Dr Smith orders an android who they teach to be more human. A salesman shows up looking for paymentDr Smith orders an android who they teach to be more human. A salesman shows up looking for paymentDr Smith orders an android who they teach to be more human. A salesman shows up looking for payment
Bill Mumy
- Will Robinson
- (as Billy Mumy)
Dawson Palmer
- Moss monster
- (uncredited)
Dick Tufeld
- The Robot
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- (uncredited)
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- TriviaAt a recent autograph convention Bill Mumy recalls an alarming circumstance during taping of a Lost in Space episode. When Mr. Zumdish (Fritz Feld) orders his side kick Ex-Wrestler Tiger Joe Marsh to chase Verda (Dee Hartford) because Dr. Smith was delinquent with his payment. After 4 takes of running, the hefty wrestler suffered an asthma attack and Director Don Richardson left the scene in the final film showing the heavy goon laboring for breath behind the rocks. Richardson yelled "CUT!" The burly wrestler collapsed to the set floor and was given medication and insisted to finish taping which he did. Joe Marsh went on guest star in other television shows and passed away in 1989 at the age of 77.
- GoofsWhen Verda took the pointer away from the robot there was a holder for it on his claw, but moments later the holder is no longer there.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Spooksville: The Wishing Stone (2013)
Featured review
A colourful, campy turn on a classic sci-fi scenario
Yet another garish alien gadget inexplicably appears on the Robinson's adopted planet, this time a 'mail-order' machine from the 'Celestial Department Store'. Needless to say, Smith fiddles with the buttons and accidently purchases an android (actually a gynoid) servant. The story incorporates the classic sci-fi trope of an artificial person slowly learning how to be human as the younger Robinsons teach Verda, the silver simulacrum (Dee Hartfield), how to laugh (a scene undermined by the young actors' extremely artificial sounding laughter), cry (green tears), appreciate beauty, etc. By this point, 'Lost in Space' had become a kid's show, with colourful props, incoherent, inconsistent plots, silly characters (Mr. Zumdishh, the complaints manager of the Celestial Department Store was played by Fritz Feld, whose trademark mouth-pop sthick was written intro the script), and an emphasis on the Robot (who can now have hurt feelings) and the shenanigans of Dr. Smith. Evaluating episodes as 'adult' science fiction is pointless (they are generally awful) but as a grown-up's campy space-comedy or a child-friendly space-adventure, this episode is on par with most the series' second season. The monster-of-the-week is pathetic in execution and pitiable in demise (its behaviour didn't seem to warrant disintegration). Both Verda and Mr. Zumdishh return in later episodes.
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- jamesrupert2014
- Oct 5, 2022
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