This by far was the better of the two theme songs! This version pops more alot hipper! From 1968 I was 8 years old and it still gives me goosebumps listening to it. Kudos to Mr. John Williams & his Orchestra.
This is THE "Lost in Space" theme! It is also one of the GREAT television themes of all time. JUST GORGEOUS! And...I can enjoy it...right here on Earth!
I'm 51 years old and I STILL get goosebumps when I hear the Season 3 theme song. Takes me back to being a kid and the summertime reruns. I couldn't wait for season 3! ❤️😊
It was even more exciting if you were there at the time. I remember being a little kid, watching that first episode of the season, and suddenly the screen freezes and that countdown starts, with the new music... it was genuinely thrilling.
As soon as I hear that music i'm instantly transported back to the house where I grew up. A small, wide eyed 11 year old boy, sitting in front of the warm glow of the new COLOR tv we just got, hanging on to my best friend, Charlie, the family pooch. Eagerly waiting with great anticipation for the show to start. It didn't matter to me that I'd be in trouble once again tomorrow at school for for not having my homework done. All that mattered was that for the next 60 minutes I was going to have a new adventure with my tv family, the Robinsons. Funny how such strong memories can be triggered by such things.
Marc - and now, sitting in your trailer park, clutching your mutt, watching your 5-inch cathode-ray TV, you really wish you had done your homework and becomes a doctor like your mom intended. So sad how LOST IN SPACE ruined your life...
Jesus . . . you're just a couple of years older than me. You probably grew up in middle America . . . I was forced to go to boarding school in England. But every time I'd get back to America I'd haunt shows like this . . . Time Tunnel, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits (the ORIGINAL). Now, what is there . . .? CISMiami, Desperate Housetwats . . . PATHETIC. Ours was truly a Golden Age.
Absolutely Marc...did the same thing...zI could always get the homework done later. It never hurt me..I'm a teacher with two master degrees. Wonderful memories .
somehow i doubt the description you provided is totally accurate. if your tv had a glow that was warm it was probably on the verge of malfunction and radiating highly charged electrons (not good). based on your comment it seems you had an issue with late/lack of homework which suggests to me your caregivers didnt care either. you described yourself as small, wide eyed and im curious how you knew what you looked like if you were watching tv. something is amiss in your story...
I STILL get excited when I see this opening.,As a 7 year old kid,the FIRST TIME I saw THIS opening,I lost my mind.,I just thought it was so FREAKING COOL!!!😊❤
The count down and the horn section, so regal so underrated. Love you LIS, hope to see you soul of a family against all odds prevail beyond the last season.
Once again, Maestro Williams caught the imagination and the contemporary beat of America in space...what a brilliant man! To drop his original theme on request and come up with a new one in less than a year...? Maestro, maestro!
Always loved that countdown opening for season 3 of LIS! Even all these years later it still excites me when the picture freezes and the countdown begins! Great memories! I was born in '65 so I didn't get around to watching the show until it was in reruns in the 1970s.
My number 1 theme of all time. Loved it as a kid and at 51 it still holds its own and then some. loved Lost In Space. John Williams to me is a master at scores and as far as this theme goes John its a 10 out of 10. Thanks for making my youth and to this day special. your work on Lost In Space will live on for many generations to come. that does compute.
What other music has he done? Ok, after reading through the comments, I see that he did the music for Star Wars. I'm not into Star Wars, though. What else has he done? I just love the Lost in Space music! 👏👍❤️
I haven't heard this theme song for over fifty years now. I'm sitting in the living room of my parents' home in 1968/9, watching the next thrilling episode of LIS on the black and white TV. Like all the great theme tunes from that long-vanished period, I can recall them in a blink of an eye. Great stuff.
I grew up in the 80's watching reruns of this on Sunday before Church. Remember my dad always saying Major West should have taken Dr Smith out for a long walk on a short cliff. lol
More than FIFTY years later and this 3rd season theme song from John Williams can still still give me the chills of anticipation and excitement about seeing the show. In the past I have seen and heard school marching bands and orchestras play cover versions of this theme song and thought that sooooo very cool.
I was shocked to learn recently they only did the countdown in season 3, the other 2 were animated, the countdown always added to the suspense, and "here we go"
Considering the real-world space launches at the time - maybe up to present day - I can see why Irwin Allen and company figured a countdown would resonate with viewers.
Vinny DeRosa was a legendary session player who suggested to John Williams to write cues for the horn. John Williams has said that DeRosa was instrumental (literally) in directing Williams to write virtuoso horn cues. Many the great television and motion pictures you have seen have included solos written for Vince DeRosa.
I adore the sudden freeze and countdown tune almost like a crescendo leading into the intro that puts you on the edge of your seat. They certainly knew how to make good TV back then. Limited technology - unlimited imaginations.
You just have to love that John WIlliams music...even the incidental themes at the start of the story!....and Now Star Wars...the biggest movie ever made!!!
Best Theme Song EVER! The credits are SO much more exciting in the thrid season. John Williams managed to come up with a great improvement in this, his second Lost In Space theme. I have always loved the 7 to 1 countdown, but always wondered why they started at 7 insteard of 10!
This mysterious, chilling tv theme always caught me off guard and scared the crap outta me! Still puts a little chill up my back. Those were the days! ;)
Yes you had to be prepared during the first show part that as soon as things started getting strangely spookily wrong in some way, any second the music would suddenly start in its hyper way with the big numbers countdown! ;-)
What I love about this is that William's original theme was scary, tense, and anxious, filled with staccato percussion and depressed and falling notes and scales. I'm not sure why the decision was made to switch themes when they went to color, but this theme has a much better sense of (literal) space, and is ebullient and celebratory of the idea of space travel and the unknown. It was much more suited to the hope and promise of the space race we were in at the time! 8^D
Not to be repetitive, but thank you for posting this introduction! I always loved how they froze frame and went immediately to the countdown. It was extremely catchy and really pulled You into the episode with this toe tapping beat. Absolutely brilliant.
this is the first piece of music at the age of 8 that made me emotional to the point of tears, i couldnt wait for seasons 1&2 to be over to hear this theme its so catchy its simply brilliant from the most brilliant composer of our time john williams
Season 3 had the best theme & opening credits. The theme is so intense. Lost in Space & Batman were my jam. I was 4 when both Lost in Space and Batman ended in 1968. Good memories.
It can be hard describe how the 3rd season intro was so superior, except for you are seeing the action waiting for the countdown like a bomb about to blow. Suddenly, there is a moment of sudden tension and shock and the countdown begins with you setting for the adventure to come!
I remember it very well from 1967 when Lost in Space began it's final season with the ramped up opening credits and theme music. Marcel Hillaire had a recurring role as the junk man in Junkyard In Space. And the 2nd appearance Of Robby The Robot. I believe the title Special Guest Stat Jonathan Harris had something related to billing. The late actor Kurt Kasznar, Fitzhugh from Land of the Giants, had special guest star billing in the 2nd season.
What I loved about this theme song were the "ascending" notes.... like we were all blasting off with them (esp. Dr. Smith).."Oh the pain..the pain"...!
@@peacockblue8407 Season 3 like here: You had to be prepared watching the very start plot portion before the intro theme...as soon as it starts getting newly straaaaaange...any second the 7 etc countdown and tension music intro might start!
Still remember to this day hearing this version of the theme song for the first time and my reaction. Was a favorite then and I still enjoy it. Plus, if you listen to it, you can pick out bits of other themes Williams wrote during that time.
I wonder if the cast was as excited as us when they first heard and saw the theme for the first time. These are things that keep me up at night 56 years later.
Much more powerful and dynamic theme. I love it so much more than the other theme (which is a really great theme). When I worked with John William's son Joseph, he said John was upset that producer Irwin Allen wanted him do another theme to the show, but this time to do it in a more "pop" style. John didn't like it but he did it and I think he really upped his game here. I love this theme. He downplayed the "pop" by blending it with a dynamic theme, somehow taking the "curse" off of the "pop" aspect. John Williams just has this amazing way of coming up with the coolest, most memorable themes. Interesting to note that whenever they do a bit on LOST IN SPACE anywhere in the media the theme they always play is this one, the third season theme.
I reckon this is the most exciting TV inro of all time. I think it could only be improved if the characters were not smiling but looking serious. Just my opinion.
This by far was the better of the two theme songs! This version pops more alot hipper! From 1968 I was 8 years old and it still gives me goosebumps listening to it. Kudos to Mr. John Williams & his Orchestra.
Ever watch John Williams Orchestra perform the theme music of Lost In Space.
I was six and I still get goosebumps too
@@cartersmith8560 So was I. What a great time to be a kid.
cranks my adrenalas open
Too true. That countdown from the beginning was a big hook for me when watched this way back.
This was, undoubtly, the best intro of the series.
There were only 2.....
@@keithbrown8814 Yea but this was the best like Alberto said and totally agree with him.
@@keithbrown8814 ..nope..three..one was bw and differs to season two..this is three of course..
It’s a good one. But the comments for the original differ...
Yup
Rip mark goddard your space journeys will remain with us forever
This is THE "Lost in Space" theme! It is also one of the GREAT television themes of all time. JUST GORGEOUS! And...I can enjoy it...right here on Earth!
Johnny Williams, The Man Behind The Music
What an Incredible Cast of Lost in Space!
@@robertthomas5736 So much to love about that show--INCREDIBLE cast...AND...GREAT music!✴✴✴
I'm 51 years old and I STILL get goosebumps when I hear the Season 3 theme song. Takes me back to being a kid and the summertime reruns. I couldn't wait for season 3! ❤️😊
Brings tears to my eyes.
I still get goosebumps! I’m watching one of the greatest episodes now: “The Anti-Matter Man.”
On TBS
It was even more exciting if you were there at the time. I remember being a little kid, watching that first episode of the season, and suddenly the screen freezes and that countdown starts, with the new music... it was genuinely thrilling.
As soon as I hear that music i'm instantly transported back to the house where I grew up. A small, wide eyed 11 year old boy, sitting in front of the warm glow of the new COLOR tv we just got, hanging on to my best friend, Charlie, the family pooch. Eagerly waiting with great anticipation for the show to start. It didn't matter to me that I'd be in trouble once again tomorrow at school for for not having my homework done. All that mattered was that for the next 60 minutes I was going to have a new adventure with my tv family, the Robinsons. Funny how such strong memories can be triggered by such things.
Marc - and now, sitting in your trailer park, clutching your mutt, watching your 5-inch cathode-ray TV, you really wish you had done your homework and becomes a doctor like your mom intended. So sad how LOST IN SPACE ruined your life...
The same here. My favorite series and Batman in second place
Jesus . . . you're just a couple of years older than me. You probably grew up in middle America . . . I was forced to go to boarding school in England. But every time I'd get back to America I'd haunt shows like this . . . Time Tunnel, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits (the ORIGINAL). Now, what is there . . .? CISMiami, Desperate Housetwats . . . PATHETIC. Ours was truly a Golden Age.
Absolutely Marc...did the same thing...zI could always get the homework done later. It never hurt me..I'm a teacher with two master degrees. Wonderful memories .
somehow i doubt the description you provided is totally accurate. if your tv had a glow that was warm it was probably on the verge of malfunction and radiating highly charged electrons (not good). based on your comment it seems you had an issue with late/lack of homework which suggests to me your caregivers didnt care either. you described yourself as small, wide eyed and im curious how you knew what you looked like if you were watching tv. something is amiss in your story...
That's because John Williams is a genius and his music will still be played hundreds of years from now!
Thank you John Williams for your music and always loved this theme.
I STILL get excited when I see this opening.,As a 7 year old kid,the FIRST TIME I saw THIS opening,I lost my mind.,I just thought it was so FREAKING COOL!!!😊❤
I really like both intro themes. My mother was a fan of Lost in Space as a child and the appreciation carries on with me of this iconic TV show 📺👀👏
The countdown and theme music intro got me ready for some inter-stellar action with the Robinson’s!!!!!! One of my fondest memories of youth.
Jonathan Harris was a Special Guest Star on Lost in Space for 3 years and was a regular cast member at the same .
This is one of the greatest TV themes in history. Coming in right after the episode intro, simply Heaven!
🤘🤘🤘🤘👋🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
THIS WAS THE BEST THEME OF ALL THE TELEVISION SHOWS ON! AND IT IS STILL THE BEST EVEN TO THIS DAY! I STILL GET CHILLS WHEN THAT COUNTDOWN STARTS!
The count down and the horn section, so regal so underrated. Love you LIS, hope to see you soul of a family against all odds prevail beyond the last season.
Once again, Maestro Williams caught the imagination and the contemporary beat of America in space...what a brilliant man! To drop his original theme on request and come up with a new one in less than a year...? Maestro, maestro!
Always loved that countdown opening for season 3 of LIS! Even all these years later it still excites me when the picture freezes and the countdown begins! Great memories! I was born in '65 so I didn't get around to watching the show until it was in reruns in the 1970s.
I LOVED THAT SEASON 3 OPENING and THEME MUSIC!!! Always gave me goosebumps, starting with the countdown! It still does to this day!
Mark Goddard aka Don West of Lost in Space 1936-2023. I met him once 10 years ago with Marta Kristen (Judy Robinson).
My number 1 theme of all time. Loved it as a kid and at 51 it still holds its own and then some. loved Lost In Space. John Williams to me is a master at scores and as far as this theme goes John its a 10 out of 10. Thanks for making my youth and to this day special. your work on Lost In Space will live on for many generations to come. that does compute.
figures it williams
🚀 ant: i always get excited & nervous when the panicky music begins & the #7 screams in my face!! ➆ 👀
Anthony Messina I agree with every part of this comment.
What other music has he done? Ok, after reading through the comments, I see that he did the music for Star Wars. I'm not into Star Wars, though. What else has he done? I just love the Lost in Space music! 👏👍❤️
@@wendysw714 Hi. He did the GREAT "Jurassic Park" theme, among others. Do a search on composer John Williams.
Man...John Williams. Amazing how much cool music he came up with.
I haven't heard this theme song for over fifty years now.
I'm sitting in the living room of my parents' home in 1968/9,
watching the next thrilling episode of LIS on the black and white TV.
Like all the great theme tunes from that long-vanished period, I can
recall them in a blink of an eye. Great stuff.
Great theme song. Gives me goosebumps when I hear it. Enjoyed it more than the original theme for this show.
There's something about this intro that instantly transports me back to the 1960's.
I grew up in the 80's watching reruns of this on Sunday before Church. Remember my dad always saying Major West should have taken Dr Smith out for a long walk on a short cliff. lol
It's really a long walk off a short pier but he was right in the logic..
The genius, John Williams. What a great theme song! One of the best ever!
I have always loved this and TODAY I found out it was John Williams and I thought "of course"
Still one of my favourite programmes - ever. That theme is so full of optimism!
also a favorite program!
More than FIFTY years later and this 3rd season theme song from John Williams can still still give me the chills of anticipation and excitement about seeing the show. In the past I have seen and heard school marching bands and orchestras play cover versions of this theme song and thought that sooooo very cool.
That French Horn 16th note run...just brilliant.
The countdown is awesome.
😱 makes me break out in a cold sweat!!
Agree, see I'm not the only one. That countdown always gets my heart beating faster, like here we go..
LOVED LOVED the Countdown part! So Awesome!
I was shocked to learn recently they only did the countdown in season 3, the other 2 were animated, the countdown always added to the suspense, and "here we go"
Considering the real-world space launches at the time - maybe up to present day - I can see why Irwin Allen and company figured a countdown would resonate with viewers.
Best intro of the series!
This is the best intro music of the series, it's epic in scope, fast paced and catchy. Such a good show!
All the Lost in Space intros are great
One of the most brilliant introductions/themes regardless of how the show followed.
Completely agree on this.
I was 7 when season 3 premiered and was blown away by the countdown introduction
@@ulphil08 l absolutely feel the same way. Too bad this was it's final season.
The best version of the series! Thanks to the great John Williams! That countdown was genius! This theme still gives me goosebumps!
Jonathan Harris (aka Dr. Smith) was listed as a "Special Guest Star" even though he was in every single episode.
Daniel Pena I saw on a biography on UA-cam he asked for that from the producer. He liked things his way, lol.
I guess "Regular Guest Star" didn't sound as catchy.
@@tomshelton1447 😂
Arrogant guest star is more like it. Never cared for "dr smith"...Mr Harris
I've always liked the close up of the Jupiter 2 with the two figures ( John and Don ) in the viewport, and the way it pulls away from the camera.
The two little figures never moved!!
@@keithbrown8814 It was just a model shot.
My favorite of the intros
Now that's what an intro should be like!.. Perfect visual sync to the music. Just brilliant!!..
My favorite TV theme song of all time.
Vinny DeRosa was a legendary session player who suggested to John Williams to write cues for the horn. John Williams has said that DeRosa was instrumental (literally) in directing Williams to write virtuoso horn cues. Many the great television and motion pictures you have seen have included solos written for Vince DeRosa.
This was the best of the themes to lost in space without a doubt
My phone ring...another classic score by the great John Williams!!
I've never said this about anyone, but John Williams is a genius
I always liked the dramatic countdown in the beginning.
I adore the sudden freeze and countdown tune almost like a crescendo leading into the intro that puts you on the edge of your seat. They certainly knew how to make good TV back then. Limited technology - unlimited imaginations.
You just have to love that John WIlliams music...even the incidental themes at the start of the story!....and Now Star Wars...the biggest movie ever made!!!
Are you being sarcastic?
i agree with longduckdong 😝
As a kid I loved this show and when this opening came on it was so good. Never forget watching this for the first time.
Best Theme Song EVER! The credits are SO much more exciting in the thrid season. John Williams managed to come up with a great improvement in this, his second Lost In Space theme. I have always loved the 7 to 1 countdown, but always wondered why they started at 7 insteard of 10!
Probably because there were seven regular cast members.
This mysterious, chilling tv theme always caught me off guard and scared the crap outta me! Still puts a little chill up my back. Those were the days! ;)
yeah, ME TOO!! < :^0
Yes you had to be prepared during the first show part that as soon as things started getting strangely spookily wrong in some way, any second the music would suddenly start in its hyper way with the big numbers countdown! ;-)
Irwin Allen was my god as a kid growing up in the 60’s. Long live Johnny Williams!
from start to finish, well most of season 3 this has got to be my fav opening them of em all, thanks for reminding me of better days.]\
What I love about this is that William's original theme was scary, tense, and anxious, filled with staccato percussion and depressed and falling notes and scales. I'm not sure why the decision was made to switch themes when they went to color, but this theme has a much better sense of (literal) space, and is ebullient and celebratory of the idea of space travel and the unknown. It was much more suited to the hope and promise of the space race we were in at the time! 8^D
This was the better of the two theme songs. Gave me the feeling of danger while retaining the whimsical nature of the show! Thanks for uploading this.
This version was so much the better that it was used in the 1998 film and the 2018 Netflix series.
This was my favorite show & favorite theme song
My favorite TV theme... EVER! This season three theme is great!
Thanks! This has always been my favorite of the "Lost in Space" themes!
Not to be repetitive, but thank you for posting this introduction! I always loved how they froze frame and went immediately to the countdown. It was extremely catchy and really pulled You into the episode with this toe tapping beat. Absolutely brilliant.
One of the greatest classic television theme songs and intros ever!
This might be John Williams most famous pre-Star Wars piece before he hit his stride in the 70's thru early 90's.
To give you an idea of how old this show is, John Williams is listed as "Johnny Williams" in the closing credits of each episode. :)
Catzilla wow I never knew it was John Williams who did the theme to this show! Thanks for pointing that out.
Johnny was the star of the music and Guy was the star of the acting :)
this is the first piece of music at the age of 8 that made me emotional to the point of tears, i couldnt wait for seasons 1&2 to be over to hear this theme its so catchy its simply brilliant from the most brilliant composer of our time john williams
Everything about season 3 was the best and loved most of the time they were flying threw space in the Jupiter 2, the best space ship ever made..
perfect combo-Irwin Allen and Johnny Williams.
And later on the big screens - IA used JW for The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno
I LOVE IT, LOVE IT!! WOW, I REMEMBER IF HOW EXCITED I WAS ONE I SO THE NEW INTRO!!!
Season 3 had the best theme & opening credits. The theme is so intense. Lost in Space & Batman were my jam. I was 4 when both Lost in Space and Batman ended in 1968. Good memories.
Watching now on Filmrise for free I love this show !!! Awesome cast.🤩
That theme song was the best song I've ever seen.
Fantastic theme music for a great season 3 that began in 1967!
Darryl Ruiz He also ditched The Time Tunnel in favor of Land of The Giants
It can be hard describe how the 3rd season intro was so superior, except for you are seeing the action waiting for the countdown like a bomb about to blow. Suddenly, there is a moment of sudden tension and shock and the countdown begins with you setting for the adventure to come!
John Williams a genious.
Ahhh! This theme song still gives me the best nerdy chills! :)
Uma das melhores Séries Americanas dos anos 60 #PerdidosNoEspaço
I would climb onto my sofa and dance The Pony to this as a child.
I loved the robot. He had such personality.
You ever seen anything more exciting to start a season?
RIP, Mark Goddard.
My favorite LIS theme. Love the build-up in the intro.
I remember it very well from 1967 when Lost in Space began it's final season with the ramped up opening credits and theme music. Marcel Hillaire had a recurring role as the junk man in Junkyard In Space. And the 2nd appearance Of Robby The Robot. I believe the title Special Guest Stat Jonathan Harris had something related to billing. The late actor Kurt Kasznar, Fitzhugh from Land of the Giants, had special guest star billing in the 2nd season.
I don't think I missed an episode when I was a kid. Good share!
I always preferred this version of the theme. It gets you so hyped for the show!
John Williams is a genius.
What I loved about this theme song were the "ascending" notes.... like we were all blasting off with them (esp. Dr. Smith).."Oh the pain..the pain"...!
exactly! It built up to a great show intro.
🙀 whenever i hear it & the #7 pops on the screen ~ INSTANT PANIC! 😱
Thunderbirds got there first with its countdown in 1965
@@peacockblue8407 Season 3 like here: You had to be prepared watching the very start plot portion before the intro theme...as soon as it starts getting newly straaaaaange...any second the 7 etc countdown and tension music intro might start!
I loved the countdown it was cool
This theme is good enough that they use it over the end credits of Netflix's version of Lost in Space.
It should be good enough. John Williams composed it.
I asked most of the cast which version they like better. They like the first season. I like this one.
GREAT OPENING THEME SONG FOR THIS SHOW!!
I owned a silver Jeep Wrangler and I played this theme song while driving through a snow storm. Damn it was Awesome !
Born in 1965, I was raise on LiS. This was my favorite theme. SO exciting.
Bringzzz back childhood memories
Still remember to this day hearing this version of the theme song for the first time and my reaction. Was a favorite then and I still enjoy it. Plus, if you listen to it, you can pick out bits of other themes Williams wrote during that time.
I wonder if the cast was as excited as us when they first heard and saw the theme for the first time. These are things that keep me up at night 56 years later.
God I love this opening. I think I already commented saying that, but I love it so, so much.
I don't know which I prefer more, the LIS opening music or the one from Hawaii Five-O.
That theme song just bought back childhood memories! Me and my sibs loved that show!
I love both intro. I bought the series on blu ray and I watched the first two seasons so far.
Much more powerful and dynamic theme. I love it so much more than the other theme (which is a really great theme). When I worked with John William's son Joseph, he said John was upset that producer Irwin Allen wanted him do another theme to the show, but this time to do it in a more "pop" style. John didn't like it but he did it and I think he really upped his game here. I love this theme. He downplayed the "pop" by blending it with a dynamic theme, somehow taking the "curse" off of the "pop" aspect. John Williams just has this amazing way of coming up with the coolest, most memorable themes. Interesting to note that whenever they do a bit on LOST IN SPACE anywhere in the media the theme they always play is this one, the third season theme.
I reckon this is the most exciting TV inro of all time. I think it could only be improved if the characters were not smiling but looking serious. Just my opinion.
Marcel Hillaire was in the first and last episodes of season 3. He also played the Junkman
Johnny Williams strikes again!