Was Land of the Lost a series about a family who fell through a hole in the ground in their car and spent most of the time avoiding dinosaurs and some sort of dinosaur-ish looking race.
If it's what I'm thinking of then I can't believe it was made before the 1990's because there is no way they could have done some of the special effects on the episodes I watched on Channel 5 (one of the British terrestrial channels famous for late night pornography, CSI and something that starts tomorrow night called Cleopatra 2525) on Saturday mornings a few years back. I mean if this was a 1970's show then they must have thrown serious amounts of money at that show to get the kind of effects in it.
Come to think of it, I can just remember the (incredibly catchy) opening title music and the show was called Land of the Lost so I'm impressed.
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Kid Mama-san, what do they call that thing they shoot the cats out of?
Mama-san I'm not sure, but I think they call it a catapult.
Kid Boy, I'm glad I didn't have to say that line...
PS: I was a kid in the 70's (I was born in '74) and I don't remember LOTL before Channel 5 showed it in '97 or '98.
By the way, is Cleopatra 2525 any good. From what I've heard of the plot it sounds like a real no brainer.
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Kid Mama-san, what do they call that thing they shoot the cats out of?
Mama-san I'm not sure, but I think they call it a catapult.
Kid Boy, I'm glad I didn't have to say that line...
Tring to remember Land of the Lost, oh boy that is going back a few years.
The one I remember was the family was on a rafting trip, or something like that, when they encountered a large cave/cavern/canyon. They went over a waterfall and ended up in, well, the Land of The Lost. I don't know about the car and the hole, perhaps a remake? Anyway if there is a character of the Sleeztak (sp) by the name of Enic, correct me if i'm wrong, then you have Land of the Lost. And yes it was most definetly in '70s and no the special effects were standard for the time, ie claymation stop motion photography for the Dinosaurs and really cheesy, looking back, costumes for the Sleeztak, same idea as the Voth in Voy. highly evolved dinosaurs...humanoid of course.
As an aside wasn't that the show that had an allosaurus by the name of Alice? You know I still can remember some scenes from that show and I would have 5 or 6 at the time. Ahh, the memories. Wish I could forget how long ago it was.
There was a New Land of the Lost in the 1990s. The original was, indeed, a 1970s series; I recall it fondly.
For Saturday morning fare, it was really quite good, with some themes that might make an imaginative child think. Of course, it was incredibly hokey and contrived as well--and thus, perfect for kids, who love a good mix.
Alice was the green allosaurus that lived in the Forbidden City. Grumpy was her gray tyrannosaur counterpart (for dramatic purposes, they were the same size, even though that's pretty much absurd unless the latter was a kid); he wandered the area in which Marshall, Will, Holly and Chaka (the australopithecene they befriend) actually lived.
Actually, I had a chance to see it again on the Sci-Fi channel a few years ago, though it was edited pretty badly, in true Sci-Fi tradition. ("What? It only gives room for seven minutes of commercial per half hour? Hand me the scissors!!!")
What amazes me is how well the writing for the first season was. Of course it had some awesome writers. Below is a list of all the writers from the show. You won't recognize all of them, but you'll be amazed by some of them:
Margaret Armen
Barry E. Blitzer
Ben Bova
John Cutts
D.C. Fontana
Peter Germano
David Gerrold
Donald F. Glut
James L. Henderson
Bill Keenan
Walter Koenig
Jon Kubichan
Ian Martin
Dick Morgan
Larry Niven
Joyce Perry
Sam Roeca
Norman Spinrad
Greg Strangis
Theodore Sturgeon
Tom Swale
Oh, yeah, as another note, as LCM said early 90s had a remake.
Same characters (pretty much--although I don't remember the caveguy being quite so ... Neelix), better SFX, suckier plots, and they drove around in a Jeep Cherokee (Where they got the gas for it, I'll never understand. The Dinosaurs were still alive.)
On the same lines (sorta) does anyone remember a show set with some kids I believe who were part of a junior yaucht (sp) race that wound up on some islands that were lost and inhabited by descendants of pirates? I don't think it lasted too long.....
Well, Gawd-damn! THERE is a piece of nostalgia. Talk about a "Land that Time Forgot", in the LOTL, it's still the '70s!
I always liked the strange stuff from other times which would wander into the show: Eyak, of course, but also the test pilot from "the future" who bailed out of his spaceship into the LOTL, the weird guy with lights all over his body who crash landed in some kind of starship or something, and then the episode where the boy (what's his name, again?) gets inside a special pylon and travels through a variety of alternate dimensions.
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The Land of the Lost.
* sighs *
There was a fun show (even if, looking back, it was a little corny).
It was good value back in those days, though.
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