Thursday, June 20, 2013
Lost In Space Sales Pitch
I love this sales film for the TV series 'Lost in Space'. It's an early attempt at creating a mass market campaign around a television show. I should count how many times the announcer mentions how profitable the series is and how it reaches the best demographic with the most purchasing power. Hell, I'm convinced. Lets run this series again and maybe bring along Land of the Giants - another Irwin Allen favorite of mine. Damn, he also made Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. How can anyone make me choose just one to watch? There should be a channel on the satellite that runs them every afternoon in the summer. That's something that would help the young shut-in in your family.
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we have a channel here in central florida called "METV" (memorable entertainment TV) that's noting but 50's and 60's shows. classic star trek on saturday night makes it all worth while.
Oh that does sound sweet. I could take those past shows and make a killer weekday and weekend lineup. Man you could do the Late Late Show and a Cartoon Lagoon that would kick some serious ass.
See, I have 500 channels and nothing like that on. Though I could You Tube it myself but who has the time?
Another Show from my Father's youth that he made sure his son's grew up on too. Fortunately the VHS tapes for this series were more readily available than "Doctor Who".
Its interesting to see how much emphasis is put on how totally awesome space travel will be, back before we actually had it. There's also Irwin Allen's unique sense of danger on full display here that he would later capitalize on in his feature films like The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure among others.
I am disappointed that there is no mention of Dr. Smith or the Robot as they were easily my favorite characters and would eventually became the stars of the show for good and for ill.
It's telling that they DON'T mention the robot or Dr. Smith in this promo. They talk about "Far Out" but obviously the suits thought those two elements were too far out for the investors. The fact that they eventually became the most popular characters shows how out of touch the makers of the shows really were with their audiences.
Good times... Sunday afternoons around our house were owned by Irwin Allen shows.
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