Lost in Space (1965)
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Episodes 53
October 16, 1997. The Robinsons become America's first family in space as part of an effort to colonize the Alpha Centauri star system. Their space ship, the "Gemini 12", runs into a meteor shower and goes off course, crashing on an uncharted planet. The Robinsons must deal with adversities such as a giant cyclops, earthquakes, and extreme cold. They also discover the remains of an ancient civilization in a cave.
Read MoreThe Reluctant Stowaway
In the year 1997 the Robinson family take off to colonize Alpha Centauri. A spy from a foreign country AKA Dr. Smith becomes trapped aboard trying to sabotage the project. The ship is whisked off course and into a meteor storm due to Dr. Smith's extra weight upsetting the navigational computers. Smith desperately tries to save himself by reviving the crew. The result: the Robinson family becomes lost in space.
Read MoreCBS Network Presentation
CBS Pitch Featurette: The original "Lost in Space" presentation from network executives to prospective advertisers.
Read MoreThe Derelict
The Jupiter 2 is pulled into a giant alien spaceship where there are advanced bubble-like creatures. While John and Don look for maps and equipment Dr Smith and Will look for trouble.
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Preview of the next episode Visit to a Hostile Planet.
Read MoreIsland in the Sky
Professor Robinson attempts to explore a planet that the Robinson's are planning to land on. His para-jet propulsion system fails due to sabotage by Dr. Smith. Major West "lands" the Jupiter II, in spite of the fact that Dr. Smith has also sabotaged the propulsion system of the Jupiter II, and the family and Major West rescue Professor Robinson.
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Preview of the next episode Kidnapped in Space.
Read MoreThere Were Giants in the Earth
John discovers that the planet they are on will travel further from the sun.In an attempt to survive the Robinsons pack up and head south. Dr Smith stays at the Jupiter 2 site while the Robinson family encounter a terrifying cyclops and an ancient deserted city.
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Preview of the next episode Hunter's Moon.
Read MoreThe Hungry Sea
Professor Robinson discovers that the planets orbit will bring immense heat on the spaceship. With that knowledge the Robinson's take off in the chariot and head south. However back at the Jupiter two, Dr Smith who stayed behind because he believed them to be lying, realises that the orbit is strange, bringing immense cold followed by extreme heat. He sends the Robot to tell them, and they then attempt to travel back to the Jupiter 2. However in their way is a huge in-land sea which previously had been frozen solid. The immense heat and cold make the vegetation charred. They survive the heat and return to the Jupiter Two where they are most safe.
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Preview of the next episode The Space Primevals.
Read MoreWelcome Stranger
Jimmy Hapgood lands on the planet and the Robinsons befriend him.After helping him fix his spaceship the Robinsons try and convince him to take Will and Penny back to Earth with him.But Dr Smith trys to get aboard the ship back to Earth.
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Preview of the next episode Space Destructors.
Read MoreMy Friend, Mr. Nobody
Penny "imagines" a new companion, which is a disembodied life force living below the surface. Dr. Smith accidentally injures Penny, leading to the creature taking his anger out on the entire planet.
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Preview of the next episode The Haunted Lighthouse.
Read MoreInvaders from the Fifth Dimension
Luminous aliens capture Dr Smith and plan to replace thir burnt out computer with his brain.Smith bargains with them and they attempt to use Wills brain instead.
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Preview of the next episode Flight into the Future.
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Preview of the next episode Collision of Planets.
Read MoreThe Sky Is Falling
The Robinsons can not understand the language of a visiting family also on the planet. The aliens are called Taurons, and come to use the planet as a new colony. However Dr. Smith causes problems between the two camps when he panics and draws a gun on the new family. The Taurons end up not liking the planet and want to be alone, so they leave.
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Preview of the next episode Space Creature.
Read MoreWish Upon a Star
The Robinson family banish Smith from the Jupiter 2.He takes refuge in an abandoned spaceship where he finds a machine that can materilise anything.In an attempt to get back into the Robinsons good books he gives them the machine which plays on the familys greed.
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Preview of the next episode Deadliest of the Species.
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Preview of the next episode A Day at the Zoo.
Read MoreOne of Our Dogs Is Missing
The women of Lost in Space are featured in their very own episode while the boys are out installing communications equipment. Smith is left in charge (boy is that a mistake) and he ""cleans"" their weapons, but cannot remember how to rebuild the weapons. This leaves the J2 crew defenseless.
A creepy creature stalks the Robinson women however they think a small dog is to blame for raids on food and other mischief.
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Preview of the next episode Two Weeks in Space.
Read MoreAttack of the Monster Plants
Plants grow to huge proportions and can duplicate any item placed in them - but those items are made of plant material and are useless. John Robinson must use the biggest batch of plant killer he's ever mixed up to stop these things from engulfing the spaceship.
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Preview of the next episode Castles in Space.
Read MoreNext on Lost in Space (Castles in Space)
Preview of the next episode The Anti-Matter Man.
Read MoreReturn from Outer Space
Lost in Space's only Christmas program. Will uses an alien transporter to send himself back to earth. However, many people believe the Robinson family to be dead after hearing the ship went off course. Nobody on Earth believes him, and they lock him up with the intention of sending him to a boys' home.
Will escapes the family home he's in, and wanders around these clueless bunch of townspeople, but finds carbon tetrachoride — needed for the food processors on the Jupiter. Eventually he convinces another boy, Davey, to let him out, and let him return to the planet he came from. He returns to Priplanus with this bottle. Of course no one believes his adventures until he produces the bottle, plainly labeled as coming from Earth.
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Preview of the next episode Target Earth.
Read More3rd Season Network Bumpers & Tags (Play All)
Various intros for sponsors and the beginning of the main feature!
Read MoreThe Keeper (1)
The Keeper, played by Michael Rennie, is a zoo keeper. He wants to take the children and add them to his collection.
This episode is the only two parter from the series.
Read More3rd Season Network Bumpers & Tags (Brought to you by)
One style of intro for sponsors and the beginning of the main feature!
Read MoreThe Keeper (2)
The second part of the zookeeper played by Michael Rennie. Rennie turns in a memorable performance as The Keeper. His understated performance keeps dramatic tension where none would probably exist with a lessor actor.
Read More3rd Season Network Bumpers & Tags (Will Continue)
One style of intro for sponsors and the beginning of the main feature!
Read MoreThe Sky Pirate
The Robinsons meet a space traveler who turns out to be an Earth man, Alonzo P. Tucker, who was abducted from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, by aliens, in 1876. Tucker befriends Will by telling tall tales about being a pirate, but it turns out that he is only an ordinary man being pursued by aliens because he has stolen a mind reading device from them. Tucker returns the mind reading device to his alien pursuers, saving the Robinsons in the process.
Read More3rd Season Network Bumpers & Tags (Music)
One style of intro for sponsors and the beginning of the main feature!
Read MoreGhost in Space
Dr. Smith holds a seance to contact his Uncle Thaddeus. Instead a spirit creature is contacted and creates havoc for the Robinsons. It is later discovered that the ""spirit creature"" is a physical creature, rendered invisible by the properties of the ""ionized gas"" in the bog from which it came.
Read More3rd Season Network Bumpers & Tags (Brought to you by (#2))
One style of intro for sponsors and the beginning of the main feature!
Read MoreWar of the Robots
Will and Dr. Smith stumble upon another robot. More capable than their own robot the alien robot works to gain the confidence of the Robinsons. At a critical point he plans to transport them to his home planet as slaves.
Read MoreProgram Interstitials (Play All)
All the behind the scenes from season three volume 1!
Read MoreThe Magic Mirror
Penny and Judy stumble upon a mirror. They discover someone is on the otherside. Before they know it they are transported to the mirror universe which is occupied by only one person, a boy who is lonesome for companionship.
Read MoreProgram Interstitials (Special Effects)
Behind the scenes about the special effects in Lost in Space.
Read MoreProgram Interstitials (Space Destructors)
Behind the scenes about the masks of Dr. Smith used in Lost in Space.
Read MoreThe Challenge
An alien boy is sent to Priplanis to validate his prince status. Will is drawn into a battle to the death unbeknowest to his father. Once his real intentions are known John substitutes himself in the challenge and the Alien Ruler substitutes himself for his son.
Read MoreProgram Interstitials (Cool Guest Stars)
Behind the scenes about the guest stars in Lost in Space.
Read MoreThe Space Trader
After the entire Robinson food supply is wiped out in a freak storm a trader arrives to trade food for equipment the Robinson's possess.
Dr. Smith trades the robot for food and hoards the supplies for himself. Later, after the Robinson's discover his transaction he gets the robot back but in exchange for his own self. The Trader then wants to take Smith as a slave, to another planet.
Read MoreProgram Interstitials (Robby the Robot)
Behind the scenes about Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet in Lost in Space.
Read MoreHis Majesty Smith
Dr. Smith is conscripted as the leader of a people from another world. Little does he know that the leaders of these people are routinely sacrificed and replaced with other expendible leaders. Smith is just one of a long line of sacrificed rulers.
Read MoreProgram Interstitials (June's Favorite Set)
Behind the scenes about June's favorite set in Lost in Space.
Read MoreProgram Interstitials (Four Jupiter Twos)
Behind the scenes about the various Jupiter II's in Lost in Space.
Read MoreThe Space Croppers
The Beverly Hillbillies move to Priplanis. One of the aliens turns into a werewolf at night. The leader is a articulent female which Smith tries to court so he may have transportation back to earth. Don falls for the sexy alien daughter.
Read MoreProgram Interstitials (How Many Robots?)
Behind the scenes about the number of robots in Lost in Space.
Read MoreAll That Glitters
In this retelling of "The Midis Touch", Dr. Smith gains the power to turn anything into platinum. Penny is given a gift by a thief on the run, who tells her to protect it for him. She and Dr. Smith discover that it leads them to a ring which, when worn, allows the person to turn anything to platinum, which Dr. Smith does and enjoys. However, when it turns even his food to platinum, he is unable to remove the ring, which is now a solid bar. He leaves the camp as he fears turning everything into platinum, and he will eventually starve to death. A galactic lawman is on the trail, looking for the stolen device to use for his own nefarious purposes.
Read MoreProgram Interstitials (Irwin's Birthday)
Behind the scenes Easter egg about the director Irwin Allen in Lost in Space.
Read MoreThe Lost Civilization
The Robinson men discover an underground civilization while exploring the planet. Will wakes a sleeping princess who wants him to remain and rule with her.
Read MoreProgram Interstitials (Sci-Fi Gadgets)
Behind the scenes about the cool gadgets in Lost in Space.
Read MoreA Change of Space
The Intergalactic Delivery Service comes to Priplanus. Once again Dr. Smith seeks transportation and has Will "test drive" the spaceship. Will returns much smarter than when he left. Smith realizing the same could happen to him, the increase of intellect, boards the spaceship. His trip, however, ends in his rapid aging and subsequent impending death. To make matters worse, the owner of the spaceship has returned to take the vehicle back, stranding Will and Dr. Smith in their altered state.
Read MoreProgram Interstitials (The Robot's Voice)
Behind the scenes about the voice of the robot in Lost in Space.
Read MoreFollow the Leader
John Robinson is possessed by an alien spirit. The alien forces the family to prepare to return to the spirit's home world, even if it requires he sacrifice Will to keep his secret from the rest of the family.
Read MoreProgram Interstitials (Robot On Fire)
Behind the scenes about some funny moments in Lost in Space.
Read MoreProgram Interstitials (Bob May's Favorite Episode)
Behind the scenes about Bob May's favorite episode in Lost in Space.
Read MoreProgram Interstitials (Greensleeves)
Behind the scenes about the special effects Easter egg crossovers in Lost in Space.
Read MoreProgram Interstitials (Bill's Favorite Episode)
Behind the scenes about Bill's favorite episode in Lost in Space.
Read MoreProgram Interstitials (Alliteratives)
Behind the scenes about Dr. Smith's alliterative use in Lost in Space.
Read MoreProgram Interstitials (Recycled Monsters)
Behind the scenes about the special effects teams repeatedly used monsters in Lost in Space.
Read MoreProgram Interstitials (Jonathan's Favorite Episode)
Behind the scenes about Jonathan's favorite episode in Lost in Space.
Read MoreProgram Interstitials (Mark's Favorite Episode)
Behind the scenes about Mark's favorite episode in Lost in Space.
Read MoreProgram Interstitials (Marta's Favorite Episode)
Behind the scenes about Marta's favorite episode in Lost in Space.
Read MoreProgram Interstitials (Still At It)
Behind the scenes about the stars continued playfullness in Lost in Space.
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Preview of the next episode Princess of Space.
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Preview of the next episode Time Merchant.
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Preview of the next episode The Promised Planet.
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Preview of the next episode Fugitives in Space.
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Preview of the next episode Space Beauty.
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Preview of the next episode The Flaming Planet.
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Preview of the next episode The Great Vegetable Rebellion.
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Preview of the next episode Junkyard in Space.
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Preview of the first episode of season three Condemned of Space.
Read MoreTarget Earth Act Break
Act break transition for commercials.
Read MoreInterstitial Blooper
Blooper for Program Interstitials 21 (Still At It).
Read MoreBill Mumy Interview Clips (1995) (Play All)
Full interview with Bill Mumy in 1995.
Read MoreJonathan Harris Interview Clips (1995) (Play All)
Full interview with Jonathan Harris in 1995.
Read MoreCondemned of Space
The beginning of the third season finds the Robinsons having to quickly leave the planet they are on, which is a similar plot to the beginning of the second season. Once in space, the robot is swept overboard and has to be rescued. Then the Robinsons find a prison ship filled with cryogenically preserved prisoners. The prisoners have been interred past their normal sentences due to a malfunctioning timepiece on the prison ship. Professor Robinson repairs the timepiece and frees the prisoners. Robby the Robot makes another appearance, threatening Professor Robinson and Major West.
Read MoreKidnapped in Space
Dr. Smith answers a distress call from an alien space ship. He arrives there using the Space Pod, and discovers that the aliens want him to operate on (actually, repair), their leader. It turns out that the aliens are a race of some sort of robot that survive as long as their leader, who functions as their central control timepiece, is in working order. The Robinsons come to Smith's rescue in the Jupiter II. The leader is repaired by the robot, and the extended space family Robinson leave the alien space ship safely.
Read MoreVisit to a Hostile Planet
The Jupiter 2 and all aboard are caught in a space 'time-warp'! After everything seems to return to normal, they're shocked to find Earth within their reach and decide to return home. Though they're perplexed that they are unable to contact 'Alpha-Control', they decide to land in the 'good ole USA' ....only to find it's 1947! As usual, Dr. Smith causes issues & even considers staying behind when the Robinsons and West announce plans to leave.
Read MoreHunter's Moon
In an episode reminiscent of the first season episode "The Challenge", Professor Robinson and the Robot land the Space Pod on a planet, and Professor Robinson kills an attacking monster, only to discover that he has interfered with a contest where a highly intelligent alien who aspires to rule his home planet is being judged on how well he hunts. The alien forces Professor Robinson to take the role of one of the hunted animals in the contest, allowing the Professor one weapon. The weapon has a defect that imperils Professor Robinson, but the Professor outwits the alien and survives the ordeal.
Read MoreThe Space Primevals
The primitive beings are actually wards of a computer, Protinius, which can confer temporary advanced sentience on the leading man in order to communicate Protinius' will.
The episode also features a temporary camaraderie between Don and Smith, a burying of the hatchet, when Don is rescued by Smith from a pit, and then says ""Doctor Smith"" - using the word Doctor for the first time unknown ages. However, their camaraderie dissolves and the characters are back to ""normal"". Not the first time Smith has become selfless and a man of some integrity, but as usual, Smith returns to normal.
Read MoreSpace Destructors
Dr. Smith and the Robot are exploring a cave. Smith pushes several buttons on a conspicuous control panel. The buttons activate a cyborg creating device. It up to Will to stop Dr. Smith.
Read MoreThe Haunted Lighthouse
Before leaving their planet, the Robinsons meet a boy alien called J-5. They take him with them to return him to his home planet. They meet a strange ship, which turns out to be an earth ""lighthouse"" for lost ships. Thinking this ship will help them with extra fuel and star charts they celebrate, however when J-5 learns that they don't have enough fuel to take him home, he angrily sets about to destroy them all with a creation of his imagination. J-5 begins a new life at the lighthouse, and the Robinson's leave in the knowledge he will be looked after by the kindly, old lighthousekeeper.
Read MoreFlight into the Future
Dr. Smith, Will, and the Robot are accidentally launched in the Space Pod. They land on a planet that is controlled by an alien machine that creates illusions to confuse visitors and drive them away. The Jupiter II lands and rescues them, and the robot destroys the alien machine.
Read MoreCollision of Planets
The Robinson's come across a group of space hippies who are trying to destroy the planet the Robinson's currently inhabit. Up up to the Robinson's and Dr. Smith to stop them or they will all be doomed.
Read MoreSpace Creature
A strange blue fog seems to be engulfing the Jupiter 2 periodically. Dr Smith and Will commment seperately that they want to be left alone. When the members of the Jupiter 2 begin to randomly disappear as the fog comes, Dr Smith thinks he is to blame. Eventually Will discovers a strange creature which takes over Dr Smith. The creature tells Will that he is his own Id. Will finds out his Id is a creature he created full of Will's own personal demons, thoughts, feelings and insecurities. Will defeats the creature by overcoming his ""fears"" and throws the powerless creature in the power core. The members of his family are returned.
Read MoreDeadliest of the Species
The Robinsons encounter two Aliens who are on a mission to seek and destroy an escaped Robot Prisoner, whom they believe to be hiding at the Jupiter Two. Meanwhile, the Robot meets and falls in love with this evil, female Robot. She tries to turn the Robot bad, but ultimately, is defeated by the Robot and the Robinsons, but not before wreaking havoc over the planet.
Read MoreA Day at the Zoo
A caveboy appears and attempts to lure Penny away, but she refuses, and is instead caught in a net. She is transported to an intergalactic zoo, were she will be puton show, meanwhile Dr. Smith tries to take over the zoo.
Read MoreTwo Weeks in Space
Two aliens, who are actually intergalactic bank robbers, transform themselves into Earthlings. They revive a man named Zumdish who operates a tour agency and they pretend to be his clients. The Robinson's head off and Dr. Smith is left alone, Smith's decides to turn the ship into a hotel and doesn't realize how dangerous his guests are.
Read MoreCastles in Space
The Robinsons take in a Princess who is fleeing from a bounty hunter. Will is captured by the bounty hunter, who wants to trade the boy for the princess. the robot then comes up with a idea to save the day.
Read MoreThe Anti-Matter Man
Professor Robinson is caught in a matter transfer emission ray, and subsequently ends up in another dimension where he is confronted by a version of himself and Don. However this realm is the opposite of his own dimension, the anti-matter world, where everything in reality is twisted. The evil John returns to the family and attempts to take over the Robinsons and take over John's life. Will he get away with it, or are Will and the Robot able to defeat him, and restore the world to it's natural order.
Read MoreTarget: Earth
The Space Pod lands on a planet that is inhabited by creatures who all look alike, and aspire to be different. They capture the Robinsons and make duplicates of them with the objective of using the duplicates to fly the Jupiter II back to Earth. Will is not duplicated, and he thwarts their plan.
Read MorePrincess of Space
A crew led by Captain Kraspo is searching for the missing Princess Alpha. They bring Will aboard their ship who makes them think the Penny might be there princess, because of this the train Penny to be the future ruler of there planet.
Read MoreTime Merchant
Will is conducting an experiment in a cave and captures a man who claims to be the man who controls time for the entire universe. This ""Time Merchant"" takes Will, Professor Robinson, Smith, and the Robot, to his secret lair. From there, Smith uses the Time Merchant's time machine to return himself to Earth on the day the Robinson's departed, with the objective of NOT sabotaging the Jupiter II mission and letting the Robinsons go on their way to Alpha Centauri. The Time Merchant then announces that if Smith does not get on the Jupiter II, the ship will not fly off course and will therefore be destroyed by a collision with an asteroid several months after liftoff. So Will is sent back to join Smith and try to convince him to get on the Jupiter II as he originally did.
Read MoreThe Promised Planet
The Robot suddenly announces that the Jupiter II is approaching Alpha Centauri. Everyone is suprised, and the ship lands on a planet, where they are greeted by a group of people who appear to be teenagers from Earth. It turns out that they are aliens who live like Earth-style hippies, and they are incapable of growing old. They want to age normally, and to do this they want to get the older members of the Robinson party to leave in the Jupiter II while the younger members can stay behind and be used in an experiment that will make it possible for them to do so. The aliens trick the older members of the Robinson party into leaving, but Will pulls a fast one on the aliens and the Jupiter II eventually returns to the planet, and Penny, Will, and Dr. Smith, who somehow passed himself off as a young person, are rescued.
Read MoreFugitives in Space
Poor Don West is sent to a prison camp.....WITH Dr. Smith!
Don and Dr Smith are installing some equiptment, when Dr Smith comes across and alien prison escapee. The priosoner alien makes Dr Smith change jackets and then runs away. When the prison guards catch up with Dr Smith and Don, they arrest them for aiding an escape of a prisoner.
Read MoreSpace Beauty
The galactic showman, Farnum B returns as the producer of the Miss Galaxy Beauty Pageant. They want to Judy to be in the contest, she doesn't want to but Dr. Smith for forges her name and the fun begins.
Read MoreThe Flaming Planet
Dr. Smith disposes of a plant that has grown out of control, but once outside the plant attaches itself to the Jupiter 2. The plant apparently believe that Dr. Smith is its mother, meanwhile the ship is attached by a brave space warrior.
Read MoreThe Great Vegetable Rebellion
Doctor Smith uses the Space Pod to land on a planet that the Jupiter II is passing by. It turns out that the planet has evolved in such a way that plants are the highest form of life, and some of them are quite intelligent. One of these plants, a large carrot, captures Smith and tries to change him into a plant. The Jupiter II lands and the Robinsons and West come to Smith's rescue, only to be captured themselves. Eventually they thwart the plant creature and make their escape.
Read MoreJunkyard in Space
The Jupiter 2 lands on a planet which serves as a junkyard. The Robinson's food supply is dwindling. So Dr. Smith tries to sell the robot and the ship in order to get food. Can Dr.Smith be stopped?
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