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Lost in Space
Season 1 was first shown on tv in the USA in 1965. The first
season of Lost in Space was all in black and white.
Episode 1: The
Reluctant Stowaway
(10/10)
Air Date:
15/9/1965
Story: Shimon Wincelberg
Written by: S. Bar-David
Director: Tony Leader
Music by: John Williams
The date of the first flight is
October 16, 1997. The Jupiter 2 is launched with the Robinson
Family and Robot towards a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri. The
Jupiter 2 is sabotaged by Dr Zachary Smith and as a result
leaves them all Lost in Space.
*This is the first episode of Lost
in Space. The Robot trying to destroy the Jupiter 2 is very
exciting to watch with lots of suspense.
* In the episode, the superb music started when
the Jupiter 2 is first seen. The gravity free music is superb.
Episode 2: The
Derelict
(9/10)
Air Date:
22/9/1965
Story:
Shimon Wincelberg
Teleplay by: Peter Packer
Director: Alex Singer
Music by Herman Stein
Following a tense effort to rescue
John Robinson from deep space, the Jupiter 2 is drawn inside a
massive alien spaceship. There, the family confronts a strange
race of bubble creatures.
* This is the only episode that
starts with the Lost in Space opening title sequence.
Episode 3: Island
in the Sky
Air Date:
29/9/1965
Story:
Shimon Wincelberg
Teleplay by: Norman Lessing
Director: Tony Leader
Music by John Williams
The family crash-lands on a an
unknown planet in an attempt to rescue Professor Robinson.
Maureen and the others use the Chariot to search for John.
* One of my favourite scenes is
when the renegade robot blows up a tree on his way to destroy
Will. The music builds up the suspense as the Robot approaches
Will.
Episode 4: There
were Giants in the Earth
(9/10)
Air Date:
6/10/1965
Story:
Shimon Wincelberg
Teleplay by: Carey Wilber
Director: Leo Penn
Music by Herman Stein
The Robinsons set up camp on a
planet populated by strangely evolving life forms. As the family
moves their camp in search of warmth, thy are confronted
by a giant Cyclops.
Episode 5: The
Hungary Sea
(9.5/10)
Air Date:
13/10/1965
Story:
Shimon Wincelberg
Teleplay by: William Welch
Director: Sobey Martin
Music by John Williams
Following a quick escape from an
ancient city, the Robinsons must flee the heat of an unknown
planet's sun. Heading through storms and earthquakes, they land
safely - only to face an unknown entity from outer space.
Episode 6: Welcome
Stranger
(8/10)
Air Date:
20/10/1965
Written by:
Peter Packer
Director: Alvin Ganzer
Music by Herman Stein
The Robinsons try to persuade a
long -stranded astronaut James Hapgood to take Will and Penny
back to Earth. He refuses, but has a change of heart after a
near tragedy befalls Penny.
Episode 7: My
Friend, Mr. Nobody
(10/10)
Air Date:
27/10/1965
Written by:
Jackson Gillis
Director: Paul Stanley
Music by John Williams
Penny befriends a lonely echo
voice she calls 'Mr Nobody', but when Penny appears to be
injured, the being's wrath threatens the Robinsons - until Penny
persuades it not to hurt her family.
* This is the last episode to
feature original music by John Williams. The soundtrack has a
magical feeling to it.
Episode 8:
Invaders from the Fifth Dimension
(8.5/10)
Air Date:
3/11/1965
Written by:
Shimon Wincelberg
Director: Leonard Horn
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
Glowing humanoids invade the
Robinsons colony in search of a brain to navigate their
spaceship. Their plan is foiled when Will's worry over his
parents safety makes his brain unusable.
* This is the first episode to
re-use exerts of music from previous episodes.
Episode 9: The
Oasis
(7/10)
Air Date:
10/11/1965
Written by:
Peter Packer
Director: Sutton Roley
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
The Robinsons water crisis deepens
when Dr Smith uses their only water supply for a shower. But a
strange alien fruit may be the answer- until it causes Smith to
grow into a giant.
* This is episode features the
famous scene with Dr Smith having a shower singing with the
Robot.
Episode 10: The
Sky is Falling
(8/10)
Air Date:
17/11/1965
Story:
Herman Groves
Teleplay:
Barney Slater and Herman Groves
Director: Sobey Martin
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
Guest Stars: Don Matheson as Rethso, Francoise Ruggieri
as Moela.
The Robinsons confront their
mistrust of an alien family that has arrived by matter transfer
beam from space. Unable to understand their language, they fear
for Will's safety when he and the little alien boy disappear.
* Don Matheson featured as a main
character in Irwin Allen's Land of the Giants TV series.
Episode 11: Wish
Upon a Star
(9/10)
Air Date:
24/11/1965
Written by:
Barney Slater
Director: Sutton Roley
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
When Dr Smith and Will discover a
magic wish-granting machine, the family becomes greedy. But the
party ends when a strange alien creature reclaims the magic
machine.
Episode 12: The
Raft
(8/10)
Air Date:
1/12/1965
Written by:
Peter Packer
Director: Sobey Martin
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
Will comes up with an idea for a
two-man spaceship that can travel to Earth. But when Dr Smith
hijacks the spaceship, a crash landing finds Will and Smith
trapped in a jungle pursued by a bush creature.
Episode 13: One of
our Dogs is Missing
(8/10)
Air Date:
8/12/1965
Written by:
William Welch
Director: Sutton Roley
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
After a meteor storm, Maureen,
Judy, Penny and Dr Smith find a small wrecked space capsule. The
passenger was a friendly little dog and survives the crash. The
dog leads John Robinson and Don West to just in time to save
Judy from the claws of a giant hairy mutant.
Episode 14: Attack
of the Monster Plants
(8/10)
Air Date:
15/12/1965
Written by:
William Read Woodfield and Alan Balter
Director: Justus Addiss
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
The family is threatened by a
giant cyclamen plant that can crate realistic duplicates of
anything it absorbs. Soon the plant feeds on deutronium (Jupiter
2's fuel supply) and then makes an evil version of Judy
Robinson.
* This episode prominently
features the character Judy Robinson. Fantastic acting by Marta
Kristen.
Episode 15: Return
from Outer Space
(8/10)
Air Date:
29/12/1965
Written by:
Peter Packer
Director: Nathan Juran
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
Guest Stars: Rita Shaw as Aunt Clara, Walter Sande as
Sheriff Baxendale and Sheila Mathews as Ruth Templeton.
Will uses the Taurons abandoned
matter transfer unit to return to Earth, but once there the
residents of a small town in Vermont have a hard time believing
his stories of life in space.
* This episode features Irwin
Allen's future wife Sheila Mathews.
Episode 16: The
Keeper - Part 1
(9.5/10)
Air Date:
12/1/1966
Written by:
Barney Slater
Director: Sobey Martin
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
Guest Star: Michael Rennie as the Keeper
The Robinson family come upon an
evil alien zoo-keeper, whose trance-like powers can entice
exotic animals - and young humans like Will and Penny - to
follows him into captivity.
* The Keeper is the only 2 part
story in the 3 seasons of Lost in Space.
Episode 17: The
Keeper - Part 2
(9.5/10)
Air Date:
12/1/1966
Written by:
Barney Slater
Director: Harry Harris
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
Guest Star: Michael Rennie as the Keeper
Chaos reigns as the Keeper's
creatures, let loose by the Dr Smith and the Robot, overrun the
planet. The Keeper refuses to stop the animals unless the family
gives him Penny and will.
Episode 18: The
Sky Pirate
(7/10)
Air Date:
26/1/1966
Written by:
Carey Wilber
Director: Sobey Martin
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
Guest Star: Albert Salmi as Captain Tucker
The Robinsons find new hope when
they meet a marooned pirate with an interstellar vehicle capable
of returning to Earth, But their plans are foiled when a
slithering mass pursues the pirate in search of a stolen object.
* A P Tucker was 140 years old.
The Talorians picked him up
with a force ray into a flying saucer. The aliens were cruising around picking
up people all over for study. Captain Tucker was born in 1858.
The Talrians kept him him in a time freezer and bought him out at times
of study. he esacped.
Episode 19: Ghost
in Space
(8/10)
Air Date:
9/2/1966
Written by:
Peter Packer
Director: Don Richardson
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
A strange. ghost-like presence Dr
Smith conducts a séance certain the rampaging ghost is is dead
uncle Thaddeus spirit.
Episode 20: The
War of the Robots
(10/10)
Air Date:
9/2/1966
Written by:
Barney Slater
Director: Sobey Martin
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
Guest Star: Robby the Robot as the Robotoid
The family's robot is seemingly
replaced when Will repairs a robotoid from an advanced
civilization - until the new machine wreaks havoc by trying to
take over the ship.
Episode 21: The
Magic Mirror
(7/10)
Air Date:
16/2/1966
Written by:
Jackson Gillis
Director: Nathan Juran
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
Guest Star: Michael J. Pollard as the Boy
Frustrated with impending
adolescence, Penny falls into a mirror and enters a strange new
dimension. There she befriends alien boy who tells her she can
never leave Mirrorland - but she'll never grow up.
Episode 22: The
Challenge
(7.5/10)
Air Date:
2/3/1966
Written by:
Barney Slater
Director: Don Richardson
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
Guest Star: Michael Ansara as the Ruler, Kurt Russell as
Quano
A tough little alien boy and his
father attempt to prove their superiority to humans by
challenging John and Will Robinson to a test of strength and
bravery.
Episode 23: The
Space Trader
(7.5/10)
Air Date:
9/3/1966
Written by:
Barney Slater
Director: Nathan Juran
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
Guest Star: Robby the Robot as the Robotoid
Dr Smith mistakes a hard bargain
when his dealings with a space trader go awry and he finds
himself in an intergalactic contract he's unable to break.
Episode 24: His
Majesty Smith
(7.5/10)
Air Date:
16/3/1966
Written by:
Carey Wilber
Director: Harry Harris
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
Guest Star: Liam Sullivan as Nexus, Kevin Hagen as Alien
Dr Smith makes lobbies to become
king of a luxurious planet named Andronica, only to discover
he's to be used as a human sacrifice.
* I love how the alien says before
the intro sequence 'good! good!'
Episode 25: The
Space Croppers
(7/10)
Air Date:
30/3/1966
Written by:
Peter Packer
Director: Sobey Martin
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
Guest Star: Robby the Robot as the Robotoid
The Robinsons find new hope when
they meet a marooned pirate with an interstellar vehicle capable
of returning to Earth, But their plans are foiled when a
slithering mass pursues the pirate in search of a stolen object.
Episode 26: All
that Glitters
(8.5/10)
Air Date:
6/4/1966
Written by:
Barney Slater
Director: Harry Harris
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
Dr Smith discovers the dark side
of greed when he steals a magic disc that turns everything he
touches - even Penny to platinum.
Episode 27: The
Lost Civilisation
(8/10)
Air Date:
13/4/1966
Written by:
William Welch
Director: Don Richardson
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
John, Don and Will discover an
underground world of soldiers in suspended animation, waiting
for their princess to be awakened by a kiss - so so they can
take over the universe.
Episode 28: A
Change of Time
(7/10)
Air Date:
20/4/1966
Written by:
Peter Packer
Director: Sobey Martin
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
Will comes upon an alien spaceship
that takes him to the Sixth dimension, transforming him into a
boy genius. Jealous Dr Smith uses the ship as well, with very
different results.
Episode 29: Follow
the Leader
(10/10)
Air Date:
27/4/1966
Written by:
Barney Slater
Director: Don Richardson
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
The mind and soul of John Robinson
is taken over by an unseen alien spirit, forcing John to turn
against his family as he tries to take over the ship. The name
of the alien spirit was Canto.
Season 2
I only managed to do a few
episodes of season 2. I am watching the lost in space dvd
episodes. In the near future I will add the rest of the
episodes.
If you want to help me, please do.
I would like to make the descriptions of the episodes better and
add useful extra comments.
Episode 1:
Blast off Into Space
(9/10)
Writer:
Peter Packer
Director: Jerry Juran (Nathan Juran?)
Guest Star: Strother Martin
After a dramatic planet quake,
Nerim an intergalactic prospector appears and explains he has
been blasting for Cosmonium, a substance more precious than
diamonds. The mining for Cosmonium (a life giving mineral) has
left the planet unstable and has caused a chain-reaction of
earthquakes that eventually disintegrates the planet Pripalanus.
The Robinsons prepare for a quick take-off. Will and Dr Smith
reach Jupiter 2 before the planet explodes?
Comment:
This was the first episode of Lost
in Space Season 2. It was the first episode of Lost in Space in
Colour (Color). The Music is very effective and moody when the
statue becomes a Living Monument.
Episode 2: Wild
Adventure
(9.5/10)
Writers: William
Read Woodfield, Alan Balter
Director: Don Richardson
Music: Alexander Courage
Guest Star: Vitina Marcus
Dr. Smith works out the location
of Jupiter 2 in Space and uses blackmail to change course for
our Sun. Smith attempts to alter the Jupiter 2's course and
mistakenly dumps all the fuel into space. While refuelling
the Jupiter 2 at a space Service Station, Don spots a floating
figure. Athena, an alien seductress (the Green Girl) wants the Jupiter 2 deutronium
fuel for food and hypnotises Smith into space. The Robinsons
rescue Smith, but his rescue sends the space ship off course and they are again
lost in space.
Episode 3: The
Ghost Planet
(9.5/10)
Writer:
Peter Packer
Director: Nathan Juran
Music Supervision: Lionel Newman
Guest Cast: Sue England, Michael Fox
As the Jupiter 2 passes a planet,
a voice
instructs the Jupiter 2 to land on it. Smith believes its Earth.
He obeys and the aliens activate a beam that cripples and forces
the Jupiter 2 to land. The planet is inhabited by robots who
make humans their slaves. Can Dr. Smith and the crew break free
from the aliens who promise power and luxury?
Comment:
After leaving the Automatons
planet, the missiles chasing the Jupiter is really exciting to
watch and it ends with a superb cliff-hanger.
Episode 4: The
Forbidden Planet
(7/10)
Writer:
Barney Slater
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Star: Wally Cox, Janos Prohaska
Jupiter 2 crash lands on a planet
whose only inhabitants area strange little hermit and his giant
bird. Dr Smith, Will and the Robot are captured by the alien,
who plans to mobilize an army to destroy the Jupiter 2. Of
course, he has no army, as the Robinsons learn. Also, Dr. Smith
drinks an alien nectar, later realizing it is highly explosive,
and he may blow up at any time.
Comment:
The crash landing on the planet is
excellent.
Episode 5:
Space Circus
(7.5/10)
Writer:
Bob and Wanda Duncan
Director: Harry Harris
Guest Cast: James Westerfield, Melinda Fee, Harry
Varteresian, Michael Green.
A Space Circus comes to the planet and give a show for the
Robinsons. The owner learns that Will has the power to
materialize anything he wants, when assisted. He convinces Will
to run away with the circus, for the good of his family.
Comment:
The white monster looks scarey.
Episode 6: The
Prisoners of Space
(8.5/10)
Writer:
Peter Packer
Director: Nathan Juran
Guest Star: Strother Martin
An outer space court accuses the
Robinsons
Comment:
The idea of this episode is very
nice and is one of most memorable images.
Ideas I'm working as synposis of show
Man's colonization of space beyond
the stars.
alpha control
The first of what may be as many
as 10 million families per year is setting out for man's new
frontier for colonization, deep space.
Reaching out into other worlds
from our desperately overcrowded planet a series of deep space
probes have conclusively established a planet orbiting the star
Alpha Centuari as the only one within range of our technology
able to furnish the idle conditions for human existence.
For the first 5 1/2 year will be
in suspended animation and will terminate automatically at the
end of the voyage.
The Robinson family was selected
from more than 2 million volunteers.
Jupiter 2 is a culmination of
nearly 40 years of intense research and development.
An electronic elevator connects
the two floors.
The Environmental Robot
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