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iwombat - 2006-12-09 12:18:14
Is that the 'Lost in Space" family? the kids look familiar, I don't remember the 2nd couple, and then where's Dr. Smith? I'm lost, Lost(...)
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Paula - 2006-12-09 12:32:13
That is indeed the Robinson family, and Dr. Smith has been sacrificed. Or he's Jewish. Or "camera shy."
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iwombat - 2006-12-09 12:54:38
Oh wow, I had forgotten the "Robinson Crusoe" reference, and I was just remembering another one, "Robinson Crusoe on Mars" . I would be inclined to hope it's the first of those possibilities, even as an entertainment junkie, aged 10, I found him so annoying and shrill, that I could barely watch.
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Paula - 2006-12-09 13:27:11
Or "Swiss Family Robinson"/"Space Family Robinson." That's what I always thought it was a reference to, but I guess Swiss Family was a reference to Crusoe?
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Tom Ronca - 2006-12-09 13:31:52
"Lost in Space" was indeed based upon a comic book called "Space Family Robinson" (and not the othe way around). It was not very good. And I'm sorry, it's just not Xmas without Jonathan Harris...
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Bob - 2006-12-09 13:55:32
Well, PR's no Tamyra Gray, if that's what you mean. And re her website, talk about creepy girl-stuff....
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Tom Ronca - 2006-12-09 13:59:19
My college academic sponser was an aspiring sociobiologist, and as a result I had an opportunity to meet Wilson at a certain point. He's got important things to say. I think people had a very negative initial reaction to him and his theories, because they assumed he was a biological determinist (which he isn't, at least not in the conventional sense of the term, like, say, B. F. Skinner). Wilson is just trying to put mankind within the context of the Animal world and Nature as a whole (as opposed to mankind as a kind of divine and separate anomaly from all that), and that just doesn't seem like a bad thing to me. I mean, look where a few thousand years of not thinking that way has gotten us...
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Paula - 2006-12-09 14:07:54
Word. EOW is a hepcat of major proportions and I am envious that you got to meet him.
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Dr. Smith - 2006-12-09 14:11:50
I will certainly not spend another Christmas lost in space, you bubble headed boobies. If you must know, I am not in that photo because I'm celebrating Hanukkah with the green woman with the salad bowl hat! Now off with you, poppinjays!
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chris - 2006-12-09 16:01:48
I agree on Wilson
I got his big huge book on ants, though its now used to keep books from falling down.
Lost is space just really sucks. Its up there with the Brady bunch and Scooby Doo in the really suck but wont go away hall of fame
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Paula - 2006-12-09 16:08:09
I liked Lost in Space when I was tiny, and wanted desperately to change my name to "Julie." In fact, I still do. My sibs and I used to play Lost in Space, using our swing set as a space ship.
But I haven't seen it in a while and I'm sure it's not as good as I remember...I mean, I didn't much like I Love Lucy or Twilight Zone, which are "classics," when I saw them again recently, so I doubt this will have held up.
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chris - 2006-12-09 16:19:16
Julie. Um. hmmm. well. Yes, i can see. Just keep the happy memories. I just wanted to be bugs bunny; to cross dress, torture and shoot elmer fudd.
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Tom Ronca - 2006-12-09 17:52:22
Well, I wanted to be the Robot. Perhaps I have issues...
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Robot - 2006-12-09 17:57:46
"Suck" does not compute, Will Robinson and Chris.
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John Robinson - 2006-12-09 17:59:55
There better not be any sucking going on or that Don West is going to end up in deep space doodoo.
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Paula - 2006-12-10 11:42:34
A discreet gentleman has pointed out via email that the character's name was "Judy." My apologies. I still wanted to be called "Julie" but there must have been some other impetus...what other Julies were on TV in the early '70s? (Not Mr Kotter's wife, that was later)
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Greg - 2006-12-10 18:49:23
Well, Diane Carroll played Julia, but that's not quite the same, even if she was uber cool.
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