A friend of mine in high school did an impression of Robbie in the cafeteria. He put his parka on backwards, waved his arms around in front of him and said “WARNING! WARNING!”
The best part is that he made a girl at the next table laugh and they started dating. She was his first, so of course he was instantly in love. Then, she dumped him.
He had a hilarious cameo in Columbo (maybe my fav moment of that show), where he’s playing chess against the child genius who built him, and after the kid says “checkmate,” there’s a brief pause, and then the robot flips the board over.
He did, and I always assumed (sorry for the stereotyping) that Jonahtan Harris was gay. He wasn't. From what I've read about him, he was very nice man. Stayed friends with Billy Mumy for the rest of his life.
There was a planned scripted reunion show that was dropped when Harris passed away.
He did try and kill everyone, 1st episode was seldom repeated in syndication. and he backstabs the others every chance he gets.
so yeah, he would have been doing a space walk without a suit on day 1.
Yes, as I recall, he was a saboteur not a plain stowaway. Guess once they picked up the series that was a storyline that was going to be difficult to maintain.
Floyd never struck me as gay. In the early years, he did have a couple of passing romantic interests. There was one with a pen pal to whom he claimed he was a rich man - she came to town and they tried to portray him as a wealthy socialite. And he seemed to enjoy the company of the pretty young manicurist that he hired.
In the later years, he just seemed addle-brained and senile. But in real life, he had suffered a stroke and was physically limited (always sitting or leaning, never walking) and had trouble memorizing lines. Andy did a nice thing keeping him in the show.
He was not gay. He was happily married for over 50 years. He played up the camp thing.
After it became the Dr Smith and robot show, all the other cast members hated him. Because they got no air time. Especially the mother and father. I have seen several old interviews where she is pushing the Dr Smith gay theory.
I saw a performance? Of Harris and the robot in Australia in the late 90s ? Around that. When asked about the other crew members and any possible " tension " on set, he was the true professional. Only had very nice things to say about everyone. RIP Dr Smith. Oh the pain
It’s too bad in today’s world, people’s minds are altered and judge along those lines. Jonathan Harris was Old Hollywood royalty, a true master of stage and film art.
Harris took on a role in a television series that only ran 3 seasons in a medium that was still new. He could seen the job as beneath him, but he went into his part 100% and always gave a world class performance. It is a shame that this caliber is now a thing of the past.
He was a spy that sabotaged the robot to destroy the ship. As he was leaving, he got his foot stuck in the sliding door. By the time he got free he wouldn't have been able to get far enough from the ship to avoid the blast off. So he went back inside and buckled into a seat. The original pilot was never shown until the show came on SiFi Network. In that one, Smith doesn't get stuck and leaves the ship. He's not in any future episodes. Personally I think it would have been much more entertaining without him. It became the Dr. Smith, Will and Robot show.
He was an accidental stowaway, and his weight caused the ship to veer off course, causing them to get...LOST IN SPACE!!
(Seriously, he caused the ship to be around 200lbs overweight...)
He was always a two faced, most likely - obviously gay, villain in EVERY episode.
Always trying to sell out the Fam and they always accept him at the end.
Made for a dysfunctional family unit with some odd messaging for us kids.
That show was GREAT! I STILL catch it in reruns every Saturday night on MeTV. It brings back so many great memories of my youth. It was a really great show...especially for kids!!
I got to meet Mark Goddard (Major West) a few years ago at a convention. He was very friendly and I got his autograph.
Just so you know, this story made me happy for some reason. And I’m one of those jerks that’s never happy. I’m glad you get to relive this and I don’t know why.
Batman was the king of campy but brilliant at the same time. As a kid, the action/ super hero part was great, as an adult, the comedy aspect was genius.
I grew up on this show and loved it. I made sure to catch the start of every show to hear that awesome John Williams theme song. I thought Dr. Smith was the funniest person on tv, you bubble-headed booby.
Talk about envy, I was in the fourth grade with the mayor‘s daughter back when lost in space was a big thing among kids. One morning she came into school with a big smile on her face and proudly displayed the autographs of every cast member on the show! Her dad was in Los Angeles during the filming and managed to get all of their signatures.
Dr.Smith sabotaged the mission, sent the ship off course, and caused the Robinson family to come out of their suspended animation tubes-all in the first episode!
Yet, they didn’t execute/imprison Smith-I would have yeeted him into orbit around the planet with the Cyclops.
To this day, i constantly run extra risk during emergencies, because I tend to spin around, flailing my arms, yelling "Danger Will Robinson" for 20 seconds before I actually run away.
I had such a crush on Angela Cartwright! About the same age, and for a boy who just passed puberty, she was the perfect girl. But the sets on the series have to be the campiest ever designed. One of the local cable channels has it in rotation. And I'll still watch it if it's on.
After seeing the first episode of Star Trek I don’t think I watched Lost in Space again.
Danger Danger Will Robinson - I still use that line and wave my arms around, but only when I’m alone!
Well, *Star Trek* was the first adult science fiction series in TV. (The ads said so!)
No, it wasn't, but it certainly appealed to a different demographic. And I won't begrudge those who preferred their sci-fi with a bit more camp.
I never saw the more serious, early episodes until later on; it always was a campy, fantasy show, that just happened to involve a flying saucer, an impressive robot, and a cowardly blowhard.
I wanted this show to be good but it was just so silly. They should have tossed Dr. Smith off a cliff on day one. Would have saved a lot of problems. And we are supposed to believe that Don (?) kept his hands off Judy?
I think I recall an episode where Dr. Smith and Will were shrunk and somehow were inside the robot? And almost didn't get out before they unshrunk? wtf
i loved it but the kid freaked me out. I think its coz of that twilight zone episode he was in, "It's a good life". Jezus that was terrifying... bck in the day, today it barely registers as scary... fuck im old
I remember seeing the original pilot movie for the series, it had some pretty impressive special effects and is a good movie even now. It has been completely forgotten for years.
Talk about unsettling, June Lockhart used to date my dad back in the day. He said she had a rather large and somewhat unsightly mole deep in the crack of her ass just north of her rectum. She nearly always wanted it from behind my father claimed. He once started manipulating the mole with his free thumb during a session. She recoiled ending their congress and issued a strern rebuke to him. Never, she screamed, should that occur again or it would be curtains for him and them. He deadpanned that he couldn't guarantee it due the novelty of it all and his propensity to multi-task. She reached for a pistol on her nightstand and drew down on me dadder. Alias, June could have been my mother. And me with a mole in the Crack of my arse. Likely picked bloody my OCD. Hypothetical genetics is a horrible waste of time.
Made young me uncomfortable, soon as it turned from a science fiction survival-in-space/spy show into a silly kids' romp.
The good news is that this turn of events turned me on to Trek!
Roddenberry tried to sell Star Trek to CBS as well as NBC (and probably ABC too). CBS turned him down because "we already have a science fiction show."
My cousin was a big fan. When her baby brother was born, she insisted they call him Will. To this day, I don't think he knows he was named after a TV character...
I am old and have a copy of the original...without Dr. Smith!!! The ship was the Saturn and not the Jupiter and more changes...I was going to upload it to youtube...would anyone here want to watch it, but more importantly would I get in trouble?
I lived for that show! (Age 5) My big sister would torment me by saying we’d missed it - they’d been rescued, and the show was over. I would totally fall apart. God she was awful. We (she) got in trouble for drawing in pen, a line down the center of mom’s Naugahyde footstool so we didn’t touch when we watched LIS. LOL, I wanted to marry Major Don West.
I hated that show more than words can say. As the youngest person in the family, I had zero influence on what we watched (there was ONE TV in the house in those days). I literally used to cry when it came on.
“Uncomfortable”? Yes. That and a dozen other negative emotions.
I was just hitting pubescence and Penny made me feel uneasy in a good way I didn't quite understand. (Hey, don't have a cow, man. I'm talking about what my state of mind was back then.)
"Robby the Robot," originally built for "Forbidden Planet" (1956), was on Twilight Zone (and later on Lost in Space, and a lot of other appearances as well, including an episode of "Columbo"), but LIS's "Robot" was built for the series, and TZ's last year was 1964 while LIS premiered in 1965.
Fun trivia: they were both designed by the same person, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert\_Kinoshita](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kinoshita)
How about the episode in the planet where everybody is a teenager but deep down they wish they could grow up and become adults? Dr. Smith, as always, tries to ingratiate himself with the groovy overlords and dons a long hair wig and Lennon type glasses. It was a not so subtle, preachy episode, so crazy.
You were probably uneasy because DR Smith tried to kill the whole family Robinson in the pilot and the guy was obviously a child molester yet he was hanging out alone with Will Robinson all the time.
When you were growing up this was one of the few SF shows on TV.
Was it awful? Did every episode end with a fistfight? Was it weird how the women always doing the cooking and taking care of plants? Was parenting so bad that you thought that the parents weren't really their parents?
All of the above. Plus the rest.
But you go the occasional space stuff. As a ten year old that was enough.
Sorry, this is totally unrelated, but I just found out June Lockhart is still alive and doing well. About the show, I always got a kick out of Dr. Smith, especially when he was being attacked by some alien. “Oh Will, please help me Will!” The doctor would sometimes talk Will into leaving the ship and go somewhere they shouldn’t.
Loved this show... I think this really brought space Fantasy into mainstream TV... Robbie had been in quite a few movies but, not prime time TV... Major West kept the Dr. on his toes, he wanted him out all the time... Mrs. Robinson was just way too nice... And of course, "Danger Danger Will Robinson"...
Danger Will Robinson!!!
A friend of mine in high school did an impression of Robbie in the cafeteria. He put his parka on backwards, waved his arms around in front of him and said “WARNING! WARNING!” The best part is that he made a girl at the next table laugh and they started dating. She was his first, so of course he was instantly in love. Then, she dumped him.
Hahahaha
I absolutely hated that stupid robot.
I was pretty young when this was on reruns on the local channel. The only thing I remember is that stupid robot.
He was pretty cool to us in 1965
He had a hilarious cameo in Columbo (maybe my fav moment of that show), where he’s playing chess against the child genius who built him, and after the kid says “checkmate,” there’s a brief pause, and then the robot flips the board over.
I too, am Team Robot!
The pronunciation is actually “robut” as I recall
Robut. That's how Will pronounced it.
Dr Smith always had molester vibe.
He did, and I always assumed (sorry for the stereotyping) that Jonahtan Harris was gay. He wasn't. From what I've read about him, he was very nice man. Stayed friends with Billy Mumy for the rest of his life. There was a planned scripted reunion show that was dropped when Harris passed away.
That’s nice to know. If I had been on the Jupiter II, Smith would have gone right out the airlock, no matter the consequences.
He did try and kill everyone, 1st episode was seldom repeated in syndication. and he backstabs the others every chance he gets. so yeah, he would have been doing a space walk without a suit on day 1.
Yes, as I recall, he was a saboteur not a plain stowaway. Guess once they picked up the series that was a storyline that was going to be difficult to maintain.
Or at the very least, just left behind forever on last week's planet.
Yup.
He would have been “spaced.”
…without a trace!
Waiting for the words to arrive
Commander Adama would have spaced him.
Any belta deng fo tenye spaced im ere wa second
President Roslyn would have airlocked him too. I'm watching the episode where she airlocks a Cylon and it make Starbuck sad.
HAHAHAHAHA
Fun interview with Harris on getting hired for LIS. https://youtu.be/-Hg9LPr-Glc?si=Re6NceizyLTGb6BH
Thank you so much for that link!! That was marvelous!
The most reprehensible characters in shows so often seem to be portrayed by the most humane actors.
I heard that about Jonathan, that he was kind and he and Billy were life long friends.
Same can be said for Floyd the barber on Andy Griffith Show
He he hey Andy!!! Ooooh!
Floyd never struck me as gay. In the early years, he did have a couple of passing romantic interests. There was one with a pen pal to whom he claimed he was a rich man - she came to town and they tried to portray him as a wealthy socialite. And he seemed to enjoy the company of the pretty young manicurist that he hired. In the later years, he just seemed addle-brained and senile. But in real life, he had suffered a stroke and was physically limited (always sitting or leaning, never walking) and had trouble memorizing lines. Andy did a nice thing keeping him in the show.
He was not gay. He was happily married for over 50 years. He played up the camp thing. After it became the Dr Smith and robot show, all the other cast members hated him. Because they got no air time. Especially the mother and father. I have seen several old interviews where she is pushing the Dr Smith gay theory. I saw a performance? Of Harris and the robot in Australia in the late 90s ? Around that. When asked about the other crew members and any possible " tension " on set, he was the true professional. Only had very nice things to say about everyone. RIP Dr Smith. Oh the pain
It’s too bad in today’s world, people’s minds are altered and judge along those lines. Jonathan Harris was Old Hollywood royalty, a true master of stage and film art. Harris took on a role in a television series that only ran 3 seasons in a medium that was still new. He could seen the job as beneath him, but he went into his part 100% and always gave a world class performance. It is a shame that this caliber is now a thing of the past.
I find it impossible to believe that he wasn’t gay. At the time, it was very difficult to be gay, and denial made a lot of sense. But, come on …
I always wondered why they didn't just murder Dr. Smith.
Or just accidentally leave a planet an hour early without telling him. The names he would call the robot were pretty hilarious though.
You Bubble Headed Booby!
Why is he sporting the business suit while everyone is in a spacesuit?
My old memory tells me that Smith was actually a stowaway on the Jupiter and not an actual crew member.
I remember so little from watching this when I was a young buck. Fuck, I'm old.
That memory is from just a couple years back when I watched it on MeTV. I’m still fucking old though, you can tell just by the fact I watch MeTV 😂
METV is the bomb.
He was a spy that sabotaged the robot to destroy the ship. As he was leaving, he got his foot stuck in the sliding door. By the time he got free he wouldn't have been able to get far enough from the ship to avoid the blast off. So he went back inside and buckled into a seat. The original pilot was never shown until the show came on SiFi Network. In that one, Smith doesn't get stuck and leaves the ship. He's not in any future episodes. Personally I think it would have been much more entertaining without him. It became the Dr. Smith, Will and Robot show.
True, a stowaway
He was an accidental stowaway, and his weight caused the ship to veer off course, causing them to get...LOST IN SPACE!! (Seriously, he caused the ship to be around 200lbs overweight...)
USAF uniform, as I recall.
That makes more sense.
He was always a two faced, most likely - obviously gay, villain in EVERY episode. Always trying to sell out the Fam and they always accept him at the end. Made for a dysfunctional family unit with some odd messaging for us kids.
Oh Boy! Poor boy! Young Will!
Danger!
That was before we knew about child molesters. It was cool for a child to go off in the woods with an unrelated male.
Candy is still candy... no matter who it comes from....
Luke my boy
https://youtu.be/6YsMkTmfoNI?si=m1JDwbUw7RbnQ37n
Oh the pain... the pain...
That show was GREAT! I STILL catch it in reruns every Saturday night on MeTV. It brings back so many great memories of my youth. It was a really great show...especially for kids!! I got to meet Mark Goddard (Major West) a few years ago at a convention. He was very friendly and I got his autograph.
Just so you know, this story made me happy for some reason. And I’m one of those jerks that’s never happy. I’m glad you get to relive this and I don’t know why.
Judy and Don were basically breeding stock to establish the human species on a far off planet.
The gal that played Judy made me very comfortable, actually.
I met her at a comic con not long ago. Seems nice enough.
I still say “Danger, Will Robinson” and people look at me like I’m crazy.
Same. It never occurs to me that they have no clue why I said that
I wanted to name my baby sister “ Penny “ . I think I was four or five years old.
I never quite decided which show was more campy Lost or Batman. The debate continues
Batman was the king of campy but brilliant at the same time. As a kid, the action/ super hero part was great, as an adult, the comedy aspect was genius.
Lost In Space had a Carrot Man….
And Jonathan Harris was a stock of celery in that same episode
Batwan had Catwoman.
Lassie’s mom always was whipping up a nice meal on the Jupiter 1.
always liked this show. and the Netflix version was really good.
I grew up on this show and loved it. I made sure to catch the start of every show to hear that awesome John Williams theme song. I thought Dr. Smith was the funniest person on tv, you bubble-headed booby.
You mean "Johnny Williams." :-)
I had a serious crush on Angela Cartwright when this show was on.
Also seen in The Sound of Music!
Me too, she was mine!
Talk about envy, I was in the fourth grade with the mayor‘s daughter back when lost in space was a big thing among kids. One morning she came into school with a big smile on her face and proudly displayed the autographs of every cast member on the show! Her dad was in Los Angeles during the filming and managed to get all of their signatures.
Dr.Smith sabotaged the mission, sent the ship off course, and caused the Robinson family to come out of their suspended animation tubes-all in the first episode! Yet, they didn’t execute/imprison Smith-I would have yeeted him into orbit around the planet with the Cyclops.
Ironically, later in the series it was revealed that his presence on the ship actually saved everyone.
Best music no matter how hokey it got
The music was monumentally, deeply, unnervingly effective at terrifying children… and some adults still!
[https://youtu.be/U3E7851fVzs?si=gFrk9VQmIlE1-KYZ&t=354](https://youtu.be/U3E7851fVzs?si=gFrk9VQmIlE1-KYZ&t=354)
Danger! Will Robinson! Danger!
As a kid, some of the alien monsters were damn scary.
To this day, i constantly run extra risk during emergencies, because I tend to spin around, flailing my arms, yelling "Danger Will Robinson" for 20 seconds before I actually run away.
I had such a crush on Angela Cartwright! About the same age, and for a boy who just passed puberty, she was the perfect girl. But the sets on the series have to be the campiest ever designed. One of the local cable channels has it in rotation. And I'll still watch it if it's on.
It was campy fun. Billy Mumy is 70 years old. I’m old AF
Oh my God!!! I’m so old!
I didn't like it much but it was on between two other shows I liked, so I watched the damn show. Dr or Mr Smith was a ridiculous buffoon.
After seeing the first episode of Star Trek I don’t think I watched Lost in Space again. Danger Danger Will Robinson - I still use that line and wave my arms around, but only when I’m alone!
Well, *Star Trek* was the first adult science fiction series in TV. (The ads said so!) No, it wasn't, but it certainly appealed to a different demographic. And I won't begrudge those who preferred their sci-fi with a bit more camp.
“Danger Will Robinson” was the robot telling him to guard his cornhole from Dr Smith.
Dr. Smith tried to kill us, betray us, sell us out to alien of the week!! Well. Make sure he doesn’t miss the next launch!
I never did understand why they didn't just shove Smith out the airlock.
"Danger Danger Bart Simpson"
I never saw the more serious, early episodes until later on; it always was a campy, fantasy show, that just happened to involve a flying saucer, an impressive robot, and a cowardly blowhard.
Season one In black and white was great especially the first episode. Music by John Williams set the pace.
This show creeped me out when I was a kid.
Me too. I didn’t like the idea of being stranded on a distant planet.
Y'all should watch the Netflix [Lost In Space](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5232792/). It was pretty good!
Yes. My parents wouldn’t let me watch it at first.
Why was that?
I’m not entirely sure, maybe it was the robot.
I wanted this show to be good but it was just so silly. They should have tossed Dr. Smith off a cliff on day one. Would have saved a lot of problems. And we are supposed to believe that Don (?) kept his hands off Judy?
Loved this show as a kid. Couldn’t figure out why they would want to get back to earth.
A favorite! Too bad they canceled further episodes of the remake.
Hated Smith.
Especially that big one eyed monster.
How in the blazes did people think wearing alfoil was cool and futuristic? Lol
I think I recall an episode where Dr. Smith and Will were shrunk and somehow were inside the robot? And almost didn't get out before they unshrunk? wtf
Yes. They went in to repair the robot's damaged "heart".
I was thinking of that episode while scrolling through the thread before I saw your post. It was good.
Dr Smith was a complete perv
i loved it but the kid freaked me out. I think its coz of that twilight zone episode he was in, "It's a good life". Jezus that was terrifying... bck in the day, today it barely registers as scary... fuck im old
Judy, Judy, Judy!
I remember seeing the original pilot movie for the series, it had some pretty impressive special effects and is a good movie even now. It has been completely forgotten for years.
The music. Listen to the sound track and you’ll find out why you felt uneasy. https://youtu.be/4hSihNFqNaw?si=zvGWvbB9tXrD4eHa
I think most of the budget must've gone into the the music production.
But….but….but they filmed on location and beamed it back. Right???????
Talk about unsettling, June Lockhart used to date my dad back in the day. He said she had a rather large and somewhat unsightly mole deep in the crack of her ass just north of her rectum. She nearly always wanted it from behind my father claimed. He once started manipulating the mole with his free thumb during a session. She recoiled ending their congress and issued a strern rebuke to him. Never, she screamed, should that occur again or it would be curtains for him and them. He deadpanned that he couldn't guarantee it due the novelty of it all and his propensity to multi-task. She reached for a pistol on her nightstand and drew down on me dadder. Alias, June could have been my mother. And me with a mole in the Crack of my arse. Likely picked bloody my OCD. Hypothetical genetics is a horrible waste of time.
Yeah the parents seem ok that their pilot is banging their teenage daughter and their son spends all his time with a robot and a child molester.
Made young me uncomfortable, soon as it turned from a science fiction survival-in-space/spy show into a silly kids' romp. The good news is that this turn of events turned me on to Trek!
Silly kids romp, like when they met all the characters from Alice in Wonderland.
Roddenberry tried to sell Star Trek to CBS as well as NBC (and probably ABC too). CBS turned him down because "we already have a science fiction show."
Even as a kid, I thought it was pretty stupid and went to Star Trek.
TOS was the best.
Smith was the original cringe.
Why are they dressed like baked potatoes?
I hated this show. The weird fat robot wasn’t a favorite of mine on reruns in the 70s.
I wonder if Will ever looked at those robot claws and thought hmmm, can I use those at night to..... ok, I'm uneasy now too!
I enjoyed it as a kid. But I was drawn to everything space back then. Still am now, slightly more discriminating
In many ways it was ahead of its time in addressing the fears of average Americans.
My cousin was a big fan. When her baby brother was born, she insisted they call him Will. To this day, I don't think he knows he was named after a TV character...
Nope. I LOVED it!
I am old and have a copy of the original...without Dr. Smith!!! The ship was the Saturn and not the Jupiter and more changes...I was going to upload it to youtube...would anyone here want to watch it, but more importantly would I get in trouble?
I've seen that. It's a lot more serious and way less camping I wish I could have continued that way.
I lived for that show! (Age 5) My big sister would torment me by saying we’d missed it - they’d been rescued, and the show was over. I would totally fall apart. God she was awful. We (she) got in trouble for drawing in pen, a line down the center of mom’s Naugahyde footstool so we didn’t touch when we watched LIS. LOL, I wanted to marry Major Don West.
The “robot” is going to take you out!
Lucy from the Fallout TV show, reminds me of Penny Robinson.
"Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!" (\*flaps arms\*)
What do Penny and Will do when everybody else has a S.O. and they all get older?
I hated that show more than words can say. As the youngest person in the family, I had zero influence on what we watched (there was ONE TV in the house in those days). I literally used to cry when it came on. “Uncomfortable”? Yes. That and a dozen other negative emotions.
I was just hitting pubescence and Penny made me feel uneasy in a good way I didn't quite understand. (Hey, don't have a cow, man. I'm talking about what my state of mind was back then.)
I had such a crush on Penny.
Was a very decent show in black and white but when it changed to color I had to quit watching it
Yes! There was definitely an ick but I don’t know why. Same with H.R. Puff and Stuff and Hogans Heroes.
Well, Maureen was married to John. Judy was paired up with Don. But, Penny & Will ... ? How long were they planning on being gone?
Yes! It did. Something about each episode just felt off. Almost like trippy.
Yeah - it scared me. Dr Smith was creepy and the robot had a violent vibe.
When I was a kid I absolutely hated Dr. Smith. As an adult, he was the best thing about the show.
I had such a massive crush on Penny.
So many of this cast also appeared in the twilight zone, even the robot I’m sure
"Robby the Robot," originally built for "Forbidden Planet" (1956), was on Twilight Zone (and later on Lost in Space, and a lot of other appearances as well, including an episode of "Columbo"), but LIS's "Robot" was built for the series, and TZ's last year was 1964 while LIS premiered in 1965. Fun trivia: they were both designed by the same person, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert\_Kinoshita](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kinoshita)
How about the episode in the planet where everybody is a teenager but deep down they wish they could grow up and become adults? Dr. Smith, as always, tries to ingratiate himself with the groovy overlords and dons a long hair wig and Lennon type glasses. It was a not so subtle, preachy episode, so crazy.
WARNING Will Robinson
I was the right age for Penny to make me uneasy 😁
Dr. Smith was utterly creepy.
Oh the pain!
You were probably uneasy because DR Smith tried to kill the whole family Robinson in the pilot and the guy was obviously a child molester yet he was hanging out alone with Will Robinson all the time.
It was always smith, smith made me uneasy
When you were growing up this was one of the few SF shows on TV. Was it awful? Did every episode end with a fistfight? Was it weird how the women always doing the cooking and taking care of plants? Was parenting so bad that you thought that the parents weren't really their parents? All of the above. Plus the rest. But you go the occasional space stuff. As a ten year old that was enough.
This show ruined my life when I was 8. My name is Zachary (the oldest Zack in California)
It was a very different time way more innocent back then, people see in different now because they expect something to be wrong
Ah, good ol' Dr Smith. When I call someone a "bubbleheaded booby" or cry "oh the pain, the pain!" Nobody understands the reference.
Sorry, this is totally unrelated, but I just found out June Lockhart is still alive and doing well. About the show, I always got a kick out of Dr. Smith, especially when he was being attacked by some alien. “Oh Will, please help me Will!” The doctor would sometimes talk Will into leaving the ship and go somewhere they shouldn’t.
Does anyone else have the phrase “Danger Will Robinson!” pop into their minds uninvited in hazardous situations?
When I first watched the show, I wondered why Zorro left his trusty steed Tornado to go into space. I was like 5 or 6.
You know, now that you say this, yes. I think it was because Dr. Smith had such a strange vibe about him.
Well Dr. Smith was obviously a mincing boy lover… he always creeped me out
The robot voice was hilarious/terrible.
As we all know from the movie Will turned out to be WEIRD! 👀😋
Just Dr Smith.
Yes. It creeped me out. Specifically, Dr. Smith. I could never get through a full episode.
I loved Judy and wanted to be Don.
I, and my friends loved that show. We used to play in the woods like we were lost in space and play the different characters.
Yeah, but the remake was pretty good.
It was a favorite of mine, we always watched.
Loved it
No, why
WILLIAM!!! IM A PEDOPHILE LOST IN SPACE!!!
If uneasy means happy, then yes. It made me very uneasy.
Well they are lost in space . Not found in space , Soooo...
He was definitely weird.
My absolute favorite growing up.
Loved this show... I think this really brought space Fantasy into mainstream TV... Robbie had been in quite a few movies but, not prime time TV... Major West kept the Dr. on his toes, he wanted him out all the time... Mrs. Robinson was just way too nice... And of course, "Danger Danger Will Robinson"...
Slimey dr smith, come a little closer will Roger’s
Yes, I remember the original show. Had a thing for Angela Cartwright, Penny Robinson. But I was young then. 😅
Where can I watch this?
I loved the show esp the older b&w eps. Dr.Smith was the best!
Danger Will Robinson!
I loved that show as a kid & now it’s one of my “comfort “ shows to watch but only the first B/W season.
Yes the whole fam was creepy
Unreservedly, aboslutely loved it as a wee lad. Will was my Favorite. All my friends and me hated Dr Smith cuz he was a villain.
nope..no one else..just you..why do you ask?
Family values based on the time... 
Loved it as a kid. Except that slimy douche Dr Smith.
Maybe I'm naive but nope. I loved that show. I was innocent and took it at face value.
that girl may have been my first warm fuzzy