Lost in Space is coming back. To Netflix.

[Dave Starsky]

I loved this show when I was a kid. The Robot was my favorite character. Dick Tufeld (who voiced him) was one of the greatest voice artists who ever lived. Sadly, Mr. Tufeld passed away a few years ago, but they brought him back to do the Robot in the 1998 movie, and I couldn't have been more pleased.

I think this looks great. I welcome any comments from anyone else who remembers Lost in Space.

[Thyla]

1. This is potentially very cool

Can't wait.

[subterranean]

2. I thought it was Bob May who played the Robot. Turns out I was only half right.

I looked it up, and Bob May was the man inside the Robot, but Dick Tufeld was the voice. Never knew they were two different people!

I too was a huge LiS fan when I was a kid (and not just because of Angela Cartwright!). Pretty cool that they're bringing it back. I wonder if any of the original cast members will make cameo appearances. Several of them are still alive.

[Aristus]

3. I was so in love with Angela Cartwright, I'd could barely even breathe when she was on-screen.

I watched reruns as a kid in the 1970's.

[Dave Starsky]

4. I was in love with Angela Cartwright, too!

I think she was the fantasy of every little boy who watched those shows.

[Aristus]

6. As young and innocent as I was, my fantasies were necessarily a little limited.

But she was still the girl of my dreams.

Still a very attractive woman to this day, BTW...

[subterranean]

5. Yes! Penny was one of my early schoolboy crushes.

I suspect we had plenty of company in that regard!

[Aristus]

7. Without a doubt...

[TuxedoKat]

9. Well I had a crush on Bill Mumy

Wrote him a fan letter and everything. Received back a 5' x 7' photo and a postcard of the whole crew which I still have!
Too cool!

[OriginalGeek]

14. did you know

the Bill is one half of Barnes and Barnes?

I took a fish head out to see a movie,
Didn't have to pay to get it in...

[Dave Starsky]

18. He is a funny guy.

I always appreciate the chance to see or hear him interviewed. Like Mark Hamill, he's an unapologetic genre fan with lots of interesting stories from his experiences, and he always comes off as a super nice guy.

[OriginalGeek]

21. it's always neat

when a person you like for their work turns out to be a decent person in real life too.

[Dave Starsky]

23. I'm also glad that, like Ron Howard...

He avoided the "child star curse" that happened to so many others from that era. Sounds that, like Howard, he had decent parents who cared about his welfare and didn't see him as a cash cow.

[TuxedoKat]

19. I knew he was a musician

Wasn't aware of this work of his though!!! Interesting!!!

[OriginalGeek]

20. lol, I heard this song for years

before I ever knew it was him. When I was in high school they played it on Dr Demento all the time.

[Dr. Strange]

22. It's good that you wrote Bill Mumy a letter.

It's real good!

[TuxedoKat]

24. LOL!!!!!!

Good thing I didn't see that Twilight Zone episode until many years later!!! I would have been freaked out over that Jack-in-the Box!!!

[Dr. Strange]

25. I saw a few episodes of Lost in Space.

But Mumy's Twilight Zone performance still stands out for me.

On a side note, here's Mumy reprising his role:

[TuxedoKat]

26. Oh, that's too cool

I just watched a few minutes of it. Will watch the rest after work later. I thought it was going to be a spoof on the earlier episode, but it looks pretty serious!!! Thanks for sharing that!!!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

11. Her older sister also played a character stranded in outer space!

Veronica in Alien!

[Aristus]

12. Never was a fan of Veronica.

She's made a career out of playing unpleasant characters.

I'm sure she's perfectly nice, IRL. But my heart belonged then only to Angela.

[kedrys]

8. I am besides myself with glee. n/t

[Glorfindel]

10. I loved the TV series. I was heartbroken that the 1998 movie was so awful

I'm hoping for better things from Netflix!

[Awsi Dooger]

13. I have never watched the movie due to that concern

It was never going to match the series I loved in early elementary school in the mid '60s.

I used to draw daily pictures of the Jupiter 2 shooting at things, while the girl seated next to me laughed and the teacher scolded both of us to pay attention to her lessons.

[Dave Starsky]

16. I actually liked the 1998 movie.

And, again, I am a lifelong fan of the show.

It gets a lot of crap for its awful CGI and somewhat meandering plot. But it does enough things right and is respectful enough of the original series, that I still found it very enjoyable.

[OriginalGeek]

15. i haven;t even watched the trailer yet

but I am already in love with the idea.


there was a time when I liked LiS more than Star Trek. I had to get a little older to appreciate ST:TOS but I love them both to this day.

[Dave Starsky]

17. I think Lost in Space was more "kid friendly".

Because every kid pretty much lived vicariously through Will and/or his sister Penny.

It looks like they're still keeping Will Robinson as a focal point of the show, along with his relationships with the mysterious Robot and the sinister Dr. Smith. That, coupled with the fact that there are some good, established actors and what looks like undeniably great effects involved, gives me the highest hopes for this.