Although some of the story lines are campy, I also grew up with the show and still love it. Have the whole series as a boxed DVD set. Introduced it to my son and he enjoyed it as well.
@@ericbarash6842 IRWIN ALLEN NOT A GENIUS AT ALL ! IN AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHNATHAN HARRIS (DR. ZACHARY SMITH) HE TALKED ABOUT IRWIN ALLEN FILMING AN EPISODE OF LOST IN SPACE IN WHICH THE ROBINSON FAMILY FINALLY GETS RESCUED . GUY WILLIAMS HAD PASSED AWAY AND TOO MUCH TIME HAD PASSED TO FILM THE RESCUE . IT WAS A WELL THOUGHT OF EPISODE UNFORTUNATELY IRWIN ALLEN NEVER GAVE IT THE IMPORTANCE THAT IT SHOULD HAVE BECAUSE HE ALWAYS SAID THAT HE WAS " TOO BUSY " AND NEVER GOT AROUND TO IT ! IRWIN ALLEN DISAPPOINTED THE FANS OF THIS SHOW ! IRWIN ALLEN NOT A GENIUS AT ALL !
I was always bothered by the ship being bigger on the inside than it is on the outside, did they steal some high tech from Dr.Who? Still always loved the Flying Saucer look.
The model was attached to cables and filmed taking off and landing. They didn't have CGI in 1965. So to hide the cables was great feat at the time. Filming in canyons made it actually looking like crash landings and takoffs from alien planets. The island in the sky episode was an initial crash landing that still looks impressive given it was 1965 technology
My very favorite things about LIS, and what hooked me on the show, was the Jupiter 2, the chariot, the good sound effects, and “Johnny” Williams GREAT music score during the show!! That shot of the Jupiter flying past that rock pinnacle perfectly silhouetted by the sun still makes the kid in me go “WOW”!!
@@socksumi Basically, everything good about the show was introduced in season one. The only good thing from the 2 following seasons was color, and a handful of good episodes.
I agree about the sounds. If you think in terms of retro future alternative evolving realities, the Allen reality (pop satira put apart) is more human, more mundane, in a certain sense it is much more realistic than the Roddenberry's reality -- which is a much more dated simulacrum of real (Soviets versus Americans and UN Federation versus Klingon etc). Star Trek is a fabula (fable) aiming some moral and Lost in Space is a fairy tale aiming nothing in particular, nothing moral most of time and nothing truly new about the (and supposed well known) ultimately human soul. Brazil
It’s the background music that builds that sense of thrill danger. I love that show as a kid. I really wanted to do Dr. Smith in. I think he was the first villain. I really hated😮
I used to travel on the Long Island Rail Road and I liked the days when they would have two engines on the front of the train. - great sounds. If you were waiting on the platform your chest would vibrate.
@@charleswebb3935 That it was. As a child who grew up without a father (the bum left us) I often got much comfort in those little scenes between Guy and Billy, knowing that at one time, that was how my father and were with each other. Of course, at that time we didn't have a sub-light speed capable spaceship to travel around in, but our old Cadillac did the job just fine, lol ;-)
Technically, sound means something is vibrating, therefore from an engineering standpoint, it should be checked out, just to see if everything is operating within specified parameters. Otherwise, an advanced vessel like the Jupiter 2, should be eerily silent {or the Spindrift from LOTG, even the Enterprise} like so many UFO observers have reported. Ah! but there's that thing about dramatic licence [British/Canadian spelling] that seems to seep in............ah well.............!
Yes and yes to those two comments 1701echopapa. The Enterprise was like a futuristic peacekeeping aircraft carrier (hmmm, what a coincidence), while the Jupiter Two was like a futuristic family runabout; maybe a 1997 version of the (then) current '65 Mustang convertible. Instead of put the top down for a family run to get ice cream on a hot evening, jump in the family space ship for a quick visit a neighboring planet!!
The show's producers cared little for it. Was in storage until it was cannibalized and used as part of an underwater building in another sci-fi production. That's show biz.
The rebooted "Lost In Space" could have been great. The cast was superb and the production values were strong, but weak, unconvincing writing all but did it in.
Special mention should be made for John(ny) Williams awesome score that drives this whole affair along like a A freight train that is out of control...He was a fraking genius back in the day
They also made good use of recycled music from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951). Fox owned the copyright for both and Bernard Herrman's eerie score fit perfectly.
Also used was a cue from Under The 12 Mile Reef by Herrmann. You can check out a TH-cam clip where John Robinson is flying with a jet pack which uses the cue.
As a kid we had a black and white tv. I will never forget the day i was walking home from school, looked in the window of the 'Retravision' shop (a lot of people rented colour TVs when they first came out) and saw Lost in Space in colour for the first time. Blew my mind!
Yes, it flew down hill on wires while the smoke helped to cover it. The studio played it back in reverse so it flew upward out of the planet. Still, it looked pretty damned good.
That scene was filmed in Jan 1965...and it is still incredible to watch...just 13 months after Kennedy assassination.....good thing they filmed it in color or it could not have been used in season 3!!
Very cool! I always have to laugh though, when you see Guy and Mark overacting as if they are pinned to their seats because of the G-forces, but you see the Jupiter 2 rising at the speed of an elevator!
Fantastic Lift Off, marvelous ... Vy powerfull engine and both pilots are great, with Dr Smith instructios and vy help. The comander Chief Dr Zakary Smith it's a vy good man and nice enginier.
THAT IS THE WAY THE JUPITER 2 SHOULD HAVE TAKEN OFF!!! ....AND YOU HAVE THE ATOMIC ENGINES IN STEREO WITH THE LOW-END RUMBLE!!! OMG!! GREAT JOB, ..AND IT'S IN HD!! ....THIS IS NOW MY TOP FAVORITE!!!
This video is a little more realistic showing the power and speed needing to be maintained for quite a while to reach escape velocity in order to be free from a planet’s gravity. Often we would see that as soon as space is visible, you are “free”. Mr. Allen often threw out already known scientific facts in favor of drama, (like comets giving off heat like a sun hurtling through space like a flying sun, or supernovas flying through space like a comet)!! I still ate it up as a kid and loved it when they went back to space travel in season 3!!!
Although they do show stabilizers firing off, the Jupiter 2 had only one, liquid Mercury, gravity negating, plasma engine. It was purely electrical in nature but needed a rare fuel ( Hawking 145 ) to get the anti gravity effect started.
My favorite spaceship in the land of sci Fi. Never looks dated,way better looking than the enterprise. And the sound effects put the Jupiter 2 over the Top!! Simply Awesome
What’s amazing is that they filmed the original crash in a way that it could be played back in reverse years later as a liftoff!! (Notice you can’t see the “front view port”)! That classic original was filmed in color!
@@thefurrybastard1964 Consider - WE can spot it because we're watching it in higher resolution - MUCH MUCH higher resolution - than the absolute BEST OF THE BEST TV available at the time! We watch in such high resolution that we can spot the FILM GRAIN used! LOL!! :D I'm pretty sure even the slight hints you mentioned would've gone completely unnoticed on any Television of the period. And I can assure you - I never saw it even in reruns about a decade later (1975) - the tech was still about the same. That's also why the re-release of Star Trek (TOS) was remastered with better special effects and with better digital "Matte" effects and traveling mattes. They felt they HAD to. Lost in Space depends much more heavily on planet-bound adventures and character moments. Star Trek certainly also delivered on good characters - but by comparison, they depended more heavily on visual effects to tell stories - and the effects were "Good Enough" for the time. But ask a Trek Fan who started with Next Generation to watch TOS with the original comparatively "janky" special effects? Well... let's be honest - Trek fans (and I am one) got SPOILED by the 80s movies and the 90s special effects. SPOILED I tell you! That's why the 1998 LOS movie was so chock-a-block full of effects shots. I'm sure there was a big faction behind the scenes that felt they had some catching up to do. But really - they could've just stuck with the original design for the Jupiter 2 - or something with the same shell, but sized larger scaled to fit all the cool stuff inside believably - and I think fans would've been happy. That was really the only nitpick I ever had with the Jupiter 2 - TOO SMALL on the outside! It had to be part TARDIS to fit everything in there! LOL :D
@@logandarklighter Yes, Jupiter 2 was more or less some kind of a Tardis. Quite low profile on the ground, the spaceship looked like 12 foot high and, yet, you got two floors inside AND the engines below... pretty small engines. Marvel of technology :)
Love the Jupiter 2 and the effects of Lost in Space. They were cutting edge at the time. John Williams scored 3 episodes in season one. Some of his most awesome dramatic music.
I made my own Jupiter 2 out of two pot pie tins that were stapled together and tethered on a string. It was amazing how much fun kids had with an imagination and little else. Too bad that doesn’t “fly” anymore,
So delightful! Brings back all the memories of being glued to the TV ... and totally mesmerized. Personally my favorite part was when they were taking off or flying thru space. Just occurred to me, though, they rarely spoke of what the destination was. But as a kid, it did not matter. The excitement was all I needed.
I have seen all 88 Episodes, 3 Times. I Love watching LOST IN SPACE... Excellent Series to Watch, again and again. They should put it on TV Every 2 years, for Young People to watch it, that have never seen it. Also the Planet of the Apes, The Omega Man, Space 1999 and 1 Million B.C, Forbidden Planet, Mission to Mars the Old One and more. 🏆🌹🍾🍷
One Of the coolest things to me was that the Jupiter2 as well as the Seaview and flying sub miniatures from voyage to the bottom of the sea actually had to be flown or maneuvered on wires .Therefore the miniatures actually had to move thru air or water and not the poor quality you get filming a stationary object on a blue screen stage . The ability to actually film the object and background simultaneously made a big difference in the quality of the imagine filming a person with blue screen and then adding a background.the lighting never seems to match and there was a slight reduction in quality by overlapping film on film and the more layers added the worse the image degraded.The amazing quality of LB Abbott and the Lydecker brothers still brings a smile and a sense of wonder.Thanks for this wonderful video!!😀😀😀
Great piece of editing. Good thing Don and John didn't go more than 80%of power and use the Anti Gravity Drive. Or everyone would be screaming the way Dr. Smith did when the Jupiter 2 lifted off from Earth in episode 1, The Reluctant Stowaway. eeeyyyAAAAAHHH!!!!
Irwin Allen was a genius for his time. The look, the feel and sound effects along with his style of visual effects always left you with that feeling of Awe. Sorry hes not around to make more great shows and movies.
I was very young when the series was originally on television. My mom wouldn’t let me watch because she thought it would give me nightmares. I remember once my mom was shopping with her sisters and my dad and I were at home. I tried to fib my way into staying up to watch the show. I almost got away with it until my mom came home and wanted to know why I was still up. In the 70’s the show was on during the summer in the afternoon. I loved the watching, I wanted to be Will Robinson and have all his adventures. I constantly would draw the Jupiter 2 and all of the other “Lost in Space” vehicles. In the early 80’s, I began working at an expensive restaurant in the suburbs. One afternoon the owner said his parents and brother in law from out of town would be dining at the restaurant that night, and he wanted me to take care of them. I asked what his brother in law was in town for. He answered that he had some type of show to attend. He told me further that his BIL used to be an actor when he was a child, and the show was a sci fy convention. “Maybe you’ve heard of him, his name is Bill Mumy”. I nearly had a stroke. I calmly told him yes, I knew who he was. “They’ll be in around 7:30”. I WAS GOING TO GET TO MEET MY CHILDHOOD HERO. They arrived on time, I was introduced to Bill. I tried to keep myself in check. I’d met lots of celebrities at work, but never anyone I was a secret fan of. He turned out to be charming and friendly. By the end of the night he was calling me by my name. The evening ended and they left. Little did I know that over the next several years, Bill and I would become friendly enough that he would ask for me to take care of him when he came in for lunch or dinner when he was visiting. I never asked him any thing about the show, I wanted it to be casual, as if he were any other customer I took care of. One night he asked what my favorite episode was. I told him and said I hadn’t watched it in years since I didn’t have cable. Several weeks later when I came home from work, a package was waiting for me. In it was a VHS tape, an 8 x 10 autographed picture, and a note telling me to “have fun watching the tape”. He had dubbed my favorite episode, his favorite episode, and the pilot onto the tape for me. I couldn’t believe how thoughtful he was. A few years later he was in town for another appearance. He asked if I was free the Sunday of the show. He wanted me to meet him at his hotel, have breakfast with him, ride in his limousine to the show, and attend the show as his guest. I was more than flattered, but my boss had me working a private party and wouldn’t let me off. I had more contact with him through the years, but after working there over 10 years, I felt it was time to move on. I’ve always been thankful of the times I talked to him, it was a part of my life I’ll never forget. And by the way, I still have the tape.
The majestic Jupiter Two the culmination of nearly forty years of intensive research and the most sophisticated piece of hardware devised by the mind of man bold in concept brilliant in execution this most delicate yet most colossal of instruments makes possible man's thrust into deep space.
This looked amazing when it came out, remember there had never been pictures of the Earth and the stars before and there was no Moon landing yet, and also we were watching this on small screen televisions, yes this was state of the art and much more real than Star Trek.
As an "Old-Geyser", I still believe the Jupiter 2 IS the coolest looking space ship? As a kid I fashioned one (with an upper and lower "View -Port") then with the 2 pie pans stapled together I epoxyed a "mini" pie-pan (containing a "Cox" solid propellent rocket engine) to the bottom, then launched it from my parents patio with the use of my "Big Rail Work Train's" power transformer. It jumped 5 feet off the concrete, then, turned sideways and spun around in mid -air until the rocket engine came loose and tore It apart. What a memory. I waited until my dad left for work. My sister thought it was amazing.
Man, that thing really took a long time gaining altitude! They must have dodged every rock outcropping for miles before finally getting into space! From what I know, UFOs here move incredibly fast and not like the, comparatively-speaking, clunky Jupiter II. I still think the J-II is still pretty cool, though. We'll never have anything like that, I believe.
I always loved the spacescapes they had for this series. REAL space images interposed with some wild looking star formations made space seem so vast and dangerous.
Right after Robinson says ignition he and his partner are slammed back in their seats as if their acceleration was so intense. But then we look at the Jupiter 2 and it was barely moving!! 😂😅
Yeah, if they actually planned it that way, it was genius! And I don’t think they reversed it and reused it as a liftoff until season three! They reused it as a crash in early season 2 in color for the first time.
@@Geezer-yf8hv All the early effects shots were filmed in color just in case they would need to reuse them. Even the giant cyclops was filmed in color, but was never use after the b/w first season.
My favorite episode was with The Taurons. They did not need a spaceship, they used their matter tranfsfer technology, I.e. maser beams to travel through the stars. When I was a kid I thought that was the coolest thing ever.
@@SDK-im8sl it is interesting to observe how one human being can notice and appreciate the wonder and possibility of a special effect and another can only see the banality and monetary issues in its manufacture.
Great video. Jupiter 2 has always been my favourite ship. The engine sound is fantastic. I understand that Lost in Space is now around 60 yrs old. Oh for the Friday afternoons when I’d run from the school bus to the front door, hoping that there would be cheese and onion crisps to eat while I watched the show! Happy days indeed.
I have the DVD collection love all the episodes and watch them from time to time, awesome show...love the cast and the robot and of course the Jupiter 2...they'll go down in history best space show ever
Seems to me that a ‘flying saucer” like the Jupiter 2 should be able to fly straight up while retaining the horizontal position , like a helicopter, rather than ascend like an airplane, dodging obstacles along the way. Just sayin’.
@@richparsons4205 shhhhhhh!!! That would spoil all those cool old scenes!! (Would be a cool new scene showing an above shot of the J2 with the ground pulling away smaller and smaller)! Your idea makes sense until they reach a certain speed. Going straight up would not be aerodynamic and would generate incredible heat on the top of the ship from friction and resistance with the atmosphere. Now in space, without friction, it would make sense, but would be awkward to film the side flying sideways across the screen and they would need the viewport on the “roof” to see where they were going!
I watched Lost in Space all the Episodes 3 times in my Life. I have all the Episodes in a Set of DVDs. Excellent Series to watch. One Family from Earth, traveling to reach Alpha Centauri thats 4.5 Light Years (5.5 L.Y Today).Living there every day Adventures. It will remain in my Heart for ever watching this Series. 🌹
The production values here were substantially higher than Star Trek's shuttlecraft takeoff in Act IV of The Galileo Seven and USS Enterprise streaking through the clouds over Nebraska in the teaser of Tomorrow is Yesterday. Really it's too bad CBS executives decided to turn LIS into a kiddie show after episode 5, sort of Captain Kangaroo in Outer Space.
I think Season 2 is when it really got bad, starting with the episode with Wally Cox and his pet giant rooster. Using a birthday party costume as a monster in that episode, and beach balls for land mines in another, showed the decline in production values (and scripts).
The special effects team headed by L.B."Bill"Abbott and the brother team of Howard and Theodore Lydecker won Emmy awards.first was the season before lost in space premiered.They won for 1st season of Voyage to the bottom of the sea and won for both lost in space and Time Tunnel. Star Trek won an Emmy for effects in it's third season but voyage space and tunnel were off by then so Trek almost won by default.it would had been interesting to have seen what Abbott sn co.could have done with trek.😀
I was 8 years old when it was first shown on TV. Today at 62 years old , I still watch it on TV. Never get tired of watching it.
u should watch netflix’s remake of it if u haven’t already, it’s rly good
Like wise we same age lol. Me too
It's a great show
Yep. Me too. 62 and still watching. I remember going out on halloween as major west.
Although some of the story lines are campy, I also grew up with the show and still love it. Have the whole series as a boxed DVD set. Introduced it to my son and he enjoyed it as well.
I love how the ship takes off like a hot air balloon, yet the crew looks like they're pulling some serious Gs.
I Think We're Getting A Super Slow-Mo Version Of The Actual Thing
The genius of Irwin Allen.
WITH AS MANY CRASH LANDINGS AS THEY HAD I ' M SURPRISED THAT THE SHIP WAS NEVER DAMAGED !
@@ericbarash6842 IRWIN ALLEN NOT A GENIUS AT ALL ! IN AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHNATHAN HARRIS (DR. ZACHARY SMITH) HE TALKED ABOUT IRWIN ALLEN FILMING AN EPISODE OF LOST IN SPACE IN WHICH THE ROBINSON FAMILY FINALLY GETS RESCUED . GUY WILLIAMS HAD PASSED AWAY AND TOO MUCH TIME HAD PASSED TO FILM THE RESCUE . IT WAS A WELL THOUGHT OF EPISODE UNFORTUNATELY IRWIN ALLEN NEVER GAVE IT THE IMPORTANCE THAT IT SHOULD HAVE BECAUSE HE ALWAYS SAID THAT HE WAS " TOO BUSY " AND NEVER GOT AROUND TO IT ! IRWIN ALLEN DISAPPOINTED THE FANS OF THIS SHOW ! IRWIN ALLEN NOT A GENIUS AT ALL !
cant quit laughing at this comment!!! LOL!!!! Hot air balloon....
This take-off sequence left a real impression on me as a kid. These were first-rate special effects for that time. I also loved the Chariot scenes.
gotta remember too that we were watching on small 19" TVs back then, so it looked amazing.
That scene is actually just playing the crash landing scene from the first season in reverse. Saved $$$ looked just as good.
This series was spectacular. I watch whenever I can. 💋
I was always bothered by the ship being bigger on the inside than it is on the outside, did they steal some high tech from Dr.Who?
Still always loved the Flying Saucer look.
@@lonknight3197 This series was spectacular. I watch whenever I can.
For mid 60s technology...this liftoff footage is incredible!!!!...Irwin Allen and team sure got it right and is still awesome 60 years later !!!
Hi Keith. This series was spectacular. I watch whenever I can. 💋
Yes and on a budget lower than you would think!😊 ... As a kid I was always looking to see reused props from other sci-fi movies and TV of the time.
The model was attached to cables and filmed taking off and landing. They didn't have CGI in 1965. So to hide the cables was great feat at the time. Filming in canyons made it actually looking like crash landings and takoffs from alien planets. The island in the sky episode was an initial crash landing that still looks impressive given it was 1965 technology
@@philipcunningham4979 very early 1965!....Filmed in January.....all the pre film work done in '64!!!
Most expensive tv series ever at the time.
As a kid, I always thought the Jupiter 2 was one of the coolest-looking space ships I'd ever seen. I think I still do.
Agreed! I was disappointed they didn’t fly much.
Check out Gerry Anderson vehicles. I like the Jupiter 2 also.
@John Roberts • You do know that the reverse crash landing scene was the Gemini 12
Me too
I agree. I use to make a Jupiter 2 using 2 paper plates glued together when I was a kid.😁
My very favorite things about LIS, and what hooked me on the show, was the Jupiter 2, the chariot, the good sound effects, and “Johnny” Williams GREAT music score during the show!! That shot of the Jupiter flying past that rock pinnacle perfectly silhouetted by the sun still makes the kid in me go “WOW”!!
Absolutely ! That was just outstanding cinematography and model work - needless to say.
As well as John Williams's remarkable score !! ☄️🌠🌒🚀
And the creature sounds were the best.
@@socksumi Basically, everything good about the show was introduced in season one. The only good thing from the 2 following seasons was color, and a handful of good episodes.
I agree! I don’t even know I would have liked the show without Williams musical scores!
Loved this show as a kid. I'm 62 now and not ashamed to admit I have the DVD box-set which I am now going to watch again after watching this!
You had better watch it, you bubble headed birdbrain! 😊
It ain't the Enterprise but the sound of the Jupiter 2 at takeoff still gives me chills when I see it.
This series was spectacular. I watch whenever I can. 💋
I agree about the sounds. If you think in terms of retro future alternative evolving realities, the Allen reality (pop satira put apart) is more human, more mundane, in a certain sense it is much more realistic than the Roddenberry's reality -- which is a much more dated simulacrum of real (Soviets versus Americans and UN Federation versus Klingon etc). Star Trek is a fabula (fable) aiming some moral and Lost in Space is a fairy tale aiming nothing in particular, nothing moral most of time and nothing truly new about the (and supposed well known) ultimately human soul.
Brazil
It’s the background music that builds that sense of thrill danger. I love that show as a kid. I really wanted to do Dr. Smith in. I think he was the first villain. I really hated😮
Sound was awesome, we never heard anything like that before, actually mesmerized the brain synapses to a large degree, and it felt soooooo good too!
@@brutusofnn Good ole' Dr. Smith, the one person every one loved to hate!
Now that's the Lost In Space I grew up on. Thank you. Love the Fusion Drive! Love the sound effects and the cool reverse crash landing in color.
This series was spectacular. I watch whenever I can. 💋
Yep, the crash landing scene in reverse
@@robertmartinez1645 This series was spectacular. I watch whenever I can. 💋
Loved the 3rd season......they were in space alot more!!!...very cool..
The fusion drive sound used to send shivers down my spine, and it still does. Irwin Allen's best sound effect IMO.
My favorite show as a kid, still love watching it today!
This series was spectacular. I watch whenever I can. 💋
Same with me. Ill take all the old shows any day over the crapy new shows!
@@dcranch4820 Hello. Good morning. 💋💋💋
Oh those engine sounds and retro blasts are the best.
Yes, I've always liked that powerful sound, ever since I was a kid. 👌🏾
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I wonder how Irwin got that sound?
I used to travel on the Long Island Rail Road and I liked the days when they would have two engines on the front of the train. - great sounds. If you were waiting on the platform your chest would vibrate.
@@gill2675 Electronic modular, probably an early model of the Moog Synthesizer.
Thanks for keeping the Irwin Allen stuff alive in 2021. People like us keep the old stuff coming.
... Goodness! ... Does America need Irwin Allen back these days!
Love seeing Will and his father John playing at the end of their accent from the planet. A real loving show with good viewing for family.
@@charleswebb3935 That it was. As a child who grew up without a father (the bum left us) I often got much comfort in those little scenes between Guy and Billy, knowing that at one time, that was how my father and were with each other. Of course, at that time we didn't have a sub-light speed capable spaceship to travel around in, but our old Cadillac did the job just fine, lol ;-)
This series was spectacular. I watch whenever I can. 💋
I love Star Trek, but the Jupiter 2 was and is my favorite starship engine sound.
Technically, sound means something is vibrating, therefore from an engineering standpoint, it should be checked out, just to see if everything is operating within specified parameters.
Otherwise, an advanced vessel like the Jupiter 2, should be eerily silent {or the Spindrift from LOTG, even the Enterprise} like so many UFO observers have reported.
Ah! but there's that thing about dramatic licence [British/Canadian spelling] that seems to seep in............ah well.............!
Yes and yes to those two comments 1701echopapa. The Enterprise was like a futuristic peacekeeping aircraft carrier (hmmm, what a coincidence), while the Jupiter Two was like a futuristic family runabout; maybe a 1997 version of the (then) current '65 Mustang convertible. Instead of put the top down for a family run to get ice cream on a hot evening, jump in the family space ship for a quick visit a neighboring planet!!
@@peterbloink8738 haha love it!!!!
This series was spectacular. I watch whenever I can. 💋
Beautifully designed Spacecraft. I always liked the Sound Effects.
The best sound effect in sci-fi! Star Trek's warp drive the 2nd best.
This series was spectacular. I watch whenever I can. 💋
The show's producers cared little for it. Was in storage until it was cannibalized and used as part of an underwater building in another sci-fi production. That's show biz.
I'm pretty sure that was the first time I have seen 3 exhausts on takeoff. Thank you for posting my favourite childhood show.
THAT'S from the special FX bonus reel in the blu-ray package. That scene was never used in any episodes.
As a kid I always wanted to pilot the Jupiter2. I love this spaceship launch. It brings many memories.
Difficult ship to pilot, because, any given week, the few controls and displays that they had were changed! No wonder Major West crashed it so often!
Will was a pretty good pilot in "Target Earth", must've got some lessons from Dad & Don.
This series was spectacular. I watch whenever I can. 💋
After all this time and people still crave this Classic Show ! Nice Job All !
Seriously 446k views on 5/22 should say something ! #BillMumy
I love it that this classic series is being upgraded and reimaged. Great JOB!!! Lost in Space is almost 60 years old!!! Wonderful.
The rebooted "Lost In Space" could have been great. The cast was superb and the production values were strong, but weak, unconvincing writing all but did it in.
Special mention should be made for John(ny) Williams awesome score that drives this whole affair along like a A freight train that is out of control...He was a fraking genius back in the day
They also made good use of recycled music from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951). Fox owned the copyright for both and Bernard Herrman's eerie score fit perfectly.
This show had the best music and sound effects, better than far more expensive Scifi movies.
Whaddya mean "was"?
Also used was a cue from Under The 12 Mile Reef by Herrmann. You can check out a TH-cam clip where John Robinson is flying with a jet pack which uses the cue.
Still is a genius. So many absolutely amazing soundtracks.
As a kid we had a black and white tv. I will never forget the day i was walking home from school, looked in the window of the 'Retravision' shop (a lot of people rented colour TVs when they first came out) and saw Lost in Space in colour for the first time. Blew my mind!
Yes, it flew down hill on wires while the smoke helped to cover it. The studio played it back in reverse so it flew upward out of the planet. Still, it looked pretty damned good.
It certainly did !
I did not know that still looks good
Yes Sonny that take off scene from the planet still holds up today! Also still love that engine sound as well!
That scene was filmed in Jan 1965...and it is still incredible to watch...just 13 months after Kennedy assassination.....good thing they filmed it in color or it could not have been used in season 3!!
God I miss the old days
Very cool! I always have to laugh though, when you see Guy and Mark overacting as if they are pinned to their seats because of the G-forces, but you see the Jupiter 2 rising at the speed of an elevator!
Best engine sound in all Sci fi...!
Luv Maureen Robinson in her space suit too...The B9 is still very cool !
Got the B 9 electronic robot recently off amazon...Happy days
You can thank sound effects man Don Hall,Jr. for that. Also,L.B. Abbott for the special optical effects (he did "Time Tunnel" too).
Couldn't agree with you more !
Penny is FAN-tastic !
I always loved those Jupiter 2 take-offs in Lost in space 🚀.
I LOVE THE SOUND OF THOSE ATOMIC ENGINES !
Love the playfulness from dad to son that they throw in.
I was the same age as Will when it aired, and I secretly wished I had a father like his!
Loved this show as a kid..... Two Thumbs Up!
Fantastic Lift Off, marvelous ... Vy powerfull engine and both pilots are great, with Dr Smith instructios and vy help. The comander Chief Dr Zakary Smith it's a vy good man and nice enginier.
The Jupiter II in flight soothes my inner 10 year old. More thrust Don!
That's what she said...
Fire the main bank!
We're already pulling 1.1 Gs. Not sure the ship can take much more. lol
And then the jump to near light speed within the first one million miles!
THAT IS THE WAY THE JUPITER 2 SHOULD HAVE TAKEN OFF!!! ....AND YOU HAVE THE ATOMIC ENGINES IN STEREO WITH THE LOW-END RUMBLE!!! OMG!! GREAT JOB, ..AND IT'S IN HD!! ....THIS IS NOW MY TOP FAVORITE!!!
Such a cool engine sound!
Great stuff! Conveys the power of the Jupiter's engines
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This video is a little more realistic showing the power and speed needing to be maintained for quite a while to reach escape velocity in order to be free from a planet’s gravity. Often we would see that as soon as space is visible, you are “free”. Mr. Allen often threw out already known scientific facts in favor of drama, (like comets giving off heat like a sun hurtling through space like a flying sun, or supernovas flying through space like a comet)!! I still ate it up as a kid and loved it when they went back to space travel in season 3!!!
I love the atomic sounds of the power plant in full operation
@@MrTitan225 Right. Those are some great sound effects !!
Although they do show stabilizers firing off, the Jupiter 2 had only one, liquid Mercury, gravity negating, plasma engine. It was purely electrical in nature but needed a rare fuel ( Hawking 145 ) to get the anti gravity effect started.
My favorite spaceship in the land of sci Fi. Never looks dated,way better looking than the enterprise. And the sound effects put the Jupiter 2 over the Top!! Simply Awesome
Like the DeLorean! Looks as modern as anything today!
What’s amazing is that they filmed the original crash in a way that it could be played back in reverse years later as a liftoff!! (Notice you can’t see the “front view port”)! That classic original was filmed in color!
You can, if you look *very* hard. Plus you can see the clouds moving the wrong way. But that didn't matter to us back then.
All the original effect shots were filmed in color so they could be used later if and when the show went to color. The wisely planned ahead.
@@thefurrybastard1964 Consider - WE can spot it because we're watching it in higher resolution - MUCH MUCH higher resolution - than the absolute BEST OF THE BEST TV available at the time! We watch in such high resolution that we can spot the FILM GRAIN used! LOL!! :D
I'm pretty sure even the slight hints you mentioned would've gone completely unnoticed on any Television of the period. And I can assure you - I never saw it even in reruns about a decade later (1975) - the tech was still about the same.
That's also why the re-release of Star Trek (TOS) was remastered with better special effects and with better digital "Matte" effects and traveling mattes. They felt they HAD to. Lost in Space depends much more heavily on planet-bound adventures and character moments. Star Trek certainly also delivered on good characters - but by comparison, they depended more heavily on visual effects to tell stories - and the effects were "Good Enough" for the time.
But ask a Trek Fan who started with Next Generation to watch TOS with the original comparatively "janky" special effects? Well... let's be honest - Trek fans (and I am one) got SPOILED by the 80s movies and the 90s special effects. SPOILED I tell you!
That's why the 1998 LOS movie was so chock-a-block full of effects shots. I'm sure there was a big faction behind the scenes that felt they had some catching up to do. But really - they could've just stuck with the original design for the Jupiter 2 - or something with the same shell, but sized larger scaled to fit all the cool stuff inside believably - and I think fans would've been happy. That was really the only nitpick I ever had with the Jupiter 2 - TOO SMALL on the outside! It had to be part TARDIS to fit everything in there! LOL :D
@@logandarklighter Yes, Jupiter 2 was more or less some kind of a Tardis. Quite low profile on the ground, the spaceship looked like 12 foot high and, yet, you got two floors inside AND the engines below... pretty small engines. Marvel of technology :)
Qué buena y entretenida serie para aquellos tiempos.Mucha nostalgia para quienes la disfrutamos .Saludos Nostalgicos, como yo.
The 'edge of your seat' music never gets old. Loved the show.
I bought the whole series on dvd , it brings back all my memories of the show , its awesome
Love the Jupiter 2 and the effects of Lost in Space. They were cutting edge at the time. John Williams scored 3 episodes in season one. Some of his most awesome dramatic music.
I made my own Jupiter 2 out of two pot pie tins that were stapled together and tethered on a string. It was amazing how much fun kids had with an imagination and little else. Too bad that doesn’t “fly” anymore,
So delightful! Brings back all the memories of being glued to the TV ... and totally mesmerized. Personally my favorite part was when they were taking off or flying thru space. Just occurred to me, though, they rarely spoke of what the destination was. But as a kid, it did not matter. The excitement was all I needed.
Great memories thanks, never missed an episode Lost in Space was one of my favorite tv shows.
LOVE IT!! Sure took long enough to clear those mountains!
June Lockhart's make up was impeccable in that closeup😊
This series was spectacular. I watch whenever I can. 💋
As kids watching this, technology wise we thought the possibilities were endless
I love the sound of the Jupiter 2 engine when I was a kid my mom had a twin tub washing machine that sounded like it when it was on spin cycle lol.
I have seen all 88 Episodes, 3 Times. I Love watching LOST IN SPACE... Excellent Series to Watch, again and again. They should put it on TV Every 2 years, for Young People to watch it, that have never seen it. Also the Planet of the Apes, The Omega Man, Space 1999 and 1 Million B.C, Forbidden Planet, Mission to Mars the Old One and more. 🏆🌹🍾🍷
I always liked the episodes in space better than planetside. Decent special effects for the day.
SAME!
No you didn’t.
3rd season!!!!
Brilliant and thankyou!
I am 63..this was on once a week on prime time in 1966-67. No computer generated graphics here!
Excellent 👌👍
One Of the coolest things to me was that the Jupiter2 as well as the Seaview and flying sub miniatures from voyage to the bottom of the sea actually had to be flown or maneuvered on wires .Therefore the miniatures actually had to move thru air or water and not the poor quality you get filming a stationary object on a blue screen stage . The ability to actually film the object and background simultaneously
made a big difference in the quality of the imagine filming a person with blue screen and then adding a background.the lighting never seems to match and there was a slight reduction in quality by overlapping film on film and the more layers added the worse the image degraded.The amazing quality of LB Abbott and the Lydecker brothers still brings a smile and a sense of wonder.Thanks for this wonderful video!!😀😀😀
Abbott and the Lydeckers were immensely talented guys !
Hmmm..... quite unconsciously, I almost made them sound like a doo-wop group from the 50s. ☺️
They looked pretty high, from the vantage point of the flat area where the Jupiter 2 had crashed.....heh heh heh. 😉😊
Great piece of editing. Good thing Don and John didn't go more than 80%of power and use the Anti Gravity Drive. Or everyone would be screaming the way Dr. Smith did when the Jupiter 2 lifted off from Earth in episode 1, The Reluctant Stowaway. eeeyyyAAAAAHHH!!!!
Always felt Smith got radiated here
fantastic, pure emotion to remember this series....
This is so cool...looks like a real flying saucer! Great special effects without CGI.
Irwin Allen was a genius for his time. The look, the feel and sound effects along with his style of visual effects always left you with that feeling of Awe. Sorry hes not around to make more great shows and movies.
More than 4 decades since I watched this as a child & I still can't get the robots line out of my head. Danger Will Robinson!!
Back in the day when traveling was an event, Maureen is ready for lift off in full makeup.
Hi Falcon. This series was spectacular. I watch whenever I can. 💋
And Judy in full curls
@@gerry-p9x Yes. 💋 from Brazil.
Penny's hair length is definitely outside the regs for space travel.
Yeah but Maureen was in a tank top as I recall when they had to endure a mega heat wave in the chariot in bw. Episode
Very COOOOOOOOOOOLLLLL, man! Thanks a lot for posting!!!! 🛸
I was very young when the series was originally on television. My mom wouldn’t let me watch because she thought it would give me nightmares. I remember once my mom was shopping with her sisters and my dad and I were at home. I tried to fib my way into staying up to watch the show. I almost got away with it until my mom came home and wanted to know why I was still up.
In the 70’s the show was on during the summer in the afternoon. I loved the watching, I wanted to be Will Robinson and have all his adventures. I constantly would draw the Jupiter 2 and all of the other “Lost in Space” vehicles.
In the early 80’s, I began working at an expensive restaurant in the suburbs. One afternoon the owner said his parents and brother in law from out of town would be dining at the restaurant that night, and he wanted me to take care of them. I asked what his brother in law was in town for. He answered that he had some type of show to attend. He told me further that his BIL used to be an actor when he was a child, and the show was a sci fy convention. “Maybe you’ve heard of him, his name is Bill Mumy”. I nearly had a stroke. I calmly told him yes, I knew who he was. “They’ll be in around 7:30”. I WAS GOING TO GET TO MEET MY CHILDHOOD HERO.
They arrived on time, I was introduced to Bill. I tried to keep myself in check. I’d met lots of celebrities at work, but never anyone I was a secret fan of. He turned out to be charming and friendly. By the end of the night he was calling me by my name. The evening ended and they left. Little did I know that over the next several years, Bill and I would become friendly enough that he would ask for me to take care of him when he came in for lunch or dinner when he was visiting.
I never asked him any thing about the show, I wanted it to be casual, as if he were any other customer I took care of. One night he asked what my favorite episode was. I told him and said I hadn’t watched it in years since I didn’t have cable. Several weeks later when I came home from work, a package was waiting for me. In it was a VHS tape, an 8 x 10 autographed picture, and a note telling me to “have fun watching the tape”. He had dubbed my favorite episode, his favorite episode, and the pilot onto the tape for me. I couldn’t believe how thoughtful he was.
A few years later he was in town for another appearance. He asked if I was free the Sunday of the show. He wanted me to meet him at his hotel, have breakfast with him, ride in his limousine to the show, and attend the show as his guest. I was more than flattered, but my boss had me working a private party and wouldn’t let me off. I had more contact with him through the years, but after working there over 10 years, I felt it was time to move on. I’ve always been thankful of the times I talked to him, it was a part of my life I’ll never forget. And by the way, I still have the tape.
Enjoyed reading this. I watched first runs when I was 10 & Billy was my favorite. I need to meet him sometime while we’re both still alive & kicking!
REALLY great special effects for the period. If you look closely, you can see the shadow of the J2 on the mountain-side.
The episodes where they either landed or took off from a planet were always my favorites
Me too 😅!!
Excellent Forced Perspective Shots, Entirely Competitive With Comparable Work Seen Today.
The massive G forces the crew feels as it does 0 to 60 mph in about 2 minutes !!!!
For that you have to take a ride in Blue Origin's Flying Phallus.
The majestic Jupiter Two the culmination of nearly forty years of intensive research and the most sophisticated piece of hardware devised by the mind of man bold in concept brilliant in execution this most delicate yet most colossal of instruments makes possible man's thrust into deep space.
Excellent editing. Definitely a dramatic liftoff! Very well done! 👍👍👍👍👍
This brings back memories, I absolutely loved this as a kid.
Would love to have a ship like the Jupiter 2!!!
Grew up with this show and when I was a child I loved it! When watched it as an adult I just laughed my ass off. The show is an all time classic
In 1966 Lost in Space was the bomb, the fuse and the plunger, at least it was for me, I have the heart of a child.
Thanks for posting! Whenever I have a bad day I love to come to TH-cam and watch videos that make me happy!
Exhilarating! Functional, dynamic and well balanced!
This looked amazing when it came out, remember there had never been pictures of the Earth and the stars before and there was no Moon landing yet, and also we were watching this on small screen televisions, yes this was state of the art and much more real than Star Trek.
Magnificent as always!
As an "Old-Geyser", I still believe the Jupiter 2 IS the coolest looking space ship? As a kid I fashioned one (with an upper and lower "View -Port") then with the 2 pie pans stapled together I epoxyed a "mini" pie-pan (containing a "Cox" solid propellent rocket engine) to the bottom, then launched it from my parents patio with the use of my "Big Rail Work Train's" power transformer. It jumped 5 feet off the concrete, then, turned sideways and spun around in mid -air until the rocket engine came loose and tore It apart. What a memory. I waited until my dad left for work. My sister thought it was amazing.
I reckon the sound of the Jupiter engines is the greatest! I did hear some remarks about how the sounds were made but have forgotten...
The sound of power...AWESOME.
There was something about flying saucers that I absolutely loved, totally cool to me at least.
Got to love them using the crashing seen in reverse.
Man, that thing really took a long time gaining altitude! They must have dodged every rock outcropping for miles before finally getting into space!
From what I know, UFOs here move incredibly fast and not like the, comparatively-speaking, clunky Jupiter II.
I still think the J-II is still pretty cool, though.
We'll never have anything like that, I believe.
Jupiter II acceleration reminds me of my Hyundai Venue.
What a great show this was. One of my very favorites as a kid. One of my top five.
I always loved the spacescapes they had for this series. REAL space images interposed with some wild looking star formations made space seem so vast and dangerous.
Right after Robinson says ignition he and his partner are slammed back in their seats as if their acceleration was so intense. But then we look at the Jupiter 2 and it was barely moving!! 😂😅
The crash scene in reverse! 😆
Yeah, if they actually planned it that way, it was genius! And I don’t think they reversed it and reused it as a liftoff until season three! They reused it as a crash in early season 2 in color for the first time.
Correct
@@Geezer-yf8hv All the early effects shots were filmed in color just in case they would need to reuse them. Even the giant cyclops was filmed in color, but was never use after the b/w first season.
That's nice. They are all reclining in their living room. Hardwood floors, fireplace, wood panel walls. Great way to travel.
My favorite episode was with The Taurons. They did not need a spaceship, they used their matter tranfsfer technology, I.e. maser beams to travel through the stars. When I was a kid I thought that was the coolest thing ever.
Also, conveniently, a much less expensive effect to film!
@@SDK-im8sl it is interesting to observe how one human being can notice and appreciate the wonder and possibility of a special effect and another can only see the banality and monetary issues in its manufacture.
The same matter transfer machine Will used to go back to Earth at Christmas!!
Great video. Jupiter 2 has always been my favourite ship. The engine sound is fantastic. I understand that Lost in Space is now around 60 yrs old. Oh for the Friday afternoons when I’d run from the school bus to the front door, hoping that there would be cheese and onion crisps to eat while I watched the show! Happy days indeed.
How about a shout-out for those few episodes of Penny with her long dark hair? Rawrrr!!😍😍😍
😍 I hear you loud and clear ! 😌👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
There's just something about a brunette.....at least in my book.
Marta was my babe 😍😍😍 Swedish beauty
The short bob cut definitely did her no justice.
I have the DVD collection love all the episodes and watch them from time to time, awesome show...love the cast and the robot and of course the Jupiter 2...they'll go down in history best space show ever
Invisible strings attached on planet backlot studio 🤫🤭😝☑️
Never FEAR, Smith is HERE !
The Jupiter 2 always seemed like it was on the edge of breaking down, crashing into something, or crash landing.
Was it made in China?
Seems to me that a ‘flying saucer” like the Jupiter 2 should be able to fly straight up while retaining the horizontal position , like a helicopter, rather than ascend like an airplane, dodging obstacles along the way. Just sayin’.
@@richparsons4205 shhhhhhh!!! That would spoil all those cool old scenes!! (Would be a cool new scene showing an above shot of the J2 with the ground pulling away smaller and smaller)! Your idea makes sense until they reach a certain speed. Going straight up would not be aerodynamic and would generate incredible heat on the top of the ship from friction and resistance with the atmosphere. Now in space, without friction, it would make sense, but would be awkward to film the side flying sideways across the screen and they would need the viewport on the “roof” to see where they were going!
No thanks to Dr Smith who was the reason half the time whether on purpose or by his bumbling clumsiness
It blew a head gasket during Episode 3 and they never fixed it.
I watched Lost in Space all the Episodes 3 times in my Life. I have all the Episodes in a Set of DVDs. Excellent Series to watch. One Family from Earth, traveling to reach Alpha Centauri thats 4.5 Light Years (5.5 L.Y Today).Living there every day Adventures. It will remain in my Heart for ever watching this Series. 🌹
EXCELLENT EDITING! Thank you.
Brings back some nice childhood memories - thanks for uploading.
Sometimes the older stuff is best!
Incredible special effects 😮
Awesome 👍
Totally
I used to wonder how that spaceship could hold so much equipment. LOVED THAT SHOW IN THE EARLY YEARS!
At 1.25 speed the liftoff seems to be slightly more realistic, from a physics point of view.
Brings back a lot of memories. Unreal what TV was prime time in those days.
The production values here were substantially higher than Star Trek's shuttlecraft takeoff in Act IV of The Galileo Seven and USS Enterprise streaking through the clouds over Nebraska in the teaser of Tomorrow is Yesterday. Really it's too bad CBS executives decided to turn LIS into a kiddie show after episode 5, sort of Captain Kangaroo in Outer Space.
I think Season 2 is when it really got bad, starting with the episode with Wally Cox and his pet giant rooster. Using a birthday party costume as a monster in that episode, and beach balls for land mines in another, showed the decline in production values (and scripts).
The special effects team headed by L.B."Bill"Abbott and the brother team of Howard and Theodore Lydecker won Emmy awards.first was the season before lost in space premiered.They won for 1st season of Voyage to the bottom of the sea and won for both lost in space and Time Tunnel. Star Trek won an Emmy for effects in it's third season but voyage space and tunnel were off by then so Trek almost won by default.it would had been interesting to have seen what Abbott sn co.could have done with trek.😀
,the irony is that today cbs owns star trek the original series same show that was jettisoned by nbc one year after lost in space out cbs's airlock
I was glued to the screen... a wonderful show at the right time..flying objects at that time was a big issue... good thing times change....😂
This is really well done. Cheers mate