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Lost In Space Episode Guide
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Lost in Space
Episode Guide
Cast: Credits:
Prof. John Robinson.....Guy Williams Creator...............Irwin Allen
Maureen Robinson.......June Lockhart Producer..............Irwin Allen
Don West................Mark Goddard Assoc. Prod....Jerry Briskin(yr.1)
Judy Robinson..........Marta Kristen William Faralla(2&3)
Will Robinson.............Billy Mumy Story Editor........Anthony Wilson
Penny Robinson.....Angela Cartwright Music Super..........Lionel Newman
Dr. Zachary Smith....Jonathan Harris Dir. Photo.......Gene Polito(yr.1)
Robot........................Bob May Frank Carson(2&3)
Special Effects.....L.B.Abbott,ACS
Howard Lydecker(yrs. 1&2)
Music................John Williams
Herman Stein
Leith Stevens
Robert Drasnin
Gerald Fried
Alexander Courage
Cyril Mockridge
Mullendore
Art Directors..Walter M. Scott (1)
Sven Wickman (1)
Jack Martin Smith (2&3)
Robert Kinoshita (2)
Frank O. Barnett(3)
Costumes.........Paul Zastupnevich
[Note: Several of the episodes contain two air dates. I am not sure of the
significance of this, but they are included anyway.]
Year 1: Black and White
The Reluctant Stowaway
Air Date: 9/15/65
Teleplay: S. Bar David
Story: Shimon Wincelberg
Director: Tony Leader
Guest Cast: Don Forbes, Hal Torey, Byron Morrow, Hoke Howell, Brett
Parker, Fred Crane, Tom Allen
In the year 1997, the Robinson family takes off in the Jupiter 2, America's
first colonization mission to Alpha Centauri. However, a spy for a foreign
country, Dr. Zachary Smith, sneaks on board and sabotages the mission by
reprogramming the ship's robot to destroy the Jupiter 2 after launch. But
Smith becomes trapped on board, and the Robinsons save the ship, but not
before it's guidance system is damaged, and the Jupiter 2 becomes lost in
space. [Note: Originally, the Robot was a villain, and not the good guy it
would later become. Also, Dr. Smith was more ruthless.]
The Derelict
Air Date: 9/22/65
Teleplay: Peter Packer
Story: Shimon Wincelberg
Director: Alex Singer
Guest Cast: Don Forbes, Dawson Palmer
The Jupiter 2 is pulled into a giant alien spaceship, where they encounter
an advanced race of bubblelike creatures. John and Don search for maps and
equipment, while Dr, Smith and Will get into trouble.
Island in the Sky
Air Date: 9/29/65
Teleplay: Norman Lessing
Story: Shimon Wincelberg
Director: Tony Leader
Guest Cast: None
While outside the ship, Prof. Robinson's parajets misfire, and he plummets
towards the planet below. Don attempts to follow in the Jupiter 2, but Dr.
Smith's sabotage causes the retro-rockets to fail, and the ship crash
lands. They then search the planet for Prof. Robinson, using the space
chariot. [Note: This is the first time the "space chariot"(a combination
tractor and bus) is used.]
There Were Giants In The Earth
Air Date: 10/6/65
Writer: Carey Wilber
Story: Shimon Wincelberg
Director: Leo Penn
Guest Cast: Lamar Lundy
John discovers that the planet they are on will soon move farther from its
sun and freeze. The Robinson's attempt to abandon the ship and move South
in hopes of surviving. They encounter a carnivorous Cyclops who impedes
their escape.
The Hungry Sea
Air Date: 10/13/65
Teleplay: William Welch
Story: Shimon Wincelberg
Director: Sobey Martin
Guest Cast: None
John discovers that the planet's orbit will again carry it back towards the
sun. The family heads back towards the Jupiter 2 in the Chariot, but
encounter earthquakes and storms. They cross an island sea to reach their
ship.
Welcome Stranger
Air Date: 10/20/65
Writer: Peter Packer
Director: Alvin Ganzer
Guest Cast: Warren Oates
The Robinsons find astronaut Jimmy Hapgood, also lost from Earth, on the
planet. They help him repair his ship, which is in better condition, so
that he can return to Earth. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson ask him to take Will
and Penny with him, but Dr. Smith plots to have himself taken instead.
However, Hapgood enjoys life in space, and no one returns to Earth.
My Friend, Mr. Nobody
Air Date: 10/27/65
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Paul Stanley
Guest Cast: William Bramley
Penny plays with an "imaginary" companion, actually a disembodied life
force living below the surface. When Dr. Smith accidentally injures Penny,
the companion unleashes its wrath across the entire planet, until Penny
intervenes and calms it down, and then it undergoes a startling
transformation.
Invaders From The Fifth Dimension
Air Dates: 11/3/65 & 8/23/66
Writer: Shimon Wincelberg
Director: Leonard Horn
Guest Cast: Ted Lohmann, Joe Ryan
Luminous aliens capture Dr. Smith, and plan to replace their burnt-out
computer with his brain. However, he bargains with them, and promises them
Will's brain instead. Thus they are pitted against the Robinsons.
The Oasis
Air Date: 11/10/65
Writer: Peter Packer
Director: Sutton Roley
Guest Cast: None
Smith eats some alien fruit before it can be tested, and grows into a
giant. Convinced that the Robinsons were trying to kill him, he plots to
finish them off. However, he is returned to normal size, and does not kill
any Robinsons.
The Sky is Falling
Air Date: 11/17/65
Writers: Barney Slater, Herman Groves
Director: Sutton Roley
Guest Cast: Don Matheson, Francoise Ruggieri, Eddie Rosson
The Robinsons find themselves unable to understand the electronic language
of a visiting space family.
Wish Upon a Star
Air Dates: 11/24/65 & 9/7/66
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Sutton Roley
Guest Cast: Dawson Palmer
Banished from the Robinson Camp, Dr. Smith takes refuge in the wreck of an
alien spaceship, where he finds a machine that can materialize anything one
wishes. To get the Robinsons to allow him back into the Jupiter 2, he
donates the machine to them. It then starts to play on their greed. The
machine's original owner, a strange Rubberoid creature, then returns to
retreive it.
The Raft
Air Date: 12/1/65
Writer: Peter Packer
Director: Sobey Martin
Guest Cast: Dawson Palmer
The Robinsons construct a small space craft capable of carrying two people
back to Earth. Dr. Smith takes off in it, with Will, but it isn't on the
Earth that they land.
One Of Our Dogs Is Missing
Air Dates: 12/8/65 & 8/24/66
Writer: William Welch
Director: Sutton Roley
Guest Cast: Dawson Palmer
The Robinsons find a suspended animation test ship with a twenty-year-old
dog in it. Then at night, food is being taken off the ship, and growling
noises are heard. It's not the dog, however, but a giant, hairy mutant who
attacks Judy, until the dog saves her.
Attack of the Monster Planets
Air Dates: 12/15/65 & 5/4/66
Writers: William Read Woodfield, Alan Balter
Director: Justin Addis
Guest Cast: None
Giant cyclamen plants, which duplicate anything put into them, make an evil
duplicate of Judy, in an attempt to get the Jupiter 2's supply of
deutronium fuel. The evil Judy feeds all of the fuel to the plants, while
Dr. Smith refuses to tell the Robinsons where the real Judy is.
Return From Outer Space
Air Dates: 12/29/65 & 5/11/66
Writer: Peter Packer
Director: Nathan Juran
Guest Cast: Reta Shaw, Walter Sande, Donald Loxby, Sheila Mathews
Will is able to use the Tauron's maser device to transport himself back to
Earth. However, nobody will believe that he is one of the Robinsons, or
that they are shipwrecked.
The Keeper
Air Dates: Part I--1/12/66 & 5/18/66 Part II--1/19/66 & 5/25/66
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Harry Harris
Guest Cast: Michael Rennie, Wilber Evans
An intergalactic zookeeper comes by, and the Robinsons are suspicious of
the way he treats them as specimens, rather than humans, which is true. He
decides to add Will and Penny to his menagerie. Hoping to steal the
Keeper's ship, Dr. Smith sneaks on board, but accidentally lets all of the
animals loose. The Keeper then says that if the Robinsons do not hand over
Will and Penny, he will allow the dangerous monsters to overrun the planet.
The Sky Pirate
Air Dates: 1/26/66 & 6/1/66
Writer: Carey Wilber
Director: Sobey Martin
Guest Cast: Albert Salmi
Will is kidnapped, and later befriends Tucker the space pirate, who is
being chased by a creature from another galaxy.
Ghost In Space
Air Dates: 2/2/66 & 6/8/66
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Sobey Martin
Guest Cast: Dawson Palmer
Dr. Smith throws an explosive into a gaseous bog, creating an invisible,
destructive force that threatens the Robinsons. Dr. Smith is convinced
that the thing is the spirit of his uncle Thaddeus. While the Robinsons
figure out how to capture it, Smith tries to exorcise it.
The War Of The Robots
Air Dates: 2/9/66 & 6/15/66
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Sobey Martin
Guest Cast: Robby the Robot
Will finds a robot and repairs it. It helps the Robinsons with their
chores, but is in actuality an evil robot created by an advanced race. It
is programmed to have a will of its own, and it plans to capture the
Robinsons for its masters, and destroy their Robot. [The robot used is
actually Robby the Robot, from several MGM SF movies.]
The Magic Mirror
Air Dates: 2/16/66 & 6/22/66
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Nathan Juran
Guest Cast: Michael J. Pollard
Penny, and her pet Bloop, Debbie (don't ask what a Bloop is! All I know is
that it is something like a chimpanzee) fall through an alien mirror into
another dimension, onto a planet inhabited by a lonely, nameless boy.
The Challenge
Air Dates: 3/2/66 & 6/29/66
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Michael Ansara, Kurt Russell
An alien and his son come to the Robinsons, and challenge John and Will to
a test of strength and courage to prove their superiority over Earthlings.
Unknown to the Robinsons, if John and Will win, they will all be killed.
The Space Trader
Air Dates: 3/9/66 & 7/6/66
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Nathan Juran
Guest Cast: Torin Thatcher
When a space merchant attempts to drum up business by destroying the
Robinson's food supply, a hungry Smith promises to will his body to the
trader in 200 years in exchange for food. Unfortunately, the fine print
allows the trader to collect immediately.
His Majesty Smith
Air Dates: 3/16/66 & 7/13/66
Writer: Carey Wilber
Director: Harry Harris
Guest Cast: Liam Sullivan, Kevin Hagen
Smith is selected to be king of an alien civilization, but later finds the
reason - the aliens select only the most useless creatures of the Universe,
to be sacrificed to their primitive deities.
The Space Croppers
Air Dates: 3/30/66 & 7/20/66
Writer: Peter Packer
Director: Sobey Martin
Guest Cast: Mercedes McCambridge, Sherry Jackson, Dawson Palmer
Hoping to get back to Earth, Smith romances the mother of a clan of space
hillbillies, unaware that they are growing a crop of plants that feed on
animal and human flesh.
All That Glitters
Air Dates: 4/6/66 & 7/27/66
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Harry Harris
Guest Cast: Werner Klemperer, Larry Ward, Ted Lehmann
A space thief entrusts Penny and Smith with a neck-ring that turns anything
the wearer touches into platinum. Smith betrays the thief and keeps the
ring for himself, then accidentally turns Penny into platinum.
The Lost Civilization
Air Dates: 4/13/66 & 8/3/66
Writer: William Welch
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Kym Karath, Royal Dano, Dawson Palmer
According to the rules of an ancient civilization, Will must marry the
princess he kissed and awoke from suspended animation. The civilization
has been stockpiling soldiers in freezing tubes, and now plans to conquer
the universe, beginning with Earth. [For a primitive planet, Earth
attracted a lot of universe-conquerers!]
A Change Of Space
Air Dates: 4/20/66 & 8/10/66
Writer: Peter Packer
Director: Sobey Martin
Guest Cast: Frank Graham
Will returns from a faster-than-light trip into the sixth dimension in an
alien spaceship with his intelligence greatly enhanced. Smith, trying to
repeat the incident, returns as an old man.
Follow The Leader
Air Dates: 4/27/66 & 8/17/66
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Gregory Morton
Knocked unconscious during a cave-in, John's mind and body are possessed by
an alien warrior's spirit. When the rest of the Robinsons become
suspicious of John's unusual behavior, he seals them up in the cave, and
plots to throw Will off a cliff. Will exorcises the spirit through the
power of his love for his father.
Year 2: Color
Blast Off Into Space
Air Dates: 9/14/66 & 5/3/67
Writer: Peter Packer
Director: Nathan Juran
Guest Cast: Strother Martin
The Robinsons prepare for a quick takeoff when they find that a mining
engineer blasting for a life-giving mineral has caused a chain-reaction of
earthquakes that will disintegrate the planet.
Wild Adventure
Air Dates: 9/21/66 & 5/10/67
Writers: William Read Woodfield, Alan Balter
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Vitina Marcus
Setting course once more for Alpha Centauri, the Robinson's journey is
again hampered by Smith, who first dumps the ship's fuel into space, then
almost pilots the Jupiter 2 into a sun. Then Athena, the Green Girl who
wants the Jupiter 2's deutronium fuel for food, hypnotises Smith into going
into space. The Robinson's rescue of him once again throws the ship off
course, and they are again lost in space.
The Ghost Planet
Air Dates: 9/28/66 & 5/17/67
Writer: Peter Packer
Director: Nathan Juran
Guest Cast: Sue England, Michael Fox
A voice claiming to be from Earth instructs Smith to land Jupiter 2 on the
planet it is passing. When Smith obeys, the Robinsons find a civilization
of robots who make humans their slaves.
The Forbidden World
Air Dates: 10/5/66 & 5/24/67
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Wally Cox, Janos Prohaska
Jupiter 2 crash lands on a planet whose only inhabitants are a strange
little hermit and his giant bird. Smith, Will, and the Robot are captured
by the alien, who plans to mobilize an army to destroy the Jupiter 2. Of
course, he has no army, as the Robinsons learn. Also, Dr. Smith drinks an
alien nectar, later realizing that it is highly explosive, and he may blow
up at any time.
Space Circus
Air Date: 10/12/66
Writers: Bob & Wanda Duncan
Director: Harry Harris
Guest Cast: James Westerfield, Melinda Fee, Harry Varteresian,
Michael Greene
A space circus comes to town (or planet), and give a show for the
Robinsons. The owner learns that Will has the power to materialize
anything he wants, when assisted. He convinces Will to run away with the
circus, for the good of his family.
The Prisoners Of Space
Air Date: 10/19/66
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Nathan Juran
Guest Cast: Dawson Palmer
An outer-space court accuses the Robinsons of various crimes during their
journey, but after questioning, it is shown that Smith was the culprit
behind each incident. The Robinsons convince the tribunal not to punish
Smith [although I don't know why!].
The Android Machine
Air Date: 10/26/66
Writers: Bob & Wanda Duncan
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Dee Hartford, Fritz Feld
Smith finds a "Celestial Department Store catalog" and accidentally orders
an emotionless "female" android, whom the Robinsons teach to be human.
Unfortunately, the department store's manager, Zumdish, either wants
payment, or the android back; preferably the android, since it has been
improved upon. When the Robinsons refuse to cooperate, the manager takes
steps to force them.
The Deadly Games Of Gamma 6
Air Date: 11/2/66
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Harry Harris
Guest Cast: Mike Kellin, Harry Monty, Ronald Weber, Peter Brocco,
Chuck Roberson
A travelling show lands on the planet, and the owner tells Smith that if he
agrees to box with a midget and wins, he will be returned to Earth.
However, it is a trick, and he loses. The troop is really testing Earth to
see if it can be conquered easily, and to save it, John challenges the
owner to a battle.
The Thief From Outer Space
Air Dates: 11/9/66 & 5/31/67
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Malachi Throne, Ted Cassidy, Maxine Gates
Convinced that the Robinsons have maps which will lead him to a space
princess, a thief captures Will, Penny, and Smith. Will is made an
apprentice thief, Penny is held prisoner, and Smith is marked for death
under a pendulum.
Curse Of Cousin Smith
Air Date: 11/16/66
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Justis Addis
Guest Cast: Henry Jones, Allan Melvin
An "alien" that Smith is terrified of turns out to be his cousin Jeremiah,
who is in cahoots with an intergalactic Mafia in an attempt to murder Dr.
Smith and claim his family inheritance.
West Of Mars
Air Dates: 11/30/66 & 7/5/67
Writer: Michael Fessier
Director: Nathan Juran
Guest Cast: Allan Melvin, Charles Arthur, Mickey Manners, Lane Bradford,
Eddie Quinlan
Smith's doppelganger, a space desperado, forces him to change clothes.
Smith is then arrested as the real gunslinger, and is taken away to another
planet to be executed for his "crimes."
A Visit To Hades
Air Dates: 12/7/66 & 9/11/68
Writer: Carey Wilber
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Gerald Mohr
Smith plays a musical instrument he finds, and is transported to hell, or
so he thinks. Actually, it's a prison for one criminal, who pretends to be
the devil in order to get Smith to help him escape. Judy and Don also
visit "hell". The key to his escape was hidden in the musical instrument,
which playing causes him pain.
The Wreck Of The Robot
Air Dates: 12/14/66 & 6/14/67
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Nathan Juran
Guest Cast: Jim Mills
Aliens steal and disassemble the Robot in order to find out how Earth
machines work. With that knowledge, they plan to build a machine to take
over all other machines on Earth, and subjugate the human race.
The Dream Monster
Air Date: 12/21/66
Writer: Peter Packer
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: John Abbott, Dawson Palmer, Harry Monty, Frank Delfino
To make his android more "human", a scientist drains all emotions from the
Robinsons, leaving them unimaginative and apathetic.
The Golden Man
Air Dates: 12/28/66 & 6/21/67
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Dennis Patrick, Ronald Gans, Bill Troy
A lesson in prejudice. Two representatives from their respective planets,
that are at war with each other, land on the Robinson's planet. One is a
handsome golden man, the other a hideous frog creature. Dr. Smith wishes
to help the Golden man destroy his foe, who claims to be the good guy,
while Penny wants to help the other, who is unfriendly to strangers. It is
later learned that the Golden man was wearing a disguise, and is even more
hideous than his foe. He was trying to trick the Robinsons into helping
him, but in the end, they saw the light.
The Girl From The Green Dimension
Air Dates: 1/4/67 & 6/28/67
Writer: Peter Packer
Director: Nathan Juran
Guest Cast: Vitina Marcus, Harry Raybould
Athena, the green girl returns. A big, mean, ugly, nasty, green brute from
her home dimension is courting her, and she draws pretty, handsome, brave,
pretty Dr. Smith into a love triangle. The big, green lug of course wishes
to kill Smith. Also, Will is accidentally turned green, but Athena thinks
he looks too 'pretty' to change back.
The Questing Beast
Air Date: 1/11/67
Writer: Carey Wilbur
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Hans Conreid, Sue England, Jeff County
A space knight, a sort of Don Quixote, arrives, claiming to be after a
ferocious dragon he has chased across the cosmos. He fills Will with
stories of quests and dragons and things, and when Will learns that most of
his stories are lies, he loses faith in people. Meanwhile, the knight
finally catches up with the dragon he has chased for most of his life, and
finds out that it is a friendly, female, sentient life form, and loses the
desire to slay her, and also his purpose in life.
The Toymaker
Air Date: 1/25/67
Writers: Bob & Wanda Duncan
Director: Robert Douglass
Guest Cast: Fritz Feld, Walter Burke, Tiger Joe Marsh, Dawson Palmer
Smith is captured by a Celestial Department Store ordering machine
(remember those?), made into a clown, and put into the toy department.
Will and the Robot follow him into the machine, and discover a passage back
to Earth.
Mutiny In Space
Air Dates: 2/1/67 & 7/26/67
Writer: Peter PAcker
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Ronald Long
An insane space pirate, Zahrk, abducts Will, Smith, and the Robot and uses
them as his crew in his relentless search for his first mate, Mr.
Christiansen, who committed mutiny.
The Space Vikings
Air Dates: 2/8/67 & 7/12/67
Writer: Margaret Brookman Hill
Director: Ezra Stone
Guest Cast: Sheila Mathews, Bern Hoffman
Dr. Smith steals the gloves and hammer of Thor, god of Thunder, and the
enraged deity challenges the good Dr. to a duel to the death. Through
trickery, Smith convinces Thor that he is ineffectual and would lose, just
when Valhalla is attacked by giants.
Rocket To Earth
Air Dates: 2/15/67 & 8/9/67
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Al Lewis
Smith plays sorcerer's apprentice to a space magician, hoping to steal his
spaceship and return to Earth. However, the ship is programmed to
self-destruct when it reaches space.
The Cave Of The Wizards
Air Dates: 2/22/67 & 8/2/67
Writer: Peter Packer
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Bob May, Dawson Palmer, Jim Mills, Michael Fox, Larry Dean
Luring Smith into a cave, a computer gradually takes over his mind and
body, transforming him into an alien. With a launch window coming up soon,
the Robinson's must get Smith's true identity to emerge, or leave him
behind.
Treasures Of The Lost Planet
Air Date: 3/1/67
Writer: Carey Wilber
Director: Harry Harris
Guest Cast: Albert Salmi, Craig Duncan, Jim Boles
A hideous mechanical head mistakes Dr. Smith for its master and tries to
lead him to a priceless treasure. A humanoid group of pirates finds out
and forces Smith to take them along. A captain joins the Robot, Will, Dr.
Smith and Penny on the treasure hunt that yields a disappointing booty.
Revolt Of The Androids
Air Dates: 3/8/67 & 7/19/67
Writer: Bob & Wanda Duncan
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Dee Hartford, Don Matheson, Dawson Palmer
Verda the department store android returns, pursued by an alien superman
sent to bring her back or destroy her. When the Robinsons win over the
superman's sympathies, the CDS machine simply creates another android,
stronger and totally devoted to destruction. ["Crush, Kill, Destroy!"]
The Colonists
Air Date: 3/15/67
Writer: Peter Packer
Director: Ezra Stone
Guest Cast: Francine York
The Robinson men are captured by female warriors and put to work, while the
women are treated to lives of luxury. The men's fate hinges on Smith, who
has wormed his way into the Amazon queen's affections and can sabotage her
base.
Trip Through The Robot
Air Dates: 3/22/67 & 8/16/67
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: None
Losing power and unable to be recharged, the dying Robot wanders into a
gaseous area, where the vapors turn him into a giant. Smith and Will crawl
inside him to reverse his ionic process, shrink him back to size, and
possibly save him.
The Phantom Family
Air Dates: 3/29/67 & 8/23/67
Writer: Peter Packer
Director: Ezra Stone
Guest Cast: Alan Hewitt
Will discovers that his family has been replaced by android duplicates.
Their creator wants Will to teach them how to act like real humans...or the
original Robinsons will die.
The Mechanical Men
Air Dates: 4/5/67 & 8/30/67
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Seymour Robbie
Guest Cast: Jim Mills
An army of tiny robots, all resembling the Robinson's Robot, lay siege to
the Robinson's camp and demand the return of their 'leader', the Robot.
The army is vicious, and want to take over the universe. They realize that
the Robot is too kind to help them, so they transfer Smith's personality
into the Robot, and vice versa.
The Astral Traveler
Air Date: 4/12/67
Writer: Carey Wilber
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Sean McClory, Dawson Palmer
Will passes through a space warp into 19th-century Scotland, where a ghost
and a monster inhabit an old castle. Smith follows, and the ghost learns
that Smith's ancestors were responsible for his death. He then plans
Smith's beheading. But mercy arrives for both Smith and the ghost (and
Angus the monster!) from beyond.
The Galaxy Gift
Air Date: 4/26/67
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Ezra Stone
Guest Cast: John Carradine, Jim Mills
Penny's loyalties are tested when she must either watch her family die or
give up an amulet an alien warned her not to. Other aliens will transport
her to an unreal "Earth" as a reward, if she will sacrifice the gift. They
persuade Dr. Smith to help them trick Penny.
Year 3: Color
The Condemned Of Space
Air Dates: 9/6/67 & 3/20/68
Writer: Peter Packer
Director: Nathan Juran
Guest Cast: Marcel Hillaire, Robby the Robot
Jupiter 2 lifts off only hours before the planet is scheduled to collide
with a comet. In space once more, the Robinson's discover a ship full of
frozen criminals. Smith releases one, who releases another, and so on, and
so on...until a fullscale escape is mounted.
Visit To A Hostile Planet
Air Date: 9/13/67 & 3/13/68
Writer: Peter Packer
Director: Sobey Martin
Guest Cast: Pitt Herbert, Robert Foulk, Robert Pine, Norman Leavitt,
Clair Wilcox
The Jupiter 2 is thrust back in time and lands on Earth in the year 1947,
50 years before they left. The ship is mistaken for a UFO, and a small
town near where they land prepares to fight off the invading 'Martians'.
Determined to stay on any 'Earth', Smith joins the townspeople, and Will is
captured.
Kidnapped In Space
Air Dates: 9/20/67 & 3/27/68
Writer: Robert Hammer
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Grant Sullivan, Carol Williams, Joey Russo
Androids, ruled by a giant computer, capture the Jupiter 2 and force the
Robot to operate on their failing leader. Meanwhile, Smith tampers with a
time-control device and is turned into a little boy. Shockingly, John is
killed by a laser beam. It is learned that the androids can control time.
Hunter's Moon
Air Dates: 9/27/67 & 4/3/68
Writer: Jack Turley
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Vincent Beck
John (yes, he lived) kills an attacking monster which turns out to be the
quarry of Megazor, a hunter. As punishment, John is made his new quarry in
a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
The Space Primevals
Air Dates: 10/4/67 & 4/10/68
Writer: Peter Packer
Director: Nathan Juran
Guest Cast: Arthur Batanides
On their way to cap a threatening volcano, Don and Smith are captured by
primitives who are governed by a computer, and face two possible deaths:
execution by the tribe, or burning under the lava of the volcano.
The Space Destructors
Air Dates: 10/11/67 & 4/17/68
Writer: Robert Hamner
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Tommy Farrell
Smith finds an android-creating device and makes himself a set of
conquering soldiers who look exactly like him, and dreams of conquering the
galaxy. In trying to stop him, Will falls into the machine, and emerges
with Smith's face and a lust for killing.
The Haunted Lighthouse
Air Dates: 10/18/67 & 4/24/68
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Sobey Martin
Guest Cast: Lou Wagner, Woodrow Parfrey, Kenya Coburn
Before leaving their planet, which is being swept by a space storm, the
Robinsons find and take along an alien boy named J-5. They find a
lighthouse in space and stop in, where the boy's mental powers and unusual
'pet' are unleashed.
Flight Into The Future
Air Dates: 10/25/67 & 5/1/68
Writer: Peter Packer
Director: Sobey Martin
Guest Cast: Don Eitner, Lew Gallo
Will, Smith, and the Robot land the Space Pod on a planet which seemingly
defies logic. They find fruit that explodes, invisible birds that cast
shadows, a deserted wreck of the Jupiter 2, a monument to the Robot, and
people who say they are the descendants of the Robinsons, and that the year
is 2270 A.D.
Collision Of The Planets
Air Dates: 11/8/67 & 5/8/68
Writer: Peter Packer
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Dan Travanty, Linda Gaye Scott, Joey Tata, Dawson Palmer
Four space hippies are assigned by their leader to blow up the planet that
the Robinsons are living on, without giving them time to make repairs and
leave. Their only hope seems to be Smith, who has been transformed into a
space-age Samson with green hair by a weird gas.
The Space Creature
Air Dates: 11/15/67 & 5/15/68
Writer: William Welch
Director: Sobey Martin
Guest Cast: Ronald Gans
Jupiter 2 is locked into orbit around a planet which harbors a creature
that feeds on fear. In order to create its life-food, the being causes the
Robinsons to disappear from the ship one by one, leaving a psychotic Dr.
Smith, who is trying to murder Will.
Deadliest Of The Species
Air Dates: 11/22/67 & 5/22/68
Writer: Robert Hamner
Director: Sobey Martin
Guest Cast: Ronald Gans, Lyle Waggoner, Sue England
The Robot falls in love with a female robot, who is being hunted by law
officers of her world for being a killer.
A Day At The Zoo
Air Dates: 11/29/67 & 5/29/68
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Irving Moore
Guest Cast: Leonard Stone, Gary Tigerman, Ronald Weber
An intergalactic showman, Farnum B., puts the Robinsons on exhibit in his
space zoo. During an escape attempt, Will and his captor fall into another
time zone, while Dr. Smith uses Farnum's caveboy-helper to take control of
the zoo's operation.
Two Weeks In Space
Air Dates: 12/13/67 & 6/5/68
Writer: Robert Hamner
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Fritz Feld, Richard Krishner, Eric Matthews, Edy Williams,
Carroll Roebke
Zumdish, now operating a tour agency (finally quit the Celestial Department
Store), comes to the Robinson's planet with clients. Smith seizes the
opportunity to turn the presently-empty Jupiter 2 into a resort hotel,
unaware that four of the vacationing aliens are really murderers hiding
from the law.
Castles In Space
Air Dates: 12/20/67 & 6/12/68
Writer: Peter Packer
Director: Sobey Martin
Guest Cast: Alberto Monte, Corinna Tsopei
The Robinsons give refuge to a beautiful ice princess who is running from a
bounty hunter. When the hunter captures Will, he suggests a trade: the boy
for the princess. The Robot takes on the hunter like "el Toro" to save the
princess.
Anti-Matter Man
Air Date: 12/27/67 & 6/19/68
Writers: Barney Slater & Robert Hamner
Director: Sutton Roley
Guest Cast: None
An experiment gone awry transports John to an anti-matter world, and sends
his evil double back. Will, Smith, and the Robot attempt to rescue John,
who is being guarded by a psychotic, bearded double of Don, and a shackled,
evil Robot. The evil John is willing to kill everyone to keep his freedom
from the miserable anti-matter world.
Target: Earth
Air Dates: 1/3/68 & 6/26/68
Writer: Peter Packer
Director: Nathan Juran
Guest Cast: James Gosa, Brent Davis, Thant Brann
Shapeless aliens imprison the Robinsons and make themselves into their
doubles (boy, they sure had a lot of problems with imposters), and then
hijack the Jupiter 2, planning to go back and conquer the Earth (again!
<sigh>) . They reprogram the Robot to help them. Will and Smith escape,
capture their doubles, and replace them on the journey, in an attempt to
stop them.
Princess Of Space
Air Dates: 1/10/68 & 7/3/68
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Robert Foulk, Arte Johnson, Sheila Mathews
Confusion surrounds Penny's lineage when she is taken for a space princess,
put onto an alien ship, and trained to take over the throne of an another
planet.
The Time Merchant
Air Dates: 1/17/68 & 7/24 68
Writers: Bob & Wanda Duncan
Director: Ezra Stone
Guest Cast: John Crawford, Byron Morrow, Hoke Howell
A time merchant, living in a Daliesque world, prepares to kill the
Robinsons because they accidentally interrupted his time-trip. Smith, sent
back to Earth in 1997, must re-board the Jupiter 2, or watch it be
destroyed.
The Promised Planet
Air Dates: 1/24/68 & 9/4/68
Writer: Peter Packer
Director: Ezra Stone
Guest Cast: Gil Rogers, Keith Taylor
Told that they are approaching an Earth colony, the Robinsons land on a
planet whose culture is totally geared for teenagers. Soon, subtle
brainwashing causes the older Robinsons and the children to disassociate
themselves from each other. Smith becomes a hippie.
Fugitives In Space
Air Dates: 1/31/68 & 7/31/68
Writer: Robert Hamner
Director: Ezra Stone
Guest Cast: Michael Conrad, Tol Avery
Don and Smith are framed as criminals and sent to the toughest prison in
the galaxy. While Will and the Robot try to figure a way to get them out,
Don and Smith argue over whether or not to go along with a criminal's
escape plan.
Space Beauty
Air Dates: 2/14/68 & 8/14/68
Writer: Jackson Gillis
Director: Irving Moore
Guest Cast: Leonard Stone, Dee Hartford, Miriam Schillar
Farnum B. is back, and now in the beauty contest business. He tries to
sign Judy up as a contestant. Unknown to the Robinsons, if Farnum can't
get her to sign, his master, a man of fire, will keep his soul.
The Flaming Planet
Air Dates: 2/21/68 & 7/10/68
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Abraham Sofaer
To alleviate a crisis, Jupiter 2 must orbit a planet for several hours.
However, the alien living there, the last of a proud warrior race, will not
permit it unless someone stays behind to wage him one last war, using the
planet's extensive weaponry.
The Great Vegetable Rebellion
Air Dates: 2/28/68 & 7/17/68
Writer: Peter Packer
Director: Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Stanley Adams, James Millhollin
On another planet, Dr. Smith plucks a flower, arousing accusations of
murder from a giant, talking carrot, who plans to punish the Robinsons by
turning them into plants. [EGADS!]
Junkyard Of Space
Air Dates: 3/6/68 & 8/21/68
Writer: Barney Slater
Director: Ezra Stone
Guest Cast: Marcel Hillaire
Jupiter 2 lands on a planet used as the galaxy's junkyard. With the ship's
food supply deteriorating, Smith sacrifices first the Robot's memory banks
to the mechanical junkman, then the Jupiter 2 itself.
[At this point the show was cancelled. Many feel that the series' first
season had been true science fiction, and part of the second, but after
that the show deteriorated to campy humor and true silliness (The Great
Vegetable Rebellion!!?). However, despite criticism, it drew somewhat of a
cult following, and prospered for some time in syndication. As of this
date, Billy Mumy has been attempting to get together a reunion revival of
the series, but as of yet, no success.]
End Of Series
The technical information and some of the summarizations for this
compilation are taken from:
STARLOG's Photo Guidebook of TV EPISODE GUIDES, Vol. I
Gary Gerani's "Fantastic Television" from Harmony Books
All notes and other summarizations are by: Elliott Buchholz
[Buchholz@RU-GREEN]
Edited by Saul Jaffe (Moderator, Sf-Lovers)
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