It was my mom's favorite show to watch when she was growing up. She still watches the repeats often. I actually watched some of it(she asked me to)and it's actually quite good! Did anyone grow up in the 60s like my mother and watch Lost in Space? Share your memories with moi!

When my mom stayed with me after my surgeries, she would watch that sometimes. It was on my dish Saturday nights. She said she watched it as a kid.

Yes, watched it in it's original day. The first season (The black & white one) is the one to watch. That's when it was still serious. It later turned campy, to compete with "Batman".

I use to watch "Lost In Space" in the days of black and white, and have not seen any repeats for those original series. I heard that the 1998 feature film was not liked among the critics.

Yes, watched it in it's original day. The first season (The black & white one) is the one to watch. That's when it was still serious. It later turned campy, to compete with "Batman".


My mother said the same thing! The black & white episodes were the best ones. But she did watch them in color too.


I use to watch "Lost In Space" in the days of black and white, and have not seen any repeats for those original series. I heard that the 1998 feature film was not liked among the critics.


I remember the film, but I didn't really care for it.

Yes I watched it, Penny was kinds cute :)
It wasn't a show I watched every week, Dr. Smith was annoying, lol

I watched Lost In Space all the time as a kid!  It was a favorite - albeit a bit over my head in the beginning, considering I was only 5 or 6 then.  Nonetheless I always wanted to watch it.  I haven't caught it much in reruns, though.

Yes, watched it in it's original day. The first season (The black & white one) is the one to watch. That's when it was still serious. It later turned campy, to compete with "Batman".
BTW, I enjoyed "Batman" too!

When did they get cancelled?

When did they get cancelled?


A quick look as something called Google would have told you 1968.

When did they get cancelled?

A quick look as something called Google would have told you 1968.
Wiki:
"In early 1968, while the final third-season episode "Junkyard in Space" was in production, the cast and crew were informally led to believe the series would return for a fourth season. Allen had ordered new scripts for the coming season. A few weeks later, however, CBS announced the list of returning television series for the 1968–69 season, and Lost in Space was not included. CBS executives failed to offer any reasons why Lost in Space was cancelled. The most likely reason the show was cancelled was its increasingly high cost. The cost per episode had grown from $130,980 during the first season to $164,788 during the third season, and the actors' salaries nearly doubled during that time."

Wiki:
"In early 1968, while the final third-season episode "Junkyard in Space" was in production, the cast and crew were informally led to believe the series would return for a fourth season. Allen had ordered new scripts for the coming season. A few weeks later, however, CBS announced the list of returning television series for the 1968–69 season, and Lost in Space was not included. CBS executives failed to offer any reasons why Lost in Space was cancelled. The most likely reason the show was cancelled was its increasingly high cost. The cost per episode had grown from $130,980 during the first season to $164,788 during the third season, and the actors' salaries nearly doubled during that time."


You're making it too complicated. All Howard had to see was the very first sentence. It would have taken a matter of seconds:

Lost in Space is an American science fiction television series, created and produced by Irwin Allen, which originally aired between 1965 and 1968 on CBS.

It was my favorite show in 1st grade. We used to "play" it at recess and I ALWAYS had to be Penny.  One time I was Judy and I wasn't happy about it.

I've hadn't seen it in decades and I don't think I could stomach it now.

"Warning, warning Will Robinson!"
"You ninny!"


Cat

"Warning, warning Will Robinson!"
"You ninny!"

Cat


One of the thing's that Dr. Smith is well known for is his insults. Here is a (partial) list of Dr. Smith's insults for the Robot. Jonathan Harris, who played Dr. Smith, came up with most of these himself.

Adelphated Armor Bearer
Adelphated Amateur
Aluminum Canary
Animated Weather Station
Arrogant Automation
As Protective as a Leaky Umbrella
Assassin
Astigmatic Automation
Automated Oaf
Babbling Birdbrain
Babbling Bumpkin
Bellicose Bumpkin
Big Mouth
Blithering Blatherskite
Blithering Booby
Blithering Bumpkin
Blundering Bag of Bolts
Booby
Book-Making Booby
Broken-down Has Been
Brutish Product of the Mineral World Bubble Brain
Bubble-Headed Booby
Bubble-Head
Bulbous Bumpkin
Bumbling Bag of Bolts
Bumbling Birdbrain
Bumbling Booby
Bumbling Bucket of Bolts
Bumbling Cracker Barrel
Bumptious Booby
Bumptious Braggart
Bungler
Bungling Incompetent
Cackling Cacophony
Cackling Canister
Cackling Clod
Cackling Cookoo
Cackling Coward
Cantankerous Clod
Cantankerous, Cold-Hearted Clod
Caterwauling Clod
Cautious Clump
Chattering Magpie
Clanking Clod
Clod
Clod-Like Collection of Condensors
Clumsy Clod
Clumsy Clump
Clumsy Cloot
Complete Moron
Computerized Clod
Computerized Clump
Confused Compass
Coward
Cowardly Clump
Cumbersome Clod
Cumbersome Clump
Cybernetic Simpleton
Cybernetic Skeptic
Defective Detective
Dehumanized Lie Dispernser
Demented Diode
Deplorable Dummy
Deplorable Dunderhead
Digitized Dunce
Dippity Dunce
Disreputable Dunce
Disreputable Dunderhead
Doddering Dunderhead
Dr. Dunderhead
Dunce
Dunderhead
Dundering Dolt
Evasive Coward
Ferrous Frankenstein
Fiend in Tin Clothing
Floundering Flunky
Fool
Foolish Fop
Frightful Fractious Frump
Frozen Eskimo
Fugitive from a Junkheap
Fugitive from a Junkyard
Fugitive from a Scrap Heap
Fugitive from a Scrap Metal Yard
Galumphing Gargoyle
Gargantuan Goose
Garrulous Gargoyle
Ghoul
Gigantic Gargoyle
Gregarious Gremlin
Hard-headed Harbinger of Death
Hard-headed Harbinger of Evil
Hardware Hyena
Hopeless Heap of Tainted Tin
Hulking Mass of Mechanical Ignorance
Hypertensive Hypochondriac
Idiot Ignominious Ignoramous
Ill-Informed Ignoramous
Impersonal Collection of Inanimate Hardware
Incompetent Idiot
Incompetent Imbecile
Incompetent, Moronic Lump
Incompetent Walking Ingrate
Ineffective Ineptitude
Inept Goldbricker
Inept Idiot
Infamous Informer
Ingot of Ingratitude
Ingrate
Insensitive Brute
Insensitive Idiot
Insensitive Machine
Insipid Ineptitude
Iron-born Ingrate
Irresponsible Wine Bever
Jabbering Jackenapse
Jabbering Jeremiah
Jabbering Judas
Judas
Juvenile Junkpile
Klunker
Know-nothing Numskull
Lagert
Lamebrained Lump
Lead-lined Lothario
Lead-lined Lump
Lilly-Livered, Lead-Lined Lump
Lilly-Livered Lump
Little Mother
Ludicrous Lump
Lugubrious Lagert
Lugubrious Lump
Malicious Moron
Mass of Fear
Mealymouthed Rogue
Mechanical Dunderhead
Mechanical Meddler
Mechanical Misfit
Mechanical Murderer
Meddler
Medical School Dropout
Mediocre Misfit
Mess of Metal
Metallic Ham
Metallic Monstrosity
Metallic Murderer
Miserable Mass of Metal
Miserable Mechanism
Misguided, Mechanical Misery
Misshapen Mummy
Monster
Monstrous, Mechanized, Misguided Moron
Monstrous, Metallurgical Meddler
Monstrous Mountebank
Mr. Wrongway Computer
Mumbling Mass of Metal
My Brave Hero
My Insensitive Friend
Mynah Bird
Nattering Ninny
Neanderthal Ninny
Negligent Ninny
Nervous Ninny
Nickel-plated Nincompoop
Nickering Ninny
Nincompoop
Ninny
Nondescript Ninny
Noxious Ninny
Obsolete Oaf
Obsolete Piece of Scrap Metal
Old Booby
Overcautious Concoction
Overgrown Ninny
Oversized Oaf
Parsimonious Puppet
Pathetic Pomposity
Pitiable Pipsqueak
Plasticized Parrot
Pompous Pipsqueak
Pot-Bellied Prankster
Pot-Bellied Pumpkin
Powered Prankster
Preening Popingee
Presumptuous Pipsqueak
Presumptuous Popinjay
Pretentious Popinjay
Primitive Pile of Pistons
Proverbial Neanderthal Ninny
Puny Pipsqueak
Pusillanimous Pipsqueak
Pusillanimous Puppet
Puselous Tyrant
Pedagogical Pipsqueak
Ramshackled Romeo
Real Great Goose
Ridiculous Robot
Ridiculous Roustabout
Ridiculous Ruer
Robust Rockhound
Roly-poly Rowdy
Sanctimonious Scatterbrain
Scurrilous Scatterbrain
Sententious Sloth
Sickening Cybernetic
Silent Sentinel
Silly Goose
Silly Old Ninny
Silly Sausage
Silly Sloth
Silly-Looking Bucket of Bolts (delivered by Zeno, "West of Mars")
Silver-Plated Sellout
Simple Simon
Snickering Cinderbox
Sorry Specimen of Computerhood
Steely-Eyed Sorcerer
Stupid Friend
Stubborn Clatterbrain
Tarnished Trumpet
Tattletale
Terrified Mechanical Dunderhead
Tin Monster (delivered by Don, "The Hungry Sea")
Tin-Plated Fool
Tin-Plated Fraud
Tin-Plated Snitch
Tin-Plated Tattletale
Tin-Plated Tintinnabulation
Tin-Plated Traitor
Tin-Plated Tyrant
Tintinnabulating Tin Can
Tiresome Thesaurus
Traitor
Traitorous Electronic Junk Pile
Traitorous Tintinnabulation
Traitorous, Tin-Plated Fugitive from a Junkyard
Traitorous, Transistorized Toad
Treasonous Tyrant
Unctuous Underling
Uncultured Clump
Ungrateful Underling
Ungrateful Wretch
Unspeakable Insult
Weakling
Worrywart
Worthless, Electronic Scrapheap
Wretch

One of the thing's that Dr. Smith is well known for is his insults. Here is a (partial) list of Dr. Smith's insults for the Robot. Jonathan Harris, who played Dr. Smith, came up with most of these himself.

Adelphated Armor Bearer
Adelphated Amateur
Aluminum Canary
Animated Weather Station
Arrogant Automation
As Protective as a Leaky Umbrella
Assassin
Astigmatic Automation
Automated Oaf
Babbling Birdbrain
Babbling Bumpkin
Bellicose Bumpkin
Big Mouth
Blithering Blatherskite
Blithering Booby
Blithering Bumpkin
Blundering Bag of Bolts
Booby
Book-Making Booby
Broken-down Has Been
Brutish Product of the Mineral World Bubble Brain
Bubble-Headed Booby
Bubble-Head
Bulbous Bumpkin
Bumbling Bag of Bolts
Bumbling Birdbrain
Bumbling Booby
Bumbling Bucket of Bolts
Bumbling Cracker Barrel
Bumptious Booby
Bumptious Braggart
Bungler
Bungling Incompetent
Cackling Cacophony
Cackling Canister
Cackling Clod
Cackling Cookoo
Cackling Coward
Cantankerous Clod
Cantankerous, Cold-Hearted Clod
Caterwauling Clod
Cautious Clump
Chattering Magpie
Clanking Clod
Clod
Clod-Like Collection of Condensors
Clumsy Clod
Clumsy Clump
Clumsy Cloot
Complete Moron
Computerized Clod
Computerized Clump
Confused Compass
Coward
Cowardly Clump
Cumbersome Clod
Cumbersome Clump
Cybernetic Simpleton
Cybernetic Skeptic
Defective Detective
Dehumanized Lie Dispernser
Demented Diode
Deplorable Dummy
Deplorable Dunderhead
Digitized Dunce
Dippity Dunce
Disreputable Dunce
Disreputable Dunderhead
Doddering Dunderhead
Dr. Dunderhead
Dunce
Dunderhead
Dundering Dolt
Evasive Coward
Ferrous Frankenstein
Fiend in Tin Clothing
Floundering Flunky
Fool
Foolish Fop
Frightful Fractious Frump
Frozen Eskimo
Fugitive from a Junkheap
Fugitive from a Junkyard
Fugitive from a Scrap Heap
Fugitive from a Scrap Metal Yard
Galumphing Gargoyle
Gargantuan Goose
Garrulous Gargoyle
Ghoul
Gigantic Gargoyle
Gregarious Gremlin
Hard-headed Harbinger of Death
Hard-headed Harbinger of Evil
Hardware Hyena
Hopeless Heap of Tainted Tin
Hulking Mass of Mechanical Ignorance
Hypertensive Hypochondriac
Idiot Ignominious Ignoramous
Ill-Informed Ignoramous
Impersonal Collection of Inanimate Hardware
Incompetent Idiot
Incompetent Imbecile
Incompetent, Moronic Lump
Incompetent Walking Ingrate
Ineffective Ineptitude
Inept Goldbricker
Inept Idiot
Infamous Informer
Ingot of Ingratitude
Ingrate
Insensitive Brute
Insensitive Idiot
Insensitive Machine
Insipid Ineptitude
Iron-born Ingrate
Irresponsible Wine Bever
Jabbering Jackenapse
Jabbering Jeremiah
Jabbering Judas
Judas
Juvenile Junkpile
Klunker
Know-nothing Numskull
Lagert
Lamebrained Lump
Lead-lined Lothario
Lead-lined Lump
Lilly-Livered, Lead-Lined Lump
Lilly-Livered Lump
Little Mother
Ludicrous Lump
Lugubrious Lagert
Lugubrious Lump
Malicious Moron
Mass of Fear
Mealymouthed Rogue
Mechanical Dunderhead
Mechanical Meddler
Mechanical Misfit
Mechanical Murderer
Meddler
Medical School Dropout
Mediocre Misfit
Mess of Metal
Metallic Ham
Metallic Monstrosity
Metallic Murderer
Miserable Mass of Metal
Miserable Mechanism
Misguided, Mechanical Misery
Misshapen Mummy
Monster
Monstrous, Mechanized, Misguided Moron
Monstrous, Metallurgical Meddler
Monstrous Mountebank
Mr. Wrongway Computer
Mumbling Mass of Metal
My Brave Hero
My Insensitive Friend
Mynah Bird
Nattering Ninny
Neanderthal Ninny
Negligent Ninny
Nervous Ninny
Nickel-plated Nincompoop
Nickering Ninny
Nincompoop
Ninny
Nondescript Ninny
Noxious Ninny
Obsolete Oaf
Obsolete Piece of Scrap Metal
Old Booby
Overcautious Concoction
Overgrown Ninny
Oversized Oaf
Parsimonious Puppet
Pathetic Pomposity
Pitiable Pipsqueak
Plasticized Parrot
Pompous Pipsqueak
Pot-Bellied Prankster
Pot-Bellied Pumpkin
Powered Prankster
Preening Popingee
Presumptuous Pipsqueak
Presumptuous Popinjay
Pretentious Popinjay
Primitive Pile of Pistons
Proverbial Neanderthal Ninny
Puny Pipsqueak
Pusillanimous Pipsqueak
Pusillanimous Puppet
Puselous Tyrant
Pedagogical Pipsqueak
Ramshackled Romeo
Real Great Goose
Ridiculous Robot
Ridiculous Roustabout
Ridiculous Ruer
Robust Rockhound
Roly-poly Rowdy
Sanctimonious Scatterbrain
Scurrilous Scatterbrain
Sententious Sloth
Sickening Cybernetic
Silent Sentinel
Silly Goose
Silly Old Ninny
Silly Sausage
Silly Sloth
Silly-Looking Bucket of Bolts (delivered by Zeno, "West of Mars")
Silver-Plated Sellout
Simple Simon
Snickering Cinderbox
Sorry Specimen of Computerhood
Steely-Eyed Sorcerer
Stupid Friend
Stubborn Clatterbrain
Tarnished Trumpet
Tattletale
Terrified Mechanical Dunderhead
Tin Monster (delivered by Don, "The Hungry Sea")
Tin-Plated Fool
Tin-Plated Fraud
Tin-Plated Snitch
Tin-Plated Tattletale
Tin-Plated Tintinnabulation
Tin-Plated Traitor
Tin-Plated Tyrant
Tintinnabulating Tin Can
Tiresome Thesaurus
Traitor
Traitorous Electronic Junk Pile
Traitorous Tintinnabulation
Traitorous, Tin-Plated Fugitive from a Junkyard
Traitorous, Transistorized Toad
Treasonous Tyrant
Unctuous Underling
Uncultured Clump
Ungrateful Underling
Ungrateful Wretch
Unspeakable Insult
Weakling
Worrywart
Worthless, Electronic Scrapheap
Wretch



Too funny.  I knew that Jonathan Harris came up with those himself. As a kid, I didn't "get it". But as an adult, I think they are hysterical.


Cat

June Lockhart was one of my favorite TV moms of all time

http://d1f7geppf3ca7.cloudfront.net/origin/266782/lost_in_space_tv_movie_silk_poster_maureen_robinson_june_lockhart.jpg

She was the mom in Lost in Space, and also in Lassie a few years earlier.

June Lockhart was one of my favorite TV moms of all time


She was the mom in Lost in Space, and also in Lassie a few years earlier.


A little known fact about June Lockhart is that she was a big rock music fan and she loved the Southern California bands of the time like the Doors, and especially the Allman Brothers (in their early incarnation as the Hourglass). She would hire them to play at parties at her home, and she invited them to the Lost In Space set. She took 15 year old Billy Mumy to see the Hourglass and Nitty gritty Dirt Band at the Whisky A Go-Go in L.A.

Lassie's mother hanging out with decadent rock stars. Only in 1960s L.A.  ;D

https://allmanbrothersband.com/community/general-chat-anything-goes/hourglass-duane-gregg-visit-tvs-lost-in-space-set/


http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/dd/89/20/dd89201e85650f22fc8b998b96e5c500.jpg

June Lockhart was one of my favorite TV moms of all time

http://d1f7geppf3ca7.cloudfront.net/origin/266782/lost_in_space_tv_movie_silk_poster_maureen_robinson_june_lockhart.jpg

She was the mom in Lost in Space, and also in Lassie a few years earlier.


She was also a replacement on Petticoat Junction when Bea Benaderet (the original Betty Rubble from the Flintstones) passed away-playing a female doctor which was rare in those days.



Cat

Just 3 minutes of Dr. Smith screaming.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz2_d6zWDhg

;D

I chat with Bill Mumy on Instagram all the time. He's really nice.  :)

He asked me to do something.. :o

And I did it! But I'm not saying what it was. :-X ;D

I chat with Bill Mumy on Instagram all the time. He's really nice.  :)
Was he in the original "Lost in Space" back in the 1960s?

Was he in the original "Lost in Space" back in the 1960s?


Yup. Lol. He messaged me this morning!

He asked me to do something.. :o

And I did it! But I'm not saying what it was. :-X ;D


I did what he asked, and I over did it! ;D It was high pitched, and he stared for the longest time smiling...then I laughed, and he stood up right away as if he were shocked.

K bye!

Yup. Lol. He messaged me this morning!

Who messaged you?  ???