# Land Of The Lost (TV show) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 26, 2009, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635 "2009-05-26T01:04:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635/21 "2009-05-27T04:44:37Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > I seem to recall Holly with dark hair and enormous glasses. Was that the 90s version? Yes, that was the early 90s remake. Big budget, better make-up and F/X, not shot on videotape, and completely forgettable! Soulless, heartless, 30-minute toy commercial. The original Holly was a tom-boyish but [blond little cutie!](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.becoming.net/eie/images/285.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.becoming.net/eie/eiepics2.html&usg=__Mg2IZzTJZA0Dz7Cp30UwWyXpbyA=&h=297&w=411&sz=26&hl=en&start=6&um=1&tbnid=QdmwfsBNRI50ZM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=125&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dkathy%2Bcoleman%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DX%26um%3D1) ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635/22 "2009-05-27T13:23:07Z")
Long ago I picked up all 3 seasons on DVD and have so far gotten through season 1 with my 6-year old son. Like Doctor Who, both feature lousy special effects, but often great writing that makes it worth watching. Season 3 is a tragic abortion, and the show never got a finale that it would have benefitted from, but the journey to the end is very worthwhile. Fun fact 1: there were only 3 sleestak costumes made (not counting Enoch). Fun fact 2: former NBA great Bill Lambeer played one of the sleestaks. ---
**Author:** ![nofloyd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nofloyd/32/2870_2.png) [@nofloyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nofloyd)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635/23 "2009-05-27T14:29:14Z")
> [@DocCathode](#): > > … bits of gold among the dross. I was impressed with the ep with Holly trying to get Cha-ka to stand up to Ta. The Zarn tried to explain to her that Ta was the alpha male, he had 40 pounds on Cha-ka, and she had little chance fighting evolution. I thought the movie was a bad idea, but in a preview you can see the ‘Beware of Sleestak’ graffiti on the stones like in the show. I’m sunk, have to see it now to see what else they sprinkled in. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635/24 "2009-05-27T15:24:35Z")
I can’t believe there was a ‘Land of the Lost’ marathon and I missed it! Curses! Funny, but for all my fond memories of the show, I can’t remember the plot of a single story - just individual scenes, like how the poorly animated “Alice” the Allosaurus would always prowl at the mouth of their cave, and one of them would toss a log that would manage to lodge her jaws open - and she would stumble away from the cave with this log wedged in her gaping mouth. And ‘dopey’ the baby diplodocus. The one ‘story’ I vaguely remember was a time & space travelling obelisk that was bigger on the inside than the outside (Gosh! Where DID they get an idea like that from?) appears, Holly steps in it and is whisked away. She sees a variety of alien landscapes, and some weird hopping thing hops into the TAR-- I mean, obelisk briefly before exiting on another world. Then it brings her to modern day America, and then Holly has the dilemma - does she exit the obelisk and return to her home, or does she stay onboard, and hope it returns her to the Land of the Lost so she can be reunited with her dad & Will? ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635/25 "2009-05-27T15:49:43Z")
> [@TGWATY](#): > > …Rick Marshall, the father… I believe the new movie has caused you to conflate the original father, _Marshall_, with the ‘second’ father - _Uncle Rick_, who fell out of a fighter plane into the LotL at the same time Marshall escaped (how convenient). I think the character Rick Marshall only exists in the Ferrell movie. Speaking of David Gerrold, he wrote an episode called \*Circles \*which throws the continuity into a shredder. Basically, in that episode, Marshall, Will and Holly escape, but are replaced in a time-continuum glitch with themselves at the original time and place they came in. So, like, you always know from then on, they get out, and will get replaced by another timeline’s Marshall, Will and Holly _ad infinitum_. But they get out, so who cares? ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635/26 "2009-05-27T15:58:38Z")
…and I’m completely wrong about Rick Marshall and the edit window has expired. :o ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635/27 "2009-05-27T16:10:17Z")
> [@The New and Improved Superman](#): > > I can’t believe there was a ‘Land of the Lost’ marathon and I missed it! I think there will be another one the first weekend in June. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635/28 "2009-05-27T16:12:40Z")
> [@The New and Improved Superman](#): > > Funny, but for all my fond memories of the show, I can’t remember the plot of a single story - just individual scenes, like how the poorly animated “Alice” the Allosaurus would always prowl at the mouth of their cave, and one of them would toss a log that would manage to lodge her jaws open - and she would stumble away from the cave with this log wedged in her gaping mouth. And ‘dopey’ the baby diplodocus. Stuff I can’t believe I remember either: Usually they’d just run from Alice. The real problem was the big T-Rex, “Grumpy”. They called those sharpened logs they used to drive him away “flyswatters”. I remember the fire-breathing dimetrodon. Pretty cool, but I wished they’d had a stegosaurus somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635/29 "2009-05-27T16:52:00Z")
> [@The New and Improved Superman](#): > > . . . “Alice” the Allosaurus would always prowl at the mouth of their cave. I think only Grumpy did that. Alice stalked the Lost City. In one ep, Grumpy crossed over the chasm on the same footbridge that the Marshalls used and had it out with Alice. ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635/30 "2009-05-29T05:00:25Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I believe the new movie has caused you to conflate the original father, _Marshall_, with the ‘second’ father - _Uncle Rick_, who fell out of a fighter plane into the LotL at the same time Marshall escaped (how convenient). I think the character Rick Marshall only exists in the Ferrell movie. Few corrections: The first two seasons featured the father, **Rick Marshall** , the third (crappy) season replaced him with Uncle **Jack** , not Uncle Rick. And Uncle Jack arrived the exact same way as the original three, he went down the waterfall in a raft. There was an episode about a fighter pilot who ejected and somehow wound up parachuting down into the LOTL. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635/31 "2009-05-29T05:09:42Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > There was an episode about a fighter pilot who ejected and somehow wound up parachuting down into the LOTL. Yeah… There was one… Was it a fighter pilot? Or some sort of adventurer-pilot? Was that the one with all of the wind that was caused by an open time doorway, and the guy had to… do something… parachute into it? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635/32 "2009-05-29T05:20:20Z")
OK, [here’s the one I was thinking of](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_the_Lost_(1974_television_series)_characters_and_species#Beauregard_Jackson). > [@](#): > > Beauregard Jackson ( Ron Masak ) of Fort Worth, Texas is a hypersonic glider pilot from 20 years in Earth’s future relative to when the Marshalls became trapped in the Land of the Lost. As shown in the episode “Hurricane”, he becomes briefly trapped in the Land of the Lost when Will, tinkering with the crystal matrix table in a Pylon located high on a mountain, causes a time doorway to open high above the ground. Jackson’s glider was re-entering Earth’s atmosphere over Ecuador, returning from a routine transit between Phoenix Port and Space Station 5. His glider’s tail is suddenly severed, and the next thing he knows he is hanging from a tree by his parachute. With the help of the Marshalls, Jackson soon manages to return via the same time doorway, but the Marshalls cannot follow since Earth’s end of the time doorway is 15 miles above the ground and there is only one parachute. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635/33 "2009-05-29T06:17:59Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > **Rick Marshall** , the third (crappy) season replaced him with Uncle **Jack** , not Uncle Rick. [Uncle Jack](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0363951/) seems to be the only series regular to have had much of a career on TV outside of LOTL. ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635/34 "2009-05-29T13:11:03Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > OK, [here’s the one I was thinking of](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_the_Lost_(1974_television_series)_characters_and_species#Beauregard_Jackson). As an aside, that was one of the episodes written by **Ringworld** author, Larry Niven. There’s a neat bit about the nature of the world they are trapped in and the size of it. At the top of the mountain where they try to get the pilot back to the doorway, they look off into the distance with binoculars and see the backs of their heads. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635/35 "2009-05-29T13:15:10Z")
The 90’s version was my LotL (I didn’t know the 70’s version existed until buzz for the upcoming movie), but I decided to check out the original since the first season is on Hulu. It’s pretty fun, and William is _hot_. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635/36 "2009-05-29T17:11:56Z")
Wesley Eure’s remarks on the DVD commentaries for LOTL are hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2009, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635/37 "2009-05-29T17:14:29Z")
Can you share some? ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635/38 "2009-05-30T00:51:37Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Can you share some? Not specifically, as I don’t own the DVDs and am going by memory, but he is great at poking fun at himself–lots of self-deprecating humor–and good-naturedly at the other actors. The woman who played his sister does the commentaries with him. ---
**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635/39 "2009-05-30T03:21:17Z")
> [@The New and Improved Superman](#): > > I can’t believe there was a ‘Land of the Lost’ marathon and I missed it! Curses! > > Funny, but for all my fond memories of the show, I can’t remember the plot of a single story - just individual scenes, like how the poorly animated “Alice” the Allosaurus would always prowl at the mouth of their cave, and one of them would toss a log that would manage to lodge her jaws open - and she would stumble away from the cave with this log wedged in her gaping mouth. And ‘dopey’ the baby diplodocus. > > The one ‘story’ I vaguely remember was a time & space travelling obelisk that was bigger on the inside than the outside (Gosh! Where DID they get an idea like that from?) appears, Holly steps in it and is whisked away. She sees a variety of alien landscapes, and some weird hopping thing hops into the TAR-- I mean, obelisk briefly before exiting on another world. Then it brings her to modern day America, and then Holly has the dilemma - does she exit the obelisk and return to her home, or does she stay onboard, and hope it returns her to the Land of the Lost so she can be reunited with her dad & Will? Relax… The first season is on [HULU.com](http://HULU.com). ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2009, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635/40 "2009-05-30T21:01:55Z")
Just a note about the use of SF writers–David Gerrold, in particular. Gerrold has claimed that he basically created the show, himself, but did not seek credit. He says he was given a poster board with images of cavemen, dinosaurs, a jungle girl (never used) etc., and told to make something of it. Sir Rhosis [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/land-of-the-lost-tv-show/497635.md?page=3)