World Famous Comics: Land of the Lost: The Complete Series
Land of the Lost: The Complete Series
Starring: John Lambert (II), Bill Laimbeer, Van Snowden, Sharon Baird, Richard Kiel Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Label: Rhino Theatrical Number of Items: 8 Region Code: 1 Release Date: December 06, 2005 Running Time: 1080 minutes Theatrical Release Date: September 07, 1974
Product Description: Marshall Will and Holly may have been on a routine expedition when they entered the Land of the Lost but there was nothing routine about Sid & Marty Krofft's vision for this groundbreaking Saturday morning television series of the 1970s. Joining acclaimed science-fiction writers like David Gerrold Larry Niven D.C. Fontana Norman Spinrad and Theodore Sturgeon with cutting edge makeup and visual effects teams the Kroffts raised the bar for sophisticated intelligent and entertaining programming. The result was a fantastic odyssey on the planet of Altrusia filled with dinosaurs Sleedstak Pakunis and visitors from alternate dimensions. The Marshall family-Rick Will Holly and later Uncle Jack-were strangers in a stranger land but they survived by their wits compassion and sense of humor. Includes all 43 original uncut episodes on 8 discs.System Requirements:Running Time: 18 hoursFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSICS UPC: 603497050727 Manufacturer No: 970507
The 1970's..... Marshall, Will, and Holly on a routine Blaah, Blaah, and Blaah. This was real weekend television programing. It looks like a show made in the 70's. However that is no a complement. It was a show that made no one famous.
Land of the Lost.......a Revival movie in the works? If you have been to the "official" Land of the Lost Website recently, (not really sure if it's official or not) you are probably aware that supposedly Universal is producing a movie for next year, supposedly starring Will Farrell as Rick Marshall. The scoop is that the original story will be retold with a few changes to fit in the modern era. Will and Holly will no longer be the children of Rick, but rather his associates. Other than that, no major changes, except we can at least hope that the dinosaurs are at least Jurassic Park quality (hey it's Universal, they probably are using unused footage from JP) and not the cheezy clay models used in the original show. The character of Cha-Ka is back, and supposely the sleestak are more like the ones in the original show as suggested by a photo on the website from the set, and not the lizards portrayed in the 90's series of the same name. I am growing quite tired of (bad) remakes and retelling of the familiar stories, with the exception of the new Battlestar Galactica series. Perhaps Sid and Marty should look for a new story and maybe perhaps, tell the story that gets Will, Holly, and Uncle Jack Marshall back home (I have one that I wrote in 10th grade if they are interested). If the rumors are true, this comedy (If its Will Farrell, then it must be designed to be a comedy, at least that's what most will expect) can only ruin one of the best (and cheeziest)SCI-FI series of all time. I guess we will have to wait another year to see. It supposedly opens next July.
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I purchased this video because i watched it as a child. This video takes me back to saturday mornings when i was a child laying on the living room floor watching to see what happens that week.
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A minor sci-fi classic I was just a little too young to watch this program during its original 1974-77 run, but NBC continued to broadcast the reruns of the program throughout 1977 and '78, and by then, at the age of about 10, I started watching in and was quite the fan at that time. Then the show went of the air by the time I was about 12, and I never saw a rerun of it again until just a few weeks ago when I purchased this set.
Recovering from a foot surgery about a month ago, I I had bought it specifically to kill time while recovering and I actually watched the entire series in the spce of two chair-ridden days. I was surprised how much I remembered about some of the plots, considering it has been about 28 years or more since I last saw any of the episodes, but that fact in itself bespeaks how well written some of the episodes were -- well enough written for the plots to stay in the memory banks for all that time.
Obviously the technology at the time (and the budget) means that the special effects seem primitive, especially the dinosaurs and the Sleestak costumes. But in other aspects, the artificially created landscapes actually still hold up quite well, and trick camera work mostly works.
The four things that really make this a minor classic are (1) the well written plots of many (though not all) of the episodes of the first two seasons. (2) The well conceived continuity of the storylines, shwoing how the family gradually adapts to the environment and learns about the world they have been tossed into. (3) A very well thought out and well rounded system of laws and technology that govern the nature of the fictitious universe they are in (many of which went way over my head at the age of 11, and it was only with this recent viewing that I really understand many of these elements. (4) The dynamic among the family. Although no mother is present, the father, son and daughter have present a tight knit and caring family. The kids bicker a bit, as siblings do, but you do get the sense that they truly love one another and that this bond is a key factor in their survival. This was still the time when "father knew best", and the kids learn lessons from their adventures and become more self reliant as time passs.
The third season is not quite as well written as the first 2, and the changeover from the father to the uncle might not be particularly clever and smacks of too much coincidence, but there still are some good stories in the final season.
Fantastic stroll down memory lane! I loved getting up on Saturday mornings to discover which Krofft Superstars show was going to be on. So I had a blast watching episodes many years later with my friend's seven year old son! Great!
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