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00:01Next week, an alien bounty hunter terrorizes the space family Robinson
00:05when a mysterious frozen tomb they have discovered thaws
00:09and releases a beautiful ice princess.
00:12What's open? What's this open?
00:20Don, look!
00:31I think I'd like you to stay a while with Chavo.
00:36Something special inside you don't want Chavo to see, amigo?
00:40Why don't you try asking permission before you start nosing around other people's property?
00:44Something so.
00:49Next week, chilling adventure in the episode titled
00:52Castles in Space on Lost in Space on this channel.
00:59Next week, John Robinson is inadvertently transferred into a strange, unreal anti-matter world
01:05where he is confronted by an exact counterpart image of himself.
01:09You know, I've gone to a lot of trouble to get you here, and I need you for my plans.
01:13But that doesn't mean that I wouldn't kill you in a split second if you got in my way.
01:21Can't be. It is.
01:34Stay until you're finished, understand?
01:37Take it easy, will you?
01:38I'll take it easy when we're off this planet. Now get back to work.
01:42You'll never get me with that chain!
01:49Next week, Anti-Matter Man on Lost in Space, here on this channel.
01:58Stop doing it!
02:01Now you've done it! You've launched the pilot into space!
02:07It's not responding.
02:08It's moving away from us.
02:14Who are you? What have you done with my husband and Major West?
02:17Next week, Weird Identical Doubles threaten the space family Robinson.
02:24I believe you wanted to talk to us.
02:29Let's get him!
02:32Do not resist. It is futile.
02:34You know, I think you're trying to take over.
02:36And if you know what's good for you, you'll quit trying.
02:39You threaten me.
02:40Just remember, underneath you are no different than I am.
02:42Now look!
02:43Danger! Danger!
02:48Next week, Target Earth on Lost in Space, here on this channel.
02:58Lost in Space, brought to you by...
03:02Lost in Space, will continue after station identification.
03:15Lost in Space, has been brought to you by...
03:25You know, Lost in Space featured some pretty incredible special effects for its day.
03:31But behind the scenes, not everything went so smoothly.
03:34This landing of the Jupiter II, for example, would have cost Major West his pilot's license.
03:40And here, the space pod looks as if the bloop were at the controls.
03:44It's a good thing we got it right, eventually.
03:47Well, sort of.
03:55Alas, poor Smitty! I knew him well.
03:58What do you got there, Robot?
03:59One of the Dr. Smith heads from Lost in Space.
04:02Oh, yeah, that was used in the Space Destructors.
04:05That's the episode where there were dozens of duplicate Dr. Smiths.
04:08Even I was a Dr. Smith look-alike.
04:10There is no further need for you.
04:12You will be destroyed.
04:17Pretty scary, huh?
04:18Oh, the pain. The pain.
04:27Remember all the cool guest stars we had on Lost in Space, Robot?
04:30I compute there was Michael Rennie from the day the Earth stood still.
04:35Al Lewis from the Munsters.
04:38Even Colonel Klink from Hogan's Heroes.
04:40Yeah, you just never knew who was gonna show up.
04:43I am called Quano.
04:44Are we getting old, or is it just my imagination?
04:47Speak for yourself. I have not aged a single day.
04:51Oh, the pain.
05:00Remember when Robbie the Robot was a guest star on Lost in Space?
05:04I have tried to erase him from my memory banks.
05:07In comparison to myself, you are very ignorant.
05:11You know, I never did trust him.
05:15His sensors always look pretty shifty.
05:17An inferior example of cybernetic engineering.
05:20Yeah, besides, I always thought you were groovier.
05:23Thank you, Will Robinson.
05:32I've never won segments that was particularly interesting.
05:35It was called West of Mars, in which I played two characters.
05:39Dr. Smith and I played Xeno, the fastest gun in space.
05:43You surrender nice and peaceful.
05:46And remember, if you don't make him think you're Xeno, I'll have you covered and zap.
05:55That was fun to do.
06:03Sometimes, people ask me how many Jupiter IIs we used in filming Lost in Space.
06:08Well, there was an 18-inch miniature used in a lot of the deep space flying scenes.
06:13This 36-inch model for landings and takeoffs.
06:17A full-sized upper deck used for our campsite scenes.
06:20Even a giant full-sized replica that was used in only two episodes.
06:25A total of four Jupiter IIs, and not a bathroom on any one of them.
06:36Robot, a lot of people out there want to know just how many versions of you we used during Lost
06:41in Space.
06:42That is classified information.
06:44Well, let's see.
06:44There was the full-sized hero that we saw most of the time.
06:48Affirmative.
06:48And then there was the lightweight fiberglass shell that we used for stunt scenes.
06:52Double affirmative.
06:53And then there were dozens of the little toy tiny robots that we used when we were invaded.
06:58Unfortunately, we all had to split one paycheck.
07:06Next time you catch an episode with the space pod, notice the registration number.
07:11It's actually the phone number for our studio, 20th Century Fox.
07:14The IA was for our producer, Irwin Allen.
07:17Another reference to Irwin was made in our original pilot.
07:20In it, the Jupiter II was called the Gemini 12.
07:23Gemini is the astrological sign for June, and Irwin's birthday was on June 12th.
07:28I don't even want to guess how the bloop got its name.
07:42On Lost in Space, I was able to share the screen with lots of sci-fi gadgets and other space
07:49hardware.
07:49There was the Jupiter II, the chariot, the jet pack, the force field generator, and the laser weapons.
08:01Lucky for me, I got all the dialogue.
08:11The robot's voice and approach was almost different much of the time.
08:15Emergency! Emergency!
08:17We did the lines, we had to stay in sync, and sometimes I would do it one way and sometimes
08:21you'd do it another way.
08:22Affirmative!
08:23Another problem that we had, there was no explicit instructions to anybody as to how to equalize the voice of
08:30the robot.
08:30So the robot's voice would change from show to show, sometimes because of me, sometimes because of the way it
08:36was mixed by the audio guys.
08:45One day when everybody was excused for lunch, Bill Moomey and Mark Goddard locked me in the robot.
08:51So I lit up a cigar.
08:54Erwin Allen comes on the set, sees smoke coming out of the robot, grabs a fire extinguisher, comes running over
09:00to the robot,
09:01and I said, no, no, Erwin, please, it's only me. I'm inside here.
09:05And he starts laughing.
09:07Became a good joke.
09:15My favorite has always been Junkyard in Space.
09:18I love the scene between the robot and Will Robinson, when the robot is saying goodbye.
09:25You must leave now, my friend. Go. And do not look back.
09:36The touchiness of the scene, it was really nice.
09:47I always had my guitar with me on the set, and there was this campfire scene that we were filming,
09:53and Erwin came up to me, and he said, why don't you play something on your guitar?
09:57So I picked green sleeves, which turned out to be, and I didn't even realize it, the theme song from
10:02Lassie.
10:03That's right.
10:04So I'm sitting there around this alien world campfire, playing the theme song to Lassie,
10:09while June Lockhart is sitting there looking at me like, why are you doing this?
10:19My favorite episode, Return to Earth, when Will went back to Earth to get some carbon tetrachloride for the food
10:27purifier, I believe, is what he was there to do.
10:31I made it! I made it! I'm on Earth!
10:34I like that show a lot, because, I mean, Will actually did get back to Earth, you know, and accomplish
10:40something to save everybody.
10:42That was the first time he did anything that really saved their lives.
10:53The alliteratives that I use with the robot are a source still of great joy to me.
10:59You blithering bumpkin!
11:01You lugubrious laggard!
11:02You cowardly clump!
11:03You bumptious booby!
11:05You ungrateful underling!
11:06Blithering bumpkin!
11:07Silence, you cackling coward!
11:09Oh, how marvelous.
11:10Used to stay up all night dreaming them up.
11:12And I used them all.
11:14And they'd all work because I get letters about it still.
11:27One of our sets was right next to a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea set.
11:32And there would be days when some Borg stuntman in a wetsuit would go rampaging through the sea view on
11:37Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
11:39And the next day, the same guy would be back in the same suit, only they'd spring green, and he'd
11:45come rampaging through, you know, some unknown alien world on Lost in Space.
11:55My favorite set on Lost in Space was the Jupiter 2.
11:58It had all sorts of working lights and gadgets.
12:01But what most people don't know is that the upper and the lower decks of the ship were actually on
12:06two different sound stages.
12:08That means that when we would take the elevator, the director would call cut.
12:11And then we would continue the scene all the way across the fox lot on another sound stage, sometimes days
12:17later.
12:18That does not compute! That does not compute!
12:28My favorite show was called The Anti-Matter Man because I was able to play a dark side of me.
12:32You know, the yin-yang, black and white? You know, I was Don West and then I was the other
12:36side of Don West.
12:37He's your duplicate, alright?
12:41When do we get mine?
12:43You know, I could be vicious, you know what I mean?
12:46So I could...
12:47Oh, I felt good, man, you know, and this...
12:50God, that robot, I don't know, I was gonna kill everybody, man.
12:52I had this... that was great.
13:00The best one that I liked that I did was Attack of the Monster Plants.
13:07Would you like some salad, Judy?
13:09No, thank you.
13:10Oh, it's your favorite.
13:12I don't want any salad.
13:14Judy!
13:16Mother.
13:17I had an opportunity to do some acting, do something with what I felt I had been trained for.
13:29You know, robot, after all these years, you look really good.
13:33It is amazing what a coat of paint and a little 40-weight oil can do.
13:37Did you ever miss the good old days, you know, hurtling through space aboard the Jupiter-2?
13:41Space travel I miss.
13:43Dr. Smith, I do not.
13:45I heard that.
13:46Mind your manners and you'll keep your famous.
13:49I can't believe it.
13:50It's been 30 years and you guys are still at it.
13:52Well, he started it.
13:53Did not.
13:54Did too.
13:56Indeed.
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