Many years ago, I watched all four Irwin Allen series and wrote them all up as reviews and synopsis texts. I did it more for recording down all important info for possible fan fiction writers, including myself. I also put down important or interesting quotes.
Here is the one from LOST IN SPACE --THE HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSE.
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THE
HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSE
Writer:
Jackson Gillis
Dir:
Sobey Martin
NEW
MUSIC:
Older
Music: John Williams
TEASER
Wind
wracks the dusty planet the Jupiter II is on, blowing leaves up into the
doorway. Don takes a pack and some boxes inside, the last of the stuff from
outside. Will comes in with a box. The storm is getting worse, part of a cosmic
storm. Judy doesn't care as long as they lift off this dreary planet, of all
the forsaken, lifeless places (gosh, she's sounding like Dr. Smith!). Maureen
asks Will where Penny is. She went to get her scarf. Will didn't bring in for
her because she is always losing things out there. Yesterday it was her comb.
John goes to get her, liftoff in five minutes. A boy with pointed ears and
strange skin grabs Penny as she enters a cave. He tells her his name is J-5 and
he is the only one left over from a colony. He stole her comb yesterday and has
her scarf. He wants to go with her family when they leave. His people are all
gone. He says they are from another planet in the same galaxy. He thinks Penny
would let him stay here to be eaten by the Zaybo, which he describes, "A
great big thing that keeps chasing me,"
but to Penny it sounds like a lion when he goes on to tell her more
about it. A lion roar ends Penny's doubting of this. J-5 tells her to run, he
will try to stop it or hold it off. A lion runs in as she runs out.
7-6-5-4-3-2-1
ACT
ONE
No
titles yet as John calls Penny, arriving. Penny tells him a lion is after a
boy. They go into the cave. J-5 has fainted, Penny worried he is dead. John
hits J-5's wrist and rubs it to get him up. They hear a roar. John gets him to
Penny, "Get him out of here." Penny will take care of him. They go
out and John faces a lion, pulling his gun. FREEZE FRAME accompanied by the
older crash music of ISLAND IN THE SKY. FREEZE FRAME shows all the titles of
THE HAUNTED LIGHTHOUSE, then unfreezes the picture. John shoots and a blast
occurs and the lion is gone. John runs out but J-5 runs in the cave, presumably
to get Penny's scarf but he calls the Zaybo and an invisible meowing cat comes
to him and he puts it under his shirt. John calls, "Let's go!" Soon the Jupiter II in all its majesty, lifts
off from the planet and it looks dark out, perhaps nightfall or the storm
making it look dark. The ship tilts a bit as John, Judy, and Don work in the
control room (uttering numbers like 6400 and spacial 500?). John calls Judy to
help check the stabilizers control and they have to check the cleaned
stabilizers or something. John feels the nova turbulence is hitting them (?).
J-5 is eating in the galley. He could only eat roots and berries on the planet.
Maureen, Penny, and Will are sitting. Smith comes out with his stethoscope to
check J-5, wanting to give their alien friend a checkup to see if he can
survive in their atmosphere (a bit late). Maureen wants to get him more to eat
when he gets back. Will tells Smith they can use his room to give J-5 a check
up. J-5 seems afraid of a check up but Will, who doubts J-5's
"stories", thinks that he shouldn't be. Smith asks J-5 to remove his
shirt, then takes his heartbeat without him doing so..and without putting the
scope ends in his ears, "Good heavens, you don't have one," he thinks of J-5's heart. Then he finds it
after Will helps him put the ends in his ears. J-5 remembers little about his
home planet but recalls there was alot of money and the rocks were diamonds and
rubies, all scattered about the streets. Will is impatient and wants to get the
Robot to give J-5 a checkup which Smith thinks is an splendid idea. Will and
Smith go, Will telling J-5, sarcastically, "And when we get back, we can
listen to some more of your STORIES."
This makes J-5 angry and he takes out Zaybo from under his dull gold
ripped shirt. It meows. "Will Robinson, just wait till you come back in
here." The Control Room shakes.
Judy and Don are at the port stabilizers. J-5 comes up and all three of them
try to get rid of him. J-5 finds the short circuit for them. John sees it and
it zaps. NOTE: the door sound effect to the stabilizers opening is the first
season hatch doorway, ramp control sound effect. Don asks, joking, what planet
J-5 said he was from, "Cal Tech?"
Judy asks, "How on Earth did you know where to look?" J-5 is a new crew member, John claims. John
can't see why they can't bring him home to his home planet. J-5 asks,
"Will you, could you?" Don
comments that as long as it is not too far out of their way and in the same
galaxy. J-5 remembers the Zaybo and runs off to the lower deck. John wonders if
the boy can fly a spaceship. Don smirks, "Aw come on." WHAT IS SO FRIGGIN STRANGE ABOUT A BOY FLYING
THE SHIP? Or funny? Will opens the door to his cabin with Smith standing
outside. Will looks in and sees a lion right there, its mouth open wide and
roaring. J-5 comes, shuts the door, then opens it and backs in, going into the
room, shutting the door again. He opens the door after he has put Zaybo into a
storage cabinet which has a TV on top of it. When they come back in, Smith
cannot believe Will saw a lion, thinking it is just some boy's game. J-5 tells
Will it was just imagination. Will says, "There's something awfully funny
about you." Before he can take this
further, an emergency alarm from upper deck rings out. They go up. There is fog
(?) on the viewport. Everyone is upstairs now. Don hits retros. Robot warns,
"Warning! Warning! Collision! Collision!" Everyone shakes and outside we see a blast
infront of the viewport.
ACT
TWO
We
hear wind sound effects. Maureen helps Judy up. They think there might be some
kind of forcefield they hit. Judy thinks she heard scraping, there might be
damage. The fog lifts and Maureen sees a station out in space. John says,
"It's sucking us in closer in between them." There is no power, there has been damage. The
Jupiter 2 lands on the space station which has F-12 written on it. John wants
to go out and make the first move. Maureen says, "Oh John, you can't do
that. You don't know what sort of awful creatures might be in there." John puts his helmet on. Maureen says,
"John, be careful." John goes
to the airlock with no gloves on but his space suit is on. He opens the door to
the Jupiter and pulls his gun out. There is a sound and the Jupiter is bumped.
Maureen calls John who tells them it was an airlock like some kind of
gangplank. A voice starts talking so all can hear, "Lost in space two
years, five months, six days, departed Cape Kennedy September 18th, 1997,
Jupiter II, Professor John Robinson
Commander." John takes off his helmet and covering
vest.
Will,
hearing the date and other information, says, "That's right." Eh, Will, no it isn't.
John
goes through a door to a larger area. An old man comes and doesn't really talk
much but hugs John, happy to see him. He wears an orange overall worksuit and a
rimmed blue cap. As he hugs John, John says, "Just a minute!" As the computer voice still talks on and on
about the Jupiter II ("Mission: exploration."), the excited man,
Colonel Silas (or Cyrus) J. Fogey, tries to shut the computer off, yelling at
it. Finally, it stops, perhaps from his banging. He used to listen to the
baseball game tapes: one was that the Mets won against the Angels in 1984 with
a score of 22. He must turn on the landing lights. Penny sees an American flag
outside the round window. The station the Jupiter is on is a lighthouse ship
F-12 in Galaxy 14 Y. The man finds his hat. John is the first visitor the man
has had in 11 years. He was with the US Air Force. He hugs John again.
Later,
in the Jupiter, Will combs his hair using a hand mirror. Will doesn't know what
all the fuss is about and why they had to give Fogey some time. Don asks him if
he was in space, alone for 11 years, wouldn't he want to clean up his house.
"No," Will answers. Judy asks
mom for a comb. After J-5 puts Zaybo into the metal storage box again, Penny
gets J-5, telling him about an enclosed gangway walk for them all to go through
to the lightship. The Robot arrives, "Your mother says hurry up."
Later,
John introduces the family, Don, and J-5 to the Colonel. Smith introduces
himself to the Colonel who calls him Mister Smith. Will tells J-5 this is a
weather station in space, an outer space light house. Fogey shows them the
control area, a huge area. Maureen's reaction, "Oh my, well." The plan was for Earth to put one navigation
aide like this lighthouse in every galaxy. Maureen says, "Mmmmm, you must
have been awfully lonely." In 3
more years, he can retire. He shows them weather plotting devices and
directional signals to guide others from Earth. He also has maps somewhere.
John and the Colonel will discuss the maps. Don wonders if they can help the
Jupiter get back on course.
Still
later, all sit at the dinner table in a dark room. Penny mentions it is like
Thanksgiving, as the Colonel laid out an elegant dinner with cranberry sauce,
jello, and a roast. Smith tastes the wine: Early Grand Rapids, domestic. It was
left over from the lighthouse's christening. John and Fogey have good news:
there is a store of emergency fuel on the lighthouse and when it is piped
aboard the Jupiter 2, it is sufficient enough to take them straight back home
to Earth. Will says, "We're finally going home." Smith offers a toast to give Fogey a
congressional medal. He, John, and the Colonel drink. Penny reminds them about
bringing J-5 back to his home planet. Fogey tells her no---he lives too far out
and in the wrong direction; there is not enough fuel to take him home. Maureen
says, "J-5, you'll love Earth, really you will." NICE SYMPATHETIC TOUCH THERE, MAUR. Don adds
to his misery, "Sure, J-5, we'll ahh, we'll find a nice home for you down
there." DOWN WHERE? J-5 runs out of
the room. Maureen says, "Oh dear...Penny." Penny runs after the boy.
J-5
goes into Will's room, opens the storage bin, and takes out the Zaybo,
"We'll show them, we'll show them!"
he cries and sobs.
ACT
THREE
Penny
comes down the elevator. J-5 hides Zabyo under his shirt. Penny knows how she
would feel if she thought she were going back to her home planet and then
suddenly found out she weren't. She knows he is crying and is sensitive. She
tries to tell him about Earth--how green and beautiful it is and she takes his
hand. J-5 seems to calm down, "No matter what happens, Penny, promise to
be my friend?" Penny says, "Of
course, silly." When they go up to
the control room, J-5 asks if the Robot will work for anybody. He looks at the
computers and instruments, thinking he could figure out how to work them. Penny
tells him, "Dad says you have unusual scientific aptitude." J-5 sends Penny back into the dining room
first so it doesn't look funny and he is not embarrassed. When she goes in, he
takes the Zaybo out of his shirt, "Scoo, scoot." John tells the Colonel that he and his wife
would like to take a look around and they do. A few ships from other planets
have passed by but never stopped and never contacted him. Smith opens a bottle of
champagne. Judy thinks Fogey must have been awfully lonesome. But now it is
exciting, he tells her. He tried to make things different. Every 4th Tuesday he
cleaned the alarm bells. J-5 asks him if it scares him that the alarm bells
might ring. Judy and Penny look as Fogey starts to hear alarm bells. He runs to
the Control Bridge, followed by all but Smith and J-5. J-5 holds a glass for
Smith to pour the champagne in. Penny calls J-5, "J-5, come on!" He goes with her. In the hallway, J-5 tells
her that they will just get in the way if all of them are on the bridge. He
tells Penny to go on up and when she leaves, he calls the Zaybo,
"Meow." It goes up his shirt.
J-5 goes back in and tells Smith about his planet.
On
the bridge, the device lights up and Fogey insists it is supposed to say what
is wrong. John asks him how they turn the alarm bells off. It goes off by
itself which Fogey says is strange as the auto switch wasn't turned on. A light
lights up now. John asks about the storm and how it has affected the
lighthouse. Fogey asks, "Storm? What storm?" John motions with his hands across space,
"The cosmic storm that is sweeping the entire galaxy." Fogey acts goofy. He takes a combination card
and puts it into the computer. Behind them are long floor to ceiling windows
where we can see the galaxy outside. They check the scanner. Don thinks they
have time to repair the Jupiter 2 this afternoon. The dinner is probably cold
by now. John asks about drift which Fogey doesn't seem to understand. He just
tells John it is a stationary lightship, controlled automatically from its
launching. There is a drift indicator console (a TIME TUNNEL console).
Smith
eats and drinks in the dinner room. He says, "Never fear, Smith is
here." J-5 has on a gold tunic with
a long slit on the chest from the neck down, a tan belt, and pants. J-5 thinks
they will never get him to his planet. Smith tells him, "My dear boy Never
Say Never." J-5 tells Smith that the trouble with "you
Earthpeople" is you think a boy shouldn't be listened to and that they
think he is just a boy. Smith thinks that is nonsense---J-5 is almost as bright
as he was at the same age, "Why you're almost as bright as I
was." J-5 leaves the room but from
the hallway watches, peeking through the door. A girl calls Smith from a wood
cabinet behind the table. He yelps and drops his drink. In the cabinet, a girl
has a jewel, sitting on top a pillow and a chest of some kind. She wants Smith
to come play in her garden. She tells him she is from J-5's planet and that he
is a very smart boy who can make people imagine things. She waves a jewel
around to tempt Smith, who seems entranced by her. He wants to go to her
planet, "our planet" she says.
J-5
dreams up some story about Dr. Smith wanting his glasses, making Penny go to
look for the glasses on board the Jupiter II. J-5 then hypnotizes Smith in the
dining room, wanting Smith to tell him what the controls are. If he just tells
J-5, the boy will be able to know how to work them. Smith goes outside. J-5
picks up the invisible Zaybo, which comes out of the closet. He tells the Zaybo
it can stay here and do anything it wants with the rest of these people--he is
going home. He runs out of the room.
ACT
FOUR
On a
giant monitor screen, the Robinsons, Don, and Fogey see a mass of stars moving
faster. The lighthouse propulsion unit is not operational. They are headed
straight for a star cluster. John nixes Maureen's idea to use the spaceship
Jupiter 2's power to push the station which he says would be like trying to
push an elephant with an ant. Judy says, "But we'll be drawn into those
suns." Fogey tells them it is loneliness, as he holds Maureen's hands,
calling John sir. John yells at him to stop calling him sir. Fogey in a tantrum
yells he is not a colonel---calling him sir comes naturally. He is just the
cook and handyman. The real Colonel took off in a space raft somewhere and
never came back. He was pretending; he can't work the light ship. Smith is
showing J-5 the right backup rocket, the left landing control, the space
pressure control aboard the Jupiter II. They are done. J-5 calls Smith arrogant
and stupid. We hear odd music. Penny comes up to J-5: she can't find Dr.
Smith's glasses, "Besides, he never wears them." J-5 tells her that her father wants them to
get underway to go for help. Penny hits J-5's hand, "Get away from those
buttons!" Penny runs for the door
but Smith grabs her. Penny says, "Dr. Smith what's wrong with you--he's
gonna steal our spaceship!" Smith
holds her--he is coming along too. Robot is there also and has not had enough
time to compute all the probabilities. He seems affected by J-5 also. J-5 tells
Penny they are friends and they are going to be together forever. Penny cries
and breaks down, sobbing. Fogey tells the others in the control room that there
is no fuel to get them back to Earth. There are no maps--he accidentally burned
them in the galley while cooking. He wanted to delay them so that he could
smuggle himself aboard their spaceship when they left. He can't stand being
alone any more. Judy says, "Oh Colonel." This makes him yell and take off his stars,
yelling, "I am not a Colonel! I am a coward!" John yells at him to stop it--whatever he is,
he will be dead like they. John sends Will for Smith and the Robot, telling him
to also get J-5, they can use all the help they can get up here. When Will
enters the dining room, he sees a lion attacking him. He falls over the table
and runs. Penny breaks free from J-5 and Smith's grip and runs out of the
Jupiter II, hearing Will's loud and desperate cries for help from dad. J-5 goes
to run after her, worried for her but Smith grabs him and tells him they can
go, forgetting about all the rest--they can fire the blast off button. J-5
breaks free and calls for Penny, worried about her. Inside, J-5 finds Penny
coming up from under the table, lighting a candelabra, telling him she can't be
hurt by something that is imaginary. J-5 made up the Zaybo, she figured out--he
has a fantastic mind that can make people imagine what they are afraid of. She
holds the candles between them. J-5 was alone for 5 years---he remembered
nothing about his home planet. He wanted something to be on his side--something
that would like him, something against the loneliness like a kitten. He calls
for it. It won't answer. Penny says, "Oh J-5 don't you see? Maybe you don't
need it anymore. Well, you were worried about me---maybe you'll never need it
again because now there are real people and real things to think
about." Don comes in and asks what
has been going on. The room shakes. Penny says, "Nothing, everything's
allright." Don says, "Oh no
it's not." They have to abandon
ship and get everyone back on board the Jupiter II. J-5 tells Don it is the
stabilizers--the same thing that affected the Jupiter before. It was a short
circuit. The room shakes. They run for the control deck as the hall and dining
room shake. They run into the control deck and shake along with the others. Don
goes to controls to stabilize but J-5 goes to another and opens it as all shake
and fall. He pulls a newspaper out from the control stabilizers. Colonel rolls
his eyes. J-5 gives him the paper.
Later...the
Colonel is in an orange jumpsuit, "I hate to say it--goodbye." He and Don try to shake hands or salute each
other. John tells him that the Colonel deserves his title. The Colonel remains
modest. He hopes maybe now someone will be able to hear his weather reports
now. Maureen thinks so--all he needed was a crew. J-5 is in an orange jumpsuit,
saluting, readying for cast off of the Jupiter. A relief ship will be here in
three years. The Colonel will send
J-5
back to his own planet or to Earth or anywhere else he wants to go. Don says,
"It's time for cast off." Judy
walks with Will to the gangplank; Maureen and John go together; Penny is last.
J-5 stops at the end of the gangplank and waves, happy, "Goodbye Penny,
don't worry, I'll be seeing you one of these days." She walks past the gyros, sad, either from
leaving J-5 or from the fact that he betrayed her somewhat or that she and he
didn't work out as planned. The signpost she passes reads Gyros and Bridge. She
stops, J-5 not sure she will return his good bye, "Good-bye,
J-5." J-5 smiles at her. She turns
and sadly goes into the Jupiter II doorway, shutting both the airlock door and
the inner door, thinking. The Jupiter II takes off from the lighthouse in
space.
TUMBLE
WEED MONSTER MUSIC FROM ISLAND IN THE SKY WITH ROBOT ATTACK MUSIC FROM SAME
EPISODE--Will looks up and sees Indians. A giant orange colored cyclops roars
and moves at them.
NARRATOR:
"Next week, Will and Dr. Smith fall into a mysterious slumber, awakening
to find they are three hundred years into the future!"
There
are strange green lights as the Space Pod with Robot, Will, and Smith encounter
the ball in space. Robot warns, "Warning! Warning. We are about to enter
the orbit of an unidentified planet!"
Smith gasps, "Do something!"
Will says, "I'm trying but the pod does have enough power to pull
out!" John and Don encounter the
green lights and a tree blasted. Robot fires electric at the spiked monster and
a machine, both blow up. Judy in a strange glittery red futuristic space suit
looks, "I'm not joking Will."
Will sits against a corroded Jupiter II, listening. "I'M NOT YOUR
SISTER." There is a huge boulder
which blows up. John yells, "Don!"
He pulls Don back as a boulder falls at them. The Jupiter II flies past
rocks on a crash course. Don shakes inside, green lights, "I've got a
feeling that someone down on that planet is letting us know that we're not
welcome!" John moves to buckle in,
"All right, then prepare for emergency landing."
"Next
week FLIGHT INTO THE FUTURE on LOST IN SPACE over this channel!"
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