Date: October 16, 1997. The Jupiter 2 is to launch, but a saboteur wants to destroy it. Unfortunately he is part of the Jupiter 2 crew now Lost In Space.Date: October 16, 1997. The Jupiter 2 is to launch, but a saboteur wants to destroy it. Unfortunately he is part of the Jupiter 2 crew now Lost In Space.Date: October 16, 1997. The Jupiter 2 is to launch, but a saboteur wants to destroy it. Unfortunately he is part of the Jupiter 2 crew now Lost In Space.
Bill Mumy
- Will Robinson
- (as Billy Mumy)
Fred Crane
- Alpha Control Technician
- (uncredited)
Don Forbes
- TV Commentator
- (uncredited)
Hoke Howell
- Security Guard
- (uncredited)
Frank Parker
- Security Guard
- (uncredited)
Ford Rainey
- The President
- (uncredited)
Dick Tufeld
- The Robot
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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Paul Zastupnevich
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- TriviaAlpha Centauri, a.k.a. Alpha Centauri AB, is currently classified (as of 2012, at any rate) as a binary star, approximately 4.37 light years from Earth, with its 2 stars designated as A (the larger) and B (the smaller). Proxima Centauri, a.k.a. Alpha Centauri C, is .2 light years from Alpha Centauri AB. At 1/7th the size, its sun is much smaller than ours and not visible to the naked eye, but its distance from Earth is 'just' 4.24 light years, making it the closest star to ours. It was discovered in 1915. An Earth-mass planet had been detected in orbit around Alpha Centauri B, but, It's not in the habitable zone, instead orbiting very close to the host star. Its surface temperature is estimated to be 1200 °C (about 2200 °F or 1500 K) - far too hot for liquid water, and also above the melting temperatures of many silicate magmas.
- GoofsThe narrator calls the Jupiter 2 an "intergalactic" vehicle. It plainly isn't, as the J2's stated mission is to travel from our star system to a neighboring one, within the same galaxy.
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Maj. Don West: If you wake up and find me driving, you'll know you're in trouble.
- ConnectionsEdited from Lost in Space: No Place to Hide (1965)
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A good start to the famously evolving sci-fi series
The Robinson Family, John, Maureen and their children Judy, Penny and Will, along with co-pilot Don West, stowaway Colonel/Doctor Zachary Smith and the "B-9 model environmental control robot" depart Earth in the Jupitar 2 for Alpha Centauri when Smiths unplanned for weight and nefarious plans ends up with them all 'Lost in Space'. It's fascinating to compare this ostensibly 'hard', almost sober 'science fiction adventure with the goofy, camp episodes for which the show is best remembered. The preliminary episode (with borrows footage from an unaired pilot) has much more depth, and a much larger cast, than later episodes and is generally pretty good. Johnathon Harris' 'Dr. Smith' (likely the series best remembered 'human' character) is actually evil as he sabotages the spaceship, dooming the Robinsons and their children - a stark contrast to his whiney, almost self-parodying characterisation toward the end of the series. The special effects are quite good and the acting, while strictly 'TV', isn't bad. A good start to an either reviled or fondly remembered icon from the 1960s.
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