At 63, I still almost get a tear in my eye when I remember how as a kid I left "The Jupiter" outside one night, and when I woke up in the morning, the neighborhood dogs had turned it into so much styrofoam popcorn (rural area where most dogs didn't have collars, let alone chains)😢

Mattel made a lot of "Switch & Go" toy sets. They were smart enough to realize the basic setup, the "make your own track tubing," could easily be adapted to different toy themes.

I got this set from the Sears Christmas Wishbook in 1966. I played with it so much, I broke the chariot in a couple of months at most (the chariot had a weakness in that the wheel in front was hard, brittle plastic). I actually asked for it again the next year. The second set didn’t last much longer than the first, but I played make believe with it in my sandbox for a long time pretending it was a desert planet with the Jupiter 2 buried half-way like on the show. I guess it was probably my favorite toy ever considering how it’s impressed itself on my memory. 😊👍👌

@GrantTarredus

7 ай бұрын

I was born in 1960 and I’ve always remembered playing with the chariot. I don’t recall the rest of the play set and I didn’t know it had existed until a few months ago, but I suppose I must have had it because I’m unaware of any other Lost in Space chariot toy. I had the Remco robot also. I was a lucky boy.

@DoubleMrE

7 ай бұрын

@@GrantTarredus You we’re lucky. I never had the robot. 😔 BTW, I got a year on you. Born in 1959. 😉 Aloha from Hawaii ! 🤙🏽

@GrantTarredus

7 ай бұрын

@@DoubleMrE Aloha, brother! Love, peace and strength to you and yours.

@varanid9

6 ай бұрын

@@DoubleMrE I would STILL love to have that Remco robot!

@DoubleMrE

6 ай бұрын

@@varanid9 😊👍

It’s really remarkable just how much John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith’s composing careers ran literally side by side for most of their lives.

I love this show... my kids and I watch it on Sat on ME TV.

Johnny William's back in the 60s John in the 70s up. Loved that series, the stories had you on the edge and the sets were out of 5his world..b4 robot rules.🎉

Yes this was the best TV when I was younger. I loved watching this.

I wanted that set so bad when I was a kid! I loved "Lost in Space". Watching them now, they are so silly! 😂

@varanid9

6 ай бұрын

I remember staring at that set in the Sears catalogue constantly. Never got it, though. A lot of fans wish the show had remained serious, but, if it had, it would have been so dated by now. The silly shows are actually the best, at least in the final season, where some of them are laugh out loud funny, while most comedies from those days seem so lame today. I think the last one about the ice princess and the space bandito is the pinnacle of the show; the writers had to be dropping acid when they wrote that one. The one about the space cavemen, too.

I watched Lost In Space when it was originally on CBS when I was a kid I never got any of the Lost in Space toys since my parents did not have alot of money. But I always got what I really wanted for Christmas and being a huge superhero fan picked Captain Action with various costumes. I remember seeing the Lost in Space & Batman Switch n' Go sets in toy catalogs. I remember there were hardly any Lost In Space items but I still have the View Master reel set in mint condition. I also wanted Wild Wild West items as a kid but that show had just about nothing available. Some shows had tons of merchandise and others zero. Thanks for this video as I enjoyed seeing close up shots of this toy set ! 😂❤❤❤❤❤

i would have been in heaven with this playset back in the 60s , this show had a profound impact on me when i was a kid

@varanid9

6 ай бұрын

Same. I used to look longingly at the picture of this play set in the Sears catalogue. I think, though, that styrofoam J-2 would have sorely disappointed me if I had seen one in the flesh. The only thing I ever saw in person was the Robot toy in red and blue, but a snotty kid had it and I didn't feel like debasing myself to him, LOL. A bunch of boys were following him through the playground at school, though. I think I was 7 years old at the time.

I went in on that 90s movie line. It had some cool vehicles and figures! Man I love that John Williams did that theme. It makes total sense!

@davidpanetta6400

5 ай бұрын

Johnny William's first tv theme for Lost In Space was just the beginning of a long career for creating the best movie themes for the best movies for years to come !

Man... as a kid in the 70's I would've LOVED this playset!!

Obviously I don't pay much attention to the L.I.S theme but it was conducted but John Williams ? i'm speechless thank you Junkman

@allanbard6048

Жыл бұрын

No, JW wrote both themes, and a ton of score cues.

@LiSfan2000

Жыл бұрын

His season 3 theme is the best one.

@varanid9

6 ай бұрын

@@LiSfan2000 I actually prefer the original theme. When the show started out a bit darker and more dramatic, that crazy cartoonish theme made it seem like the universe was mocking their plight. I always found that counter-point intriguing. It went well with the iconic incidental music cues when they'd encounter some danger that, caught in a single image with word balloons, would have made a great "Far Side" comic ( "That's funny, I don't remember the way being so bumpy", as we see the chariot driving over giant footprints).

In the late 90's I went through a huge Irwin Allen phase. Lost in Space, the Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea... cable TV reruns were terrific in their heyday... weird to be nostalgic for a time when I was nostalgic for another time. Ah well. I still have the Robot toy with the motion censor. The slightest movement would set the thing off: shrill sirens! DANGER WILL ROBINSON! DANGER! More shrill sirens. It really messed up our cat.

@LiSfan2000

Жыл бұрын

Same, same. The '98 movie made me want to watch the show and so LiS became my new obsession. It was on the Sci-fi channel weekday mornings. That same year I saw Star Wars for the first time. I've loved science fiction fantasy ever since.

@varanid9

6 ай бұрын

@@LiSfan2000 No wonder. You were introduced to it by the most iconic franchises. Original and Next Gen Trek and the original serialized Doctor Who are great as well.

@varanid9

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, in spite of their glaring flaws, the ideas and imagery were so cool on Allen's shows. Voyage was the very first show I can remember watching back when I could barely speak. It really fascinated me as a child. By the time I was in high school, though, Allen was the disaster movie king and had left sci-fi behind, much to my chagrin. Back in the '70s, there were no VCRs or internet to immortalize things. When shows were cancelled, people just went on to whatever was new. For some reason LIS was hardly ever rerun in Florida until later in the decade and I remember feeling like my childhood had been relegated to the basement. But these days, man, everything has enjoyed a revival. I can't believe people much younger than me enshrine old movies like "Jaws" and "Star Wars". When I was a kid, movies that old would have been considered antiques. I was considered nerdy for loving '50s monster flicks.

The show had two great theme music pieces from John Williams, as they changed it between two of the seasons.

@allanbard6048

Жыл бұрын

The first 2 CD release had so much JW music, it's on a cd by it's self. 2nd season theme-alsoJW-got me pumped at four years old.

@stephentucker6548

Жыл бұрын

That man was a creative power-house. Didn't know he went by 'Johnny' back then though!

@arielfilmsinc1926

Жыл бұрын

@@stephentucker6548 He wrote incidental music for the show as well. Possibly the music in Mr Nobody is the most iconic

I sure wish that toy was still made today, it looks like a lot of fun. John Williams composed both the themes, the 3rd season was another theme that JW composed for it. He also composed the underscore for the first few episodes of the series. Fun fact: JW also did the original theme for Gilligan’s Island (only for the pilot) and the first few episodes of season 1. Thanks for this path to memory lane. Lost is Space is one of those shows that I continue to watch to this very day.

@sherwoodcrump3716

5 ай бұрын

John (or Johnny, as he was known at the time) Williams also composed the themes for Land of the Giants and The Time Tunnel.

@JediHangout

5 ай бұрын

Yup. I know all this catalog. Including his concert music. Not only did I do some composition workshops with him but I also did several papers on him during my doctoral studies. He is one the the great masters (if not the most) of film music of the late 20th century.

@That Junkman Three years before Irwin Allen produced the primetime television show ''Lost in Space''. There was an original science-fiction comic-book series that was published by (Gold Key Comics) titled ''Space Family Robinson''. Which lasted a total of 59 issues, from 1962 to 1982. When ''Lost in Space'' first premiered in 1965. ''Gold Key's'' publishers noticed the similarities between the comic books and the show. Gold Key even considered filing suit. But decided against it! As Gold Key, was at that time publishing a comic-book series based on Irwin Allen's TV show ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea''. Both ''Space Family Robinson'' and ''Lost in Space'' are loosely based on (Johann David Wyss's) 1812 classic novel ''The Swiss Family Robinson''.

@Sammy_Boy_Smith

5 ай бұрын

I use to have bunch of gold key comics. Not these, but I can't exactly remember.... Rich rich? Duck tales? No not Disney, tho they obviously let another co. Produce

@Sammy_Boy_Smith

5 ай бұрын

Th lost in space 90's movie, had a bad ass ending credit music. It was the techno version theme song. I had it on a mixed burnt DVD with other crazy stuff. JS

I am a Lost In Space supergeek! I watched it in the 60s and throughout the decades whenever I could find it in syndication. It's my favorite show of all time. I'm getting up there in age now (60) and the coolest thing my son (30) got me for my birthday last year was a model of the Robot which was the same model I built back in the 70s when I was a kid. It displays the robot on a rock outcropping shooting his blaster ray at the ground. And he also got me a model of the Space Pod which I never had as a kid! I never saw any of these other LiS toys but I would have loved playing with them back in the day.

Mom and Dad bought this for me! God I loved it. I don't recall what happened to it but it was awesome while I had it. The J2 wasn't plastic, it was made out of star form.

That does look really cool. It seems odd Mego never made Lost In Space action figures. Maybe if that cartoon had been picked up they would have.

I would have loved this. But the only thing I ever got, and surprisingly, still exists after over 50 years, was the Lost in Space model kit with Professor Robinson, Major West, Will throwing a rock, Judy and Penny running, and the creature.

@varanid9

6 ай бұрын

I always wanted that, too, because of the chariot and the cyclops. Didn't it also have a little robot?

I remember this Lost In Space play set! It was at Sears toy department. I wanted it, and I never got it! Junkman, did you bring back memories! Thanks for this!

@davidpanetta6400

5 ай бұрын

I feel bad to tell you tell you this, but my dad worked for Sears back then and bought the Lost In Space spaceship which came with the chariot. It was a Christmas present, but a couple years later, he lost his job and we moved into an apartment. Fortunately, for Christmas in 1970, he got me a color tv which was much better than getting toys. 😊

@theequalizer9154

5 ай бұрын

@@davidpanetta6400 That's a great story! Your dad was a good man, and a good dad. Thank you for telling it

@davidpanetta6400

5 ай бұрын

@@theequalizer9154 Everyone has their ups and downs, but I appreciate your reply. When were you born? And do you have any fond memories at Christmas time?

@theequalizer9154

5 ай бұрын

@@davidpanetta6400 Every Christmas I had, all were great, except one. I lost someone close to me that one Christmas, Christmas Eve in fact. Never forgot the person, and it makes you appreciate each and every day having known that person, especially on the holidays. My favorite of holidays is Christmas, especially now, when I spend it with my children. As a boy, my favorite toy of all was a Flintstone's Dinosaur Crane, with Fred Flintstone on the top. It looked just like the cartoon. It was covered with cloth material that looked like dinosaur skin with spots. Under the material, it was made of metal, and it was well made. It was also electronic. If you switched the slide button, the dinosaur would walk on its own. Something I have learned, from that person now gone; appreciate each and every day. There is always an upside, ALWAYS.

It has been a LOOONG time since he was listed as 'Johnny' Williams!

Had to like that Robot. A very impractical one at that. It had giant claw hooks for hands that limited its uses and then to add to the problems of any imminent danger it would whip those heavy metal claws around haphazardly . At least the robot announced a danger or was it merely announcing it's own danger it was imposing flailing about.

@bladestar2322

Жыл бұрын

He could shoot electric bolts though. Unfortunately he rarely did it. And most of those were in the first season. I can really only remember him doing it once in season 3. I have the complete series so I could check again.

@varanid9

6 ай бұрын

I hated that he was dangerous when the script writers needed him to be, and totally useless at other times. As a kid I felt so humiliated when that walking suit of armor knocked him to pieces in the ring in that season 3 episode. I was so sure the robot was going to destroy that knight, LOL.

@stevedenis8292

6 ай бұрын

Even as a kids we seemed to notice somthing a little off with DR. Smith. @@varanid9

I got this for Christmas back in the day. It was so cool. I also had some other switch N go car play sets, so I had enough of that yellow tubing track to go through a few rooms of the house.

Loved Lost In Space as a kid, and received this playset for Christmas one year. Didn't use the Switch N Go aspect much, just played with the various components. The characters, I believe were silver. Sadly, the Jupiter 2's top section broke in half and had to be taped together. That is all long gone but I do have the Johnny Lightning miniature replica of the Jupiter 2, along with the Space Pod, Chariot & the Robot

I had the Switch & Go Set and the Robot and played with both for hours a day for many years.

I remember when they redid the movie in the 90s.....my little brother had the newer version of the robots toy....was a dark blue with treads and it got taller with the push of a button..was pretty decent.

Lost In Space Is Totally My Favorite Show Of All Time💥

I had this as a kid and LOVED it! Huge Lost in Space fan! Totally forgot about this until I saw this vid!

@varanid9

6 ай бұрын

Damn, I would have been soooo envious! This and the "Strange Change Machine" were my dream toys as a kid. Got the latter (2 of them, in fact), but never got the LIS play set.

I was a lucky younger brother, lived in Inglewood and Mattel was in Hawthorne. My oldest brothers best friend lived down the street and his father worked at Mattel, they got a lot of prototype toys to play with. For Xmas when this came out, my brother managed to get through his friend, this, plus the tank battle, and the race car sets ot Switch and Go, for me. Had amazing and huge layouts to play with then. I know I had it stored away for years, but unfortunately they're now lost to time.

Out cheesing Star Trek the original series, Lost in Space went the full soufflé of cheese. I think my strongest memory is Dr. Smith teaching the robot to dance to ‘Tiptoe through the Tulips’. Oh and that one with the Pied Piper. And the carrot man! They really don’t make them like it any more.

My brother and I had the "Lost in Space" Roto Jet Gun. Of course, we played with it outside and quicly lost all (3?) of the flying rotors, but we kept playing with the guns, especially the "pistol" part, for years.

Just some FYI it wasn't BLOOP it was Debbie... Bloop is the sound it made....lol and it was Penny's pet..

John Williams wrote the theme song for lost in space. Pretty cool huh?

John Williams also did music for Gilligan's Island (but not the theme song).

I had one when I was little. Had a great time with it for several years.

I didn't have the Playset, but I had, and I still do have, the model kit of the Father, Major West, Will Robinson, Penny and Judy, and the Monster! Surprisingly still intact after over 50 years! The only thing is, I painted the hair and hands of Will Robinson blue, and I positioned the arm a little bit so that the arm was straighter. If you wanted to play Super Heroes you had to be creative. So Will became 'Electric Boy' and Judy and Penny were rare Heroines, and, since they were in running poses, Speedsters.

Nice seeing that again after I got it for Christmas all those decades ago.

I had this set. The Styrofoam Jupiter 2 was horribly in accurate and extremely delicate. Still, loads of fun to play with.

@varanid9

6 ай бұрын

I never got it, but, decades later, learning that the J2 was styrofoam, I think I would have been sorely disappointed with it.

@jaydee5156

6 ай бұрын

@@varanid9 No, they didn't hold up well at all. My sister was a toddler and completely destroyed mine within the first couple of months.

I was given the B9 robot for Christmas shortly after Remco released it. After that I had to wait until 1997 to purchase the new Jupiter 2 from the movie. With that came the re-release of the original Jupiter 2 and the B9 robot. They are all amazing it's just a shame fans of the series had to wait 50 years for them to be re-tooled.

I love LiS. Next to Star Wars, it's my favorite science fiction fantasy franchise.

Had it. Loved it. Never got through track to work very well. I thought it was clever the way you rotated the top so the window became the top of the garage to get the rover out.

i had one of these sets when I was a kid. Great fun.

Never fear, Smyth is here!

I got the styrofoam jupiter 2 which came with the chariot for Christmas in 1968. My older brother set ot it up for the chariot to carry messages from our bedroom to my other two brothers room. We were having fun until our mother got up and took the chariot away because the noise of the chariot and us laughing was disturbing her sleep. It was a cool toy that I received for Christmas that year, but when we moved to an apartment two years later, I no longer had cool toys, but had a portable color tv which opened my eyes to all the cool tv shows and movies which kept me up until 1:30 am. 😊

I don't remember Toys for Lost In Space, But there were Plastic Model Kits from Aurora. One of the Jupiter-2 Spaceship and another of the Giant Cyclops Monster from an early episode.

I tried to get my parents to get that for me for Christmas when I was a child, but they thought the show was silly and it never happened.

@varanid9

6 ай бұрын

That's pretty much the same with me back then. The best I could manage was staring at the picture in the Sears catalogue.

That weird looking little REMCO robot looks so cool. Would prefer that to a screen accurate version. Didn't they even feature in the show? I seem to remember a bunch of little ones on a rock invading the Space family Robinson at some point.

@varanid9

6 ай бұрын

Yup. That's why I've always wanted one of these Remco robots, because it would feel like I owned a piece of the show.

Lost In Space was not intended to be sci-fi. It was a family adventure show set within a science fiction setting. Enjoyed the vid.

I had that! Lots of fun...1966

Wow! I've never seen this before!

The Family Pet’s Name was “Debbie” and NOT “Gloop”. Even in the Movie it was called “Debbie” too.

i had this playset as a child

That looks cool now would have been awesome back in the day.

we had a weird looking white rifle gun when i was little, i wonder if it was the Lost in Space one

I had this set as a kid. I loved it, but as I recall the Jupiter 2 didn't last long. 😆

I liked❤the movie from the 90's...🤘🏼💯✔️

danger! danger!

I remember I asked for this for Christmas in 66. It sold out and I was shut out.

The RoTo Jet Gun is actually MORE RARE than the Switch N Go set. All the Lost in Space toys - were FLAWED and short lived. Only the ROBOT had a long life. They over produced him and even AFTER the show was off the air - parents could buy him at a reduced price in like 1969/70. You guys of the Star Wars generation ..HAD IT EASY !! Vintage Lost in Space toys were expensive as far back as the early 1980s .

I just looked it up Ebay has one for over 1500. WOW!

Actually the show was canceled when dr smith was caught in a compromising position in the episode “ planet of the young boys “.

Johnny Williams lol

1:33 - I have that black and orange one. A little beat up from many years of play, but still intact. 2:04 - What is that robot in the back? At first I thought it was the Johnny Lightning diecast version, but the body and arms don't match. Is it one of the talking keychains?

Gloop was from Herculoids!

I thought "Lost In Space" came out first.

The toys were made the company that didn't see LOST IN SPACE .. Trandmarster the same

I saw this toy on a FB page the other day. Looks really cool, but how did it work?

@ThatJunkman

Жыл бұрын

it kind of just rode along the rubber tube

@BostLabs

Жыл бұрын

@@ThatJunkman Yeah, that is what I remember. There were some of the monsters as cardboard cutouts that you could cause the chariot to shoot its missiles at with the pump. Loved that thing. :)

Very cool for any time period. I wish you spent more time focused on the set though.

@LiSfan2000

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'd like to know what it did/how it worked. I'd also like a video on the Remco Robot. It's always been my favorite piece of LiS merch.

2:57 There were two themes.

It was a leaky mess that didn't work most times. Not up there with my greatest "Toy" disappointment but, It's up there.

@steveschunk5702

6 ай бұрын

It was tricky getting the tubing to lay flat - a hardwood floor and tape helped.

i like the John WIlliams theme song better, it was in the third season i think when the opening sequence was in color

@ThatJunkman

Жыл бұрын

He did both

Judy was smoking hot.

Oh dear!! ROBOT!!! ROBOT!!! Where are you... you G@Y thing? Major grabs Smith and says... WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? NOW WE'RE GOING TO BE DEMONITIZED... John: Will you two cut out ... hey get a room already...uh, yes.. Sgt.Garcia: ZORROS... YOU ARE THE ZORROS...I CAUGHT THE ZORROS.. (Giant numbers appear and the theme music starts...)

@johnbockelie3899

Жыл бұрын

John Williams also composed the other Irwin Allen shows " The Time Tunnel" , also " The Land of the Giants."

Mom bought me this for Christmas in 1966 from the Sears catalog. But honestly, even a 9 year old knew this was utter garbage. Horribly out of proportion with a cheap brittle styrofoam Jupiter 2. I lost interest this piece of crap within hours. The next year, I got a Johnny Astro. Now that was an impressive device. And, I still have it to this day.

thumbs down only for the excessive yelling at the end of the video. in what world did you think that would benefit the video.

@ThatJunkman

6 ай бұрын

It got you to comment so win