Back then, we only had 3 stations. I was 10 years young and tuned to the first episode by chance. It was a Wednesday evening at 7:30, and immediately I was hooked on the show. I was familiar with June Lockhart from Lassie, and I've always loved science fiction. The music for the show was unique and added character to it. The robot and the Jupiter 2 were so cool. If only they carried over the 1st season to the others. I liked it better as a serious program.
With all respect, I must disagree. “Playing it straight” Irwin Allen Style would have made this show no more memorable or lasting than his other shows like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel or Land of the Giants. All OK to So-So shows, but none nearly as memorable and syndicated as LIS. SMITH & ROBOT 4 EVER!
When I was a kid, I never missed the show. Never thought I live long enough to see the Jupiter 2 take off on October 16,1997. It’s 2021 now. “oh the pain”.
Yep, the pain is right ! Humanity hasn't even so much as left earth's orbit in decades, for crying out loud. Except for unmanned probes, of course. What a travesty.... after all that original optimism ! Okay, I'll climb down from my soapbox now. Thanks. 👌🏾☮️
I used to love this show as a kid! I'm definitely not around the same age as the rest of the people in the comments section I'm only in my 20s, but my aunt gave me some bootleg copies of every episode of this show and I was obsessed with it, I'd watch it almost every night lol. Dr Smith ends up being such a relatably silly outcast character, I love him so much.
I was a wide-eyed 12 year old back in 1965, watching this on our 15 inch BW tv. I still remember the fall promos for this new series Lost in Space, with the shots of the Jupiter II swooping over the alien planet. And as a nerdy science geek kid who was shunned by the "in" crowd at school, I was hooked on this show and eagerly watched the first episode. The wonderment, the mystery, the eeriness of that first season had me believing these people were truly on an alien planet. The first season was truly the best. The third season had a few episodes that were good, in that they were in the spirit of the first season.
I started watching it as a teenager in re-runs, in 1978. On a color tv, in my maternal grandparents' kitchen. The door to their living room looked like the doors in the "state rooms" The light in the kitchen somewhat resembled the "bubble" of the Robot B9's head.
“Do you know who I am?” That’s the same thing Paul Pelosi said when he tried to get out of the drunk driving ticket. I was five years old when this episode came out. I remember like it was yesterday. Coolest and scariest thing I had ever seen in my life.
Thank you for refreshing my nearly 55 year old childhood memories of this. I've had people say over the years Smith didn't kill a guy to get aboard but I'm pretty sure he did, plus he was trying to kill crew anyway. I can't believe my memory of him just tossing the body down some convenient nearby rubbish chute into a regular trash bin was accurate. It is completely ridiculous that the Jupiter II was designed that way. Doesn't change the fact I wanted to be Will Robinson when I was a kid.
To this day, I still remember that first look of the robot being activated at 2:23 sending my little kid self running behind a living room chair. The show really was scary when it started. Then, a few episodes later, the giant cyclops was even more terrifying.
Smith was forced to change tactics out of a necessary need to survive, although he remained self serving, his relationship with the Robinson's children softened him over time.
One of Harris's best scenes is in "The Time Merchant", where he has a chance to stay on Earth in 1997 but learns (via a message relayed from the Merchant) that the LACK of his extra weight aboard the J II will cause the ship to be destroyed in an uncharted asteroid belt before the family comes out of hypersleep. "Penny, Judy...my dear William", he laments, "No I can't do it!" -- and he and the Robot plot to sneak aboard the ship to prevent the tragedy.
Seems hard to believe Dr Smith could knock out or kill a soldier just by hitting him in the shoulder with one hand. It would have been more in character to have him inject him with a syringe or something.
People seem to forget that the comic relief for the show was a cold blooded murderer. One thing I like about the Netflix version is the family never trust their Dr Smith & they keep her locked up in a closet.
I used to watch this show after school when it was in syndicated reruns, and I'd seen all of the episodes except for the first one. Over and over I'd turn it on, hoping to see how it had all started, but it seemed as though that was the one episode they didn't play anymore!
Muchas gracias y m felicidades por presentar esta serie de TV...MI PROGRAMA FAVORITO por siempre..me emocionó mucho ver de nuevo este programa iconico Lost in Space..saludos.
Yes it is a bygone era. We will never experience those times again. I get nostalgic thinking of them. Not just the show itself but the memories from the years we lived trough when we watched it.
In fact, I've heard that NASA had approached Allen to technical consultancy. He dismissed their offer. In fact beginning in season two, the show came to focus even more on Jonathan Harris/Dr. Smith and his constant scheming against the Robinsons
The first season was amazing. Unfortunately, Irwin Allen didn't care much for science fiction or for good story-writing. If something got him good ratings, that's all that mattered to him. "Lost in Space" was competing with the "Batman" TV show at the time, and when Irwin saw how successful it was, he changed the direction of "Lost in Space" to try to compete with it. He dumbed the show WAY down in seasons 2-3, and we got Space Pirates, Space Hippies, Space Banditos, Space Miner 49ers, etc.
I was a little 6 yr old kid when I first saw Smith activate the Robot. Most amazing thing I have ever seen! I remember it like it was yesterday. It was 54 years ago I go
@@smartluck100 the robot had such potential with a mini drone. Aux rocket pack and tv transmission's but that was never explored. Just that inane visit to a giant robot
I love this Dr Smith! The cold blooded evil Smith even more than the bumbling cowardly comedic one he became even though I love that version of him too. Robot was much cooler too in the early version!
Both versions of Dr.Zachary Smith were evil. The one in the regular show was comically evil-more like Sylvester or Wile E.Coyote.In the pilot he was more like The Master
The character was changed since Johnathan Harris felt that if he had remained as that character, he would not have been on the show for very long so he took a more comedic approach to playing the villain.
All the black and white episodes were the best ones- not long after the switch to color however, the series began it's decline. But great memories from those times will keep it popular even after we from that generation are no more.
I love Lost In Space. Watched as the series evolved through the different theme songs and all of the great guest stars/aliens. I like the robot also. ♡ T.E.N.
My favorite show...ever. I was six years old when i accidentally stumbled on the episode where Will is out in the alien darkness working on the chariot.... and here comes the EVIL robot (as programmed by Dr. Smith). Holy crap!, I thought..... I was hooked.
My favorite UA-cam posts is lost in space because it brings back memories of my childhood and my loving parents where alive. And I had 56 more years of life. Now I would be lucky if I have ten years left.
Of course to me the silliest remark in the series comes from none other than Professor Robinson "Ah, the Zenian Galaxy...We must have passed through it during the night."
The music builds the suspense and keeps it rising. Watching this with the dialogue and no music would not convey the sense of danger and menace. How wrong this show went when it started trying to compete with Batman for campiness.
The beginning of space travel TV shows that indures the test of time. Thank you Irwin Allen, great cast and production crew. Funny how the writers made Dr. Smith a conniving competent spy, with one quick judo chop rendering a trained security man unconscious to a bubbling spineless trouble making idiot that is weak and frail that can't lift 5lbs.
I never knew. I never saw this scene before. Always hated him (character) and never could figure out why John and Don didn’t ditch him on some planet or shoot him out into vacuum early on…but then remembered why Gilligan always ruined every rescue attempt. It’s a show. 😀
@@Andrew-13579 Dr. Smith morphed into some kind of anti-hero....Didn't he get more fan mail than the cast? Kinda weird!! And he also bought lollipops for the crew.....or so I heard....
Actually it wasn't that Jonathan Harris hated playing an evil character. He was known for playing bad guys. He just realized that playing evil on this show was going to be a short stint and he was looking for a steady paycheck. He knew it would only be a matter of time before John Robinson shoved him out of an airlock - so he talked Irwin Allen into morphing into a bumbling fool.
It wasn't only that. By that time, Fox and CBS were putting heavy pressure on Irwin Allen to cut back on the violence and lighten up the initially dark tone of the series. Mr. Harris undoubtedly knew of this, and simply fell in with them, as it were. It should also be remembered that, by that time, there was a widespread call by the FCC and other groups to tone down television violence, which had reached its peak with "The Untouchables" only a few years earlier. Such cartoon series as "Space Ghost" and "The Herculoids," now considered classics of the period, were also cancelled for the same reason. Subsequent attempts to revive these series proved to be miserable failures, as they "dumbed down" the original characters to the point that viewers in general found them disappointing.
@@jmen4ever257Perhaps that was the time to offer the storyline where Smith was duplicated by a similar Smith in temperament - just simply a big WUSS now. 😎
It's interesting that they make a big deal about showing the reactor room, and then don't return to it again until the third season in only one episode.
It was a very large room too, that would never have fit into the ship as seen from the outside, not to mention the pod. Where did they have room for the pod?
Overpopulation was a big concern prior to the early '70s, when the Green Revolution in agriculture sharply boosted crop yields per hectare -- especially in the Third World.
Funny how he's a medical doctor for the first episodes than we are told he's only a "full-fledged doctor of Galactic and Environmental Psychology" pretentious Earth school, eh? "Galactic" before they even colonized one star system?
Jonathan Harris took control of the writing for his character. Had Smith remained a cold evil spy-villain, he would have been killed off in the early episodes. Harris re-writing Smith as a comic villain saved his character (and the show). 83 episodes was a good run!
Great show in the beginning great music as well they should have kept the show as it was Hollywood will never learn don't try to fix something that doesn't need fixing guy Williams was really good as John Robinson a man you could look up to he took very good care of his family with the help of major don west no matter the danger they faced and sometimes gave Smith the boot.🤨🤨
I read that unlike Gene Roddenberry, Irwin Allen didn't care about his shows after he sold them; only that they made money. He would put everything into the pilot in order to sell it, but once sold, he would do anything to keep the money coming in and that's why he let Jonathan Harris's character take over, because it brought in ratings and money. Greed has no taste, unfortunately.
The B-9 Robot was designed by the same creator that built Robby The Robot back in the 1950's. Robby the Robot made two guest appearances on Lost in Space "War of the Robots' great episode. The B-9 Robot was voiced by the shows' announcer Dick Tufeld and the Robot suit was operated from inside by stunt actor Bob May. These two men literally brought the Robot to life for us kids. Irwin Allen did not want it known who operated the Robot suit until after he died. Bob May never got credit during the show for operating the Robot suit.
May actually voiced the robot during filming. This was how he synchronized the chest plate lights with the dialog. Tufeld's voice was dubbed in late during post-production.
+HAL 9000 How cool would it have been if they had recorded and saved Bob May saying the lines during taping or rehearsal how cool it would have been to actually hear him saying the dialog too. From interviews and from I have heard and read of Mr. May he had quite the sense of humor.
I always wondered if the original Smith character had killed the guard in this scene. But, he takes the time to toss him out in the trash rather than incinerate him in the reactor. This lead me to believe that he was still alive and Smith didn't really want to kill him in the first place. This was suppose to be a family show and they were already pushing the villain envelope by have someone trying to kill a family in the first place. Why make Smith more evil by killing someone in the first fifteen minutes. But, in short I agree with you. I liked Smith better in the first 16 episodes. A nice balance of "comedic villainy".
According to the Alpha Control Reference Manual, the guard named Ssgt Joseph McWilliams was found dead from a broken neck. Not sure if it is considered canon, but according to this book Dr. Smith did in fact kill the guard.
As a matter of curiosity, Smith's blow looked pretty authentic and effective to me. To someone knowledgeable about such things, as depicted, would that have likely resulted in inflicting a broken neck? In any event, isn't it likely that the dumpster and its contents, if not vaporized in the launch, wouldn't at least, have been irredeemably irradiated, and have to be remotely disposed of, afterwards, validating Smith's decision to dispose of the body, by that means? While not surprising such a detail might not be illustrated, where exactly, is the dumpster? As one would be led to think, from the scene, it would appear to be directly below the Jupiter. However, the establishing shot of the launch platform, clearly shows that's not the case. There is a walkway, some distance underneath the ship, but there doesn't appear an object situaited on it, though from the perspective of that defining view, it MIGHT just be hard to discern. ???
I had always thought he killed the guard. The look on his face and the pause when he feels for a pulse indicates that the guard is dead and Smith has really stepped in it. What has always puzzled me though is WHERE did the guard come from? He seems to have been luring in the shadows the entire time that Smith is re-programming the robot. When he appears, he is no where near the ladder or the elevator.
FUN FACT: Jonathan Harris had severe claustrophobia. That's his body double who slides out of theacceleration couch stowage area. Harris replaced him to film the clip of him rising from the couch, then did the rest of the scene.
'Bold in concept, brilliant in execution' - and the biggest piece of space junk ever devised by the mind of man. Let's face it, the Jupiter 2 caught fire, blew up, malfunctioned at the slightest provocation.
The thing I've learned from the greater Lost in Space franchise is that at the earliest opportunity; kill Dr. Smith! At minimum, maroon him/her somewhere. But just like if the castaways had killed (and eaten) Gilligan, they'd have been off the island in two weeks, the Robinsons would have been able to actually work out a plan to get back on course to Alpha Centauri.
I tried watching the Netflix show (and dont get me started on that 1998 movie - now sporting an overly generous 5.2 rating on imdb!) but you just cant capture lightning in a bottle. Lost in Space is of a time and place in history. Leave it alone. Let it rest in our memories....and reruns!
This gives you what kind of a TV show it was going to be set up to be taken seriously not for children more of a grown up TV show with a killer on board the ship
At 3:50, when Dr. Smith knocked the soldier out, and looked at the atomic motors- as a boy I thought that he was going to throw him into the engine core hoping he'd be disintegrated by the immense power generated by the core.
Why destroy the radio transmitter? The Robinsons and Maj West are frozen solid. No chance they would emerge from the tubes and be able to call for help with the cabin pressurization system destroyed.
to remotely take over, or at least give them telemetry to analyze. BY destroying it, that remote possibility is removed. The loss of Jupiter II must remain a mystery.
Does anyone out there remember the 1965 promo for first season lost in space, it shows john Robinson and major west looking at the star chart in the derelict space ship and then mrs Robinson looking for penny calling her name then you see the alien landscape and here the giants roar? I used to look that CBS promo. 😊😊
I loved this show when I was a kid as ana adult I have to suspend my disbelief and say shielding technology must have advanced so much because it's now conceivable to sleep and eat next to the reactor core. Still fun.
Smith killed him, alright. Believe that's' the import of the action he takes to check the victim's pulse at the neck -- assuring not that he's alive, but dead.
They talked about this being the first of 10 million families going into space! I wondered if they cancelled that after the first mission was a failure? Also, the whole time, Smith wanted to go back to Earth, surely he knew he would immediately be arrested as the saboteur??
Back then, we only had 3 stations. I was 10 years young and tuned to the first episode by chance. It was a Wednesday evening at 7:30, and immediately I was hooked on the show. I was familiar with June Lockhart from Lassie, and I've always loved science fiction. The music for the show was unique and added character to it. The robot and the Jupiter 2 were so cool. If only they carried over the 1st season to the others. I liked it better as a serious program.
Yeah. After a few seasons it started to get corny. The first season was more believable
Most of love the serious episodes of LIS
With all respect, I must disagree.
“Playing it straight” Irwin Allen Style would have made this show no more memorable or lasting than his other shows like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel or Land of the Giants. All OK to So-So shows, but none nearly as memorable and syndicated as LIS.
SMITH & ROBOT 4 EVER!
When I was a kid, I never missed the show. Never thought I live long enough to see the Jupiter 2 take off on October 16,1997. It’s 2021 now. “oh the pain”.
Me too! Getting old dude
Lol !!
@@TheGuru12163 Me three (I know you remember that reference😁)
Me too..when kids could dream and use their imaginations. Glad I grew up long before this technology that is 2021 today. Oh the pain! The pain!
Yep, the pain is right ! Humanity hasn't even so much as left earth's orbit in decades, for crying out loud. Except for unmanned probes, of course. What a travesty.... after all that original optimism ! Okay, I'll climb down from my soapbox now. Thanks. 👌🏾☮️
Timeless... this classic TV series will never get old👍
Yes. Dr. Smith. Played by one of the greatest "British", by way of the Bronx New York, actors of our time, Jonathan Harris.
Another faux "Mid-Atlantic" actor's accent.
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@@XavierKatzone Yep, but definitely better than his native Noo Yawk accent. The "deese and dose" accent, as Harris himself referred to it. 😌
Where did _you_ get the "idea" that he was supposed to be "British"? lol
And Johnathan Harris was NOT British . He and his family fled Russian and were Jewish fleeing persecution during Communism .
I used to love this show as a kid! I'm definitely not around the same age as the rest of the people in the comments section I'm only in my 20s, but my aunt gave me some bootleg copies of every episode of this show and I was obsessed with it, I'd watch it almost every night lol. Dr Smith ends up being such a relatably silly outcast character, I love him so much.
Good for u , u youngens need to see what everyone is copying & remaking 😁
I was a wide-eyed 12 year old back in 1965, watching this on our 15 inch BW tv. I still remember the fall promos for this new series Lost in Space, with the shots of the Jupiter II swooping over the alien planet. And as a nerdy science geek kid who was shunned by the "in" crowd at school, I was hooked on this show and eagerly watched the first episode. The wonderment, the mystery, the eeriness of that first season had me believing these people were truly on an alien planet.
The first season was truly the best. The third season had a few episodes that were good, in that they were in the spirit of the first season.
Man, this was my favorite show when I was a kid. I remember Mom worried it was too scary for me LOL.
I started watching it as a teenager in re-runs, in 1978. On a color tv, in my maternal grandparents' kitchen. The door to their living room looked like the doors in the "state rooms" The light in the kitchen somewhat resembled the "bubble" of the Robot B9's head.
Just want to say happy birthday lost in space September 15 1965 the show premiered on this day and I want to thank the entire cast And god bless. 🤗🤗🤗
Smith's pure evil countenance at 1:44 is startling and convincing. Never saw this expression ever again in the series
“Do you know who I am?” That’s the same thing Paul Pelosi said when he tried to get out of the drunk driving ticket. I was five years old when this episode came out. I remember like it was yesterday. Coolest and scariest thing I had ever seen in my life.
Thank you for refreshing my nearly 55 year old childhood memories of this. I've had people say over the years Smith didn't kill a guy to get aboard but I'm pretty sure he did, plus he was trying to kill crew anyway. I can't believe my memory of him just tossing the body down some convenient nearby rubbish chute into a regular trash bin was accurate. It is completely ridiculous that the Jupiter II was designed that way. Doesn't change the fact I wanted to be Will Robinson when I was a kid.
Me too!
I combed my short hair like his. I found a similar, very ugly, shirt. It was my favorite shirt.
To this day, I still remember that first look of the robot being activated at 2:23 sending my little kid self running behind a living room chair. The show really was scary when it started. Then, a few episodes later, the giant cyclops was even more terrifying.
I loved watching this when I was 8 years old. Brings back nice memories. Thanks for putting this on.
Yup..its true! I was about that age too when it was aired by Malaysian national TV in early 1970's. So nostalgic. Now l'm a 53 yrs old grandaddy.
6-9 years old for me!
Doctor Smith is mad funny
Love it.I was so young, 7 and watched on ch 30 in st.louis mo.at 3pm after school at Griffith elementary.
Smith was forced to change tactics out of a necessary need to survive, although he remained self serving, his relationship with the Robinson's children softened him over time.
Yeah he at first deliberately soften his character to deceive the Robinsons and prey on their mercy but later they grew on him especially the kids
One of Harris's best scenes is in "The Time Merchant", where he has a chance to stay on Earth in 1997 but learns (via a message relayed from the Merchant) that the LACK of his extra weight aboard the J II will cause the ship to be destroyed in an uncharted asteroid belt before the family comes out of hypersleep. "Penny, Judy...my dear William", he laments, "No I can't do it!" -- and he and the Robot plot to sneak aboard the ship to prevent the tragedy.
That shot of the robot with the blinky lights is what got me hooked. He and Robby the robot are the coolest sci fi robots ever.
@Kevin McDougall Robert Kinoshita.
Remember Robby's guest-appearances on Lost in Space?
@@richardranke7878 "War Of The Robots" and "Condemned Of Space."
After he became human, I loved the B9 Robot!
Seems hard to believe Dr Smith could knock out or kill a soldier just by hitting him in the shoulder with one hand. It would have been more in character to have him inject him with a syringe or something.
My favorite TV show @12 in the fall of '65. The 1st season was the best. It got too silly in the 2nd & 3rd seasons.
People seem to forget that the comic relief for the show was a cold blooded murderer.
One thing I like about the Netflix version is the family never trust their Dr Smith & they keep her locked up in a closet.
Judy surely forgot Dr. Smith was a cold blooded murderer...she stood up for him on several of the first season episodes.
Gee smh thanks for giving us a heads up on *spoiler alert* 👍 im only on episode 2 on the Netflix series 🤫🤔😒😔
The incidental music can still give me goosebumps...that lead up to scary monsters...ahhh👍🤣
I'm still watching this show on Antenna TV.
I used to watch this show after school when it was in syndicated reruns, and I'd seen all of the episodes except for the first one. Over and over I'd turn it on, hoping to see how it had all started, but it seemed as though that was the one episode they didn't play anymore!
Muchas gracias y m felicidades por presentar esta serie de TV...MI PROGRAMA FAVORITO por siempre..me emocionó mucho ver de nuevo este programa iconico Lost in Space..saludos.
Jonathan harris really made this show what it is, a superb actor in a superb time . I really miss those days
Yeah, he ruined it.
Yes it is a bygone era. We will never experience those times again. I get nostalgic thinking of them. Not just the show itself but the memories from the years we lived trough when we watched it.
This original concept and execution was brilliant. Good lord Allen lost his way. So to speak.
In fact, I've heard that NASA had approached Allen to technical consultancy. He dismissed their offer. In fact beginning in season two, the show came to focus even more on Jonathan Harris/Dr. Smith and his constant scheming against the Robinsons
The first season was amazing. Unfortunately, Irwin Allen didn't care much for science fiction or for good story-writing. If something got him good ratings, that's all that mattered to him. "Lost in Space" was competing with the "Batman" TV show at the time, and when Irwin saw how successful it was, he changed the direction of "Lost in Space" to try to compete with it. He dumbed the show WAY down in seasons 2-3, and we got Space Pirates, Space Hippies, Space Banditos, Space Miner 49ers, etc.
I was a little 6 yr old kid when I first saw Smith activate the Robot. Most amazing thing I have ever seen! I remember it like it was yesterday. It was 54 years ago I go
I loved the direction the show went. You can’t have too much Dr Smith, accept it.
@@smartluck100 the robot had such potential with a mini drone. Aux rocket pack and tv transmission's but that was never explored. Just that inane visit to a giant robot
I love this Dr Smith! The cold blooded evil Smith even more than the bumbling cowardly comedic one he became even though I love that version of him too. Robot was much cooler too in the early version!
I agree! The "silly" version later was fun, but I loved how scary The Robot was originally, and how Smith just wanted to kill everyone.
@@deeesher I enjoyed the voice of the robot, cold, inhuman and would do anything that Smith said.
Both versions of Dr.Zachary Smith were evil.
The one in the regular show was comically evil-more like Sylvester or Wile E.Coyote.In the pilot he was more like The Master
The character was changed since Johnathan Harris felt that if he had remained as that character, he would not have been on the show for very long so he took a more comedic approach to playing the villain.
@@ace942 yeah i did hear that some where, thanks
At 1:35, that was a stunt double because Jonathan Harris was claustrophobic. I love that sound at 2:20 of the Robot being activated.
Very canny of you, on both counts. agree
From the best year ever,the first season and an evil Dr Smith,it doesn't get any better than that!!!!!
All the black and white episodes were the best ones- not long after the switch to color however, the series began it's decline. But great memories from those times will keep it popular even after we from that generation are no more.
@Kevin McDougall , wow. I didn't know that. Wasn't Jim also the narrator for Lost In Space?
@Kevin McDougall , thanks for clearing that up for me. And Happy New Year .
@Kevin McDougall , Ah! No problem. I need to do that everyday.😄😄
I love Lost In Space. Watched as the series evolved through the different theme songs and all of the great guest stars/aliens. I like the robot also. ♡ T.E.N.
I loved it to Tracy back when live was so much simpler l was about 6 old then l wish l could go back l miss that life
My favorite show...ever. I was six years old when i accidentally stumbled on the episode where Will is out in the alien darkness working on the chariot.... and here comes the EVIL robot (as programmed by Dr. Smith). Holy crap!, I thought..... I was hooked.
A GREAT. PLEASURE. TO. WATCH. ESPECIALLY. DR. SMITH.
That was a great episode!
Robinson's family is so generous, even though Dr.Smith is troublesome every time.
even at 61 I would still watch this show.
I still do, at age 60. 👍🏾
My favorite show. I used to watch it each afternoon after school.
My favorite UA-cam posts is lost in space because it brings back memories of my childhood and my loving parents where alive. And I had 56 more years of life. Now I would be lucky if I have ten years left.
Great show. Bravo to the cast ⚘
Of course to me the silliest remark in the series comes from none other than Professor Robinson "Ah, the Zenian Galaxy...We must have passed through it during the night."
One may assume that they created night and day inside the spacecraft as on earth. In other words they passed through during a sleep period.
It must have been one of those really small galaxies...
I'd forgotten about that one ! 😁 And the "comets" that can fry the Robinsons to a crisp with their intense "heat". 😊🤔😌😁
These were not bad days. Miss old t.v shows
I know what you mean....."Oh, the pain! The pain!"...... Sorry, I couldn't resist. 👌🏾👍🏾
As a kid my favorite shows;lost in space and land of the giants
wow. Classic!!!!!!
We had imagination back in those days!!
Allens PILOT EPS always had a good storyline but as series progressed they degraded to silliness and the MOTW Genre
LOVE this and the NEW Lost in Space on Netflix. Couldn't stop watching!
The music builds the suspense and keeps it rising. Watching this with the dialogue and no music would not convey the sense of danger and menace.
How wrong this show went when it started trying to compete with Batman for campiness.
The beginning of space travel TV shows that indures the test of time. Thank you Irwin Allen, great cast and production crew. Funny how the writers made Dr. Smith a conniving competent spy, with one quick judo chop rendering a trained security man unconscious to a bubbling spineless trouble making idiot that is weak and frail that can't lift 5lbs.
Lost in space had so much promise at the very beginning, but Irvin Allen went "Gilligan's Island " Silliness after that. And that ruined it.
It's easy to forget that he was actually a villain.
I never knew. I never saw this scene before. Always hated him (character) and never could figure out why John and Don didn’t ditch him on some planet or shoot him out into vacuum early on…but then remembered why Gilligan always ruined every rescue attempt. It’s a show. 😀
@@Andrew-13579 Dr. Smith morphed into some kind of anti-hero....Didn't he get more fan mail than the cast? Kinda weird!! And he also bought lollipops for the crew.....or so I heard....
"Waste Disposal" ... What a way to go! :-(
For a guy who knocked out a guard with a single chop to the neck, he spend a lot of time cowering behind a boy.
yes I agree...after this episode..the producers thought he was far too scary..so they mellowed him...which is a shame..
I know right: bravery was NOT one of his greatest traits!
@@davidderitis9068That change was a HUGE mistake.
First season of a childhood Love - Really cool, thanks so much. Tons of familiar actors.
Throughout the whole series the rest of the crew never found out he was a foreign agent
Actually it wasn't that Jonathan Harris hated playing an evil character. He was known for playing bad guys. He just realized that playing evil on this show was going to be a short stint and he was looking for a steady paycheck. He knew it would only be a matter of time before John Robinson shoved him out of an airlock - so he talked Irwin Allen into morphing into a bumbling fool.
It wasn't only that. By that time, Fox and CBS were putting heavy pressure on Irwin Allen to cut back on the violence and lighten up the initially dark tone of the series. Mr. Harris undoubtedly knew of this, and simply fell in with them, as it were. It should also be remembered that, by that time, there was a widespread call by the FCC and other groups to tone down television violence, which had reached its peak with "The Untouchables" only a few years earlier. Such cartoon series as "Space Ghost" and "The Herculoids," now considered classics of the period, were also cancelled for the same reason. Subsequent attempts to revive these series proved to be miserable failures, as they "dumbed down" the original characters to the point that viewers in general found them disappointing.
@@GlamRockCowboy Not only Space Ghost & Herculoids, The Wild Wild West and Wacky Races were canceled to tone down the violence.
Also Jonny quest
I believe that the episode where the Robinsons returned to their ship, after the big freeze, they would find Dr .Smith frozen to death.
@@jmen4ever257Perhaps that was the time to offer the storyline where Smith was duplicated by a similar Smith in temperament - just simply a big WUSS now. 😎
man, that shot and sound of the robot is so awesome. 2:19
I was 7, and that robot scared the crap out of me.
After watching this show for years, I'm convinced the title of the show refers more about the kids in the show getting lost in every single episode.
Right..... especially Will (who NEVER seemed to heed his parent's advice). 👌🏾
It's interesting that they make a big deal about showing the reactor room, and then don't return to it again until the third season in only one episode.
It was a very large room too, that would never have fit into the ship as seen from the outside, not to mention the pod. Where did they have room for the pod?
Awesome! You can see where films like "Alien" got the ideas at first...
Oh the pain of it all.
Dr. Smith and the robot sure got into a lot of arguments!!!
Handsome... pretty handsome.. Dr Smith.
😄😊😆😁🤣👍🏾👍🏾
I had forgotten that overpopulation was the reason for the voyage. Great show!
Overpopulation was a big concern prior to the early '70s, when the Green Revolution in agriculture sharply boosted crop yields per hectare -- especially in the Third World.
Dr. Zachary Smith. What a villian!
Guy just knocked a dude out cold who was like 20-30 years younger than him with 1 chop using his left hand.
Dr. Smith Kicked Ass
When He Was Super-Evil!!!!!!!!!!!
It's funny how Dr. Smith started as a cold blooded, capable spy, then becomes a bumbling cowardly space queen!
Funny how he's a medical doctor for the first episodes than we are told he's only a "full-fledged doctor of Galactic and Environmental Psychology" pretentious Earth school, eh? "Galactic" before they even colonized one star system?
cowardly space queen. LOL
@@craig9563 you think she alive
Jonathan Harris took control of the writing for his character. Had Smith remained a cold evil spy-villain, he would have been killed off in the early episodes. Harris re-writing Smith as a comic villain saved his character (and the show). 83 episodes was a good run!
I watched it every night on channel 0 in Melbourne as a kid
Oohhhh William !!!!!!!!
0:01 I love the ash tray on the desk. Nice touch.
Great show in the beginning great music as well they should have kept the show as it was Hollywood will never learn don't try to fix something that doesn't need fixing guy Williams was really good as John Robinson a man you could look up to he took very good care of his family with the help of major don west no matter the danger they faced and sometimes gave Smith the boot.🤨🤨
I read that unlike Gene Roddenberry, Irwin Allen didn't care about his shows after he sold them; only that they made money. He would put everything into the pilot in order to sell it, but once sold, he would do anything to keep the money coming in and that's why he let Jonathan Harris's character take over, because it brought in ratings and money. Greed has no taste, unfortunately.
Wow … the only time Dr. Smith had a set of balls … oh the pain
Loved that show. That robot developed quite a personality over time.
The B-9 Robot was designed by the same creator that built Robby The Robot back in the 1950's. Robby the Robot made two guest appearances on Lost in Space "War of the Robots' great episode. The B-9 Robot was voiced by the shows' announcer Dick Tufeld and the Robot suit was operated from inside by stunt actor Bob May. These two men literally brought the Robot to life for us kids. Irwin Allen did not want it known who operated the Robot suit until after he died. Bob May never got credit during the show for operating the Robot suit.
May actually voiced the robot during filming. This was how he synchronized the chest plate lights with the dialog. Tufeld's voice was dubbed in late during post-production.
+HAL 9000 How cool would it have been if they had recorded and saved Bob May saying the lines during taping or rehearsal how cool it would have been to actually hear him saying the dialog too. From interviews and from I have heard and read of Mr. May he had quite the sense of humor.
Loved the evil season 1 Dr. Smith
I always wondered if the original Smith character had killed the guard in this scene. But, he takes the time to toss him out in the trash rather than incinerate him in the reactor. This lead me to believe that he was still alive and Smith didn't really want to kill him in the first place. This was suppose to be a family show and they were already pushing the villain envelope by have someone trying to kill a family in the first place. Why make Smith more evil by killing someone in the first fifteen minutes. But, in short I agree with you. I liked Smith better in the first 16 episodes. A nice balance of "comedic villainy".
According to the Alpha Control Reference Manual, the guard named Ssgt Joseph McWilliams was found dead from a broken neck. Not sure if it is considered canon, but according to this book Dr. Smith did in fact kill the guard.
As a matter of curiosity, Smith's blow looked pretty authentic and effective to me. To someone knowledgeable about such things, as depicted, would that have likely resulted in inflicting a broken neck? In any event, isn't it likely that the dumpster and its contents, if not vaporized in the launch, wouldn't at least, have been irredeemably irradiated, and have to be remotely disposed of, afterwards, validating Smith's decision to dispose of the body, by that means?
While not surprising such a detail might not be illustrated, where exactly, is the dumpster? As one would be led to think, from the scene, it would appear to be directly below the Jupiter. However, the establishing shot of the launch platform, clearly shows that's not the case. There is a walkway, some distance underneath the ship, but there doesn't appear an object situaited on it, though from the perspective of that defining view, it MIGHT just be hard to discern. ???
Agreed I liked the cold blooded evil Smith more than the cowardly bumbling one he became
I had always thought he killed the guard. The look on his face and the pause when he feels for a pulse indicates that the guard is dead and Smith has really stepped in it. What has always puzzled me though is WHERE did the guard come from? He seems to have been luring in the shadows the entire time that Smith is re-programming the robot. When he appears, he is no where near the ladder or the elevator.
Makes me wonder why Dr Smith was so keen to return to Earth - after all, he'd be in deep doggy doo doo's if he did!
OHHHH.. THE PAIN!! THE PAIINNN !!!!
Dr. Smith was portrayed as a vicious man in this early episode. Then he became a clown.
He was still cowardly, disloyal and greedy though to the end.
That's just "COLD", a "Officer,killing an ENLISTED, !
Dr. Smith is my favorite supervillain.
One hour fifteen from launch, and the 'waste disposal' is just a chute open to the outside with a half full skip bin waiting at the bottom...lol.
FUN FACT: Jonathan Harris had severe claustrophobia. That's his body double who slides out of theacceleration couch stowage area. Harris replaced him to film the clip of him rising from the couch, then did the rest of the scene.
'Bold in concept, brilliant in execution' - and the biggest piece of space junk ever devised by the mind of man. Let's face it, the Jupiter 2 caught fire, blew up, malfunctioned at the slightest provocation.
It specialized in crash landings!
Maybe David but she took a Lickin and she kept on tiking. That's what counts
Danger Will Robinson... Danger...
(You can always tell when the atomic motors are working because the lights will be flashing)
Nostalgic...I enjoyed it when I was a kid in Japan.
I found that the robot's name "Friday" was only in Japanese version.
Warning.....warning.....WARNING!!!!!!! Love Dr. Smith.... my childhood favorite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I loved Dr. Smith portrayal of the goofy villain in the series. May God bless Dr. Smith always for being himself in the series.
The thing I've learned from the greater Lost in Space franchise is that at the earliest opportunity; kill Dr. Smith! At minimum, maroon him/her somewhere. But just like if the castaways had killed (and eaten) Gilligan, they'd have been off the island in two weeks, the Robinsons would have been able to actually work out a plan to get back on course to Alpha Centauri.
I always wondered why they didn't just put him in suspended animation in one of the freezing tubes.
@@markcadieux3445 Don did, actually -- but the robot was programmed (by Smith of course) to release him [Operation Rescue, as the robot called it].
The mystery of the ages: Why didn't they kick Smith's butt off the Jupiter after he lied to them and nearly got them killed -- in Every episode!
because you cannot kill the monster without becoming the monster yourself
I know it's the pilot episode, but I think it's the best episode. This was how L-I-S was supposed to be. The adventures of a space pioneer family.
Robot, still the best actor in the entire show. As a kid, wanting to have him all to myself.
I tried watching the Netflix show (and dont get me started on that 1998 movie - now sporting an overly generous 5.2 rating on imdb!) but you just cant capture lightning in a bottle. Lost in Space is of a time and place in history. Leave it alone. Let it rest in our memories....and reruns!
This gives you what kind of a TV show it was going to be set up to be taken seriously not for children more of a grown up TV show with a killer on board the ship
I had an aunt who looked uncannily like Zachary Smith. She was a spiritualist.
At 3:50, when Dr. Smith knocked the soldier out, and looked at the atomic motors- as a boy I thought that he was going to throw him into the engine core hoping he'd be disintegrated by the immense power generated by the core.
At exactly launch plus eight hours,
Inertial guidance system,
destroy!
Radio transmitter,
destroy!
Cabin pressure control system,
destroy!
Why destroy the radio transmitter? The Robinsons and Maj West are frozen solid. No chance they would emerge from the tubes and be able to call for help with the cabin pressurization system destroyed.
😁😁😁Nice touch! Hall 9000 giving advice to the B9 Robot!
Normajean McCracken --- Rick Grimes sure could've used that robot--- destroy the walker herd! Destroy destroy!!
@@badideabearcub2747 but the POD BAY DOORS Came in the third season, though
to remotely take over, or at least give them telemetry to analyze. BY destroying it, that remote possibility is removed. The loss of Jupiter II must remain a mystery.
Boy, he was a naaaasty guy back then, wasn't he?
Wow so cool, other fans like me who enjoyed and loved this show.
Does anyone out there remember the 1965 promo for first season lost in space, it shows john Robinson and major west looking at the star chart in the derelict space ship and then mrs Robinson looking for penny calling her name then you see the alien landscape and here the giants roar? I used to look that CBS promo. 😊😊
That promo, was VERY effective! It hooked me instantly. LOS was the one show I was looking forward for school starting for for the very first time.
If you think aboot it, alpha centauri was unexplored, the probably would have perished in a plannet with high temps and toxic gases..
Sometimes you could see the zipper on the alien's costume. Too good!
I loved this show when I was a kid as ana adult I have to suspend my disbelief and say shielding technology must have advanced so much because it's now conceivable to sleep and eat next to the reactor core. Still fun.
This was on at the right time
When you see this it is going to be hard for you to believe how he will turned into later on the show just from seeing this happen
And within three years this sinister, karate-chopping foreign agent will be transformed into a talking stalk of celery.
Holy Sh(*&t! Dr. Smith took out a soldier?
No, if you look more closely, you'll see that he actually knocked him out, then threw him out of the ship, where he landed in a trash bin.
@@GlamRockCowboy chek out a season three ep where he and will go back to launch of J2 and try to prevent the launch
As a kid, I didn't think Smith killed him. But as an adult, it seems to me the soldier would have been fried when the Jupiter lifted off.
Smith killed him, alright. Believe that's' the import of the action he takes to check the victim's pulse at the neck -- assuring not that he's alive, but dead.
They talked about this being the first of 10 million families going into space! I wondered if they cancelled that after the first mission was a failure?
Also, the whole time, Smith wanted to go back to Earth, surely he knew he would immediately be arrested as the saboteur??