Home video review: Blast off with 'Lost in Space' on Blu-ray

October 10, 2015 at 7:40PM
The 1960s TV series Lost in Space featured, from left, pilot Don West (Mark Goddard), mother Maureen Robinson (June Lockhart), father John Robinson (Guy Williams), son Will Robinson (Billy Mumy), daughter Penny Robinson (Angela Cartwright), the conniving Dr. Smith (Jonathan Harris) and daughter Judy Robinson (Marta Kristen)--and the Robot (Bob May, with voice by Dick Tufeld).
The space family Robinson in “Lost in Space.” (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Blast off with the Robinsons

Check out "Lost in Space" fans' episode-by-­episode ratings on the Internet Movie Database, and you'll see what begins as a hip 1960s sci-fi series spiral into Saturday morning inanity — even though it never left prime time. But that endearing campiness is exactly why the 50th-anniversary Blu-ray, the 18-disc "The Complete Adventures" (Fox, $200), is such a blast. With all 83 episodes remastered in high-def, you can almost see the strings behind the cheap special effects and sets. The loads of extras include cast commentary on some episodes and a reading of a script that updates the space-faring Robinson family's adventures. A shoo-in for baby boomers' holiday wish lists.

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