Going to Eden ... Yea brother

[Melakon]

"The Way to Eden" first aired in 1969, when I was 18, and I remember hating it even then. I enjoyed seeing Skip Homeier again in it, but that bald cap and those seashell ears he wore just looked ridiculous. The songs more resemble the folk era from a few years earlier than any contemporary rock of the time.

Then again, as Adam would say, I was pretty stiff back then, and definitely Herbert.

Edit: And before anyone asks (because it's been asked before a few times), I left Dr. Sevrin out of my avatar sequence in case anyone was already using him.

 

[Push The Button]

Eden's counterpart on Lost in Space was called "Collision of Planets," which aired about 16 months earlier. Daniel J. Travanti (Hill Street Blues) and Linda Gaye Scott (Little Fauss and Big Halsy) are excellent in their guest-hippy roles, but Jonanthan Harris steals the show as usual when he contracts a Samson-like condition that gives him super strength. Scott using her sex appeal to manipulate (and later emasculate) Harris as Dr. Smith was, for that show, some pretty hot stuff.

Since both episodes ended up (or were bound to be) ridiculous, I would argue that LIS took the wiser course and made their version a comedy on purpose.

Gerald Fried ("Amok Time", "Friday's Child") wrote the music for "Collision of Planets", and you can hear faint strains in common with his score to "The Paradise Syndrome." I remember knowing it was him in the LIS episode before reading the credits.

Daniel J. Travanti, that's a name that I haven't heard in a very long time. Good old Captain Furillo himself.

 

[Shik]

"The Way to Eden" first aired in 1969, when I was 18, and I remember hating it even then. I enjoyed seeing Skip Homeier again in it, but that bald cap and those seashell ears he wore just looked ridiculous. The songs more resemble the folk era from a few years earlier than any contemporary rock of the time.

Then again, as Adam would say, I was pretty stiff back then, and definitely Herbert.

Edit: And before anyone asks (because it's been asked before a few times), I left Dr. Sevrin out of my avatar sequence in case anyone was already using him.

I always thought Skip & Russell Johnson should've played as brothers in something, just like I'd like to see Bruce Willis & Jerry Doyle as brothers in something.

 

[PCz911]

And here is someone playing it on ukulele

http://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=93922&forumID=1&archive=0

 

[MikeH92467]

I have always that this episode was one or two re-writes away from being a really good episode. I'm not going to gainsay anyone's criticisms since they are many and mostly valid, but I will say that it was a touching moment when Spock says as he stands over Chuck Napier's body "his name was Adam". If the rest of the script had been as good as that one line, it would have been very good indeed.

 

[PCz911]

Ok, not one of the better episodes....or songs. But kind of fun in a strange sort of way. I don't suppose anyone has the words and guitar chords for this little ditty?

F#min C#min Bmin
F#min C#min Bmin A
Bmin A
Bmin A
D G Bmin
Emin Bmin

Interesting progression, but annoying as it resolves into a different key.

By the way, thank you for the chords.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Ok, not one of the better episodes....or songs. But kind of fun in a strange sort of way. I don't suppose anyone has the words and guitar chords for this little ditty?

F#min C#min Bmin
F#min C#min Bmin A
Bmin A
Bmin A
D G Bmin
Emin Bmin

Interesting progression, but annoying as it resolves into a different key.

By the way, thank you for the chords.

I've got some quibbles with those, by the way. I think the Emin is really a C7, and I think there's a D7 in there after the first Bmin.