Don and Doctor Smith are sent to an intergalactic prison after coming across an escapee.Don and Doctor Smith are sent to an intergalactic prison after coming across an escapee.Don and Doctor Smith are sent to an intergalactic prison after coming across an escapee.
Guy Williams
- Dr. John Robinson
- (credit only)
June Lockhart
- Maureen Robinson
- (credit only)
Marta Kristen
- Judy Robinson
- (credit only)
Bill Mumy
- Will Robinson
- (as Billy Mumy)
Angela Cartwright
- Penny Robinson
- (credit only)
John Hunt
- Monster #1
- (uncredited)
Ralph Madlener
- Monster #2
- (uncredited)
Dick Tufeld
- The Robot
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe ape-like prosthetic makeup used for Michael Conrad (as "Creech") was created by famous Academy Award winning Hollywood makeup artist John Chambers, whose credits include Planet of the Apes (1968), Star Trek (1966), and The Munsters (1964). The latex mask used for "Creech" was an early prototype of what would later be used throughout the "Planet of the Apes" franchise through 1975.
- GoofsWhen Creech and Don are fighting after their escape, Dr. Smith runs around holding a rock over his head and there is no shackle on his leg. In the next scene, the shackle is back on his leg and Cheech has to break the chain so he can go ahead without Smith.
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Better than most season 3 episodes
Sentenced to hard labour on a scorching penitentiary-world after being arrested for (allegedly) assisting an escaped convict (Michael Conrad in 'proto-Planet of the Apes make-up'), Smith and West discover that they are pawns in the prison-warden's plot to solve a major deutronium heist. While the episode is full of campy humour (primarily revolving around the robot baking 'escape-cakes' for his incarcerated friends) and the usual cheap-looking, albeit colourful, props that come and go in puffs of smoke, there is a bit more to the story than in previous LiS outings and Conrad's belligerent snouty 'Creech' is one of the series' better guest-aliens. By this point in the show's trajectory, Jonathon Harris' popular 'Smith' character had been long been reduced to incompetent, greedy, duplicitous, and self-centered comic-relief, but in this story he hits both a new low (falsely accusing Major West of assisting the convict) and an unexpected high (refusing to leave an injured West despite the promise of wealth and freedom). The image of the three prisoners sitting around a block of ice cooling their hands was one of the series' better sight-gags. Far from great sci-fi but still fun to watch (especially for those of us who remember loving the show more than half a century ago).
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- jamesrupert2014
- Aug 9, 2023
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- Runtime50 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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