This was NOT a pilot film at all; it was a $100,000. presentation film just to show a TV network potential for a series. By necessity, it used as much existing sets as possible. Had a network been interested, a full pilot would likely have been commissioned. This occurred with "City Beneath The Sea; which was initially a low cost presentation film like this one and was later shot as a full pilot with a different cast.
@SuperOmnicronsj44
11 ай бұрын
Thing with Allen was he knew how to entertain audiences. He was pretty much about ACTION. Then stacking the cast with as many has been actors as possible dealing with disaster. He can be criticized, but basically Losti in Space drove Star Trek off the screen (as did Batman). Allen is to be commended for changing television forever .. however "scatter brained" he appeared to be , he UNDERSTOOD THE AUDIENCE.
@thomasjoseph5876
11 ай бұрын
@@SuperOmnicronsj44 If you notice, once he gained an "audience" for his shows, they then turned absurd with poor villains, very cheap FX, and crazy scenarios. Irwin built an audience fast but he could lose them just as fast. Lost in Space collapsing was probably the biggest example of this as was Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. They both started off very strong and then introduced silly characters, monsters, and plots. It's too bad as they were great shows. I think Land of the Giants could have really been a great one too but he tied down the characters to a certain mindset within the show and hardly deviated from it.
@geraldstephens6612
11 ай бұрын
@@SuperOmnicronsj44 ....until he switched to making disaster movies in the 1970s until that ran its course in the late 1970s.
@tuttt99
Жыл бұрын
One thing Irwin Allen *did* have going for him: music by John Williams.
@paulymac5513
Жыл бұрын
I agree, and when you have great special effects with a great story and directing to go along with the great music you get Steven Spielberg.
@donkeyslayer9879
11 ай бұрын
And he had to pay, big time.
@krane15
11 ай бұрын
@@paulymac5513 No, SS came along much later. They simply had better tech by his time.
@krane15
11 ай бұрын
Bingo. You beat me to it. Those themes were sometimes the best thing about the s how. I've always been fascinated by theme. Even as a very young child.
@WarrenParkwoodLinden
11 ай бұрын
And he also made extensive use of Bernard Herrmann music tracks from 20th-Century Fox films from the 1950s.....
@davethomas1241
Жыл бұрын
Irwin Allen is awesome I love his crazy shows way more fun than what's on TV today
@davidhoward4715
11 ай бұрын
No, not really.
@julianhermanubis6800
11 ай бұрын
@@davidhoward4715There's nothing on now that's simultaneously as campy/absurd yet as weirdly entertaining as Irwin's best shows.
@AirForceChmtrails
11 ай бұрын
But for voyage I thought all the show sucked!
@krane15
11 ай бұрын
That's just the nostalgia in you. Relatively speaking, they're pretty corny.
@dmrr7739
11 ай бұрын
The biggest problem was that the stories were just so goddamn dumb. Regardless of the show, there was someone in a foam rubber suit who would pop in and out of existence while the cast walked around the ship/planet for fifty minutes. When it was time to end the show, they would reverse the polarity of the hull or something and the good guys won, yay! Irwin Allen had the same problem as Gerry Anderson, they would create great sets, get good music, hire great actors… then waste it all on whatever assortment of scenes they could afford to film.
@wildstar1063
11 ай бұрын
The lab sunk deep into the ground with color-coded levels made me think of the wildfire Lab from the Andromeda strain. The atomic device at the lowest level, that could destroy the whole complex was also a feature of the wildfire lab. In the wild fire lab, as the levels got deeper the cleanliness levels got greater and virus precautions got higher. In this lab, the deeper it goes, he said the deeper the security levels are.
@richardmattocks
11 ай бұрын
I was thinking the exact same thing 😎👍
@ntal5859
11 ай бұрын
If only you were a chronic drunk or a screaming baby you might actually get more recognition for your comment.
@DrummingWriterTrekfan84
11 ай бұрын
For a pilot presentation, this was really good!! When I was a kid in the 80's and 90's there's a local channel on TV that played reruns of shows from the 60s and 70s. So I saw a lot of shows from then like Batman, Gilligan's Island, the Brady Bunch, and just about every western. Lol. So yes a little cheesy and a tad campy but wow it really pulled me in. I could have watched this if it had been a series. Ironically James Darren actually was on Star Trek In the 90's on Star Trek Deep Space Nine as Lounge (crooner)singer and advisor "Vic Fontaine".
@resistor27
11 ай бұрын
And on TJ Hooker with William Shatner!
@scarpad
11 ай бұрын
And Time Tunnel
@ed056
11 ай бұрын
Irwin Allen is to TV what Roger Corman is to movies. Low budget but highly entertaining.
@eeddieedwards3890
11 ай бұрын
Low budget? He had the highest budgets for his 1960s TV shows and it SHOWS (for the first season anyway)- "Star Trek" looks "low budget" compared to any of Irwin's 60s shows. The John Williams music also adds to Irwin's shows and movies.
@cornjobb
Жыл бұрын
there's a lot of love for these shows from kids of the time for what were essentially overblown primetime kid's shows. i could never understand why my folks never watched any of these shows with me. as an adult, now i know why. like william castle, irwin allen was a great showman and always came in under budget on his productions. it's also amazing to think that it was just a few years after this that he was nominated for an oscar!
@james5460
11 ай бұрын
You can tell from this that Irwin recognized that the Lost in Space music was the best from all his shows - and he was right. There was something about that background music that still resonates.
@nordan00
11 ай бұрын
That, the original Star Trek (the best), and Wild Wild West, were my favorites as far as soundtracks went back then. Although, in a different vein, Gilligan’s Island had some pretty good music, including some by JW, too!
@igorschmidlapp6987
Жыл бұрын
Irwin Allen was a known cheapskate, reusing props/monsters across several shows. The best Lost in Space was the B&W ones, where Dr. Smith was a true villain, before they turned him into a clown...
@krane15
11 ай бұрын
Actually, it was Jonathan Harris himself that did that. He expanded the character that wasn't suppose to last beyond Season 1. Remember, Guy Williams was the star of the show. At least that's how it was suppose to be. As for B&W to color, that was revolutionary. Likely the best use of the then new technology on TV at the time.
@Steveroess
11 ай бұрын
@@krane15 I've always wished it had worked out that way. I'd have loved to see what could have happened to the space family Robinson without the constant irritation of Smith. And although the addition of color was dazzling and new at the time, the black and white episodes of the first season had a moodiness and visual appeal that matched the eeriness of the stories.
@phillipstephens4522
Жыл бұрын
I don't care what anyone says I love Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and The Time Tunnel.
@speedmastermarkiii
Жыл бұрын
Sure, just ignore that everyone in the Irwin Allen's version of the past spoke American English, no matter where or when they were.
@phillipstephens4522
Жыл бұрын
@@speedmastermarkiii So? I am 72 and grew up on these and loved them as a kid and still do. Who cares? At that time English was what we knew and, by the way, I still speak English and they were tv shows NOT real life! Get over it. Don't get so offended.
@speedmastermarkiii
Жыл бұрын
@@phillipstephens4522 Lol. The Time Tunnel was a show about time travel in which ancient Greeks and Romans spoke perfect American English to American time travelers from the 20th century. It was so, so dumb. Even as a child I realized how dumb it was. At least Star Trek tried to explain aliens being able to spek and understand English by creating the "universal translator".
@Sherwoody
Жыл бұрын
@@speedmastermarkiii The Babel Fish in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy were far superior to the universal translator.
@krane15
11 ай бұрын
@@speedmastermarkiii Its called the suspension of disbelief. Especially necessary in sci-fi movies.
@josephharvat6202
11 ай бұрын
The best thing Irvin Allen could have done (with any of his series) would have been to turn them over to someone else. His shows started off well but devolved into stupidity pretty quickly. Even as a kid, I recognized this.
@philipwilliams7947
11 ай бұрын
It wasnt him. If you watched documentaries on his shows, it was the suits that required him to do things campy. Because parents at the time, i imagine only some, wrote in and said the shows were too violent/scary for their kids.
@Darvada
11 ай бұрын
Yes I agree , stupid so called monsters on Voyage to The Bottom Of The Sea , a man dressed up like sea weed that grows fast, a fire alien.. how cheap can you get...They needed better writing.. at least Quinn Martin's "Invaders" was decent.
@krane15
11 ай бұрын
@@Darvada The Invaders was terrifying. For mature audiences only.
@josephharvat6202
11 ай бұрын
@@krane15 - The Invaders was not an Irwin Allen show. It was a great show but they too started to run out of storylines toward the end.
@josephharvat6202
11 ай бұрын
@@philipwilliams7947 - I've read multiple times that Allen liked the pyrotechnics but cared little for story or character development. I don't think you can blame this on the corporate-types.
@moviesgalore9947
11 ай бұрын
I love this the networks were stupid to pass on this it would have been fantastic had it gone to series it had everything you want from an Irwin Allen show.
@charris939
Жыл бұрын
I would have liked to have seen a closeup of Janes Darren’s doppelgänger getting fried. To a kid growing up on a farm in Australia these Irwin Allen productions were a great escape and seemed so exciting and futuristic. We used to see them as after school tv. Loved Kand of the Giants and the Time Tunnel, this man from the 25th century could have been pretty entertaining.
@tantraman93
Жыл бұрын
I was a kid growing up in very rural southeast Missouri watching these shows after school...so far apart but so similiar.
@ScaryStoriesNYC
Жыл бұрын
"Destroy without conscience, destroy without thought! DESTROY!"
@BillyIngram
Жыл бұрын
Irwin Allen's favorite word!
@afr1952
11 ай бұрын
The GOP agenda
@krane15
11 ай бұрын
Kill! Crush! Destroy! How could any fan forget.
@nobillismccaw7450
11 ай бұрын
IDAK
@fazole
11 ай бұрын
When you compare this and the other "monster of the week" sci fi shows of the time period, Gerry Anderson, working with just puppets, was FAR ahead of all of them. It's too bad Hollywood never funded him to create something amazing. Space 1999 became, sadly, a boring disappointmen. His earlier show U.F.O. was wild and had amazing potential. It was a bit bizarre like "The Prisoner" and just as intense, but canceled when US networks rejected it.
@jorgedeichmann4456
11 ай бұрын
I believe Space 1999 was a remarkable show. It introduced profound philosophical themes to science fiction television and featured visually impressive effects, especially considering the time it aired. Its visual style even influenced Star Wars in certain scenes. I'm referring specifically to the first season; let's forget about the second.
@masterskrain2630
11 ай бұрын
Boy, the Chariot on the Jupiter 2 sure got an upgrade!!😁
@MRxMADHATTER
11 ай бұрын
Irwin Allen had a chronic case of "Over the Topism". He cut corners where he didn't need to and he underestimated the intellegence of his audiance. No person could watch that and not see the recycled props and set pieces. He was too infatuated with blinking lights and explosions. I'm not saying I don't like his work, I'm just saying he had a vision that belonged in the world of CGI. If he had todays SFX and a better understanding of what is believable, he would have gone down as one of the greatest Sci-Fii creators ever.
@ChrisCooling
11 ай бұрын
it was never intended for a regular person to watch it. This was a network pitch/presentation reel; if accepted by the network, it would likely have gone to pilot which would have been airable.
@krane15
11 ай бұрын
No he didn't. The audiences were simpleton back then. And are even more so today.
@richardjohnson9543
11 ай бұрын
This character seems like a darker spin on Star Trek's Gary Seven
@krane15
11 ай бұрын
It was The Day the Earth Stood Still.
@cornjobb
Жыл бұрын
thank god that now, in the 25th century, we can all dress alike in our favorite shiny silver and gold tunic sets! yay foil!
@krane15
11 ай бұрын
Cryo suits Timmy. As you recall, they didn't wear those daily.
@mtlreiner
11 ай бұрын
You always know they’re from the future when they have the huge collars.
@remo1wodmnetwork9605
11 ай бұрын
This would have been interesting but it was like a child trying each day to make a new game with the same toys he's been using all year, Allen spent so much on his warehouse of props he had to reuse them with all the projects & show because the money wasn't there for anything else.
@pixiendixie4211
11 ай бұрын
I loved all of Irwin Allen's shows. I never even heard about this one.
@richardb6260
11 ай бұрын
Reminds me a little of the Gary Seven episode of the original Star Trek. This would be 2 years after that episode. Kept waiting for one of the aliens to say "Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!"
@howardbeatman2820
11 ай бұрын
That's just what I thought after watching only three minutes of this video.
@davidviton1065
11 ай бұрын
When I was a kid I watched all of Irwin Allen shows brings back memories
@jacquelinecallejas1390
11 ай бұрын
Never heard of this. This must be pretty obscure considering how much old tv I've seen.
@ed056
11 ай бұрын
When small scale explosions were not longer enough for TV moguls he turned to destroying an entire high-rise into a towering inferno. I miss this guy!
@raoularmagnac2037
11 ай бұрын
And a couple years previously he capsized a luxury liner with a huge tidal wave in "The Poseidon Adventure." 🛳
@davethomas1241
Жыл бұрын
That was awesome I wish it had actually been made
@MathewRenfro
11 ай бұрын
Basically its the Gary Seven premise from Star Trek TOS season 2
@MONGOOSE1ful
11 ай бұрын
This Irwin Allen/20th Century Fox Television presentation film was produced for CBS, and it would've been an interesting series, considering CBS's decision to cancel "LOST IN SPACE" in Spring 1968, it would've made a unique difference! Actor Ford Rainey was later cast as "Dr. Barnett" on NBC-TV's "SEARCH"(1972-73), and some of the computer props used in "THE MAN FROM THE 25 CENTURY" was also used on Search, which Warner Bros. produced.
@barriewright2857
11 ай бұрын
God bless irwin Allen for providing me with all of the best show for me as a young child to enjoy. Everyone of his shows too me is a work of art . And his shows have been inspirational for remarks. From the show of the man from the 25th century, this is good. This is in need of a remake, It would be brilliant .
@krane15
11 ай бұрын
They were all coney and predicable. But I like them anyway.
@Steveroess
11 ай бұрын
As a fan of his shows growing up (the big three and less so Land of the Giants), I was surprised I'd never seen this before. I agree with the comment that Allen should have turned them over to someone else after the kickoffs. Both Voyage and Lost in Space had promising starts but quickly devolved. This one, however, looks like it would have been a disaster from day one.
@ClydeRowing
11 ай бұрын
I love that fist fights in computer labs result in explosions every time someone bumps a monitor
@KenshoBeats
11 ай бұрын
I’ll always remember Allen by remembering Voyage to the bottom of the sea season 1&2 and Lost in space season 1&2.
@ericherns4011
11 ай бұрын
The story writing from Irwin Allen was put together nicely, but probably the reason it did not sell it had more of a Lost In Space type of look than the show having a more style of it own. Some of the music from Lost In Space music was fine but the show should have it own current music, and the set designs on stage was the same as Lost In Space.
@ericherns4011
11 ай бұрын
They should have a different design for his Spaceship than the Jupiter 2
@sirtalkalotdoolittle
11 ай бұрын
Maybe it's a good thing that Irwin Allen's work has been overshadowed by Star Trek and all that. Imagine the damage the studios would have done to his work if he was as popular as, say, Roddenberry. Thank you for posting this.
@krane15
11 ай бұрын
Roddenberry became popular in retrospect. At the time, his show was too mature for TV as well. Which is why they were all cancelled. In effect, they were too far ahead of their time.
@akakjb
11 ай бұрын
In many ways there's a good argument that Irwin Allen was a far more successful television creator/producer than Roddenberry ever was. STAR TREK was and still is his only creation to get past the pilot stage. Obviously, having your one successful series be STAR TREK doesn't suck legacy-wise but it does kind of expose him as a one-trick pony. Just because I know someone will try to make the following argument, I'll preemptively respond the subject of EARTH: FINAL CONFLICT and ANDROMEDA being Roddenberry creations. I had more input on the creation and development of those two series than Gene did. Majel Barrett became a master at wringing every bit of publicity and money out of Gene Roddenberry's name, fame and the near-religious levels of fandom devotion that surrounded the man since TOS premiered on NBC. It's no surprise as she learned from the man himself and ratcheted it to levels Roddenberry could have only dreamed of while alive. Of course, neither Roddenberry or Allen can hold a candle to the SF television successes that came to our screens thanks to the mind & vision of GERRY ANDERSON. UFO & SPACE:1999 (Series One) still stand out as some of the most unique SFTV series of all time, particularly given that they existed during that post-2001: A Space Odyssey and pre-Star Wars time period where anything was still possible when it came to science fiction storytelling for television. Space:1999 S1 is still the only series to ever further explore the kinds of concepts and style that Stanley Kubrick used in 2001: A Space Odyssey and we're long overdue as far as seeing another series running with that ball is concerned.
@steveterrel8944
11 ай бұрын
Fist fights in every scene... I miss 60's TV!
@dougsandison3217
Жыл бұрын
Driving an Alpha Romero out of the Jupiter 2 was pretty freekin funny. I'm surprised it didn't get high-centered
@jeffbird2983
11 ай бұрын
It was a Lotus Elan actually.
@johnmarx3919
11 ай бұрын
Really? That's Emma's ride!
@jeffbird2983
11 ай бұрын
@@johnmarx3919 That's right, hers was a 66.
@afr1952
11 ай бұрын
with Tesla self driving capabilities yet-truly 25th century...
@user-xq5vx7rs4w
11 ай бұрын
He wasn’t as talented as people thought he was. There was no heart in his programs. The writers got some in in lost in space. But just a bit. The man didn’t like feeling or loving relationships. You can’t sustain a show for long without emotion.
@terrystewart9605
11 ай бұрын
I watched all Irwin Allen shows when I was a kid. if they would have made this show into a TV series I would have watched it. I thought this pilot show was pretty cool.
@krane15
11 ай бұрын
What? They were all TV shows.
@fromthesidelines
11 ай бұрын
CBS said in effect, "We'll pass on this one."
@3dbadboy1
11 ай бұрын
And we can thank Irwin Allen for having John Williams on hand to do his music. I wonder if he 'discovered' him?
@JaimeWulf
11 ай бұрын
Wow, I can look back onto Many of his shows with fondness even though they really are cheesy by today's standards... But I can see why this never went anywhere, it was horrible to start with...
@user-un9go4qe5i
11 ай бұрын
"Is this the beginning? Is this really the beginning...?" "No, I'm afraid it's over."
@IBM29
Жыл бұрын
The end of the Irwin Allen era brought with it the collapse of the global fireworks industry... 😁
@Sherwoody
Жыл бұрын
In the future, the use of circuit breakers and ground fault protection will no longer be used due to cost cutbacks.
@krane15
11 ай бұрын
In an interview, Dr. Smith (Jonathan Harris) said he liked blowing things up. Which he did.
@ChannelWright
11 ай бұрын
Lets not forget his ultimate triumph - "The Poseidon Adventure"!
@johnmarx3919
11 ай бұрын
Of COURSE Irwin got John Crawford to do this "pilot" - that guy was in EVERYTHING in the '60s...
@cb-gz1vl
11 ай бұрын
Everything in his shows exploded.
@user-lt9py2pu6u
11 ай бұрын
I've seen worse! Main problem with this is it came out a decade too late, allways thought that Irwen Allen production values never really moved on from the early sixties and I'm including Towering Inferno in that as well.
@JamJells
11 ай бұрын
Thank you for uploading this.
@BillyIngram
11 ай бұрын
You're welcome
@pierrelevasseur2701
7 күн бұрын
I had never heard of this, not surprising since it was never picked up. Only saw a mention of it on James Darren's Wiki page and I only read it as I learned of his passing. Interesting premise, I certainly would have watched this show as I did other Irwin Allen shows.
@julianhermanubis6800
11 ай бұрын
The premise might have worked better in a 1950s black-and-white TV series with all of the paranoia you'd expect in science fiction then. The day-glo 1960s colors and the campy sets and effects throw off the tone here. It just seems like the wrong subject matter for an Irwin Allen project.
@joeblenkle5546
11 ай бұрын
Wow, I had never heard of this before. Wish it had gone to series.
@ziph3326
11 ай бұрын
I had never heard of this one, but I’d have watched it for sure with Allen’s name attached to it. Looks like a cross between Mork & Mindy, and Stranger in a Strange Land!
@glee21012
11 ай бұрын
Hey, it's Vic Fontane!!! (Star Trek DS9)
@BillyIngram
11 ай бұрын
Haha!
@sureshmukhi2316
11 ай бұрын
I was waiting for him to sing. 😄
@tomwhone9804
11 ай бұрын
Wow, even back in the 1960's they'd already perfected the hyper atomic furnace. Amazing!!
@paulforder591
11 ай бұрын
Gosh, I never knew The Man From the 25th Century existed! Land of the Giants was cancelled in 1970, so this pilot must've been filmed shortly after. Irwin Allen's TV series often recycled props, backdrops, and used repetitive or even stock footage--all in the name of saving money! The scripts were often inane and absurd as more episodes were produced, but otherwise fun to watch. Could you make available the 1967 pilot of City Beneath the Sea? I've only seen a preview of it. Clearly, it also had potential, but was turned down by the ABC-TV bigwigs. Another might--have--been series. . . 👽🤖🤓
@richardbale3278
11 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed these shows as a kid, but my are they hard to take seriously as an adult, or even as a tween. Lost in Space clearly had no idea about what kind of show it wanted to be, starting out as semi serious sci-fi, with Dr. Smith as an actual villain, who murders someone while stowing himself on the ship, but then transforming him into a selfish, effete, screw up. At some point, the whole show devolved into nothing more than than the adventures of Will, Smith, and the Robot, with Will constantly having to boy genius his way into saving everyone from the consequences of Smith's buffoonery. Even as a kid, I felt sorry for the other cast members, particularly Marta Kristen, who all became increasingly lucky if they got more than five lines to deliver per episode. And the sets! I remember a scene in which Penny and Will are walking through a "mine field " where the mines were clearly just some colored beach balls, half buried in some play sand, and which was small enough that they could have just walked around it. But Lost in Space was Citizen Kane, relative to The Time Tunnel, which not only had stupid plots, but also often didn't even get the history right, which might have provided it some redemption.
@bomat761
Жыл бұрын
Repurposed props, repurposed music, cheesy storyline… all boxes checked for Irwin Allen trash. I too watched many of these shows, because there wasn’t much other half decent sci-fi.
@jeffthekillercriticremixer5968
11 ай бұрын
Something that Ed Wood would have made if they gave him a budget and an opportunity to do a TV show
@charletonzimmerman4205
11 ай бұрын
Wow what did these TV producers 'SMOKE"??
@danallshaw1131
11 ай бұрын
I would have dug this if it was started in a limited market. Campy as most of Mr. Allen's shows can be,his imagination for the 1960's was impressive.
@cScottD
Жыл бұрын
That was truly bonkers.
@shedjammer87
Жыл бұрын
He even recycled the Lost in Space background music!!
@modelermark172
Жыл бұрын
For a moment, I actually thought I was watching a 'lost episode' (if you'll pardon the expression) or 'deleted scene' OF "Lost in Space" . . . .
@marklocandro5990
11 ай бұрын
A reverse Buck Rogers. Might have succeeded but most of the costs would of gone into all the explosions.
@richardjohnson4365
11 ай бұрын
I watched them all as a kid, and enjoyed them all...
@3dbadboy1
11 ай бұрын
Haha, some of the props from Time Tunnel made it into the security center in the movie Towering Inferno.
@BillyIngram
11 ай бұрын
I'm going to have to look at that!
@nofrackingzone7479
11 ай бұрын
If the atomic cycle were to cease for a moment… we would be destroyed. Yeah that sounds like a design flaw to me.
@MathewRenfro
11 ай бұрын
It's like reverse Buck Rodgers.
@macrumpton
11 ай бұрын
I wonder were the idea that electronics would explode if you bumped into them? It certainly has no basis in reality.
@davidgantenbein9362
11 ай бұрын
It probably developed from a wish to convert the dangers of high voltage electricity into visual effects and then was applied to whatever used electricity, while being poorly understood by general audience.
@BillyIngram
11 ай бұрын
True that!
@charlesmento5968
Жыл бұрын
Land of the Giants is the best show ever and Irwin's best. I think Man was being filmed DURING Land of the Giants. BTW this was awful but truthfully this stuff was only given to studios and networks to show what it might be like, not what it will be like.
@John_Michael2000
Жыл бұрын
Thats a matter of opinion. I thought LOTG was his worst show. The Time Tunnel was his most imaginative. And the sets were enormous and incredibly impressive
@fromthemoonraccoon
Жыл бұрын
4:10 Nevermind the recycled sets; my god, the writing. _Thankfully_ this never got made.
@fromthemoonraccoon
Жыл бұрын
LOL "We're superpowerful aliens bent on destroying humanity. Let's start with a gas station in the middle of nowhere."
@nunyabizness6595
Жыл бұрын
I'm sure he used his go to guys to write that pilot, ether William Welch or Peter Packer. I'm sure the only top notch writer to work on his shows (S.Bar-david/Simon Wincelberg) had moved on to better things. Packer didn't bother me like some people but Barney Slater was way better. As to Voyage it really should have been cancelled after season 2. And in the 1970s times had changed. No producer was bowled over by Irwin Allen's precious cuteness. Lol!!😮😮😮
@fromthemoonraccoon
Жыл бұрын
@@nunyabizness6595 Great details, thanks! I just read this about Allen: Writer Jon Abbott described Allen as paradoxical. "Here was a man who, when told the cost of a spaceship for a Lost in Space alien, snapped, 'Let him walk!' ... and then let the show be cancelled rather than take a cut in the budget" (from Wikipedia). I respect anyone who can make a go of it in the entertainment industry. But that's quite a cavalier attitude toward his creations being killed :(
@hartze11
11 ай бұрын
That was a dumpster fire….
@rocistone6570
11 ай бұрын
This is so corny they probably had to husk the script before shooting! If this was a "proof-of-concept" presentation, I can see why no one bought the concept. It's so campy, the only thing lacking is narration by Dick Tufeld! (Bless him) Audiences had grown too sophisticated, too "clued in" for stuff like this, plus the production cost probably scared the natural body fluids out of the bean counters, not to mention the outright hatred of sci-fi from certain network executives. Sitcoms were cheaper and stupider, Those shows could be knocked out like lead slugs and were essentially disposable. Shows like LIS and TT not to mention ST:TOS represented major "risks" in the pea brains of most of these networks. So they played it safe, and when the ratings dipped, these more expensive shows were the first ones on the chopping block. In a sense, This show is not a bad premise. Technology and a bit of talented writing (Think DC Fontana and or Harlan Ellison) might have been able to lift this up and make it something. As it is, it's another example of why audiences can't have nice things, and are forced to settle for disposable tripe on a stick so much of the time these days.
@EAG46
11 ай бұрын
It would have been interesting to see what "Mr. Prentis" would have learned about Earth and other humans in the 1960s. About women [since it looked like he was only among male-presenting being in the 25th century], among different cultures, among different social classes and the like. Granted that sounds more like a Gene Roddenberry type thing, exploring social problems through science fiction. But even Voyage On the Bottom of the Sea found a way to put a woman or 2 in the sub every once in a while, so I'm sure Irwin could find a way to point a woman in his protagonist's direction. A secretary, a nurse, someone like that.
@daniellafferety4025
11 ай бұрын
Please remake this concept to a video game, or KZitem animated movies. Keepting music,and sound effects but take everything Irwin did and animate it. So we have old,and new content mixed together.
@Mikedeela
11 ай бұрын
Vaporizing people when they are late on an assignment. A little harsh.
@BrayzenPaddles
11 ай бұрын
That's where "Buck Roger's in the 25th Century" came in the 80's. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was my Show. This sounds like "Star Trek" combined with "Lost in Space" soundtrack.
@krane15
11 ай бұрын
They were nothing alike. Although ST did copy a couple plot from LIS.
@michiganmagneto
11 ай бұрын
Recycled music, recycled pyrotechnics staff, I would have loved to have watched this become a series way back when I was a kid.
@IndigoDavei
Жыл бұрын
More of the same when it was really time to move on.
@bobbysands6923
11 ай бұрын
He kinda had it all going it this one. I saw sets from all of the other shows. The clip with the guys running down the corridor from The Time Tunnel killed me...still, I would take any of it over the garbage that is out there today.
@detmonmonten6727
11 ай бұрын
Love old sci-fi
@fredblonder7850
11 ай бұрын
This is Irwin Allen parodying himself.
@Twirlip2
11 ай бұрын
"It's beyond your ability to comprehend." It's certainly beyond mine! But I've got to admit that I couldn't stop watching the dratted thing.
@laff000
11 ай бұрын
What no lettuce monster?
@jasontoddman7265
11 ай бұрын
Everything in Project Delphi seems to be made of *explodium.*
@jeehoonlee5150
Жыл бұрын
Man, who did Delphi or whatever hire to build their super secret control panels? A light touch and they short out, some bad component standards there.
@BillyIngram
Жыл бұрын
The only thing Irwin Allen devices did well was explode! Every time you used them...
@Steveroess
11 ай бұрын
Not to be confused with "The Delphi Bureau".
@Number6_
11 ай бұрын
This was as tacky as lost in space. Irwin Allen's run was over. It was really over!
@curiousgemini
11 ай бұрын
Do you know why "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" got canceled? Because it turned in to "Voyage to the Bottom of the Ratings."
@jameskurdyla8152
11 ай бұрын
Carl needs to lay off the coffee😂
@johnbockelie3899
11 ай бұрын
Sounds like a rip off of the plot to Gary Seven agent from Star Trek episode " Assignment Earth."
@lilmsgs
11 ай бұрын
the music is so hilarious
@ericherns4011
11 ай бұрын
I Thought the show was good and has potential too bad it didn't sell.
@truejim
11 ай бұрын
And yet, still better than the final season of GOT.
@gopherindian1
11 ай бұрын
I believe he was also the master of disaster. Poseidon Adventure, Towering Inferno…
@BillyIngram
11 ай бұрын
He was indeed!
@mf7482
11 ай бұрын
I saw the Jupiter 2 from Lost in Space used here, with excerpts from the 2nd episode, the first planet they landed on I still remember that scene. Here they tried to create a following episode which creates the need for the series to fly. So they reused already built sets, to save building costs. sort of a prequel to Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. But I don't think Earth's going to live that long. What I thought was chilling was the Brit series The Prisoner, from 1969. That was more plausible, cameras in people's homes, everything's controlled.
@oldnwise
11 ай бұрын
I'm in a pinch with a ton of conflicting emotions right now. You see, I really liked all those Irwin Allen's series back then, specially Lost in Space and The Time Tunnel but... at the same time, I also feel ashamed that I ever liked such cheesy low budget and crappy special effects tv series while still having fond memories of them when I was a child. What a dilemma!!
@distantlands
Жыл бұрын
Thankfully Irwin didn’t have cheap access to special effects like today or omg it would be a nightmare 52 minutes of exploding everything
@drbonesshow1
11 ай бұрын
Hard to find hats that fit for these guys.
@RichInternationalAir
11 ай бұрын
Liked and subscribed! Thanks for sharing this gem.
@user-xq5vx7rs4w
11 ай бұрын
So every week he would have fought an un feeling copy of himself?
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