I saw an episode of this dreadful TV show-it is essentially a fantasy series-very little SciFi about it. The one I saw featured Dr. Smith and the boy getting shanghied aboard a spaceship (commanded by an admiral in 18th century dress). How this admiral came upon the family on an unknown planet is anybodie’s guess.
But anyway-how did the series end? Did they get back to earth?
What happened to Dr. Smith?
Hey, at least those velour clothes were cool:D
The series was dropped with no resolution.
I was about to say the same thing. I found an episode guide on Wikipedia that gives a bit more detail. It says that a fourth season was planned, but that the show was then canceled after the third season finale was shot.
That’s actually how I remember most TV shows being done in that era. There were no storylines spanning multiple episodes; each one had to be self-contained and no matter what happened the characters would end up just about where they started. And it was rare for a show to do a final episode that offered any resolution.
Apropos of nothing, a poker buddy piped up in the middle of our last game, “Doctor Smith!” “Huh?” said we. “The first openly gay, or at least over-the-top effeminate character on TV!” And then he bet a couple of bucks on an inside straight, and we moved on to the next topic. But I later brought up the fact that I absolutely loved Lost In Space as a kid (I mean, it had the guy who used to be Zorro as the dad!). And then I brought up Paul Lynde as Uncle Arthur on Bewitched, but we weren’t sure who was on screen first.
Okay, I guess this is apropos of nothing, too.
DEATH!
The same as every other story.
I actually did enjoy the show but I’m sure Penny and Judy had a lot to do with that reason. That being said, the final episode was called “The Great Vegetable Rebellion” about a man-like carrot that attacks Dr. Smith. It’s considered one of the worst episodes of the series.
Wasn’t Snagglepuss kind of light in the loafers?
Only if you stipulate fictional character. Liberace had his own TV series in the early '50s.
Didn’t Charles Nelson Reilly beat Lynde to the airwaves with all of his “What’s My Line?” and “Match Game” appearances?
In the 50s version of The Thing, the creature was more akin to vegetable matter. One of the characters says something like: “A walking carrot?”
As a young child, this traumatized me for many years against being able to eat carrots. Or brussel sprouts.
@NoClueBoy: Actually the TASTE of brussel sprouts traumatized me enough to avoid them.
Bugs Bunny would dress up like a woman and kiss Elmer Fudd. Would that be the first bestial relationship portrayed in film? Or does Disney’s Fantasia have Bugs beat?
An accomplishment in its own right, given the competing candidates.
His earliest Match Game appearances were in the 70’s. He did appear on What’s My Line once in 1964, but by that time, he had already guested on *The Patty Duke Show, The Farmer’s Daughter, *and Car 54, Where Are You?.
But LiS did have episode-spanning stories. E.g., starting with Season 2 they had to flee their current exploding planet, encountered some odd stuff in space, landed on another planet, etc. Since the show relied on some elements of old movie serials, cliff hangars at the end of episodes did happen, esp. in Season 1.
Next to last episode. The actual last one was “Junkyard in Space”.
Few television shows back then ended with resolution. “The Fugitive” in 1967 with the two parter where Dr Kimble is finally cleared, is an exception. When you consider the huge ratings that got, I wonder what took television so long to make “final episodes” into a huge, must see event. Perhaps decisions to renew or not were made after filming was stopped for a particular season.
This video reveals what happens:Lost in Space…Forever! 
Liberace was gay? Wow, the ladies loved him! 
The previous poster had said openly gay, which Liberace was not publicly in the 50’s.
I woulda thought of it as revenge on the evil aliens…
FWIW, Jonathan Harris married his high school sweetheart in 1938 and they remained together until his death in 2002.