Land of the Lost

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Rick (a.k.a. Marshall) , Will, and Holly Marshall are on rafting trip and a earthquake sends them over a waterfall to the world known as, The Land of the Lost!

Total Episodes: 43

For more info:
landofthelost.com/

THE DINOSAURS
Alice the Allosaur... more »

Rick (a.k.a. Marshall) , Will, and Holly Marshall are on rafting trip and a earthquake sends them over a waterfall to the world known as, The Land of the Lost!

Total Episodes: 43

For more info:
landofthelost.com/

THE DINOSAURS
Alice the Allosaur
Grumpy the Tyrranosaur
Dopey the baby Brontosaur
Emily the Brontosaur
Junior the baby Allosaur
Spot the Coelophysis
Spike the Triceratops
Lulu the two headed monster
Torchy the Dimetrodonless «

• the movie is gonna bite!

  Will Ferrell? I like him, but come on. They're turning this into a comedy? They're not gonna get my money at the theatre for that.

  Will Ferrell? I like him, but come on. They're turning this into a comedy? They're not gonna get my money at the theatre for that. less «

  chaosrainz Last online 2 days ago
  17 comments, last one Jun 19, 2009 + Add Comment

• How did they get these writers?

  I just got through recording the marathon -- for my wife, who remembered it fondly from her own youth -- I'm quite olde...more »

  I just got through recording the marathon -- for my wife, who remembered it fondly from her own youth -- I'm quite older than she is. I didn't expect to watch them, but when I was changing disks, I saw one episode was by Theodore Sturgeon -- my choice for the best short story writer in SF -- and I've been reading it since the 50s and read a lot of earlier stuff. Okay, then I saw the opening episode and saw David "Tribbles" Gerrold. Then I started checking the episodes. Larry Niven, Norman Spinrad, Ben Bova... and that's just the early episodes. Haven't watched them yet, but how did this crew get involved in the project. I don't think there was a STAR TREK series that had writers like this. less «

  Prup-aka-JBentn Last online 4 minutes ago
  3 comments, last one Jun 6, 2009 + Add Comment

• season 3

  ok I realize this maybe a nasty horrible and painful subject for most of us but there are questions i feel i need to ask ...more »

  ok I realize this maybe a nasty horrible and painful subject for most of us but there are questions i feel i need to ask well my first one is why did they change the nature of the show from dinos for the most part to mythical beasts for the most part. second why did they seem to undo the logics of the last two seasons in season 3? less «

  silverfoxy8472 Last online 19 hrs, 32 mins ago
  1 comments, last one Jun 5, 2009 + Add Comment

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  8.5 Great

  While on a rafting trip Rick Marshall, his son Will and daughter Holly are swept into an alternate prehistoric world filled with dinosaurs and other strange creatures. hide « show »

  Sid and Marty Kroft created a number of memorable children's shows. "Land of the Lost" is no doubt their greatest achievement. Following the Marshalls as the struggle to survive and make their way home was great entertainment every time. The terrific supporting characters are another thing that made this show worth while. The Sleestak were terrific (and even scary) villains while allies like Cha-Ka and Enik (A decendant of the Sleestak) were interesting and well written characters as well. There was a revival of this series in the ninties, and a terrible 2009 film, but the original can't be matched.

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  meathead704 Added Jun 19, 2009 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  a nostalgic show for me hide « show »

  a note on my score this score applies to the first two seasons the third season gets a 1 all of the episodes were GREAT spencer milligan and cast were the perfect combo grumpy alice spike emily and OF COURSE dopey (makes a sound like dopey would) cha ka and ta and sa wow entertaining sid and marty kroft even came up with the time loop idea between season two and the third season which got the show canceled a perfect show for the first two seasons it was a great show. too bad the new movie is gonna shame it .

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  silverfoxy8472 Added Jun 4, 2009 All my reviews
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  6.5 Fair

  Ranger Rick Marshall and his kids take a canyon river trip and get swept in an alternate world with dinosaurs, creatures and alien relics. hide « show »

  This show was probably one of the first great shows of my childhood. Possibly the best of the Sid and Marty Kroft shows, watching it today is like reliving my childhood if but for the very cheesy special affects and acting that went into it. Unlike the modern series "Lost," the writers idn't seem to have any set definition as to where the Marshalls were; every writer added something new and there was no attempt to really link or solve any of the numerous riddles of what the dinos were doing there or who created the civilizations the Marshalls created. If the Pakuni were relatives of Bigfoot, I can only assume the Sleestak were humanoid-evolved raptors. They couldn't shoot straight nor were they very good in fighting or keeping prisoners. Hard to believe I was scared of those things as a kid. Still, despite a grown-up look at the series today, it remains a childhood favorite of mine. The earlier episodes were much more likeable before the dad left the series.

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  aesgaard41 Added May 27, 2009 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  adventure, action, dinosaurs, scary bug eyed creatures and a beautiful blonde to come to the rescue of every week. how could you go wrong?? hide « show »

  Adventure, Action, Dinosaurs, Scary bug-eyed creatures and a Beautiful Blonde to come to the rescue of every week. How could you go wrong??.. Answer is you can't it was ahead of it's time certainly but classic sci-fi/adventure full of imagination, and about as heart pounding edge of your seat entertainment as saturday morning television has ever dared to be, before or since. All of this done with the aid of the incredibly deep blue eyes, freckles and those braids, those unforgettable blonde braids, the plaid shirt..the blue jeans the hiking boots, and that eternally sweet caring smile that were all part of the one and only true Holly Marshall (Kathy Coleman), not the later pretender to the throne in the wannabe remake, it was good, but lacked so much feeling and intensity

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  cheryfan Added Apr 13, 2008 All my reviews
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  9.6 Superb

  Land of the Lost was a show far ahead of its time. hide « show »

  While on a routine rafting trip the Marshall family, Rick Marshall and his two children, Will and Holly, fall through a time portal into a world inhabited by prehistoric creatures and misplaced beings. Forced to learn to survive in a world turned upside down the Marshall's would have to rely on some help from unexpected places. Living day by day and running from dinosaurs or evil sleestack, a race of lizard-like humanoids, the family grew closer together. Eventually the family would be able to return home only to have another Marshall family from another rift in time enter the dimension. Land of the Lost was an intelligent show that didn't take children for granted. The shows episodes were written by some of the top names in science fiction of the time. Walter Koenig, of Star Trek fame, wrote what may be the shows best episode, The Stranger, which introduced Enik a more evolved Sleestak from an earlier time who ultimately aided in the Marshall family returning home.
  
  
  The shows cast would be lead by veteran TV actor Spenser Milligan (Gunsmoke, Quincy, and The Dukes of Hazard) who brought a heart felt touch to the role of the father Rick Marshall. A character who even today could be the poster boy for a perfect parent who was always willing to listen to his children, who was slow to anger and maybe the world's greatest teacher. Milligan filled the role to perfection and a generation of children grew up to think of his character as the father they never had. Young soap opera star Wesley Eure (Days of our Lives) would be cast as the adventurous teenage boy Will Marshall. Again TV experience would lend to a another memorable character. Will was always exploring his boundaries, often with catastrophic consequences, but was always on hand to look after his younger sister. Eure was great at coming across as someone who couldn't accept his situation and was willing to try anything to get his family home. Unknown child actress Kathy Coleman was cast as the ever complaining younger sister Holly. For someone with little TV experience Coleman did a remarkable job. Holly was always wanting to hold on to her older brother's shirt tales and mess up any plan he would come up with. It is obvious that Coleman drew upon her own innocence and awkwardness in her porayal of a child becoming a young woman under the worst of situations. Despite everything the show had going for it Land of the Lost would only survive three seasons on Saturday morning. Several changes in both story and cast would ultimately become the shows downfall. Milligan would be replaced in the third season by another veteran actor Ron Harper who would play the family's Uncle Jack who had been searching for them. He would enter the dimension just as Rick Marshall exited. The shows decline couldn't be blamed on Harper. A gaff by the network in "dumbing down" the stories and firing most of the shows original writers ultimately spelled the end for the show. New dinosaurs were brought in (including a fire breathing Dimetradon) to keep children interested, but nothing could replace the mind expanding scripts of the first two seasons. Land of the Lost was something unique to television. Never had such detail been added to a children's show. The dinosaurs were, for the time, excellent stop motion models. The vocabulary of the primitive Paku was developed by a UCLA professor . The scripts were written by the best in the business. Never before or after has such a production been attempted in children's programing. It is for these reasons that Land of the Lost is still remembered fondly by those old enough to have watched it in it's original airing.
  
  From Original Posting on Monster Island News (http://monstermovieblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/land-of-lost-tv-1974-1977.html)

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