Monster of the Day #3393

Updated on May 15, 2023 By Ken Begg 8 Comments

Turns out Amazon Prime (currently) has the three seasons of Lost in Space. So the second to last episode, The Great Vegetable Revolution, was an obvious choice. And hey, an ‘hour’ of TV back then was 51 minutes, not 40, so it was close to being a short movie. If anything, people might have actually liked it even more than The Fat Spy. If such a thing is possible.

Well-known character actor Stanley Adams *really* committed to playing the intellectual carrot, by the way. I’ll say this, while Irwin Allen’s other sci-fi shows could seem a bit stolid, Lost is Space remains campy fun, largely due to Jonathan Harris and the Robot. I can’t imagine we won’t dip into the series again, assuming it remains available long enough.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    Yeah, the rest of Irwin Allen’s TV shows didn’t really have any fun, goofy characters, did they? The only one I’m familiar with was Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and everyone there was pretty stolid.

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    Fitzhugh in “Land of the Giants” tried to be the comic foil.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I never saw any episode from Land of the Giants. And the only thing I remember from The Time Tunnel was that the machine had puffs of smoke erupt from the floor whenever things went wrong.

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    My memory was LOTG was not that bad and kind of scary at times. The smart move was that the giant’s government was more of a police state and not just like us so it made it difficult to find helpful souls which might be the case in real life.

  • It’s been decades since I watched and episode of Lost in Space, and I’d never seen this particular one. So for it to be the first thing I’d seen of the show in so long was a… treat?

    Actually, ignoring the silly premise, it wasn’t that bad. In fact, had some one given a damn about writing it, it might have turned out to be a fairly creepy one. I liked it and look forward to more.

    Though not enough to seek out on my own…

  • Gamera977

    I sat down and watched the first three episodes this weekend. And I enjoyed it, reminds me of ‘Space 1999′, aka it wasn’t all that good but it’s entertaining.

    Although the less goofy more malevolent Dr. Smith from the early episodes was just nuts- gee friggin’ whiz! In the third episode he sabotages John Robinson’s jetpack causing him to crash on a desolate planet. Then he threatens Major West and Mrs. Robinson with the robot to get them to abandon John and go back to Earth. And to cap it all off to end the episode he reprograms the robot to kill the Robinsons and it attacks Will!

    I’m sorry, I’m not a violent person but I swear I’d have tossed Smith out the airlock and went John Henry on the robot with a maul hammer. Or at least abandoned him on the alien planet. Major West had the right idea, stick Smith in one of the cryo-chambers and leave him in deep freeze. Any of those would have worked, but leaving his sorry traitorous #$# wandering around the ship was just insane…

    BTW: So the Jupiter II left Earth in 1997??? Did I sleep though this!?!?!

  • Eric Hinkle

    I read that Dr. Smith’s actor asked that they make his character more of a goof than the outright villain he started as in the show. As he put it, “If he’s so evil, then why doesn’t the family on the Jupiter II just get rid of him?”

  • Eric Hinkle

    Ah, Lost In Space. It may have been goofy – okay, it was definitely goofy – but I have some warm memories of watching this with my father as he laughed himself sick at Dr. Smith’s antics and inevitable comeuppance every episode.