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Summary: Quite Simply - The best tv series ever made!
Review: Like many of you, I too watched Lost in Space as a kid, as a teenager, as a young man and now as an adult. I will be watching this show until the day I die. This show had so many elements that made it unique from all the other shows of that time period. You could identify with the family, Guy Williams and Mark Goddard are super actors who have never gotten the credit they deserve, the Jupiter two set, the nifty costumes, the robot not to mention the gorgeous Marta Kristen and cute Angela Cartwright. There was drama, comedy, action, adventure, special effects, moral lessons, the music was wonderful, the chariot was cool...I could go on and on. Finally, on DVD, Lost in Space will be viewed by me and my family over and over again. My hats off to Fox, Kevin Burns and Bill Mumy for preserving this classic show in a format that will out-live us all. I hope thay can find the bloopers! Somebody (maybe the show's editor) took them home after the wrap parties and kept them in a closet all these years. Jonathan Harris would be proud that the show lives on and I hope Guy Williams is looking down from the heavens with a wink in his eye and is finally realizing how much everyone admired his work on Lost in Space. Season 2 and 3 couldn't come out fast enough for me! Buy these DVD's, it's the best flashback you will ever have.
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Summary: Greater than the sum of its parts
Review: I'm pleased to see this title doing well in Amazon's sales ranking, but I do wish more care had been taken with it. For a DVD title I found the picture quality disappointing - poorer than the quality of VHS tapes. The picture has a slightly dusty, gritty feel, which gives the impression of a low-resolution TV image (I see cleaner detail on VHS tapes). In addition, some lateral movement of the camera results in a small but intrusive "jitter" of the image on-screen.At first I put these flaws down to the fact that I was watching a region 1 DVD on a multi-region European player through a PAL TV pretending to be NTSC. After I played a couple of the DVDs on a new PC I found it to be exactly the same. Possibly this is the result of the very modest price for an eight DVD collection. If so, I would have been happier paying a bit more to avoid the problem. It would be interesting to see if anyone else has noticed this. Perhaps I have just been unlucky with my set. Like some other reviewers, I thought there had been some minor cuts. I can't think of any excuse for it other than a flawed master copy. I find it hard to believe it was intentional. These cautions aside, it is marvellous to have season one in a format that does not leave me in dread of it developing tramlines over repeated viewings. The entire first season, and the unaired pilot in a box set at this price is a bargain in anyone's currency. Lost in Space was always a show that tended to polarise opinion (people either loved it or loathed it) and I have loved it since I was a child in the 1960s. I am bored senseless with the smug, knowing, disdainful attitude of people who find the values celebrated in this show incomprehensible. The world its critics enjoy seems measurably worse to me. The season one collection is an opportunity for anyone who was touched by the magic, humour, personality, and sheer rightness of Lost in Space. It was one of those wonderful moments in television when a show's cast and crew produced something greater than the sum of its parts. This DVD collection is a chance for us all to preserve and enjoy it again.
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Summary: Pointless cuts spoil a good show
Review: So as not to repeat what a lot of the other reviewers have said I will just pass comment on what has distressed me most about this release - the bits someone cut out! On the original master tape containing the the last episode of the season (Follow The Leader) the producers finished the episode with a cliffhanger for an earlier episode (Attack of the Monster Plants) which was to be repeated the following week. On this version of 'Follow the Leader,' at the end of the episode as John and Will walk off screen the image fades to black and the sound is poorly faded out. We then get the cliffhanger from the end of the last episode of season two (The Galaxy Gift) which featured a cliffhanger for the first episode of season two (Blast Off Into Space ) which I assume would have meant a repeat of the first episode of season two the following week. I cannot believe that somebody in charge took the decision to do this! One of the best things about buying something on DVD or VHS (or it should be) is to see it un-cut. This edit completely ruins the mood and look of the end of the final episode. The jump from black and white to colour is very jarring but, ultimately, its that some bubble headed booby thought that it would be a good thing. Will we get a 60 second teaser for the season three opener at the end of 'The Galaxy Gift' instead of its original cliffhanger ending? What about the last episode of season three, a trailer for the Lost In Space movie? A reviewer here posted that 'Return From Outer Space' had a very minor cut. I have just counted two minor cuts in 'The Keeper Part Two.' At about seventeen minutes into the episode the Keeper gives Dr Smith a small ball to keep him safe from the animals. In a close up shot of the Keeper we see him about to turn around and walk away. The next shot cuts to a close up of Dr Smith holding the ball in his hand and the incidental music jumps in awkwardly. A two to three second shot has been removed. After the Keeper motions to turn away we should cut to a two shot where we see the Keeper exit the screen as the camera moves in for a close up on Dr Smith as the music starts.
At about thirty minutes into the episode we see Maureen walk up the ramp of the Keepers' ship. The music jumps awkwardly as she enters the ship. The next shot features her walking into shot as she sees the Keeper unconscious on the floor of his ship. On the version I have of that scene (taped from Channel 4 in the UK), after Maureen walks up the ramp and enters the ship we get a static shot of the Keeper unconscious on the floor of his ship. It is a good three to four seconds before Maureen walks into shot to find him. I had not seen 'The Keeper' for many years before watching this version but, the cuts were obvious enough for me to dig out my old tapes and check. I would love to know why these cuts were made. If the episodes used for this DVD release were from late eighties transfers, perhaps it was done to cut the episodes run time down by mere seconds (why bother with just a few seconds?) so more adverts could be crammed into the time slot. Although Channel 4 cut one scene from 'The Derelict' and went straight into the credits just before the cliffhanger freeze frame for most of the season one episodes, they did a cracking job in comparison to this official offering from Fox who should have done a lot better. I am sure that some of you may think my complaints silly but for me this was a chance to see and own Lost In Space uncut and on a format that would not deteriorate after repeated viewings. Sadly, this has not happened here. I can forgive the poor packaging (the front of the box looks fine but the colours and style used on the back and on the individual disk covers fails to retain the feel of the show. The pictures of the cast on each cover are the same ones used on the front of the box - just blown up (and it shows)), the static menus (you get used to them but an animated menu would have been nice) and the lack of any extras that required to much effort to produce (we have The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen and the extras on Lost In Space Forever to watch) but not the cuts and editing, however minor they might appear. If anyone from Fox is reading this, please, please, PLEASE do not tamper with the episodes themselves otherwise, we might as well buy a load of blank tapes and record them off the TV. More cuts... The War of the Robots: Dr Smith drops Maureen's watch to the ground. The music jumps in awkwardly and we cut to a split second shot of Dr Smiths boot standing on the watch. We should see the watch laying on the ground just before Dr Smiths boot comes into shot to crush it. Only a cut of about one to two seconds but just enough to be noticeable.
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Summary: Still Holds Up
Review: I recently purchased this set and viewed several episodes. This series was a childhood favorite of mine and, I must say, it holds up well. Some of the dialogue (and humor) actually works better from an adult perspective. I agree with those who say the first season of the series was the best. The black-and-white photography enhances the sense of mystery and unknown that the space travelers faced in the first year. The thoughtful writing also consistently created intrigue and excitement. The incidental music, written by John Williams of Star Wars fame, is terrific. It expresses many different moods vividly, and is one big reason for the first season's rewatchability. Some episodes are better than others and there is a little foreshadowing, here and there, of the goofiness that followed in subsequent years. Nevertheless, the first season of the series, as presented on this DVD, is good stuff and still captures the imagination after all these years.
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Summary: Review of Lost in Space DVD Box Set
Review: I wont add any thing to what has already been said about the show. It was a good show & I enjoyed it very much, as You did too that are here looking at it. I just want to say that the picture on this DVD box set is clear and sharp. plays great. You get the complete show, unlike a tv broadcast that cuts scenes out to save time. I too hope seasons 2 & 3 will be out shortly.
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Summary: My first Favorite TV Series...
Review: Thanks to Billy Mumy for posting in this thread on Jan. 19--everyone check it out! Billy, I was a six year old boy during the first season, so I related to you. But I wanted to grow up to be Major West! Now I think that I am the best parts of both of you...really! Thank you so much for helping to create my favorite childhood series. I am getting such a kick out of watching these DVDs...unbelieveable. --John W., Boston
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For anyone who remembers and liked LIS, you must buy this Season 1 set. NOW. All 29 episodes in glorious black & white. No commercials. And you can do something now that you couldn't do in 1965...when the teaser says "...to be continued NEXT WEEK same time same channel", you can FF right to it. This set is very user friendly. Not many extras but I don't care. I can finally see a show that I haven't seen for maybe 30 years. Season 1 was the best of the three seasons, IMO. Seasons 2 & 3 suffered from excess campiness and too many lame guest stars (due to the copycat phenomenon in the wake of "Batman"). But I will still buy them, if they are released on DVD. And to the folks at TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT a big Thank You for this wonderful set. And, as I said above, if you release Seasons 2 & 3 then I will buy them. IMMEDIATELY.
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Summary: FANTASTIC JOURNEY INTO MY CHILDHOOD!!! AAA+++
Review: These DVD's have brought me so much joy and fond memories of my childhood. EXCELLANT QUALITY!!! WHAT A GREAT VALUE for an 8 disc set with a total of 30 episodes. Good family entertainment, that is timeless. I CAN'T WAIT FOR SEASON TWO TO COME OUT!!! HIGHLY RECCOMEND!!!!
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Summary: It was worth the wait!
Review: I have loved "Lost in Space" since I was a kid. Did not miss an episode. I have taped all the episodes when it was on the Sci-Fi Channel but having them on DVD with no commercials (and no cuts) is great. I am on the third DVD today. I am watching it on my computer and the resolution is quite good. I even noticed that Don is wearing a necklace in the "Oasis" episode! I certainly hope they release Season 2 and 3 because they already have a sale here!
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Summary: My wish came true...almost.....am I clairvoyant?
Review: Not a month ago I was talking to a friend at work about movies in general, DVD boxed sets, etc, and mentioned that it would be pretty awesome if the original Lost In Space TV show was released as a boxed set, (maybe just the first season). I hadn't seen that show in at least 10 years, and since every other show on earth is coming out as a boxed set, and I just hoped that they'd put out LIS. I had recorded a few episodes years ago, and I still had the tapes, but they're pretty gritty now. Anyway, last Saturday I was at the movie store here in town, just brousing around, and what did I see sitting there on the shelf, minding it's own business!? The Lost In Space first season box set! Holy begiberzizeseses! I couldn't believe it! Every first season episode! Just what I'd wished for not a month ago! (Remember the episode called "The Thought Machine"?) I haven't been that psyched since my first girlfriend and I, uuhhh, well, never mind. The thing is, I was actually hoping that they'd also release another Irwin Allen show I used to watch as a kid, "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea". I havn't seen that show in at least 20 years, and I have no idea how many episodes or seasons they did, but I do remember really liking it. I remember the Seaview, the totally cool flying sub, yellow scuba suits, and sea monsters. Now, if I go to the movie store in the next couple of weeks and the first season of "Voyage" is there with the same style packaging, box set and all, someone's gonna call me clairvoyant...
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Summary: Childhood revisited!
Review: Just a quick note to any other Brits/Europeans who don't want to wait for the Region 2 release of this childhood classic: Despite what it says on this site, these Region 1 (USA) NTSC discs play fine in a UK multi-region player. (Hacked Sony DVP-F21 running into an NTSC-capable projector).
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