{"id":14813,"date":"2017-08-25T12:37:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T16:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougbittinger.com\/thoughts\/?p=14813"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:37","slug":"lost-in-space-no-place-to-hide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/lost-in-space-no-place-to-hide\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in Space: No Place to Hide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-14815\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180124135353\/http:\/\/dougbittinger.com\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cover-Art_Lost-in-Space-original-TV-series-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lost In Space\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/>As a kid, the highlight of my week was laying on the floor of our living room and watching the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0058824\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">weekly episode<\/a> of<strong> <em>Lost in Space<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 I thought that was the greatest show ever made!\u00a0 Many years later I revisited a few of those episodes and came away wondering, &#8220;What was I *thinking*?!&#8221;\u00a0 By modern standards the classic version left a lot to be desired.\u00a0 Still, I remember it fondly as a major part of my childhood as my love for <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/movie-review-round-up\/\">science fiction<\/a> bloomed.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14823 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/PineyMountainFoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cover-Art_Lost-in-Space-The-New-Journeys-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/>In 1998 a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120738\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">remake<\/a> was released as a movie which I enjoy much more.\u00a0 There is a rumor floating around that NetFlix is doing another re-make: but all I can find is the artwork.\u00a0 Although this appears to be the cover of a book by Nancy Krulik, so &#8230; someone may be pulling my leg.<\/p>\n<p>Today I came across a never-aired pilot for the original <em>Lost in Space<\/em> TV show.<\/p>\n<p>This abandoned Lost in Space TV pilot does NOT have the characters of Dr. Zachary Smith (Johnathan Harris) (an improvement in my opinion) or the Robot (I miss him), and the spaceship is called the Gemini 12 not the Jupiter 2.\u00a0 Also the music from the 1951 movie <em>The Day The Earth Stood Still<\/em> by Bernard Hermann is used.<\/p>\n<p>A synopsis of the plot is listed below the video in case you want to watch it without spoilers.\u00a0 It&#8217;s 50 minutes long and is the complete video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x2ja6pw\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><i><\/i><\/p>\n<h1>Lost in Space never aired pilot plot<\/h1>\n<p>In the year 1997, the Robinson family leaves Earth in the Gemini 12 space ship and sets out on a journey to be the first humans to colonize Alpha Centauri. Disaster strikes when their ship encounters a meteor storm, veers off course and crash lands on an alien planet. By December 2001, after a delayed revival from suspended animation, the family has settled in over a six month period and made the planet their home, but a severe winter is coming and they must journey south. Traveling in their all-terrain &#8220;chariot,&#8221; the family encounters fearsome cyclops monsters, survives a stormy sea, and explores the cave of an ancient civilization. Eventually they find a tropical region and set up camp, but unbeknownst to them they are being observed by a pair of humanoid aliens.<\/p>\n<p>Guest stars: Don Forbes (TV Commentator), Ford Rainey (The President), Lamar Lundy (The Giant).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a kid, the highlight of my week was laying on the floor of our living room and watching the weekly episode of Lost in Space.&nbsp; I thought that was the greatest show ever made!&nbsp; Many years later I revisited a few of those episodes and came away wondering, &ldquo;What was I *thinking*?!&rdquo;&nbsp; By modern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/lost-in-space-no-place-to-hide\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lost in Space: No Place to Hide&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[71,13],"class_list":["post-14813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share-the-love","tag-history","tag-scifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20811,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14813\/revisions\/20811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}