Back in 1965, this former 8 year old was transfixed at the TV in full jaw dropping mode. Wondering if a sliver of Irwin Allen's fictional story (hopefully at least the Jupiter 2) could ever come to pass by the time I become a old man 40 in that distant future year...1997 (SIGH).
So awesome no matter how many times I see it .it brings chills to me . they did show the lift off in color in a later episode where Dr. Smith and Will go back in Time
Now if all went well, the Robinsons and Major Don West would have stayed frozen for five years, and went straight to Alpha Centauri. Departed the ship, that simple.
@@johnbockelie3899 According to the Time Merchant they would've been killed due to an uncharted asteroid. It was Smith's involvement which prevented that from happening.
@@ClagwellsGarage Smith was even willing to be arrested so he could stay on earth. The robot played on his emotions to get him back on the Jupiter 2. It showed that Smith really did care for the Robinsons and didn't want to be responsible for their deaths.
When Lost in Space hit the air waves in the fall of 1965, CBS had already started filming shows in color. They dropped the ball with LIS in its first season.
As far as the Munsters and even the Addams Family, I think it was the fact that programs were going to color that did both shows in. The networks didn't want to spend the money on them. Too bad because both shows would have been great in color!
No one dropped the ball. Lost In Space, The Munsters, The Addams Family and most filmed programs from that period and before were all made in black & white because that was the standard back then. Of course there were color programs also, though the extra expense was usually reserved for live shows, or the occasional series that had well funded production. The simple reason for this was that most people back then only had black & white sets. Sometime around 1965 the three networks decided that the number of color sets in viewers hands had crossed a tipping point and they all settled on the fall 1966 season as the time to switch all their programs to color. So that fall all programs that would air that season would open with a placard giving the show's name along with the words, "in color." NBC would go one step further with the colorful, animated peacock and an announcer who proclaimed, "This program is brought to you in living color." This is why shows like Star Trek, which premiered that season were in color from the start. Lost In Space, OTOH had its premier in the fall of '65. So it's first season was filmed in black & white as was the first two seasons of Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, which had premiered in the fall '64 season. As for The Munsters and The Addams Family never making it to the color era, like Voyage', they had also premiered in '64 and had been on for two seasons by '66. The respective networks had simply decided that they had run their course and didn't renew them for '66. Note: There was a movie of The Munsters that came out around '65/'66 titled Munster Go Home, which was filmed in color. So that show did at least have a token color production.
@@Inflec That's all true but in the case of Lost in Space, it premiered in Sept. '65 and some shows that season had already switched to color. So I'm sure if Irwin Allen had pushed it LIS could have debuted in color.
Yeah. Penny was cute for watching. But when I was 10 years old and we were playing in my tree house in the back yard, my girl friend & I were "John & Maurine Robinson." (I've gotta remind her of that next time we talk and see if she remembers.)
Thrusters weren't used for takeoff from Earth; rather the ship's magnetic (repulsion) drive did the job. The sound effect should thus be deleted. Also, the Astrogator should not be up in the bubble, turning, as shown; the ship's course was pre-set to follow a known route, out to some long distance away from Earth (possibly to the edge of the solar system; certainly as far as Jupiter). The ship followed that course through inertial navigation. Astro-navigation wasn't required so early in the voyage. All interior shots taken during the pre-takeoff phase depict the astrogator on the main deck where it belongs. It only rises into the bubble and starts scanning while in unknown space, or when it's otherwise necessary to take star sightings to confirm or adjust the course.
Both Lost in Space and Star Trek borrowed heavily from MGMs "Forbidden Planet". The sleep tubes were also visually evocative of the DC stations (deceleration pads) with the beam effect over the actors. Same for Star Trek's transporters. The saucer was similar model with similar fantasy visual drive unit to the United Earth Cruiser. The bridge had an "Astrogator" nearly identical to Forbidden Planet. Star Trek has a stylized one on Sulu's helm console. Star Trek also started out with "United Earth fleet" before they invented the United Planets Federation late in season 1.
One of the art directors for Lost in Space was Robert Kinoshita he was responsible for many of the designs in Forbidden Planet. He also designed Robby the Robot. So there was a definite design lineage.
Gene Roddenberry worked for MGM before going to Paramount. I wonder if he approached MGM with a concept to take the characters and situations from Forbidden Planet and do a TV series, only MGM turned him down. Because if you look at Star Trek it is very similar to Forbidden Planet they have United Planets-the Captain the Doctor and Spock are similar to the Captain,the Doctor and the Lieutenant in Forbidden Planet. Its quite possible.
Return from Outer Space is still one of the worst eps. Will returns to Earth and one year has passed since they were lost, so 1998. And yet the town looks like the 50s if not earlier. They obviously didn't have the budget. Even the phones were ancient. Horrible.
I thoroughly enjoyed the show as a child, am glad to see it get respect today. But while watching this just now, some little part of my tired brain saw the family and in popped the thought that they're wrapped in aluminum foil and stuck in the -freezing tubes- freezer. 😮😊 I've been awake too long, off to sleep... ...zzzZZZ. 😴
I wonder what this series would have been like if they had stuck to the more serious tone of the first episodes instead of trying to chase the campy cheese of Batman.
Not sure why in the pilot they said the suspended animation would keep for 75 years but in the change to an episode the announcer said " they will stay in suspended animation for 5 and a half years". It made no sense. The beginning of LIS's crap science. Star Trek at least put in the effort.
Perhaps 75 years on Earth but 5.5 years onboard due to relativistic time dilation? If so, I'm sure it would be an after-the-fact explanation only. After all, it was Lost in Space.
Let's blow our budget on lift off (courtsesy This Island Earth) and then we can ditch scripts that makes any sense and show shonky sets and alien costumes through all the next seasons.
I love to hear the Jupiter 2's engines spool up.
irwin allen loved blowing his entire budget on the pilot
Back in 1965, this former 8 year old was transfixed at the TV in full jaw dropping mode. Wondering if a sliver of Irwin Allen's fictional story (hopefully at least the Jupiter 2) could ever come to pass by the time I become a old man 40 in that distant future year...1997 (SIGH).
Well, in 1998 there was a big-screen remake and later a "Re-imagined series"..so at least we got that going for us.
I'm the same age. LIS was a must-see in our home. Star Trek? Meh. That's the way it was then.
Go to Area 51 and you will see the real U.S. Space Force, a fleet of flying saucers.
I was also about 8 when my father and I rushed home from the Whitehall Discount Center in Columbus, Ohio to see the first episode.
Michael... If you have Netflix, watch the Bob Lazar story.
Lost in Space was my favourite TV series when I was a kid. Closely followed by Timeslip and The Tomorrow People. You can tell I'm a Brit, can't you.
Always loved this. The music and the engine starting, draw you in
So awesome no matter how many times I see it .it brings chills to me . they did show the lift off in color in a later episode where Dr. Smith and Will go back in Time
Now if all went well, the Robinsons and Major Don West would have stayed frozen for five years, and went straight to Alpha Centauri. Departed the ship, that simple.
@@johnbockelie3899 According to the Time Merchant they would've been killed due to an uncharted asteroid. It was Smith's involvement which prevented that from happening.
@@ClagwellsGarage Smith was even willing to be arrested so he could stay on earth. The robot played on his emotions to get him back on the Jupiter 2. It showed that Smith really did care for the Robinsons and didn't want to be responsible for their deaths.
Oh the pain...The Pain
When Lost in Space hit the air waves in the fall of 1965, CBS had already started filming shows in color. They dropped the ball with LIS in its first season.
That’s because Irwin Allen was a notorious cheapskate.
And filming The Munsters in b&w was the same stupid mistake $$.
As far as the Munsters and even the Addams Family, I think it was the fact that programs were going to color that did both shows in. The networks didn't want to spend the money on them. Too bad because both shows would have been great in color!
No one dropped the ball. Lost In Space, The Munsters, The Addams Family and most filmed programs from that period and before were all made in black & white because that was the standard back then. Of course there were color programs also, though the extra expense was usually reserved for live shows, or the occasional series that had well funded production. The simple reason for this was that most people back then only had black & white sets. Sometime around 1965 the three networks decided that the number of color sets in viewers hands had crossed a tipping point and they all settled on the fall 1966 season as the time to switch all their programs to color. So that fall all programs that would air that season would open with a placard giving the show's name along with the words, "in color." NBC would go one step further with the colorful, animated peacock and an announcer who proclaimed, "This program is brought to you in living color." This is why shows like Star Trek, which premiered that season were in color from the start. Lost In Space, OTOH had its premier in the fall of '65. So it's first season was filmed in black & white as was the first two seasons of Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, which had premiered in the fall '64 season. As for The Munsters and The Addams Family never making it to the color era, like Voyage', they had also premiered in '64 and had been on for two seasons by '66. The respective networks had simply decided that they had run their course and didn't renew them for '66.
Note: There was a movie of The Munsters that came out around '65/'66 titled Munster Go Home, which was filmed in color. So that show did at least have a token color production.
@@Inflec That's all true but in the case of Lost in Space, it premiered in Sept. '65 and some shows that season had already switched to color. So I'm sure if Irwin Allen had pushed it LIS could have debuted in color.
Penny Penny oh my god Penny😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Yeah. Penny was cute for watching. But when I was 10 years old and we were playing in my tree house in the back yard, my girl friend & I were "John & Maurine Robinson." (I've gotta remind her of that next time we talk and see if she remembers.)
Never seen this in colour before Stephen mcdavitt
Thrusters weren't used for takeoff from Earth; rather the ship's magnetic (repulsion) drive did the job. The sound effect should thus be deleted. Also, the Astrogator should not be up in the bubble, turning, as shown; the ship's course was pre-set to follow a known route, out to some long distance away from Earth (possibly to the edge of the solar system; certainly as far as Jupiter). The ship followed that course through inertial navigation. Astro-navigation wasn't required so early in the voyage. All interior shots taken during the pre-takeoff phase depict the astrogator on the main deck where it belongs. It only rises into the bubble and starts scanning while in unknown space, or when it's otherwise necessary to take star sightings to confirm or adjust the course.
The sound effect was not there in the original lift-off. It got dubbed in here.
Both Lost in Space and Star Trek borrowed heavily from MGMs "Forbidden Planet".
The sleep tubes were also visually evocative of the DC stations (deceleration pads) with the beam effect over the actors. Same for Star Trek's transporters.
The saucer was similar model with similar fantasy visual drive unit to the United Earth Cruiser. The bridge had an "Astrogator" nearly identical to Forbidden Planet. Star Trek has a stylized one on Sulu's helm console. Star Trek also started out with "United Earth fleet" before they invented the United Planets Federation late in season 1.
One of the art directors for Lost in Space was Robert Kinoshita he was responsible for many of the designs in Forbidden Planet. He also designed Robby the Robot. So there was a definite design lineage.
From even earlier - 'This Island Earth' in 1955, 'Forbidden Planet' was in 1956.
Gene Roddenberry worked for MGM before going to Paramount. I wonder if he approached MGM with a concept to take the characters and situations from Forbidden Planet and do a TV series, only MGM turned him down. Because if you look at Star Trek it is very similar to Forbidden Planet they have United Planets-the Captain the Doctor and Spock are similar to the Captain,the Doctor and the Lieutenant in Forbidden Planet. Its quite possible.
@@kevinmaloney2391 Robbíe himself appeared in at least one episode of ~Lost in Space~
War of the Robot and Fugitives in Space.
This was supposed to have taken place on October 16th 1997. Well, at least we have a miniature helicopter on Mars, lol.
Return from Outer Space is still one of the worst eps. Will returns to Earth and one year has passed since they were lost, so 1998. And yet the town looks like the 50s if not earlier. They obviously didn't have the budget. Even the phones were ancient. Horrible.
Changed my life!
Amazing!.. imagine if they could do this in real life one day👍
I thoroughly enjoyed the show as a child, am glad to see it get respect today. But while watching this just now, some little part of my tired brain saw the family and in popped the thought that they're wrapped in aluminum foil and stuck in the -freezing tubes- freezer. 😮😊
I've been awake too long, off to sleep... ...zzzZZZ. 😴
I wonder what this series would have been like if they had stuck to the more serious tone of the first episodes instead of trying to chase the campy cheese of Batman.
I wonder that too.
I wish I could click up for the scene, but down for colorization. So I click neither.
Still my favorite fantasy show... and I don’t know why 🤔 but I 🥰 Robot! (Never did marry)
Jud...Love you...fron Brasil...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
And America's space program is back! What a decade the '90s was!
@Jason B. Your orange dear leader lost, have a twinkie.
I don't know If I like the idea of colorizing the old black and white episodes
I don't!
If the B&W was for saving $$, then colorize them.
The black and white to me was scarier as a kid and when it went to color they weren’t as scary. We didn’t have a color tv anyway till about 1970.
The original intention of the show was to be a serious space drama...and then J. Harris got a hold of things.
Why did Jonathan Harris stick his finger into it for?. Totally ruined it.
@@johnbockelie3899 Irwin Allen told him he knew what he was doing, and to keep doing it.
When Allen had serious science fiction in his shows it was almost by accident or as an afterthought. I found that hilarious.
Not sure why in the pilot they said the suspended animation would keep for 75 years but in the change to an episode the announcer said " they will stay in suspended animation for 5 and a half years". It made no sense. The beginning of LIS's crap science. Star Trek at least put in the effort.
Actually, Lost in Space stayed somewhat more in the realm of possible physics. 5 1/2 years to Alpha Centauri would be less than the speed of light.
Perhaps 75 years on Earth but 5.5 years onboard due to relativistic time dilation? If so, I'm sure it would be an after-the-fact explanation only. After all, it was Lost in Space.
They were supposed to have all that technology by 1997.
Never shown in re-runs.
Why was it colorize? I'm use to seeing in B/W.
In the original it didn't have the batmobile sound effect.
Oh, God! That's EXACTLY what it is!! LOL! The Batmobile sound effect! Ha!!! Great pick up!!! 😆
Centauri*
Let's blow our budget on lift off (courtsesy This Island Earth) and then we can ditch scripts that makes any sense and show shonky sets and alien costumes through all the next seasons.
Please Color
The First Season