It's a shame what happened to Nick Adams--he really was a good actor. And it happens every time outsiders find a lost civilization...every thing goes to heck!. Your reviews are great!
If I told Nelson once, I told him a thousand times, stay away from that diving bell. It just never goes well. It always bothered me, on this show as well as others, that whenever they blew up or sank an island, nobody ever gave a second thought to the animal or human life that blew up or sank along with it. Not the writers or the characters. Now I know Richard Basehart was an animal lover so he must have thought about it, but not admiral Nelson.
Back in the days when it was fairly common to glue fins and spines to real animals to pass the off as monsters, the film industry slang referred to the creatures as "Slurpasaurs."
Hi Irving, I did not know you had a heart attack. I'm turning 61 next week I'm worried 😟 about that too. Taking Simvistin to slow down the fat build up in the arteries. I think you said you were 70 yrs old? You don't look 70. - Brian
Though still entertaining, especially to a kid like me enraptured by dinosaurs, I read many fans were angered by the blatant use of "The Lost World" movie footage which made this episode mostly a retread of that film. Future use of that footage in season 2 and in other Allen shows to come would at least be more discrete in using it so it wouldn't drive the plots to the extent that it did in this early example. I sure do wish Allen had gotten the budget to do stop-motion animation on 'Lost World' because it would have been a lot more satisfying than seeing live lizards in makeup fight, possibly to the death. I'd read that after that 1960 film that practice was banned for future films. I sure hope that's correct but, in any case, later audiences would not have accepted such a cheesy, not to mention inhumane, approach to making a dinosaur film.
@@dwashbur I can't let emotions rule. As long as there are evil entities against America in the World, as long as there are secrets of nature that must be probed, my work will not be completed. Excuse me.. while I get aboard the Seaview!
The idea of a tropical jungle full of dinosaurs in Antarctica was used by Marvel Comics. It was Ka-Zar's home called the Savage Land.
It's a shame what happened to Nick Adams--he really was a good actor. And it happens every time outsiders find a lost civilization...every thing goes to heck!. Your reviews are great!
If I told Nelson once, I told him a thousand times, stay away from that diving bell. It just never goes well. It always bothered me, on this show as well as others, that whenever they blew up or sank an island, nobody ever gave a second thought to the animal or human life that blew up or sank along with it. Not the writers or the characters. Now I know Richard Basehart was an animal lover so he must have thought about it, but not admiral Nelson.
Back in the days when it was fairly common to glue fins and spines to real animals to pass the off as monsters, the film industry slang referred to the creatures as "Slurpasaurs."
Hi Irving, I did not know you had a heart attack. I'm turning 61 next week I'm worried 😟 about that too. Taking Simvistin to slow down the fat build up in the arteries. I think you said you were 70 yrs old? You don't look 70. - Brian
Though still entertaining, especially to a kid like me enraptured by dinosaurs, I read many fans were angered by the blatant use of "The Lost World" movie footage which made this episode mostly a retread of that film. Future use of that footage in season 2 and in other Allen shows to come would at least be more discrete in using it so it wouldn't drive the plots to the extent that it did in this early example. I sure do wish Allen had gotten the budget to do stop-motion animation on 'Lost World' because it would have been a lot more satisfying than seeing live lizards in makeup fight, possibly to the death. I'd read that after that 1960 film that practice was banned for future films. I sure hope that's correct but, in any case, later audiences would not have accepted such a cheesy, not to mention inhumane, approach to making a dinosaur film.
Agreed. I wouldn't mind knowing what happened to those lizards and if they were all right.
@@dwashbur We'll likely never know; they probably didn't keep records so far back.
Ive seen those "dinos" from Lost World more times than i can count
Irwin got a LOT of mileage out of them.
@@dwashbur he sure did! Don't wanna know his speedometer looked like 😬
I was a fan of Nick Adams from his Toho movies. I'm saddened learning about his fate.
Hello what order are you doing the VTTBOTS reviews in please
I'm doing them in the order they appear on the DVD set. Some copyright issues have forced me to post a couple out of order.
@@dwashbur I understand I love your reviews on all the Irwin Allen shows, would you ever do ones for shows like Quantum leap or The A-team
And the DVD sets order is at least close to the original first run order that ABC aired them in from Sept. 1964 through March 1968.
You have a crush on Yvonne Craig....
Doesn't everybody?
@@dwashbur She was wonderful RIP Yvonne Craig
@@dwashbur I can't let emotions rule. As long as there are evil entities against America in the World, as long as there are secrets of nature that must be probed, my work will not be completed. Excuse me.. while I get aboard the Seaview!
Who wouldn't, at least while she was alive?