Land of the Lost

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kids programming and if you remember back a few

weeks or so ago to be nice uh... episode twenty

six we brought you you can't do that on television

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i guess you can call it off the wall crazy nonsense

um... bizarro world block of the telecast. We've

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block, we've had lots of different blocks, and

this one, I can't think of any other word than

zany, crazy nutty, kookiness. And today, for

the first time in a while, I'm once again, writing

solo. That's right, I am writing solo and today

I'm going to be talking to you guys about...

That's right, folks. We are talking about The

Land of the Lost. And before we get too far into

our discussion, here is a little bit of background

information on the show. Land of the Lost is

actually one of our earliest shows that we're

going to be talking about. It kind of breaks

the mold a little bit. Most of our shows are

in the 80s or early 90s. Land of the Lost actually

debuted in 1974 on NBC. Lasted three seasons

until 1976. It was a 30 -minute show. And it

actually totaled, I'm not quite exactly sure

how, but 43 episodes over those three seasons.

Kind of a surprising number, and you'll get why

I'm saying that hopefully a little bit later.

For those of you that don't know, we're not talking

about the movie from a couple years ago. We're

not talking about the re... launch reboot of

the show from the 90s. We're talking about the

1970s version and 1970s Land of the Lost was

a children's television series, hence why it's

on the first season of the telecast. co -created

and produced by Sid and Marty Croft. And if you

don't know who Sid and Marty Croft are, you obviously

were not of my generation. They did HR, puffing

stuff, and a few other things. They had a very

distinct style. And if you need to know more

about that, just go YouTube, Sid and Marty Croft,

excuse me, and you will become familiar with

it very quickly. If you did not grow up on it,

it is probably not for you. But anyways, I digress.

Land of the Lost details the adventures of the

Marshall family, not the Porter family like the

reboot would do. They have father Rick, his son

Will, and a younger daughter Holly, who are trapped

in an alternate universe inhabited by dinosaurs.

A primate -style... caveman -type people called

Pakuni, and aggressive humanoid lizard creature

things called the Slee Stack. The episode's storylines

focus on the family's efforts to survive in this

environment and also to try to find a way back

to their own world. So in that sense, it's kind

of like Dungeons and Dragons in a way, where

the group of people get lost in an alternate

time zone or alternate reality universe, et cetera,

and they're just trying to get back the entire

time. So they're trying to find a way back to

their own world, but the exploration of the exotic

inhabitants of the Land of the Lost is also an

ongoing part of the story. So it's not just them

surviving, it's not just them trying to get back

to their own world and time, but it's also the

exploration of this world and the interaction

between the Marshall family and the inhabitants.

So that is kind of a nutshell of what Land of

the Lost is about. A lot of interesting factors

there. My general memories of Land of the Lost,

I remember watching this show with my sister

specifically who was two years older than me.

I don't remember if my brother who was about

ten years older than me was watching it or not,

but I also had a cousin that watched it, and

every Sunday it was kind of family tradition

that we would go to my grandma's house after

church. We all went to different churches, but

we'd all gather at my grandma's house afterwards.

and they had a deck and outdoor area so whenever

it was nice out you know in the summer fall you

know sometimes in the spring they would be having

coffee and snacks and maybe lunch or whatever

out on the deck and me being the youngest of

my generation my sister being the second youngest

and my cousin being the third we would be the

ones that were still at the homestead you know

still with the the crew at grandma's house and

we would be running around in the yard or whatever

and um they had quite a few trees And I don't

know how our minds worked this out, but kids

will be kids. And we basically created our own

Land of the Lost in this yard at times. I mean,

there were sometimes where we'd be playing other

things. Sometimes we'd be inside playing cards

or whatever. But I remember on multiple occasions

us recreating Land of the Lost outside. Now there

was three of us, so I'm... This is me as a revisionist

historian, I guess. I don't know if this is exactly

what we did, but since there was one girl in

Land of the Lost Holly, I'm assuming that was

my sister. My cousin was the older one, so I'm

assuming he would have been Rick and I would

have been Will, unless occasionally maybe one

of us was a bad guy or something, a villain or

not really villain, but one of the aliens or

whatever you want to call him. But I do remember

that they had two trees specifically that kind

of formed a V or whatever. And we kind of thought

that that was like the pylon that I'll get to

later on, kind of the 2001 Space Odyssey type

pylon type thing. But we also always had sleet

stack involved. I don't think we were ever sleet

stacked because they were way too creepy and

spooky and scary to me as a kid. But there would

be sleet stacking in the yard. I don't know if

the trees were them or not. I don't remember

exactly how we did it, but I just remember playing

Land of the Lost somehow in my grandma's backyard.

So that is my early memories of Land of the Lost.

I wouldn't have been able to tell you much about

the show other than the characters. I would have

been able to tell you, you know, how many humans

there were. I would have been able to tell you

about the Bakuni and the Slee Stack and the dinosaurs

and everything. But I wouldn't have been able

to tell you too much of the plot lines just based

off a general memory. So that is why in preparation

for this record I did watch a few episodes and

caught myself up with what Land of the Lost consisted

of. But before we get into some more... General

thoughts on the series and then get into a little

more detail even I want to go through real quick

and give you a who's who of land of the lost

The who's who lists like I said before the main

characters here. We have Rick Marshall who was

a park ranger. He was played by Spencer Milligan

We have his daughter Holly played by Kathy Coleman

his son will played by Wesley year And then and

the last season We'll get to this later, but

there is a new character taking the place of

the dad, Rick Marshall, and that's Uncle Jack,

who's played by Ron Harper. As far as the creatures,

the inhabitants, the one Pakuni called Shaka

was played by Philip Paley. We had Enoch, which

was a space time traveler, almost sleet stack

looking guy played by Walker Edmonston. We had

Saw. We had... a whole, we had Sa and Ta, and

then we had a whole bunch of Slee Stacks, including

a Slee Stack leader and all kinds of Slee Stacks

and Slee Stack kids, and then we had Zarn, Malik,

we did have a mom, Mrs. Marshall at one point,

so it's basically for the most part three humans,

Shaka, and Enoch and then a whole bunch of sleet

stacks. So there's not a big amount of who's

who and the sleet stacks are almost indistinguishable

unless at the time you had a really good ear

for the different voices maybe you might have

been able to figure out who is who but they basically

all look alike. So we have three humans, a primate

type creature, and sleet stacks. So that's really

all it is for the who's who. As far as my favorite

character by far was Rick Marshall the dad. I'm

sorry I'd found the kids, especially Holly, to

be very annoying. As a kid I liked Shaka just

because he was kind of like the furry little

Ewok type guy although way uglier than an Ewok.

But I do remember liking that character just

because it was the one that you kind of connected

to as a kid because that was, even though there

was a son and a daughter, Shaka... Chaka was

the character that you would probably most relate

to as a kid. I mean, you might be able to see

a little bit of yourself in Holly or in Will,

but Chaka really was the character to me that

you would have connected with because it was

the youngest of the group. You're not going to

connect with the Slee Stacks. You're going to

see Rick Marshall as a dad figure like you would

connect with any dad. So that was that. I do

want to say that the Slee Stacks are probably

the most memorable characters. in the show. To

me, just the name SleeStack. What an excellent

job naming an alien race. I mean, that was just

good stuff right there. And the SleeStacks were

creepy. They were scary. They were ugly. They

were bizarre. And they were something you didn't

want to mess with. So, Sleet Stacks to me were

the most memorable character. Shaka was the most

relatable character, but my favorite character

was probably the dad. And like I said, I found

the two kids, Will and Holly, to be somewhat

annoying, probably more so now than I did as

a kid. But we'll get into that a little bit more.

So that's basically your rundown of who's who

and who we're dealing with as we talk through

the rest of this episode. Which means, for the

first time in a long time, that it is time for...

good the bad the ugly that's right folks it is

time for the good the bad and the ugly of land

of the lost first off first thing I want to talk

about is Well, we always seem to start with the

theme song So I'll start with a theme song before

I get too much into the the regular aspects of

the show The theme song is very memorable to

me. I don't know how memorable it would be to

most people of my generation, but To anybody

who watched the show as a kid they would recognize

the theme song right away. Marshall, Will and

Holly on a routine expedition whatever the greatest

earthquake ever known high on a mountain they've

you know the raft goes over to the land of the

law i mean it was it's a classic theme song i

didn't do that justice at all and mike will make

fun of me for my singing ability on there even

though i would say that i have some good singing

ability just not uh on mike here when i'm doing

theme songs today i have to remember from 20

years ago but uh it's a good theme song for that

much of it after that it gets a little bit crazy

because then they fall and then you have dinosaurs

growling really bad sound effects um and a lot

of other you know there's some talking involved

but that just that main part just that you know

um first opening lines with the rick you know

holly and will or whatever you know That part

is really great. And then the land of the lost.

I mean, that part's really memorable. The thing

about the theme song I want to bring up, besides

that first verse being very memorable and catchy

and then it kind of going downhill, is the actual

intro that you would have watched when you were

watching this as a kid. And I beg you, please,

please, while you're listening to this record,

go to YouTube, type in Land of the Lost intro

or Land of the Lost opening make sure you're

getting the 1970 version not anything from the

movie not the I don't even think there is anything

from the 90 version on YouTube but maybe there

is but find the original 1970 opening while I'm

talking about this Click play, click mute, you

can still listen to me because you don't need

to hear the theme song, you already heard it

at the beginning of the episode and you just

heard my fantastic version of it a couple seconds

ago. So you don't need to hear the sound on YouTube,

so mute that, keep listening to me. And while

I'm talking through the rest of this section,

just watch the intro, on mute, watch the intro

opening sequence to this show. Because that is

the most memorable thing about This theme song

in this intro and it is basically sums up all

you need to know about this show You will see

that the effects may be good for you know 1970

style, but I'd really say it's not because I'm

in 1970s We've already had you know The 2001

of Space Odyssey we've already had Star Wars

We've had some good sci -fi effects. Maybe not

in cartoon form or whatever well not cartoon,

but in live -action kid form but This opening

will give you everything you need to know because

the effects and the visuals are absolutely Ridiculous,

I can't think of another word besides ridiculous

I mean you should be watching it right now on

YouTube on mute and you should be seeing that

it looks It's to me. This is what I think of

when I see this intro this looks like something

I myself could have recreated as a kid using

my bathtub and handful of my toys like when they

show this raft with these you know people who

have been placed by effects into the rafts I

mean it looks like there's real people in a raft

but it looks like they're literally floating

in waves like my bathtub going down they have

like these two rocks collide or come together

which looks like two people holding like Fake

rocks in a bathtub putting them together, and

then you're going down the waterfall I mean it

looks like something that was created By a handful

of people in an average house I mean the effects

of this intro are awful, and you think I can't

get any worse And then they show the dinosaurs

the dinosaurs are about the most detail lacking

dinosaurs I've seen in the history of television

I mean the tongue at one point they showed multiple

times they show the dinosaur and the t -rex I

believe open his mouth and you see this tongue

that it's all solid all one color no detail whatsoever

the sounds coming out of the dinosaur are terrible

the movements of the dinosaur are terrible so

this kind of moves into my first bullet point

which are the effects this would be the bad Well,

this is actually the ugly of the good, the bad,

and the ugly. The effects in this show are absolutely

ugly. And like I said, you just need to watch

that intro and you will see exactly what I mean.

You might be tempted to watch some episodes to

see if the actual show can honestly match the

ridiculousness of the intro. And let me say,

you are in for some treats, because it does match

the intro. But what the intro doesn't give you,

it doesn't really give you enough sleet stacks.

So if you really want to see the full effect

of the visual effects of the Land of the Lost,

you have to watch some episodes until you see

the slay stacks. So the effects of this show

are ugly. I will rate the theme song as part

good and part ugly because that opening verse

is good and the rest of it's ugly. The effects

are ugly. And my next bullet I wanted to bring

up was the actual acting in the Land of the Lost.

I don't think that's fair to say actually. I

don't think we can say acting because there really

isn't much acting going on here. They basically

got people who had been in nothing before who

would be in nothing afterwards for the most part.

I mean Holly couldn't act herself out of a box

out of a brown paper bag so to speak I mean I

have no offense to Cathy Coleman she was a young

girl when this was happening and I don't know

what the exact casting process was I don't know

if she knew somebody involved but her acting

is absolutely atrocious Will Marshall Wesley

year looks like he could have potential for acting

but in this environment looks terrible the only

person that can even remotely act in this Show

is Rick Marshall the dad He looks like if he

would have been put in the right environment

in a right show like in a typical 80s action

show like You know TJ Hooker you know like a

MacGyver type show or you know Jake and the Fat

Man or something like that if he would have been

put in something like that as a recurring role

or even a main role he probably would have been

able to pull it off Spencer Milligan but uh He

was the only one in this show that I could even

sense was somewhat acting everybody else It just

looked like they were following horrible stage

directions I can't speak for Uncle Jack Ron Harper

who comes in later because I honestly don't remember

him and did not Watch this show through season

three as a kid. I only watched Most or parts

of the first two seasons I don't remember a third

season at all and we'll get into this changes

that happen between the first Two seasons and

a third season a little bit later But the acting

is bad. So we've had The theme song was good

and ugly. The effects are terribly ugly. The

acting is bad. My next part is the sci -fi aspects,

and what I mean by sci -fi aspects are not the

visual effects. We've already gone over the effects.

The effects are ugly, alright? What I mean with

the sci -fi effects is more of the things about

this show that make it a sci -fi show. The concepts

the plot lines the stories This is gonna sound

absolutely crazy, and I don't mean this how it

sounds but you can get hints of sci -fi writing

almost on par with Very like maybe the worst

Star Trek episodes like if you were to take the

worst Star Trek episodes Or maybe specifically

taking the original Star Trek episode because

Star Trek next generation has so much good writing

But if you took some of the the worst of the

worst of the original Star Trek writing you did

have some of that sci -fi Quality in a kids show

and I mean that in a good way actually might

sound like I'm dissing on the sci -fi Aspects

of the show by saying the worst of the worst

of the Star Trek But you got to remember Star

Trek is some of the best sci -fi writing of all

time Just puts to shame so many other things

that came before or especially after it even

Battlestar Galactica, it puts to shame. Excuse

me, I was watching that recently and trying to

get through it and I just haven't been able to

make it past about episode 30. The writing's

not very good in that. But the writing in this

for a kids show and adding the sci -fi aspects

is actually pretty impressive. Almost to the

point where I would think that most kids wouldn't

have been able to understand and keep up with

this. They're talking about time travel, they're

talking about Mixing past present future They're

talking about ways to open this type of vortex

door that is leading from one Dimension I guess

to the other they are communicating about how

it's you know it's a revealed eventually that

it's a full circle and that The the portal that

is open or the door that is open that originally

sends these kids and the family, the dad and

the mom and the dad, the son and the daughter

to the land of the lost was actually opened by

the father in the land of the lost at some point.

Like, it goes for a full circle. Like, he's the

one that opens the door that makes them originally

fall into it and gets them back at some point.

I mean, the writing in this show is actually

good. Unfortunately, you probably won't be able

to get past the acting, the effects, the visuals

of this show to actually get to the writing.

But I would suspect if you watched... all forty

three episodes and maybe I will try to make myself

do this sometime you would actually get some

fairly decent are overarching storylines continuity

and plot lines so the sci -fi aspects for that

respect are good the other parts that I really

loved was the pylons I only can say them as pylons

because I don't remember exactly the jargon that

was used in the show I don't know if they really

called them pylons the but there was specifically

one that you see almost immediately in the first

couple episodes you see the kids discover the

first one of these and for some reason they just

as a kid like mystified me and they are called

pylons I looked that up for you guys but they

are called pylons but There were basically just

these plain old smooth looking things But inside

was like on the outside they looked like just

like almost like the Washington Monument But

on small scale and then you go inside and it's

like there was this very very cool Like grid

like a prehistoric yet futuristic grid That had

these like different colored Crystals it was

like a stone table with a grid of colored crystals

that you could do different things with to make

the Pylon do certain things. I mean they're like

a metal metallic Obelisk shaped booth all right

I mean I'm hopefully describing this okay, but

otherwise watch I mean it's within the first

two episodes that you're gonna see the first

one of these But I was mesmerized by this grid

of colored crystals that was there. And that's

the part that we used to reenact in my grandma's

yard. And that's the thing that I always wish

I could have done about this show. Like some

shows, you just want to be partaking in parts.

And I always wish I could touch these colored

crystals and move them around or turn them on

and try to do the different sequences to make

different things happen. Basically, it controls

doorways that can result in the arrival or that

can open you know, portals to different times

or they would have effects on the pylons where

I think sometimes they would have, you know,

see lights or you'd have not necessarily things

shooting out of them but these crystals could

do a whole lot of things and it was a mesmerizing

part of the show. Obviously not the first sci

-fi thing to have these 2001 Space Odyssey type

pylons show up. But those sci -fi effects of

the show were really cool. You know, these crystal

things, the pylons, and another part that I'd

like to get to, kind of along those same lines,

is the aliens. Even though the visual effects

are terrible in this show, the aliens, for some

reason to me, are mesmerizing. Now, I'm not talking

about the dinosaurs because the dinosaurs are

100 % visual effects and they're terrible. All

right, but the Pakuni... And especially the sleet

stag as aliens were just mesmerizing. They're

these green, you know, lizard -like humanoid

characters. It almost looks like something that

you would expect. I mean, I'm trying to relate

it to something nowadays. These humanoid lizard

creatures remind me of like a live -action version

of things you would see on Thundercats or He

-Man. Really, I mean this would be the live -action

70s version of some of the alien type things

you see on He -Man or Thundercats. But you know

if you take the lizards out of those shows. And

these sleep stack were just weird looking. They

were all green. They had these humongous like

bug type eyes. Almost looked like a maybe a form

of grito from Star Wars if you will. Like a poor

man's grito. But the aliens in this show were

cool. Mean they were cool because you bought

into them even though you knew it was humans

running around in suits Even as a kid you knew

that it was humans running around in suits for

some reason they still held up their scary Creepy

sleazy sleet stacky Way about them, so I will

give good to both the sci -fi aspects and the

aliens of this show Bad acting ugly effects and

that my friends is the good the bad and the ugly

of land of the lost and that means it's time

for things that make you go hmmm that's right

folks it's time for things you might not know

about Land of the Lost. I don't have a lot for

you. Unfortunately, trivia for this show is a

little harder to come by than I was hoping, but

I do have a couple things here. Number one, things

you might not know about the show, things I didn't

know about the show, is that there was a change

between seasons two and seasons three of Land

of the Lost. Spencer Milligan, who played Rick

Marshall, departed the show at the beginning

of its third season for financial reasons. In

addition to a salary increase, he believed it

was only fair He and the rest of the cast received

compensation for using their image on various

merchandise like lunch boxes, etc. So because

of that, his character Rick Marshall was replaced

by what the show explained was his brother Jack

Marshall, Uncle Jack, who was played by actor

Ron Harper. Milligan did not return for the brief

scene that showed this, also shown in the credits

of the third season showing Rick Marshall being

transported out of the Land of the Lost. One

of the show's crew actually played the role instead,

wearing a wig resembling Milligan's hair and

standing with his back to the camera. So not

only did Rick Marshall, the character, have a

problem with the financial parts and trying to

stand up for the crew, and not only was he the

best actor in the crew, but they... didn't listen

to him and they actually wrote him off of the

show and not only did they write him off the

show they didn't even get him to play the last

part to actually get him off the show and have

a crew member wear a wig and try to impersonate

him that to me is ridiculously funny and Like

I said, I don't remember seeing this I don't

remember seeing any of the third season I'll

try to look this up probably now just so I can

see the crewman posing as Rick Marshall or Spencer

Milligan there, but wow really guess maybe they

didn't have the money to pay these people how

they're supposed to but that's something I definitely

didn't know about the show and I For sure did

not know the second thing the second thing you

might not know about this show former Cleveland

Cavalier and Detroit Piston Center William or

as most people know him Bill Lambier. Yes, Bill

Lambier like as in Bill Lambier's combat basketball

for the old video game systems for those people

that were gamers before gamers was cool, like

me. Played a sleet stack during the show's first

season. I actually even watched the episode in

which Bill Lambeer was a sleet stack. Now can

you tell it's Bill Lambeer? Absolutely not. But

Bill Lambeer, it even credits him on screen,

was a sleet stack during the show's first season.

That is one of the coolest unknown credits. that

I've ever heard of. So those are two things that

you might not know about the Land of the Lost,

which brings us to our next section, which is

what are these people doing now? Spencer Milligan,

after leaving the show as we just talked about,

still teaches acting, directs local plays, but

he told the Associated Press interestingly that

he never watches the show that made him famous.

seems like there was a little bad you know falling

out there at the end and it seems like he wants

nothing to do with it so but he's still involved

in acting and directing in some way shape or

form Ron Harper who took his place resides in

California these days continues to act his latest

television appearance was a couple years back

in a 2008 episode of TV's Cold Case. So die hard

Land of the Lost fans might want to look up that

episode of Cold Case from four years ago and

see Ron Harper. I'm assuming playing somebody

that's either committed a crime or was victim

to a crime. Wesley, your good ol' Will Marshall,

the son there, is involved in all kinds of stuff.

He has his hands in everything. He has a company

called Games at Sea, which created, produced,

and directed onboard entertainment for cruise

ships like Crystal Cruises and Celebrity Cruise

Line. For several years he had a Blues Brother

2000 live stage show at Universal Studios Hollywood

that was rated number one tour show at the park

and he was involved in that. He's currently co

-producing with his production company Cardboard

Belt Productions, a new musical titled Snapshots.

I'm not sure at what stage that's in or if that's

already happened or not. I'm not sure how old

this information is. He's currently the travel

editor for live magazine Palm Springs and writes

a very successful travel column bimonthly. And

it also says he's a top fundraiser for the March

of Dimes. So Wesley here is a jack of many trades

apparently these days. As for Holly, the daughter

Cathy Coleman, she has not acted for many years

but if you want to see her in a later persona

you can see her because she contributed interviews

and commentary tracks on all three seasons of

the now discontinued Land of the Lost DVDs which

we'll get to in a minute. Philip Paley who played

Shaka This is interesting. He was discovered

for the role by becoming the youngest black belt

in US history in 1973 at age 9. He had appeared

on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Chuck

Norris. In 1988 he starred in the Roger Corman

teen exploitation comedy titled Beach Balls.

uh... and he was also involved in interviews

and commentary on the DVD so you can see him

on those Walker Edmiston uh... who i know as

a voice actor he voiced Inferno on the Transformers

G1 show as well as a number of other things uh...

who was one of the uh... mains he was uh... uh...

one of the main sleet stack not a sleet stack

because it technically wasn't he was Enoch uh...

who was kind of a Slee stack like mean he actually

died of cancer a few years back about five years

ago in 2007 He was about 82 so he's no longer

with us, but uh So if you want to see what they're

doing you can probably find what's a year out

and about as for the other ones You'll have to

watch the DVDs to see what they had to say about

their time on land of the lost because I don't

think you're getting Spencer Milligan to talk

too much about it And he's probably getting up

there in age a little bit at this point as well,

so we're going to take a quick break what we

like to call the telecast uh... give you some

retro goodness and uh... you also hear a few

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and you may be wondering, like I said before,

how can you watch Land of the Lost today? Well,

good news and bad news. Mostly good news, though.

We'll start with the bad news and get that out

of the way. Netflix fans and Netflix users out

there, you will not be getting your viewing pleasure

of Land of the Lost via Netflix. From what I

can tell, and I do have access to it now, both

streaming and online as far as looking up what's

available through mail, Land of the Lost is not

available on Netflix. Unless it's hiding on me

and I just am retarded as far as searching for

it. So no Land of the Lost on Netflix iTunes

fans though you're in luck Season one of Land

of the Lost is available on iTunes for $24 .99

here in the US Season two is available for $19

.99 and season three is available for $19 .99

prices that for that is I wouldn't say they're

super expensive, 25, 20, and 20 for season sets.

There's only 43 episodes total, so even if they

haven't broken down to about 15 episodes a piece

though, you are paying a little more than a dollar

an episode. It's not super cheap, it's not super

expensive, it's kind of in the middle there somewhere.

It's also available on YouTube. So if you want

to be a complete cheapskate, you can watch it

on YouTube. But you won't get a ton of episodes.

There are a variety of episodes. They're all

split into two parts, usually about 10 to 12

minutes per part because each episode is only

about 20 to 25 minutes total. And they're fairly

good quality as far as YouTube goes. I mean,

it's going to look like they're not in great

quality because the visual effects of this show

are so bad. but it's it's not blurry it's not

you know 240 resolution or something like that

so I mean you can get some decent quality out

of YouTube for Land of the Lost and you can see

enough episodes to get a gist for the the series

and definitely you know for the humongous sci

-fi fans out there that think, well, hey, maybe

this would be something interesting. Maybe I'd

like to add this to my collection. Go to YouTube

first, watch a few episodes, and it should give

you a good idea if it is, in fact, something

you want to add to your collection or not. Because

it is available on DVD from 2004 to 2005. Rhino

Entertainment, which most people should be familiar

with, own the rights to the show and release

seasons one through three and a complete series

package with several bonus features, including

commentaries on all of their releases. Those

are the ones that we were talking about with

Shaka and Holly, at least those two if not more,

who are involved in the commentaries and interviews.

However, those DVDs have since gone out of print.

So if you want those, you're going to have to

get used copies. I don't know if you can get

some through Amazon or something like that, but

you're going to have to go through the venues

of getting them in used or from eBay or something

like that, because they're no longer. in print,

but on May 2009 Universal Studios released two

complete series releases, one in the original

packaging and the other enclosed in the Land

of the Lost vintage lunchbox, you know, one of

those things that good old Spencer Milligan wanted

some money for, which he probably should have

got. But the only bonus feature was a look at

the film of Will Ferrell's film, Land of the

Lost. So unfortunately through the Universal

Studios releases you lose all of the bonus features

including the commentaries and instead you just

get a look at the modern comedy spoof take on

Land of the Lost. So that's not a good trade.

On October of 2009, Universal released the three

seasons individually and the DVDs are identical

in these individual releases as the Universal

Complete Series boxes are. So, unfortunately,

you either have to settle for Universal Studios,

either the complete series releases, one in the

original package or one in lunchbox vintage packaging,

or the individual releases through Universal

Studios, but no matter which way you go that

way, the complete series releases or the individual

releases, you're not getting the bonus features

which are probably worth it, which Rhino had

on their sets. So, if possible, this is a rare

instance where you should try to get the older

version, the Rhino version of this for the commentaries

and whatever other bonus features you can get

on that because the universal ones although maybe

you know a little bit newer or what have you

are going to be jibbing you out of the bonus

features which for me is a big selling point

whenever you're buying any of this vintage stuff

so unfortunately you might have to go and do

some searching to try to find the Rhino sets.

I'm just looking up real quick for you probably

heard me typing just a second ago. I just want

to look real quick to see if on the Rhino version

there's something besides the commentaries as

far as what you're exactly missing by going through

the Universal releases. It says on season 1 that

you have 10 commentary tracks and it does feature

both the sun and the daughter of Rick. So you

get Wesley Year and Kathy Coleman, who's now

named Kathy Coleman Bell, and Shaka. So you have

three people there doing commentary, and you

also get four writers, and sci -fi people should

recognize these names, Walter Conan, David Gerald,

DC Fontana, and Larry Niven. So you get four

writers and three actors doing commentary tracks.

You get exclusive interviews with the cast and

those writers. I'm assuming they're the exact

same people. You have a quiz with Phil Paley,

Shaka. You have a Pecuni language dictionary,

and there's Easter eggs on the season one set,

which is three discs and 17 episodes. TV shows

on DVD is listed for $40. You can probably get

it for cheaper. And the Pecuni is the... languages,

you know, they made up, they actually had someone

make up their own language for Shaka and the

Pakuni, and little by little you could learn

it with them as you watch the show. And so they

include an actual Pakuni language dictionary,

which is cool for any kids that, you know, back

in the day made their own little languages and

invented stuff like that. On the second season

for Rhino, you get the commentary with cast and

crew, the interviews with cast and crew, hours

of rare and never before seen special features,

which would probably be a treat and a horror.

and A New Land of the Lost Quiz. That one has

three discs and 13 episodes and again is retailed

for $40 on this site. And the third season, which

is two discs, 13 episodes and retails for $29

.95, you have a commentary and interview by Ron

Harper, who was the uncle who was only available,

you know, who only was in the show on... the

third season so that was kind of a neat way that

they did that to give you some retrospective

that way. So I would highly suggest trying to

avoid the Universal home video even though it

might be a little bit cheaper try to get the

Rhino series and get those special features if

you are in fact a die -hard Land of the Lost

fan. So that is how you can watch Land of the

Lost now. Hopefully you got all that information

and you didn't get too confused along the way.

But that means it's now time for what we like

to call here at the telecast the IGN replacement

crew where I get to rank the show and For those

of you who have forgotten our system is very

simple. We have a one through four system kind

of like stars One star would basically mean I

didn't like it back then. I'm only covering it

so people can be happy that I covered it and

I don't ever really care about watching the show

now either. Number two stars means man I love

the show back in the day but wow I really could

care less about it now. Three is I love the show

and I would watch it whenever it airs on TV if

I could find it. And number four is no I want

this show in my DVD collection. Like that's how

much I like this show. Now I would preface this

by saying I would be interested in seeing the

special features on these DVDs. The special features,

including the visual features that were behind

the scenes type stuff, I would like to see the

interviews with the cast and the writers and

the commentary as they walk us through this horrible

looking show. And yes, I did like this show as

a kid. But it wasn't something I saw every episode

of it as a kid. It wasn't something I had to

run home from school to watch. And it's definitely

something that's very painful to watch today.

This is probably the greatest example in television

history of a show that does not hold up to the

test of time. No kid these days would be able

to watch this. the only type of people that could

really probably stomach this were the most die

-hard land of the lost fans and just die -hard

sci -fi fans who really want to get look past

the visual aspects to really get the good sci

-fi writing and plot lines and sci -fi aspects

and that little goodness I mean those people

might be able to get into this so unfortunately

even though it does hold some good memories of

me you know in my grandma's backyard with my

sister and my cousin I'm gonna give this one

a really really low two stars loved is a strong

word so I don't know if I could say I loved the

show back in the day but I did like the show

back in the day but I really don't have any desire

to watch it too much anymore besides what wouldn't

be interesting to watch these special features

on the DVD but I don't really need to see all

of the episodes I just don't think I could stomach

it all I would like to see it all to witness

the story stuff but I just don't think I can

get through and get past I mean this deserves

to be on Mystery Science Theater 3000 or whatever

the number they do did last or whatever. I mean

somebody should be having this shown on a big

screen and making fun of it and making some money

off of it because there would be so much material

to make fun of. So even though it holds a special

place in my heart, a really low two stars for

Land of the Lost. So that does it for this episode,

our 27th episode of the telecast. I would like

to thank myself for going solo on this episode

and struggling through what was a fond childhood

memory. And I would like to, as always, thank

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