Year One
The Reluctant Stowaway
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.
The original pilot "No Place To Hide" was created
before selling the series and had many differences. The ship was
named the Gemini. The music for the credit and during the show
was lifted from "The Day The Earth Stood Still". There
was no robot or Dr. Smith to throw the craft off course, so, as
mentioned in the Time Merchant the ship was battered by an
asteroid storm. Footage from this episodes was cleverly split up
and comprised most of the interesting bits of the first 5 shows.
The Derelict
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.
Island in the Sky
While outside the ship, Prof. Robinson's
parajets misfire, and he plummets towards the planet below. Don
attempts to follow in the Jupiter2, but Dr. Smith's sabotage
causes the retro-rockets to fail, and the shipcrash lands. They
then search the planet for Prof. Robinson, using the space
chariot.
There Were Giants In The Earth
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 there escape.
The Hungry Sea
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 toreach their ship.
Welcome Stranger
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.
My Friend, Mr. Nobody
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.
Invaders From The Fifth Dimension
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.
The Oasis
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.
The Sky is Falling
The Robinsons find themselves unable to
understand the electronic language of a visiting space family.
Wish Upon a Star
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.
The Raft
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.
One Of Our Dogs Is Missing
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.
Attack of the Monster Plants
Giant cyclamen plants, which duplicate
anything put into them, make an evil duplicate of Judy, in
attempt to get the Jupiter 2's supply of deutronium fuel. The
evil Judy feeds all of to the plants, while Dr. Smith refuses to
tell the Robinsons where the real Judy is.
Return From Outer Space
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.
The Keeper
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. 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.
The Sky Pirate
Will is kidnapped, and later befriends
Tucker the space pirate, who is being chased by a creature from
another galaxy.
Ghost In Space
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.
The War Of The Robots
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.]
The Magic Mirror
Penny, and her pet Bloop, Debbie fall
through an alien mirror into another dimension, onto a planet
inhabited by a lonely, nameless boy.
The Challenge ![Phwoooar!!!](images/LIS18.gif)
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.
The Space Trader
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.
His Majesty Smith
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.
The Space Croppers
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.
All That Glitters
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.
The Lost Civilization
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!]
A Change Of Space
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.
Follow The Leader
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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