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Posted By: Nomad Nov 05, 2002 - 11:07 am

I got this from a friend on another board.... Bummer... I really loiked that guy!

Jonathan Harris, the actor who portrayed the dastardly, cowardly Dr. Zachary Smith on the 1960's sci-fi show "Lost in Space," has died. He was 87.

Harris died Sunday from a blood clot in his heart while receiving therapy for a chronic back problem.

Posted By: MerleZ Nov 05, 2002 - 12:12 pm

That is sad. I loved that show as a kid!

Posted By: Dark Knight Nov 05, 2002 - 06:04 pm

I read about it over at http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire, I also loved that show as a kid.

Posted By: Dark Knight Mar 27, 2003 - 07:31 pm

Sci-Fi Wire talked with "Lost in Space: The Journey Home" co-writer S.S. Wilson who revealed the proposed television reunion may still happen - "It was derailed a little bit, and we were all deeply saddened by the loss of Jonathan Harris, because he was written into it in a big way. The producer there and the engine behind that project, Kevin Burns, is talking with me and my partner, Brent Maddock, about ways to revise it now to deal with the fact Jonathan is no longer here. We've got a really good take on what to do, and once Brent and I get any time at all, we're possibly going to do a revision and get it back on track. Everybody's still very excited about it. Reunion shows are very, very popular on television right now, and there's a lot of interest in it for that reason alone".

Posted By: Dark Knight Sep 24, 2003 - 02:37 pm

New Lost In Space Due

Kevin Burns and Jon Jashni's Synthesis Entertainment is teaming with film director John Woo and writer Doug Petrie on a new TV version of the classic 1960s SF series Lost in Space, Variety reported. Regency and 20th Century Fox TV will produce the show, with Fox TV Studios-based Synthesis and Woo's Terence Chang-headed Lion Rock Productions, the trade paper reported.

Synthesis, a company formed by Burns and Jashni to bring new life to the creations of Irwin Allen, last revived Lost in Space at NBC as a television movie; that project went away following the death of original star Jonathan Harris, the trade paper reported.

Multiple networks have been pitched the project by packaging agency Endeavor, and network insiders said there's been strong response to the idea, the trade paper reported. New Line's recent Lost in Space movie opened well but ultimately tanked.

The new TV Lost in Space will return the show to its roots as a family drama, which is what Allen intended when he penned the original pilot, the trade paper reported. Burns told Variety that the project will be set about 100 years in the future and will feature a relatable, contemporary family at its core.

from http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2003-09/24/10.30.tv

Posted By: Nomad Nov 18, 2003 - 08:13 am

LOST IN SPACE on The WB

The new version of LOST IN SPACE has found itself a home on The WB. The froggy network won the right to broadcast the updated version of Irwin Allen's sci-fi family adventure by ponying up more than $2 million bucks. The pilot was written by former BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER writer Doug Petrie and MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2 helmer John Woo's production company, Lion Rock Productions, is also involved. Woo will likely direct the pilot episode.

The new LOST IN SPACE will stand on its own and not be a direct connection to the 1997 New Line Cinema movie or the 60s TV show. While the show will still be about a futuristic family from the year 2097 that gets lost in remote outer space, there won't be a mischievious Dr. Smith character in the group (but there will be a family robot.) Any chance we'll see shiny silver jumpsuits.

Posted By: gypsychic Nov 18, 2003 - 09:06 am

No Dr. Smith? That's sacrilege!

My great-grandpa was a producer for the original. Long live Lost in Space!

Posted By: Aldan Nov 18, 2003 - 09:33 am

Gypsy? are you PROUD of that??
That show wasn't scifi, it wasn't space opera, it was a situational comedy set in a sort-of-outer-space-type situation. AAACK!!

Posted By: gypsychic Nov 18, 2003 - 10:12 am

lol - I am very proud! He's 94 and still going strong! He did other stuff too, though, some of it equally bad. A few good things.

Posted By: Nomad Nov 18, 2003 - 11:36 am

Alden, I guess it depends on your fun growing yup and I grew up with Lost in Space. Whatever you want to call it, I think it was fun as a kid to watch. Unlike todays Scifi, which is certainly more serious.

Posted By: gypsychic Nov 18, 2003 - 12:15 pm

Hmm, well I was never a big fan of Lost in Space, but I think it's fun that he did it. He originally worked in movies, then moved into TV where he did mostly the sci-fi type stuff.

Posted By: Bimillennium Man Dec 03, 2003 - 08:56 am

Lost In Space in the 60s . Stuck on a haunted planet, the Robinson family encounter countless aliens and monsters. In the end of each episode, just when you thought it was all over for that alien or monster, another weird alien or monster appears. "Here we go again, folks." Those were my teenage years when trekking in space was not for me. Phew! It's just television. I'm glad there's no haunted planet of horrors in our solar system.

Posted By: Nomad Dec 03, 2003 - 09:28 am

I loved that one. Didn't that have "Shamis", that moss covered shreiking ghoul from the water in the dungeon?

Posted By: gypsychic Dec 03, 2003 - 09:37 am

Ooooh, but what if there are, Bimillennium? Personally, I think that'd be kind of cool....

Posted By: fanuilh Dec 03, 2003 - 10:07 am

Lost in Space, the 60's TV version, was camp and proud of it. It wasn't supposed to be scientifically accurate.

Back in those days, if you wanted scientific accuracy, you turned off the TV (which had all of three channels) and opened your science text book.

It was just supposed to be campy fun. And it was.

Posted By: Dark Knight Feb 13, 2004 - 01:03 pm

News Brief

The WB has hired Mike Erwin (Everwood) to play Don West in its upcoming The Robinsons: Lost in Space, an update of the 1960s SF TV series, Variety reported.

from http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/

Posted By: Pat0214 Oct 26, 2004 - 12:24 pm

Lost In Space was a very fun and interesting scifi show from the 60's. I watched it as a kid an really loved it. I recently bought the dvd box set. It is of course very dated now after almost 40 years.

Posted By: Nomad Oct 26, 2004 - 05:54 pm

Loved Lost in Space! Campy and serious too