Lost between strange worlds

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Television series
German title Lost between strange worlds
Original title Lost in Space
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 1965-1968
length 48 minutes
Episodes 83 in 3 seasons
genre Drama , science fiction
idea Irwin Allen
music John Williams , Alexander Courage , Richard LaSalle
First broadcast September 15, 1965 (USA) on CBS
German-language
first broadcast		 March 6, 1992 on kabel eins , ProSieben
occupation

Lost between strange worlds (original title: Lost in Space ) is an American science fiction television series from the late 1960s, which appeared on the comic book series Space Family Robinson from 1962 and indirectly on the children's book Der Schweizerische Robinson based by Johann David Wyss .

action

In 1997 the Robinson family is selected to leave an overpopulated earth on a space mission. Your task is to prepare a planet in the Alpha Centauri system for human colonization. When their spaceship Jupiter II is sabotaged by an agent (Dr. Zachary Smith) who traveled with them as a stowaway , the Robinsons initially find themselves on a completely different inhospitable planet, deep in unexplored space.

Now begins an odyssey through space from one planet to the next. However, all attempts to become at home on one of the planets found or to find Alpha Centauri again are carried out by Dr. Smith repeatedly thwarted. Its only goal is to return to earth.

Often, Dr. Smith and Will separate from the rest of the crew and meet monsters or their alien owners. Time travel also occurs. In case of danger, Dr. Smith mostly behind the smaller Will. The crew's nameless, speaking robot , depicted with human features , also plays an important role .

Each episode has its own storyline and new monsters. In the meantime, the crew or individual members came to the vicinity or even to earth several times, but not permanently. Also in the last episode of the series, the team remains in space.

Particularly striking are the extremely correct and theatrical pronunciation and the actions of Smith.

Charisma

From 1965 to 1968 a total of three seasons were broadcast in the USA, the first season was still shot in black and white.

In 1992 the cable channel broadcast 17 synchronized episodes as a German premiere. A year later, ProSieben repeated these 17 episodes and also showed 37 new ones, so that all color sequences could be seen in Germany.

New editions

Lost between strange worlds received a cinema adaptation in 1998 , which moved the plot of the series to the year 2058.

In 2004 Fox Studios worked with Synthesis to produce a pilot for a remake of the Lost In Space series , which first aired on April 9, 2004 on The WB . The film called The Robinsons: Lost in Space was hired by John Woo as a producer, but the series was not selected by The WB for the fall 2004 season.

The special effects were produced by the company Zoic , which is also responsible for various other television series, including Buffy , Firefly and the new edition of Battle Star Galactica . The sets for the Robinsons starship were later purchased by Universal and used in a Battlestar Galactica episode.

Brad Johnson played the role of John Robinson, Jayne Brook played Maureen Robinson. Mike Erwin (Don West), Adrianne Palicki (Judy Robinson), Ryan Malgarini (Will Robinson) and the German actress Vanessa Eichholz (Newscaster) were other actors.

In 2016, Netflix announced a reboot of the series, which was released on April 13, 2018 under the title Lost in Space - Disappeared between strange worlds .

background

comics

Gold key

The first issue of the comic series Space Family Robinson was published in December 1962 , later Lost In Space by the US comic publisher Gold Key . The series includes numbers 1 to 59 and ran intermittently until May 1982. There are stories for numbers 60 and 61, but they have not (yet) been published.

Individual stories with the title Space Family Robinson appeared in the US comic series March Of Comics with the numbers 320, 328, 352, 404 and 414.

Bildschriften Verlag (BSV)

The series was published as the Robinson family of astronauts from December 1966 to February 1970 (numbers 1–17) by BSV Verlag in Germany. Draftsman was Dan Spiegle.

innovation

From 1991 to 1994 the US publisher Innovation Publishing published the series Lost In Space with new stories; the following issues have appeared:

Lost in Space No. 1–12 (Aug. 1991 to Jan. 1993),

Lost in Space: Voyage To The Bottom Of The Soul No. 13-18 (Aug 1993-1994).

Originally intended as a limited series for 12 issues, it was discontinued with the sixth issue. There were two versions of No. 13: “Silver Logo Edition” and “Gold Logo” shrink-wrapped with a poster.

Lost In Space Annual No. 1 (1991), No. 2 (1992),

Lost in Space: Project Robinson (Nov 1993).

Dark Horse

At Dark Horse Comics published from April to July 1998, a comic film adaptation of the movie from 1998 in three editions with the same title Lost In Space . A Trade Paperback (TPB) containing these three comics was later published.

Web links