Island in the Sky
| Island in the Sky | |
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| Prod No: | 8503 |
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| Season: | 1 |
| Air Date: | 9/29/1965 |
| Writers: | Norman Lessing, Shimon Wincelberg |
| Director: | Tony Leader |
| Principal Cast: | John Robinson (Guy Williams)
Maureen Robinson (June Lockhart) Penny Robinson (Angela Cartwright) Zachary Smith (Jonathan Harris) Robot B-9 (Bob May Dick Tufeld (voice)) |
| Supporting Cast: | |
| Preceded By: | The Derelict |
| Followed By: | There Were Giants In The Earth |
Island in the Sky is an episode of Lost In Space.
Synopsis
The Robinsons crash land on an alien planet and begin to cope with the challenges there.
Plot
While outside the ship, Prof. Robinson's parajets misfire, and he plummets towards the planet below. Don attempts to follow in the Jupiter 2, but Dr. Smith's sabotage causes the retro-rockets to fail, and the ship crash lands. They then search the planet for Prof. Robinson, using the space chariot.
Notes
- This is the first time the "chariot" (a combination tractor and bus) is used.
- The Robot quotes from William Shakespeare.
- Penny acquire a pet bloop that she names "Debbie".
- Smith refers to the "green hills of earth", the title of a short story by Robert Heinlein.
- This marks the only time in the series that the Robinson's EVA 'Parajets' were used. The third season's Space Pod makes any further use of the arm-mounted thrusters redundant although this raises the question of why is was not used in the first place (at that time, of course, it did not exists in the show. It can be probably be retconned thus as a result of the meteor damage on the Jupiter 2 in 'The Reluctant Stowaway').
- For the last time, the freezing tubes of the Jupiter 2 are used.
- Another example (the earlier being 'The Derelict's' Comet) of the show's somewhat erratic science is seen- arm thrusters and an unprotected astronaut surviving a brush with a planet's atmosphere? How John managed to get the parajets working- and far enough from the surface to survive a landing- when they were supposedly out of fuel in the first place is another weak point.