Lost in Space 1st season on DVD released 1/13/04

[btomarra]

I'm sure there is a post about this somewhere....The first season will be on DVD coming out this tuesday. Though I liked the show when it was campy (about midway through the second season), the first season to me was the best!

Here is the info! And I'm sorry if I am being redundant here!

Brian

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000DC3VM/qid=1073879483/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-6177018-0931019?v=glance&s=dvd

[Michael]

Oh yea!, Mine is on the way! I LOVE all three seasons...I remember the debut was I was kid:thumbsup: Been a fan ever since...still am. I'm Hopin the DVD's look better than what I've been reading about. Bring on season's 2 & 3!

[JohnG]

BestBuy will have the set for $59.99.

[JonUrban]

I remember when I was a little kid watching this show and hoping they would get off that stupid planet!!! :D

Guess I'll have to get this one, along with Green Acres. GA is one of those guilty pleasures, you know it's stupid, you know it's predicatable, but it still makes me laught out loud, esp the first season.

[Lord Hawthorne]

Yeah, it was a kind of Gilligan's Island without the laugh-track. They were always about to get off the planet, but of course Dr Smith always screwed it up. I also recall he always had something he had to show young Will out in the boulders. I guess I'll see how good my memory is.

[Mister Kite]

Originally posted by oblio98
I remember when I was a little kid watching this show and hoping they would get off that stupid planet!!! :D

Guess I'll have to get this one, along with Green Acres. GA is one of those guilty pleasures, you know it's stupid, you know it's predicatable, but it still makes me laught out loud, esp the first season.

I'm still trying to figure out how MGM gets all of Green Acres Season One on 2 discs. Even if it's 2 DVD-18's it sure seems like it'll be cramped.

[Jimbo]

My favorite episode of Lost In Space is the one where Dr. Smith gets himself (and the rest of the family) into trouble, and Will and the robot have to save the day. Oh wait a sec...that's 90% of the whole show...;)

Lost In Space was my absolute favorite show as a kid, and I watched the reruns over and over again through the years. It'll be great to finally have them all on DVD. The first season had some really good science fiction, but the show got sillier and sillier as it went on. Can you say "The Great Vegetable Rebellion"??:rolleyes:

P.S. In the mid-70s, my family drove around in a Ford Econoline van, which we naturally called "The Chariot.":)

[Ed Bishop]

The first season of LOST IN SPACE--all B&W, as I recall--was far more serious than the subsequent two(to put it mildly!)....it had a cold war sinister edge at first....but Irwin Allen, seeing that Jonathan Harris' Dr. Smith was generating plenty of fan interest, tilted the show toward camp, which had its good points(all those 'bubbleheaded booby' type references to the robot), and bad(cheap sets, preposterous stories). But, you couldn't go wrong with Marta Kristen(Judy), and Guy Williams was the perfect authority figure type to play the lead....and it must have nettled him that the writers reduced him to secondary status by playing up Smith at the expense of everybody else(except Will...the kid got a hall pass, I guess).

GREEN ACRES was a beauty! A sane man in a rural insane asylum of a town, and easily the funniest show I've ever watched with the lead actor playing a rather grouchy, short-tempered fellow(though who could blame him!:laugh: ). Given the creators of the show also concocted THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES and PETTICOAT JUNCTION, GA remains a delightful aberration...subversive, at times snarky, but very, very creative: Fred Ziffle and Arnold are already in TV lore, and Eva Gabor's clueless yet loving and patient Lisa was a doll to watch every week for this kid.

Both boxes are a must for anyone who loves TV as a lark, and only BATMAN surpassed GH in absurd inventiveness.


ED:ed:

[stereoptic]

Originally posted by Ed Bishop
....but Irwin Allen, seeing that Jonathan Harris' Dr. Smith was generating plenty of fan interest...
ED:ed:

and yet, since Jonathan Harris was not included in the pilot, so for some contractual reasons he had to be billed as "Special Guest Star" on each episode!

[JonUrban]

Originally posted by stereoptic


and yet, since Jonathan Harris was not included in the pilot, so for some contractual reasons he had to be billed as "Special Guest Star" on each episode!

Believe it or not, there was a Biography or something on A&E or TVLand, about Jonathan Harris, and it turned out that he insisted on getting that "Special Guest Star" billing, and after some reluctance, got it from Irwin Allen.

That was an interesting show (the Biography).

I really liked the first year of LIS, but after a while, it became the "Will, Dr. Smith & the Robot" show. It got sort of predictable after that.

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, another Irwin Allen show, did the same thing. At first, it was a real drama with cold war implications (mostly against "an Asian power"). In the color years, it also turned out to be a "monster of the month" show - but the Flying Sub was cool!. Too bad, I really liked that one!

(Don't forget Time Tunnel - another great Irwin Allen show. I did not really care for Land of the Giants)

[Michael]

Originally posted by Ed Bishop
The first season of LOST IN SPACE--all B&W, as I recall--was far more serious than the subsequent two(to put it mildly!)....it had a cold war sinister edge at first....but Irwin Allen, seeing that Jonathan Harris' Dr. Smith was generating plenty of fan interest, tilted the show toward camp, which had its good points(all those 'bubbleheaded booby' type references to the robot), and bad(cheap sets, preposterous stories).
ED:ed:

Glorious Black & White:)
No ED, Irwin Allen wanted to KILL off Dr. Smith in the first season:) Jonathan camped it up and became an important part of the Show...Irwin had nothing to do with the later "Campy" Dr. Smith, It was 100% Jonathan to save his job:thumbsup:

[stereoptic]

Originally posted by oblio98
...but the Flying Sub was cool!.

That picture of the Seaview flying out of the ocean like a whale is pretty funny. What kept the crew from falling backwards? :D

[JonUrban]

Originally posted by stereoptic


That picture of the Seaview flying out of the ocean like a whale is pretty funny. What kept the crew from falling backwards? :D

Believe it or not, that is a real situation for a submarine. Yeah, that really shakes them up a bit! :D :D

[njwiv]

There are reports that Costco will be selling this for $49.99.

[Alan T]

Ya mean I can now have the pilot were Billy Mumy performs an unplugged "Green Sleeves" around the martian campfire. A great 60's TV musical moment.

Oh Boy!

[JohnG]

For $49.99 I'll have to make a special trip over to my Costco!

[RetroSmith]

How could they have killed off Dr Smith? He was the only interesting thing on the whole Damn show.


"Oh the Pain"!!!!

[RDK]

I have most of these on tape, but a DVD box would sure be swell. Any word on any "extras" on the discs? (the unaired pilot would be nice)

[njwiv]

Ray,

The only extras are the unaired pilot and a 6-minute CBS pitch. A full review has been posted at www.thedigitalbits.com.

[Michael]

Originally posted by mikey5967
How could they have killed off Dr Smith? He was the only interesting thing on the whole Damn show.


"Oh the Pain"!!!!

After reading in a script of the demise of Dr. Smith, Jonathan knew he had to come up with something fast to save the Dr.! I'm sure glad he did...Just a wonderful character you love to hate!:thumbsup: Indeed!

[btomarra]

I believe that Johnathan said that what he was good at playing was comic villains. He knew that if he didn't change his character he would be written off very quickly.

Season one has many great episodes The Keeper being the most famous.

Brian

[Paul C.]

The first series of Lost in Space was the best, IMO. I didn't like it as much when it got really silly, although some of the silly ones are quite memorable (like the one where Will and Dr Smith get sucked into a stupid machine that cranks out multiple duplicates of them).

One of the early B&W ones that scared the ***** out of me as a kid was the one where Will gets taken into a strange alien spaceship that looks like a large globe sitting in a weird organic treelike shape. There are these aliens with no mouths who want to take Dr Smith's brain for their computer, but true to form, Smith does a deal to give them Will's brain.

[JohnG]

My Costco didn't have the DVD box set today :(

[JonUrban]

My Costco did! :D (But they did not have the Green Acres or Mr Ed :( )

[JohnG]

I also didn't see Green Acres or Mr. Ed either.

They did have Curb Your Enthusiasm for $25.99.

Swimming Pool was $18.97 but I should rent that first (never saw it).