint, even with suspending disbelief on the whole shrinking thing. For example shrinking something doesn’t mean you decrease the mass. Given the density of blood hasn’t changed, even under power was it even possible for it to float? When the tiny sub settled on the floor of a blood vessel it would drop through the body, the table, and the floor probably! Well anyway, getting off the subject but it would be another good video. You also mentioned John and Don not being in the Galaxy Gift episode, I wonder if it was cost savings to pay for the guest star, or if that’s one of the situations where Irwin was mad at them over something so they were written out? I’ve seen mention in another video that the reason (I think it was John and Maureen) were locked up in the cage during the vegetable revolt episode was because they kept laughing and Irwin got mad? Pretty sure there was something similar that happened with the episode where Smith was shown some premonition where the Robinsons were burying a bad circuit board (seriously?) and talking about it in glowing terms, so Smith thought they were burying him? Well enough rambling, looking forward to your season three video!
I noticed that bird. I think it's a different bird though. They used some really odd props for set dressing on a lot of episodes. But I like the imagery it created. I'll be discussing what happened to June Lockhart and Guy Williams in the third season video. I really liked Fantastic Voyage. The special effects were really good for the time. I'm not really sure why Don and John weren't on The Galaxy Gift. It may not have been the last episode filmed for the second season. I don't think it was to save money though. They were paid even if they weren't on the episode because of their contracts. I'm happy to hear that you're enjoying these videos! Season three will be coming soon! 😁
I actually love looking for this stuff and seeing those errors in tv shows. It's just entertaining to do and see and give a glimpse of the special effects of the day.
I totally agree! Even as a kid I used to see these type of things and it always made me more interested in the behind the scenes of a show or movie almost more than the show itself.
I read that book a few weeks ago and I also saw the movie a few times too. That was so true .
Interesting stuff for the fans. Actually, in the episode “The Galaxy Gift”, Guy Williams and Mark Goddard do appear. They are in one brief scene where they are in the chariot communicating with Maureen who is in the Jupiter 2. They are discussing about her bitter cold weather pattern caused by the Saticons.
I forgot about that part. 😳
Loved watching this.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😁
Also in Prisoners of Space when the fence is put up and in a scene later on there's a noticeable gap between the bottom of the fence and the ground on the first section as it starts from the left that looks wide enough for someone to crawl under. Later in the episode they cover this area with bushes.
Yes and I wanted to point that out but I noticed on the blurays, they cropped the bottom and you can't see that anymore! 🥺
As a child I loved Lost in Space. Series 1 was the best after that it got weird.
Wow. Strother Martin was on "Lost in Space"? My mind is blown.
What we have here, Dr Smith, is “failure to communicate.”
A young Kurt Russell also appeared on an episode of Lost in space. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
It's funny. At around 32:00, the red robot looks especially like some kind of Kitchen Aid blender mixer, or an expresso machine! lol.
I'd have to watch the episode, and stop it and slo mo it, but at 15:40 with Will reacting to the explosion (sparks), it appears that the surface of the sand has maybe been built up a little, directing the majority of the effect away from Mumy, though I believe his response was genuine
"Hey Robot, your fly is open!"
I liked Lost in Space , It Came Out When I was a Kid. Thank You 😂
You have an eye for detail👍
It wasn't an actual blooper but after you hear Bob May say "DANGER DANGER" they are on approach to the stairs, even back then I wondered how the robot got inside as they were all obviously approaching the steps.
Love this stuff. Guess I'm easily entertained with the dark rest of things lol
I do too. More than anything, I've always been interested in how TV shows and movies are made and bloopers are a cool, unintended look behind the scenes that we'd normally not get to see.
18:27 West of Mars, that aired 30 November 1966. Don't forget that as odd as the town set is, you had the same thing in the Star Trek episode Spectre of the Gun, that aired 25 October 1968 that also featured a stylized Western town that was nothing but facades since there was no money in the budget for anything else.
I really liked the look of it!
In the trailer for the end of this episode, they showed the trailer for Blast off into Outer Space like they did for the end of Season One which was appropriate since the Jupiter 2 would be blasting off into space for a new adventure for the Season Three debute of "Condemned of Space"
Excellent job finding all those mistakes and editing it together. A lot of work for sure. Irwin Allen also used the Fantastic Voyage set to film a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode where the diving bell is eaten by a whale.
Thank you! I didn't know that about Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea! Haha! He sure got a lot of mileage out of those reused sets! 🤣😅
Guy and Mark ARE seen in THE GALAXY GIFT.
I caught all the bloopers even as a kid lol
Some of them are pretty bad! Haha!!!🤣
@@outsider238 they are!! LOL you did a Great job on your videos
@@mgrella63 Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed them! 😁
This is PRICELESS 👍🏻
At the end of the season one episode, when they aired the teaser for season two, I well remember yelling, "COLOR! LOS is going to color!!" I was filled with joy.
I loved when it went to color! 😁
I didnt know anyone with a color TV until the mid 1970s
@@kenwittlief255 It was a big event, in that March of 1966 when my dad bought us a color tv.
A few Guest Stars Also Appeared On Star Trek And John Abbott Was One Of Them!!!!!!
the motors in the robot ear sensors broke when Bob May fell over in a first season episode "The Space Trader"
Professor John Robinson and Major Don West were often refining fuel for the spaceship and looking for other minerals so often went off without the others.
Regarding The Curse of Cousin Smith, Jonathan Harris got his raise by treating Henry Jones well and not showing any fear of being replaced.
I don't think they would have replaced him anyhow. He was the main guy at the time. Jonathan Harris was just that good! 😁
@@outsider238 I have a signed letter and handwritten envelope from Jonathan Harris. I was part of the Lost in Space message board and arguing in favor of his changing the character. He greatly appreciated my response.
@@DetectiveKemper That's so cool! What a special piece to have. I have his autograph on a resin Jupiter 2 he signed around 22 years ago.
About Albert Salmi.(capt tucker). I lived a couple blocks from his house where he lived in Spokane Washington in 1989 when he killed his wife then himself. His daughter said in an interview that he wasn't in an argument with his wife like you say. She said he loved his wife very much and she was dying of a sickness and in great pain. He ended her pain and knew he couldn't go on without her so he ended his life too.
Oh very interesting! I never heard that. Well thank you for the clarification!
I have always liked Albert Salmi. Especially his work in the twilight zone.@@outsider238
A really interesting video. Thanks so much.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😁
Loved your video! Thanks so much. I kinda felt like a 8-year-old again.
At 11:27 in this, the robot is saying, "Crush, Kill, Destroy,,," over and over! Holy crap! I haven't heard that since the series was on, which makes me really freakin' old. But I remember him doing that! Good ol' days. "Oh, the PAIN, the pain...."
Wreck of the Robot and West of Mars are the best episodes from Season 2
At the 18:50 mark on the walls of the western town that didn't connect, I'm pretty sure that Star Trek did the same thing in an episode where Kirk , Spock, Scotty, McCoy and Chekov had to fight the Earps at the OK Corral. The town was very similar.
i always had a crush on cartwright which now my daughter looks a lot like her lol😶
Very interesting video from a great series...
1:54 What we have here is failure to communicate.
Very enjoyable!
This guy sounds so surprised that all is hokey as it was intended.....this was King of hOKEY....LOL
My favorite TV program! Would pretend the bricks of our house was the control panel for the ship!
It began as a serious adventure set in outer space and quickly became a sitcom!
LIS "West of Mars" western town's incomplete buildings were somewhat the same as Star Trek's "Spectre of the Gun" town's buildings. Both were interesting in looks.
Oh yeah! I totally forgot that they used that same technique for sets in that episode. I actually think it added to the eerieness of the look!
@@outsider238 You should do a series on LIS vs Star Trek season by season. I noticed when re-watching LiS that there would be a plot device on Lost in Space that was echoed [usually more professionaly cough cough] the next year on Star Trek, like LiS had a spore-spewing flower then the next year they had one on Star Trek, season 2 LiS has the minimal-set western followed the next year on ST with the minimal set OK Corral, etc. It's been a while but I swear there are more than a dozen LiS epps that feature something like a space prison or museum owned by a powerful dude or accidentally breaking a local law etc that would show up the very next year on Star Trek.
@@rafaelallenblock Someone at Star Trek was a secret Lost In Space fan! Haha! I never noticed that until you mentioned it. Many shows actually had about 5-6 plots that they would use over and over but just put a different spin on it every week so the audience wouldn't notice. But they did it so well! 😁
@@outsider238 It's interesting because both shows ran three seasons, just offset by one. I remember clearly as a kid watching season 1 of LiS and sorta liking it but being a bit of a sci-fi geek, I noticed lots of crazy stuff [like who goes outside during a comet flyby for two episodes instead of just waiting, then being burned up by a chunk of ice???] and the next year when TOS started I was like, yeah, this is what LiS SHOULD have been. But a few years ago I was binge watching LiS and started to notice things they ripped off on TOS but of course they ALL ripped off Outer Limits etc. and there was a lot of incestuous moves by talent and crew. I just thought it would be interesting if someone did even like a side-by-side of LiS epps "ripped off" by Roddenberry. Fun channel BTW love the rubber hand pointer]
@@rafaelallenblock Haha! Thank you! Yeah there was a lot of borrowing of ideas on shows back then. It was a great time for television during that time. So many sci-fi and fantasy shows. Bewitched, Jeannie, Flying Nun, My Favorite Martian, Twilight Zone just to name a few. I loved them all!
The costumes for season 2 were a holdover from the final 10 episodes from season 1. Penny's costume was yellow like Judy's, but for season when it went to color, Penny's outfit changed to red so it would not match Judy's
Anyone ever notice that Penny's jacket was the same pattern as the play clothes in the Sound of Music? The clothes Julie Andrews made out of curtains so the children could play without damaging their regular clothes.