Episode
Lost in Space: The Raft
Overview
Actually, Will and Dr. Smith went into an elongated orbit and landed right back on the planet, not too far from the Jupiter II.
Details
- Series
- Lost in Space
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1965-12-01
- Runtime
- 51 min
Episode context
The Raft is Episode 12 in Season 1 of Lost in Space. It aired on 1965-12-01. The runtime is 51 min.
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Episode 11: Wish Upon a Star
The Robinson family banish Dr. Smith from the Jupiter 2. He takes refuge in an abandoned spaceship where he finds a machine that can materialize anything. In an attempt to get back on the Robinsons good side he gives them the machine which plays on the family's greed.
Episode 13: One of Our Dogs Is Missing
The women of Lost in Space are featured in their very own episode while the boys are out installing communications equipment. Smith is left in charge (boy is that a mistake) and he "cleans" their weapons, but cannot remember how to rebuild the weapons. This leaves the J2 crew defenseless.
A creepy creature stalks the Robinson women however they think a small dog is to blame for raids on food and other mischief.
More episodes from this season
Episode 10: The Sky Is Falling
The Robinsons can not understand the language of a visiting family also on the planet. The aliens are called Taurons, and come to use the planet as a new colony. However Dr. Smith causes problems between the two camps when he panics and draws a gun on the new family. The Taurons end up not liking the planet and want to be alone, so they leave.
Episode 14: Attack of the Monster Plants
Plants grow to huge proportions and can duplicate any item placed in them - but those items are made of plant material and are useless. John Robinson must use the biggest batch of plant killer he's ever mixed up to stop these things from engulfing the spaceship.
Episode 9: The Oasis
Dr. Smith eats some alien fruit which transforms him into a giant. Convinced it was the Robinsons trying to kill him, he plots to take them out.
Episode 15: Return from Outer Space
Lost in Space's only Christmas program. Will uses an alien transporter to send himself back to earth. However, many people believe the Robinson family to be dead after hearing the ship went off course. Nobody on Earth believes him, and they lock him up with the intention of sending him to a boys' home.
Will escapes the family home he's in, and wanders around these clueless bunch of townspeople, but finds carbon tetrachoride — needed for the food processors on the Jupiter. Eventually he convinces another boy, Davey, to let him out, and let him return to the planet he came from. He returns to Priplanus with this bottle. Of course no one believes his adventures until he produces the bottle, plainly labeled as coming from Earth.
Episode 8: Invaders from the Fifth Dimension
Luminous aliens capture Dr. Smith and plan to replace their burnt out computer with his brain. Smith bargains with them and they attempt to use Will's brain instead.
Episode 16: The Keeper (1)
The Keeper, played by Michael Rennie, is a zoo keeper. He wants to take the children and add them to his collection.
This episode is the only two-parter from the series.
Episode 7: My Friend, Mr. Nobody
Penny "imagines" a new companion, which is a disembodied life force living below the surface. Dr. Smith accidentally injures Penny, leading to the creature taking his anger out on the entire planet.
Episode 17: The Keeper (2)
The second part of the zookeeper played by Michael Rennie. Rennie turns in a memorable performance as The Keeper. His understated performance keeps dramatic tension where none would probably exist with a lessor actor.
Episode 6: Welcome Stranger
Jimmy Hapgood lands on the planet and the Robinsons befriend him. After helping him fix his spaceship the Robinsons try to convince him to take Will and Penny back to Earth with him. Dr. Smith tries to get aboard the ship instead and take their place.
Episode 18: The Sky Pirate
The Robinsons meet a space traveler who turns out to be an Earth man, Alonzo P. Tucker, who was abducted from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, by aliens, in 1876. Tucker befriends Will by telling tall tales about being a pirate, but it turns out that he is only an ordinary man being pursued by aliens because he has stolen a mind reading device from them. Tucker returns the mind reading device to his alien pursuers, saving the Robinsons in the process.