Lost in Space

Original title : No place to hide
First Aired :
Director :
Writing credits : Irwin Allen
Cast :

The Story : The adventures of the space family Robinson, who become hopelessly lost in space while on their way to colonize a new world.
Note : There is no Robot or Doctor Smith in the unaired pilot. Black and White.

Original title : The Reluctant Stowaway
First Aired : 15.09.1965 (USA)
Director : Tony Leader
Writing credits : S. Bar David From a Story by Shimon Wincelberg
Cast : Don Forbes (TV Commentator), Hal Torey (General), Byron Morrow (Lt. General Squires), Hoke Howell (Sgt. Rogers), Brett Parker (Security Guard), Irwin Allen (Voice of the President)

The Story : In the year 1997, the Robinson family takes off in the Jupiter 2, America's first colonization mission to Alpha Centauri. However, a spy for a foreign country, Dr. Zachary Smith, sneaks on board and sabotages the mission by reprogramming the ship's robot to destroy the Jupiter 2 after launch. But Smith becomes trapped on board, and the Robinsons save the ship, but not before it's guidance system is damaged, and the Jupiter 2 becomes lost in space.
Note : Originally, the Robot was a villain, and not the good guy it would later become. Also, Dr. Smith was more ruthless.

Original title : The Derelict
First Aired : 22.09.1965 (USA)
Director : Alex Singer
Writing credits : Peter Packer From a Story by Shimon Wincelberg
Cast : Don Forbes (TV Commentator), Dawson Palmer (Giant)

The Story : The Jupiter 2 is pulled into a giant alien spaceship, where they encounter an advanced race of bubblelike creatures. John and Don search for maps and equipment, while Dr. Smith and Will get into trouble.

Original title : Island in the Sky
First Aired : 29.09.1965 (USA)
Director : Tony Leader
Writing credits : Norman Lessing From a Story by Shimon Wincelberg
Cast :

The Story : While outside the ship, Prof. Robinson's parajets misfire, and he plummets towards the planet below. Don attempts to follow in the Jupiter 2, but Dr. Smith's sabotage causes the retro-rockets to fail, and the ship crash lands. They then search the planet for Prof. Robinson, using the space chariot.
Note : This is the first time the "space chariot" (a combination tractor and bus) is used.

Original title : There Were Giants in the Earth
First Aired : 06.10.1965 (USA)
Director : Leo Penn
Writing credits : Carey Wilber From a Story by Shimon Wincelberg
Cast : Lamar Lundy (Giant)

The Story : John discovers that the planet they are on will soon move farther from its sun and freeze. The Robinson's attempt to abandon the ship and move South in hopes of surviving. They encounter a carnivorous Cyclops who impedes their escape.

Original title : The Hungry Sea
First Aired : 13.10.1965 (USA)
Director : Sobey Martin
Writing credits : William Welch From a Story by Shimon Wincelberg
Cast :

The Story : John discovers that the planet's orbit will again carry it back towards the sun. The family heads back towards the Jupiter 2 in the Chariot, but encounter earthquakes and storms. They cross an island sea to reach their ship.

Original title : Welcome Stranger
First Aired : 20.10.1965 (USA)
Director : Alvin Ganzer
Writing credits : Peter Packer
Cast : Warren Oates (Jimmy Hapgood)

The Story : The Robinsons find astronaut Jimmy Hapgood, also lost from Earth, on the planet. They help him repair his ship, which is in better condition, so that he can return to Earth. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson ask him to take Will and Penny with him, but Dr. Smith plots to have himself taken instead. However, Hapgood enjoys life in space, and no one returns to Earth.

Original title : My Friend, Mr. Nobody
First Aired : 27.10.1965 (USA)
Director : Paul Stanley
Writing credits : Jackson Gillis
Cast : William Bramley (Mr. Nobody)

The Story : Penny plays with an "imaginary" companion, actually a disembodied life force living below the surface. When Dr. Smith accidentally injures Penny, the companion unleashes its wrath across the entire planet, until Penny intervenes and calms it down, and then it undergoes a startling transformation.

Original title : Invaders from the Fifth Dimension
First Aired : 03.11.1965 (USA)
Director : Leonard Horn
Writing credits : Shimon Wincelberg
Cast : Ted Lohmann (Alien), Joe Ryan (Luminary)

The Story : Luminous aliens capture Dr. Smith, and plan to replace their burnt-out computer with his brain. However, he bargains with them, and promises them Will's brain instead. Thus they are pitted against the Robinsons.

Original title : The Oasis
First Aired : 10.11.1965 (USA)
Director : Sutton Roley
Writing credits : Peter Packer
Cast :

The Story : Smith eats some alien fruit before it can be tested, and grows into a giant. Convinced that the Robinsons were trying to kill him, he plots to finish them off. However, he is returned to normal size, and does not kill any Robinsons.

Original title : The Sky is Falling
First Aired : 17.11.1965 (USA)
Director : Sutton Roley
Writing credits : Barney Slater, Herman Groves
Cast : Don Matheson (Retho), Francoise Ruggieri (Moela), Eddir Rosson (Lunon)

The Story : The Robinsons find themselves unable to understand the electronic language of a visiting space family.

Original title : Wish Upon a Star
First Aired : 24.11.1965 (USA)
Director : Sutton Roley
Writing credits : Barney Slater
Cast : Dawson Palmer (Rubberoid)

The Story : Banished from the Robinson Camp, Dr. Smith takes refuge in the wreck of an alien spaceship, where he finds a machine that can materialize anything one wishes. To get the Robinsons to allow him back into the Jupiter 2, he donates the machine to them. It then starts to play on their greed. The machine's original owner, a strange Rubberoid creature, then returns to retreive it.

Original title : The Raft
First Aired : 01.12.1965 (USA)
Director : Sobey Martin
Writing credits : Peter Packer
Cast : Dawson Palmer (Bush Creature)

The Story : The Robinsons construct a small space craft capable of carrying two people back to Earth. Dr. Smith takes off in it, with Will, but it isn't on the Earth that they land.

Original title : One of Our Dogs is Missing
First Aired : 08.12.1965 (USA)
Director : Sutton Roley
Writing credits : William Welch
Cast : Dawson Palmer (Mutant)

The Story : The Robinsons find a suspended animation test ship with a twenty-year-old dog in it. Then at night, food is being taken off the ship, and growling noises are heard. It's not the dog, however, but a giant, hairy mutant who attacks Judy, until the dog saves her.

Original title : Attack of the Monster Plants
First Aired : 15.12.1965 (USA)
Director : Justin Addis
Writing credits : William Read Woodfield, Alan Balter
Cast :

The Story : Giant cyclamen plants, which duplicate anything put into them, make an evil duplicate of Judy, in an attempt to get the Jupiter 2's supply of deutronium fuel. The evil Judy feeds all of the fuel to the plants, while Dr. Smith refuses to tell the Robinsons where the real Judy is.

Original title : Return from Outer Space
First Aired : 29.12.1965 (USA)
Director : Nathan Juran
Writing credits : Peter Packer
Cast : Reta Shaw (Aunt Clara), Walter Sande (Sheriff Baxendale), Donald Loxby (Davey Sims), Sheila Mathews (Ruth Templeton), Helen Kleeb (Phone Operator Rachel), Robert Easton (Lacy), Harry Harvey, Sr. (Grover), Ann Dore (First Select-Person), Keith Taylor (Theodore), Johnny Tuchy (First Boy)

The Story : Will is able to use the Tauron's maser device to transport himself back to Earth. However, nobody will believe that he is one of the Robinsons, or that they are shipwrecked.

Original title : The Keeper (1/2)
First Aired : 12.01.1966 (USA)
Director : Harry Harris
Writing credits : Barney Slater
Cast : Michael Rennie (Keeper), Wilbur Evans (Lighted Head)

The Story : An intergalactic zookeeper comes by, and the Robinsons are suspicious of the way he treats them as specimens, rather than humans, which is true. He decides to add Will and Penny to his menagerie. Hoping to steal the Keeper's ship, Dr. Smith sneaks on board, but accidentally lets all of the animals loose. The Keeper then says that if the Robinsons do not hand over Will and Penny, he will allow the dangerous monsters to overrun the planet.

Original title : The Keeper (2/2)
First Aired : 19.01.1966 (USA)
Director : Harry Harris
Writing credits : Barney Slater
Cast : Michael Rennie (Keeper)

The Story : See previous part

Original title : The Sky Pirate
First Aired : 26.01.1966 (USA)
Director : Sobey Marcel
Writing credits : Carey Wilder
Cast : Albert Salmi (Alonzo P. Tucker)

The Story : Will is kidnapped, and later befriends Tucker the space pirate, who is being chased by a creature from another galaxy.

Original title : Ghost in Space
First Aired : 02.02.1966 (USA)
Director : Sobey Martin
Writing credits : Barney Slater
Cast : Dawson Palmer (Uncle Thaddeus)

The Story : Dr. Smith throws an explosive into a gaseous bog, creating an invisible, destructive force that threatens the Robinsons. Dr. Smith is convinced that the thing is the spirit of his uncle Thaddeus. While the Robinsons figure out how to capture it, Smith tries to exorcise it.

Original title : The War of the Robots
First Aired : 09.02.1966 (USA)
Director : Sobey Martin
Writing credits : Barney Slater
Cast : Robby the Robot

The Story : Will finds a robot and repairs it. It helps the Robinsons with their chores, but is in actuality an evil robot created by an advanced race. It is programmed to have a will of its own, and it plans to capture the Robinsons for its masters, and destroy their Robot.
Note : Features "Robby the Robot" from the science fiction film Forbidden Planet (1956)

Original title : The Magic Mirror
First Aired : 16.02.1966 (USA)
Director : Nathan Juran
Writing credits : Jackson Gillis
Cast : Michael J. Pollard (Alien Boy)

The Story : Penny, and her pet Bloop, Debbie fall through an alien mirror into another dimension, onto a planet inhabited by a lonely, nameless boy.

Original title : The Challenge
First Aired : 02.03.1966 (USA)
Director : Don Richardson
Writing credits : Barney Slater
Cast : Michael Ansara (Ruler), Kurt Russell (Quano)

The Story : An alien and his son come to the Robinsons, and challenge John and Will to a test of strength and courage to prove their superiority over Earthlings. Unknown to the Robinsons, if John and Will win, they will all be killed.

Original title : The Space Trader
First Aired : 09.03.1966 (USA)
Director : Nathan Juran
Writing credits : Barney Slater
Cast : Torin Thatcher (Trader)

The Story : When a space merchant attempts to drum up business by destroying the Robinson's food supply, a hungry Smith promises to will his body to the trader in 200 years in exchange for food. Unfortunately, the fine print allows the trader to collect immediately.

Original title : His Majesty Smith
First Aired : 16.03.1999
Director : Harry Harris
Writing credits : Carey Wilber
Cast : Liam Sullivan (Nexus), Kevin Hagen (The Master)

The Story : Smith is selected to be king of an alien civilization, but later finds the reason - the aliens select only the most useless creatures of the Universe, to be sacrificed to their primitive deities.

Original title : The Space Croppers
First Aired : 30.03.1966 (USA)
Director : Sobey Martin
Writing credits : Peter Packer
Cast : Mercedes McCambridge (Sybilla), Sherry Jackson (Effa)

The Story : Hoping to get back to Earth, Smith romances the mother of a clan of space hillbillies, unaware that they are growing a crop of plants that feed on animal and human flesh.

Original title : All That Glitters
First Aired : 06.04.1966 (USA)
Director : Harry Harris
Writing credits : Barney Slater
Cast : Werner Klemperer (Bolix), Larry ward (Ohan), Ted Lehmann (Voice), Bob May (Monster #1), Dawson Palmer (Monster #2)

The Story : A space thief entrusts Penny and Smith with a neck-ring that turns anything the wearer touches into platinum. Smith betrays the thief and keeps the ring for himself, then accidentally turns Penny into platinum.

Original title : The Lost Civilization
First Aired : 13.04.1966 (USA)
Director : Don Richardson
Writing credits : William Welch
Cast : Kym Karath (Princess), Royal Dano (Major Domo), Dawson Palmer (Soldier)

The Story : According to the rules of an ancient civilization, Will must marry the princess he kissed and awoke from suspended animation. The civilization has been stockpiling soldiers in freezing tubes, and now plans to conquer the universe, beginning with Earth.

Original title : A Change of Space
First Aired : 20.04.1966 (USA)
Director : Sobey Martin
Writing credits : Peter Packer
Cast : Frank Graham (Alien)

The Story : Will returns from a faster-than-light trip into the sixth dimension in an alien spaceship with his intelligence greatly enhanced. Smith, trying to repeat the incident, returns as an old man.

Original title : Follow the Leader
First Aired : 27.04.1966 (USA)
Director : Don Richardson
Writing credits : Barney Slater
Cast : Gregory Morton (Alien Voice)

The Story : Knocked unconscious during a cave-in, John's mind and body are possessed by an alien warrior's spirit. When the rest of the Robinsons become suspicious of John's unusual behavior, he seals them up in the cave, and plots to throw Will off a cliff. Will exorcises the spirit through the power of his love for his father.