If nothing else, it gained him respect and credibility as a composer which led to work in Irwin Allen disaster films such as The Poseidon Adventure, then on to Jaws and Star Wars. And the rest, they say, is history!
No matter how many times they used these music cues, they always worked. So powerful and dynamic. The music really gave the show credibility even after the stories became ridiculous.
I still remember every scene with every backing track...This has to be the most awesome soundtrack/background music ever!! UNMISTAKABLE LOST IN SPACE MUSIC!! THANK YOU, MELECTRONIC1963
It really is great. You can picture Dr. Smith in all the humorous bits, and a sad Will cues, and of course the horror and nail-biting scenes. John Williams is a genius.
I love how all of you love this music and identify with each of the episodes. As you, I remember each episode when I hear these brilliant pieces. Fans are just the best. Way to go gang!
I didn't even know until 8 years ago that John Williams scored this music. It explains why it's so damn good. TV shows today have lost the magic of a truly good and original music sound track. Some are decent, but most just sounds like recycled/canned music with no passion or drama. This was not the case with Lost in Space and many other sci-fi shows that were produced at the same time or later. The original Star Trek also had great music themes and cues.
Not having a father growing up, I was 5yo in '68 and Guy was the first man I really wanted to be my dad. A fake role model, was very real to me. He had a huge PRESENCE.
I play this on repeat on a big stereo in the back part of my house on many weekends .It's great to be out in the yard doing something and hear the suspense and action music blast out occasionally .
This music is awesome just as I remembered it as a kid. John Williams should have gotten many Emmy's for his Lost In Space musical scores. Listen closely you hear embryos of Star Wars music forming in some of the Lost In Space grandeur themes. Like the music intro to the Jupiter 2 or intro to ALPHA CONTROL! 13:02 starts my favorite music in this collection. This music usually preceded a jump scare. You knew an ugly alien was near and Doctor Smith would do his hilarious screams and start running after saying Oh William My Back is Extremely Delicate Today! Oh Joy, Oh Bliss, Oh Crepe Sui-set! or William My Back Is A Disaster Area.
I grew up on this show. The music absolutely mesmerized me as a child. I'm 55 years old and when I hear this now my heart starts racing like I was 6 or 7 years old. You can hear Jaws type music here before Jaws. Johnny Williams: BRILLIANT.
John Williams' exceptional scoring added so much to Irwin Allen's shows in the last 60s. The cues still sound fresh today and bring me back to my early childhood. If anyone truly loves this show, get the blu-ray set. You won't be disappointed. Even the black and white (first season) blu-ray is crystal clear with amazing surround sound.
To me this and Dominic Frontiare’s first season Outer limits scores are fantastic pieces of music that really set the sci-fi mood in these shows. The music is so good it still holds up today! I would love to see a modern day movie or series using these scores.
My two sons grew up in the 90's and were massive Star Wars fans, so they knew everything about John Williams, until I played this for them without letting them know who the composer was. It took awhile, but they started going, "Wait a minute....this sounds like....nah, couldn't be." I told them it was "Johnny" back then, but it was indeed the Talented Mister Williams. They were impressed. Still great stuff, arguably some of the best background music ever.
So many memorable music cues for this show. Just outstanding. Has John Williams ever done any interviews where he talks about his music for Lost In Space? It would be interesting to hear how he created this stuff.
Danger Danger !! This was one of the best of the campy TV shows , With epic soundtrack by John Williams, The Jupiter 2 coolest flying saucer, Space Monsters, classic space robots. It was a great adventure for kids in the 1960's the B/W episodes of Lost In Space are some of the best in the beginning.
brings back great memories of a time never to come this way again! this is the theme music of all our lives now, and for those of us who lived during those times as Children "Lost In Space" gave us that sense of adventure, that we still live today..well at least I do..."OH THE PAIN! THE PAIN" of it all, however, we all come out of this one safe and sound...ready for our next mission in the 21st Century...are we ready people let's do this! for living our best life ever!
Thank you for this upload. Music from a great era of television. Great musical scores from John Williams made this a true cult classic and remembered, as it got more bizarre and campier in true Irwin Allen fashion. Peace
The incidental music was beyond doubt half of the show's appeal. It let you know when you were supposed to sentimental, vigilant or terrified out of your wits.
I remember building models of monsters and the Munsters coach when I was a kid while watching this in black and white. I have the whole set on DVD now!
23:20 Of all the music, this represents why the original series is classic. The movie and new series have better effects, better action, better stories. But the core of Lost in Space is relationships. That between the family members. That between Will, Dr. Smith, the Robot. Even that between Professor Robinson and Dr. Smith. Professor Robinson wouldn't abandon Smith no matter what he did because Professor Robinson was a Godly man. It's relationships people remember most - the human interaction. Even the bad stuff from Smith, especially in the beginning, was powerful - sinister. That's all missing from the new series and the 90's movie. The new stuff doesn't have a robot becoming human. It doesn't have a sinister agent seeing his own lost innocence in a child that becomes his friend, believes him not matter what lie he tells, trusts him. It doesn't have a father refusing to abandon a trouble maker no matter how much trouble he makes. It's all empty now.
THANK YOU for posting this fine soundtrack, melectronic1963 !! This fine music is an integral part of an unforgettable pioneer TV series which has been ICONIC to millions of us Baby Boomers for over 50 years. Wonderful, magical stuff!
John Williams got it going with the open music and other followed in his footsteps. Yes, a very hokkie show, the first season in black and white was the best. And, everyone's favorite character was B9, the Robot! Even Robbie The Robot Made a cameo appearance on the show! He was evil and B9 won!
Yeah, it wasn't until I was much older that I realized why they named the robot "B9...benign..." How embarrassing for him to have to face his fellow bots! ;)
The-numerologist Man of NUMBERS I wish he’d never been on it. I liked the show a lot but he was a huge detractor. I think he was a commie spy if I remember correctly. Communists ruin everything.
I was told Herman Stein actually wrote this portion of the soundtrack and not Williams. Not to take anything away from Williams' wonderful incidental music throughout the rest of the series.
The music brings back wonderful memories. I have the CD collection of Irwin Allen shows but many of these gems are not in it. The music has a bit more silly element about it but it doesn't change the fact that I'm immediately transported back to the 60s era as a child with nothing but good feelings. The hippie Promised Planet music....really?
That eerie and mysterious theme beginning at 18:44 (first used in the episode "The Derelict") is one of my lasting memories of this series. I was a wide-eyed 12 year old back in 1965, watching this on our black-and-white TV. The impression it made on me!
That was originally heard when Dr. Smith realized he was trapped on board the Jupiter II just before lift-off, and CAN'T GET OUT. He manages to strap himself in, and screams in terror as the ship leaves the launching pad...............
I like this a lot. And it reminds me of the Ventures in Space album. But I liked Hoyt Curtin’s music for Jonny Quest best. I just ordered it. It’s a 2 CD set with no voice overs. Just music. Very cool. Is on UA-cam if you want to hear it. It’s the one with the blue cover.
One of my all time favorites 11:18. Still can see Penny entering the cave in "My friend, Mr Nobody" and then up till 18:43 all was originally from My Friend, Mr Nobody"
"Cheerful and confident" doesn't really describe the second LOST IN SPACE theme accurately. It was more Rock/Pop in nature, a type of "Dance" melody that worked with The Twist and Watusi.
@@sopaman1234 There's some solid season 2 & 3 episodes! Like The Ghost Planet, Trip Through The Robot...I could go on & on..There will be some silly parts but there's some kick ass episodes in those seasons..You have to cherry pick the good ones!
I just discovered this was composed by the iconic John Williams The credits at the end list him as Johnny Williams. Been watching on ROKU channel and am absolutely addicted. Not really loving some of the cartoony, Gilligan's Island style episodes but about 70% of the shows are great. Wish they had done a bit more planet hopping though.
A common motif Williams uses is minor triads moving in half or whole steps. You hear it in Lost in Space all the way through Star Wars. In particular, the minor tonic, down a half step, up a whole, and back to the tonic is the same motif at the beginning of Ralph Vaughan Williams's Symphony #4. Dissonant and unsettling, it must've been a favorite of John Williams.
I wish I could discuss with you with regard to his usage of minor chromatic triads. Myfaborige piece he created for this series was “Mother and Daughter,” a pensive poignant piece- I knew at the age of four the pathos and emotional complexity of it. I am not certain if it even has a specific key; it’s like suspended fourths, superimposed over other key signatures and just kinda ethereally float’s Wistfully over it with the harp. Has a celestial, yet troublesome vibe. I love it maybe the Lydian mode too
I originally got hooked on Lost in Space reruns as an elementary school child in the 1970s. I had a toy laser gun, which I'd clutch as I sat on the couch watching all of the adventures of the Robinson family. Even at that tender young age, however, I was annoyed and turned off by Dr. Smith and all the campiness. I soon thereafter discovered the much more serious Star Trek in reruns and became a lifelong Trekker, leaving LIS far behind. The Smith character ruined LIS, as far as I'm concerned. I hadn't seen any episodes of LIS until decades later when they started becoming available on streaming platforms. I still have fond memories of Lost in Space and have a place for it in my heart though. In fact, I had a long career in the robotics industry which I attribute largely to my fascination with the B9 robot from LIS. The crash landing of the Jupiter II among the pinnacles in the early episodes remains to this day some of the best special effects I've ever seen (perfectly accompanied by Johnny Williams driving score). In any case the music is pure genius, and every note of it is indelibly recorded in my memory banks.
I don’t think for a nanosecond that Irwin Allen took into account our young demographic’s sensibilities- he merely lumped all of us together for the purpose of profit. Pity, all the fundamental ingredients were thereto do a top-notch series; bottom line was the “bottom line.”
i've never seen anything like that, on tv séries in my life! some sounds make shiver to the bones! loi! congratulations John Williams! CLEBER from Brazil!
The show was a classic even when it got silly. The music to it was unbeatable. I think it had the most kick ass music of any show. The episodes The Derelict and Invaders from the 5th Dimension hold up to anything today in serious hard science fiction.. Since 1974 was the first time I seen Dr. Who it was Lost in Space that introduced me to a space ship that was bigger on the inside than the out side in 1965 from the Invaders from the 5th Dimension episode. If that episode was produce just 3 years earlier Lost in Space would of been the first Science fiction show to have 5th Dimensional technology. Robot B-9 is still is the greatest robot on TV. He can't be beat.
Some of the scorings was RECYCLED via IRWIN ALLEN for his other TV shows ["Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea", "The Time Tunnel", "Land Of The Giants" and so on].
Awesome Awesome music....! I grew up with this.. When they went on about Star Wars having big orchestral sounds, I thought, didn't LIS? Same guy...And Lionel Newman?....
Such iconic and recognizable underscoring. Very evocative of the shows themselves. I rank this underscoring, the work of Earle Hagen on The Andy Griffith Show, George Greeley on My Favorite Martian and most of Hoyt Curtin’s themes and underscores for the Prime Time animated shows of Hanna Barbera such as Flintstones, Top Cat, Jetsons and Jonny Quest as the most inventive and memorable from the 1960s.
Eu não perdia um só capítulo de Perdidos no Espaço sendo que cada música era para uma determinada situação que viviam desde as mais engraçadas como as de suspense total .......John Williams um Gênio ......Irwin Allen um gênio bem adiante da sua época .....ouço estas musicas e me arrepio .........Saudades.......Saudades......na minha imaginação a nave Jupiter 2 continua por ai explorando o Espaço .........LITERALMENTE PERDIDOS NO ESPAÇO........ mas não na minha mente , Alma e Coração.......BONS TEMPOS AQUELES EU ERA FELIZ E NÃO SABIA .
Yes...edge of your high chair music :-) The music takes a real...like wow man turn almost halfway through and becomes Johnny’s demo for tv tracks to come. This show was where he cut his composing chop and spit out the kitchen sink. I hear 50’s cool like Peter Gunn, 60’s series like Partridge Family Brady Bunch, Westerns, Cartoons, Detectives, War and of course Fantasy-SciFi on these tracks. This music is nothing like his iconic movie soundtracks and themes; yet, you can feel his vibe and get a hint of his amazing bandwidth for sounds and eliciting musical visual cues just as his star was rising. As I got older and watched this show I personally wanted it to take the darker b/w direction started in the first pilot...then again, as a kid the look and music was the silliness and cheesy sentimental family dynamics that put me in my happy place. The vegetables are revolting! How I hated carrots back then. Now the Jupiter 2 sounds and look was my favorite ride until The Invaders; but the Jupiter 2 was still the Cadillac compared to The Invaders VW Bug. Finally, who doesn’t remember blubbering Dr. Smith dialogue with friends or waving your arms to and for while mimicking the robots, “Danger Will Robinson”. Fun memories. Thanks Melectronic1963!
If wasn't for John Williams, I guess Lost In Space might not have kept my attention. The soundtrack was certainly 50% of the show. It's too bad Irwin Allen didn't necessarily concern himself with scientific accuracy. It was just basic entertainment value. Season 1 will always be the best.
Season one, WAS the best, of the series. It was family oriented, not just a kiddie show, as it'd later evolve into. Nothing against Mister Harris but, they should have stuck to the original plan, and killed off Dr. Smith. Doing that, would have kept the show from becoming the kiddie-show it became, IMO. And, loving the music, as I write this!!
@@jerrypadilla4384 Agreed. So, really one could say over successive seasons that between Harris and Allen the show really devolved rather than evolved. It became something that was extremely commercial and didn't challenge the intellect of the youthful viewer. The thing was Harris was only supposed to make that initial appearance and then be killed off. But he played up the comic, craven, deceitful, bellicose sycophant so well. Subsequently, Allen took note and enabled him.
I love the melody that starts at 23:23. Played during tender moments between Will and his father like in the Antimatter Man episode when John became himself again.
John Williams should have won an Oscar for the soundtrack, it is by far, in my opinion, the coolest, most exciting background music I've ever heard, and music is one of the very few loves of my life, so I'm some what a self declared connoisseur, anyway for me as a child watching Lost In Space, the music was as important as the show it self. If you like soundtracks, give a listen to the 1967 Spiderman cartoon, like far out and groovy, man.
Doctor Zachary Smith: "Lost in Space" will return next week at it's regular time, over most of these station. B9 The Robot: Over most of these stations! Doctor Zachary Smith: I said that. B9 the Robot: He said that!
The score was far more intricate than my then young mind remembers. A lot of Outer Limits nods, westerns, spy and that prolonged funky instrumental that was supposed to make us all feel 'groovey'! Thanks for sharing!
💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝 I love it, one of the highlights of Lost In Space was the excelent music tracks by John Williams , Herman Stine, Alexsanda Courage, Gerrald Fried and Mullanda. Paul Bacchus esq
All songs remarkable but on 6m21s is one of most awesome suspense tracks I've seen. On 7m38s is a song that makes me really feel in a space terror. It is missing crashing landing on this mix which is the best for me.
John Williams should have won several awards for this music. It was so Appropriate and magnificent.
If nothing else, it gained him respect and credibility as a composer which led to work in Irwin Allen disaster films such as The Poseidon Adventure, then on to Jaws and Star Wars.
And the rest, they say, is history!
"Johnny" Williams at the time!
john williams's score still sends chills. series had a lot of heart & humor
No matter how many times they used these music cues, they always worked. So powerful and dynamic. The music really gave the show credibility even after the stories became ridiculous.
It's interesting how the music always took itself seriously even when the show itself didn't take itself seriously.
Isnt that right?!
I still remember every scene with every backing track...This has to be the most awesome soundtrack/background music ever!!
UNMISTAKABLE LOST IN SPACE MUSIC!!
THANK YOU, MELECTRONIC1963
Hoyt Curtin, Jonny Quest.
It really is great. You can picture Dr. Smith in all the humorous bits, and a sad Will cues, and of course the horror and nail-biting scenes. John Williams is a genius.
@@TheShootist The absolute best!
A melhor temporada da série foi a em preto e branco.
I have been a true avid fan of this TV show I'm 61 and it still brings back great memories
John Williams is pure brilliance
I love how all of you love this music and identify with each of the episodes. As you, I remember each episode when I hear these brilliant pieces. Fans are just the best. Way to go gang!
I didn't even know until 8 years ago that John Williams scored this music. It explains why it's so damn good. TV shows today have lost the magic of a truly good and original music sound track. Some are decent, but most just sounds like recycled/canned music with no passion or drama. This was not the case with Lost in Space and many other sci-fi shows that were produced at the same time or later. The original Star Trek also had great music themes and cues.
I tear up sometimes listening. My childhood. thank you for posting.
Fantastic music! They don't music like this anymore.
GUY WILLAIMS ( PROFESSOR JOHN ROBINSON .) MY FAVORITE ACTOR . ALWAYS A PROTECTIVE FATHER AND A REAL BADASS . THE ROLE HE PLAYED WAS AWESOME . R.I.P .
He was a nice looking man, and a very energetic actor.
Not having a father growing up, I was 5yo in '68 and Guy was the first man I really wanted to be my dad. A fake role model, was very real to me. He had a huge PRESENCE.
@@bricharloe4337 LiS was really inspirational, and portrayed good old fashion family values. 1997 was a little overly optimistic.
I play this on repeat on a big stereo in the back part of my house on many weekends .It's great to be out in the yard doing something and hear the suspense and action music blast out occasionally .
😁
Lmao 😆
I bet your neighbors wonder WTF is going on in your house...lol
Exceptional work putting this together. John Williams was always the ninth man on the mission.
I still love this show at age 62, and of course the music too... LoL I goof on it big time! I watch it almost every Saturday night on MeTV 🤣🤣
...sounds great...watched the first season as a 5 year old when it came on Australian tv in 1970.Happy Watching 💫
This music is awesome just as I remembered it as a kid. John Williams should have gotten many Emmy's for his Lost In Space musical scores. Listen closely you hear embryos of Star Wars music forming in some of the Lost In Space grandeur themes. Like the music intro to the Jupiter 2 or intro to ALPHA CONTROL! 13:02 starts my favorite music in this collection. This music usually preceded a jump scare. You knew an ugly alien was near and Doctor Smith would do his hilarious screams and start running after saying Oh William My Back is Extremely Delicate Today! Oh Joy, Oh Bliss, Oh Crepe Sui-set! or William My Back Is A Disaster Area.
This music was brilliant
I grew up on this show. The music absolutely mesmerized me as a child. I'm 55 years old and when I hear this now my heart starts racing like I was 6 or 7 years old. You can hear Jaws type music here before Jaws. Johnny Williams: BRILLIANT.
The sound effects were amazing too.
I feel the same way at 53 years old. The Landing music is the best, and always gives me goosebumps.
So many great memories. My absolute favorite TV show.
John Williams' exceptional scoring added so much to Irwin Allen's shows in the last 60s. The cues still sound fresh today and bring me back to my early childhood. If anyone truly loves this show, get the blu-ray set. You won't be disappointed. Even the black and white (first season) blu-ray is crystal clear with amazing surround sound.
To me this and Dominic Frontiare’s first season Outer limits scores are fantastic pieces of music that really set the sci-fi mood in these shows. The music is so good it still holds up today! I would love to see a modern day movie or series using these scores.
My two sons grew up in the 90's and were massive Star Wars fans, so they knew everything about John Williams, until I played this for them without letting them know who the composer was. It took awhile, but they started going, "Wait a minute....this sounds like....nah, couldn't be." I told them it was "Johnny" back then, but it was indeed the Talented Mister Williams. They were impressed. Still great stuff, arguably some of the best background music ever.
I remember rushing home from school 2 watch the show. awesome!
I have all the DVDs this brings me back to my childhood I am 61 years old and I still love it❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
The DNA for the Star Wars Original Trilogy score. Masterful.
Not really. All this music is not his...
So many memorable music cues for this show. Just outstanding. Has John Williams ever done any interviews where he talks about his music for Lost In Space? It would be interesting to hear how he created this stuff.
Lost In Space and Star Trek's music scores were the best. What a creative time for Sci-Fi music as a whole.
No one wrote as much ear-candy as Williams. Thanks for the memories! I haven't heard some of these great cues in years.
Wes Brooks Hoyt Curtin. Jonny Quest music is absolutely the best. Drums horns harps xylophone electric guitar awesome
The best TV show music of all time in my opinion.
greatest tv show soundtrack ever
Ditto, Hermano.
Danger Danger !! This was one of the best of the campy TV shows , With epic soundtrack by John Williams, The Jupiter 2 coolest flying saucer, Space Monsters, classic space robots. It was a great adventure for kids in the 1960's the B/W episodes of Lost In Space are some of the best in the beginning.
Attention tuba players. there are some awesome tuba parts in here.
Tmanaz480 Could be French horns.
Dads asleep watching westerns again!
Love this whole cd
Still love the haunting sound of the THERAMIN...a pure 50's and 60;s Sci-Fi instrument!!
It's spelled Theremin. After the Soviet Communist scientist Nikolai Theremin who invented the instrument...
@@georgetaylor4719 Yeah I'm sure 5 years later, he gives two shits about his spelling error...🙄🙄
brings back great memories of a time never to come this way again! this is the theme music of all our lives now, and for those of us who lived during those times as Children "Lost In Space" gave us that sense of adventure, that we still live today..well at least I do..."OH THE PAIN! THE PAIN" of it all, however, we all come out of this one safe and sound...ready for our next mission in the 21st Century...are we ready people let's do this! for living our best life ever!
Thank you for this upload. Music from a great era of television.
Great musical scores from John Williams made this a true cult classic and remembered, as it got more bizarre and campier in true Irwin Allen fashion. Peace
John Williams really is a genius. Some of the LIS music is really beautiful.
The incidental music was beyond doubt half of the show's appeal. It let you know when you were supposed to sentimental, vigilant or terrified out of your wits.
Love this music so much i bought the 4 lp box set on colored vinyl👍
WOW the memories of this show! Oh to be a kid again, back in those simpler/ Carefree times
Brilliant music! Thank you for sharing.
I LOVE the music from the series.
Brings back so many pleasant memories... was a gr8 show for kids back in the day )))
I grew up with this show. This brings back so many happy memories. Thank you for posting this.
Me too!
I remember building models of monsters and the Munsters coach when I was a kid while watching this in black and white. I have the whole set on DVD now!
@@lhenriquepa yes
23:20 Of all the music, this represents why the original series is classic. The movie and new series have better effects, better action, better stories. But the core of Lost in Space is relationships. That between the family members. That between Will, Dr. Smith, the Robot. Even that between Professor Robinson and Dr. Smith. Professor Robinson wouldn't abandon Smith no matter what he did because Professor Robinson was a Godly man. It's relationships people remember most - the human interaction. Even the bad stuff from Smith, especially in the beginning, was powerful - sinister. That's all missing from the new series and the 90's movie.
The new stuff doesn't have a robot becoming human. It doesn't have a sinister agent seeing his own lost innocence in a child that becomes his friend, believes him not matter what lie he tells, trusts him. It doesn't have a father refusing to abandon a trouble maker no matter how much trouble he makes. It's all empty now.
THANK YOU for posting this fine soundtrack, melectronic1963 !! This fine music is an integral part of an unforgettable pioneer TV series which has been ICONIC to millions of us Baby Boomers for over 50 years. Wonderful, magical stuff!
John Williams got it going with the open music and other followed in his footsteps. Yes, a very hokkie show, the first season in black and white was the best. And, everyone's favorite character was B9, the Robot! Even Robbie The Robot Made a cameo appearance on the show! He was evil and B9 won!
Yeah, it wasn't until I was much older that I realized why they named the robot "B9...benign..." How embarrassing for him to have to face his fellow bots! ;)
That's one of the reason he acted stupid was because he know that they were going to kill himoff.. I guess be too stupid paid his bills..
"War of The Robots" put the show over the top for me. Loved it.
The-numerologist Man of NUMBERS I wish he’d never been on it. I liked the show a lot but he was a huge detractor. I think he was a commie spy if I remember correctly. Communists ruin everything.
19:50 Get out the tissues.
Isn't that very close to the theme of "The Left Hand of God"?
i seriously doubt i’m going to jerk off to music, dude
I was told Herman Stein actually wrote this portion of the soundtrack and not Williams. Not to take anything away from Williams' wonderful incidental music throughout the rest of the series.
"But Penny, I don't HAVE a reflection."
I still cry at that one.
& @ 23:30 reprise
Great John Williams Theme Music and excellent incidental music!
I love it when this stuff plays in my head all day long. Feel like a kid again.
The music brings back wonderful memories. I have the CD collection of Irwin Allen shows but many of these gems are not in it. The music has a bit more silly element about it but it doesn't change the fact that I'm immediately transported back to the 60s era as a child with nothing but good feelings. The hippie Promised Planet music....really?
That eerie and mysterious theme beginning at 18:44 (first used in the episode "The Derelict") is one of my lasting memories of this series. I was a wide-eyed 12 year old back in 1965, watching this on our black-and-white TV. The impression it made on me!
"Funereal" is the word I'd use to describe that piece.
12:05 to 14:05 was my personal favorite... mystery and intrigue.
I was in sixth grade when the show came out. I remember being so excited to see the first show. So excited.
I actually just listen to the shows mostly now, because of how great these sound tracks are
after all these years - still memorable!
6:22 and on : my FAVOURITE piece !! What a crescendo. Still gives me goosebumps ! (same at 16:41)
TRINZINI Yea 6:22 Just Brilliant 👍
TRINZINI And 16:41 👍👍
That was originally heard when Dr. Smith realized he was trapped on board the Jupiter II just before lift-off, and CAN'T GET OUT. He manages to strap himself in, and screams in terror as the ship leaves the launching pad...............
The best scene/episode for 6:22 The wheel of life contest. 16:41. The machine making cyborgs.
I wanted this track separated
The tempo is slower than I remember. Still the best music written for a tv series.
Some of the cues were alternate takes......
steve ninetyfeetpermin ... sometimes in reruns the opening sequence is sped up.
yes...it was transferred off a analog machine that apparently ran slower than what it was recorded on....
I like this a lot. And it reminds me of the Ventures in Space album. But I liked Hoyt Curtin’s music for Jonny Quest best. I just ordered it. It’s a 2 CD set with no voice overs. Just music. Very cool. Is on UA-cam if you want to hear it. It’s the one with the blue cover.
Star Trek had better music. But hey, the 60's was the decade of incredible television theme/BGM.
One of my all time favorites 11:18. Still can see Penny entering the cave in "My friend, Mr Nobody" and then up till 18:43 all was originally from My Friend, Mr Nobody"
Yes, this is freakin awesome. The strings are incredible. First season music was best, just like the show itself.
@@stevekampf7825 Was used as incidental music in Planet of Apes actor test
I always preferred the first season intro theme with it's touch of spooky menace. The later theme seems too cheerful and confident.
I never cared too much for color seasons 2,3 too corny too silly.. it started to lose it's realism....
I love both but I prefer the second season intro. Sounds more exciting, especially during the initial countdown.
"Cheerful and confident" doesn't really describe the second LOST IN SPACE theme accurately. It was more Rock/Pop in nature, a type of "Dance" melody that worked with The Twist and Watusi.
@@sopaman1234 There's some solid season 2 & 3 episodes! Like The Ghost Planet, Trip Through The Robot...I could go on & on..There will be some silly parts but there's some kick ass episodes in those seasons..You have to cherry pick the good ones!
Exactly!! Awesome soundtrack!!! I remember growingup in the sixties couldn't wait to see come on..
I just discovered this was composed by the iconic John Williams
The credits at the end list him as Johnny Williams.
Been watching on ROKU channel and am absolutely addicted.
Not really loving some of the cartoony, Gilligan's Island style episodes but about 70% of the shows are great.
Wish they had done a bit more planet hopping though.
John also composed scores for several first season episodes of "GILLIGAN'S ISLAND" as well.
That was a viewer complaint. They featured more Planet Hopping in season three due to popular demand.
I believe Nohn Williams charted incidental music on Gilligan as well.
This music is what made Lost In Space great!
This stuff is embedded in my brain!
The best part of the show was the music.
A common motif Williams uses is minor triads moving in half or whole steps. You hear it in Lost in Space all the way through Star Wars. In particular, the minor tonic, down a half step, up a whole, and back to the tonic is the same motif at the beginning of Ralph Vaughan Williams's Symphony #4. Dissonant and unsettling, it must've been a favorite of John Williams.
I wish I could discuss with you with regard to his usage of minor chromatic triads.
Myfaborige piece he created for this series was “Mother and Daughter,” a pensive poignant piece- I knew at the age of four the pathos and emotional complexity of it. I am not certain if it even has a specific key; it’s like suspended fourths, superimposed over other key signatures and just kinda ethereally float’s Wistfully over it with the harp. Has a celestial, yet troublesome vibe. I love it maybe the Lydian mode too
It’s late and it’s given me lazy thumb. Punctuation is terrible.😅
Jonathan Harris , the Best Actor , The Best Villain , I loved
NADA TEMA COM SMITH , NAO HA PROBLEMA .
What a great soundtrack,brings back those memories of the show love this music....
19:56. The great father-son interlude. Just great.
Nostalgia at its best.
The incidental music for this show is genius. Also love the go go dancing song from the episode "The Promised Planet."
I originally got hooked on Lost in Space reruns as an elementary school child in the 1970s. I had a toy laser gun, which I'd clutch as I sat on the couch watching all of the adventures of the Robinson family.
Even at that tender young age, however, I was annoyed and turned off by Dr. Smith and all the campiness. I soon thereafter discovered the much more serious Star Trek in reruns and became a lifelong Trekker, leaving LIS far behind. The Smith character ruined LIS, as far as I'm concerned. I hadn't seen any episodes of LIS until decades later when they started becoming available on streaming platforms.
I still have fond memories of Lost in Space and have a place for it in my heart though. In fact, I had a long career in the robotics industry which I attribute largely to my fascination with the B9 robot from LIS.
The crash landing of the Jupiter II among the pinnacles in the early episodes remains to this day some of the best special effects I've ever seen (perfectly accompanied by Johnny Williams driving score).
In any case the music is pure genius, and every note of it is indelibly recorded in my memory banks.
I don’t think for a nanosecond that Irwin Allen took into account our young demographic’s sensibilities- he merely lumped all of us together for the purpose of profit. Pity, all the fundamental ingredients were thereto do a top-notch series; bottom line was the “bottom line.”
i've never seen anything like that, on tv séries in my life! some sounds make shiver to the bones! loi! congratulations John Williams! CLEBER from Brazil!
The best background music of any movie since! Love it!
59:12- Leith Stevens' "let's end this episode with good feelings and a laugh" cue, originally composed for "Blast Off Into Space".
One of my favorites!
The show was a classic even when it got silly. The music to it was unbeatable. I think it had the most kick ass music of any show. The episodes The Derelict and Invaders from the 5th Dimension hold up to anything today in serious hard science fiction.. Since 1974 was the first time I seen Dr. Who it was Lost in Space that introduced me to a space ship that was bigger on the inside than the out side in 1965 from the Invaders from the 5th Dimension episode. If that episode was produce just 3 years earlier Lost in Space would of been the first Science fiction show to have 5th Dimensional technology. Robot B-9 is still is the greatest robot on TV. He can't be beat.
Some of the scorings was RECYCLED via IRWIN ALLEN for his other TV shows ["Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea", "The Time Tunnel", "Land Of The Giants" and so on].
Alexander Courage, Gerald Fried and Fred Steiner also composed some very memorable music for Star Trek.
This show had me looking forward to Thursday evenings when I was in Kindergarten.
On its original run, it played from 8:00 to 9:00 pm every Wednesday night.
This show had me looking down the hallways in the two houses I grew up in- that is how foreboding and captivating it was- AND poignant.
OMG I love this soundtrack!!! If this doesn't get my imagination running about planetary exploration and the perils of that, nothings does.
Awesome Awesome music....! I grew up with this.. When they went on about Star Wars having big orchestral sounds, I thought, didn't LIS? Same guy...And Lionel Newman?....
Such iconic and recognizable underscoring. Very evocative of the shows themselves. I rank this underscoring, the work of Earle Hagen on The Andy Griffith Show, George Greeley on My Favorite Martian and most of Hoyt Curtin’s themes and underscores for the Prime Time animated shows of Hanna Barbera such as Flintstones, Top Cat, Jetsons and Jonny Quest as the most inventive and memorable from the 1960s.
When "Johnny" Williams was in his nascent career! Such a treat! Thank you for sharing!
He and Doctor Who's Dudley Simpson are the best at incidental music
I loved the robot.
Eu não perdia um só capítulo de Perdidos no Espaço sendo que cada música era para uma determinada situação que viviam desde as mais engraçadas como as de suspense total .......John Williams um Gênio ......Irwin Allen um gênio bem adiante da sua época .....ouço estas musicas e me arrepio .........Saudades.......Saudades......na minha imaginação a nave Jupiter 2 continua por ai explorando o Espaço .........LITERALMENTE PERDIDOS NO ESPAÇO........ mas não na minha mente , Alma e Coração.......BONS TEMPOS AQUELES EU ERA FELIZ E NÃO SABIA .
João Rubem de Almeida e Silva, same... Same.... 😁 👌
A time when we were all innocent kids with no shit baggage weighing us down. Cant go back though.
Yes...edge of your high chair music :-) The music takes a real...like wow man turn almost halfway through and becomes Johnny’s demo for tv tracks to come. This show was where he cut his composing chop and spit out the kitchen sink. I hear 50’s cool like Peter Gunn, 60’s series like Partridge Family Brady Bunch, Westerns, Cartoons, Detectives, War and of course Fantasy-SciFi on these tracks. This music is nothing like his iconic movie soundtracks and themes; yet, you can feel his vibe and get a hint of his amazing bandwidth for sounds and eliciting musical visual cues just as his star was rising. As I got older and watched this show I personally wanted it to take the darker b/w direction started in the first pilot...then again, as a kid the look and music was the silliness and cheesy sentimental family dynamics that put me in my happy place. The vegetables are revolting! How I hated carrots back then. Now the Jupiter 2 sounds and look was my favorite ride until The Invaders; but the Jupiter 2 was still the Cadillac compared to The Invaders VW Bug. Finally, who doesn’t remember blubbering Dr. Smith dialogue with friends or waving your arms to and for while mimicking the robots, “Danger Will Robinson”. Fun memories. Thanks Melectronic1963!
Maureen Robinson......I could not wrap my head around the fact that she was Timmy's mom in Lassie. And then on Petticoat Junction, of all things?!?
and guest star on Babylon 5
@@TheShootist Too bad they couldn't fit Bill Mumy into the same episode and have a scene with them together!
And the Rose Bowl parade??
DUNE LONG LIVE THE FIGHTER.MO DEE.WHEN U READY.
If wasn't for John Williams, I guess Lost In Space might not have kept my attention. The soundtrack was certainly 50% of the show. It's too bad Irwin Allen didn't necessarily concern himself with scientific accuracy. It was just basic entertainment value. Season 1 will always be the best.
Season one, WAS the best, of the series.
It was family oriented, not just a kiddie show, as it'd later evolve into.
Nothing against Mister Harris but, they should have stuck to the original plan, and killed off Dr. Smith.
Doing that, would have kept the show from becoming the kiddie-show it became, IMO.
And, loving the music, as I write this!!
@@jerrypadilla4384 Agreed. So, really one could say over successive seasons that between Harris and Allen the show really devolved rather than evolved. It became something that was extremely commercial and didn't challenge the intellect of the youthful viewer. The thing was Harris was only supposed to make that initial appearance and then be killed off. But he played up the comic, craven, deceitful, bellicose sycophant so well. Subsequently, Allen took note and enabled him.
I love the melody that starts at 23:23. Played during tender moments between Will and his father like in the Antimatter Man episode when John became himself again.
John Williams should have won an Oscar for the soundtrack, it is by far, in my opinion, the coolest, most exciting background music I've ever heard, and music is one of the very few loves of my life, so I'm some what a self declared connoisseur, anyway for me as a child watching Lost In Space, the music was as important as the show it self. If you like soundtracks, give a listen to the 1967 Spiderman cartoon, like far out and groovy, man.
Masterpiece soundtrack for a television show! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Awesome!
Edge of your seat music!
Most of which was composed by John Williams.
Doctor Zachary Smith:
"Lost in Space" will return next week at it's regular time,
over most of these station.
B9 The Robot:
Over most of these stations!
Doctor Zachary Smith:
I said that.
B9 the Robot:
He said that!
I REMEMBER
Normajean McCracken ... the great Dick Tufeld
And the new series is on Netflix - coming your way in 2018
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The Greatest future Sound I've Ever Heard.Tec1 Damm❤
The score was far more intricate than my then young mind remembers. A lot of Outer Limits nods, westerns, spy and that prolonged funky instrumental that was supposed to make us all feel 'groovey'! Thanks for sharing!
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I love it, one of the highlights of Lost In Space was the excelent
music tracks by John Williams , Herman Stine,
Alexsanda Courage,
Gerrald Fried and Mullanda.
Paul Bacchus esq
Oh, William! What have I done??? Uncle Thaddius has taken you to the 'Bog'
28:34- "Blast Off Into Space" (first color episode), by Leith Stevens.
Something special about this kind of 70s music.
60s 1965-68
All songs remarkable but on 6m21s is one of most awesome suspense tracks I've seen. On 7m38s is a song that makes me really feel in a space terror.
It is missing crashing landing on this mix which is the best for me.