Hi guys,
Over the last few months I have been watching the first series of Lost in Space, it has taken quite a while because my wife wants to see it as well but is often unable to find the time to sit and watch it with me. Well, last night we watched the unscreened episode, which is an extra feature on the last DVD of series one. It had a small amount of "new" footage, but for a large part it was scenes from the first 3 or 4 episodes cut together. This episode started with liftoff and finished when they had crossed the inland sea to avoid the extreme heat (fans will know what I am talking about).
Interestingly, there was no Dr Smith! Wow! His character was annoying at times in the series, but without him, the show seemed to lack something. They also called the ship Gemini 12 rather than the Jupiter 2, I guess this is because it was originally conceived at the time of the Gemini program. The ship was knocked off course because of a meteor shower rather than being overweight, crashing on a planet somewhere after some three and a half years of suspended animation.
It was interesting to see how they used the footage from the pilot in other episodes without Smith being there.
So we then watched the first episode from series 2....in
COLOUR! I don't recall ever seeing an episode in colour at any time, so obviously the last time I saw it was pre-1975, and yet 33 years later I can still recite snippets of the dialog almost verbatim...much to the annoyance of my wife
