I recently found a free source for all of the Lost in Space episodes, the real thing from the 60s, not that fake modern stuff. I have watched a few random episode but I decided the only proper way to do this is to watch every single episode beginning with season 1, episode 1. I will begin tonight or tomorrow morning. In the process, I have a few questions about the series that I will try to find the answer to:
Does the character Judy Robinson serve any literary purpose other than eye candy? I saw a recent photograph of Marta Kristen today and she is still hot.
Are the robot and Dr. Smith secret lovers (off camera)? They sure sound like an old married couple.
How did they get all that stuff into the Jupiter 2 and still have plenty of room to walk around?
Did Major West ever do Judy?
Does anyone else have any questions about Lost in Space that have been bothering them for the last 55 years? If so, post them and I will seek the answers.
Hopefully, your source includes the original pilot episode–no Robot, no Dr. Smith, the ship is the Gemini 12, lotsa different stuff. If you wasted a HUGE chunk of your formative years (as I did), you’ll see how Mr. Frugal (Irwin Allen) chopped up this epi and used it in several episodes throughout the season.
It sounds like an excellent project. If you are willing to do it I have a request.
I am sure that during one watching of an episode the Robot gave his full technical designation. I cant remember what he said or who he was talking to, but my vague recollection is that it formed an acronym that worked as a name [I’m thinking LUTHER but not sure]. Sadly, it was in the olden days when you couldn’t look this sort of stuff up online or immediately wind back time.
Can’t find anything on the internet, but was it what we now would call an Easter egg or the feverish dreams of a pimply adolescent?
Robot (Lost in Space ) The Class M3 Model B9 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot , also known simply as the M3-B9 G.U.N.T.E.R., is a fictional character in the television series Lost in Space.
Robot (Lost in Space ) The Class M3 Model B9 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot , also known simply as the M3-B9 G.U.N.T.E.R., is a fictional character in the television series Lost in Space.
Well, that took all of 17 seconds from someone who knew what they were doing. Much appreciated, Wallet.
Of course not. It was 1965 and they weren’t married. Even married people rarely had sex more than once back then. A woman who had sex three times would surely die leaving her husband to raise the three kids by himself.
Why did the robot go from being an amazing object of terror (to my 8 year old self) in that first episode, to being a ham handed robotic clown in subsequent episodes?
Same reason Dr. Smith went from an enemy agent who aimed to kill the Robinsons to a buffoon whose main purpose was to lob insults at the Robot. I saw a one man show on YouTube that Jonathan Harris did in (I think) Sydney. He told the audience that he used to lie awake at night thinking of new insults.
As to the characters:
Throughout season 1 West & Judy were getting increasingly romantic. Then in season 2+ the writers drove the show away from that. Probably because they realized real soon they’d have to confront all the consequences that 1960s prime time TV couldn’t deal with.
As to the actors:
When the show began Kristen was 20 and Goddard was 29. We can assume he would’ve been all over that if the opportunity presented itself. Did it? Hellifino.
Robots in American Popular Culture, extremely readable despite the academic title. Board rules say I can’t link to it, but a search will bring it up along with the companion website of the same name.
Irwin Allen realized that adults were fleeing the idiotic show but that kids were drawn to it, so he completely revamped the supposedly serious parts and made it a silly comedy. The other adults who were told they’d be the stars were not happy.
