First Season Chariot COLOR Footage.

[@frisco21]

As kids, we thought the chariot was awesome. It offered a perfect counterpoint to the ominous sense of doom that permeated the story lines. One could imagine the chariot as an indestructible safe haven; a comforting refuge from the hostile world the Robinsons found themselves in. Kudos to the person who envisioned this super nifty prop.

[@RichTerrana]

This is great footage to see! Thanks for posting it... It made me homesick for those days... A different time and a different world back then, seemingly much simpler than now... Thanks again!

[@44skins]

I love this clip! This clip is just way too AWESOME!!!!!!!!! Man,they really knew how to perform fantastic camera work in those day's!! Just everything about this whole desert scene just thrills me! Everything!The way the "Chariot" rolls across the desert prairie,the cool way the chariot turns,it has a certain way about it.The way the sun just shine's off of the Chariot as it move's along! Really,so many other thing's that just make this clip better than entire movies today! Thank's so much!

[@garyturner5204]

Yes!

[@Hartfordland]

John Williams SO nailed it with the musical accompaniments...none better than the first season chariot sequences!

[@PaulLea]

Always wondered how they got it into the spaceship. These doesn't seem room for it.

[@f.d.6667]

I wasn't even born when the show aired ... and now I am printing a model of the Chariot on my 3D printer 55 years later (came here for reference images)... says something about the relevance of the show, I guess.

[@garyturner5204]

It was a ground breaking show. Well researched and unique for its time. I grew up watching it on live TV. :)

[@iowa61]

CGI could NEVER replicate the depth and breadth of this. Wow.

[@samroca]

Oh man! Listen to the background music. They don't make music like that anymore. I can still remember the tunes from that show. The stories, the acting, the special effects were all awesom. One of the greatest shows ever produced.

[@garyturner5204]

Actually, he does and has composed so much monumental and signature films scores his entire life - you might have heard of John Williams and his scores for Star Wars?

[@am2boni]

A classic!! My older brother, RIP, loved Lost in Space back in the 70's! I enjoyed it to, but not as much as him. The Chariot rocked!!!

[@PromusKaa]

WOW! That is some great cinematography...nothing about it looks dated at all, and it's very dynamic footage. Great camera angles, great shots...beautiful!

[@Beamshipcaptain]

If you recall from the third episode, ISLAND IN THE SKY, Major West (good friend Mark Goddard, who I saw a couple months ago again at CHILLER THEATRE) said after the crash lading on Priplanus" "We'll ASSEMBLE the Chariot. It'll get us over this rough-terrain". So the Chariot came like a model-kit somewhere in the bowels of the lower-deck. The Jupiter 2 in the first pilot HAD NO lower deck! The space pod just barely fits past the rear-landing leg-stairwell. I have loved LIS for over 44-years.

[@zooeyhall]

The mid to late 60's was the Golden Age of TV sci-fi. And Irwin Allen had the Midas Touch. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Land of the Giants, Star Trek.....not to mention Lost in Space! What a great time to be a kid and have had the opportunity to watch these shows for the first time ever! Little did we realize then we were seeing cultural history in the making. Sadly, now receding in the rear-view mirror of our lives. Yet, watching this clip, the thrill still remains.

[@55Quirll]

I agree, back then it was the plot, script and acting that made the shows not the special effects - which there were few. Now that is all the shows and movies depend on, CGI, poor plots, poor scripts and the actors and acting are horrible. I have so many of the great sci-fi/horror movies of the 50's and 60's that I pull out and watch like now. Take care now and Happy New Year.

[@Beamshipcaptain]

One of the few sounds you remember and love all your life (like Godzilla's Roar), are the powerful thrum and whine of the Jupiter 2's rotating main electrogravity power-core on full-power climb-out. So cool!

[@gk10002000]

the music score was perfect as they drove around, "will, will" I can still hear reverberating

[@scottgamble7767]

SPOT ON! My thoughts exactly. Hey, is this the same location [at 2:30] that Tim Burton shot his *Planet of the Apes* big space ship ancient crash site? Sure looks like it. Wonderful footage here!

[@garyturner5204]

John Williams did such a wonderful job with composing the music for Lost In Space from the opening and closing credits of all 3 seasons, to all the incidental music of season one.

[@Geezer-yf8hv]

@@garyturner5204 I would have to say his compositions were more than “incidental”. As a fan in my younger years, the “Theme” music for opening and closing credits was NOTHING compared to the incidental compositions! THAT music was the core of the show for me, and I don’t even know if I would have been a fan without it!! He only composed for 3-4 episodes, but this was reused for all 3 seasons!! I would dare to call this his best work EVER!!!

[@Geezer-yf8hv]

@@garyturner5204 I would have to add, the drama and excitement of the music gave Lost in Space credibility. If you have seen the original pilot, “Nowhere to Hide”, it had the fantastic visuals, but was totally BORING without Williams’ score and better sound effects!! The blast off, the crash landing, the encounter with the Cyclops.... all BORING AF until “Johnny” made it right!!

[@garyturner5204]

Exactly! His music made the series! :)

[@Beamshipcaptain]

Get the DVD LOST IN SPACE FOREVER. All the SPFX footage including this and out-takes, are on the special features!

[@garyturner5204]

Cool

[@Beamshipcaptain]

When I was 4-years old in 1965, from the first the Jupiter II lifted off from Earth, surrounded in a high-Voltage corona-discharge, I was hooked on LOST IN SPACE forever! The monsters from lost in space gave me bad dreams. John Williams, who composed the Theme for LOST IN SPACE, and this music, went on to win Oscars for his work in JAWS, STAR WARS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, SUPERMAN, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and all INDIANA JONES flicks,ET, and every hit movie you can name.Living legend!

[@garyturner5204]

ABSOLUTELY A LEGEND!

[@rumbers]

Ive said this before, but Alpha's done a superb piece of audio editing with this Williams theme. This extended version of the 'chariot' soundtrack is truly evocative and Alpha's adroitly married it to the stock footage of the alien landscape. Needs to be seen on full screen in good quality to be truly appreciated.

[@altfactor]

Much of this color footage would be seen in color during Seasons Two and Three of "Lost In Space". Producer Irwin Allen shot this footage in color so that if the show lasted long enough, and went to color, he could use this footage without having to shoot new color footage of the Chariot.

[@Geezer-yf8hv]

You must have seen something I missed. The Chariot was woefully underused in the 2 last seasons, and the only outdoors location scenes I can remember was in season 3’s “The Space Primevals” and a featured scene in season 2’s “Blast Off Into Space”, (guess they had spare glass panels?), and I think most of that was in the studio. Sorry for the VERY late response!!

[@amightysailingman]

@@Geezer-yf8hv I was just thinking today that I don't remember the Chariot being used much after the first few episodes. The only time I remember it even appearing after those was the second season premiere, "Blast Off into Space."

[@allgood6760]

Timeless TV series.. Thanks from NZ 🇳🇿👍

[@Beamshipcaptain]

Chariot was assembled- "We'll asseble the Chariot, it'll get us over this rough terrain"- Don West from ISLAND IN THE SKY, episode three, season I. Same as tractor-vehicle in FORBIDDEN PLANET.

[@rumbers]

A very professional re-edit of the soundtrack too - makes you appreciate even more what a great piece of score Williams composed here.

[@gustavogoncalves3083]

the music is just perfect!!!!

[@Beamshipcaptain]

This footage from the Unaired Pilot, and the 3rd episode, was re-used through the series as Chariot stock-footage.

[@mgrella63]

WOW!! Amazing footage!! I love the shot with the sun in the background! Excellent job adding the Famous Lost In Space score!!

[@MrSwj2009]

I think Irwin Allen inspired kids to become scientists, astronauts and engineers way more then schools or parents could ever dream of doing.

[@Beamshipcaptain]

Oscar winner John Williams wrote the themes for all of IRWIN ALLEN'S (Everytime I hear that name, I get a tingle of excitement, since the early 60s) themes except VOYAGE. His Oscar winning themes for RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, JAWS, STAR WARS,CLOSE ENCOUNTERS,SUPERMAN,every hit movie you can think of are memorable.Part of my soul.However, his music for LOST IN SPACE was exemplary;he really made you believe the Robinson's were in outer space,and on a strange planet!

[@garyturner5204]

Yes!

[@Warhammerdude980]

I love this show, my favorite episodes are the ones with the cyclops giant and the Bush creature from the episode "The Raft."

[@rumbers]

The scene at 2.13 with the stormy purple sky against the harsh terrain is especially atmospheric. All brought to life by Williams superlative score.

[@garyturner5204]

Yes!

[@TIMEtoRIDE900]

And thus was born the modern SUV craze.

[@DTD110865]

I'd like to say this was true, but I can't.

[@Beamshipcaptain]

All of Irwin Allen's TV shows and LOST IN SPACE IN PARTICULAR, had a sense of excitement that is missing from most of today's TV.

[@Beamshipcaptain]

Its John Williams best work Pre-JAWS and STAR WARS. It has held up extremely wel these 42-years. John Williams is my favourite composer since the 60s. He really made you believe they were far out in space, on a desert-planet like Mars." TO BE CONTINUED- NEXT WEEK, SAME TIME, SAME CHANNEL!" What a freaking awesome first season, all in stark black and white!

[@garyturner5204]

I loved it as a kid too. :). Fun to watch it now as well.

[@Beamshipcaptain]

It was assembled, if you remember the dialoge from the third episode; ISLAND IN THE SKY: "We'll ASSEMBLE the CHARIOT. It'll get us over this rough terrain".- Major Donald West

[@stvngtronix]

the music seems to fit perfectly

[@garyturner5204]

John Williams would eventually go on to compose a lot of music for Sci-Fi TV shows and movies - like Star Wars. :)

[@Tazzman]

I remember Robby The Robert on LIS and other shows. I am pretty sure he was the robot guard on a planet where the prisoners were frozen and if they found a way to escape, he had a gun to refreeze them. And I think he was in a b/w episode too!

[@solovoyager]

One of my farvorite shows of all time. I never realized how good the music was for LIS!

[@diff22000]

Some years after the show was canceled the Chariot was sold back the ski resort where the chassis had originally been purchased then the body was removed and abandoned (the working "snow-cat" returned to its real purpose). Many years later "Lost in Space" fan Chris Tietz found the body rusting away with most of the plexiglass broken out and decided to save it. He successfully negotiated to purchase the derelict and have it moved to his house in the San Fernando valley, north of Hollywood.

[@garyturner5204]

Cool!

[@powerboatguy2308]

The Pilot episode for this show was the most expensive ever made at the time.

[@cabanaboy69]

The first season was the best of this sometimes silly series. Seeing the awesome chariot and landscape in colour is amazing. Thanks for posting.

[@JazzHands]

All that footage and you STILL can’t tell what color the luggage is! Lol! Painting the model here, and sometimes the research hits a wall

[@Beamshipcaptain]

Chariot was a modified 1963 SNOWCAT,this model first seen un-modified in the Irwin Allen TV-series pilot(shot in color)of the first season (black & white)of VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA: "Eleven Days to Zero". This was the Snow-cat from the North Pole scenes. I always loved the Chariot!It was one of my favorite full-size props,like the Jupiter II,and the Space Pod in Season 3. Martin Creber,Jack Martin Smith, and Bob Kinoshita(Forbidden Planet)were excellent designers.Love John Williams!

[@kirsteneklund2509]

what happened to the original ?

[@soulierinvestments]

Thanx for posting the video clip and the Lost in Space score by John Williams. These location shots were filmed at Trona Pinnacles, California.

[@marciesdupree74]

Awesome machine

[@zooeyhall]

Spectacular footage! Spectacular music! I was 10 when LIS came out, and scenes like this--even in black and white---had me awestruck. I really believed these people were on an alien planet.

[@garyturner5204]

Me too. I was 6 or 7.

[@knightflyte]

Wow! Am I glad I watched that. The Charriot was such a cool vehicle. Great cinimatography! When have you ever seen shots like that but in LiS???!! I loved so many of the shots used in LiS when the Charriot is just treking about.... once on glaciel ice. AWESOME!

[@Actionguy1]

I must agree with you Rumbers! There is also color footage of the "jetpack" sequences and the Jupiter2 crash out there somewhere. The scenery and John Williams' music are fantastic!

[@buddy51]

This is priceless footage..and that score by John Williams..amazing!

[@ronsapp]

Beautiful footage,would have loved to see more of it used in the series.

[@zooeyhall]

Scenes (and music) like this inspired a whole generation of kids in the 60's. Thank you, Irwin Allen!!

[@rumbers]

Wow this is great stuff alpha. Looks to me like the total external shoot you've captured here. And what's more you've deftly re-edited William's superlative score for the 'Chariot' into the footage too. A classic!

[@Beamshipcaptain]

1964, winter, the Colorado-Utah border. Looks like Mars! Combine it with the great Jack Martin-Smith and Bill Creber designs, and Oscar-winner John Williams' music. Still holds up powerfully TODAY, in century-21, when this show was depicted to take place.

[@garyturner5204]

Indeed. Such a classic and groundbreaking show. I loved it as a kid too when it first aired on live TV.

[@Geezer-yf8hv]

Thank you for this, (even if it a very late response)! The Chariot was one of my favorite “props” from Lost In Space!!! For the life of me, I cannot understand why this color footage was not used in Seasons 2 and 3??? Every planet they crashed or landed on looked the same, right?? I always wanted to see the “back door” where the Chariot was unloaded and loaded into the ship!!!! Especially since the lower deck was always underground!!! (At least compared to the front at ground level!

[@danielbagala8606]

I believe that the chariot was not conceived as a vehicle that fits completely into Jupiter 2. Note that in episode 3 of season 1 (Island in the Sky) Major West says "I will assemble the Chariot" before going out in search of John Robinson. Therefore, this vehicle was carried unarmed when traveling through space aboard Jupiter 2.

[@shawndardbarbarbarian5061]

I wonder where they shot this footage. What a landscape!

[@girona25]

The only way to travel! I remember watching this series whilst a young boy!

[@wurly164]

It's funny that the chariot was almost as big as the Jupiter 2 yet stowed away neatly in the back compartment

[@BondoFox]

Sadly, the Chariot was sold to a ski lodge in Big Bear, California. It was stripped of all of its cool sci-fi trappings and put to its chassis' intended use, snow removal and transportation. A skier there one day saw it and recognized it as the Chariot, and when the ski lodge went out of business he bought it intending to restore it. And that's the last anyone knows of it. CarLustBlog-dot-Com has a story on it in their January 2010 thread.

[@44skins]

Yea,I totally agree!! This footage is just great! It give's you the "Tingles" watching it and listing to the great background music!! I too have never seen this footage! Hey,it make's me wonder what else is locked inside those vaults out at the studios!! Very interesting my friend's!

[@thugzapper]

Brings back good memories, love the music, too.

[@Beamshipcaptain]

MOEBIUS MODELS came out with a fantastic all polystyrene Chariot last year. Find it in most hobby shops, or order online! They also make a great SPACE POD, SEAVIEW, FLYING SUB, and they are coming out with an 18" JUPITER-2 this December, 2009!!!

[@MrReilly067]

I always enjoy watching this rare color footage from LIS' season 1 here....

[@rotunda57]

What really makes this show enjoyable to watch is the absense of hyper special effects as we get today. The picture doesn't tilt or shake, there's no print on the screen, just a rock solid picture to enjoy without being distracted by modern editing.

[@JohnDavis-jm6ts]

That Music!😅 I remember this as a kid growing up! I Loved it!

[@tjveil]

Four LIS soundtrack CDs have been out for a while now, Vol. 1-3, plus a 40th Anniversary Edition. The 40th Anniversary Edition collects music from Vols. 1-3 but also includes additional soundtrack music. Excellent albums. Check Amazon.

[@zooeyhall]

Awesome! The part that begins at 1:35 is especially dramatic and amazing--with the long shot of the chariot and the mesas in the background and the oncoming storm moving in. And of course the imcomparable John Williams music at this point. You can really believe this is on an alien Mars-like planet, something modern fake CGI can never equal. Thanks for posting!

[@KneelB4Bacon]

Great music by John Williams. He is credited in the Lost in Space TV show as "Johnny Williams" which gives you some idea how old this series is. I think some of the music was also from "The Day the Earth Stood Still." (the Theremin stuff by Bernard Hermann)

[@Beamshipcaptain]

Love this show since I was 4 in 1965, and when the Jupiter 2's engines whent to a high whine, and the ship started glowing with electrostatic corona and lifted off the Earth at Alpha Control in Florida, I was hooked with the awe and beauty and high adventure of it all, and I kn ew what I wanted to do with my life, and after years of hard styud, I am doing it. John William's masterful and exciting music, and LB A bbot's and the Lydecker Bros. masterful SPFX made it all so cool and realistic!

[@AnitaLife27]

"I meant the TIME TUNNEL. A funny typo!" Bwah ha! I know! I also have very fond memories of the Irwin Allen ouvre. :) It was a lot of fun then, and fun to look at now.

[@LovingMyJourney]

I definitely agree. I always love the unique soundtrack, even to this day.

[@Beamshipcaptain]

My favorite pice of hardware from the show was the portable FORCEFIELD projector. Based on wrk done by Einstein, Irwin Saxyl, George S Piggot and Thomas Townsend Brown, and work done with high-energy electrostatics at Cal Tech and Princeton back east. The rotating power core of Jupiter-2 could be Professor Joh Searl's famous SEG, of which the century-21 prototype is being completed in Thailand as we speak.

[@samuellees5648]

This footage along with The Cyclops,the crash of the Jupiter 2 and John Robinson flying the Jet Pack was from the pilot "No Place To Hide" which was filmed in B&W. However,Irwin Allen wisely filmed the 2nd unit footage in color on the theory that it could be used later on as stock footage if LIS became a series,which it did,and the footage was used several times over the 3 seasons.

[@Beamshipcaptain]

I met June Lockhart and Marta Kristen at CHILLER theatre shows in Jersey. They are both awesome ladies. Marta is a big Sci-Fi fan, and loves Ray Bradbury stories. She is still very beautiful. Right now I am Building MOEBIUS MODELS' excellent new CHARIOT styren-plastic model kit. Best ever of the Chariot. Available in most hobby-shops along with the SEAVIEW, and the SPACE-POD!

[@Beamshipcaptain]

THis is the music of Academy and emmy and grammy-award-winning composer/conductor John ("Johnny" Williams, and has scored every hit movie for the last 36-years. This music makes you bileive the family Robinson is starship-wrecked on a Mars-like alien planet somewhere near the centre of the Main-Sequence stars of the Milky Way. The show has held me spellbound since the pilot episode, in mid-Sept., 1965. Irwin was like Jules Verne, and HG Wells, helping to create the Shape of THINGS TO COME.

[@Beamshipcaptain]

Cinematography by the OSCAR-winner Bill Hammeras, effects cameraman for FOX under LB Abbott in those days. They created effecs for THE ENEMY BELOW, VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (1961, year I incarnated), FANTASTIC VOYAGE, FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX (1966), THE TOWERING INFERNO, and LOGAN's RUN, among many Spectacular others!

[@AlbertRingo]

woww, this music are so good

[@Beamshipcaptain]

So did I ! I was 4 when LIS came out, and I was entrhalled from the opening episode on, every Wednesday night! The combination of the timeless- and logical design of the props and sets, designed by Bill Creber (PLANET OF THE APES, FANTASTIC VOYAGE) ane the SPFX masters LB ABBOTT, and Howard and Theodore Lydecker, and Oscar winner John Williams stirring music, made you feel they were trillions of miles far out in space, on an alien planet on the edge of the galaxy. "TO BE CONTINUED..."!

[@Noveltooner]

Another episode, where Will Robinson was transported to Earth, oddly used a number of Cyril Mockridge's cues from 1947's "Miracle on 34th Street." Most notable was the use of the cue when Natalie Wood runs up to the house she had asked Kris Kringle for as a Christmas present. It's used toward the end of the episode where Will is climbing up to the roof of a house to meet a transport beam that takes him back to the planet where his family is stranded.

[@boy18inva]

Spectacular shots at 1:16 and 2:13!

[@Beamshipcaptain]

The LOST IN SPACE themes (BOTH of them) were written by the incomparable, and oscar and grammy-winner John Williams. Every hit movie of the last 45-years has been scored by Living-Legend John Williams, who is also my favourite composer, next to the late Jerry Goldsmith, and Bernard Herrmann.

[@Beamshipcaptain]

Get the DVD LOST IN SPACE FOREVER. All the clour-footage and spfx footage in colour is in there too, all world class SPFX by the late Lydecker Bros (republic pictures and FOX) and the genius LB Abbott, head of effects at Fox for 20-years.

[@Beamshipcaptain]

@UFOSPACE1999 If you recall from the thrid episode: Island in the Sky, "We'll ASSEMBLE the Chariot, it'll get us over this rough terrain." - Major Donald West.

[@Beamshipcaptain]

Some few thrird season episodes were filmed on location. Get teh DVD boxed-sets.

[@O7ROADKING]

Wow i was 5 years old in 1965 and i loved lis specifically the Chariot. dint know what its name was .and did not see it much but i really wanted one.

[@Beamshipcaptain]

Get the DVDs, and the DVD LOST IN SPACE FOREVER. Lots of SPFX footage and bloopers too! 20th Century FOX made some all-time great SC-FI TV and movies in the 1960s, when I was in grade-school. What magic!

[@Beamshipcaptain]

Both the Landram and the Snow Cat that this vehicle was built around wer made by Morton Thiokol, yes the same NASA subcontractor that makes the solid-rocket boosters for the space shuttle, and the lower stage of the new moon-ship, Aries. I'm watching 2001:A SPACE ODYSSEY on 50-inch Hi Def plasma flatscreen now, and I saw it in CINERAM and sterophonic sound in Manhattan in 1968, when I was in the 1st grade. Now we live in the future, and Lost in Space hardware still looks fresh.

[@fromthesidelines]

The first TWO seasons [52 episodes] of "THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN" (1952-'54), filmed between 1951 and '53, were filmed and seen in black & white, 'scotpens'- the third through sixth seasons (1954-'58), filmed between 1954 and '57, were filmed in color, but released in black and white prints until the mid-'60s. The final season [39 episodes] of "THE LONE RANGER" (1956-'57) was filmed in color, but shown in black & white until producer Jack Wrather released the color prints in the mid-'60s...

[@44skins]

I AM A 59 YEAR OLD GRANDMOTHER AND I WATCH THESE VIDEOS AND I REMEMBER WHEN KIDS WOUld RUSH HOME FROM SCHOOL TO WATCH "LOST IN SPACE',not get on the computer and play video games or text messages on their personal cell phones,there was just a sense of excitement when this show would come on.but today if your grandchildren are watching tv you dont dare leave the room find it so sad that so many of us agree on how wonderful life was ,why is it that we dont try harder to make things better .

[@Beamshipcaptain]

That was from the unaired Pilot: NO PLACE TO HIDE, and the 5th episode from the stellar first season: "The Hungry Sea". The Chariot is amphibious, like the amphibious Troop-carriers used in WW II. I majorly dig LOST IN SPACE, and so does my girlfriend! I built almost all the models, and built a 24" Jupiter II from Lunar Models, and added a lighted SEG power-core with 32-chase-pattern LED's, and a radio-controlled retract-tripod. ExTREME coolness-factor.

[@antoniocarlosmendesamerica3936]

Wonderful takes, Westworld crew surely did watch this.

[@moosefactory133]

I always wondered how did they get the chariot to fit inside that tiny ship. Hmmmm

[@RichTerrana]

The answer is: Don't worry about it, they just got it in there, that's all you have to know, LOL!

[@dadautube]

@ moosefactory133 not only the Chariot but also at least two relatively large space probes that could carry two large human bodies each as well as a lot of other not so small goodies were kept on that not so large flying saucer! i guess they fit `em all in there probably pretty much in the same manner that humanity's been able to fit 5 elephants in a VW Beatle before this series was aired back in the day: 2 sitting in the front raw, 3 in the back! ;-)

[@browndog171063]

I think it was called the Pod.

[@pdavide1]

It was the original Tardis! ;-)

[@TC-uy8ng]

moosefactory133 - I came here to ask this very same question. The Jupiter 2 was relatively small, so where did they store the chariot? How they hell did they get it out when half the spaceship was buried in the ground? Did they drive it out through the front hatch? I don't think so! Where did they store the space pod? Hummmm. This has dogged me for years. LOL

[@rumbers]

Alpha if youre still around is there any chance of you re--uploading this mini-masterpiece in HD?

[@Beamshipcaptain]

Made by the same company as the SNOW CAT, Morton THIOKOL. THey also make the solid-rocket boosters for the space shuttle since 1979.

[@rumbers]

Alpha ive really enjoyed your excellent compilations of chariot and jetpack footage. Any chance of you doing a compilation of the Jupiter 2 from all 3 seasons?

[@darliegoddess]

The Chariot from Lost in Space was based on a modified 1965 SnowCat.Chris Tietz owns it.

[@Beamshipcaptain]

"Will! Wiiill!"

[@rumbers]

I downloaded this excellent video a couple of years ago and keep watching it over and over again. It is a pure fusion of audio and visual perfection. Alpha if you're reading this is it possible for me to get this in top-notch perfect quality via a file-sharing website or such? I especially like your clever edit of the audio. I would love a copy of that by email if possible.

[@Noveltooner]

Yes, it was. With the permission of Bernard Herrmann, Williams re-recorded some of "The Day the Earth Stood Still" cues to better match the action in some episodes. Interestingly, the episode (a two-parter) with the greatest amount of cues from TDTESS was the first-season episode "The Keeper," That episode must have been like a homecoming to guest star Michael Rennie. It was shot on the same soundstage as the spaceship interiors in the 1951 film and recycled much of that film's props and set.

[@mikewynne7131]

I like the mini satellite dishes. They have Direct TV and Dish Network?

[@simonmoves]

film is in very good condition--any idea where it was filmed-and during the first season--how did don assemble the chariot so quickly--i dont think-J2 wouldve lifted off with the chariot on board-intact--as billy m says--lis was what it was.

[@MrSwj2009]

Just as an aside, the story of how the Apollo Lunar Rover was created and engineered is a fascinating one. A couple of NASA guys created a toy RC model of the Lunar Rover, unbeknownst to anyone in the Apollo program. One day they remotely guided the model into the office of NASA Chief Ernest Von Braun (yes, the same guy who created the German V2 rocket during WW2). Dr. Von Braun smiled when he saw this toy, and was so taken by the idea of having an all terrain vehicle on the moon that he challenged these engineers to create a full working model that would fit inside a tiny compartment of the LEM with severe weight restrictions. Amazingly, they accomplished this within a tight deadline while going through bureaucratic hell to make the Rover project happen. I have infinite admiration for those engineers.

[@freeelectricityforall9027]

Love the curtains.

[@deweypug]

Star Trek used to shoot in the same area of the California desert - story goes that both production teams from Lost in Space and Star Trek hung out one day while shooting. Seems as though Leonard Nimoy (Spock) took a fancy to June Lockhart and they had 'space relations' behind a boulder one hot afternoon...

[@Beamshipcaptain]

The dramatic and exciting music by living legend John Williams made you believe the Space Family Robinson was really starship-wrecked on an alien, Mars-like planet, in a dnseley populated section of the Milky-Way Galaxy. Williams also wrote the themes for THE MIME TUNNEL, LAND OF THE GIANTS, EARTHQUAKE, THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, THE TOWERING INFERNO, JAWS, STAR WARS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, SUPERMAN, INDINANA JONES, ET, WAR OF THE WORLDS, SCHINDLER'S LIST< ETC. Long live John Williams!