I grew up in NYC, so it was in syndication for many years there.
I’m 64. And you?
A couple years older. Probably just a little too old for Lost in Space when it was on.
All I know from LiS is “Danger Will Robinson!” (if that is even the correct quote.)
I think I’m more familiar with Cooder’s soundtrack work that with his actual records. Though I imagine I did hear his cover of “Get Rhythm” before I was familiar with his scores. He actually came to speak about scoring to my film school class; he asked them to screen the first reel of Southern Comfort and then all of Paris, Texas before the Q&A as he felt those two compositions were the most representative of his work. I’m also partial to the scores for Johnny Handsome and The End of Violence.
I never meant to imply she’s unknown. I was just thinking that because she’s American and well known in the UK someone there might assume she must be as well known in her own country.
The only reason I know of John Prine is because Jimmy Buffett mentioned him in one of his live albums. He’s not well enough known for me to be surprised if I asked someone if they knew who he was and they didn’t. Now if someone didn’t know who Jimmy Buffett was, I’d be surprised. But not John Prine.
FWIW I had to correct his name because my autocorrect kept wanting to change his name from Prine to Price. He’s obscure enough so that the autocorrect on my MacBook doesn’t know who he is 
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I’m 63. In its first run, I thought LiS was about as exciting, scary, and fascinating as a show could be. When I watched it as an adult, I could perhaps see some of its kitschy value, but, man, were the production values shitty and the plots ridiculous.
“Moisture! I need moisture!”
So…an American Doctor Who?
Yes, I do believe a 6-year-old would’ve enjoyed it more than an 8- or 9-year-old.
Not as clever. Plus, Doctor Who’s villains and monsters were actually scary.
I was 11 when Lost In Space aired, it was “must see TV” for my brother and I along with Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, The Wild Wild West, Jonny Quest and Green Acres. They may have been hokey, but for kids growing up in that era, it was a golden age of TV full of sci-fi, adventure and comedy.
OK, that is obscure… but I’m guessing that’s from the LiS episode with the giant vegetables/aliens.
Yup. I also watched those shows. Definitely a generational thing.
I’m familiar with nearly all of Cooder’s recordings, and my favorite by far is his soundtrack for Long Riders (1980). Ry and David Lindley’s best collaboration, one of my five favorite movie soundtracks.
I’ll stick my neck out and mention Bob Brozman, an astonishingly great guitarist and musicologist who never achieved the fame he should have. Happens that way sometimes.
Sticking my neck out because he’s been pretty much disappeared after the controversy surrounding his 2013 suicide.
Irwin Allen’s movies before TV’s LiS (“Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” “The Lost World” and the like) were kitschy and juvenile but they were serious and had good actors in them, as were his later movies (“The Poseidon Adventure” and “The Towering Inferno”). “Lost in Space” started out serious but after the first season degenerated into sheer goofiness. The Dr. Smith character wasn’t supposed to continue, as I recall, but became so popular as this comic villain that they kept him on.
I saw Jonathan Harris at a movie memorabilia show years ago. He was signing autographs and joyfully interacting with people. He was quite the character and clearly enjoyed being there and meeting his fans.
Never heard of him. And I’ve been pretty interested in music for sometime, currently play music with various groups, discuss music often and even know 2 musicologists.
Those were such a solid part of my childhood, as they were in regular rotation on “Family Classics” on Sunday afternoons.
Yep, The Great Vegetable Rebellion, arguably the worst episode of the entire series.