Happy Lost in Space Day +2
erco
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Dangit, I missed the story's launch date, it was October 16 1997. Asleep at the wheel again!
Probably the show that turned me on to robots when I was 5. I WAS Will Robinson. Danger, danger! Warning, Warning! [/flailing arms]
Probably the show that turned me on to robots when I was 5. I WAS Will Robinson. Danger, danger! Warning, Warning! [/flailing arms]
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No reason to leave home.
At one time I had started a project of trans-coding them to AVC/AAC mp4 files with Handbrake. I was getting really good quality at only 400MB per episode, which would have gotten the total size down to 36 GB or so, but time is hard to find and disk drive space is cheap... Maybe next year.
Rick, you probably shouldn't publicly mention you have ripped TV shows on your site if others can access them. Fox still sells this thing. If you're a Hulu Plus member, you can watch it for free (not that I would).
Sure, it's pure silly fun. It doesn't exactly hold up to Star Wars, but beach ball mines and an invading army of Remco robots left an indelible imprint on this punk kid.
You gotta admit, "Trip through the Robot" was just plain Badarse.
I actually haven't watched any of the Lost in Space episodes in years. If I remember right, it started off a little on the serious side and got a bit sillier as the seasons went by. I'm sure I've spent a lot more time watching Star Trek.
We were a Star Trek house for prime time. I recall LIS being in syndication shortly after its prime time run and watchable in the afternoons.
LIS was always an early prime-time show -- back then, that started at 7:30 for weekdays. Trek started no earlier than 8:30 in its run, finally ending up at 10 on Friday, where it was eventually killed off. The two never competed head-to-head.
The very first LIS shows were actually pretty good, so I don't want to give the wrong impression. But after the first half season or so, it started to get downright dumb, as the producers found they had a bigger market in going after the kid demographic. Irwin Allen was at his most prolific peak in the late 60s, doing several shows simultaneously, plus developing movies. I think he was simply doing too much to really spend time enforcing some quality control.
My robotics web site (Robotoid dot com) is named after one of the LIS episodes, the one that also featured Robby the Robot as a bad bot -- both B-9 and Robby were designed by the same person, for those that follow that sort of thing.
Curiously on the uniforms -- it was said Roddenberry intentionally didn't want traditional sleeve braid insignia, so as a captain, Kirk had only three stripes, whereas traditionally a naval captain has four. In original Star Trek, a commander had two stripes instead of three, and so on. I was surprised to see they undid that for Next Generation, and went with the "commonwealth" stripes.
Never mind the fact that the uniforms worn by all went through many changes during the entire timeline. Until we have what was worn by the Next Generation crews in the their last film.
When you consider that our Navy and its uniforms are equally unique, a Captain and his First Officer wore uniforms that were more Three Piece business suits. (Pan Am uniforms were the same style!)
From the period about the time of the largely political and yellow journalism sponsored Spanish American War all the way to the present there were equally as many changes.
The reason why Picard calls his First, "Number One" is simply a nod to his history.
I think the point about the braid stripes is that Roddenberry decided against making it look like a military mission -- probably another reason there was no "Number One" or an "Exec" on the Enterprise. By using traditional stripes, TNG had a stronger tinge of militarism, even though they always said they weren't.