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From a 2003 AICN chat with TV comedy genius Jane Espenson:
HERC: What Saturday morning cartoon shook your world?
JANE: I liked all the cartoons, but I have a special fondness for the live-action LAND OF THE LOST. They were on this routine expedition and they met the greatest earthquake ever known, you see...
Ah, yes, “Land of the Lost.” Keep your acid-washed “H.R. PufnStuf,” your “Sigmund and the Seamonsters,” your “Bugaloos,” your “Lidsville,” your “Lost Saucer.”
The apex, the pinnacle, the prized gem of the Sid & Marty Krofft legacy is “Land of the Lost,” which ran on NBC between 1974 and 1977.
It was a Saturday-morning science fiction saga about a family on a rafting adventure – dad Rick Mashall, son Will and daughter Holly – that gets sucked through a mysterious portal into a mysterious land inhabited by dinosaurs, proto-humans, hissing lizard-men (the Sleestak!) and Christ knows what else. There was this Pylon that allowed journeys to still other worlds!
Though the series’ production values remain among the saddest ever budgeted for television, the first season of “Land of the Lost” benefited hugely from writing contributed by major-league sci-fi novelists like Ben Bova and Larry Niven, to say nothing of “Star Trek” vets Margaret Armen, D.C. Fontana, David Gerrold and Norman Spinrad. Even the second season featured an episode by Theodore Sturgeon.
The big names pretty much vanished with the third season, which hits DVD this week, as did the actor who played Rick. Rick vanished into another dimension, and the kids’ Uncle Jack conveniently arrived to defend them during the third season against brontosauri and other manifestations of the uncanny. For this reason, I recommend you have a gander at season one before investing in subsequent 'sodes.
Weird, though, isn’t it? That Universal announced on Sunday that “Anchorman” boys Will Ferrell and Adam McKay would reteam for a comedy version of “Land of the Lost,” just a day or two before the last episodes finally hit DVD??
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Just want to say that I loved this show, I'm looking forward to the boxed set, and... well, first, you know.
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Apr 26, 2005 1:59:04 AM CDT
This show sucked, even when I was a kid. Oh yeah, FIRST BITCHES
by googamooga
This show was a steaming turd 30 years ago. Even as a tyke in the 70's I didn't have the patience to sit through it. They bring back this and yet I'm still waiting for my dvd of the 1980 classic, Flash Gordon?
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Bah...
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I feel so ashamed...
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Apr 26, 2005 2:02:25 AM CDT
Failure has a way of bringing out that emotion, redshirt, be not
by googamooga
3rd place is just second loser!
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My cousin went to UCLA with the guy who played Cha-Ka a few years back. Even got an autographed 8x10 from him, though I'm not sure he actually asked for it. Just thought I'd share. My cousin graduated. I wonder if Cha-Ka did.
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First, it didn't TOTALLY suck -- only those old enough can remember watching it when it was first on and for what it was: an attempt at Saturday morning live action adventure for kids. Sheesh, remember when Saturday morning WAS a battleground between CBS, NBC and ABC for kids and they actually DID put effort into new cartoons or shows that would capture a kid's attention or imagination? Talk about a bygone era. As for the new movie, Will Farrell doing it as a comedy sounds like a pretty damn perfect way to straddle the line between reviving the property and realizing you could only take it so serious. So here's hoping it turns out all right, because done right it could be a fun GHOSTBUSTERS type of comedy/adventure film.
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I dug the old movies, especially QUATERMASS & THE PIT (aka FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH) which Stephen King ripped off for TOMMYKNOCKERS. LIFEFORCE borrowed a lot from it too.
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With selected episodes from VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, TIME TUNNEL and LAND OF THE GIANTS (which all used the same stock footage and props from old Fox sci-fi movies).
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They gave me the heebies as a kid.
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When I was a kid, of course. I still might pick up the first season for sentimental value. I'll show it to my kids so they can have the experience of it.
Oh, and Herc, I think Space: Above and Beyond should be on your best hour long list but unfortunately it's not on DVD. -
Apr 26, 2005 5:01:06 AM CDT
DeJesus Fucking Christo...enough amazon links there, you think?
by jackburton
I mean there's more shill links than there is actual story text! This stuff is becoming more and more of a joke. I mean it's becoming clear that lots of so called 'stories' are now being posted for no other reason that to once again go on an Amazon linking safari...I mean a couple of in context links is one thing, but when you have more four full screens worth of them it's gotten way out of hand. I just hope no one is silly enough to click through them to support these blatant overblown shill fests, especially while there's so damn many of them thrown out at us constantly.
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Apr 26, 2005 5:31:52 AM CDT
Two things totally amazed me when I was a kid. The dinosaurs in
by orionsangels
Looking back. This was utter garbage. My goodness, early MTV music videos had better effects, still its fun to look back
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Aren't dvds great? Who would have ever thought you would be able to purchase the complete run of LOTL? Now give me Bigfoot and Wild Boy a big bowl of Fruit Brute and I can relive those happy Saturday mornings of my childhood.
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Good porn name. And, yeah, I'd watch it.
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Now Animaniacs - ahh yes, *that* was my show. "Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering, Pinky?"
"I think so Brain, but who would want to see Snow White and the Seven Samurai?" Toppu o Nerae! -
Apr 26, 2005 8:33:27 AM CDT
Isn't that the show where they threw the log into the T-Rex's mo
by mjayace
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...was a Sleestak.
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Assuming the news is true (and it sounds exactly like the kind of thing that is), it bothers me less that a send-up is likely being developed and far more that they had to cast the least funny and most overrated "comedian" working today. First and foremost, everything about Rick Marshall was laid back - every thing about Ferrell is, quite simply, not. If you want to parody that character, get someone who can at least do a decent parody. Ferrell is all about LOUD and ANNOYING which is about as far removed as you can get from Marshall. I know a lot of hardcore fans are bothered by this news; I consider myself to be a huge fan, but really I think LOTL belongs to a very certain time and place and even a big-budget, straight-forward reimagining would likely be about as far removed from the original series as a stupid comedy starring that jackass.
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Where's my DVD of that, dammit?
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...but it went downhill from season 2 onward when the guy playing Rick Marshall left the show and the kids' uncle conveniently fell in to take his place. That was the first time I ever got introduced to "The Darrin Stephens Effect".
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CKnightShift,
The Uncle (3rd season) fell in conveniently because he had been actively searching when Rick escaped. Because it was a closed universe, nobody could enter until someone left. (another reason why Enik was stuck there for so long). This closed universe nature was better explained in the Larry Niven episode where the kids climbed a moutain peak and looked to the next peak, where they could see the backs of themselves. -
Apr 26, 2005 11:57:08 AM CDT
googamooga it turns out you are NOT, in fact, first after all
by slone13
Now don't you feel like a dumb dick?
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Apr 26, 2005 12:10:39 PM CDT
The original Land of the Lost was GREAT and the remake sucked, a
by kikstad
...And a Will Farrell comedy remake? Hopefully they won't screw it up like they did when they tried to remake the series.
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Damn, there're putting everything on DVD now. I can't remember if that show's any good, but they were great characters when I was a kid. What happened to that Firsthater guy? This Talkback needs him.
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... run away from this bad idea as fast as you can!!! I don't think LOTL is really great material for a spoof. Though I don't think a serious update would do much good either. My main memories of the original show (mind you, seen on a small B&W tv with multiple ghost images and snowy static...I couldn't see the bad special FX and it looked even more real somehow) was that it was SCARY. The Sleestack were pretty terrifying. And all the weird pylons and stuff were very strange. The dinosaurs were pretty scary at the time. That great intro of Grumpy the T-Rex a pretty vivid childhood memory. The mystery and danger of the LOTL was very powerful to any kid with half an imagination and a brain. The LOTL world was a puzzle that had to be solved in order for the family to survive, and the stakes felt as high as the world seemed strange. I remember being freaked out when Will & Holly discover that the LOTL is a closed universe that's only 20 miles across, and if you walk in one direction you'll soon wind up right back where you started. The strange science fiction subplots...the Sleestack were advanced once but then became primitive... the LOTL is self-regulating but sometimes breaks down (the pylons) The Zarn was an alien who also became trapped there... all the weird time travel interdimentional paradox stuff... the pakuni and their language... it all added up to a pretty rich universe for a show that cost jack shit (and was *still* too expensive to produce). I remember watching and watching just to figure out more about what the LOTL was. No other kids show that I know of, and few adult shows, have ever gone to this kind of effort at giving a series a deep background story which the viewer can wonder about and guess at. Looking back on it, the overall effect of the low production values was lousy, but the sum was greater than the parts. This show was utterly unique in all of TV history, and deserves to be remembered and loved, even if watching it now is a little painful in some ways. In the remake, I hope they still play banjo music on the soundtrack when the dinosaurs start chasing Marshal Willenholy... (END OF TB ESSAY 1) Seriously though, forget this remake! I want to get back to the primal fear and wonder of dinosaurs! I want to see a really good, serious dinosaur movie... somewhere between Walking with Dinosaurs and a Jurassic Park movie (minus all the genetic stuff, corporate greed subplots, and bad characters). Like a time travel story back to 70 million years ago, where the people get marooned and have to survive back then. Not only would you have great dinosaur fun, but there's great epic landscape potential here too... entire epochs brought to life. Imagine a trek over thousands of miles of Jurassic landscapes. I want to be in AWE of these past eras where there were no stinking humans and no stinking oil wells... just stinking dinosaurs and a planet teeming with all manner of weird and wonderful life forms, and the first politician had not yet crawled from the slime.
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Apr 26, 2005 3:15:43 PM CDT
"Lost" owes a lot to both this show and "Danger Island".
by prof. pop-cult
I really don't see much connection to the reality show Survivor.
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"I said lunch, not launch!!"
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How about getting us that date for Twin Peaks season 2. Now that would be something for sure. We can push these release dates a little past June can't we?
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In no particular order, these are the ten series I would buy if available on DVD (that aren't): 1) Hail to the Chief // 2) Herman's Head // 3) Danger Mouse // 4) Star Trek: The Animated Series // 5) That's My Bush! // 6) Get Smart // 7) Alfred Hitchcock Presents // 8) Alien Nation // 9) Dinosaurs // 10) Fraggle Rock --- Anyone know if any of those are "in the works"? :)
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Apr 26, 2005 4:20:12 PM CDT
Anyone else? What are the best shows NOT on DVD that you'd buy
by symphy
Ooh! How about more Nickelodeon goodness like The Third Eye ("Children of the Stones" was excellent) or Today's Special. :) OOH! Or the original "The Tomorrow People". :) :)
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Hey, turns out "Children of the Stones" WAS just released (in a PAL Region 0 DVD; I think I have a player that can handle that): http://www.xploitedcinema.com/dvds/dvds.asp?title=3026 And, I'd like to add "Out of Control" and "Hey Dude" to the Nick wish-list.
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Apr 26, 2005 5:18:10 PM CDT
I'm still waiting ever so patiently for The Fall Guy myself
by heywood jablowme
When the hell can I enjoy some badass Lee Majors action, Colt-Seaver style? I suppose it firgures though, he was the unknown stuntman.
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Apr 26, 2005 7:43:16 PM CDT
Land of the Lost, special edition, with all new surprises. Featu
by orionsangels
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Apr 26, 2005 8:04:48 PM CDT
I guess I could go for season box sets of THE INCREDIBLE HULK, I
by pizza the hut
Most of the other really good shows are already on DVD.
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Apr 26, 2005 8:28:48 PM CDT
Bakersfield P.D., Strange Luck, Get A Life (complete box sets of
by prof. pop-cult
I don't think I've read about any of these hitting DVD anytime soon.
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Apr 26, 2005 8:29:12 PM CDT
Well, if there's "Land of the Lost" DVDS what about...
by -guyinthebackrow
"Gummi Bears", "Thundercats", "He-Man", and "The Real Ghostbusters"?
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Season ! Roxzos11!!
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Apr 26, 2005 8:52:28 PM CDT
Did Holly ever give anyone else a woodie when they were a kid?
by uncle stan
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Apr 26, 2005 9:46:28 PM CDT
Symphy, from your DVD wish list you should be getting TREK: ANIM
by big dumb ape
Not sure about the others you listed, but you'll definitely be getting TREK. Apparently a boxed set of the animated show is finally in the works at Paramount Home Video for realease early next year.
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http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00068NWFG.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
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Where the hell is BOSOM BUDDIES?
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They have obviously picked up on that. While I admit it would be somewhat interesting to see what a serious Land of the Lost film would be like, there are plenty of other films with dinosaurs coming out in the next few years that are not comedies.
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Apr 27, 2005 4:09:34 PM CDT
Too bad they did not get someone like Partick Warburton for the
by declan_swartz
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