Fun fact. Michael J. Fox was born with the middle initial A. When he tried to register in the Screen Actors Guild, he discovered the name Michael Fox was already registered. He did not like the sound or the connotations of "Michael A. Fox," and did not want to be known as "Andy" or "Andrew." So he chose the middle initial J to add to his name, as a tribute to Michael J. Pollard, a character actor he really admired.
My favorite, too, definitely the best of the Penny episodes, and Michael J. Pollard definitely helped make it work with his characteristic voice and delivery.
The actor who played the "boy" in the mirror was actually 27 years old when they filmed this. He was 13 years older than the actress who played Penny. Aliens.
I just had another thought. A more touching ending might have been Penny realizing that he might still be able to see her through the mirror, as they both looked out earlier in the episode. She could talk to him, even though he could not answer, so he would know he was not along. It reminds me of the ending to the film Awakenings.
This was one of my favorite episodes. I thought it was like a Twilight zone episode. The black and white made it spooky and there was a surprise twist to the end because the boy can't get out and especially since Dr. Smith destroys the mirror and the boy can't contact Penny ever again. The story was very Peter Pan like where the boy was Peter Pan and Penny was Wendy and the monster was Captain Hook.
Michael J Pollard was in so many things on TV and the movies. They are too numerous to mention. Besides Star Trek and this episode and Bonnie and Clyde he was in the Andy Griffith show, etc. etc. I had a friend who is now passed away who shared an apartment in New York in the village with Michael J Pollard, they were roommates For a time. He died not too long ago that is Michael Jay Pollard did but he was great while he was with us. On another happier note, June Lockhart tomorrow on June 25, 2024 turns 99 years old! More power to you, June , if your quality of life and health is good, I hope you have many more and maybe even set the record for the oldest living healthy person. Peace.
Times have changed and women don't have a set role in society. Now it's encouraged for women to learn electronics and even become an electrical engineer. This is a theme for some fairy tales that a person can be trapped in the mirror. Like the story of Alice Through The Looking Glass. I love this episode. Unacquainted love 💕
This aspect of their relationship makes me think of other fictional sisters ranging from Katie vs. Julie Kaninski, Quinn vs. Daria Morgendorffer, Haley vs. Alex Dunphy, and probably a few others I'm forgetting where girlier sisters chastise the other for not getting dolled up and styling their hair in ways that they think society might find socially acceptable. Judy looked better in seasons 2 and 3 anyway, IMO. And BTW, I could swear there was another episode where Judy gets on Penny's case for not getting a new hairstyle and wearing makeup from season 2, but she doesn't fall to pieces over it as easily as she does here. I just can't remember which episode that scene was from.
One of the great episodes. As I said in another post, after first watching this as a 6-8 year old in the early 70's, network tv removed all B&W episodes from re-runs. Yet, that final scene with Michael J Pollard remained with me!
"The Magic Mirror" is such a heartbreaking episode. Just what did the boy ever do to deserve being in that place FOREVER?! And for absolutely NOBODY but the monster for company? I think it's perfectly fine if a woman wants to fix herself up; however, it should be HER choice and NO ONE else's. Also, I'm very sorry about that girl who was shamed out of the electronics club. What needs was it for those girls to bully her like that? Her being in the class had absolutely no effect on THEM!
Alas, Penny was destined to be a Space Spinster. The boy in the mirror never wanted to grow up, so wasn't husband material. Two seasons later, she met J5, a liar who was heading back to his home planet anyway; and Oggo, a fake cave boy who chose to stay with circus-owner and beauty pageant organizer Farnum. No wonder her parents wanted to send her back to earth with Jimmy Hapgood.
@@dwashbur Oh, if they had ever returned to earth Penny would've had no trouble finding a boy or a man. It would be like the iCarly episode "iSpeed Date." The number of guys trying to go out with Penny Robinson would match if not exceed the number trying to go out with Carly Shay in that episode.
I grew up with Lost In Space. From the first episode in black in white to the newer episodes in full color. I even had the opportunity to get a picture of Angela that I saved. I really learned a lot and had lots of fun watching this series, back in the day.
It's nice they addressed the end of childhood for the two children: Penny in this episode, and Will one season later in "The Questing Beast." I'm sure kids watching the show could relate to this.
Stop complaining about Dr. Smith! Jonathan Harris saved the show with his rewrites. The show would have been cancelled without his changes and it lasted for 84 episodes.
The audio in that is so bad I can't catch what he's saying with the volume turned up to 75. HE says he saved the show. Does anybody else say it? Him quoting someone doesn't count.
@@dwashbur Also I've watched the interview several times and the audio was just fine. I suggest you check your equipment or get a hearing test. There are also several sources about LIS production history, go and seek them out.
Surprisingly, this is one of the few shows from the original run, 7:30pm, weds night. I just remember those Ox/Antelope heads on the mirror breathing smoke. It was actually a very good episode, (for a Penny episode)!! Sorry, I was a 5 year old boy!!
At this time Doctor Smith is 51 or 52. I am nearly 63 and I look as young as Doctor Smith. I am nothing like Doctor Smith. Every week I run more than 20 miles. It would behard work for Doctor Zachary Smith to run 20 yards.
A Jackson Gillis script, and so a bit more imaginative and memorable than most. He penned several of the best-remembered Adventures of Superman (one of which, 'Panic in the Sky', was remade twice, in Superboy and Lois and Clark), was script editor for Perry Mason for a time (writing adaptations of Erle Stanley Gardener stories a few times), and even wrote a Columbo or two.
Yeah, I was born in 62 and still remember this episode as a kid and decided to look it up. It was such a magical episode to imprlnt itself in my mind for all these years.
This episode had a much deeper meaning that even got past the CBS censors. Jackson Gillis wrote it-and he was one of the producers and writers on Perry Mason. William Paley held Perry Mason and it''s producers in the highest regard (as opposed to the staff of Gilligan's Island or The Beverly Hillbillies lol) for 'intelligent programming". So they all let this one get by. The references by "the boy" to the hairy beast,,,is well..shall we say..something of the time in the 60's and his reluctance to face it, and embrace it. It just wanted some love. The beast was sort of like Mama Cass. She just wanted some love.but alas...No. "The boy" was afraid of The "Hairy Beast" and therefore forever trapped in that dimension. . Oh The Pain The Pain.
Johnathan Harris who plays Dr. Smith created his own character by writing his own lines for his character development. Harris was made the series that's why we watched for him.
Yeah, I watched the documentary on the show and it was supposed to be more action adventure of the family. Mainly Capt Robinson and Major West, but Dr. Smith, Will and Robot stole the show and made it a hit.
Not to be “that guy” to criticize, but Williams only composed music for the first few episodes, (except for Herman Stein who did “The Derelict”). Williams also scored, “My Friend, Mr Nobody”, which is where a lot of the “Penny” music was composed for. Stein did more music too, that was in “Giants in the Earth”, and “Welcome, Stranger”. The great thing about this music is that it was highly reusable and always fitted in like it was written for any specific episode. It was reused for almost every show in the series! Edit: Of course, Williams wrote the new theme for season 3, but I don’t think he did any new music played during the actual show.
I always wanted that one episode where Don gives Smith a shovel and takes him out into the wastelands to dig a hole! Two go out, but only one returns!! Heh, heh!!
For the final time in Season 1 65-66 viewers had to wait two weeks to see this cliffhanger resolution. The following week on CBS brought us the first of many yearly encores for Roger and Hammerstein's color remake of Cinderella!
Like your talking points but the only thing I don't agree with what you said about her looks. I call it growing up. Her hairstyle before that was more for a younger girl. Now that she is older she wants to pick a hairstyle more suitable. I remember feeling like she did. In between child and adult. The crazy teenage years.
That's just my question: says who? Who established those norms and who says she has to abide by them? That's especially the case since there are no peers around - except Judy - to pester her about it.
At the point 4:11 what gave Judy the ridiculous idea Penny acts like a boy.The way I see it Penny act like a boy about as much as Doctor Smith works hard.
As others have said - this is MY FAVORITE Black & White episode (I am partial to the COLOR episodes truthfully). Truly feels like a classic kids storybook filmed on sets from the Twilight Zone . THIS could have made an excellent FEATURE FILM with a little more money and a few more plot twists !! Mixture of sweet n' bizarre / scary !! This also has a "Night Gallery" feel to it. I cannot say enough about it! Here in the USA - NY area , Lost in Space reruns lasted from about 1970 to 1972 aprox. Maybe 1973. Pretty sure it was GONE by 1974.
Mr. Irving at the point 7:56 Judy said Penny acts like a Tomboy. I totally disagree. I Penny was a Tomboy she would have a go at Doctor Smith almost as often as Major Don West does. Also at the beginning of the Curse of Cousin Smith Penny would have kick Will's arse for saying I am the man around here and men give the orders. I know in this episode Penny was wearing pigtails like the Topper Tomboy Beryl the Peril, but that is the only thing Penny was having in common with the Topper Tomboy Beryl the Peril. Penny is as much as a Tomboy as John Robinson is a coward!
Yes, I really didn't care for Judy's attitude. Let Penny be herself, she's prepubescent and is finding herself. Let her do it her own way, don't force her into a Judy mold.
OPEN TOPIC: The RERUN ERA of LIS : What years were you watching (RERUNS) this AND what STATE are you in (USA) ? ME: I think reruns started in 1970 (summer or spring) and lasted to early 1973 (aprox.) . Certainly it was GONE by 1974. I was in NY state.
And women hear these messages so much, they get internalized and its difficult to tell how much of the desire for a better face comes from the woman herself or from this internalization.
It's unlikely he's an actual person - a friendly force of some kind. I'm guessing all the objects in the dimension are just copies of things he has seen through mirrors, so they possibly don't have a reflection either.
I can't believe how well I remember this episode. I hated LiSpace because it wasn't scientific but my 10yo brain watched it anyway. The guy next door was 2 years older than me and said "Platinum is the most valuable metal of all. Worth more than gold!" So I pulled the P volume of our Funk(!) and Wagnalls Encyclopaedia set and read up everything there was to know about Platinum in 1/4 page of text... I can't stop watching Irvingland!!!
I can try to guess why you remember it so well: it was one of the most moving episodes they ever did. I could feel the boy's anguish and Penny's desperate hope.
Our family also had the Funk (!) & Wagnells. It was good. I think you bought it one volume a week from the newsagents. But I remember the guillotining was really bad & many pages were stuck together.
one of the best as well as the Mr nobody episode, I guess the word is quixotic ? its hard to appreciate LOST IN SPACE as they cut so much out of the re runs. the entire sequence where Judy blast Don when he fails to notice her new hairstyle, and Maureen says" Why dont you hit em" is always cut out
This was the 2nd episode in season one to feature Angela Cartwright as Penny. Being a prepubescent boy, I didn’t fully appreciate it as much as watching it later as an adult. I then realized how GOOD a young actress she was. Like the other cast members, she was sadly underused. She had a couple of episodes later on, but by then the writers were alcoholic hacks creating horrible shows with stupid, idiotic plots like “Space Princess”, and “A Day at the Zoo”, (what? Not “Space Zoo”?). Just barf up some crap and put “Space” as the first word in the title!!!
Geezer 1962, June Lockhark said she was supposed to be a Biologist but seemed to always be serving coffee, and others have said that Erwin Allen would not give them much to do or release them from their contracts. So I had to laugh when I saw a scene with John just sitting at a table staring in the distance, then Maureen walks up smiling and asks Don if he wanted more coffee. Knowing what I know now, the amused looks on their faces was comical, which reminds me that someone also said these three joked around a lot because they had nothing to do. And this may explain why Mark Goddard used to get in trouble with Billy a lot, too. He may have been hoping they'd replace him over that.
Steven, that is a rather touching (and brilliant) ending; rather than the bittersweet cop-out originally written---it might have worked well on Star Trek; CBS was just too family-oriented through the 60s, and as Irving said, "We had to be shone the stereo-typical ending of a young woman toying with new hairstyles on an alien planet." Makes sense, sure.
Mr. Irving between 4:24 and 5:00 what you are saying makes sense as usual. I would say Penny and Judy are equally as beautiful as each other. I call you Mr. Irving because I don't know whay your real name is. Mind you neither Judy and Penny are as beautiful as Maria in Coronation Street. Well that is my opinion. Mr. Irving I would like to guess your date of birth. It is Monday October 20th 1957.
@@dwashbur Perhaps to avoid harsh criticism, ridicule as harsh people run their mouth. As more and more they come to realize there is a immortal boy (in another dimension) able to see anyone in their mirror. Personally I don't give a hoot. Maybe one of your own viewers just last night was looked at as she squeezed her blackheads. Lol
Except Penny is the only person who knows that, and his viewing ability seems to be restricted to that planet, so I'm not sure how big a problem it might become.
@@dwashbur He got in Bonnie and Clyde because He met Warren Beatty while he appeared in an episode of Dobie Gillis in 1959...Beatty liked and remembered him.
Well you're entertaining but you missed the meaning of the episode. You saw the image of the goats on the mirror, Moloch, and the one eye of Horus behind the mirror? Once you go over to the "other side" you'll have to shoot your way out. A little Matrix anyone? Also, the issue isn't woman's rights, its about being ok to transgender, and what is that leading to 56 years later today...no gender.
Fun fact. Michael J. Fox was born with the middle initial A. When he tried to register in the Screen Actors Guild, he discovered the name Michael Fox was already registered. He did not like the sound or the connotations of "Michael A. Fox," and did not want to be known as "Andy" or "Andrew." So he chose the middle initial J to add to his name, as a tribute to Michael J. Pollard, a character actor he really admired.
Oh, knew the had to add the initial part but never the "Y" (why) 😄🤓😎✌🏼🛸
Penny didn't realize this boy loved her and wanted her to stay with him always made me cry thinking he couldn't go with her!
My favorite lost in space episode. Angela Cartwright aka Penny Robinson was great. I had a big crush on her in 1965.
My favorite, too, definitely the best of the Penny episodes, and Michael J. Pollard definitely helped make it work with his characteristic voice and delivery.
The actor who played the "boy" in the mirror was actually 27 years old when they filmed this. He was 13 years older than the actress who played Penny. Aliens.
Michael j pollard did look young for his age.
@@crystalheart9 Pollard played kids in movies ranging from Disney's "Summer Magic" to "Bonnie and Clyde."
I just had another thought. A more touching ending might have been Penny realizing that he might still be able to see her through the mirror, as they both looked out earlier in the episode. She could talk to him, even though he could not answer, so he would know he was not along. It reminds me of the ending to the film Awakenings.
This was one of my favorite episodes. I thought it was like a Twilight zone episode. The black and white made it spooky and there was a surprise twist to the end because the boy can't get out and especially since Dr. Smith destroys the mirror and the boy can't contact Penny ever again. The story was very Peter Pan like where the boy was Peter Pan and Penny was Wendy and the monster was Captain Hook.
Michael J Pollard was in so many things on TV and the movies. They are too numerous to mention. Besides Star Trek and this episode and Bonnie and Clyde he was in the Andy Griffith show, etc. etc. I had a friend who is now passed away who shared an apartment in New York in the village with Michael J Pollard, they were roommates For a time. He died not too long ago that is Michael Jay Pollard did but he was great while he was with us. On another happier note, June Lockhart tomorrow on June 25, 2024 turns 99 years old! More power to you, June , if your quality of life and health is good, I hope you have many more and maybe even set the record for the oldest living healthy person. Peace.
“Cookie Monster with an eyeball on a stick”, a very suitable description!! LOL!! Why so scared??? All he wanted was some hugs!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
And some toll house cookies!
Pollard really brings an interesting spin to what might otherwise have been a rote role.
He was one of those guys who never seemed to be ‘acting’. It was like he was just being himself, (which was always a little “off center”)!
That boy with the spear is Kurt Russell.
Times have changed and women don't have a set role in society. Now it's encouraged for women to learn electronics and even become an electrical engineer. This is a theme for some fairy tales that a person can be trapped in the mirror. Like the story of Alice Through The Looking Glass. I love this episode. Unacquainted love 💕
7:52. Alfred Hitchcock COMPLETELY APPROVES of JUDY'S hair UP - DO ! You know he loved blondes with short or piled UP hair !!
I. Alway thought Penny and Judy had a poor relationship
At first they did, I imagine.
This aspect of their relationship makes me think of other fictional sisters ranging from Katie vs. Julie Kaninski, Quinn vs. Daria Morgendorffer, Haley vs. Alex Dunphy, and probably a few others I'm forgetting where girlier sisters chastise the other for not getting dolled up and styling their hair in ways that they think society might find socially acceptable.
Judy looked better in seasons 2 and 3 anyway, IMO.
And BTW, I could swear there was another episode where Judy gets on Penny's case for not getting a new hairstyle and wearing makeup from season 2, but she doesn't fall to pieces over it as easily as she does here. I just can't remember which episode that scene was from.
One of the great episodes. As I said in another post, after first watching this as a 6-8 year old in the early 70's, network tv removed all B&W episodes from re-runs. Yet, that final scene with Michael J Pollard remained with me!
Any idea why the TV channels did that?
@@dwashbur Not sure about the US, but here in Australia it was COLOUR COLOUR COLOUR ..... B&W was persona non grata
Wow. that kind of boggles my mind a little.
I still enjoy black and white broadcasts.
@@dwashbur What is your real name?
The boy in the mirror was on Star Trek too. Episode titled "Miri".
"It's a foolie, grupps."
One of my favorite ST eps. I wondered if anyone would mention it.
This was one of the best episodes.
"The Magic Mirror" is such a heartbreaking episode. Just what did the boy ever do to deserve being in that place FOREVER?! And for absolutely NOBODY but the monster for company?
I think it's perfectly fine if a woman wants to fix herself up; however, it should be HER choice and NO ONE else's.
Also, I'm very sorry about that girl who was shamed out of the electronics club. What needs was it for those girls to bully her like that? Her being in the class had absolutely no effect on THEM!
I think he has no reflection because he isn't REAL. Penny went into a fantasy world, and Pollard is part of the fantasy.
Strangely enough this was my favorite episode when I was 13 years old.
Alas, Penny was destined to be a Space Spinster. The boy in the mirror never wanted to grow up, so wasn't husband material. Two seasons later, she met J5, a liar who was heading back to his home planet anyway; and Oggo, a fake cave boy who chose to stay with circus-owner and beauty pageant organizer Farnum. No wonder her parents wanted to send her back to earth with Jimmy Hapgood.
Maybe the Keeper could have found a nice mate for her.
@@dwashbur Oh, if they had ever returned to earth Penny would've had no trouble finding a boy or a man. It would be like the iCarly episode "iSpeed Date." The number of guys trying to go out with Penny Robinson would match if not exceed the number trying to go out with Carly Shay in that episode.
I grew up with Lost In Space. From the first episode in black in white to the newer episodes in full color. I even had the opportunity to get a picture of Angela that I saved. I really learned a lot and had lots of fun watching this series, back in the day.
The only time and only episode i found Angela Cartwright beautiful
It's nice they addressed the end of childhood for the two children: Penny in this episode, and Will one season later in "The Questing Beast." I'm sure kids watching the show could relate to this.
Stop complaining about Dr. Smith! Jonathan Harris saved the show with his rewrites. The show would have been cancelled without his changes and it lasted for 84 episodes.
Got a source for that material?
@@dwashbur th-cam.com/video/vxR7QtsorV4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=Yq22BGtmA0ckE88Q
The audio in that is so bad I can't catch what he's saying with the volume turned up to 75. HE says he saved the show. Does anybody else say it? Him quoting someone doesn't count.
@@dwashbur Bill Mumy.
@@dwashbur Also I've watched the interview several times and the audio was just fine. I suggest you check your equipment or get a hearing test. There are also several sources about LIS production history, go and seek them out.
Surprisingly, this is one of the few shows from the original run, 7:30pm, weds night. I just remember those Ox/Antelope heads on the mirror breathing smoke. It was actually a very good episode, (for a Penny episode)!! Sorry, I was a 5 year old boy!!
Penny seems to be Maureen's favourite out of all the three children.
She was certainly my favorite!
Mirror World is FILLED with props from Fox's 1963 CLEOPATRA !! 13:26
The creature in the mirror was the same creature that carried the box that imprisoned the Robinsons for the tribunial of Justice.
At this time Doctor Smith is 51 or 52. I am nearly 63 and I look as young as Doctor Smith. I am nothing like Doctor Smith. Every week I run more than 20 miles. It would behard work for Doctor Zachary Smith to run 20 yards.
That was a sad tear jerker that the boy was trapped alone for a eternity. 😢😢
A Jackson Gillis script, and so a bit more imaginative and memorable than most. He penned several of the best-remembered Adventures of Superman (one of which, 'Panic in the Sky', was remade twice, in Superboy and Lois and Clark), was script editor for Perry Mason for a time (writing adaptations of Erle Stanley Gardener stories a few times), and even wrote a Columbo or two.
Yeah, I was born in 62 and still remember this episode as a kid and decided to look it up. It was such a magical episode to imprlnt itself in my mind for all these years.
I have to admit, if I saw someone fall into a mirror, I'd be questioning my sanity (or my dream-state) as well.
This episode had a much deeper meaning that even got past the CBS censors. Jackson Gillis wrote it-and he was one of the producers and writers on Perry Mason. William Paley held Perry Mason and it''s producers in the highest regard (as opposed to the staff of Gilligan's Island or The Beverly Hillbillies lol) for 'intelligent programming". So they all let this one get by. The references by "the boy" to the hairy beast,,,is well..shall we say..something of the time in the 60's and his reluctance to face it, and embrace it. It just wanted some love. The beast was sort of like Mama Cass. She just wanted some love.but alas...No. "The boy" was afraid of The "Hairy Beast" and therefore forever trapped in that dimension. . Oh The Pain The Pain.
Johnathan Harris who plays Dr. Smith created his own character by writing his own lines for his character development. Harris was made the series that's why we watched for him.
Yeah, I watched the documentary on the show and it was supposed to be more action adventure of the family. Mainly Capt Robinson and Major West, but Dr. Smith, Will and Robot stole the show and made it a hit.
The bizarre world inside the mirror also gives John Williams a chance to shine, creating some sinuous musical landscapes.
Not to be “that guy” to criticize, but Williams only composed music for the first few episodes, (except for Herman Stein who did “The Derelict”). Williams also scored, “My Friend, Mr Nobody”, which is where a lot of the “Penny” music was composed for. Stein did more music too, that was in “Giants in the Earth”, and “Welcome, Stranger”. The great thing about this music is that it was highly reusable and always fitted in like it was written for any specific episode. It was reused for almost every show in the series! Edit: Of course, Williams wrote the new theme for season 3, but I don’t think he did any new music played during the actual show.
Oh no I'm lost in Irvingland again!
Very spooky and very good episode
Michael J Pollard was an alien and had a otherwordly face
I always wanted that one episode where Don gives Smith a shovel and takes him out into the wastelands to dig a hole! Two go out, but only one returns!! Heh, heh!!
Michael J Pollard, I had a crush on him after seeing this episode.
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Lol 😆
In the words of King Solomon: vanity of vanities. All is vanity.
Major West was always ready to bury Dr. Smith in a shallow grave in the early episodes
I always thought he was the smartest in this respect!!
Wasn’t the boy with the spear young Kurt Russell?
For the final time in Season 1 65-66 viewers had to wait two weeks to see this cliffhanger resolution. The following week on CBS brought us the first of many yearly encores for Roger and Hammerstein's color remake of Cinderella!
3:10 Someone on the set must have thought those poles were hilarious; or had to fill some time!
Like your talking points but the only thing I don't agree with what you said about her looks. I call it growing up. Her hairstyle before that was more for a younger girl. Now that she is older she wants to pick a hairstyle more suitable. I remember feeling like she did. In between child and adult. The crazy teenage years.
That's just my question: says who? Who established those norms and who says she has to abide by them? That's especially the case since there are no peers around - except Judy - to pester her about it.
At the point 4:11 what gave Judy the ridiculous idea Penny acts like a boy.The way I see it Penny act like a boy about as much as Doctor Smith works hard.
Apparently, not caring about fancy hair and wearing makeup makes you a tomboy?
Penny had crushes in the show in several episodes.
@@dwashburHaley Dunphy thought the same way about Alex.
3:02 "Dear madam, I'll never be your beast of burden. I've walked for miles. My feet are hurtin"! Oh, the pain of it all!"
As others have said - this is MY FAVORITE Black & White episode (I am partial to the COLOR episodes truthfully). Truly feels like a classic kids storybook filmed on sets from the Twilight Zone . THIS could have made an excellent FEATURE FILM with a little more money and a few more plot twists !! Mixture of sweet n' bizarre / scary !! This also has a "Night Gallery" feel to it. I cannot say enough about it! Here in the USA - NY area , Lost in Space reruns lasted from about 1970 to 1972 aprox. Maybe 1973. Pretty sure it was GONE by 1974.
This episode freaked me out as a kid ..
Me too, the awesome mirror prop & the concept of another dimension where Penny is trapped forever really made an impression on a young teenage me.
Mr. Irving at the point 7:56 Judy said Penny acts like a Tomboy. I totally disagree. I Penny was a Tomboy she would have a go at Doctor Smith almost as often as Major Don West does. Also at the beginning of the Curse of Cousin Smith Penny would have kick Will's arse for saying I am the man around here and men give the orders. I know in this episode Penny was wearing pigtails like the Topper Tomboy Beryl the Peril, but that is the only thing Penny was having in common with the Topper Tomboy Beryl the Peril. Penny is as much as a Tomboy as John Robinson is a coward!
Yes, I really didn't care for Judy's attitude. Let Penny be herself, she's prepubescent and is finding herself. Let her do it her own way, don't force her into a Judy mold.
@@dwashburAfter all, everyone is an individual.
Michael J. Pollard also appeared in Star Trek.
Right! Just watched that episode. „Miri“
I was surprised when he popped up on Becker.
But IMDB tells me he was active until his death in 2019.
Right at 4:14 of the video, Penny's accent slipped. However Penny is so pretty.
And possibly the nicest character ever to grace a TV screen.
OPEN TOPIC: The RERUN ERA of LIS : What years were you watching (RERUNS) this AND what STATE are you in (USA) ? ME: I think reruns started in 1970 (summer or spring) and lasted to early 1973 (aprox.) . Certainly it was GONE by 1974. I was in NY state.
I can't really play, I don't recall ever watching it in reruns, but I did watch most of the original airings. I was in California.
And women hear these messages so much, they get internalized and its difficult to tell how much of the desire for a better face comes from the woman herself or from this internalization.
Always thought EVERYONE casts a reflection. Even those inside a mirror.
We're never fully sure what he is.
It's unlikely he's an actual person - a friendly force of some kind. I'm guessing all the objects in the dimension are just copies of things he has seen through mirrors, so they possibly don't have a reflection either.
The only thing useless around here is Doctor Smith!
I can't believe how well I remember this episode. I hated LiSpace because it wasn't scientific but my 10yo brain watched it anyway. The guy next door was 2 years older than me and said "Platinum is the most valuable metal of all. Worth more than gold!" So I pulled the P volume of our Funk(!) and Wagnalls Encyclopaedia set and read up everything there was to know about Platinum in 1/4 page of text...
I can't stop watching Irvingland!!!
I can try to guess why you remember it so well: it was one of the most moving episodes they ever did. I could feel the boy's anguish and Penny's desperate hope.
@@dwashbur Amen
This episode stuck in my memory too. The brilliant but somewhat unsettling concept of another world behind all the mirrors is the reason I think.
Our family also had the Funk (!) & Wagnells. It was good. I think you bought it one volume a week from the newsagents. But I remember the guillotining was really bad & many pages were stuck together.
one of the best as well as the Mr nobody episode, I guess the word is quixotic ? its hard to appreciate LOST IN SPACE as they cut so much out of the re runs. the entire sequence where Judy blast Don when he fails to notice her new hairstyle, and Maureen says" Why dont you hit em" is always cut out
The boy with spear had Michael Ansara as his father.
This was the 2nd episode in season one to feature Angela Cartwright as Penny. Being a prepubescent boy, I didn’t fully appreciate it as much as watching it later as an adult. I then realized how GOOD a young actress she was. Like the other cast members, she was sadly underused. She had a couple of episodes later on, but by then the writers were alcoholic hacks creating horrible shows with stupid, idiotic plots like “Space Princess”, and “A Day at the Zoo”, (what? Not “Space Zoo”?). Just barf up some crap and put “Space” as the first word in the title!!!
Geezer 1962, June Lockhark said she was supposed to be a Biologist but seemed to always be serving coffee, and others have said that Erwin Allen would not give them much to do or release them from their contracts. So I had to laugh when I saw a scene with John just sitting at a table staring in the distance, then Maureen walks up smiling and asks Don if he wanted more coffee.
Knowing what I know now, the amused looks on their faces was comical, which reminds me that someone also said these three joked around a lot because they had nothing to do. And this may explain why Mark Goddard used to get in trouble with Billy a lot, too. He may have been hoping they'd replace him over that.
i wanted to watch the episode not this irvings point of view on it
The DVD set is available on Amazon. Your local library might also have it.
Steven, that is a rather touching (and brilliant) ending; rather than the bittersweet cop-out originally written---it might have worked well on Star Trek; CBS was just too family-oriented through the 60s, and as Irving said, "We had to be shone the stereo-typical ending of a young woman toying with new hairstyles on an alien planet."
Makes sense, sure.
Peter pan in space. Never never land in the mirror.
At 1:15 Irving Zoo. As you know Doctor Smith has an outstanding feature which is greed.
Mr. Irving between 4:24 and 5:00 what you are saying makes sense as usual. I would say Penny and Judy are equally as beautiful as each other. I call you Mr. Irving because I don't know whay your real name is. Mind you neither Judy and Penny are as beautiful as Maria in Coronation Street. Well that is my opinion. Mr. Irving I would like to guess your date of birth. It is Monday October 20th 1957.
Close. July 1953. Sounds like we're both pretty well preserved.
3:50 No Irving, the other big lie: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953).
True, but that comes later. "Your face isn't good enough like it is" is the one they hear from birth.
Who originated the “Big Lie”? Maybe it’s Maybelline?
Devastated after she learns he has been watching her make funny faces in the mirror. As much as I felt sorry for him, he should have met his demise.
Why?
@@dwashbur Perhaps to avoid harsh criticism, ridicule as harsh people run their mouth. As more and more they come to realize there is a immortal boy (in another dimension) able to see anyone in their mirror. Personally I don't give a hoot. Maybe one of your own viewers just last night was looked at as she squeezed her blackheads. Lol
Except Penny is the only person who knows that, and his viewing ability seems to be restricted to that planet, so I'm not sure how big a problem it might become.
less talk more mirror
Where have I seen the mirror boy as well ?
His name is Michael J. Pollard. Among other things, he was in Bonnie and Clyde.
@@dwashbur I've seen him somewhere else . I'll have to look him up .
Thanks .
@@dwashbur Barney Fife's cousin in one episode of Andy Griffith ....
Star Trek TOS, Jahn in the episode “Miri.” Also Gunsmoke, Andy Griffith, and lots of others.
@@dwashbur He got in Bonnie and Clyde because He met Warren Beatty while he appeared in an episode of Dobie Gillis in 1959...Beatty liked and remembered him.
Sorry this actor's voice upsets me
Tomboy Penny, no goop
Yep. (Not counting the stage goop she had to wear for the show...)
John I certainly would not call Penny a tomboy
Well you're entertaining but you missed the meaning of the episode. You saw the image of the goats on the mirror, Moloch, and the one eye of Horus behind the mirror? Once you go over to the "other side" you'll have to shoot your way out. A little Matrix anyone? Also, the issue isn't woman's rights, its about being ok to transgender, and what is that leading to 56 years later today...no gender.
yoiutube is strange sometimes unknown naked people show up sometimes unknown preachers show up