Feeling a little Lost in Space because of our current COVID-19 isolation? Let this “spaceship” analogy encourage you to use this time as a chance to not only survive, but thrive! 2020-07-20T17:42:08-07:00 By Dr. Marcantel Health Tips, Other Topics. Jonathan Harris (as Dr. Zachary Smith) and Billy Mumy (as Will Robinson) in an epsiode of ‘Lost in Space,’ October 15, 1965. Photo by CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images) Lost In Space Robinson Classic. 2005 Rittenhouse The Complete Lost in Space. Total Cards: 90 Rating: 0.0 (0 votes) Click here to Rate.

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Marta Kristen and Mark Goddard of 'Lost In Space.' Source: IMDB

For fans of the original 'Danger Will Robinson!' show, Lost In Space, the stranded Robinson family is headed by Guy Williams and June Lockhart, and includes Marta Kristen, Bill Mumy, and Angela Cartwright (Mark Goddard and Jonathan Harris are around too). A new Lost In Space, -- the show's fourth iteration -- debuted last year on Netflix, with an outstanding cast and special effects that gave young Millennials a taste of what the Baby Boomers hold dear. Sure, a few things have changed. Apparently, the robot has some sex appeal now. But the nuts and bolts are mostly the same. The Robinson family is still “Lost In Space” and forced to fend off strange aliens and shocking betrayal. Nevertheless, the original Lost In Space, which aired from 1965-68, holds a charm and nostalgia that even new fangled sexy robots could never match. So if you’ve ever wondered where the original crew of the Jupiter 2 ended up, read on!

Marta Kristen Then

From Norwegian orphan to foxy eldest space daughter, Marta Kristen easily claims the most unlikely back story of the Lost In Space cast. Unfortunately, her career in TV and movies didn’t come with the same level of intrigue as her backstory. She did work in television for years, finding bit parts in TV shows like Murphy Brown, Strange Voices, and this year in a show called The Vamps Next Door.

Marta Kristen Today

Makers of the 1998 Lost In Space movie slipped her in as reporter #1 for hardcore fans. If you’d like to meet the gracefully aging beauty, she still attends Sci-fi conventions from time to time. Today, she lives in Santa Monica, California with her two rescue dogs.

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June Lockhart Then

The mother of the Robinson family, who had a whole 'nother TV life beforehand, in Lassie, is also the longest-running actor of the clan. Incredibly, at age 91(!) June Lockhart co-starred in an indie film called The Remake. Since the end of Lost In Space, she worked tirelessly. Seriously, her IMDB page is as long a CVS receipt. Her roles were not in small shows either.

June Lockhart Now

Her impressive resume includes appearances on The Drew Carey Show, Full House, Beverly Hills 90201, General Hospital, and Grey’s Anatomy! She, like Marta Kristen, made a small cameo in the 1998 Lost In Space Movie. The highlight of her career remains the Tony Award she won for her Broadway performance of For Love or Money. She also won the 1948 Associated Press citation for Woman of the Year for Drama and became an overnight Broadway sensation based off that standing ovation worthy performance.

Mark Goddard Then

The intrepid pilot of the Jupiter 2, Mark Goddard, likely felt the most conflicted by the original Lost In Space TV show. It took a turn from a darker, black and white sci-fi show to a goofy and light-hearted show when it changed to color. In 2015, Goddard said that he was, at the time, disappointed the show, “became campy instead of staying true to a science-fiction show, which would have been more like Star Trek. But it went the way it went. I don’t fault anyone.” Goddard was afraid the show could hurt his career, “I didn’t want the show to be a career buster, because Guy Williams told me at the time: ‘This show’s a career buster.’”

Mark Goddard Now

Thankfully, it appears time heals all wounds as Goddard today holds an appreciation for the show’s cultural impact and the happiness it brings to its aging fan base. In that same interview, Goddard reveled in the nostalgia: “It brings you back to a time in your life that was good for most people — and for some not so good — but they have Lost in Space to fantasize about.” His career after the show extended for many years, mostly on television. Goddard wasn’t quite as prolific as Ms. Lockhart but he too made an appearance in the Lost In Space movie, as well as General Hospital.

Angela Cartwright Then

Playing the precocious youth Penny Robinson, Angela Cartwright at age 13, was already well into her acting career by 1965. Her first IMDB entry is an uncredited appearance on Somebody Up There Like Me. She was three years old at the time. Her big break came on Make Room For Daddy in 1953.

Angela Cartwright Now

As happens with many child actors, Cartwright’s acting career petered out by the early ‘80s. She, like everyone else from the TV show, made a cameo in the Lost In Space movie. Post-Lost In Space TV show, Cartwright took a few small parts in TV shows like The Love Boat, and Airwolf, but eventually transitioned into photography. Her work is on display at Studio City, Los Angeles.

Bill Mumy Then

While we celebrated the prolific career of June Lockhart, the tech whiz-kid of the original Lost In Space cast, Bill Mumy, produced the most work post-1968. It may be difficult to believe but the fresh-faced boy wonder turned into a Renaissance man.

Bill Mumy Now

Mumy’s acting career started before Lost In Space when he memorably played maybe the creepiest kid in Twilight Zone history. It also continued long after Lost In Space in such hits as Babylon 5, Star TrekDeep Space 9, Matlock, and many many more. He is also an accomplished musician, writer, songwriter, and composer. He is half of the musical duo Barnes and Barnes and wrote on more TV shows than you can imagine.

Guy Williams, 1924-1989

Already famous for his pre-Lost In Space role as Zorro, Guy Williams steadily acted, leading up to his role as Prof. John Robinson. However, after Lost In Space he basically called it a career and moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina. According to a very candid interview with the Archive of American Television, Williams wasn’t particularly proud of the show and regretted his relationship with Jonathan Harris who played Dr. Smith. It appears he felt overshadowed by Harris. Williams passed away of a heart attack at age 65.

Jonathan Harris, 1914-2002

The villainous doctor turned comic relief never found success as a traditional actor after Lost In Space. He did, however, have a long-running career as a voice actor. From 1978 to 2000, Harris voiced characters on 19 different shows, mostly kid shows. Many twenty-somethings would be shocked to learn that some of the voices on Paddington Bear, Darkwing Duck, Gargoyles, Mighty Ducks, Quack Pack, and Spider-Man were Jonathan Harris. Harris died in 2002.

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Two of Hollywood’s biggest, most lovable stars labor away in the pretty but kind of dumb Passengers, a movie that doesn’t have the guts to be as ugly as it should be.

Chris Pratt plays Jim Preston, a mechanic dedicated to starting a life on a distant planet. He and 5,000 other passengers are in suspended animation aboard a ship taking a 125-year journey. That ship has an unfortunate encounter with a meteor shower, and Jim’s sleeping pod awakens him … with 90 years to go on the trip.

What to do, what to do, what to do? Jim soon realizes his plight. He’s fortunate in that the ship is a cruise ship, so it has a nice gym, OK food, and pretty suites. The novelty runs out after a year, and a lonely, Robinson Crusoe-looking Jim—terrible fake beard—gets it into his head to do a very bad thing.

I’m delivering a spoiler of sorts here, but if you’ve seen commercials for this movie, you know that Jennifer Lawrence is in it, and her character has to enter the plot at some point, right? Besides, you can’t really spoil what kind of stinks already.

Jim, after exhausting all conversation with the ship’s android bartender (Michael Sheen), opts to wake up Aurora (Lawrence). What’s more, he doesn’t tell her. He also doesn’t tell her that he studied her for a good long while, and woke her up because he thought she was really smart and, yes, super hot. In one year of isolation, he’s become a super freaky creep.

So, where does director Morten Tyldum go wrong besides having a really hard name to spell? He’s working off a Jon Spaihts (also hard to spell) script that insists upon being happy and triumphant while it would probably work better as some sort of horror movie.

These characters are essentially lost in space and given a lonely death sentence. Yet, the film fights for ways to make it a sappy love story between Jim and Aurora. Oh sure, Aurora gets a little pissed about the whole waking her up to die thing, but the script calls for Jim to be some sort of hero rather than her captor.

The movie shows Aurora getting angry, but she eventually comes around because, you know, it’s Chris Pratt, and he’s really cute. Had some portly weirdo with snot coming out of his nose woken her up, this would’ve been an altogether different movie. Passengers seems to say that if you are really good-looking, you can do unspeakably awful things and get away with it. Actually, the movie might be onto something here.

Still, even if there’s a shred of truth to the whole good-looking-folks-get-the-best-of-it premise, I think this would’ve been a better movie had Aurora taken a beeline to the weapons room and gone on a Jim hunt. For this to be a love story, Aurora’s awakening needed to be an accident as well. In allowing Jim to do this horrible thing and essentially get away with it, the movie blows an opportunity to really be something other than a pretty picture.

Imagine if somebody like Stanley Kubrick got ahold of this premise. Oh man, that would’ve been a movie to be reckoned with. Instead, we get a pretty space opera with a happy ending.

The movie is good-looking for sure, and I really liked the design of the ship. That’s essentially what’s keeping Passengers from getting my lowest rating. That, and the fact that Jennifer Lawrence really can act, even when she’s in a junk-food movie. She can salvage the most mundane of dialogue and almost make it sound good. Almost.

It’s very appropriate that the year ends with a big, vapid, underwhelming blockbuster, for this was the year when we had many. Passengers won’t frustrate you so much for what it is, as for what it could have been. This could’ve been one of the sickest science fiction epics since Alien. Instead, it’s Cast Away meets Sleepless in Seattle in space.

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