Another Great, Scarce, Out of Print, Original Japanese Laserdisc Box Set!

LOST IN SPACE

TV Series
Volume 1

CLV Bilingual
Digital Sound
Japanese Import Laserdisc

Original Japanese Issue!
Excellent Condition
Catalog # PILF-1994

Lost in Space Volume 1

Irwin Allen's Lost in Space classic TV series complete season 1 on 8 LD's from Pioneer covering the first season. B&W, CLV, NTSC. LDs were made for the Japanese market but will play just the same on any US LD player. The first two seasons have been aired in Japan and were dubbed at that time, so the LDs are bilingual, English on the right, and Japanese on the left audio channel (select which your hear with your LD player and a single language comes out of both sides), Each box comes with a full color booklet, blueprints and lots of great material. Was not released in the US in LD format, will not be issued in DVD anytime soon.

There is an entire filmography for Allen presented in the wonderful booklet that accompanies the Japanese import release on the FoxVideo label, Lost in Space Box Vol.1 (PILF-1994, �41,200), and although it is in Japanese, the titles and dates are in English. The box itself is also wonderful and fans will find it difficult to resist.

The science-fiction TV series, which was based upon the novel, Swiss Family Robinson , and the comic book, Space Family Robinson , with more than a passing similarity to Forbidden Planet tossed in for good measure. The box contains eight platters. Vol.1 features the show's first 15 black-and-white episodes and then concludes with the first episode from the third season (#60), which is in color.

The booklet is also terrific, even though the text is mostly in Japanese. It includes schematics for the show's vehicles, filmographies for the cast and production personnel, and a segment on the Japanese magazine tie-ins from the Sixties. Each episode runs 52 minutes.

The first season opens with a five-episode arc that establishes the premise and puts all the characters--a family whose space craft has been knocked off course--in place. From there, although there are 'cliffhanger' teasers at the end of each episode (some telling viewers to 'tune in two weeks from tonight' instead of the usual one week), the episodes are stand-alone dramas, which in the first season all took place on a single planet where the family is stranded, with strange creatures, etc., coming to them.

The writing is a bit better than in some of Allen's other TV shows and the series contains one brilliant component upon which it was able to coast for quite a while, the addition of a marvelously venal stowaway, played for all he is worth by Jonathan Harris, whose cowardice, laziness and dupliciousness invariably upset every opportunity the family has to escape their fate.

This is an ORIGINAL Japanese issue, high quality laserdisc box set which has been long out of print and is NOT available on DVD. Retail was 41,200 Yen (Approx. $400. at today's conversion rates.)

$325.00