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Marta kristen 20156/22/2023 ![]() If you register your email address on the site, you get 30 percent off the suggested retail price of $200, with free shipping. Update 4/7/15 – No DVD version of this set will be offered.įox Connect is offering a special deal on pre-orders from their website. There are also “as-aired versions” of six episodes, complete with original commercials and program bumpers. The 18-disc set includes new, high definition transfers of all 84 episodes remastered from original elements, along with seven hours of bonus features, including: newly shot interviews commentary tracks on eight episodes and a “table read” of a series epilogue written by Bill Mumy, with surviving cast members reprising their characters. Īnd soon, a whole new generation of viewers will have the chance to experience the unique joys of go-go dancing space hippies, talking carrot men, and a bloop named Debbie.Īt WonderCon in Anaheim today, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment announced the 50th anniversary Lost In Space: Complete Collection Blu-ray set, on sale September 15. And without the Robinson family, I might never have been infected with the old-things-are-better mindset that inspired my lifelong love of classic TV and film. In short, without Lost in Space, I might not have ended up as the proud Old Movie Weirdo I am today. Those Lost in Space reruns primed the sci-fi pump in mid-1970s kids for STAR WARS mania, the Star Trek feature film revival and the genre boom that still reverberates today. Maureen Robinson from biochemist to laundry-folding, inter-planetary housewife. In that sense, the 84 episodes produced by Irwin Allen truly include something for viewers of all ages. There’s even some second-wave feminism, despite the devolution of June Lockhart’s Dr. Smith, the Robot, and Will taking the lead. John Robinson) in the black-and-white first season to a delightfully absurd sci-fi sitcom in the second and third seasons (in eye-popping color), with Dr. The show evolved during its three-year primetime run from straight-up adventure (led by former TV Zorro Guy Williams as Dr. Lost in Space had everything a kid could want: pulpy adventure trippy visuals a killer theme song (actually two of them, both by John Williams) a heroic pre-teen protagonist (11-year-old Billy Mumy as Will) and a pretty girl (Angela Cartwright as Penny, age 13 when the show began) who inspired inexplicable, um, stirrings in certain young viewers (sorry Yvonne Craig and Julie Newmar, but Angela had me first). We even built a replica of the show’s iconic Robot B-9 using milk cartons from the school cafeteria where my grandmother worked, with buttons drawn in magic marker on paper plates. Try doing that on your iPads, you young whippersnappers! (*shakes cane*) ![]() (That’s the way we rolled in the ’70s, and we have the scars to prove it.) Zachary Smith inspired us in some delightfully analog play, which usually involved running around, sweating profusely, getting injured and/or crying. The interstellar mis-adventures of the Robinson family ( John, Maureen, Judy, Penny and Will), perma-pissed-off Major Don West, and stowaway saboteur Dr. But Lost In Space became a huge part of our lives a decade later, thanks to after-school syndicated reruns that were required viewing in the pre-STAR WARS years. My cousins and I were too young to experience the show, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, during its initial 1965-68 primetime run on CBS. I don’t remember exactly when I watched Lost in Space for the first time, but I do recall the following details: it was sometime in the mid-1970s it was on my grandmother’s Zenith (with the remote control clicker) and my cousins John (older) and Patrick (younger) were with me.Īnd I’m pretty sure one of us imitated the Robot, and that I got to play Will. ![]()
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