Hi Folks,Over the past 2 months,my friend and I have started buying VTTBS on Dvd,so far wev'e gotten part of season 2 and season 1 as of last week.I prefer season 1.I saw the Pilot episode,11 Days to Zero.It's included in Color.I tell you,it's too bad the quality didn't stay as it was it season 1.The stories were great.I enjoyed most I have seen.I in particular like Submarine sunk here.Later Voyage got way out there with all the farfetched Aliens and all.I like the characters,and of course the Seaview.Too bad.If Voyage had kept the quality of its first season,for sure it would have lasted much longer.It would have had a bigger following too.In 1981,my local Optimo cigar store,had a bunch of $1.50 Seaviews from 1975.If I had only grabbed them all,Guy Schlicter.

Moving this thread to the much more appropriate "Movies For Modelers" forum, where quite a few TV shows are also discussed. :)

When I saw the title of your thread I thought you were talking about Voyagers.

Lost in Space has the same thing happen. Excellent 1st few episodes, and by year 3, totally unwatchable.

I just like the insanity of color Lost in Space--it's a fun child's fantasy with some good stories, less the Swiss Family Robinson in space that the first season was. Both LIS and Voyage I just enjoy for their Sixties design aesthetic and color, music, and the great miniature work. And really, if they'd filmed season one of LIS in color you'd still find as many ridiculous stories as in later seasons--remember that the FIRST story after they used up the pilot footage was about a SPACE COWBOY played by Warren Oates.

Lost in Space at least had characters in Smith, the Robot and Will Robinson and that made it an enjoyable comedy and kids' show. Voyage didn't even have that advantage--I'm a huge fan of Richard Basehart and could watch him in anything, but they never did much with characterization on this show even in season one.

One of the problems was that Irwin Allen kept getting his budgets slashed...
so much so that many of his best writers jumped ship (pun intended) and
moved on to other things. Alan Balter and William Read Woodfield ended up
going on to be the top writers on Mission Impossible for example.