I was a young awestruck kid in elementary school back in the 60s when Lost in Space and Star Trek was airing on TV and man was I really excited to always catch these shows. It was Lost in Space that really resonates with me because of the imagination it sparks up in most kids like me, and because of Will Robinson. He was like the kid version of ''McGuyver'' in that era, exemplifying admirable traits and intelligence that many kids would like to emulate. I used to hate Mr Smith's character as a child but in my revisiting this iconic show a decade back, I realised what a genuinely amazing actor he really was and all his improv lines and insults were simply hilarious and colorful. But before I forget, there is another element that absolutely piqued my interest on this show - John Williams and his music score. The same John Williams of Star Wars fame. As a kid I remember how mesmerized I was by the show's music particularly that one that often plays (like a leitmotif) when a somber and sad scene was on. Funny but I'd usually wait for it even though it doesn't play frequently. (If I remember correctly, the music would be played in every other episode). Man, i was such a fan of the music but it was only 2 decades ago when I found out it was penned by John Williams. Amazing. Thanks for letting us join you in revisiting this fantastic TV show that's been an icon of my childhood days. Hope to see more.
As someone who grew up in the 60s... loving this show as a kid... I can tell you that the quality of television screens in those days was such, that you would never notice most of these problems. Things were pretty fuzzy back then. And there was no rewind. No pause button. And you only got to watch an episode again months after it aired in reruns. It wasn't until VHS came out.... probably even DVD before a lot of these sort of things would be noticed. Cool seeing it all in HD though. I doubt the producers of the day ever imagined the likes of 4K Television.
Oh yes I know it well. Watching on our old black and white RCA TV, vacuum tubes and all! We would rarely ever notice all these things and as kids, we soaked it all up. 😁
Totally agree. I never noticed a single blooper as a kid or even years later. Although I actually considered "blip" as a blooper in all the scenes in which he appeared....😁
@@ivanvarykino8202 You mean Debbie the Bloop? 🐒🐵 Yeah I was too wrapped up watching all the cool robots, spaceships and aliens to notice the bloopers back then. 😁
@@outsider238 Oh right! I guess it was Debbie. Blip or Bloop was the sound she made. No wonder I didn't notice the bloopers. I have enough challenge with careful observation of the characters and story line!
@U.B. Retro I totally agree! Some friends of mine from the B9 Robot Builders Club got to see advanced copies of the episodes and we were geeking out so bad about the incredible picture quality. We were marveling at seeing the makeup on their faces because of how crisp the picture was. They really did an excellent job cleaning everything up.
Oh wow! I loved "Lost In Space" as a kid! It was my favorite show besides "Mission Impossible" and "The Sixth Sense"! (I think that's what it was called.) Here's a little tidbit for ya: Mark Goddard used to always turn when having conversations with Dr. Smith. He used to cross his arms and turn all the time away from the camera as if to look behind him. Well, he did that when he started to laugh at Dr. Smith, Jonathan Harris, who was so comical, he would make Mark crack up all the time! Thanks for that delightful walk back in time to great television!
As a kid 11 years old I absolutely loved Lost in Space especially season 1. It was so spell binding and the cliff hangers at the end of each episode were great hooks. But much later I learnt to really get into the use of music and sound effects. John Williams and his music to cover situations and characters was so very well done. Few if any TV shows went to that level. The sound effects of the J2 engines powering up were also amazing. There were several people with amazing imaginations on that show. As to the oddities I did not not notice them as a kid. But noticed more as I got older but things had technical limits in the mid 60's. My main beef was always the scale of the J2 outside to inside. It was all over the place. From the outside views there was no way it could have been a double level plus ship. I say plus because a ship like that would have had an engineering level as well. We saw some of that level in a few episodes. Then there were storage areas for all the equipment. And finally the bay for space pod which somehow made it into the J2 in season 3. It came out the lower deck while the access door was on the upper deck. Star Trek never made the mistake of giving you an outside frame of reference for the ship. So it was always massive.
It really is strange that they paid no attention to the dimensions at all. After a while I think they just didn't think anyone would notice. I guess as kids we probably didn't. I was so fascinated with the hardware and robot I didn't notice much else. I agree, John Williams really did an excellent job with the music!
I wanted to be Will Robinson when I was a kid. I got my degree in Electronics, Got a job maintaining Main Frame computers, and finally built my own robot. "Zoe the Robot" has her own You-Tube videos. Zoe can converse, travel about indoors and out and she has lots of little blinking lights. She has sixty 18650 lithium ion cell which can provide power for several hours.
They used some of same music, creatures, and machines in Voyage to the bottom of the sea. Some of music also used in Land of the Giant and Don Matheson that played Mark on Land of the giants played IDAK Alpha 12 Android and another character that had a wife and son.
Just watched season 1 Bloopers and Oddities. I must agree that I have 💖 loved the Lost In Space Robot from when I first saw him. And always wished I had him as my friend. Bob May was adorable and he put a lot of that personality in the robot, even though he didn't get to voice him. ❤️🥰❤️ Enjoyed video! 😊
Bob May definitely didn't get the credit he deserved. It's not easy being in that robot. I've been inside of an exact replica at conventions for years and I'm often in there for hours. It's a lot of fun but very confining! 😁 Thank you and I'm happy that you enjoyed the video!
Wow, how awesome it would've been to be in this iconic show, playing an extra. My son bought me a fully functioning B-9 robot, the small version of it. I never used or tried it with batteries in it, so I know it'll work. It's still in it's original box. I also have the scaled down version of the J-2 and the legs retract for the landing gear. For all this show was at the time, it's still a modern miracle that they were able to create all of the different characters along with the creatures. Isn't it funny how the J-2 was always buried in dirt, when they crashed? What a real delight going down memory lane......... Thank you!
@@voiskumbeaver3285 Yes, that was the great thing about the first season: the focus wasn't always on the "Evil Triumvirate" of Dr. Smith, Will, and the robot. It actually attempted to be a real science fiction show.
@@voiskumbeaver3285 Michael J. Pollard was the lonely alien in that episode. He would later be in the Miri episode of Star Trek. I think he may have been the only actor to appear in both series.
Thank you for this. I remember watching the show when I was a boy, and it truly was a classic. Jonathan Harris stole the show each and every time. He was supposed to be a cold, evil saboteur, but he just kind of ran with the role, and became a complete opposite in character. What memories.
One of my favorite shows as a kid never knew anything about Bloopers 😵💫 Those were early days in TV. COOL to see them pointed out now 👍 Can't wait to see more Thanks
Cool! I loved Lost in Space as a kid. Thanks for sharing Roy, I haven’t watched the series for about 5 years. I have it stored on my backup hard drive. Nice to see the bloopers! Happy days! 😎
Job well done on this documentary. Some of things you mentioned I was aware of, others I wasn't. I'll go back and watch these later and enjoy them even more. There's one more little mistake I noticed in the episode where John took the space walk to fix the scanner. Notice when he goes into the airlock there's a reflection of somebody off to the side through the glass on the hatch. Thanks again, much fun to watch.
I used to watch Lost in Space every day on the USA network during my summer vacation. It was such a great show for kids! What boy wouldn't want to be Will Robinson? The show still makes me smile all these years later.
I remember that when an alien ship was getting ready to land or take off, it was this strange looking rocket that didn't look like any of the alien ships. That little bit of footage was used over and over again whenever a new alien ship was landing. Still, the series was excellent. IA was truly a pioneer and master at entertaining.
Cool video! I was a big fan of Lost In Space when I was a kid. I wondered how I missed this video, then realized it’s brand new. Now I’m gonna have to wait to see the next one. I noticed also in a few places you can see straight lines along the surface where the matte background painting met the ground.
Thank you! I'm currently working on the season 2 bloopers video. They take a long time to make. There's a cool blooper involving that background that I'll talk about in the season 3 video whenever I can get it made. 😁
Lost in Space was so entertaining as a child, what I remember most about it was the Doctor's insults and the robots catch phrase "Danger Will Robinson!, Danger!".
@@outsider238 I especially liked it when Smith referred to the robot as,"You bubble -headed booby!" It reminded me of when the British comedian, Tony Hancock, in the episode "The Lift", referred to a much decorated Air Marshal as ,"You beribboned buffoon".
Thank you for bringing back some childhood memories of watching this show. It was one of the few sci-fi programs on at that time that I enjoyed. Even as a child one thing that bothered me was the size of the Jupiter 2. You see the outside of the spaceship with the Robinsons walking in and out of the front door so you can gauge a size perspective. Once inside, there is no way that could have that much space (no pun) for a flight deck, crew quarters deck, a hold for the chariot, the pod, and then a new third deck that appears in the last season. I guess Irwin borrowed a ex machina technique from Dr. Who. Its larger on the inside than on the outside.
that always bothered me. the chariot was the same size as the ship. how the hell did they lug it around the universe ? I loved the chariot tho. tank treads + full visibility.
I remember when the show premiered. I watched it every week. It broke my heart as a child to find out there was a man inside the Robot. I've never believed in anything since.
@@outsider238 I knew even as a kid there was a guy in the Robot so I used my Imagination and pretended a major corporation built a real robot for the show and it was more smarter and sentient than they ever expected.
@@frankreynolds445 Haha! By not giving Bob May credit for playing the Robot, it did add some mystery to him. I remember my brother, sister and I watching the credits to see who played him and it never said so we weren't ever sure if there was someone in him or not. 😄
Back in the sixties I was a young boy. I'm 68 now. Back then, I watched this show as if it was real. I thoroughly bought into this whole space adventure. One of the goals in Hollywood is to "suspend disbelief". That sure worked for me.
@@outsider238 Yes, those 2 ROBOTS definitely laid the groundwork for all the rest. I actually built a 29 inch B9 and a 44 inch tall ROBBY THE ROBOT out of scratch! Both turned out great! To I’ll be watching the LOST IN SPACE (season 2) bloopers tonight! :) Keep up the great work… hugs from OKINAWA! :)
@@RONBONIX Thank you so much! I really appreciate it! That's so cool that you built replicas of them! That couldn't have been easy. I hope you enjoy the other videos!
@@outsider238 It was definitely a labor of LOVE! :) Very strange… my wife was throwing away old bowls, cups …ect. For some reason I saw ROBBY THE ROBOT. Lol! I started to slowly build him. After about a month ROBBY was almost done. I finally let my wife see him… she actually start to CRY (in a good way). She loved him. :) Yes, I’ll be watching the video very soon. Take care and be safe. :)
I think I saw Johnathin Harris on Sanford and Son as a traveling relics sales man. And I think he was on Jason of Star command. Johnathin has done some cool sci-fi films and maybe a western or 2. Cool season one bloopers. I may have noticed them, but the music on all seasons kept me mesmerized throughout the entire run. Now to "fizz me a Phosphate". Groovie baby!
Think yourself lucky you only had to wait until the '70's to see the reruns. We here in the UK had to wait nearly 25 years which seemed like an eternity. The consummate music score remained fresh in my memory for many years though until that too faded. When the 5 CD box-set was released decades later I was in seventh heaven for months!
Really loved this show - Some of the sound effects were so creepy. I remember really hating Dr. Smith (well, his character anyway). I learned recently that he was quite assertive in rewriting scripts and insisting on "assisting" in the direction of many (most) of the episodes. Another thing I recall was that the acting really was top notch back then, in many of the other TV shows of that era as well. Just watch some of the early episodes of Star Trek - the actors really took their jobs seriously.
@Kelly Williamson I agree, you could tell that the actors of this generation were genuinely interested in "becoming the character" so there was a sense of realism that you never see today. The special effects might not have been as good back then, but the quality of acting was so good it more than made up for that, since it really drew you in, which just doesn't happen today most modern actors are just not that convincing the past thirty-40 plus years.
Speaking of Creepy, the Hollow Men of Doctor who look almost exactly like the weird 'faceless men' in Lost in Space, with the only real difference being the Hollow Men wore top-hats, and the Faceless men wore Bowlers. I always thought the two took place in the same universe (or multiverse), and the two villains were actually one-and-the-same. The shows share a lot - aired in the 60's, was a combination of creepy/scary aliens and humor, etc. Too bad we never got a crossover - I'd like to see the robot fighting Daleks or Cybermen!
Sound effects... There is an episode called 'The Astral Traveler' where this seaweed monster thing comes out of the water, and the sound effects of it shrieking or whatever it was STILL freaks me out at 55 years of age. It scared the crap out of me as a young kid. The episode wasn't cary, but the sound effect curdled my blood.
Great video! I do not mean this to contradict what you say, I just want to point out that I was watching on a small, maybe 13" BW TV then. Because of this most of these bloopers would have gone unnoticed IMHO. Still nice to see them now, thank you!
I met Mark Goddard at a comic con show and we talked about the shows bloopers including his own. There was one were he hit his head almost knocking himself out. I told him that I noticed another one when the Jupiter II landed on earth in 1957. The people shot at the robot leaving a dent near the neon lights. In the next scene the dent was gone.
I'm glad you had a great meeting with him! Mark was the nicest person I ever met from all the conventions I've ever been to. I spent an entire weekend with him. He told me great stories, we had lunch and he was completely fantastic the whole time.
Just finished watching all three parts of the bloopers. YT recommended part 3 first, go figure. I only saw a very few of these when I was a kid and even more recently watching the dvd set I did catch a fraction of these. I can only imagine the time and effort you put in to this with freeze-frame and all. There was another blooper, one of the very few I caught will watch the recently and I was hoping to see it on this series. There's a scene where Smith is looking for something in one of the cabins, probably Will's, as he crouches down to look under a table the camera pans down following his face and you can see that the table he's looking under is just made of crappy particle board, no decent wood on the Jupiter II. I wish I could remember what episode that's from. It's a testament though, that the stories were sufficiently engrossing enough to draw the viewer's attention away from most of the show's shortcomings. I have to admit, I hated the end-of-show teasers ! As an aside, I am one of the many young boys who was totally in love with Angela Cartwright. She was and still beautiful.
Thank you very much! I appreciate that! I'm glad you enjoyed this series. It was a lot of work but it was fun! I never noticed that scene you mentioned. But particleboard tables is pretty hilarious! Angela Cartwright grew up so fast on that show and was probably a favorite among fans. I'm glad to hear YT is recommending my videos! 😁
Lost in Space was a great show for a youngster. I loved watching it every week. I think the first season was the best and most realistic, but sort of scary too. After a while it seemed to get dumbed down with silly episodes which were ok but not as interesting like the first season content. The show where they were all confined and judged for space crimes was excellent. Also, when they found a time warp back to earth was exciting... that was one of my favorites. Life was so carefree in the 60s. Thanks for posting.
Very well done video. Thanks for your diligence here, you've crafted a very enjoyable way for us to spend 25 minutes! I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but there is what I would call a blooper in Welcome Stranger. It happens at the part where Smith is eavesdropping on John and Maureen during their discussion about asking Hapgood to take the kids with him. When Smith is done listening with his stethoscope at the little round porthole window he comes around and walks out through the hatch. When he does, if you look inside the Jupiter between Smith and the right (from our view) edge of the airlock you can see the bottom section of the robot, tread section and rubber legs, but apparently no top torso section. It's a very brief glimpse we get, about 3 or 4 seconds. I wonder if it has something to do with the subsequent scene when Bob May wearing the top part walks the robot into the ship through the hatch. On the Blu-ray you can catch this at about 0:17:41 to 0:17:44. I am sure you're pretty nimble with the pause button! Thanks again for putting this together for us.
Hi Nathan! Ooooo!!!! Now I have to check that out! How very interesting! Thank you for telling me about this! I love finding these kind of things in our favorite shows! 😁 I knew you'd like this video! 🤩
@gcb ranger Yes, do look for it. Maybe most viewers who may have noticed it (I've never heard it mentioned by anyone but me) didn't think it was a big deal. But when you see it, it just seems weird that the robot's bottom half would be just standing inside the ship like that! If anyone other than me ever noticed it, I would be eager to hear from them.
@@Nathan-jq1uw you can type out welcome stranger, lost in space and click on daily motion video, around 58 minutes long and watch the whole thing. just did and saw what you are talking about.
WoW , get right into it ! A good show to talk about with friends at school the next day . I thought that when I bought the series on DVD ,that I'd finally get to see the ending ,as never did on TV , little did I know . But in a strange way ,the ending suit's the title .
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The car is actually a prototype created by auto designer Gene Winfield. The Reactor featured a radar screen, flip-top roof, retractable fins, and a 425-horsepower engine. The hydraulic liquid-on-air suspension allowed the driver to adjust the ground clearance from 4 to 9 1/2 inches. The $20,000 price tag would buy several of Larry Tate's screaming yellow Stingrays in the 1960s. The lime green metallic paint with darker green shading around the edges made the car stand out as well. This custom car featured an aluminum body, so it's no wonder that Darrin was so particular about Sam driving it - one little fender bender and it would crumble like a soda can squeezed in a fist. The engine was based on the Chevy Corvair.
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In the episode, One Of Our Dogs Is Missing, in the final scene, when the monster is attacking, Will gets a laser pistol from the dog, but in the very next scene, he is sitting backed up against a rock without the laser pistol. Spotted that one years ago. One of my favorite shows growing up, have the dvd collection of season one.
Wow I'm 56 I been watching this show from the 70s in Puerto Rico and on Spanish lol, I was so in to the stories I could not see any defect and you are showing them all. Good thing I didn't see that in does moments I probably gotten traumatized kid lol
10:45 I did not know the same spider was used in the episode of Gilligan's Island w/ the spider in the cave ! That frightened me so much because the show was a COMEDY and this giant scary spider was on the island !! And so now, Gilligan;'s Island was a science fiction show ? LOL.
We all remember the names Dr. Smith called the robot and how the words started with the same letter. I don't recall what episode this was, I only know Will, Dr. Smith, and the robot were fishing when Dr. Smith called the robot a mumbling mass of metal. I lost it for about 5 minutes lol. Great video and I have part 2 in watch later. Thumbs up.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that! 😁 That episode you mentioned was "War Of The Robots" from season one. Dr. Smith's name calling for the Robot was always a fun part of this show!
In the episode where Dr Smith becomes a hippie the actor who plays Young Bartholomew was also in the Stephen King 1980 movie" the Shining" as the Radio operator Ranger who talks to the Torrance family via their two way radio .
From way way way back in the day when a single season consisted of -- Holy Cow!! -- TWENTY-NINE episodes. And just a small handful of commercials in each.
The first season of "Lost in Space" had kind of a plot to it trying to survive on another planet, but then the seasons to follow got too absurd with the focus always around the dumbest character in the series "Dr Smith". Watching some of the re-runs now late at night, after the first season, The series turned into more of a kids entertainment hour shows rather than a serious adult SCIFI theme to lost in space on struggles to survive. Thanks for all the bloopers. take care.
Part of the problem was the success of the Batman TV show which was camp and less serious in its tone and therefore Lost In Space went down the same route.
I don't think the Dr Smith character was 'dumb' per se, he just appealed to a certain demographic. Jonathan Harris played Smith as if to the back row, lifting what was to be basically a cameo to the star of the show.
Here's another bit of trivia you should know: at 10:30 minutes, that same big spider that was used in two shows, Gilligan's island and Lost in Space, was also the spider monster used in the movie 'The Angry Red Planet' from the '50s!!!!
Love these...thank you for taking the time to put them together! You might have missed a pretty glaring one in The Space Trader episode, which you discuss in this video. In the full episode, right after the Will and Dr. Smith stunt doubles emerge from behind the rock (which you point out at about 19:15 of this video), the moment the dogs attack you can see the head of a stagehand(?)...dog trainer(?) stick out from behind the stack of boxes on the right side (viewer's right side) of the spaceship, right behind where the dog takes off from. He looks out for a second or two and then quickly whips his head back out of sight. Check it out if you can...it's a great blooper. Thanks again and keep up the good work!
Funny how they re-used props too. The giant alien ship that swallows the J2 in the second episode also appears in the Majesty Smith ep a little later in the season, on the alien ship. It is shown in its actual size (model sized) in the background, about the size of a cabinet or something.
The first season was arguably the best. The writer S. Bar David (who wrote a number of the best episodes of Have Gun Will Travel) wrote a number of the best episodes of that season.
One of my favorite childhood shows for a lot of reasons, not the least of which was a crush on Angela Cartwright who is close to me in age. The choice to make the robot roll instead of step introduced another conundrum of how he could navigate stairs. In any case, most entertainment requires at least a bit of willing suspension of disbelief so, even fun bloopers considered, it was a pretty good show through the first season. The campiness makes a lot of the later episodes a little tedious to rewatch but still have enjoyed revisiting the first season.
Thank you! I recall, back in the 60s, I used to watch LIS in monochrome after primary school was dismissed. I recall spotting numerous "bloopers", (pun intended), even then, as an 8-year-old. And NO "rewind". Just memory.
There were a LOT of science mistakes on the show one that really stands out is when John and Maureen had to go outside the J2 while a comet was going by, and the intense heat of the comet was cooking them in their space suits.... How did the writers not know that comets are giant balls of ice, not intensely hot mini-suns ?! one of the odd things from the 1st episode: when the robot was destroying the ship, saying DESTROY! DESTROY! over and over, there was a heavy reverb and echo added to the audio... way out of character for the voice of the robot "DESTROY.ROY.Roy.roy! but scary as hell! another thing that stands out, was done on LIS and ST: they used the same music sound track for every episode, for all three years they had the same pending danger music, regret music, dramatic action music, landing on a planet music, love scene music.....and usually all of it was played at some point on every episode.
With NTSC broadcasting, the poor reception many of us had with indoor antennas, and the lack of any consumer recording equipment to playback the scene frame by frame, it was impossible for the average TV viewer to notice these things.
THANK YOU so much for these . Really appreciate the effort you have put into it. Brings back so many memories. For me, the Gemini 12 / Jupiter 2 and The Liberator (from Blake's 7) are the two purest and most beautiful spacecraft ever devised for science fiction. The saddest thing about the original L.I.S. is that the program never got the proper finale it so richly deserved. Cheers from the Land Down Under. Jonathan Harris was much loved here in Australia and is deeply missed.
Thank you so much! I remember hearing that LIS was very popular there and was on prime time for many years. That's so cool! Yes there were many great spaceships back in those days that are classic today. I was very sad when Jonathan Harris passed away. He was so good on and off camera. I thankfully got his autograph before he passed.
I totally agree. Back then, they didn't have CGI, so the creators of the show really had to use their imaginations. Remember the Spindrift from Land Of The Giants? Or the flying Sub from Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea? I loved those ships when I was a kid, and it never left me. When I was about 5 years old, my dad worked for Desilu Studios and my uncle worked for Paramount. I got to hold one of the laser pistols used in Lost In Space....I remember it being a little heavy, and I cried when I could not take it home! Memories!
@@flipflopping Oh man!! That's so awesome that you were able to hold one the guns! I'm so jealous! 😄 I have so much respect for the prop makers, model builders and set designers that came up with all this stuff back then. It took real talent and imagination to make it all not to mention the craftsmanship!
I was a young awestruck kid in elementary school back in the 60s when Lost in Space and Star Trek was airing on TV and man was I really excited to always catch these shows.
It was Lost in Space that really resonates with me because of the imagination it sparks up in most kids like me, and because of Will Robinson. He was like the kid version of ''McGuyver'' in that era, exemplifying admirable traits and intelligence that many kids would like to emulate. I used to hate Mr Smith's character as a child but in my revisiting this iconic show a decade back, I realised what a genuinely amazing actor he really was and all his improv lines and insults were simply hilarious and colorful.
But before I forget, there is another element that absolutely piqued my interest on this show - John Williams and his music score. The same John Williams of Star Wars fame. As a kid I remember how mesmerized I was by the show's music particularly that one that often plays (like a leitmotif) when a somber and sad scene was on. Funny but I'd usually wait for it even though it doesn't play frequently. (If I remember correctly, the music would be played in every other episode). Man, i was such a fan of the music but it was only 2 decades ago when I found out it was penned by John Williams. Amazing.
Thanks for letting us join you in revisiting this fantastic TV show that's been an icon of my childhood days. Hope to see more.
As someone who grew up in the 60s... loving this show as a kid... I can tell you that the quality of television screens in those days was such, that you would never notice most of these problems. Things were pretty fuzzy back then. And there was no rewind. No pause button. And you only got to watch an episode again months after it aired in reruns.
It wasn't until VHS came out.... probably even DVD before a lot of these sort of things would be noticed.
Cool seeing it all in HD though. I doubt the producers of the day ever imagined the likes of 4K Television.
Oh yes I know it well. Watching on our old black and white RCA TV, vacuum tubes and all! We would rarely ever notice all these things and as kids, we soaked it all up. 😁
Totally agree. I never noticed a single blooper as a kid or even years later. Although I actually considered "blip" as a blooper in all the scenes in which he appeared....😁
@@ivanvarykino8202 You mean Debbie the Bloop? 🐒🐵 Yeah I was too wrapped up watching all the cool robots, spaceships and aliens to notice the bloopers back then. 😁
@@outsider238 Oh right! I guess it was Debbie. Blip or Bloop was the sound she made. No wonder I didn't notice the bloopers. I have enough challenge with careful observation of the characters and story line!
@U.B. Retro I totally agree! Some friends of mine from the B9 Robot Builders Club got to see advanced copies of the episodes and we were geeking out so bad about the incredible picture quality. We were marveling at seeing the makeup on their faces because of how crisp the picture was. They really did an excellent job cleaning everything up.
Oh wow! I loved "Lost In Space" as a kid! It was my favorite show besides "Mission Impossible" and "The Sixth Sense"! (I think that's what it was called.)
Here's a little tidbit for ya:
Mark Goddard used to always turn when having conversations with Dr. Smith. He used to cross his arms and turn all the time away from the camera as if to look behind him. Well, he did that when he started to laugh at Dr. Smith, Jonathan Harris, who was so comical, he would make Mark crack up all the time!
Thanks for that delightful walk back in time to great television!
Dr. Smith to the Robot:
"...you clattering cacophony of collisionous cogs..."🤣
I really liked the seriousness of most of the first season - it was a highly imaginative adventure series without too much camp.
This is so cool. I thought I was a big fan of this show, but you spotted a ton of stuff that I missed. This is great. waiting for the next one
Thank you! I'm really glad you enjoyed it! I'm working on season 2.
As a kid 11 years old I absolutely loved Lost in Space especially season 1. It was so spell binding and the cliff hangers at the end of each episode were great hooks. But much later I learnt to really get into the use of music and sound effects. John Williams and his music to cover situations and characters was so very well done. Few if any TV shows went to that level. The sound effects of the J2 engines powering up were also amazing. There were several people with amazing imaginations on that show. As to the oddities I did not not notice them as a kid. But noticed more as I got older but things had technical limits in the mid 60's. My main beef was always the scale of the J2 outside to inside. It was all over the place. From the outside views there was no way it could have been a double level plus ship. I say plus because a ship like that would have had an engineering level as well. We saw some of that level in a few episodes. Then there were storage areas for all the equipment. And finally the bay for space pod which somehow made it into the J2 in season 3. It came out the lower deck while the access door was on the upper deck. Star Trek never made the mistake of giving you an outside frame of reference for the ship. So it was always massive.
It really is strange that they paid no attention to the dimensions at all. After a while I think they just didn't think anyone would notice. I guess as kids we probably didn't. I was so fascinated with the hardware and robot I didn't notice much else. I agree, John Williams really did an excellent job with the music!
I wanted to be Will Robinson when I was a kid. I got my degree in Electronics, Got a job maintaining Main Frame computers, and finally built my own robot. "Zoe the Robot" has her own You-Tube videos. Zoe can converse, travel about indoors and out and she has lots of little blinking lights. She has sixty 18650 lithium ion cell which can provide power for several hours.
They used some of same music, creatures, and machines in Voyage to the bottom of the sea. Some of music also used in Land of the Giant and Don Matheson that played Mark on Land of the giants played IDAK Alpha 12 Android and another character that had a wife and son.
I have been a devoted fan of LIS for 60 years. Thank you for this videos.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed them! 😁
Just watched season 1 Bloopers and Oddities. I must agree that I have 💖 loved the Lost In Space Robot from when I first saw him. And always wished I had him as my friend. Bob May was adorable and he put a lot of that personality in the robot, even though he didn't get to voice him. ❤️🥰❤️ Enjoyed video! 😊
Bob May definitely didn't get the credit he deserved. It's not easy being in that robot. I've been inside of an exact replica at conventions for years and I'm often in there for hours. It's a lot of fun but very confining! 😁 Thank you and I'm happy that you enjoyed the video!
I LOVE lost in space
Wow, how awesome it would've been to be in this iconic show, playing an extra.
My son bought me a fully functioning B-9 robot, the small version of it. I never used or tried it with batteries in it, so I know it'll work. It's still in it's original box. I also have the scaled down version of the J-2 and the legs retract for the landing gear.
For all this show was at the time, it's still a modern miracle that they were able to create all of the different characters along with the creatures.
Isn't it funny how the J-2 was always buried in dirt, when they crashed?
What a real delight going down memory lane.........
Thank you!
One of my favorite season one episode is 'My friend, Mr. Nobody'. Penny rarely gets an episode for her.
That and "Magic Mirror".
@@voiskumbeaver3285 Yes, that was the great thing about the first season: the focus wasn't always on the "Evil Triumvirate" of Dr. Smith, Will, and the robot. It actually attempted to be a real science fiction show.
@Annette Risso I never realised how insane that last series was until I rewatched it years later!
@@voiskumbeaver3285 Michael J. Pollard was the lonely alien in that episode. He would later be in the Miri episode of Star Trek. I think he may have been the only actor to appear in both series.
Mr
Nobody was.a fantastic episode..something very special.
This was awesome. Thank you for finding and presenting these bloopers. This was my favorite show growing up.
Thank you for this. I remember watching the show when I was a boy, and it truly was a classic. Jonathan Harris stole the show each and every time. He was supposed to be a cold, evil saboteur, but he just kind of ran with the role, and became a complete opposite in character. What memories.
Oh, the agony!
👍 I have access to the whole series and looked up every blooper you mentioned. How neat it was to see these overlooked details. Thanks.
One of my favorite shows as a kid never knew anything about Bloopers 😵💫 Those were early days in TV. COOL to see them pointed out now 👍 Can't wait to see more Thanks
My favorite as a kid
So good to see this! And i'm happy to say i'm one of the lucky folks who bought the blu ray!
It looks amazing on bluray! 😁
I loved this show as a kid. Thanks for the bloopers it was fun.
Cool! I loved Lost in Space as a kid. Thanks for sharing Roy, I haven’t watched the series for about 5 years. I have it stored on my backup hard drive. Nice to see the bloopers! Happy days! 😎
My pleasure! I love the bloopers! 🤣😅
Thank you for taking the time and effort to do this video. Very well done, I certainly didn't know most of these.
Thank you! It took a long time to make this! Haha! I appreciate it! It's fun to see these once you know about them.
Thanks for putting up this video! I am one of LIS's big fans and I never picked up on some of these errors. Fantastic video!
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! 😁
EXCELLENT ! ! !
Thanks for the trip back in time ... some lovely childhood memories!!!
🙂😎👍
Job well done on this documentary. Some of things you mentioned I was aware of, others I wasn't. I'll go back and watch these later and enjoy them even more. There's one more little mistake I noticed in the episode where John took the space walk to fix the scanner. Notice when he goes into the airlock there's a reflection of somebody off to the side through the glass on the hatch. Thanks again, much fun to watch.
Guy Williams, Bill Mumy and the Robot were to me the centerpiece of LIS. I loved the Jupiter II and the magnificent score, too.
One of my favorite shows as a kid. Cool sound effects, and the music for different scenes really added to the story.
This is amazing! As many times as I’ve seen these episodes, I never caught most of these! And I have the series on DVD!
It's amazing how many bloopers there are! It's fun to spot them! 😁
I used to watch Lost in Space every day on the USA network during my summer vacation. It was such a great show for kids! What boy wouldn't want to be Will Robinson? The show still makes me smile all these years later.
I love Dr. Smith. This brings back warm memories
I remember that when an alien ship was getting ready to land or take off, it was this strange looking rocket that didn't look like any of the alien ships. That little bit of footage was used over and over again whenever a new alien ship was landing. Still, the series was excellent. IA was truly a pioneer and master at entertaining.
Hahaha! Yeah that first appeared as Hapgood's ship in "Welcome Stranger". They got good use out of that effects shot! 🤣
@@outsider238 find a clip of it please for your next vid. 👍
and whenever there was "something on the radar" of the Jupiter 2, the image on the radar screen was the same footage spliced in, over and over
Fascinating stuff, man!! Thank you for making these series of videos. :)
Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying them! 😁
Great job with the bloopers and all the details. The 1st season was by far the best.
Cool video! I was a big fan of Lost In Space when I was a kid. I wondered how I missed this video, then realized it’s brand new. Now I’m gonna have to wait to see the next one. I noticed also in a few places you can see straight lines along the surface where the matte background painting met the ground.
Thank you! I'm currently working on the season 2 bloopers video. They take a long time to make. There's a cool blooper involving that background that I'll talk about in the season 3 video whenever I can get it made. 😁
Lost in Space was so entertaining as a child, what I remember most about it was the Doctor's insults and the robots catch phrase "Danger Will Robinson!, Danger!".
Yes! The banter between the Robot and Dr. Smith was never ending delight! 🤣
@@outsider238 I especially liked it when Smith referred to the robot as,"You bubble -headed booby!" It reminded me of when the British comedian, Tony Hancock, in the episode "The Lift", referred to a much decorated Air Marshal as ,"You beribboned buffoon".
@@autophyte Dr. Smith had some hilarious names for the Robot. Jonathan Harris made all of them up.
This is AWESOME!!!! Never noticed these things but so interesting to know now. Lost in Space was great back in the days.👍🏻🎬
Thank you for bringing back some childhood memories of watching this show. It was one of the few sci-fi programs on at that time that I enjoyed. Even as a child one thing that bothered me was the size of the Jupiter 2. You see the outside of the spaceship with the Robinsons walking in and out of the front door so you can gauge a size perspective. Once inside, there is no way that could have that much space (no pun) for a flight deck, crew quarters deck, a hold for the chariot, the pod, and then a new third deck that appears in the last season. I guess Irwin borrowed a ex machina technique from Dr. Who. Its larger on the inside than on the outside.
that always bothered me. the chariot was the same size as the ship. how the hell did they lug it
around the universe ? I loved the chariot tho. tank treads + full visibility.
Neat bloopers. It was great seeing this.
I remember when the show premiered. I watched it every week. It broke my heart as a child to find out there was a man inside the Robot. I've never believed in anything since.
I have to agree. Finding out there was someone inside the Robot took away the magic. They tried to keep it a secret for as long as they could though.
@@outsider238 I knew even as a kid there was a guy in the Robot so I used my Imagination and pretended a major corporation built a real robot for the show and it was more smarter and sentient than they ever expected.
@@frankreynolds445 Haha! By not giving Bob May credit for playing the Robot, it did add some mystery to him. I remember my brother, sister and I watching the credits to see who played him and it never said so we weren't ever sure if there was someone in him or not. 😄
@@outsider238 I give him tons of credit. If there was no Bob May there would be no Robot.
@@frankreynolds445 Totally agree! He was the unsung hero of the show!
Let me tell you, brother; you are too sharp for words! I’ve never seen anyone better at catching these things in my life. Thanks!
Thank you so much! 😁
Back in the sixties I was a young boy. I'm 68 now. Back then, I watched this show as if it was real. I thoroughly bought into this whole space adventure. One of the goals in Hollywood is to "suspend disbelief". That sure worked for me.
I loved this series as a kid and always will.. thanks from NZ 👍🇳🇿
Excellent video!! My most favorite episode… WAR OF THE ROBOTS!! I Love the B9 but ROBBY THE ROBOT is my most favorite. :)
Oh man, I love that episode as well! So cool to see two of the most iconic robots in TV and movie history together on screen! 😄
@@outsider238 Yes, those 2 ROBOTS definitely laid the groundwork for all the rest. I actually built a 29 inch B9 and a 44 inch tall ROBBY THE ROBOT out of scratch! Both turned out great!
To I’ll be watching the LOST IN SPACE (season 2) bloopers tonight! :) Keep up the great work… hugs from OKINAWA! :)
@@RONBONIX Thank you so much! I really appreciate it! That's so cool that you built replicas of them! That couldn't have been easy. I hope you enjoy the other videos!
@@outsider238 It was definitely a labor of LOVE! :) Very strange… my wife was throwing away old bowls, cups …ect. For some reason I saw ROBBY THE ROBOT. Lol! I started to slowly build him. After about a month ROBBY was almost done. I finally let my wife see him… she actually start to CRY (in a good way). She loved him. :)
Yes, I’ll be watching the video very soon. Take care and be safe. :)
@@RONBONIX That's how creators work. They see things in ordinary objects that get turned into works of art! Great job and fun too! 😁
I think I saw Johnathin Harris on Sanford and Son as a traveling relics sales man. And I think he was on Jason of Star command. Johnathin has done some cool sci-fi films and maybe a western or 2. Cool season one bloopers. I may have noticed them, but the music on all seasons kept me mesmerized throughout the entire run. Now to "fizz me a Phosphate". Groovie baby!
Loved this show all my life since reruns in 70s , this was all very interesting and well explained. I immensely enjoyed all 3 videos of these.
Thank you very much! 😁
Think yourself lucky you only had to wait until the '70's to see the reruns. We here in the UK had to wait nearly 25 years which seemed like an eternity. The consummate music score remained fresh in my memory for many years though until that too faded. When the 5 CD box-set was released decades later I was in seventh heaven for months!
Really loved this show - Some of the sound effects were so creepy. I remember really hating Dr. Smith (well, his character anyway). I learned recently that he was quite assertive in rewriting scripts and insisting on "assisting" in the direction of many (most) of the episodes. Another thing I recall was that the acting really was top notch back then, in many of the other TV shows of that era as well. Just watch some of the early episodes of Star Trek - the actors really took their jobs seriously.
@Kelly Williamson
I agree, you could tell that the actors of this generation were genuinely interested in
"becoming the character" so there was a sense of realism that you never see today.
The special effects might not have been as good back then, but the quality of acting was so good it more than made up for that, since it really drew you in, which just doesn't happen today most modern actors are just not that convincing the past thirty-40 plus years.
Speaking of Creepy, the Hollow Men of Doctor who look almost exactly like the weird 'faceless men' in Lost in Space, with the only real difference being the Hollow Men wore top-hats, and the Faceless men wore Bowlers. I always thought the two took place in the same universe (or multiverse), and the two villains were actually one-and-the-same. The shows share a lot - aired in the 60's, was a combination of creepy/scary aliens and humor, etc. Too bad we never got a crossover - I'd like to see the robot fighting Daleks or Cybermen!
Sound effects... There is an episode called 'The Astral Traveler' where this seaweed monster thing comes out of the water, and the sound effects of it shrieking or whatever it was STILL freaks me out at 55 years of age. It scared the crap out of me as a young kid. The episode wasn't cary, but the sound effect curdled my blood.
@@hang3xc1 The sound that thing made scared the crap out of me as a kid.
Loved those sound effects. Especially the first season. Totally alien. Ralph HIckey's work (I think).
I like how the chariot is as big as the space ship.
Enjoyed all 3 videos, good job, very thorough!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed them! 😁
Great video! I do not mean this to contradict what you say, I just want to point out that I was watching on a small, maybe 13" BW TV then. Because of this most of these bloopers would have gone unnoticed IMHO. Still nice to see them now, thank you!
Loved that show when it was on in the 60's. I liked the blooper that showed June Lockharts face reflected on the glass. Classic ...
Must've seen every episode at least a dozen times and never noticed these bloopers. Guess I was just too caught up in the stories and the music!
Loved the show for SO many reasons!
I met Mark Goddard at a comic con show and we talked about the shows bloopers including his own. There was one were he hit his head almost knocking himself out. I told him that I noticed another one when the Jupiter II landed on earth in 1957. The people shot at the robot leaving a dent near the neon lights. In the next scene the dent was gone.
I'm glad you had a great meeting with him! Mark was the nicest person I ever met from all the conventions I've ever been to. I spent an entire weekend with him. He told me great stories, we had lunch and he was completely fantastic the whole time.
I two am a big fan of the Robot. Thanks. RIP Bob May.
Dude, you got razor, Hawkeye vision to catch such microscopic errors! Kudos 👏🏿 👏🏿👏🏿
Just finished watching all three parts of the bloopers. YT recommended part 3 first, go figure. I only saw a very few of these when I was a kid and even more recently watching the dvd set I did catch a fraction of these. I can only imagine the time and effort you put in to this with freeze-frame and all.
There was another blooper, one of the very few I caught will watch the recently and I was hoping to see it on this series.
There's a scene where Smith is looking for something in one of the cabins, probably Will's, as he crouches down to look under a table the camera pans down following his face and you can see that the table he's looking under is just made of crappy particle board, no decent wood on the Jupiter II.
I wish I could remember what episode that's from.
It's a testament though, that the stories were sufficiently engrossing enough to draw the viewer's attention away from most of the show's shortcomings. I have to admit, I hated the end-of-show teasers !
As an aside, I am one of the many young boys who was totally in love with Angela Cartwright. She was and still beautiful.
Thank you very much! I appreciate that! I'm glad you enjoyed this series. It was a lot of work but it was fun! I never noticed that scene you mentioned. But particleboard tables is pretty hilarious! Angela Cartwright grew up so fast on that show and was probably a favorite among fans. I'm glad to hear YT is recommending my videos! 😁
Lost in Space was a great show for a youngster. I loved watching it every week. I think the first season was the best and most realistic, but sort of scary too. After a while it seemed to get dumbed down with silly episodes which were ok but not as interesting like the first season content. The show where they were all confined and judged for space crimes was excellent. Also, when they found a time warp back to earth was exciting... that was one of my favorites. Life was so carefree in the 60s. Thanks for posting.
One of my favorite tv shows of all time. The new Netflix was also incredible. Hands down the best theme music of any show ever.
Thank you I love stuff like this
Haha, this is so funny. I actually missed most of these bloopers when the show aired!
Once you see them, you can't un-see them! 🤣😅
Loved this show from the pilot onwards. I've got it on Blu-ray and my 13 year old nephew loves it. Time wates for no one.
Very well done video. Thanks for your diligence here, you've crafted a very enjoyable way for us to spend 25 minutes! I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but there is what I would call a blooper in Welcome Stranger. It happens at the part where Smith is eavesdropping on John and Maureen during their discussion about asking Hapgood to take the kids with him. When Smith is done listening with his stethoscope at the little round porthole window he comes around and walks out through the hatch. When he does, if you look inside the Jupiter between Smith and the right (from our view) edge of the airlock you can see the bottom section of the robot, tread section and rubber legs, but apparently no top torso section. It's a very brief glimpse we get, about 3 or 4 seconds. I wonder if it has something to do with the subsequent scene when Bob May wearing the top part walks the robot into the ship through the hatch. On the Blu-ray you can catch this at about 0:17:41 to 0:17:44. I am sure you're pretty nimble with the pause button! Thanks again for putting this together for us.
Hi Nathan! Ooooo!!!! Now I have to check that out! How very interesting! Thank you for telling me about this! I love finding these kind of things in our favorite shows! 😁 I knew you'd like this video! 🤩
i'll have to check this out myself. Hapgood was played by Warren Oates.
@gcb ranger Yes, do look for it. Maybe most viewers who may have noticed it (I've never heard it mentioned by anyone but me) didn't think it was a big deal. But when you see it, it just seems weird that the robot's bottom half would be just standing inside the ship like that! If anyone other than me ever noticed it, I would be eager to hear from them.
@@Nathan-jq1uw you can type out welcome stranger, lost in space and click on daily motion video, around 58 minutes long and watch the whole thing. just did and saw what you are talking about.
Love this show thank u.
WoW , get right into it ! A good show to talk about with friends at school the next day . I thought that when I bought the series on DVD ,that I'd finally get to see the ending ,as never did on TV , little did I know . But in a strange way ,the ending suit's the title .
Haha! Yeah still love this show so much. So many shows back then never had an ending.
probably my favorite scifi series as a kid.
great series you're doing. same with I Dream
of Jeannie. (and boy did I.)
Thank you! I appreciate that! The Jeannie series is taking way more time to make. There was a lot of episodes!
So much fun‼️
I loved this show so much my friends didn’t understand
Still obsessed.
`In the Bewitched episode "Supercar", the same car was used in Bewitched and Batman
Under the Hood of the Reactor
The car is actually a prototype created by auto designer Gene Winfield. The Reactor featured a radar screen, flip-top roof, retractable fins, and a 425-horsepower engine. The hydraulic liquid-on-air suspension allowed the driver to adjust the ground clearance from 4 to 9 1/2 inches. The $20,000 price tag would buy several of Larry Tate's screaming yellow Stingrays in the 1960s. The lime green metallic paint with darker green shading around the edges made the car stand out as well.
This custom car featured an aluminum body, so it's no wonder that Darrin was so particular about Sam driving it - one little fender bender and it would crumble like a soda can squeezed in a fist. The engine was based on the Chevy Corvair.
The Reactor appeared as Catwoman's Kitty Car with big ears and a tail in an episode of Batman.
Credit: Harpie's Bizarre website
thank you so much for this - much appreciated.
My pleasure! I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😁
I was 6 when it came out. It was so fantastic and High drama to me. Thanks.
Great. Loved it.
In the episode, One Of Our Dogs Is Missing, in the final scene, when the monster is attacking, Will gets a laser pistol from the dog, but in the very next scene, he is sitting backed up against a rock without the laser pistol. Spotted that one years ago. One of my favorite shows growing up, have the dvd collection of season one.
Wow I'm 56 I been watching this show from the 70s in Puerto Rico and on Spanish lol, I was so in to the stories I could not see any defect and you are showing them all. Good thing I didn't see that in does moments I probably gotten traumatized kid lol
10:45 I did not know the same spider was used in the episode of Gilligan's Island w/ the spider in the cave ! That frightened me so much because the show was a COMEDY and this giant scary spider was on the island !! And so now, Gilligan;'s Island was a science fiction show ? LOL.
😂🤣
We all remember the names Dr. Smith called the robot and how the words started with the same letter. I don't recall what episode this was, I only know Will, Dr. Smith, and the robot were fishing when Dr. Smith called the robot a mumbling mass of metal. I lost it for about 5 minutes lol. Great video and I have part 2 in watch later. Thumbs up.
Thank you so much! I really appreciate that! 😁 That episode you mentioned was "War Of The Robots" from season one. Dr. Smith's name calling for the Robot was always a fun part of this show!
In the episode where Dr Smith becomes a hippie the actor who plays Young Bartholomew was also in the Stephen King 1980 movie" the Shining" as the Radio operator Ranger who talks to the Torrance family via their two way radio .
I have these on DVD. I gotta go back and look for these
From way way way back in the day when a single season consisted of -- Holy Cow!! -- TWENTY-NINE episodes.
And just a small handful of commercials in each.
Yes! The filming schedule was grueling back then. Plus these were one hour episodes.
The first season of "Lost in Space" had kind of a plot to it trying to survive on another planet, but then the seasons to follow got too absurd with the focus always around the dumbest character in the series "Dr Smith". Watching some of the re-runs now late at night, after the first season, The series turned into more of a kids entertainment hour shows rather than a serious adult SCIFI theme to lost in space on struggles to survive.
Thanks for all the bloopers. take care.
Part of the problem was the success of the Batman TV show which was camp and less serious in its tone and therefore Lost In Space went down the same route.
I don't think the Dr Smith character was 'dumb' per se, he just appealed to a certain demographic. Jonathan Harris played Smith as if to the back row, lifting what was to be basically a cameo to the star of the show.
Yeah, and Start Trek came on the second season, and it was way, way, way more entertaining.
Well I was in elementary school when I watched this show. Never noticed these bloopers. Great video.
Thank you very much! 😁
Here's another bit of trivia you should know: at 10:30 minutes, that same big spider that was used in two shows, Gilligan's island and Lost in Space, was also the spider monster used in the movie 'The Angry Red Planet' from the '50s!!!!
Love these...thank you for taking the time to put them together! You might have missed a pretty glaring one in The Space Trader episode, which you discuss in this video. In the full episode, right after the Will and Dr. Smith stunt doubles emerge from behind the rock (which you point out at about 19:15 of this video), the moment the dogs attack you can see the head of a stagehand(?)...dog trainer(?) stick out from behind the stack of boxes on the right side (viewer's right side) of the spaceship, right behind where the dog takes off from. He looks out for a second or two and then quickly whips his head back out of sight. Check it out if you can...it's a great blooper. Thanks again and keep up the good work!
How dare you suggest there were errors in Lost in Space, you venomous videographer!
Hahaha! 🤣😅
I started watching the re-runs on WLVI from Boston, though I lived in the "West"ern part of the show. Shout out to Maj. Don West!
1978
Loved this show when I was a kid in the mid 60's. This was entertaining.
Funny how they re-used props too. The giant alien ship that swallows the J2 in the second episode also appears in the Majesty Smith ep a little later in the season, on the alien ship. It is shown in its actual size (model sized) in the background, about the size of a cabinet or something.
Yes in the Season Two video, I show how they used that model as set dressing in a couple of episodes. 😄
Thanks I love this stuff!
I'm glad you enjoyed it! 😁
Technology at its best. Circa 1960s. Great video.
On Earth, the blooper makes the bloops.
With Lost In Space, Debbie The Bloop makes the bloopers.
I’ve just some ancient dvd rips, I’d love to pick up the new blue rays just to rewatch this!
The blurays are amazing! Also has great bonus material!
The first season was arguably the best. The writer S. Bar David (who wrote a number of the best episodes of Have Gun Will Travel) wrote a number of the best episodes of that season.
They went with a more campy and fantasy take after the first season. Color does that i guess
@@jacobbrown1690 It also made the episodes more expensive and the effects less credible . . . .
One of my favorite childhood shows for a lot of reasons, not the least of which was a crush on Angela Cartwright who is close to me in age.
The choice to make the robot roll instead of step introduced another conundrum of how he could navigate stairs. In any case, most entertainment requires at least a bit of willing suspension of disbelief so, even fun bloopers considered, it was a pretty good show through the first season. The campiness makes a lot of the later episodes a little tedious to rewatch but still have enjoyed revisiting the first season.
Thank you!
I recall, back in the 60s, I used to watch LIS in monochrome after primary school was dismissed.
I recall spotting numerous "bloopers", (pun intended), even then, as an 8-year-old.
And NO "rewind". Just memory.
Hahaha!! There certainly was a lot of them! I remember my brother and I noticing some of these when we were younger as well. 😄😁
There were a LOT of science mistakes on the show
one that really stands out is when John and Maureen had to go outside the J2 while a comet was going by, and the intense heat of the comet was cooking them in their space suits....
How did the writers not know that comets are giant balls of ice, not intensely hot mini-suns ?!
one of the odd things from the 1st episode: when the robot was destroying the ship, saying DESTROY! DESTROY! over and over, there was a heavy reverb and echo added to the audio...
way out of character for the voice of the robot "DESTROY.ROY.Roy.roy! but scary as hell!
another thing that stands out, was done on LIS and ST: they used the same music sound track for every episode, for all three years
they had the same pending danger music, regret music, dramatic action music, landing on a planet music, love scene music.....and usually all of it was played at some point on every episode.
Yeah it was repetitive, but I always thought the music was pretty damn good.
@@brianjones808 It was John Williams
Bob May GOT All kinds of credit for that roll, Bill Mumy was Always talking him up & telling stories about him.
The whole show was a blooper. I lived it.😁
Damn.....I'm old.
Hahaha!!! I feel ya! 🤣😄
5:38 is a great example of "how the heck did the Chariot fit into the Jupiter 2". :)))
With NTSC broadcasting, the poor reception many of us had with indoor antennas, and the lack of any consumer recording equipment to playback the scene frame by frame, it was impossible for the average TV viewer to notice these things.
Very true!
THANK YOU so much for these . Really appreciate the effort you have put into it. Brings back so many memories. For me, the Gemini 12 / Jupiter 2 and The Liberator (from Blake's 7) are the two purest and most beautiful spacecraft ever devised for science fiction. The saddest thing about the original L.I.S. is that the program never got the proper finale it so richly deserved.
Cheers from the Land Down Under. Jonathan Harris was much loved here in Australia and is deeply missed.
Thank you so much! I remember hearing that LIS was very popular there and was on prime time for many years. That's so cool! Yes there were many great spaceships back in those days that are classic today. I was very sad when Jonathan Harris passed away. He was so good on and off camera. I thankfully got his autograph before he passed.
I totally agree.
Back then, they didn't have CGI, so the creators of the show really had to use their imaginations. Remember the Spindrift from Land Of The Giants? Or the flying Sub from Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea? I loved those ships when I was a kid, and it never left me. When I was about 5 years old, my dad worked for Desilu Studios and my uncle worked for Paramount. I got to hold one of the laser pistols used in Lost In Space....I remember it being a little heavy, and I cried when I could not take it home! Memories!
@@flipflopping Oh man!! That's so awesome that you were able to hold one the guns! I'm so jealous! 😄 I have so much respect for the prop makers, model builders and set designers that came up with all this stuff back then. It took real talent and imagination to make it all not to mention the craftsmanship!
Missed one I just saw. In island in the sky. When John was in the pit . His radio exploded. But when he climbed out, the radio was still there. Lol
Oh! Haha! I'll have to check that out! 😁