"were prodigies, and Don West was identified as a doctor of geology. The pilot did not include later series regulars Dr. Zachary Smith or the Robot, and featured no scary monsters. It was instead about the adventures of the Robinsons, a happy family. The cooperative, friendly family depicted in the pilot were somewhat less so in the series, and still more different from the dysfunctional space family depicted in the 1998 spin-off motion picture. The theme music for this pilot was taken from the 1951 film ""The Day the Earth Stood Still"". Nearly all of the footage from the pilot"
"of Dr. Smith by Gary Oldman in the 1998 film version, who played the role as a more genuinely menacing and less likeable character than Harris's on television. For the 2018 reboot of ""Lost in Space"" as a Netflix original series, Parker Posey was cast as Dr. Zachary Smith, a female sociopath using a stolen identity to assume the role of the ship's psychologist. In the mid-1970s, Harris starred in live-action roles in two Saturday morning children's series, ""Space Academy"" and ""Uncle Croc's Block"", and was a well-known TV spokesman for the International House of Pancakes. He made several cameo"
"Dr. Zachary Smith, the evil and conniving double agent on ""Lost in Space"". The character did not appear in the original 1965 pilot episode for CBS, nor did The Robot. The series was already in production when Harris joined the cast, and starring/co-starring billing had already been contractually assigned. Harris successfully negotiated to receive ""Special Guest Star"" billing on every episode. Bill Mumy said about Harris' role in his first episode, ""It was actually implied that this villainous character that sabotaged the mission and ended up with us was going to be killed off after a while."" Mumy added, ""Jonathan"
"Jonathan Harris Jonathan Harris (born Jonathan Daniel Charasuchin; November 6, 1914 – November 3, 2002) was an American character actor whose career included more than 500 television and movie appearances, as well as voiceovers. Two of his best-known roles were as the timid accountant Bradford Webster in the television version of ""The Third Man"" and the fussy villain Dr. Zachary Smith of the 1960s science fiction series ""Lost in Space"". Near the end of his career, he provided voices for the animated features ""A Bug's Life"" and ""Toy Story 2"". The second of three children, Harris was born to a"
"goodhearted naivete, he saw only the good in the people around him. His biggest problems were his fellow bellhop Eddie (Gary Crosby), who was constantly trying to get Jose to wise up; the less-than-understanding hotel manager Mr. Phillips (Jonathan Harris, who would soon play Dr. Smith on ""Lost in Space"") and the bumbling hotel detective Byron Glick (Don Adams, in a predecessor to the character he would play on ""Get Smart""). In the second season, Maggie Peterson played Susie, a waitress in the hotel's coffee shop. Walter Mitty-like dream sequences were occasionally used to extricate Jose from the hotel environment."
"Mark Goddard Mark Goddard (born Charles Harvey Goddard; July 24, 1936) is an American actor who has starred in a number of television programs. He is probably best known for portraying Major Don West, the adversary of Dr. Zachary Smith (played by Jonathan Harris), in the CBS series ""Lost in Space"" (1965-68). He also played Detective Sgt. Chris Ballard , ""The Detectives"", starring Robert Taylor. Charles Harvey Goddard was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the youngest of five children, and grew up in Scituate. He was raised Catholic. He led both his high school baseball and basketball teams to the state"
"Mr Smith (The Sarah Jane Adventures) Mr Smith is a fictional extraterrestrial computer voiced by Alexander Armstrong which appears in the British children's science fiction television series, ""The Sarah Jane Adventures"", with further minor appearances in the final two episodes of the fourth series of ""Doctor Who"". He is installed in the attic of Sarah Jane Smith's home, and is used to hack into other systems; Sarah Jane asserts that he can hack ""into anything"". He first appeared in ""Invasion of the Bane"", the 2007 New Year's Day première special, and has appeared in all the stories except ""The Eternity"
"Anspach, brought two children to their marriage. Mark Goddard Mark Goddard (born Charles Harvey Goddard; July 24, 1936) is an American actor who has starred in a number of television programs. He is probably best known for portraying Major Don West, the adversary of Dr. Zachary Smith (played by Jonathan Harris), in the CBS series ""Lost in Space"" (1965-68). He also played Detective Sgt. Chris Ballard , ""The Detectives"", starring Robert Taylor. Charles Harvey Goddard was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the youngest of five children, and grew up in Scituate. He was raised Catholic. He led both his high school"
"fondness for jelly babies. Growing frustrated by the humans' distrust of him, the Doctor asks both Amy and Cleaves' Gangers to refer to him as ""John Smith"". This is an alias the Doctor has used on several occasions, beginning with ""The Wheel in Space"" (1968). Matthew Graham was originally scheduled to write a single episode for the previous series, but withdrew because he did not have enough time to finish the script. Showrunner Steven Moffat e-mailed him asking for him to write for the next series, and Graham agreed. When the two met, Moffat said he would like the episodes"
"footage, particularly from ""Hell and High Water"", ""The Enemy Below"" and Allen's ""The Lost World"". Allen had originally intended ""Lost in Space"" (1965–68, CBS TV) to be a family show, a science fiction version of ""The Swiss Family Robinson"". It quickly developed into a children's show with episodes concentrating on the young Will Robinson, the robot and especially the comic villain Dr. Smith. The show popularized several science fiction elements that have since become widespread, such as the comic robot (e.g. ""Silent Running"", ""Star Wars"") or android (""Logan's Run"", """"), the heroic child (""Voyagers!"", Wesley Crusher), and the wacky lovable"
"allowing Clyde and Rani to take their place. In one timeline, Mr Smith will ""die"" several years before 2059. Mr Smith (The Sarah Jane Adventures) Mr Smith is a fictional extraterrestrial computer voiced by Alexander Armstrong which appears in the British children's science fiction television series, ""The Sarah Jane Adventures"", with further minor appearances in the final two episodes of the fourth series of ""Doctor Who"". He is installed in the attic of Sarah Jane Smith's home, and is used to hack into other systems; Sarah Jane asserts that he can hack ""into anything"". He first appeared in ""Invasion of"
"Mickey Smith Mickey Smith is a fictional character portrayed by Noel Clarke in the British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". The character is introduced as the ordinary, working class boyfriend of Rose Tyler (Billie Piper), a London shopgirl who becomes a travelling companion to the Ninth and Tenth incarnations of an alien Time Lord known as the Doctor. Mickey first appears in the first episode of the 2005 revival, ""Rose"". Initially someone who struggles in the face of danger, Mickey nevertheless acts as an Earth-based ally to the Doctor and Rose. In the second series he joins the pair"
"his friend and acting mentor offscreen and their onscreen connection while working in character as Will Robinson and Dr. Smith onscreen, in ""Lost in Space"". Mumy noted: ""I never really had too many uncomfortable moments working with any actor. I was comfortable working with most everybody. It’s just the more that Jonathan and I did together, the more he changed the character. He really changed the character of Dr. Smith himself. He really turned him from a snarling saboteur villain to this bumbling insulting kook. The more he played it for comedy, the more Irwin Allen liked it. The show"
"played by Elinor Donahue. Goddard's next role was for the three seasons of ""Lost in Space"" (1965–68), in which he played Major Don West. The original 1965 pilot was much different from the pilot that aired and the episodes that followed in the actual series. A blossoming romance existed between Don West and Judy, the elder daughter of the Robinson family, but it did not extend further than the first season. By the middle of the second season, the show took on a more comic tone. Plots increasingly drew on the mishaps of Dr. Zachary Smith (Jonathan Harris) and his"
"Sarah Jane Smith Sarah Jane Smith is a fictional character played by Elisabeth Sladen in the long-running BBC Television science fiction series ""Doctor Who"" and two of its spin-offs. In the fictional universe of ""Doctor Who"" and its spin-offs, Sarah Jane is a dogged investigative journalist who first encounters alien time traveller the Doctor while trying to break a story on a top secret research facility, and subsequently becomes his travelling companion on a series of adventures spanning the breadth of space and time. After travelling with the Doctor in four seasons of the show they suddenly part ways, and"
"insistence, Liz also stays on as his assistant. The Doctor tells Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart that his name is Doctor John Smith, an alias first used in ""The Wheel in Space"". The working title of the serial was ""Facsimile"", and was based on a story that Robert Holmes wrote for the 1965 film ""Invasion"", which featured an alien crashing in the woods near a rural hospital, where a medical examination reveals his alien nature. The hospital is later visited by other aliens, seeking a fugitive criminal. Some of the exact lines of dialogue used by human doctors to describe the physiology of"
"of ""Lost in Space"" (""The Ghost Planet"", 1966), the Robot (Bob May, voice of Dick Tufeld) sings two verses of ""Santa Lucia,"" accompanied by Will Robinson (Billy Mumy). The Robot's voice suddenly drops off at the end of the second stanza, rousing Dr. Zachary Smith (Jonathan Harris) from his daydreams. ""You bubble-headed booby! I was about to land on the isle of Capri; now I'll never get there!"" Smith exclaims, berating the Robot. The problem, Will explains, is that the Robot's tapes are wearing out. Dick Tufeld did the actual singing on this sequence, as Billy Mumy played his guitar."
"Twilight Zone"", ""Thriller"", ""Adam-12"", ""The Doris Day Show"", ""Father Knows Best"", ""The Dukes of Hazzard"", ""The Untouchables"", ""MacGyver"", ""Mr. Belvedere"", ""The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"" and ""The Mary Tyler Moore Show."" He played Dr. Smith's cousin in a 1966 episode of CBS's ""Lost In Space"", ""Curse Of Cousin Smith"", and alongside R.J. Hoferkamp in the 1968 made-for-television western movie ""Something for a Lonely Man"". In 1967 he guest starred in the episode ""A Time to Die"" of the Sci-Fi TV show ""Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea""'s 4th season. Starting in 1974, he guest starred three times"
"Dr. Smith character. Whether Williams retired to Argentina after the end of the series. In 1995, Kevin Burns produced a documentary showcasing the career of Irwin Allen, hosted by Bill Mumy and June Lockhart in a recreation of the ""Jupiter 2"" exterior set. Mumy and Lockhart utilize the ""Celestial Department Store Ordering Machine"" as a temporal conduit to show information and clips on Allen's history. Clips from Allen's various productions as well as pilots for his unproduced series were presented along with new interviews with cast members of Allen's shows. Mumy and Lockhart complete their presentation and enter the ""Jupiter"
"Space Ghost referred to him as ""Mr. Lost in Space himself, Joel Robinson"".) Joel Robinson Joel Robinson is a fictional character featured in the American science fiction comedy television series ""Mystery Science Theater 3000"" (""MST3K""). He was portrayed by series creator Joel Hodgson. The show's theme song explains Joel's backstory: Formerly a janitor and inventor for Gizmonic Institute, Joel was launched into space by his boss Dr. Clayton Forrester and co-worker Dr. Laurence Erhardt – later replaced by TV's Frank – as part of an experiment to see which bad movies were capable of destroying the human mind. Joel built"
"house detective, a character whose distinctive mannerisms and catchphrases would soon carry over into his Maxwell Smart role on ""Get Smart"". In similar fashion, several of Harris's tropes from the series, such as ""Oh, the pain!"", along with the character's mannerisms and delivery, became part of the Dr. Zachary Smith character on ""Lost in Space"". In an apparent homage to his earlier role, Harris played a similarly pompous diplomat on ""Get Smart"" in 1970. His female assistant was named Zachary. Harris also guest-starred on ""The Ghost & Mrs. Muir"". Harris was cast over two other actors for the role of"
"storm of asteroids. This, plus the robot's rampage, causes the ship to prematurely engage its hyperdrive, and causes the expedition to become hopelessly lost in the infinite depths of outer space. Smith's selfish actions and laziness frequently endanger the expedition; however, Smith's role assumes less sinister overtones in later parts of the series. The astronaut family of Dr. John Robinson, accompanied by a pilot and a robot, set out in the year 1997 from an overpopulated Earth in the spaceship ""Jupiter 2"" to travel to a planet circling the star Alpha Centauri. The ""Jupiter 2"" mission is sabotaged by Dr."
"normalized score of 58 out of 100 based on 27 critics, indicating ""mixed or average reviews"". David Griffin of IGN gave the first season a rating of 8.5/10, calling it ""an excellent sci-fi adventure with a slight villain problem,"" giving particular praise to the Robinson family, while criticizing Parker Posey's Dr. Smith as an unsophisticated and one-dimensional character who lacks redeeming qualities. In contrast, Jen Chaney of ""Vulture"" characterized Posey's performance as providing ""understated, sly comedic touches"". Lost in Space (2018 TV series) Lost in Space is an American science fiction television series based on a reimagining of the 1965"
"According to the series In one first season episode, Dr. Smith was seen to remove the robot's programming tapes, which resemble a small reel of magnetic tape, from a hatch below the robot's chest panel. Two versions of the robot were used during ""Lost in Space"" filming – a ""hero robot"" costume worn by Bob May, and a static, ""stunt robot"" prop that was used for distant or hazardous shots. Both versions fell into disrepair after the series, but these have since been discovered and restored. The ""hero"" is privately owned by TV and film producer Kevin Burns, who commissioned"
"of janitor Joel Robinson, shooting him into space on board the ""Satellite of Love"". According to the show's mythos, Dr. Forrester (full name: Clayton Deborah Susan Forrester, perhaps because his mother wanted a daughter; he has referred to himself as Clayton ""Stonewall"" Forrester and Clayton ""Firebrand"" Forrester) had been a mad scientist ever since his youth, when he was a member of Evilos (a mad scientist version of Webelos), where he grafted the rear end of a dog onto the rear end of a cat; he has traced his scientific ambitions back to ""Oslo...I was found drunk and woozy...scratching the"
"Dr. Clayton Forrester (Mystery Science Theater 3000) Dr. Clayton Deborah Susan Forrester is a fictional character on the television series ""Mystery Science Theater 3000"" (""MST3K""). Named for the hero of the 1953 film ""The War of the Worlds"", Dr. Forrester was the chief mad scientist on the show from its inception in 1988 through the seventh season in 1996, and also appeared in """" in 1996. He was played by Trace Beaulieu. Forrester originally worked with fellow ""mad"" Dr. Laurence Erhardt at the Gizmonic Institute, until they moved their operations to the bowels of Deep 13. He engineered the kidnapping"
"Lost in the Stratosphere Lost in the Stratosphere is a 1934 American aviation drama film directed by Melville W. Brown and starring William Cagney, Edward J. Nugent, and June Collyer. In one of his few roles in front of the cameras, Cagney was the lookalike younger brother of James Cagney. In the mid-1930s, in the early days of military aviation, an era of open cockpits and biplanes, two U.S. Army pilots, in a friendly rivalry, are always trying to get the best of each other. 2nd Lt. Tom Cooper (William Cagney) gets the nickname ""Soapy"", from his friend, 1st Lt."
"""who""). The Master was utilising Latin translation in the same serial, posing as ""Mr Magister"". The Eighth Doctor's companion Grace briefly refers to him by the alias ""Dr. Bowman"" in the 1996 ""Doctor Who"" television movie. In ""The Wheel in Space"" (1968), his companion Jamie McCrimmon, reading the name on medical equipment, tells the crew of the Wheel that the Doctor's name is ""John Smith"". The Doctor subsequently adopts this alias numerous times over the course of the programme, sometimes prefixing the title ""Doctor"" to it. In the audio adventure, ""The Sirens of Time"", when the Fifth Doctor is asked"
"the island's many mysteries. Ethan Rom Dr. Ethan Goodspeed, also known as Ethan Rom, is a fictional character portrayed by William Mapother on the ABC television show ""Lost"". Introduced in the first season as the main antagonist, Ethan is the surgeon for the antagonistic and mysterious group known as the ""Others"". He infiltrated the fuselage survivors, posing as one of them until they discovered his true identity. He then kidnapped Charlie Pace and the pregnant Claire Littleton, attempting to dispose of the former soon after. Ethan is one of the few characters to have more episode appearances while his character"
"the only person in the world he would allow to do that. Although he was considered something of a cult icon for the role of Dr. Smith, Harris became typecast as a fey and sometimes campy villain. For example, Irwin Allen cast Harris as a villainous ""Pied Piper"" in an episode of ""Land of the Giants"". Approached by Allen a second time, to star in a children's series, ""Jumbalina and the Teeners"", Harris turned it down. In 1970, Harris played the role of another not-so-likeable villain, the Bulmanian Ambassador in the ""Get Smart"" episode ""How Green Was My Valet"". Harris"
"needs to go. Sampson is not happy with it. Mr. Smith named himself after Valentine Michael Smith from the book ""Stranger in a Strange Land"". Mr. Smith does another live autopsy on Abel Sante. On the way to Paris, Pierce reviews notes and tries to determine what kind of a person Mr. Smith really is. Upon reaching Paris and checking into a hotel, Pierce reads his e mail from Mr. Smith and tells him where to find the doctor's body. Pierce is accompanied by an Interpol agent named Sandy Greenberg. In the email, Mr. Smith tells Pierce not to trust"
"called a ""Krankenhaus"", or literally ""sick house"". Dr. Kronkheit (played by Dale, ""not"" Smith as is sometimes reported) is greeted by skeptical patient Smith: SMITH: Are you a doctor?<br> DALE: I'm a doctor.<br> SMITH: I'm dubious.<br> DALE: I'm glad to know you, Mr. Dubious. Most of the sketch has Dr. Kronkheit trying to determine the patient's problem: SMITH: Look at this, doctor.<br> DALE: Look at --- oh, that there? Did you ever have that before?<br> SMITH: Yes, I did.<br> DALE: Well, you got it again! SMITH: I can't sleep at night. I walk around all night.<br> DALE: Ah! You're a"
"a black man in a koala body, Reginald Koala—known for his very urban mannerisms and behaviors. As another example, since the 9th season episode """", Jeff Fischer has been absent from the Smith house and planet Earth altogether. In that episode, Jeff is blindsided when Roger hurls him into a spaceship. This spacecraft belongs to Roger's race of aliens and was intended to return him back to his birth planet; however, Roger remains behind after casting Jeff into the spaceship. The spaceship immediately takes off and Jeff is not seen until several episodes later, the episode ""Lost in Space"". During"