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''Lost in Space'' is an American science fiction television series created and produced by Irwin Allen, filmed by 20th Century Fox Television, and broadcast on CBS. The show ran for three seasons, with 83 episodes airing between September 15, 1965, and March 6, 1968. The first television season was filmed in black and white, with the second and third seasons filmed in color. In 1972 a pilot for a cartoon version was made. Two documentaries were released in the 1990s. In 1998, a ''Lost in Space'' movie, based on the television series, was released to critical disdain due to its darker tone. In 2003 a pilot for a new live action reboot of the series was produced but not picked up for series production. In the unaired original 60s television pilot, the ship, named Gemini 12 in this early version without Smith or the Robot, was going slow enough that the crew wondered if they were on Mars, while in the first aired episode, just seconds of hyper-drive caused them to be lost, unknown light-years from Earth. The possible distance and location varied between episodes and authors. As an example, Penny asks Will if they could be on Mars in one of the early episodes. The ability of the Jupiter 2 to quickly cover vast distances allowed the ship to pass through an entire galaxy overnight in one later episode although this was more likely the writers' confusion about what solar systems and galaxies actually are. There were two versions of the pilot, a complete version with the credits at the very beginning and a 2nd shorter version minus John's and Don's initial encounter with "One-Eye the Cyclops" and with the credits appearing between Alpha Control's statement that the Gemini 12 was hopelessly Lost in Space and the crash landing sequence. Though the original television series concept centered on the Robinson family, many later story lines focused primarily on Dr. Zachary Smith, played by Jonathan Harris. Smith, along with the Robot, was absent from the pilot as the addition of their characters was decided once the series had been commissioned for production. Originally written as an utterly evil but careless saboteur, Smith gradually becomes the troublesome, self-centered, incompetent foil who provides the comic relief for the show and causes most of the episodic conflict and misadventures.〔Frederick S. Clarke Cinefantastique - Volume 29, N o 12 -1998 Page 27 "The cast of characters In the original, unaired pilot for LOST IN SPACE (entitled "No Place to Hide") Included neither the robot nor Dr. Zachary Smith. The Robinsons load the Chariot to move to a better. "〕 In the unaired pilot, what causes the group to become lost in space is a chance encounter with a meteor storm, but in the first aired episode, it is Smith's sabotage and unplanned presence on the ship that sets the ship off course into the meteor field. Smith is thus the key to the story. ==Production== In 1962 the first appearance of a space-faring Robinson family was in a comic book published by Gold Key Comics. ''The Space Family Robinson'', who were scientists aboard Earth's "Space Station One", are swept away in a cosmic storm in the comic's second issue. These Robinsons were scientist father Craig, scientist mother June, early teens Tim (son) and Tam (daughter), along with pets Clancy (dog) and Yakker (parrot). Space Station One also boasted two spacemobiles for ship-to-planet travel. The television show came three years later, and during its run, CBS and 20th Century Fox reached an agreement with Gold Key Comics that allowed the usage of the name "Robinson" for the show; the TV show may have propelled subsequent sales of the comic in return. After that, the television series, which was an adaptation of the Johann David Wyss novel ''The Swiss Family Robinson'', went ahead with stories separate from the comic book series. The astronaut family of Dr. John Robinson, accompanied by an Air Force pilot and a robot, set out from an overpopulated Earth in the spaceship ''Jupiter 2'' to visit a planet circling the star Alpha Centauri with hopes of colonizing it. The official launch date of the ''Jupiter 2'' is confused by the fact that the opening scene was lifted directly from the pilot edit along with the caption "October 16, 1997". However this was an error on the editor's part, as the series updated script had revised the launch date to October 20, 1997. This was shown by two references in the second episode, "The Derelict", 24 hours after launch, in both a summary of the mission status by the news anchorman reporting from Alpha Control and again in John Robinson's log entry in deep space, clearly stating the date was now October 21. The ''Jupiter 2'' mission is immediately sabotaged by Dr. Zachary Smith — an apparent agent for a foreign government — who slips aboard their spaceship and reprograms the robot to destroy the ship and crew. Smith is trapped aboard, saving himself by prematurely reviving the crew from suspended animation. The ship is saved, but consequent damage caused by Smith's sabotage of the robot leaves them lost in space. In the third episode the ''Jupiter 2'' crash lands on an alien world, later named Priplanis by the Robinsons, where they spend the rest of the season and survive a host of adventures. Smith, whom Allen allegedly had originally intended to write out, remains through the series as a source of comedic cowardice and villainy, exploiting the forgiving nature of the Robinsons. Smith was liked by the trusting Will Robinson, but he was disliked by both the Robot and the equally-suspicious Major Don West. At the start of the second season the repaired ''Jupiter 2'' launches into space once more to escape the destruction of Priplanis following a series of cataclysmic earthquakes, but in the fourth episode the Robinsons crash-land again on another planet to become ground-locked for another season. This replicated the feel of the first season, although by this time the focus of the series was more on humor than straight action/adventure as evidenced by the now extreme silliness of Dr. Smith amidst a plethora of unlikely aliens visiting the planet who were often of a whimsical fantasy oriented nature. One of these colorful visitors even turned out to be Smith's own cousin out to do him out of a family inheritance with the assistance of a hostile gambling machine. A new theme song was recorded by Warren Barker for the second season, but it was decided to keep the original. In the third season, a format change designed to bring the series back to its adventuresome roots allowed the Robinson family to travel to more planets. The Jupiter 2 was able to now freely travel to other worlds in an attempt to return to Earth or to settle on their originally-desired planet in the Alpha Centauri star system. An apparently newly built "Space Pod", that mysteriously appeared as though it had always been there, allowed both a means of transportation between the ship and planets as well as a plot device to launch various escapades. This season had a dramatically different opening credits sequence and a new theme song, which, like the original, was composed by John Williams as part of the show's intended new direction. Following the format of Allen's first television series, ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'', unlikely fantasy-oriented adventure stories were dreamt up with little emphasis on any kind of serious science fiction. The stories had little support, with an explosion, for example, happening to cover an alien's arrival or departure, and sometimes just the discovery of some alien object. Props for the show were regularly recycled between Irwin's series as a matter of budgetary convention, and the same alien would appear on ''Voyage'' on one day and ''Lost in Space'' the next. A sea monster outfit would do its tour of duty on ''Voyage'', get a spray job for its ''Lost in Space'' appearance, and so on back and forth in this manner. The clear round plastic pen holder used as a control surface in "The Derelict" turned up regularly throughout the show's entire run. The foreboding derelict ship from season 1 was redressed to become the ''Vera Castle'' in season 3, which, in turn, was reused in several episodes and flipped upside down for one of them. The Fuel Barge from season 2 became a Space Lighthouse in season 3 in a direct lift of footage from the earlier story. The derelict ship was used again in season 3 after its color was changed, and the same for the alien pursuer's ship in the "Sky Pirate", used again for "Deadliest of the Species". Meanwhile, Hapgood's ship lifting off in episode 6 was shown for almost every subsequent ship launch, no matter what shape the ship had on the ground. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lost in Space」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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