Lost in Space (1965–1968): Season 1, Episode 2 - The Derelict - full transcript
Heat from an approaching comet nearly spells doom for Maureen and John who are stuck outside the ship after a rescue and repair operation. Afterwards, Will and Dr. Smith make a first-contact encounter with aliens when a gigantic and seemingly derelict spaceship pulls the Jupiter 2 inside itself.
[Man Narrating]
Last week, John Robinson,
father of the first family to
attempt colonization of outer space
found himself
helplessly adrift
when his line snapped while trying
to repair navigational equipment.
It is now shortly thereafter
as Maureen Robinson desperately
tries to reach her husband
before he slips farther off into
the trackless void of outer space.
[ Beeping ]
It's a comet.
It's headed our way.
Is it going to hit us?
It won't have to. Even if it
misses us by 5,000 miles,
its heat could shrivel us
to a crisp in nothing flat.
Can't you change
our flight path?
With your parents outside? Their
lines would go like that.
How long?
We can wait maybe
about four minutes.
[ Don ] John, there's
a comet headed our way.
How far?
I'd say we have a little
over three minutes.
[John] That should be time
enough to fix the scanner.
Leave that for later.
No. Now.
That's why I came out here
in the first place.
The last time I reprogrammed
you, you ran wild.
Almost wrecked the ship
with me in it!
But we can't have any more
of that, you know.
You will respond to my voice
orders only hereafter
if you want us
to stay friends.
And you do need a friend, you
know, just as much as I do.
It's getting too close for comfort.
How much longer?
Coming down now.
It's jammed!
Heat's expanded the metal!
Can you get in the air lock and
open the hatch from the inside?
It's jammed out here.
Right.
[ Don ] Can't budge it
from here either.
Don.
If you can't open that hatch
in a few seconds,
get back in the ship,
start the rockets
and get out of here!
[ Don ] You don't really
expect me to do that.
[ John ]
You don't have any choice.
Don, please. Start the ship.
[ Don ] I'll have this open
in a minute.
Don, do you hear me?
You've got to forget about us.
Something's got to be clone about
the comfort control system.
Where's the major?
In the air lock.
Mother and Dad
are still trapped out there,
and the comet's
getting closer.
Comet?
The major shouldn't be
in the air lock.
He should be in here trying to get us
out of this inferno before we burn up!
Don, what about
the fire extinguishers?
Maybe they can
cool off the hatch.
Good boy. Tell Dr. Smith to get
the big one up from below.
Tell him to hurry. I'm coming in.
Roger.
You heard what he said.
The big fire extinguisher.
Will, do you think
they're still alive?
Sure, Penny.
They've gotta be.
[Machines Whirring]
[Chattering]
As of this moment,
1800 hours, October 21, 1997,
all efforts to restore
communication with Jupiter 2
and America's first space
family have been unsuccessful.
Last reports from Jupiter's automatic
systems before all communication ceased
indicate that extensive damage may have
been caused by premature activation
of the spaceships
environmental control robot.
It is now believed that the tragic fate
of the Jupiter 2 and its occupants
may well be the result of sabotage on the
part of an agent of a foreign power.
I'd better go down
and see what's keeping him.
They're not moving.
[Will] Feel that heat.
The comet's closer.
Oh, hurry, Don. Hurry.
I hope you children are more familiar with
the navigation of this ship than I am.
Why?
Well, if the heat out there
should affect our pilot...
Do you always have to
say things like that?
[ Penny]
Do you think she's all right?
[John]
Here, set her down.
Don, get us out of here!
Maureen! Maureen!
Maureen. Maureen.
Was I...
Oh, was I really out there?
You really were, darling.
All right. Let's just see
how much you've learned.
Turn left.
Now stop.
Extend right arm.
Extend left arm.
Excellent.
"Excellent" does not compute.
Extend right claw.
Very good.
I know.
It does not compute.
A little more homework
this evening, my friend,
and we shall be able to take
over this whole expedition
and return immediately
to our native soil.
Crush.
[ Laughs]
Beautiful.
[John Thinking]
October 21st
in the Earth year 1997.
Somewhere in space.
We've come to the end of the
first 24 hours of the voyage
and all are in good health
including our, uh, increasingly
annoying extra passenger, Dr. Smith.
As yet, we have no inkling
of our true position.
The period during which we traveled in
hyperdrive beyond the speed of light
could have carried us through space and
time to almost any part of the galaxy.
Now, as Major West continues to search
for some clue to our present location,
there's little for any of us to
do but rest and wait and hope.
I thought
you might like this.
Thank you.
Any luck?
[sighs] Not yet.
Shouldn't you be
getting some sleep?
I can't close my eyes.
Not until we know something.
You'll be getting
pretty sleepy.
That could almost be the great
galaxy of Andromeda, couldn't it?
Yeah.
Although, from where we sit,
it could almost be anything.
Funny how easy it was to identify
the galaxies back at school.
We used to just sit there
and rattle them off.
Do you wanna go home, Judy?
I never did like school.
[ Male Voice ] Nor lose possession...
[Penny] Come in.
[ Man On Tape ] "Nor shall Death
brag thou wander'st in his shade
"When in eternal lines
to time thou grow'st.
"So long as men can breathe...
" Shakespeare?
Shakespeare.
Good night, sweet.
Good night, Dad.
[ Knocking ]
Come in.
Well, I thought
you'd be asleep by now.
I've been trying
to figure our position.
Any luck?
Well, if Alpha Centauri's
velocity is the same as ours,
and if our bearing deviation's
not more than five degrees,
Don should be picking up
a signal about now.
Well, maybe you
better tell him.
Excuse me, Doctor. I...
Where'd you get this?
And this?
Ah, well, I had planned
it as a surprise,
but now I suppose
you'll give it all away.
Give what away?
And deny me the simple
pleasure I have derived
from presenting
all of you with a robot
in full working order.
Dr. Smith, why didn't you ask for
permission to tamper with that robot?
Tamper? When every bit,
every circuit,
every last contact in it
is as familiar to me
as my own name?
I don't tamper, Dr. Robinson.
I create new pathways in
cybernetics for our little friend.
Its "pathways"?
The kind of pathways that
could have wrecked this ship
and almost cost us
all our lives?
But that's absurd.
I was in the same danger
as everyone else.
Now you listen to me,
Dr. Smith.
How you came to be on this
ship when we took off
doesn't really matter
right now.
But just remember one thing,
as far as I'm concerned,
you're a stowaway.
You're going to be
treated as such.
[Electronic Whir]
[Electronic Whir]
Can you identify it?
I never heard
a signal like it before.
Let's go upstairs.
I tried to get a fix
on Alpha Centauri
according to
Will's calculations.
Picked this up instead.
[John] Did you get
a spectrometer reading?
Yeah. The whole spectrum.
But the relative concentrations don't
read like anything I can identify.
Let me look.
No, I can't get
anything either.
Maybe it's an asteroid.
Then it's not
Alpha Centauri?
No, dear.
Give us
a three-second boost.
We should be able
to see it now.
[Will] It's a spaceship!
[ Penny] Is it one of ours?
[Maureen] I don 't know.
[ Penny]
Where could it be from?
[ Don ] We can't be sure yet.
It certainly doesn't
look like one of ours.
Calling Aeolus 14 Umbra.
Aeolus 14 Umbra.
We have sighted
your spaceship.
Do you have instructions?
[Shrill Buzz]
They're not replying.
Let's move in closer.
How big is it?
I don't know.
It's big enough
to use us for a lifeboat.
This is as close as we go.
Let's get around
the other side then.
[Sighs ] All right.
If you insist.
Look at that thing.
Where's your
scientific curiosity?
All in one basket,
Alpha Centauri.
[Will ]
What's it made of?
Probably some alloy
we've never even heard of.
It even baffled
the spectrometer.
[Will ] Where do you
think it's from?
I don't know.
I've never seen anything
like that in my life.
It looks like a ghost ship.
If it was in the path
of that comet,
the heat may have destroyed
whatever life there was on board.
I'd like to make sure.
A ship that size!
Think of the payload it must be carrying.
The fuel! The power unit!
It might even have
a guidance system
that could help us,
no matter where it's from.
Yeah.
Or it also could be manned
by an alien crew.
It's moving in!
No, we are.
It's pulling us!
I can't break away!
We're gonna collide!
Get to the back of the deck!
All of you!
[Maureen ] There must
be life aboard, John.
Or the ship may have been
preset to swallow visitors.
Hey, where's Dr. Smith?
Oh, I forgot about him.
I was about to confine him to his
quarters when we sighted the ship.
You'd better go down and get him.
I'll go!
What happened?
I found him monkeying with
some robot equipment.
[Robot Whirring]
What are you doing up there?
Someone had to protect
our little friend, my boy.
This is my battle station,
as they say in the navy.
Well, you'd better
come on up now.
Any casualties?
No.
Good. Good.
Two steps forward,
my mechanical friend.
As you were.
Xenon, .86.
Right.
Argon, 1.4.
Oxygen?
Low. 5.4.
Whatever pulled us in, it somehow
reinstated an atmosphere.
I shouldn't be
at all surprised.
Oh, sorry.
I forgot about you, Doctor.
Nothing at all.
You had your hands full.
I saw everything.
You realize, of course, that
we seem to be imprisoned here?
Yes. Quite a predicament.
Have they communicated
with you yet?
Not by any signal we can read.
They're not in any great
hurry, I don't suppose.
[Maureen ] Dr. Smith, how
can you possibly know that
when we're almost certain this
ship is from our planet?
Is that what you think?
Don't you?
Well, if you're all agreed,
I suppose I must
go along with you.
There's a breathable
atmosphere out there, Doctor.
Don and I are going out
to investigate.
We want you to join us.
Of course.
Who knows
what we may discover?
Dad, may I go, too?
I don't think so, Will.
Gosh.
No one leaves the ship
till we get back.
I'll have the Robot
stand guard.
Don't trouble yourself.
I'll do it.
Don't stay out too long.
No longer than
I have to, darling.
I don't see why Dad
wouldn't let me go with them.
We do need a man here
while they're gone, Will.
[Sighs]
What do you
make of these?
Looks like it might have been some
sort of crystalline power source.
Way ahead of us, eh?
A million years.
One might say that,
I suppose.
Hello. [Echoes]
Shall we venture in,
gentlemen?
Makes you feel rather
primitive, doesn't it?
Next to this, we're still
in nursery school.
Quite.
Scintillation detector?
If it is, how do you read it?
[ Don ] Maybe it's some
kind of a guidance system.
If those are orbits, there's an
awful lot of traffic out there.
While you gentlemen
are admiring the instruments,
let me see whether
I can locate somebody.
Don't get lost, Doctor.
Never fear.
Somehow I hate to let Dr.
Smith wander off by himself.
Huh? Oh, he can't
do any harm here.
Yeah, that's true.
I guess.
Crystalline power.
Hello? [Echoes]
Hello. [Echoes]
You can come out.
It's all right.
I'm on your side.
I know my dad
told you to watch me,
but can't you close your
eyes even for a minute?
It does not compute.
Step aside, will ya?
It does not compute.
Two steps forward.
It does not compute!
[Mimicking Dr. Smith] Two steps
forward, my mechanical friend.
Dad? [ Echoes]
Dad? [ Echoes]
Dad? [ Echoes]
Dad? [ Echoes]
It's incredible.
Somehow they've mapped this
entire sector of the galaxy.
And these controls, they work a
huge road map for them. Watch.
Look at that.
But can you make anything of
all this that will help us?
Apparently these are all planets
classified according to relative mass.
It would be a good thing to know in
case we had to set down somewhere.
I'm from
the Jupiter 2 spaceship.
Planet Earth.
Do you read me?
[ Electricity Crackling]
What is this spaceship?
Where are you from?
Would you let our ship
out of here?
[ Electricity Crackling]
No! Don't shoot!
He was in that thing.
l disturbed him.
I think I can
communicate with him.
Not human. Nothing.
And I was so sure!
Human? Out here? Billions
of miles from the Earth?
No, don't!
Maybe they can help us.
I mean, they're not like
us, but maybe they are.
Very well, my boy.
See what you can do.
They've been out
an awfully long time.
Oh, well,
not really, dear.
It just seems that way.
Look, um,
Will's below.
Why don't you go down and
finish that game of chess?
You might even beat him.
Wanna bet?
[Chuckles]
[Robot Whirring]
Will?
Will?
Will! Mom, he's not here!
You'd better come down.
Quickly!
Look what happened
to the Robot.
Will thinks he's too big to
be left out of anything.
Then he's not too big to learn that he
must be disciplined for disobedience.
[ Electricity Crackling]
What do you suppose
that means?
I don't know.
But I don't think it likes being
asked to guide us anywhere.
Let me try.
Uh, we are from
the planet Earth.
We are perfectly
willing to stay here
if you'll show me how your guidance
system can get us back there.
But we don't want to go
back to Earth, Dr. Smith.
We want to go
to Alpha Centauri!
You do. Not I.
It doesn't really matter.
He doesn't seem
very cooperative.
He was before you got here.
Very well. Try again.
And I hope you realize how important
their guidance system would be to us.
My parents are on
the Jupiter 2 spaceship.
And my sisters and Major West.
He's our pilot.
And Dr. Smith here...
Well, he just seemed to be
aboard when we lifted off.
He's not interested in your passenger list.
Ask him something sensible.
I can't ask him anything till I get him
to realize I don't mean him any harm!
We are friendly.
We're from the planet Earth.
We are on our way
to Alpha Centauri.
No, no, no! Back to Earth!
He doesn't seem to read me
no matter what I say.
He'll read this!
You've ruined everything!
Why did you do that? They're
much bigger than we are!
Look, they're coming!
Apparently, this control
must be the key.
It must be the one that
shows where they were headed.
[Will's Voice Echoing] Dad!
Will?
Dad!
Dad!
[ Electricity Crackling]
Everybody,
back to the ship!
Get the ship ready
for liftoff.
Get the ship ready
for liftoff.
I'm gonna blast our way out.
[Gun Firing]
[Firing Continues]
Ready for liftoff.
[John ] I'll tell you when.
Roger.
[Firing Continues]
[Electrical Hum]
They've stopped.
John, I put a force field out. I don't
know how long it's gonna hold 'em.
Lift off!
Here they come.
And here we go! I hope.
[Engine Starts]
[Thinking] The irony
of our chance encounter
with what we now believe
to have been a shipload
of nonhuman colonists
in the far reaches of space
has just begun to strike us.
However, I had gathered one
vital piece of information
from their sequential star guide
during the near-tragic meeting.
Close to our present position,
there appears to be a planet
with a mass nearly identical
to the Earth's mass.
Finding this planet can prove
a godsend to us at this time.
We have no business trying
to land on that planet.
[Will 1 on, Mother!
We're settlers,
not explorers.
We have a specific
destination to reach.
Which we may never see
unless we put down there.
Yes, but why?
Maureen, we've had serious
control trouble for some time.
Unless we get outside and
make extensive repairs, well,
we could be
in worse trouble.
That planet
has normal gravity.
We need it for the work
we have to do.
It's as simple as that.
[ Narrator] Even as we watch,
the spaceship Jupiter 2
is drawn deeper and deeper
into the gravitational pull
of the unknown planet.
Whether its alien environment
will be friendly or hostile,
whether this will be the
beginning of a new adventure
for the Robinson family
or the end of everything,
only time will tell.
Last week, John Robinson,
father of the first family to
attempt colonization of outer space
found himself
helplessly adrift
when his line snapped while trying
to repair navigational equipment.
It is now shortly thereafter
as Maureen Robinson desperately
tries to reach her husband
before he slips farther off into
the trackless void of outer space.
[ Beeping ]
It's a comet.
It's headed our way.
Is it going to hit us?
It won't have to. Even if it
misses us by 5,000 miles,
its heat could shrivel us
to a crisp in nothing flat.
Can't you change
our flight path?
With your parents outside? Their
lines would go like that.
How long?
We can wait maybe
about four minutes.
[ Don ] John, there's
a comet headed our way.
How far?
I'd say we have a little
over three minutes.
[John] That should be time
enough to fix the scanner.
Leave that for later.
No. Now.
That's why I came out here
in the first place.
The last time I reprogrammed
you, you ran wild.
Almost wrecked the ship
with me in it!
But we can't have any more
of that, you know.
You will respond to my voice
orders only hereafter
if you want us
to stay friends.
And you do need a friend, you
know, just as much as I do.
It's getting too close for comfort.
How much longer?
Coming down now.
It's jammed!
Heat's expanded the metal!
Can you get in the air lock and
open the hatch from the inside?
It's jammed out here.
Right.
[ Don ] Can't budge it
from here either.
Don.
If you can't open that hatch
in a few seconds,
get back in the ship,
start the rockets
and get out of here!
[ Don ] You don't really
expect me to do that.
[ John ]
You don't have any choice.
Don, please. Start the ship.
[ Don ] I'll have this open
in a minute.
Don, do you hear me?
You've got to forget about us.
Something's got to be clone about
the comfort control system.
Where's the major?
In the air lock.
Mother and Dad
are still trapped out there,
and the comet's
getting closer.
Comet?
The major shouldn't be
in the air lock.
He should be in here trying to get us
out of this inferno before we burn up!
Don, what about
the fire extinguishers?
Maybe they can
cool off the hatch.
Good boy. Tell Dr. Smith to get
the big one up from below.
Tell him to hurry. I'm coming in.
Roger.
You heard what he said.
The big fire extinguisher.
Will, do you think
they're still alive?
Sure, Penny.
They've gotta be.
[Machines Whirring]
[Chattering]
As of this moment,
1800 hours, October 21, 1997,
all efforts to restore
communication with Jupiter 2
and America's first space
family have been unsuccessful.
Last reports from Jupiter's automatic
systems before all communication ceased
indicate that extensive damage may have
been caused by premature activation
of the spaceships
environmental control robot.
It is now believed that the tragic fate
of the Jupiter 2 and its occupants
may well be the result of sabotage on the
part of an agent of a foreign power.
I'd better go down
and see what's keeping him.
They're not moving.
[Will] Feel that heat.
The comet's closer.
Oh, hurry, Don. Hurry.
I hope you children are more familiar with
the navigation of this ship than I am.
Why?
Well, if the heat out there
should affect our pilot...
Do you always have to
say things like that?
[ Penny]
Do you think she's all right?
[John]
Here, set her down.
Don, get us out of here!
Maureen! Maureen!
Maureen. Maureen.
Was I...
Oh, was I really out there?
You really were, darling.
All right. Let's just see
how much you've learned.
Turn left.
Now stop.
Extend right arm.
Extend left arm.
Excellent.
"Excellent" does not compute.
Extend right claw.
Very good.
I know.
It does not compute.
A little more homework
this evening, my friend,
and we shall be able to take
over this whole expedition
and return immediately
to our native soil.
Crush.
[ Laughs]
Beautiful.
[John Thinking]
October 21st
in the Earth year 1997.
Somewhere in space.
We've come to the end of the
first 24 hours of the voyage
and all are in good health
including our, uh, increasingly
annoying extra passenger, Dr. Smith.
As yet, we have no inkling
of our true position.
The period during which we traveled in
hyperdrive beyond the speed of light
could have carried us through space and
time to almost any part of the galaxy.
Now, as Major West continues to search
for some clue to our present location,
there's little for any of us to
do but rest and wait and hope.
I thought
you might like this.
Thank you.
Any luck?
[sighs] Not yet.
Shouldn't you be
getting some sleep?
I can't close my eyes.
Not until we know something.
You'll be getting
pretty sleepy.
That could almost be the great
galaxy of Andromeda, couldn't it?
Yeah.
Although, from where we sit,
it could almost be anything.
Funny how easy it was to identify
the galaxies back at school.
We used to just sit there
and rattle them off.
Do you wanna go home, Judy?
I never did like school.
[ Male Voice ] Nor lose possession...
[Penny] Come in.
[ Man On Tape ] "Nor shall Death
brag thou wander'st in his shade
"When in eternal lines
to time thou grow'st.
"So long as men can breathe...
" Shakespeare?
Shakespeare.
Good night, sweet.
Good night, Dad.
[ Knocking ]
Come in.
Well, I thought
you'd be asleep by now.
I've been trying
to figure our position.
Any luck?
Well, if Alpha Centauri's
velocity is the same as ours,
and if our bearing deviation's
not more than five degrees,
Don should be picking up
a signal about now.
Well, maybe you
better tell him.
Excuse me, Doctor. I...
Where'd you get this?
And this?
Ah, well, I had planned
it as a surprise,
but now I suppose
you'll give it all away.
Give what away?
And deny me the simple
pleasure I have derived
from presenting
all of you with a robot
in full working order.
Dr. Smith, why didn't you ask for
permission to tamper with that robot?
Tamper? When every bit,
every circuit,
every last contact in it
is as familiar to me
as my own name?
I don't tamper, Dr. Robinson.
I create new pathways in
cybernetics for our little friend.
Its "pathways"?
The kind of pathways that
could have wrecked this ship
and almost cost us
all our lives?
But that's absurd.
I was in the same danger
as everyone else.
Now you listen to me,
Dr. Smith.
How you came to be on this
ship when we took off
doesn't really matter
right now.
But just remember one thing,
as far as I'm concerned,
you're a stowaway.
You're going to be
treated as such.
[Electronic Whir]
[Electronic Whir]
Can you identify it?
I never heard
a signal like it before.
Let's go upstairs.
I tried to get a fix
on Alpha Centauri
according to
Will's calculations.
Picked this up instead.
[John] Did you get
a spectrometer reading?
Yeah. The whole spectrum.
But the relative concentrations don't
read like anything I can identify.
Let me look.
No, I can't get
anything either.
Maybe it's an asteroid.
Then it's not
Alpha Centauri?
No, dear.
Give us
a three-second boost.
We should be able
to see it now.
[Will] It's a spaceship!
[ Penny] Is it one of ours?
[Maureen] I don 't know.
[ Penny]
Where could it be from?
[ Don ] We can't be sure yet.
It certainly doesn't
look like one of ours.
Calling Aeolus 14 Umbra.
Aeolus 14 Umbra.
We have sighted
your spaceship.
Do you have instructions?
[Shrill Buzz]
They're not replying.
Let's move in closer.
How big is it?
I don't know.
It's big enough
to use us for a lifeboat.
This is as close as we go.
Let's get around
the other side then.
[Sighs ] All right.
If you insist.
Look at that thing.
Where's your
scientific curiosity?
All in one basket,
Alpha Centauri.
[Will ]
What's it made of?
Probably some alloy
we've never even heard of.
It even baffled
the spectrometer.
[Will ] Where do you
think it's from?
I don't know.
I've never seen anything
like that in my life.
It looks like a ghost ship.
If it was in the path
of that comet,
the heat may have destroyed
whatever life there was on board.
I'd like to make sure.
A ship that size!
Think of the payload it must be carrying.
The fuel! The power unit!
It might even have
a guidance system
that could help us,
no matter where it's from.
Yeah.
Or it also could be manned
by an alien crew.
It's moving in!
No, we are.
It's pulling us!
I can't break away!
We're gonna collide!
Get to the back of the deck!
All of you!
[Maureen ] There must
be life aboard, John.
Or the ship may have been
preset to swallow visitors.
Hey, where's Dr. Smith?
Oh, I forgot about him.
I was about to confine him to his
quarters when we sighted the ship.
You'd better go down and get him.
I'll go!
What happened?
I found him monkeying with
some robot equipment.
[Robot Whirring]
What are you doing up there?
Someone had to protect
our little friend, my boy.
This is my battle station,
as they say in the navy.
Well, you'd better
come on up now.
Any casualties?
No.
Good. Good.
Two steps forward,
my mechanical friend.
As you were.
Xenon, .86.
Right.
Argon, 1.4.
Oxygen?
Low. 5.4.
Whatever pulled us in, it somehow
reinstated an atmosphere.
I shouldn't be
at all surprised.
Oh, sorry.
I forgot about you, Doctor.
Nothing at all.
You had your hands full.
I saw everything.
You realize, of course, that
we seem to be imprisoned here?
Yes. Quite a predicament.
Have they communicated
with you yet?
Not by any signal we can read.
They're not in any great
hurry, I don't suppose.
[Maureen ] Dr. Smith, how
can you possibly know that
when we're almost certain this
ship is from our planet?
Is that what you think?
Don't you?
Well, if you're all agreed,
I suppose I must
go along with you.
There's a breathable
atmosphere out there, Doctor.
Don and I are going out
to investigate.
We want you to join us.
Of course.
Who knows
what we may discover?
Dad, may I go, too?
I don't think so, Will.
Gosh.
No one leaves the ship
till we get back.
I'll have the Robot
stand guard.
Don't trouble yourself.
I'll do it.
Don't stay out too long.
No longer than
I have to, darling.
I don't see why Dad
wouldn't let me go with them.
We do need a man here
while they're gone, Will.
[Sighs]
What do you
make of these?
Looks like it might have been some
sort of crystalline power source.
Way ahead of us, eh?
A million years.
One might say that,
I suppose.
Hello. [Echoes]
Shall we venture in,
gentlemen?
Makes you feel rather
primitive, doesn't it?
Next to this, we're still
in nursery school.
Quite.
Scintillation detector?
If it is, how do you read it?
[ Don ] Maybe it's some
kind of a guidance system.
If those are orbits, there's an
awful lot of traffic out there.
While you gentlemen
are admiring the instruments,
let me see whether
I can locate somebody.
Don't get lost, Doctor.
Never fear.
Somehow I hate to let Dr.
Smith wander off by himself.
Huh? Oh, he can't
do any harm here.
Yeah, that's true.
I guess.
Crystalline power.
Hello? [Echoes]
Hello. [Echoes]
You can come out.
It's all right.
I'm on your side.
I know my dad
told you to watch me,
but can't you close your
eyes even for a minute?
It does not compute.
Step aside, will ya?
It does not compute.
Two steps forward.
It does not compute!
[Mimicking Dr. Smith] Two steps
forward, my mechanical friend.
Dad? [ Echoes]
Dad? [ Echoes]
Dad? [ Echoes]
Dad? [ Echoes]
It's incredible.
Somehow they've mapped this
entire sector of the galaxy.
And these controls, they work a
huge road map for them. Watch.
Look at that.
But can you make anything of
all this that will help us?
Apparently these are all planets
classified according to relative mass.
It would be a good thing to know in
case we had to set down somewhere.
I'm from
the Jupiter 2 spaceship.
Planet Earth.
Do you read me?
[ Electricity Crackling]
What is this spaceship?
Where are you from?
Would you let our ship
out of here?
[ Electricity Crackling]
No! Don't shoot!
He was in that thing.
l disturbed him.
I think I can
communicate with him.
Not human. Nothing.
And I was so sure!
Human? Out here? Billions
of miles from the Earth?
No, don't!
Maybe they can help us.
I mean, they're not like
us, but maybe they are.
Very well, my boy.
See what you can do.
They've been out
an awfully long time.
Oh, well,
not really, dear.
It just seems that way.
Look, um,
Will's below.
Why don't you go down and
finish that game of chess?
You might even beat him.
Wanna bet?
[Chuckles]
[Robot Whirring]
Will?
Will?
Will! Mom, he's not here!
You'd better come down.
Quickly!
Look what happened
to the Robot.
Will thinks he's too big to
be left out of anything.
Then he's not too big to learn that he
must be disciplined for disobedience.
[ Electricity Crackling]
What do you suppose
that means?
I don't know.
But I don't think it likes being
asked to guide us anywhere.
Let me try.
Uh, we are from
the planet Earth.
We are perfectly
willing to stay here
if you'll show me how your guidance
system can get us back there.
But we don't want to go
back to Earth, Dr. Smith.
We want to go
to Alpha Centauri!
You do. Not I.
It doesn't really matter.
He doesn't seem
very cooperative.
He was before you got here.
Very well. Try again.
And I hope you realize how important
their guidance system would be to us.
My parents are on
the Jupiter 2 spaceship.
And my sisters and Major West.
He's our pilot.
And Dr. Smith here...
Well, he just seemed to be
aboard when we lifted off.
He's not interested in your passenger list.
Ask him something sensible.
I can't ask him anything till I get him
to realize I don't mean him any harm!
We are friendly.
We're from the planet Earth.
We are on our way
to Alpha Centauri.
No, no, no! Back to Earth!
He doesn't seem to read me
no matter what I say.
He'll read this!
You've ruined everything!
Why did you do that? They're
much bigger than we are!
Look, they're coming!
Apparently, this control
must be the key.
It must be the one that
shows where they were headed.
[Will's Voice Echoing] Dad!
Will?
Dad!
Dad!
[ Electricity Crackling]
Everybody,
back to the ship!
Get the ship ready
for liftoff.
Get the ship ready
for liftoff.
I'm gonna blast our way out.
[Gun Firing]
[Firing Continues]
Ready for liftoff.
[John ] I'll tell you when.
Roger.
[Firing Continues]
[Electrical Hum]
They've stopped.
John, I put a force field out. I don't
know how long it's gonna hold 'em.
Lift off!
Here they come.
And here we go! I hope.
[Engine Starts]
[Thinking] The irony
of our chance encounter
with what we now believe
to have been a shipload
of nonhuman colonists
in the far reaches of space
has just begun to strike us.
However, I had gathered one
vital piece of information
from their sequential star guide
during the near-tragic meeting.
Close to our present position,
there appears to be a planet
with a mass nearly identical
to the Earth's mass.
Finding this planet can prove
a godsend to us at this time.
We have no business trying
to land on that planet.
[Will 1 on, Mother!
We're settlers,
not explorers.
We have a specific
destination to reach.
Which we may never see
unless we put down there.
Yes, but why?
Maureen, we've had serious
control trouble for some time.
Unless we get outside and
make extensive repairs, well,
we could be
in worse trouble.
That planet
has normal gravity.
We need it for the work
we have to do.
It's as simple as that.
[ Narrator] Even as we watch,
the spaceship Jupiter 2
is drawn deeper and deeper
into the gravitational pull
of the unknown planet.
Whether its alien environment
will be friendly or hostile,
whether this will be the
beginning of a new adventure
for the Robinson family
or the end of everything,
only time will tell.