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DVD Lost in Space - Season 2, Vol. 1
While Lost in Space may never enter the pantheon of great television programming, the 1960s sci-fi show certainly has its charms, all of them in evidence on this first volume of episodes from the second season. Produced by Irwin Allen, who would later be responsible for blockbuster disaster films like The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure, these 16 episodes from 1966-67 (spread out over four DVDs) find the show undergoing some changes, both technically (from black & white into color) and in terms of tone (more campy and tongue-in-cheek, especially as the season goes on). The latter is due in large part to the performance of Jonathan Harris as Dr. Zachary Smith, who puts the "arch" in archvillain (it was his meddling that got them all lost in the first place). Harris's portrayal of Smith as cowardly, duplicitous, pompous, and not a little fey often goes right over the top, but the other characters (including Guy Williams as Prof. John Robinson, June Lockhart as his wife Maureen, and young Bill Mumy as Will) are so bland and generic that Harris, the family robot, and guest stars like Strother Martin and Wally Cox offer the only available relief.
The Lost in Space storylines are predictable (almost always involving some alien-related jeopardy prompted by Smith's greed and foolishness) and the special effects and production values won't excite anyone used to the wonders of the digital age. Still, this is television, where budgets are smaller and schedules much tighter, so lowered expectations are in order anyway. Some users may feel shortchanged by the absence of extra features, or by the fact that the set doesn't include the entire season (the second part is available separately). But the transfers are good and the DVD menus easily navigable. But on the whole Lost in Space devotees--and there are many of them--should be well satisfied. --Sam Graham
I bought this series because I remembered it from my childhood and thought it would be a fresh alternative to the repulsive programming currently on broacast TV. I've NOT been dissappointed. Both my 12 girl and 10 year old boy are crazy about it. The first episode actually has the family praying in the face of great danger, as in the original movie and book: "The Smith Family Robinson". They really enjoy the zany Dr. Smith and the Robot. Dr. Smith's many foibles give us plenty of fodder for family discussions on character. One downside is that the monsters are somewhat "cheezy" and low budget but the plots are creative and entertaining. A good alternative to modern TV. We won'tlet cable TV in our house. There's no need and the downside has become frightening.
Camp classic for children and adults alike.
When I was a child I just loved this outer space adventure of an all American family trying to survive in a hostile world(s). As a teenager watching these shows in reruns my pleasure came from the cheap looking sets and often re-used props and stock footage of alien space ships arriving and leaving. Jonathan Harris' Dr Smith was no longer an annoyance (as I thought as a child) but the best reason to watch the show. As an adult I can only think of Dr Smith's character which due to the "special guest star" status credit as the best series long guest star in the history of TV. Jonathan Harris is just brilliant at pulling the hood over the white toast Robinson family episode after episode. This lovable villain is filled with as many witty barbs, excuses and verbal flourishes as he is saddled with just about every imaginable human fault. This show belongs to Harris and the producers seemed to realize that midway through the first season much to the dismay of the lead actor Guy Williams. Lost in Space all these years later is a blast unless you are some kind of bubble headed booby!
A Farcical Fantasy
Lost In Space Season 2 picks right up where Season 1 ended, by introducing us again to "comedic villain" of the week. And despite an almost 3 episode stretch where you can feel a slight return to pure adventure, it takes the "comedic villain" of the week formula and adds on farce and fantasy. Thus, you have season 2.
Season 2 Volume 1 is the first half of a season that tried to reinvent the series but it then crashes (literally) head first into farce. That doesn't mean it wasn't often charming and fun, but the Lost in Space of early Season 1 would never return. The opening episode, Blast of Into Space is an episode that rids us of the villain early to focus once again on the plight of their situation. "Wild Adventure", the best of Season 2 and one of the strongest of the series, is a great space bound adventure getting them close to Earth. And while Ghost Planet was silly at times, it wasn't a planet that they were stuck on.
However, from the middle of Forbidden World on, the adventure element was nearly gone and we had fun, comical episodes wish some dashes of danger. The first half of Season 2, featured in this volume, is arguably the best. "Prisoners of Space" gave us a break from the visiting villain and while a flashback show, it was fairly riveting for the series. After that, we enter a stretch of bland yet still entertaining episodes. "The Golden Man" featured horrible masks and beach ball bombs but it was one of the stronger shows of the season. As volume 1 ends, we start hitting some of the worst episodes of the series.
The DVD transfers are crisp and colorful but one expected them to be just a little better. I understand the marketing reasons for splitting the seasons up but for fans of the show, it isn't a great idea.
Volume 1 is an essential part of your Lost in Space Collection. While it doesn't approach the storytelling strength of Season 1, we do have some of the oddest collection of aliens to ever be seen on the screen.
For fans of the 60's series, the release of first fifteen episodes of the third (and final) season of Irwin Allen's sci-fi/fantasy is a revelation. All the wild colors, campy situations, over-the-top Jonathan Harris histrionics, limited scenes and stereotypical roles for the women, and futuristic gadgetry are here in this abbreviated release. The best of the show's last season are presented wherein a second disc containing only nine episodes is available separately.
That makes for the major complaint against Twentieth-Century Fox. Obviously, the company realizes that we fans will fork over the bucks necessary to obtain the show, in whatever form it takes, much to our own chagrin. However, it would've been more appreciative to us had the entire season been released... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Guy Williams DVD Release Date: Released the 01 March 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Lost in Space began life in 1965 as a science-fiction take on The Swiss Family Robinson. Produced by Irwin Allen, then in the midst of his run of spectacular-but-childish TV sci-fi (before he became the master of big-screen disaster movies), the show featured a family of all-American space colonists cast away on a mysterious planet. Gradually the whole thing devolved into a silly (but sometimes fun) exercise in childish camp. This boxed set includes all 29 black and white episodes from the first season (with a burst of color at the end of the last show--a foretaste of the garish look of the remaining two seasons) along with "No Place to Hide," the expensive pilot show that sold the series but prompted Allen to revamp the whole premise in comic mode when network execs... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Guy Williams DVD Release Date: Released the 13 January 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Here we finaly have the last episodes of Lost in Space.The only problem is that there is no formal ending to the series.But this is well worth buying and owning.The episodes are crisp and clear(as is the sound).
Get this one becouse among others this is the set that has the most talked about episode"The Great Vegetable Rebellion"! More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Guy Williams DVD Release Date: Released the 19 July 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The first indication that this made-for-TV tribute to Lost in Space was hastily slapped together is its choice of hosts. Instead of picking somebody associated with the show, or with show creator Irwin Allen, or even with science fiction, the producers picked sitcom star John Larroquette. That's the first of a series of awkward choices (Larroquette's banter with the Robot is particularly awful), which reaches its nadir in a segment in which Billy Mumy, Jonathan Harris, and the Robot reunite--in character as Will Robinson, Dr. Smith, and the Robot--on the reconstructed deck of the Jupiter 2, and pretend to get lost in space... forever! Ick.
The fact that Billy Mumy was a producer and cowriter on this project only erodes the credibility he built up for himself... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Kevin Burns (III) DVD Release Date: Released the 04 April 2000 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Forget about a three-hour tour--Gilligan's Island fans can sit right back and enjoy all 32 episodes of the much-loved television comedy and even a few extras with this three-disc set. GI aficionados will probably argue which episode deserves to be called the best in the series' three-year history until the end of time, but few will disagree that its sophomore season (1965-66) contains some of its funniest and best-remembered episodes. For starters, season 2 marks the show's debut in color, as well as the first time the Professor (Russell Johnson) and Mary Ann (Dawn Wells) were mentioned in the opening theme song (all of this occurs in the season opener, "Gilligan's Mother-in-Law"). But it also includes such classic episodes as "Hi Fi Gilligan" (Gilligan picks up radio... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Ida Lupino - Richard Donner - John Rich - Rodney Amateau - Tom Montgomery DVD Release Date: Released the 11 January 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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