Lost In Space
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I'm also on season two of my Lost in Space DVD's (less than a week to go before I get to season 3). I don't know the answer to your question, but I suspect it has to do with season two being the point where the focus on Will, Dr. Smith and the Robot begins. The other characters become incidental.
Yeah, I agree ~~~ Also, I noticed that Guy Williams and the Major really had small roles compared to the other members of the cast.
I remember a interview with June Lockhart where she said that the producer or director told her that she and Guy Williams were not to embrace or kiss on screen, it being a family show. This struck her as odd because her own parents would alway touch and kiss in passing.
Perhaps not showing a bedroom for the married Robinsons was a part of that mentality?
Perhaps not showing a bedroom for the married Robinsons was a part of that mentality?
I remember a interview with June Lockhart where she said that the producer or director told her that she and Guy Williams were not to embrace or kiss on screen, it being a family show. This struck her as odd because her own parents would alway touch and kiss in passing.
Perhaps not showing a bedroom for the married Robinsons was a part of that mentality?
Wow, I didn't know that fact as well. I guess that way it was with 60's television. I do remember Gene Roddenberry had a fight with NBC television over the showing of a belly button too.
That seems kind of excessive. I understand they were a lot stricter about that kind of stuff on TV back then, but I'm pretty sure I've seen other shows from the same era that showed married couples embracing and kissing.I remember a interview with June Lockhart where she said that the producer or director told her that she and Guy Williams were not to embrace or kiss on screen, it being a family show. This struck her as odd because her own parents would alway touch and kiss in passing.
Perhaps not showing a bedroom for the married Robinsons was a part of that mentality?
I do remember Gene Roddenberry had a fight with NBC television over the showing of a belly button too.
Which is why he put a double-naveled Mariette Hartley in the Genesis II movie.
One of the few shows of that era to have the married couple in one bed was The Addams Family...
The Munsters was another. Since those were fantasy shows, I'm guessing that's why they got away with it.
One trick in some shows was to push two twin beds together and cover them with a king or queen size sheet.
I Love Lucy was in the fifties, not the sixties. Lucille and Desi were divorced in 1960. The episode you're referring to was "Lucy Is Enceinte" in 1952. Although the word "pregnant" was discouraged by the advertising sponsor, "expecting" was allowed.
I do remember Gene Roddenberry had a fight with NBC television over the showing of a belly button too.
Which is why he put a double-naveled Mariette Hartley in the Genesis II movie.
One of the few shows of that era to have the married couple in one bed was The Addams Family...
I guess that I need to get Genesis II on DVD.
By the way, I just received my Lost In Space Season Three Volume 1 on DVD today from ebay.
Gomez and Morticia were the first television couple to show true passion for each other- until then it was just simple hugs and a peck on the cheek.
Lost in Space was initially about a family struggling against odds in an alien environment and trying to get home. The first episodes were exciting but it then became more of a formula of Smith/Will/Robot having adventures and the rest of the family was just there to provide context.
I would have loved to seen more of both the family relationships and the budding romance between Don and Judy...
Lost in Space was initially about a family struggling against odds in an alien environment and trying to get home. The first episodes were exciting but it then became more of a formula of Smith/Will/Robot having adventures and the rest of the family was just there to provide context.
I would have loved to seen more of both the family relationships and the budding romance between Don and Judy...
Lucy and Ricky were pretty passionate to my eye (even when Lucy and Desi weren't).
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I Love Lucy was in the fifties, not the sixties. Lucille and Desi were divorced in 1960. The episode you're referring to was "Lucy Is Enceinte" in 1952. Although the word "pregnant" was discouraged by the advertising sponsor, "expecting" was allowed.[/QUOTE]
Alas, you are correct. It's tough getting old. Everything before TMP came out kinda jumbles together
I Love Lucy was in the fifties, not the sixties. Lucille and Desi were divorced in 1960. The episode you're referring to was "Lucy Is Enceinte" in 1952. Although the word "pregnant" was discouraged by the advertising sponsor, "expecting" was allowed.[/QUOTE]
Alas, you are correct. It's tough getting old. Everything before TMP came out kinda jumbles together
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