Johnny Williams is still writing scores 50+ years later

Hey Charles, I am right where you are right now. I often find myself wishing I could have my childhood to re-live again. It was a wonderful time with my whole family. Let me tell you, the actors on Lost in Space were great, but you point out the music, theme and other musical interludes composed by the great John Williams (then known as Johnny Williams), that were brilliant compositions. They don't invest that kind of effort on shows today. That was a full scale orchestra on the theme. Incredible!!! Yeap, I miss the times our family would sit around a black and white set to watch this show on Wednesdays.

Same here.

You guys need to move on. 😂 Time doesnt stand still and LIS is still there to enjoy...

Charles, so cool to hear this !! Remember when kids actually played OUTSIDE all over the neighborhood?? And used their actual imaginations, acting out TV shows?? We would play Lost In Space, Rat Patrol and Wild Wild West. What a fun time, when your mom actually wanted you, to play outside and leave her alone (~~puff puff~~).

The new lost in space sucks there's no family unit all the females are the dominant ones they had to even make Dr. Smith into a female. Women's lib.

The remake series is an insult. Dr. Smith is a woman; Will is a wimp; The robot is alien tech; John is a cuckold; Judy is a bi-racial genius; Maureen is a harpy. Just horrible. It is written just to disrespect the original.

Couldn't wait till next week to watch another episode, loved it as a kid

Totally agree.

Looks like Leonard's son Adam

Boo

There needed to be a scene between them....

Spock on the lost in space set with Dr.Smith.( note Nimoy's Spock hair cut.)

Charles, I love that photo, where Marta, is having a cigarette break..... well, I THINK it's a cigarette ~~~.

Judy was smoking cigarettes! DANGER! FIRE FIRE FIRE!

Great story, Rick ! I think 7:30 was actually considered prime-time back then. Most families had dinner together, and then they all watched television together.

Personally I think keeping it as serious, or at least having Dr. Smith remain evil, would make the audience loose interest after a while. Jonathan Harris thought this and therefor created Dr. Smiths character development.

yes. I watched it for the science stuff, real or imaginerary. Gee, later I got a BS in engineering, a MS in math, was an Air Force Captain, worked on every sort of space and aerospace and satellite program imaginable and still do 50 years later

But then the world would never have had 'Vegetable Rebellion'.

I agree 1000% What a loss all because of the infantile nonsense of "Daddy Zack" week after week.

@@gkprivate433 GK, if this influenced YOU to get into science....it must have inspired hundreds (thousands?) of kids to study science or engineering. Wonderful story.

But he did appear on the Twilight Zone, and Bill Mumy also.

Harris said he hated Star Trek. I think he would have liked Picard, just a hunch.

The only black actor to appear on the show?

As a six-year-old, I had *nightmares* about that giant cyclops!! Looking at this monster in that episode *still* gives me the creeps! It was later that I Found out that it was just a regular guy in a studio costume.

@@bariant299 I can not think of any other black actor at the moment. Possibly the green alien lady was?

my goodness it was. Good IDing job. I had to look it up

@@bariant299 does it matter?

I agree! Season 1 (the best season) should be colorized! With today's technology it should be very easy!

I think it is

all the seasons are out on DVD and no - leave season 1 alone

@@kenwittlief255 Season 1 should be in color, if you don't want to see it in color, you always have it in B&W. Don't critize people who want this in color. The world is big enough for both. Seasons 2 & 3 are in color. They colorized seasons 1 & 2 of Bewitched and I dream of jeannie. Big improvement.

@@kenwittlief255 Colorize season one to match seasons two and three. We deserve both versions.

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o.pai dela era um Carrasco nazista ela foi adotada pois os.pais faleceram na guerra.

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Clothes designer Sandi Nimoy?

Yes

Billy Mumy said in an interview that June Lockhart was a serious rock & roll fan who’d take the tv kids to the Whiskey and other places in West Hollywood. She even hired Allman’s band (which had a different name at that time) to perform at a function at her house and Mumy and Cartwright definitely attended. That pic has to be from that event.

I agree completely. It went from a promising serious Si-Fi show to silly childish nonsense. I would have blown Dr. Smith out the airlock in the 2nd. episode. What a disappointment it was for a 13 year old kid.

@@richarddismore5901 your not kidding!

They ran out of ideas, just like Gilligans island..it got un believeable.

Pretty much the same for VTTBOTS. From espionage to lobster men and Admiral Nelson changing into a werewolf....as Nelson might've asked of Irwin Allen "Where do you get these ideas, chief?" We might not have agreed with the major change of direction for both LIS & VTTBOTS, but Allen would've pointed to the popularity of the shows in syndication and their continual popularity with people who were kids in the 60s & 70s. I regularly watched the re-runs of both shows well into adulthood and they'd regularly pop up as subjects of discussion between myself and my late sister, both of us revelling in just how naff the shows were, but how we loved them just the same.

@@majorvonhapenallthetime8602 the difference is the character of Smith. The other characters of this show were basically ignored. At least in voyage most of the crew were involved.

I had to as well, I hate the tune. I prefer "All Or Nothing At All" or "The Summer Wind" and not for Sinatra but for Nelson Riddle's orchestra.

they showed that episode at 1AM on friday night....

I love people who are as passionate about their loves as you! I’m this way about Hitchcock. I’ve loved Lost in Space since the very night the show debuted, but YOU are a REAL fan!

Time is circular.

I thought so.

No old chum.... That was Bruce Wayne....

@@kenwittlief255 Holy outer space crossover, Batman!

Yes but hopefully nothing like the film. Just wouldn't be the same without Jonathan Harris though. I don't believe the show would have been so sucessful or had the following it deserved without him. Humourous, pompessness and cowardly Dr Smith added such a lot to the show.

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James Rosoman Lost In Space was rebooted as a new Sci-Fi series for Netflix set to premiere in 2018. Netflix will release all episodes on 4/13/18. Enjoy!

@@db4a I wouldn't open my curtains to watch it, for free. Reboots...."Spare me from the tiresome re-treads!" as Dr Smith might say.

As a member of the group The Hour Glass, incredibly June Lockhart was a fan and invited the band to play at a party and visit the set.

Also, out of fairness, that's bandmate Paul Hornsby of The Hour Glass at far left.