A space wizard conjures up a spaceship so that Doctor Smith can return to Earth.A space wizard conjures up a spaceship so that Doctor Smith can return to Earth.A space wizard conjures up a spaceship so that Doctor Smith can return to Earth.
Bill Mumy
- Will Robinson
- (as Billy Mumy)
Joe E. Tata
- Zalto's Dummy
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Dick Tufeld
- The Robot
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaIt is the first television appearance of Al Lewis after Universal Studios ended its production of The Munsters (1964), in which he played Grandpa Dracula.
- GoofsZalto didn't reveal his name to Dr. Smith when they first met. Yet, after he appeared in the ship then disappeared, Dr. Smith called him by name.
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Continues the trend for colourful silliness
This time, the eccentric visitor to the planet is Zalto (Al Lewis), a purple-robed, cone-hatted wizard with a malevolent-looking ventriloquist dummy and a carnival-like secret lair. In keeping with the show's descent into colourful camp, the episode is 'Smith-centered', doesn't make much sense and is played for strictly laughs (at least from the kids), including slap-shtick antics accompanied by slide-whistle chirps. Al Lewis was always an amusing character actor (perhaps best known as Grandpa on the 'The Munsters' (1964) and Schnauser on 'Car 54, Where are You?' (1961), but the material he's given in this episode is pretty rudimentary. Its unfathomable why, after numerous run-ins with strange entities appearing spontaneously on the planet, the elder Robinsons and Don are still hesitate to accept Will's or Smith's claims to having had some strange close encounter. By this point, you either find 'Lost in Space' entertainingly goofy (and this episode is that) or have given up on the series altogether. Add baseball equipment, including umpire gear, to the Jupitar 2's odd assortment of interplanetary colonialist cargo.
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- jamesrupert2014
- Jan 16, 2023
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- Runtime50 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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