I loved (and still love) Lost in Space but some episodes in the final season were just silly. I think the most stupid episode was The Great Vegetable Rebellion, every time I watch it I laugh it's so funny, that big talking carrot is just hularious and the plants that scream with pain every time that John and Don cut them, and also when Dr Smith latches onto a tree and becomes a plant with fruit on his head.
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Yes and Smith's little song/poem is a classic
Do you ken Dr Smith in his coat so gay
Do you ken Dr Smith at the break of day
Do you ken Dr Smith when he's far far away
With his beans and his peas in the morning
Mutiny In Space & the viking episode are easily the worst. TGVR was the best camp ep of the lot.
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Space Vikings is one of my least favorite episodes, but I always get a laugh out of the comedic walk that Dr. Smith does past the cave entrance in Valhalla. Also, the actor playing Thor makes it a little too obvious that he knows exactly where the glove is under the animal skins, but doesn't want to 'find' it until he's actually supposed to.
shareThat's interesting about Sheila Mathews because on The Poseidon Adventure commentary they say that they met on the set of that. Obviously not. Maybe they didn't become involved till that movie.
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The Questing Beast and Castles in Space are pretty bad too.
shareYep - The Questing Beast is silly because of that terrible dragon suit, but it's got some great messages and morals in the story, whereas The Great Vegetable Rebellion has got some, well, great veggies in it.
http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Shaw/e/B0077EBQWI/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?q id=1329846290&sr=8-1
Curse of Cousin Smith
How stupid was that episode?
How did Dr Smith's cousin get involved with aliens in the first place?
How did he know where to find Zachary when no one knows where they are?
Where did he disappear to after this episode?
Really bad.
If cousin Smith somehow learned tough some contacts with extraterrestrials that Zachary. Smith was lost on a specific planet in another solar system, why bother going to that planet to kill Zachary?
Why no just assume Zachary Smith could probably never get back and then claim the inheritance when Dr. Smith was declared legally dead in seven years?
Why risk getting lost in space himself?
Space vikings has a special memory for me.
As a kid, my dad never laughed. then one day watching this episode, my dad starts laughing. Smith was getting water out of the rock (spongue).
So, that will always be a special memory for me.
I am glad you have that special memory of your Dad. Ernest T. Bass of the Andy Griffith show made my mom laugh til she cried. Also, comments she made about Twilight Zone stick in my memory from childhood.
shareThe entire series lost its shine for me when, even as a kid, I realized that there is **no place to get lost between Sol and Alpha (actually Proxima) Centauri**! Once you leave the solar system heading in that direction, the Earth's sun becomes the brightest star in the constellation Cassiopea and it would be possible to navigate by line of sight.
share<<<The entire series lost its shine for me when, even as a kid, I realized that there is **no place to get lost between Sol and Alpha (actually Proxima) Centauri**! Once you leave the solar system heading in that direction, the Earth's sun becomes the brightest star in the constellation Cassiopea and it would be possible to navigate by line of sight.
They were thrown entirely off course and out of the solar system when Dr. Smith and The Robot tried to completely destroy the Jupiter 2 in the very first episode.
They ended up at that time where they were not even able to locate either our solar system or the alpha centauri solar system.
Two Weeks In Space, with Friz Feld and Edy Williams, to me is one of the alltime worst.
As slapstick with characters running a hotel, fine, but for an episode involving being in outer space, it was inexcusable.
Gilligan's Island never even approached this depth.
"Gilligan, what are you doing?"
"I'm building extra huts for guests in case any friendly natives drop by, so I can go into the motel business. Neat, huh, Skipper?"
Actually, it would have worked on Gilligan's Island, cuz they were on an island, gilligan could wander off and do as he pleased with no effects on the others, and Gilligan was that stupid.
While Smith could be that stupid, he was supposed to be the man who gave the Robinsons their medical checkup when they went into outer space! Why would he suddenly want to manage a hotel?
At least Vegetable Rebellion had aspects of wayward encounters with aliens.
What sort of 'tourists' did Smith think he would get in Two Weeks In Space?
Travelers from Hoboken?
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Yes it did. Just take a look at this. Gilligan's Island completely copied Lost in Space. Then again, maybe that's just because both shows were based on The Swiss Family Robinson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sGOfWP2bWk
"Gilligan, what are you doing?"
<<<"I'm building extra huts for guests in case any friendly natives drop by, so I can go into the motel business. Neat, huh, Skipper?"
Gilligan did go into the hotel business as this second link proves (and had to fight the Robot also.):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2-Xq6NuwY0
I grew up watching LIS and have recently been watching some episodes on Hulu, including the Great Veggie Rebellion. I'm also a Doctor Who fan so all I could think about when the giant carrot was moisturizing himself was Cassandra ordering that she be moisturized.
BTW, one observation I had was regarding what the plants were actually saying when they were being hacked to death by a machete. If you start to think about it the notion really can become a bit disturbing.
The idea was ahead of it;s time. I remember in the 70's hearing about the possibility plants having feelings which they probably do
shareI would have to agree with the person who said "Two Weeks In Space".
I just watched that the other day (handn't seen it in over a decade). The whole idea was just so rediculous. And where did Smith get that old fashioned cash register for his make-shift "front desk"??????????????? When I saw that big old thing I just about fell out of the chair! One of the most brainless episodes FOR SURE!
With that said, I still like it :). It has some very funny moments too (like the female alien coming on to Dr. Smith, to name one). And, I remember one scene that actually scared me (a little bit) when I was a kid: When the alien comes into Will's room, and he's hiding in the closet. Very suspenceful for a first-grader.
I guess I'm just another helpless LIS fan!
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Dumb as it is, "The Curse of Cousin Smith" seems as though it may have been loosely "lifted" from the 1949 Alec Guinness comedy "Kind Hearts and Coronets." That film concerns a man who is killing all of his relatives (all played by Alec Guinness) who stand in his way of inheriting the family fortune. This is pretty much what Jeremiah Smith has been doing (as back story) and now he's after his cousin Zachary. I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that it is even implied that Dr. Smith may have been doing the same thing ("offing" his relatives).
Of course, then it all turns into some weird, organized crime, gambling machine thing featuring the disembodied voice of Allan Melvin (?) doing a Sheldon Leonard impersonation (at least that's what it sounds like to me).
[Can it be just a coincidence that Allan Melvin shows up in "West of Mars," the episode that aired just after "The Curse of Cousin Smith?"]
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Judy West - we must be related somehow :)
The same thing used to scare me. When the lazer-gun was sticking out of the gambling machine, then it started pointing at the men to pay, then it started "rolling" after them. Love it!
This was another of my faves as a kid. And of course, the episode makes no sense. Smith's cousin was able to do what Alpha Control was not, and that is- find the Robinsons (and Smith).
I get a big chuckle at the beggining of the episode, when Smith first sees his cousin. One might expect a reaction like, "OMG, I can't believe it! Someone from earth has found us! And- its even my own relative! But instead, we just get Smith's trademark "scream of horror". :)
Fun episode for sure!
There was an episode of The Twilight Zone in which a compulsive gambler was physically pursued by a slot machine. ("Just when I think I'm out, they keep pulling me back in!") Sounds similar. (Must be "The Fever", first broadcast 29 January 1960.)
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Just watched "The Galaxy Gift" and found it pretty awful.
Worst episode(s) for me were the one when they got to the planet they thought was Earth but had all those teenage aliens "The Promised Planet." I thought that was a bit of a stinker.
The one with the toymaker was another of my pet hates.
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