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In case you missed it in the sixties...
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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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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. 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. 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. 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.
The Robinsons find themselves unable to understand the electronic
language of a visiting space family. 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. 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. 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.
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.
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. 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. Will is kidnapped,
and later befriends Tucker the space pirate, who is being chased by a
creature from another galaxy. 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.
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. [The robot used is
actually Robby the Robot, from several MGM SF movies.] Penny, and her
pet Bloop, Debbie (don't ask what a Bloop is! All I know is that it is
something like a chimpanzee) fall through an alien mirror into another
dimension, onto a planet inhabited by a lonely, nameless boy. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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. 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. 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. 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.
The Robinsons prepare for a quick takeoff when they find that a mining
engineer blasting for a life-giving mineral has caused a chain-reaction
of earthquakes that will disintegrate the planet. Setting course once
more for Alpha Centauri, the Robinson's journey is again hampered by
Smith, who first dumps the ship's fuel into space, then almost pilots
the Jupiter 2 into a sun. Then Athena, the Green Girl who wants the
Jupiter 2's deutronium fuel for food, hypnotises Smith into going into
space. The Robinson's rescue of him once again throws the ship off
course, and they are again lost in space. A voice claiming to be from
Earth instructs Smith to land Jupiter 2 on the planet it is passing.
When Smith obeys, the Robinsons find a civilization of robots who make
humans their slaves. Jupiter 2 crash lands on a planet whose only
inhabitants are a strange little hermit and his giant bird. Smith,
Will, and the Robot are captured by the alien, who plans to mobilize an
army to destroy the Jupiter 2. Of course, he has no army, as the
Robinsons learn. Also, Dr. Smith drinks an alien nectar, later
realizing that it is highly explosive, and he may blow up at any time.
A space circus comes to town (or planet), and give a show for the
Robinsons. The owner learns that Will has the power to materialize
anything he wants, when assisted. He convinces Will to run away with
the circus, for the good of his family. An outer-space court accuses
the Robinsons of various crimes during their journey, but after
questioning, it is shown that Smith was the culprit behind each
incident. The Robinsons convince the tribunal not to punish Smith.
Smith finds a "Celestial Department Store catalog" and accidentally
orders an emotionless "female" android, whom the Robinsons teach to be
human. Unfortunately, the department store's manager, Zumdish, either
wants payment, or the android back; preferably the android, since it
has been improved upon. When the Robinsons refuse to cooperate, the
manager takes steps to force them. A travelling show lands on the
planet, and the owner tells Smith that if he agrees to box with a
midget and wins, he will be returned to Earth. However, it is a trick,
and he loses. The troop is really testing Earth to see if it can be
conquered easily, and to save it, John challenges the owner to a
battle. Convinced that the Robinsons have maps which will lead him to
a space princess, a thief captures Will, Penny, and Smith. Will is made
an apprentice thief, Penny is held prisoner, and Smith is marked for
death under a pendulum.
An "alien" that Smith is terrified of turns out to be his cousin
Jeremiah, who is in cahoots with an intergalactic Mafia in an attempt
to murder Dr. Smith and claim his family inheritance. Smith's
doppelganger, a space desperado, forces him to change clothes. Smith is
then arrested as the real gunslinger, and is taken away to another
planet to be executed for his "crimes." Smith plays a musical
instrument he finds, and is transported to hell, or so he thinks.
Actually, it's a prison for one criminal, who pretends to be the devil
in order to get Smith to help him escape. Judy and Don also visit
"hell". The key to his escape was hidden in the musical instrument,
which playing causes him pain. Aliens steal and disassemble the Robot
in order to find out how Earth machines work. With that knowledge, they
plan to build a machine to take over all other machines on Earth, and
subjugate the human race. To make his android more "human", a
scientist drains all emotions from the Robinsons, leaving them
unimaginative and apathetic. Two representatives from their respective
planets, that are at war with each other, land on the Robinson's
planet. One is a handsome golden man, the other a hideous frog
creature. Dr. Smith wishes to help the Golden man destroy his foe, who
claims to be the good guy, while Penny wants to help the other, who is
unfriendly to strangers. It is later learned that the Golden man was
wearing a disguise, and is even more hideous than his foe. He was
trying to trick the Robinsons into helping him, but in the end, they
saw the light.
Athena, the green girl returns. A big, mean, ugly, nasty, green brute
from her home dimension is courting her, and she draws pretty,
handsome, brave, pretty Dr. Smith into a love triangle. The big, green
lug of course wishes to kill Smith. Also, Will is accidentally turned
green, but Athena thinks he looks too 'pretty' to change back. A space
knight, a sort of Don Quixote, arrives, claiming to be after a
ferocious dragon he has chased across the cosmos. He fills Will with
stories of quests and dragons and things, and when Will learns that
most of his stories are lies, he loses faith in people. Meanwhile, the
knight finally catches up with the dragon he has chased for most of his
life, and finds out that it is a friendly, female, sentient life form,
and loses the desire to slay her, and also his purpose in life. Smith
is captured by a Celestial Department Store ordering machine (remember
those?), made into a clown, and put into the toy department. Will and
the Robot follow him into the machine, and discover a passage back to
Earth. An insane space pirate, Zahrk, abducts Will, Smith, and the
Robot and uses them as his crew in his relentless search for his first
mate, Mr. Christiansen, who committed mutiny. Dr. Smith steals the
gloves and hammer of Thor, god of Thunder, and the enraged deity
challenges the good Dr. to a duel to the death. Through trickery, Smith
convinces Thor that he is ineffectual and would lose, just when
Valhalla is attacked by giants.
Smith plays sorcerer's apprentice to a space magician, hoping to steal
his spaceship and return to Earth. However, the ship is programmed to
self-destruct when it reaches space. Luring Smith into a cave, a
computer gradually takes over his mind and body, transforming him into
an alien. With a launch window coming up soon, the Robinson's must get
Smith's true identity to emerge, or leave him behind. A hideous
mechanical head mistakes Dr. Smith for its master and tries to lead
him to a priceless treasure. A humanoid group of pirates finds out and
forces Smith to take them along. A captain joins the Robot, Will, Dr.
Smith and Penny on the treasure hunt that yields a disappointing
booty. Verda the department store android returns, pursued by an alien
superman sent to bring her back or destroy her. When the Robinsons win
over the superman's sympathies, the CDS machine simply creates another
android, stronger and totally devoted to destruction. ["Crush, Kill,
Destroy!"] The Robinson men are captured by female warriors and put to
work, while the women are treated to lives of luxury. The men's fate
hinges on Smith, who has wormed his way into the Amazon queen's
affections and can sabotage her base. Losing power and unable to be
recharged, the dying Robot wanders into a gaseous area, where the
vapors turn him into a giant. Smith and Will crawl inside him to
reverse his ionic process, shrink him back to size, and possibly save
him.
Will discovers that his family has been replaced by android duplicates.
Their creator wants Will to teach them how to act like real humans...or
the original Robinsons will die. An army of tiny robots, all
resembling the Robinson's Robot, lay siege to the Robinson's camp and
demand the return of their 'leader', the Robot. The army is vicious,
and want to take over the universe. They realize that the Robot is too
kind to help them, so they transfer Smith's personality into the Robot,
and vice versa. Will passes through a space warp into 19th-century
Scotland, where a ghost and a monster inhabit an old castle. Smith
follows, and the ghost learns that Smith's ancestors were responsible
for his death. He then plans Smith's beheading. But mercy arrives for
both Smith and the ghost (and Angus the monster!) from beyond. Penny's
loyalties are tested when she must either watch her family die or give
up an amulet an alien warned her not to. Other aliens will transport
her to an unreal "Earth" as a reward, if she will sacrifice the gift.
They persuade Dr. Smith to help them trick Penny.
Jupiter 2 lifts off only hours before the planet is scheduled to
collide with a comet. In space once more, the Robinson's discover a
ship full of frozen criminals. Smith releases one, who releases
another, and so on, and so on... until a fullscale escape is mounted.
The Jupiter 2 is thrust back in time and lands on Earth in the year
1947, 50 years before they left. The ship is mistaken for a UFO, and a
small town near where they land prepares to fight off the invading
'Martians'. Determined to stay on any 'Earth', Smith joins the
townspeople, and Will is captured. Androids, ruled by a giant
computer, capture the Jupiter 2 and force the Robot to operate on their
failing leader. Meanwhile, Smith tampers with a time-control device and
is turned into a little boy. Shockingly, John is killed by a laser
beam. It is learned that the androids can control time. John (yes, he
lived) kills an attacking monster which turns out to be the quarry of
Megazor, a hunter. As punishment, John is made his new quarry in a
deadly game of cat-and-mouse.
On their way to cap a threatening volcano, Don and Smith are captured
by primitives who are governed by a computer, and face two possible
deaths: execution by the tribe, or burning under the lava of the
volcano. Smith finds an android-creating device and makes himself a
set of conquering soldiers who look exactly like him, and dreams of
conquering the galaxy. In trying to stop him, Will falls into the
machine, and emerges with Smith's face and a lust for killing. Before
leaving their planet, which is being swept by a space storm, the
Robinsons find and take along an alien boy named J-5. They find a
lighthouse in space and stop in, where the boy's mental powers and
unusual 'pet' are unleashed. Will, Smith, and the Robot land the Space
Pod on a planet which seemingly defies logic. They find fruit that
explodes, invisible birds that cast shadows, a deserted wreck of the
Jupiter 2, a monument to the Robot, and people who say they are the
descendants of the Robinsons, and that the year is 2270 A.D. Four
space hippies are assigned by their leader to blow up the planet that
the Robinsons are living on, without giving them time to make repairs
and leave. Their only hope seems to be Smith, who has been transformed
into a space-age Samson with green hair by a weird gas.
Jupiter 2 is locked into orbit around a planet which harbors a creature
that feeds on fear. In order to create its life-food, the being causes
the Robinsons to disappear from the ship one by one, leaving a
psychotic Dr. Smith, who is trying to murder Will. The Robot falls in
love with a female robot, who is being hunted by law officers of her
world for being a killer. An intergalactic showman, Farnum B., puts
the Robinsons on exhibit in his space zoo. During an escape attempt,
Will and his captor fall into another time zone, while Dr. Smith uses
Farnum's caveboy-helper to take control of the zoo's operation.
Zumdish, now operating a tour agency (finally quit the Celestial
Department Store), comes to the Robinson's planet with clients. Smith
seizes the opportunity to turn the presently-empty Jupiter 2 into a
resort hotel, unaware that four of the vacationing aliens are really
murderers hiding from the law. The Robinsons give refuge to a
beautiful ice princess who is running from a bounty hunter. When the
hunter captures Will, he suggests a trade: the boy for the princess.
The Robot takes on the hunter like "el Toro" to save the princess. An
experiment gone awry transports John to an anti-matter world, and sends
his evil double back.
Will, Smith, and the Robot attempt to rescue John, who is being guarded
by a psychotic, bearded double of Don, and a shackled, evil Robot. The
evil John is willing to kill everyone to keep his freedom from the
miserable anti-matter world. Shapeless aliens imprison the Robinsons
and make themselves into their doubles, and then hijack the Jupiter 2,
planning to go back and conquer the Earth. They reprogram the Robot to
help them. Will and Smith escape, capture their doubles, and replace
them on the journey, in an attempt to stop them. Confusion surrounds
Penny's lineage when she is taken for a space princess, put onto an
alien ship, and trained to take over the throne of an another planet.
A time merchant, living in a Daliesque world, prepares to kill the
Robinsons because they accidentally interrupted his time-trip. Smith,
sent back to Earth in 1997, must re-board the Jupiter 2, or watch it be
destroyed. Told that they are approaching an Earth colony, the
Robinsons land on a planet whose culture is totally geared for
teenagers. Soon, subtle brainwashing causes the older Robinsons and the
children to disassociate themselves from each other. Smith becomes a
hippie.
Don and Smith are framed as criminals and sent to the toughest prison
in the galaxy. While Will and the Robot try to figure a way to get them
out, Don and Smith argue over whether or not to go along with a
criminal's escape plan. Farnum B. is back, and now in the beauty
contest business. He tries to sign Judy up as a contestant. Unknown to
the Robinsons, if Farnum can't get her to sign, his master, a man of
fire, will keep his soul. To alleviate a crisis, Jupiter 2 must orbit
a planet for several hours. However, the alien living there, the last
of a proud warrior race, will not permit it unless someone stays behind
to wage him one last war, using the planet's extensive weaponry. On
another planet, Dr. Smith plucks a flower, arousing accusations of
murder from a giant, talking carrot, who plans to punish the Robinsons
by turning them into plants. Jupiter 2 lands on a planet used
as the galaxy's junkyard. With the ship's food supply deteriorating,
Smith sacrifices first the Robot's memory banks to the mechanical
junkman, then the Jupiter 2 itself.
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