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 1967 publicity photo showing cast members Angela Cartwright, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen, Bob May (Robot), Jonathan Harris, June Lockhart, Guy Williams and Billy Mumy | |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Created by | Irwin Allen |
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| Narrated by | Dick Tufeld |
| Theme music composer | John Williams |
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| Country of origin | United states |
| Original linguistic communication | English |
| No. of seasons | iii |
| No. of episodes | 83 (29 in black-and-white, 54 in color) (list of episodes) |
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| Producer | Irwin Allen |
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| Running time | 51 minutes |
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| Original network | CBS |
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| Audio format | mono |
| Original release | September 15, 1965 (1965-09-xv) – March 6, 1968 (1968-03-06) |
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Lost in Space is an American science fiction television series, created and produced by Irwin Allen, which originally aired betwixt 1965 and 1968 on CBS.[3] The series was inspired by the 1812 novel The Swiss Family Robinson. The series follows the adventures of the Robinsons, a pioneering family unit of space colonists who struggle to survive in the depths of space. The show ran for 83 episodes over 3 seasons. The beginning flavor comprised 29 episodes that ran one hour apiece, filmed in blackness and white. After, for seasons 2 and 3, the episodes would be 54 minutes long and shot in color.
Series synopsis [edit]
Overview [edit]
On October 16, 1997, the United states is gearing up to colonize space. The Jupiter ii, a futuristic saucer-shaped spacecraft, stands on its launch pad undergoing final preparations. Its mission is to take a single family on a five-and-a-one-half year journeying to an Earth-like planet orbiting the star Alpha Centauri.
The Robinson family consists of Professor John Robinson (Guy Williams), his wife Maureen (June Lockhart), and their iii children: Judy (Marta Kristen); Penny (Angela Cartwright); and Volition (Bill Mumy). The family is accompanied past U.South. Infinite Corps Major Donald Westward (Mark Goddard). The Robinsons and Major W are to be cryogenically frozen for the voyage, and they are fix to exist unfrozen when the spacecraft approaches its destination.
Dr. Zachary Smith (Jonathan Harris), Alpha Control's dr., is revealed to be a saboteur working on behalf of an unnamed nation, with which he communicated under the code proper noun Aeolis-fourteen-Umbra. Subsequently disposing of a baby-sit who catches him aboard the spacecraft, Smith reprograms the Jupiter 2 'south B-9 environmental control robot (Bob May, voiced by Dick Tufeld) to destroy disquisitional systems on the spaceship 8 hours afterwards launch. Smith becomes trapped aboard at launch, however, and his actress weight throws the Jupiter ii off form, causing information technology to encounter asteroids. This, plus the robot's rampage, causes the send to prematurely engage its hyperdrive, and the expedition becomes hopelessly lost in the infinite depths of outer space. Smith's selfish actions and laziness oft endanger the trek, only his role assumes less sinister overtones in later parts of the series.
Season ane [edit]
The astronaut family of Dr. John Robinson, accompanied by a airplane pilot and a robot, set up out in the yr 1997 from an overpopulated World in the spaceship Jupiter ii to travel to a planet circling the star Alpha Centauri. The Jupiter ii mission is sabotaged by Dr. Zachary Smith – an agent for an unnamed foreign government – who slips aboard the spaceship and reprograms the robot to destroy the ship and crew. However, Smith is trapped aboard, and his actress weight alters the craft's flight path and places information technology straight in the path of a massive shooting star storm. Smith manages to relieve himself by prematurely reviving the coiffure from suspended animation. The ship survives, but the damage caused past Smith's before sabotage of the robot leaves the crew lost in space. The Jupiter ii crash-lands on an alien world, later identified by Will as Priplanus, where they spend the residual of the season and survive a host of adventures. Smith remains with the coiffure and acts every bit a source of comedic cowardice and villainy, exploiting the eternally forgiving nature of Professor Robinson.
Season two [edit]
At the outset of the second season (from this indicate on filmed in colour), the repaired Jupiter 2 launches into space over again, to escape the destruction of Priplanus following a serial of cataclysmic earthquakes. The Robinsons crash-country on a strange new world, to become planet-jump once more for another season.
Season 3 [edit]
In the tertiary season, a format alter was introduced. In this season, the Jupiter 2 travels freely in space in seven episodes, visiting a planet but leaving at the end, or encountering an adventure in space. They visit new worlds in several episodes, with both crash and controlled landings, as the family attempts to either return to World or else at least reach their original destination in the Alpha Centauri system. A newly introduced "Space Pod" provides a means of transportation between the ship and passing planets, allowing for various escapades. This season had a different ready of opening credits and a new theme tune, which had been composed by John Williams as function of the show's new direction.[4]
Cast and characters [edit]
Primary cast [edit]
- Dr. (Professor) John Robinson (Guy Williams) – The expedition commander and the father of the Robinson children. Robinson is an astrophysicist who also specializes in applied planetary geology.
- Dr. Maureen Robinson (June Lockhart) – A biochemist who is often seen preparing meals, disposed the garden, and helping with lite construction while adding a voice of compassion.
- Major Don West (Marking Goddard) – The pilot of the Jupiter 2.
- Judy Robinson (Marta Kristen) – The eldest child of the Robinsons.
- Penny Robinson (Angela Cartwright) – The middle kid. An imaginative 11-year-quondam who loves animals and classical music. Early in the serial, she acquires a chimpanzee-like alien pet which she names Debbie (in spite of the characters' utilise of masculine pronouns when referring to it) and which is usually referred to every bit the "bloop" for the sound it makes.[5]
- Volition Robinson (Billy Mumy) – The youngest kid. A precocious 9-year-onetime in the first season, he is a child prodigy in electronics and computer technology.
- Dr. (Colonel) Zachary Smith (Jonathan Harris) – Acting as Alpha Control's flying surgeon in the starting time episode, he is afterwards referred to equally a "Physician of Intergalactic Environmental Psychology",[half dozen] an expert in cybernetics, and an enemy agent. His try to sabotage the mission strands him aboard the Jupiter 2.
- The Robot (Bob May, voiced past Dick Tufeld)[7] – The Robot is a B-9 model environmental control robot who has no given name. The machine was endowed with superhuman force and futuristic weaponry. Information technology oft displays human being characteristics, such every bit laughter, sadness, and mockery. The Robot was designed past Robert Kinoshita.[viii]
Guest stars [edit]
During its three-season run, a number of actors made guest appearances:
- Michael Ansara[ix]
- John Carradine
- Ted Cassidy
- Michael Conrad
- Hans Conried
- Wally Cox
- Royal Dano
- Tommy Farrell
- Fritz Feld
- Kevin Hagen
- Alan Hewitt
- Sherry Jackson
- Arte Johnson
- Werner Klemperer
- Norman Leavitt
- Al Lewis
- Strother Martin
- Don Matheson
- Mercedes McCambridge
- Byron Morrow
- Warren Oates
- Dennis Patrick
- Woodrow Parfrey
- Michael J. Pollard
- Michael Rennie
- Kurt Russell
- Albert Salmi
- Grant Sullivan
- Daniel J. Travanti
- Lou Wagner
- Lyle Waggoner
Jonathan Harris, although a permanent cast member, was listed in the opening credits as a "Special Guest Star" in every episode of Lost in Space.
Product [edit]
Props [edit]
Props and monsters were regularly recycled from other Irwin Allen shows. A sea monster outfit that had been featured on Voyage to the Bottom of the Body of water might get a spray paint task for its Lost in Space appearance, while space monster costumes were reused on Voyage equally ocean monsters.[x] The articulate round plastic pen holder used as a command surface in the episode "The Derelict" turned up regularly throughout the prove'due south entire run both as primary controls to activate alien machinery (or open doors or cages), and as background gear up dressing; some chief controls were seen used in episodes such as Season 1's "The Keeper (Parts one and 2)", "His Majesty Smith", and Season three's "A Day At The Zoo", and "The Promised Planet".
Spacecraft models were also routinely re-used. The foreboding derelict ship from season 1 was redressed to become the Vera Castle in flavour 3. The Fuel Barge from season 2 became a Infinite Lighthouse in flavour three. The derelict ship was used again in flavour iii, with a uncomplicated colour alter. Likewise the alien pursuer's transport in "The Sky Pirate", was lifted from the 1958 flick War of the Satellites, and was re-used in the episode "Deadliest of the Species".[ citation needed ]
Character evolution [edit]
Despite beingness credited equally a "Special Guest Star" in every episode, Smith became the pivotal graphic symbol of the series.[11] The bear witness's writers expected Smith to be a temporary villain who would only appear in the early episodes. Harris, on the other hand, hoped to stay longer on the evidence, but he plant his character to be boring, and feared it would also quickly diameter viewers. Harris "began rewriting his lines and redefining his character", by playing Smith in an attention-getting, flamboyant style, and ad-libbing his scenes with colorful, pompous dialogue. By the end of the first flavor, the grapheme of Smith is established as a self-serving coward. These graphic symbol traits are magnified in subsequent seasons. His haughty bearing, and ever-present alliterative repartee, were staples of the graphic symbol. [xi]
Catchphrases [edit]
Lost in Space is remembered for the Robot'southward ofttimes-repeated lines such as "Alarm! Warning!" and "It does not compute".[12] Smith's frequent put-downs of the Robot were also popular, Harris was proud to talk most how he used to lie in bed at night dreaming them up for use on the show. "You Chimera-headed Booby!", "Cackling Cacophony", "Can Plated Traitor", "Blithering Blatherskyte", and "Traitorous Transistorized Toad" are but a few alongside his trademark lines: "Oh, the hurting ... the pain!" and "Never fear, Smith is here!" Ane of Harris's last roles was providing the vocalisation of the illusionist praying mantis "Manny" in Disney'due south A Bug's Life, in which Harris used "Oh, the pain ... the pain!" about the terminate of the movie.[13]
The catchphrase "Danger, Will Robinson!" originates with the series, when the Robot warns young Volition Robinson well-nigh an impending threat. Information technology was also used as the slogan of the 1998 movie, whose official website had the address "www.dangerwillrobinson.com".[xiv]
Legal issues [edit]
In 1962, Gold Key comics, a partition of Western Publishing Visitor, began publishing a series of comic books under the title Infinite Family Robinson. The story was largely inspired by The Swiss Family Robinson but with a space-age twist. The picture show and television set rights to the comic book were then purchased by noted television receiver author Hilda Bohem (The Cisco Child), who created a treatment nether the title Space Family unit 3000.
Intended as a follow upwards to his first successful television venture, Voyage to the Bottom of the Bounding main, Allen chop-chop sold his concept for a telly series to CBS. Concerned about defoliation with the Gold Cardinal comic book, CBS requested that Allen come up with a new title. Nevertheless, Hilda Bohem filed a claim confronting Allen and CBS Boob tube shortly before the series premiered in 1965.[15]
Additional legal challenges appeared in 1995, when Prelude Pictures announced their intention to turn Lost in Space into a motion picture.[16] [17]
Series history [edit]
The bear witness was conceptualized in 1965 with the filming of an unaired airplane pilot episode titled "No Identify to Hide". The plot of the pilot episode followed the mission of a ship chosen the Gemini 12, which was to take a single family on a 98-twelvemonth journey to an Globe-like planet orbiting the star Blastoff Centauri. The Gemini 12 was pushed off course due to an meet with an asteroid, and the story centered on the adventures of the Robinson family, depicting them as a happy crew without internal conflicts.[18] While many storylines in the later serial focused primarily on Dr. Zachary Smith, a stowaway and saboteur played by Jonathan Harris, he was absent-minded from the unaired airplane pilot. His character was added subsequently the serial was commissioned for production.[18] The pilot episode was first aired on television during a 1997 retrospective.[18]
CBS bought the serial, turning down Star Trek in favor of Lost in Space. Before the offset episode was filmed, the characters Smith and the Robot were added, and the spaceship, originally named Gemini 12, was renamed the Jupiter 2 and redesigned. For upkeep considerations, a proficient office of the footage included in the pilot episode was reused, being carefully worked into the early on series episodes.[18]
The first season emphasized the daily adventures of the Robinsons. The start half of flavour ane dealt with the Robinson party trekking effectually the rocky terrain and stormy inland oceans of Priplanus in the Chariot to avert extreme temperatures. However, the format of the show later changed to a "Monster of the Week" style, where stories were loosely based on fantasy and fairy tales.
In January 1966, ABC scheduled Batman in the same time slot equally Lost in Space. Flavour two imitated Batman's campy sense of humor to compete confronting that testify'southward enormous success.[11] Bright outfits, over-the-top action, and outrageous villains came to the fore in outlandish stories. Stories giving all characters focus were sacrificed in favor of a growing accent on Smith, Volition, and the Robot. Co-ordinate to Bill Mumy, Mark Goddard and Guy Williams both disliked the shift away from serious scientific discipline fiction.[19]
The 3rd flavour had more than straight adventure, with the Jupiter 2 now functional and hopping from planet to planet, only the episodes still tended to exist whimsical and to emphasize humour, including fanciful space hippies, more pirates, offbeat intergalactic zoos, ice princesses and Lost in Infinite 'due south beauty pageant.
During the offset 2 seasons, episodes concluded in a "live action freeze" anticipating the post-obit week, with a cliff-hanger caption, "To be continued next calendar week! Same fourth dimension—aforementioned channel!" For the third season, each episode'due south determination was immediately followed past a vocal "teaser" from the Robot (Dick Tufeld), warning viewers to "Stay tuned for scenes from next calendar week's heady chance!". Scenes from the next episode were so presented, followed past the endmost credits. At that place was little continuity betwixt each episode, except for the aspiration of reaching a large goal, ie, enough fuel to travel from planet to planet.
Subsequently cancellation, the prove was successful in reruns and in syndication for many years, appearing on the USA Network (in the mid-to-late 1980s) and on FX, Syfy, ALN, MeTV and Hulu.
Episodes [edit]
Cancellation [edit]
In early 1968, while the final tertiary-season episode "Junkyard in Infinite" was in production, the cast and crew were informally led to believe the series would return for a 4th season. Allen had ordered new scripts for the coming season. A few weeks later, however, CBS announced the list of returning telly series for the 1968–69 flavour, and Lost in Space was not included. CBS executives failed to offer whatever reasons why Lost in Space was cancelled.
The near likely reason the show was cancelled was its increasingly high price. The toll per episode had grown from $130,980 during the commencement season to $164,788 during the tertiary season, and the actors' salaries almost doubled during that time.[twenty] Farther, the interior of the Jupiter ii was the most expensive set up for a television show at the fourth dimension, at a cost of $350,000.[21] 20th Century Pull a fast one on had as well recently incurred huge budget overruns for the film Cleopatra, which are believed to have caused upkeep cuts.[22] Allen claimed the serial could not keep with a reduced budget. During a negotiating conference regarding the series management for the fourth flavor with CBS primary executive Bill Paley, Allen was furious when told that the upkeep would be cut by fifteen% from Season Three.[23]
The Lost in Space Forever DVD cites failing ratings and escalating costs every bit the reasons for counterfoil.[24] Irwin Allen admitted that the Season three ratings showed an increasing percentage of children among the total viewers, significant a driblet in the "quality audition" that advertisers preferred.[25]
Guy Williams had grown embittered with his role on the show as it became increasingly "campy" in Seasons 2 and 3 while centering squarely on the antics of Harris' Dr. Smith character. Williams retired from interim and relocated to Argentina after the end of the series.[26]
Documentaries [edit]
The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen [edit]
In 1995, Kevin Burns produced a documentary showcasing the career of Irwin Allen, hosted by Bill Mumy and June Lockhart in a recreation of the Jupiter 2 exterior set. Mumy and Lockhart utilize the "Celestial Department Store Ordering Automobile" as a temporal conduit to bear witness information and clips on Allen's history. Clips from Allen's various productions equally well as pilots for his unproduced serial were presented along with new interviews with bandage members of Allen'southward shows. Mumy and Lockhart consummate their presentation and enter the Jupiter ii, following which Jonathan Harris appears in character as Smith and instructs the Robot once once more to destroy the ship as per his original instructions "... and this time get it right, y'all bubble-headed booby".
Lost in Space Forever [edit]
In 1998, Burns produced a tv special about the series which was hosted by John Larroquette and Robot B-9 (performed by actor Bob May and voice role player Dick Tufeld). The special was hosted inside a recreation of the Jupiter 2 upper deck set. The program ends with Laroquette mockingly pressing a button on the Amulet from "The Galaxy Gift" episode, disappearing and being replaced by Mumy and Harris who play an older Volition Robinson and an older Zachary Smith. They effort to return to Earth 1 more fourth dimension simply they notice out that they are "Lost in Space ... Forever!"
Technology and equipment [edit]
Transportation [edit]
Lost in Space showcased a variety of transportation methods in the series. The Jupiter 2 is a two-deck, nuclear powered flying saucer spacecraft. The version seen in the serial was depicted with a lower level and landing legs.
On the lower level were the atomic motors, which utilize a fictional substance chosen "deutronium" for fuel. The ship's living quarters feature Murphy beds, a galley, a laboratory, and the robot's "magnetic lock". On the upper level were the guidance command organization and suspended animation "freezing tubes" necessary for non-relativistic interstellar travel. The two levels were connected past both an electronic glide tube elevator and a fixed ladder. The Jupiter ii explicitly had artificial gravity. Entrances and exits to the ship were via the main airlock on the upper level, or via the landing struts from the lower deck, and, according to i season two episode, a back door. The spacecraft was besides intended to serve as habitation to the Robinsons once it had landed on the destination planet orbiting Alpha Centauri.
"The Chariot" was an all-terrain, amphibious tracked vehicle that the crew used for ground send when they were on a planet. The Chariot existed in a dis-assembled land during flying, to be re-assembled one time on the ground. The Chariot was actually an operational cannibalized version of a Thiokol Snowcat Spryte,[27] with a Ford 170-cubic-inch (3 L) inline-6, 101 horsepower engine with a 4-speed automated transmission including opposite. Test footage filmed of the Chariot for the kickoff flavor of the series tin be seen on YouTube.[28]
Near of the Chariot's body panels were clear – including the roof and its dome-shaped "gun hatch". Both a roof rack for luggage and roof mounted "solar batteries" were accessible by exterior fixed ladders on either side of the vehicle. The vehicle had dual headlights and dual auxiliary area lights below the front and rear bumpers. The roof also had hinge-mounted, interior controllable spotlights located near each front corner, with a small parabolic antenna mounted between them. The Chariot had half dozen saucepan seats (three rows of two seats) for passengers. The interior featured retractable metallised fabric defunction for privacy, a seismograph, a scanner with infrared capability, a radio transceiver, a public address organisation, and a rifle rack that held iv laser rifles vertically near the inside of the left rear corner trunk console.
A jet pack, specifically a Bell Rocket Chugalug, was used occasionally by Professor Robinson or Major West.
The "Space Pod" was a small spacecraft commencement shown in the 3rd and final season, which was modeled on the Apollo Lunar Module. The Pod was used to travel from its bay in the Jupiter 2 to destinations either on a nearby planet or in infinite, and the pod apparently had artificial gravity and an auto-return machinery.
Other technology [edit]
For self-defence force, the coiffure of the Jupiter 2 had an arsenal of laser guns at their disposal, including sling-carried rifles and holstered pistols. The first season's personal issue laser gun was a motion-picture show prop modified from a toy semi-automatic pistol made past Remco.[29] The crew as well employed a force field effectually the Jupiter 2 for protection while on alien planets. The force shield generator was able to protect the campsite and in one season 3 episode was able to shield the entire planet.[ citation needed ]
For communication, the crew used small transceivers to communicate with each other, the Chariot, and the ship. In "The Raft", Will improvised several miniature rockoons in an attempt to send an interstellar "bulletin in a bottle" distress signal. In flavour 2 a set of relay stations was congenital to further extend communications while planet-bound.[ citation needed ]
Their environmental control Robot B-9 ran air and soil tests, and was able to belch stiff electrostatic charges from his claws, detect threats with his scanner and could produce a defensive fume screen. The Robot could detect faint smells and could both understand speech and speak in its own right. The Robot claimed the ability to read homo minds by translating emitted idea waves dorsum into words.
The Jupiter 2 had some unexplained advanced technology that simplified or did away with mundane tasks. The "automobile-matic laundry" took seconds to clean, fe, fold, and package apparel in clear plastic bags. Similarly, the "dishwasher" would make clean, wash, and dry dishes in merely seconds.
Applied science in the bear witness reflected contemporary real-globe developments. Silver reflective space blankets, a then new invention developed by NASA in 1964, were used in the episode titled "The Hungry Sea" and "Assault of the Monster Plants". The coiffure'south spacesuits were made with aluminum-coated fabric, like NASA's Mercury spacesuits, and had Velcro fasteners, which NASA outset used during the Apollo program (1961–1972).[30]
While the crew usually grew a hydroponic garden on a planet as an intermediate step before cultivating the soil of a planet, they also had "protein pills", which was a complete nutritional substitute for normal foods, in cases of emergency.
Reception [edit]
Ratings [edit]
Some members within the science-fiction community have pointed to Lost in Space equally an example of early on tv set's perceived poor record at producing science-fiction.[31] The series' deliberate fantasy elements were perhaps overlooked every bit information technology drew comparisons to its supposed rival, Star Expedition. However, Lost in Space was a mild ratings success, different Star Trek, which received relatively poor ratings during its original network television run. The more cerebral Star Trek never averaged higher than 52nd in the ratings during its three seasons,[32] [33] while Lost in Space finished season ane with a rating of 32nd, season ii in 35th identify, and the third and final season in 33rd place.
Lost in Space too ranked third as one of the meridian 5 favorite new shows for the 1965–1966 flavor in a viewer TVQ poll. The other superlative contenders were The Big Valley, Get Smart, I Dream of Jeannie and F Troop. Lost in Space was the favorite evidence of John F. Kennedy, Jr. while he was growing upward in the 1960s.[34] [ better source needed ]
Awards [edit]
Lost in Space received a 1966 Emmy Honour nomination for Cinematography-Special Photographic Furnishings merely did non win, and again in 1968 for Achievement in Visual Arts & Makeup but did not win. In 2005, information technology was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best DVD Retro Tv set Release, but did not win. In 2008, TVLand nominated and awarded the serial for Awesomest Robot.
Music [edit]
Theme music [edit]
The open and closing theme music was written by John Williams. Williams was listed in the credits as "Johnny Williams". The original pilot and much of Season Ane reused Bernard Herrmann's eerie score from the classic sci-fi motion picture The Day the World Stood Still (1951).
Season three featured a new score which was considered more exciting and faster tempo. The opening music was accompanied past live action shots of the cast, featuring a pumped-up inaugural from seven to ane to launch each week's episode.
Incidental music [edit]
Much of the incidental music in the serial was written past Williams who scored iv episodes. These scores helped Williams gain credibility as a composer. Other notable moving picture and television composers who worked on the music for Lost in Space included Alexander Courage, who contributed six scores to the series.
Discography [edit]
There accept been a number of Lost in Space soundtrack CDs released.
Syndication [edit]
Lost in Space was picked up for syndication in most major U.Southward. markets. The program didn't have the staying ability throughout the 1970s of its supposed rival, Star Trek. Office of the reason for the show's obsolescence was that the first flavor of Lost in Space was in blackness-and-white, while a majority of American households at the fourth dimension had a colour telly. By 1975, many markets began removing Lost in Space from daily schedules or moving information technology to less desirable time slots. The series experienced a revival when Ted Turner acquired it for his growing WTBS "superstation" in 1979. Viewer response was positive, and it became a WTBS mainstay for the side by side five years.[25]
The OTT video streaming platform Hulu (which 70% of the service is owned past Lost in Infinite's distributor The Walt Disney Visitor) has consistently carried the bear witness over the years.[35] The show besides airs on the classic television Digital broadcast network MeTV as role of their Super Sci-Fi Saturday Nighttime block.
Remakes [edit]
Cast comparing [edit]
| Television series | Films | |||
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| Lost in Space | The Robinsons: Lost in Space | Lost in Space (2018 TV series) | Lost in Space (pic) | |
| Twelvemonth of Release | 1965-1968 | 2004 | 2018- | 1998 |
| John Robinson | Guy Williams | Brad Johnson | Toby Stephens[36] | William Hurt |
| Maureen Robinson | June Lockhart | Jayne Brook | Molly Parker[37] | Mimi Rogers |
| Don West | Mark Goddard | Mike Erwin | Ignacio Serricchio[38] | Matt LeBlanc |
| Judy Robinson | Marta Kristen | Adrianne Palicki | Taylor Russell[39] | Heather Graham |
| Penny Robinson | Angela Cartwright | Mina Sundwall[40] | Lacey Chabert | |
| Will Robinson | Billy Mumy | Ryan Malgarini | Maxwell Jenkins[36] | Jack Johnson Jared Harris (adult Will) |
| Dr. Zachary Smith | Jonathan Harris | Neb Mumya | Gary Oldman | |
| The Robot | Bob May Dick Tufeld (voice) | Dick Tufeld (voice) | Brian Steele | Dick Tufeld (voice) |
| David Robinson | Gil McKinney | |||
| June Harrisb | Parker Posey[41] | |||
| Victor Dhar | Raza Jaffrey | |||
| Jeb Walker | Lennie James | |||
| Businessman | Edward Fox | |||
Notes:
- ^a Cameo, non part of the main cast
- ^b Poses equally "Dr. Smith"
Lost in Space (1998 film) [edit]
In 1998, New Line Cinema produced a film adaptation. The 1998 film includes a number of homages to the original television series. These include cameos and story details from the original TV-series, including:
- Dick Tufeld as the Robot's voice.
- The 2nd version of the Robot (re-built by Will Robinson) has a very similarly doughnut-shaped "head" as the TV-serial robot.
- Mark Goddard briefly appears as the military general who gives Major Don Westward his orders for the mission.
- June Lockhart briefly appears with Will Robinson via altitude learning equally the principal of his school.
- Angela Cartwright and Marta Kristen also briefly announced early in the film as news reporters.
- A small-scale (CG-blithe) alien beast is adopted by Penny Robinson, an animal character in homage to "Debbie" (a chimpanzee fitted with furry prosthetic conflicting "ears") in the TV-serial.
- The film's Jupiter 1 is a larger protective exterior beat, which breaks off in pieces subsequently the launch, freeing the interior Jupiter ii spacecraft to thrust onward into infinite. The Jupiter one (the larger protective exterior shell) is very similar in shape to the much smaller Goggle box-series spacecraft, and includes like rotating underside lights.
- Due to budget limitations, new versions of the "Chariot" or the "Infinite Pod" were non built for the picture, and then practice non announced in it, with Don briefly mentioning to the Robinsons that those units had been irreparably wrecked by their crash landing on the planet.
Additional cameo appearances of actors from the original Goggle box-series were considered, but non included in the film:
- Jonathan Harris was offered a cameo appearance, non as Smith (performed past player Gary Oldman in the flick), but as the Global Sedition leader who hires, and then betrays, Smith. Harris turned down the part, reportedly saying "I play Smith or I don't play." and "I've never played a fleck role in my life and I'chiliad not going to showtime at present!". The role of the Sedition leader was eventually performed by actor Edward Fox. Many years later on, Harris appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, mentioning the part offered to him: "Yes, they offered me a function in the new film;— six lines!".
- Bill Mumy was besides offered a cameo, but turned it down after being told he would non be considered for the function he wanted — the role of the older Will Robinson — because, he was told, that would "misfile the audience."
The film used a number of ideas familiar to viewers from the original bear witness: Smith reprogramming the robot and its subsequent rampage ("Reluctant Stowaway"), near miss with the Sun ("Wild Adventure"), the derelict spaceship ("The Derelict"), discovery of the Blawp and the crash ("Island in the Sky") and an attempt to alter history by returning to the beginning ("The Time Merchant"). Also a scene-stealing 'Goodnight' homage to the Waltons was included. Something fans of the original always wanted to see happen was finally realized when Don knocks out an annoyingly complaining Smith at the cease of the picture show, saying "That felt good!"
The Robinsons: Lost in Infinite (2004) [edit]
In 2004, a idiot box series titled "The Robinsons: Lost in Infinite" was developed in the U.S. A airplane pilot for the serial was filmed; however, the series was ultimately never produced. The series originally was intended to emulate Lost in Infinite'south unaired pilot. The 2004 show did characteristic the unnamed robot, and an additional older Robinson child named David. Penny, who had been depicted every bit a preteen in the original series was depicted as an infant in the 2004 remake. The pilot was titled "The Robinsons: Lost in Space" and was deputed by The WB Television Network. The pilot was directed by John Woo and produced by Synthesis Amusement, Irwin Allen Productions, Twentieth Century Play a trick on Boob tube and Regency Television.
The Jupiter 2 interstellar flying-saucer spacecraft of the original series was depicted every bit a planet-landing craft, deployed from a larger inter-stellar mothership.
The plot of the serial followed John Robinson, a retiring state of war hero of an alien invasion who had decided to take his family to another colony elsewhere in space. The Robinson's ship was attacked and the Robinsons were are forced to escape in the small Jupiter 2 "Infinite Pod" of the mothership.
The show was not amid the network's series selection-ups confirmed later that year. Looking back at the airplane pilot when the 2018 Netflix reboot was aired, Neil Calloway of Flickering Myth said "you're inappreciably on the edge of your seat." and "You showtime to wonder where the $2 million went, and then you question why something directed by John Woo is so pedestrian."[42]
The producers of the new Battlestar Galactica show bought the testify'south sets. They were redesigned the side by side twelvemonth and used for scenes on the Battlestar Pegasus.[43]
Dick Tufeld reprised his role as voice of the robot for the tertiary fourth dimension.
Lost in Infinite (2018–2021) [edit]
On October 10, 2014, it was announced that Legendary TV was developing a new reboot of Lost in Space for Netflix with Dracula Untold screenwriters Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless attached to write.[44] [45] On June 29, 2016, Netflix ordered the serial with x episodes.[46] [47] The series debuted on Netflix on Apr thirteen, 2018. It was renewed for a 2d season on May 13, 2018, which aired on December 24, 2019. On March 9, 2020, the series was renewed for a third and final flavor.[48] [49]
The Robot likewise appears in the series in a modified form.[50]
In other media [edit]
Comics [edit]
Before the television serial was adult, a comic book named Space Family Robinson was published past Gold Primal Comics, written by Gaylord Du Bois and illustrated by Dan Spiegle. The comic volume series had been loosely based on an 1812 novel by Johann David Wyss, The Swiss Family Robinson. Du Bois became the sole author of the series once he began chronicling the Robinsons' adventures with "Peril on Planet 4" in upshot #eight. Due to a bargain worked out with Gilt Fundamental, the title of the comic later on incorporated the Lost in Space sub-title. The comic book featured different characters and a unique H-shaped spacecraft rather than i of a saucer shape.
In 1991 Bill Mumy provided "Blastoff Control Guidance" for a Lost in Space revival in comic book form Lost in Space comic book for Innovation Comics, writing half-dozen of the bug. The offset officially licensed comic to be based on the TV serial, the serial was ready several years after the show. The kids were now teenagers, and the stories attempted to return the series to its straight hazard roots with one story even explaining the camp / farce episodes of the series as fanciful entries in Penny's Space Diary.
Complex adult-themed story concepts were introduced and the story included a love triangle developing between Penny, Judy and Don. The Jupiter 2 had diverse interior designs in the first yr. The first year had an arc ultimately leading the travelers to Blastoff Centauri with Smith contacting his sometime alien masters along the way. Aeolis fourteen Umbra were furious with Smith for not having succeeded in his mission to prevent the Jupiter 2, built with technology from a crashed ship of their race, from reaching the star system they had claimed as their own. The twelvemonth concluded with Smith caught out for his traitorous associations and imprisoned in a freezing tube for the Jupiter 's terminal journeying to the Promised Planet. Yr two was to exist Mumy'southward own full season story of a circuitous adventure post-obit the Robinson'due south inflow at their destination and capture by the Aoleans. Innovation folded in 1993 with the story only halfway through and information technology wasn't until 2005 that Mumy was able to present his story to Lost in Infinite fandom equally a complete graphic novel via Bubblehead Publishing. The theme of an developed Volition Robinson was likewise explored in the flick and in the song "Ballad of Will Robinson"—written and recorded by Mumy.
In 1998 Dark Equus caballus Comics published a three-part story chronicling the Robinson Clan as depicted in the film.
In 1990, Pecker Mumy and Peter David co-wrote Star Trek: The Return of the Worthy, a 3-part story that was essentially a crossover betwixt Lost in Space and Star Trek with the Enterprise crew encountering a Robinson-like expedition amongst the stars, though with dissimilar characters.
In 2016, American Gothic Printing published a six-event miniseries titled Irwin Allen's Lost in Space, the Lost Adventures, based on unfilmed scripts from the series. The scripts "The Curious Galactics" and "Malice in Wonderland" were written by Carey Wilber. The first script was adjusted equally issues 1 – 3 of the serial, with the adapted script written by Holly Interlandi and fatigued by Kostas Pantaulas, with Patrick McEvoy doing coloring and covers. The second script was adjusted as issues 4 – 6 of the series, over again adapted by Interlandi, with McEvoy providing pencil art, coloring and covers.[51]
Novel [edit]
In 1967, a novel based on the series, with meaning changes to the personalities of the characters and the pattern of the ship, was published by Pyramid Books, and written by Dave Van Arnam and Ted White (equally "Ron Archer"). A scene in the book correctly predicts Richard Nixon winning the Presidency afterward Lyndon Johnson.
Cartoon [edit]
In the 1972–1973 television flavour, ABC produced The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie, a weekly collection of 60-minute animated movies, pilots and specials from various product companies, such as Hanna-Barbera, Filmation, and Rankin-Bass. Hanna-Barbera Productions contributed animated work based on such idiot box series as Gidget, Yogi Behave, Tabitha, Oliver Twist, Nanny and the Professor, The Banana Splits, and Lost in Space.[52]
The Lost in Space episode aired on September 8, 1973. Dr. Smith (voiced by Jonathan Harris) was the simply character from the original program to appear in the special, forth with the Robot (who was named Robon and employed in flight control rather than a support action). The spacecraft was launched vertically by rocket, and Smith was a passenger rather than a saboteur. The pilot for the animated Lost in Space serial was not picked upward every bit a series, and just this episode was produced. This cartoon was included in the Blu-ray release of the unabridged original television series on September 15, 2015.
Domicile media [edit]
20th Century Fox has released the entire serial on DVD in Region 1. Several of the releases contain bonus features including interviews, episodic promos, video stills and the original un-aired pilot episode.
| DVD name | Ep# | Release appointment |
|---|---|---|
| Season ane | 30 | January 13, 2004 |
| Season 2 Volume 1 | 16 | September 14, 2004 |
| Season 2 Volume ii | 14 | November 30, 2004 |
| Flavour iii Book ane | xv | March ane, 2005 |
| Season 3 Volume 2 | 9 | July 19, 2005 |
All episodes of Lost in Space were remastered and released on a Blu-ray disc set on September fifteen, 2015 (the 50th ceremony of the premiere on the CBS Idiot box Network). The Blu-ray disc set includes a cast table reading of the terminal episode, written past Bill Mumy, which brings the series to a close by having the characters render to earth.
All episodes of Lost in Infinite were reformatted (from the Blu-ray video masters) to 16:ix widescreen and released on a 17 disc DVD assail Feb 5, 2019.
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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_Space
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