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Episode #
1
- Air Date:
9/15/1965 |
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The Reluctant Stowaway |
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Teleplay: |
Teleplay: S. Bar David
Story: Shimon Wincelberg |
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Director: |
Tony Leader |
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Guests: |
Don Forbes, Hal Torey, Byron Morrow, Hoke Howell, Brett Parker, Fred Crane, Tom Allen |
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Plot: |
In the year 1997, the Robinson family takes off in the Jupiter 2, America's first colonization mission to Alpha Centauri. However, a spy for a foreign country, Dr. Zachary Smith, sneaks on board and sabotages the mission by reprogramming the ship's robot to destroy the Jupiter 2 after launch. But Smith becomes trapped on board, and the Robinsons save the ship, but not before it's guidance system is damaged, and the Jupiter 2 becomes lost in space. [Note: Originally, the Robot was a villain, and not the good guy it would later become. Also, Dr. Smith was more ruthless.] |
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Episode #
2
- Air Date:
9/22/1965 |
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The Derelict |
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Teleplay: |
Teleplay: Peter Packer
Story: Shimon Wincelberg |
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Director: |
Alex Singer |
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Guests: |
Don Forbes, Dawson Palmer |
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The Jupiter 2 is pulled into a giant alien spaceship, where they encounter an advanced race of bubblelike creatures. John and Don search for maps and equipment, while Dr, Smith and Will get into trouble. |
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Episode #
3
- Air Date:
9/29/1965 |
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Island in the Sky |
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Teleplay: |
Teleplay: Norman Lessing
Story: Shimon Wincelberg |
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Director: |
Tony Leader |
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Guests: |
None |
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Plot: |
While outside the ship, Prof. Robinson's parajets misfire, and he plummets towards the planet below. Don attempts to follow in the Jupiter 2, but Dr. Smith's sabotage causes the retro-rockets to fail, and the ship crash lands. They then search the planet for Prof. Robinson, using the space chariot. [Note: This is the first time the "space chariot"(a combination tractor and bus) is used.] |
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Episode #
4
- Air Date:
10/6/1965 |
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There Were Giants In The Earth |
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Teleplay: |
Writer: Carey Wilber
Story: Shimon Wincelberg |
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Director: |
Leo Penn |
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Guests: |
Lamar Lundy |
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Plot: |
John discovers that the planet they are on will soon move farther from its sun and freeze. The Robinson's attempt to abandon the ship and move South in hopes of surviving. They encounter a carnivorous Cyclops who impedes their escape. |
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Episode #
5
- Air Date:
10/13/1965 |
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The Hungry Sea |
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Teleplay: |
Teleplay: William Welch
Story: Shimon Wincelberg |
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Director: |
Sobey Martin |
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Guests: |
None |
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Plot: |
John discovers that the planet's orbit will again carry it back towards the sun. The family heads back towards the Jupiter 2 in the Chariot, but encounter earthquakes and storms. They cross an island sea to reach their ship. |
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Episode #
6
- Air Date:
10/20/1965 |
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Welcome Stranger |
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Teleplay: |
Peter Packer |
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Director: |
Alvin Ganzer |
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Guests: |
Warren Oates |
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Plot: |
The Robinsons find astronaut Jimmy Hapgood, also lost from Earth, on the planet. They help him repair his ship, which is in better condition, so that he can return to Earth. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson ask him to take Will and Penny with him, but Dr. Smith plots to have himself taken instead. However, Hapgood enjoys life in space, and no one returns to Earth. |
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Episode #
7
- Air Date:
10/27/1965 |
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My Friend, Mr. Nobody |
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Teleplay: |
Jackson Gillis |
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Director: |
Paul Stanley |
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Guests: |
William Bramley |
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Penny plays with an "imaginary" companion, actually a disembodied life force living below the surface. When Dr. Smith accidentally injures Penny, the companion unleashes its wrath across the entire planet, until Penny intervenes and calms it down, and then it undergoes a startling transformation. |
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Episode #
8
- Air Date:
11/3/1965 |
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Invaders From The Fifth Dimension |
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Teleplay: |
Shimon Wincelberg |
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Director: |
Leonard Horn |
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Guests: |
Ted Lohmann, Joe Ryan |
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Plot: |
Luminous aliens capture Dr. Smith, and plan to replace their burnt-out computer with his brain. However, he bargains with them, and promises them Will's brain instead. Thus they are pitted against the Robinsons. |
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Episode #
9
- Air Date:
11/10/1965 |
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The Oasis |
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Teleplay: |
Peter Packer |
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Director: |
Sutton Roley |
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Guests: |
None |
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Plot: |
Smith eats some alien fruit before it can be tested, and grows into a giant. Convinced that the Robinsons were trying to kill him, he plots to finish them off. However, he is returned to normal size, and does not kill any Robinsons. |
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Episode #
10
- Air Date:
11/17/1965 |
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The Sky is Falling |
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Teleplay: |
Barney Slater, Herman Groves |
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Director: |
Sutton Roley |
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Guests: |
Don Matheson, Francoise Ruggieri, Eddie Rosson |
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Plot: |
The Robinsons find themselves unable to understand the electronic language of a visiting space family. |
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Episode #
11
- Air Date:
11/24/1965 |
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Wish Upon a Star |
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Teleplay: |
Barney Slater |
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Director: |
Sutton Roley |
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Guests: |
Dawson Palmer |
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Plot: |
Banished from the Robinson Camp, Dr. Smith takes refuge in the wreck of an alien spaceship, where he finds a machine that can materialize anything one wishes. To get the Robinsons to allow him back into the Jupiter 2, he donates the machine to them. It then starts to play on their greed. The machine's original owner, a strange Rubberoid creature, then returns to retreive it. |
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Episode #
12
- Air Date:
12/1/1965 |
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The Raft |
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Teleplay: |
Peter Packer |
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Director: |
Sobey Martin |
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Guests: |
Dawson Palmer |
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Plot: |
The Robinsons construct a small space craft capable of carrying two people back to Earth. Dr. Smith takes off in it, with Will, but it isn't on the Earth that they land. |
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Episode #
13
- Air Date:
12/8/1965 |
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One of Our Dogs is Missing |
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Teleplay: |
William Welch |
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Director: |
Sutton Roley |
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Guests: |
Dawson Palmer |
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Plot: |
The Robinsons find a suspended animation test ship with a twenty-year-old dog in it. Then at night, food is being taken off the ship, and growling noises are heard. It's not the dog, however, but a giant, hairy mutant who attacks Judy, until the dog saves her. |
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Episode #
14
- Air Date:
12/15/1965 |
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Attack of the Monster Plants |
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Teleplay: |
William Read Woodfield, Alan Balter |
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Director: |
Justin Addis |
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Guests: |
None |
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Plot: |
Giant cyclamen plants, which duplicate anything put into them, make an evil duplicate of Judy, in an attempt to get the Jupiter 2's supply of deutronium fuel. The evil Judy feeds all of the fuel to the plants, while Dr. Smith refuses to tell the Robinsons where the real Judy is. |
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Episode #
15
- Air Date:
12/29/1965 |
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Return From Outer Space |
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Teleplay: |
Peter Packer |
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Director: |
Nathan Juran |
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Guests: |
Reta Shaw, Walter Sande, Donald Loxby, Sheila Mathews |
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Plot: |
Will is able to use the Tauron's maser device to transport himself back to Earth. However, nobody will believe that he is one of the Robinsons, or that they are shipwrecked. |
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Episode #
16
- Air Date:
1/12/1966 |
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The Keeper - Part 1 |
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Teleplay: |
Barney Slater |
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Director: |
Harry Harris |
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Guests: |
Michael Rennie, Wilber Evans |
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Plot: |
An intergalactic zookeeper comes by, and the Robinsons are suspicious of the way he treats them as specimens, rather than humans, which is true. He decides to add Will and Penny to his menagerie |
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Episode #
17
- Air Date:
1/19/1965 |
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The Keeper - Part 2 |
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Teleplay: |
Barney Slater |
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Director: |
Harry Harris |
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Guests: |
Michael Rennie, Wilber Evans |
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Hoping to steal the Keeper's ship, Dr. Smith sneaks on board, but accidentally lets all of the animals loose. The Keeper then says that if the Robinsons do not hand over Will and Penny, he will allow the dangerous monsters to overrun the planet. |
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Episode #
18
- Air Date:
1/26/1966 |
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The Sky Pirate |
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Teleplay: |
Carey Wilber |
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Director: |
Sobey Martin |
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Guests: |
Albert Salmi |
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Will is kidnapped, and later befriends Tucker the space pirate, who is being chased by a creature from another galaxy. |
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Episode #
19
- Air Date:
2/2/1966 |
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Ghost in Space |
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Teleplay: |
Barney Slater |
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Director: |
Sobey Martin |
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Guests: |
Dawson Palmer |
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Dr. Smith throws an explosive into a gaseous bog, creating an invisible, destructive force that threatens the Robinsons. Dr. Smith is convinced that the thing is the spirit of his uncle Thaddeus. While the Robinsons figure out how to capture it, Smith tries to exorcise it. |
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Episode #
20
- Air Date:
2/9/1966 |
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War of the Robots |
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Teleplay: |
Barney Slater |
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Director: |
Sobey Martin |
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Guests: |
Robby the Robot |
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Plot: |
Will finds a robot and repairs it. It helps the Robinsons with their chores, but is in actuality an evil robot created by an advanced race. It is programmed to have a will of its own, and it plans to capture the Robinsons for its masters, and destroy their Robot. [The robot used is actually Robby the Robot, from several MGM SF movies.] |
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Episode #
21
- Air Date:
2/16/1966 |
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The Magic Mirror |
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Teleplay: |
Jackson Gillis |
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Director: |
Nathan Juran |
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Guests: |
Michael J. Pollard |
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Penny, and her pet Bloop, Debbie (don't ask what a Bloop is! All I know is that it is something like a chimpanzee) fall through an alien mirror into another dimension, onto a planet inhabited by a lonely, nameless boy. |
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Episode #
22
- Air Date:
3/2/1966 |
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The Challenge |
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Teleplay: |
Barney Slater |
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Director: |
Don Richardson |
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Guests: |
Michael Ansara, Kurt Russell |
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An alien and his son come to the Robinsons, and challenge John and Will to a test of strength and courage to prove their superiority over Earthlings. Unknown to the Robinsons, if John and Will win, they will all be killed. |
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Episode #
23
- Air Date:
3/9/1966 |
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Space Trader |
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Teleplay: |
Barney Slater |
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Director: |
Nathan Juran |
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Guests: |
Torin Thatcher |
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When a space merchant attempts to drum up business by destroying the Robinson's food supply, a hungry Smith promises to will his body to the trader in 200 years in exchange for food. Unfortunately, the fine print allows the trader to collect immediately. |
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Episode #
24
- Air Date:
3/16/1966 |
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His Majesty Smith |
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Teleplay: |
Carey Wilber |
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Director: |
Harry Harris |
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Guests: |
Liam Sullivan, Kevin Hagen |
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Smith is selected to be king of an alien civilization, but later finds the reason - the aliens select only the most useless creatures of the Universe, to be sacrificed to their primitive deities. |
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Episode #
25
- Air Date:
3/30/1966 |
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The Space Croppers |
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Teleplay: |
Peter Packer |
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Director: |
Sobey Martin |
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Guests: |
Mercedes McCambridge, Sherry Jackson, Dawson Palmer |
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Hoping to get back to Earth, Smith romances the mother of a clan of space hillbillies, unaware that they are growing a crop of plants that feed on animal and human flesh. |
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Episode #
26
- Air Date:
4/6/1966 |
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All That Glitters |
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Teleplay: |
Barney Slater |
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Director: |
Harry Harris |
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Guests: |
Werner Klemperer, Larry Ward, Ted Lehmann |
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Plot: |
A space thief entrusts Penny and Smith with a neck-ring that turns anything the wearer touches into platinum. Smith betrays the thief and keeps the ring for himself, then accidentally turns Penny into platinum. |
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Episode #
27
- Air Date:
4/13/1966 |
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The Lost Civilization |
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Teleplay: |
William Welch |
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Director: |
Don Richardson |
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Guests: |
Kym Karath, Royal Dano, Dawson Palmer |
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Plot: |
According to the rules of an ancient civilization, Will must marry the princess he kissed and awoke from suspended animation. The civilization has been stockpiling soldiers in freezing tubes, and now plans to conquer the universe, beginning with Earth. [For a primitive planet, Earth attracted a lot of universe-conquerers! |
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Episode #
28
- Air Date:
4/20/1966 |
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A Change of Space |
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Teleplay: |
Peter Packer |
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Director: |
Sobey Martin |
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Guests: |
Frank Graham |
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Plot: |
Will returns from a faster-than-light trip into the sixth dimension in an alien spaceship with his intelligence greatly enhanced. Smith, trying to repeat the incident, returns as an old man. |
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Episode #
29
- Air Date:
4/27/1966 |
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Follow the Leader |
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Teleplay: |
Barney Slater |
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Director: |
Don Richardson |
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Guests: |
Gregory Morton |
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Plot: |
Knocked unconscious during a cave-in, John's mind and body are possessed by an alien warrior's spirit. When the rest of the Robinsons become suspicious of John's unusual behavior, he seals them up in the cave, and plots to throw Will off a cliff. Will exorcises the spirit through the power of his love for his father. |
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