This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Define SPOILER? I do not thinks I've included and spoilers? A True classic. You must understand the times in which it was made. Broadcast started in black and white as most TV's were black and white. I remember when my Dad brought home a COLOR TV. We plug it in and turned it on ....... Everything was in black and white??? At first we could not figure out what was wrong, then it dawned on US, all broadcasted where in black and white. We had to wait for the Sunday Night Movie to see Color. There were great shows on back then, not the F'en crap of today. Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Bonanza, Lost in Space, Voyage to the bottom of the Sea. Art linkletter, Ed Sullivan, I love Lucy, Mary Tyler Moore, Honeymooners, Even an occasional Bob Hope special, and of course a live ELVIS concert or two. Kennedy was dead (yeah!) and WE (U.S.A.) was going to the MOON!!! We did not mind bad dialog or obvious papier-mache monsters it was all good fun and we never took it seriously. And a Season consisted of around 30 episodes or 7 to 8 months of viewing. Lost in Space started in black and white but ended its final season in color. The worst thing about the show and the most likely reason viewership fell and the show was cancelled was Will Robinson. You had an entire cast of very good actors and yet the producers centered the show around Will and His Robot. Even as a kid I grew to hate Will Robinson because of that. It was a kind of joke we did not watch Lost in Space, we watched the Will Robinson show. There are three things about Lost in space that are Iconic and you don't mess with: The ROBOT, the JUPITER II, and Dr. Smith. That is why the movie flopped and the 2018 Series is doomed.

I forgot how much I loved watching Lost in Space when I was a young girl. I was excited when I heard Netflix was remaking it but curious how good it would be. Well, it started out totally different. I watched three episodes and decided to stop watching it and find the original one to watch. In my opinion the first three episodes of the original is so much better than the new one. Did anyone who has watched the original one notice on S1E3 where John and Maureen are outside the spaceship that John did not have a line connecting him to the spaceship when he walked up the side to fix the scanner? Earlier in the second episode he was connected and his line broke while he was having problems walking up the side of the spaceship. That was why Maureen went out to get a line to him so he wouldn't float away in space. After she got the line to him and pulled him back to the spaceship, he walked with no problems to fix the scanner on top of the spaceship. I thought something was strange so I backed it up and realized he wasn't connected to the spaceship. Can I get a "Blooper"?!? LOL I want to get this series on DVD or Blu-Ray. Wonder if it is shown in their blooper segment on the DVDs.

Interesting points here on the commemoration of the show's 50th anniversary. First off, it was creator-producer-director Irwin Allen's second television series after the phenomenal success of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea",and his first weekly television series for CBS. "Lost In Space" was the first big-budget, prime-time science fiction/fantasy action-adventure series for television that originally aired on its Wednesday night time slot in prime-time. "Lost In Space" ran for three seasons airing from September 15, 1965 until March 6, 1968 producing 83 episodes. Only the first season was in black and white producing 29 episodes that ran from September 15, 1965 until April 27,1966. The next two seasons of the series produced 54 episodes in color(Season 2 consisting of 30 episodes and the third and final season 24 episodes)that ran from September 14, 1966 until March 6, 1968 for Irwin Allen Productions/Twentieth Century-Fox Television and the CBS Television Network."Lost In Space" had a top-cast of well known and respected actors that included Guy Williams("The Legend of Zorro"), June Lockhart("Timmy and Lassie"),Jonathan Harris("The Third Man",and "The Bill Dana Show"), Mark Goddard("Robert Taylor's The Detectives",and "Johnny Ringo")and Marta Kristen("The Man From UNCLE"),and two of the best child actors of the era Billy Mumy("The Twilight Zone"),and Angela Cartwright("Make Room For Daddy").Throughout it's impressive three season run and 83 episodes(more episodes than Star Trek on NBC)it was usually the highest- rated show in its time slot(going up against NBC's The Virginian and usually coming in neck to neck with Batman on ABC,believe it or not). The series boasted top name writers for some of the episodes ranging from Peter Packer to Carey Wilbur, Barney Slater, William Welch, Allen Balter, Jack Turley, Robert and Wanda Duncan, Herman Groves, Irwin Allen, and William Read- Woodfield. Top name directors ranging from Don Richardson, Sobey Martin, Nathan Juran, Ezra Stone, Harry Harris, Sutton Roley, Jus Addiss, to Leo Penn, Irving J. Moore, Leonard Horn, Alvin Ganzer, Paul Stanley, and Alexander Singer.Big name guest stars ranging from Albert Salmi, Michael Rennie, Kurt Russell, Warren Oates, Michael J. Pollard, Gerald Mohr, Henry Jones, Malachi Throne, Liam Sullivan, Vitina Marcus, Strother Martin, along with Mercedes McCambridge, Francine York, Sherry Jackson, Kevin Hagen, Daniel J. Travanti, Arte Johnson, Alan Hewitt, Lyle Waggoner, Al Lewis, and Richard Basehart. Spectacular art direction by William Creber(of Fantastic Voyage and Planet of the Apes),make-up by John Chambers(Planet of the Apes),and an iconic Robot designed by Robert Kinoshita(Forbidden Planet and Fantastic Voyage),and ultra-cool theme songs and music by John Williams(of Star Wars and Jaws fame). It had alien chimps(Debbie the Bloop in Season 1),one-eyed cyclopeses,and even talking carrots. What made the series stand out was it's cliffhangers during the first 2 seasons with the family facing constant peril and danger where it left viewers in suspense("To Be Continue...NEXT WEEK...Same Time, Same Channel)until the next episode and so much more. The format cliffhangers from the first 2 seasons would change over by the show's third and final season.Getting to the episodes and let me say that the show's first season opens with five dramatic and suspenseful episodes that rival some of the best science fiction stories out there ranging from the pilot episode "The Reluctant Stowaway" to "The Derelict". Then there were the other three that also stood out from "Island In The Sky","There Were Giants In The Earth",to "My Friend, Mr. Nobody", the two-part episode "The Keeper",and "The Hungry Sea" where the first season hits a road bump with "Welcome Stranger" which was very dramatic in its impact. Then the show takes a lurching turn in "The Sky Pirate". Season 2 picks up where the Season 1 left off this time in color with several good episodes ranging from "The Prisoners of Space","Trip Through The Robot",and "The Ghost Planet". The third and final season of the series saw "The Anti- Matter Man", "Hunter's Moon", "Visit to a Hostile Planet",and "Condemned of Space" stood out as the best episodes of the series. The worst episodes that came out of Lost In Space's three-year run consisted of the worst of them all "The Great Vegetable Rebellion",and from there the episodes got even worst and some outrageously over the top and ridicious ranging from "The Thief of Outer Space", "The Space Croppers", "Princess of Space", "Castles of Space", "The Questing Beast", "The Girl From The Green Dimension", "Space Beauty", "West of Mars", "The Curse of Cousin Smith",and "Mutiny In Space".When "Lost In Space" was abruptly canceled in the Spring of 1968 after three seasons and 83 episodes the powers that be over at CBS didn't waste any time in finding a replacement on it's Wednesday night prime time schedule for the 1968-1969 season which was the another action/adventure series from creator-producer Ivan Tors called "Daktari" that eventually replaced "Lost In Space".

While I don't like this show I will say that I can see an audience for it. With 60's science fiction shows I personally enjoy The Twilight Zone and the first 6 years of Doctor Who while watching a tiny bit of Star Trek from time to time. I never really got into Lost In Space and the reason for that is while I like the concept (that being a family going off to be the first colonization of another world gets lost while getting there no thanks to the most effeminate bad guy in every 60's sci-fi show) because it has longevity for a show and a continuing arc to fulfill. However it does slip below that in quality. The Special effects for one thing are worse then the norm on these shows, I mean in the Black and White episodes while they were below standard they weren't god-awful... no, the god-awful ones are when they made it colour. Whether it's a case of the Black and white hiding the show's problems or them throwing their effects budget into that, the short version of this is that it's not very good. Then there's the acting, for one thing the father is more Shatner then Shatner - that is seriously the best way to describe him. The kids are good considering the technology back then, the pilot is so 50's it's distracting and the mother and Judy are generic. I will say that some of the plots get stupid the more the show goes on. The early stuff maybe slow but better compared to the colour seasons but in my personal opinion, unless you like things oozing 60's cheese I'd suggest waiting until the remake show that's been announced happens.