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Lost in Space - The Complete First Season
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Genre | Science Fiction |
Format | Box set, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Black & White, Full Screen |
Contributor | Jonathan Harris, Fred Crane, Alexander Singer, Tom Allen, Bob May, Mark Goddard, Harry Harris, June Lockhart, Anton Leader, Jus Addiss, Don Richardson, Angela Cartwright, Leonard Horn, Marta Kristen, Guy Williams, Bill Mumy, Brett Parker, Leo Penn, Alvin Ganzer, Don Forbes See more |
Language | English, Spanish |
Number Of Discs | 1 |
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Season 1 of the 1965 sci-fi favorite.
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Lost in Space began life in 1965 as a science-fiction take on The Swiss Family Robinson. Produced by Irwin Allen, then in the midst of his run of spectacular-but-childish TV sci-fi (before he became the master of big-screen disaster movies), the show featured a family of all-American space colonists cast away on a mysterious planet. Gradually the whole thing devolved into a silly (but sometimes fun) exercise in childish camp. This boxed set includes all 29 black and white episodes from the first season (with a burst of color at the end of the last show--a foretaste of the garish look of the remaining two seasons) along with "No Place to Hide," the expensive pilot show that sold the series but prompted Allen to revamp the whole premise in comic mode when network execs responded best to its unintended humor.
"No Place to Hide" has action scenes that cropped up in the first six regular episodes but is missing several of the show's trademark aspects, most notably that infectious theme from Johnny Williams (later, John Williams of Star Wars fame) and the scheming presence of Dr. Smith (Jonathan Harris) and his alternately menacing and comical robot ("It does not compute"). As the series progresses (or degenerates, depending on your taste), Harris's Smith changes from pantomime villain, a saboteur who is trying to kill the family, into pantomime idiot whose foolishness, cowardice, and avarice are an endless source of plots. It mostly makes do with the regular cast plus an array of shaggy-suited, snarling aliens, but you do get sterling ham from visiting astronauts such as Warren Oates ("Welcome Stranger"), Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet ("War of the Robots"), and a very young Kurt Russell ("The Challenge"). Stories about surviving on an alien world give way to lifts from fairy tale, myth, and old movies as Smith gets hold of a wishing cap, becomes a giant, is chosen as a sacrificial king, turns the children over to an alien zoo, squeaks in fright as a werewolf approaches, or is cursed with a platinum Midas touch. --Kim Newman
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches; 1.15 Pounds
- Item model number : 19089888841
- Director : Alexander Singer, Alvin Ganzer, Anton Leader, Don Richardson, Harry Harris
- Media Format : Box set, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Black & White, Full Screen
- Run time : 23 hours and 41 minutes
- Release date : January 13, 2004
- Actors : Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen, Bill Mumy
- Dubbed: : French, Spanish
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 1.0), Spanish (Dolby Digital 1.0)
- Studio : 20th Century Fox
- ASIN : B0000DC3VM
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #69,210 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,559 in Science Fiction DVDs
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As the season progressed, the stories became more centered on entertaining the children, rather than the adults. The 2nd and 3rd seasons continued to follow this trend. Part was because Jonathan Harris, who portrayed Dr. Smith was fearing he would soon be unemployed, as was the fate of most villains. Thus, he made his own changes to the scripts, which were fine with producer Irwin Allen, and the serious science fiction drama gradually gave way to silliness. Moreover, a few weeks after the series began, ABC premiered BATMAN on Wednesday and Thursday nights at 7:30 to 8. It seems that a competition on which series could be sillier than the other began.
Before I started watching the series, I began reading Irwin Allen's Lost in Space Volume 1: The Authorized Biography of a Classic Sci-Fi Series” by Marc Cushman; it contained very much information on the series, episodes, actors, directors, etc., and I would read a chapter then watch the episode described by the chapter. Note that the previous paragraph was largely inspired by this book.
I found the video quality very good, and was expecting the 4 by 3 aspect ratio which I remembered from childhood, this was the case with this streaming video. The audio was also very good. Closed captions were available, but generally not needed. I read that a recent DVD of this series had chopped off the bottom of the screens to give the appearance of widescreen. I much prefer 4 by 3, in any of those old shows or films.
It would have been nice if I could have bought the season with just one click, but had to purchase individual episodes instead.
Also, would have been nice to have the pilot film included. It was not.
Overall, I am very satisfied with this 1st season on Amazon Prime streaming.
Season 1 opens with 5 dramatic and suspenseful episodes that rival some of the best sci fi / adventure stories out there. While this isn't "good" science, it is fun. Lost in Space rarely, if at all, came close to the adventure and true danger shown in the first 5 episodes of season 1. They go from nearly being killed in an asteroid belt, to almost destroyed by the Robot and ultimately fighting the elements on a strange planet. I won't go in the "science" of the show because it wasn't good and logic and continuity (what happened to the dog they found?!?!) were not closely followed. This show was about a close family and their adventures in outer space. Period.
Lost in Space started out as a serious survival story and most of the first season deals with that. Despite a road bump with "Welcome, Stranger", the first half of Season 1 was very dramatic in its impact. The family had to find food, shelter, water at the same time as battling the unknown and sometimes hostile creatures. Then, the show takes a lurching turn with The Sky Pirate and rarely looks back. From that point on, the main focus of the show was "comedic villain" of the week and how Will, Smith and the Robot deal with the issue with Dad coming to the rescue most of the time.
Despite the format change, the remaining first season episodes still had a lot of charm and excitement to them. "All that Glitters" shows a remorseful side of Smith that we rarely see. "Follow the Leader" is one of the best "alien possession" episodes of the series. And the "Magic Mirror" has a very surreal mood that the series never approached again.
The cast was generally consistent in their performances. Guy Williams was solid, Angela Cartwright (when given a good story) could melt your heart, and June Lockheart was one of the best TV moms. Who know that Jonathan Harris' Dr. Smith would become one of the most memorable characters in television history?
Season 1 doesn't feature anything in the way of interesting extras. We do get the unaired pilot which is only interesting in the fact it has no Robot or Dr. Smith. The rest of that pilot was cut into most of the first 5 episodes. The back and white quality of the DVD's is crisp and excellent.
Lost in Space will always have a place in my heart. Each season of the show had its own unique personality. Season 1 was about survival and adjustment to their situation and it is the very best of the three season series.
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Although I'm a fan of the orginal Lost In Space, this remake is so much better.
"No Place to Hide" has action scenes that cropped up in the first six regular episodes but is missing several of the show's trademark aspects, most notably that infectious theme from Johnny Williams (later, John Williams of Star Wars fame) and the scheming presence of Dr. Smith (Jonathan Harris) and his alternately menacing and comical robot ("It does not compute"). As the series progresses (or degenerates, depending on your taste), Harris's Smith changes from pantomime villain, a saboteur who is trying to kill the family, into pantomime idiot whose foolishness, cowardice, and avarice are an endless source of plots. It mostly makes do with the regular cast plus an array of shaggy-suited, snarling aliens, but you do get sterling ham from visiting astronauts such as Warren Oates ("Welcome Stranger"), Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet ("War of the Robots"), and a very young Kurt Russell ("The Challenge"). Stories about surviving on an alien world give way to lifts from fairy tale, myth, and old movies as Smith gets hold of a wishing cap, becomes a giant, is chosen as a sacrificial king, turns the children over to an alien zoo, squeaks in fright as a werewolf approaches, or is cursed with a platinum Midas touch.
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Season 1 of the 1965 sci-fi favorite.
Disc #1 -- Episode 1-4
-The Reluctant Stowaway
-The Derelict
-Island in the Sky
-There Were Giants in the Earth
Disc #2 -- Episode 5-8
-The Hungry Sea
-Welcome Stranger
-My Friend, Mr. Nobody
-Invaders From the Fifth Dimension
Disc #3 -- Episode 9-12
-The Oasis
-The Sky Is Falling
-Wish Upon a Star
-The Raft
Disc #4 -- Episode 13-16
-One of Our Dogs Is Missing
-Attack of the Monster Plants
-Return From Outer Space
-The Keeper, Part 1
Disc #5 -- Episode 17-20
-The Keeper, Part 2
-The Sky Pirate
-Ghost in Space
-The War of the Robots
Disc #6 -- Episode 21-24
-The Magic Mirror
-The Challenge
-The Space Trader
-His Majesty Smith
Disc #7 -- Episode 25-28
-The Space Croppers
-All That Glitters
-The Lost Civilization
-A Change of Space
Disc #8 -- Episode 29 & Unaired Pilot "No Place to Hide"
-Follow the Leader
-No Place to Hide (UnAired Pilot)