Episode
Lost in Space: Invaders from the Fifth Dimension
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Lost in Space
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 1965-11-03
- Runtime
- 51 min
Episode context
Invaders from the Fifth Dimension is Episode 8 in Season 1 of Lost in Space. It aired on 1965-11-03. The runtime is 51 min.
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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 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.
More episodes from this season
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 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 5: The Hungry Sea
Professor Robinson discovers that the planets orbit will bring immense heat on the spaceship. With that knowledge the Robinson's take off in the chariot and head south. However back at the Jupiter two, Dr Smith who stayed behind because he believed them to be lying, realises that the orbit is strange, bringing immense cold followed by extreme heat. He sends the Robot to tell them, and they then attempt to travel back to the Jupiter 2. However in their way is a huge in-land sea which previously had been frozen solid. The immense heat and cold make the vegetation charred. They survive the heat and return to the Jupiter Two where they are most safe.
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 4: There Were Giants in the Earth
John discovers that the planet they are on will travel further from the sun.In an attempt to survive the Robinsons pack up and head south. Dr Smith stays at the Jupiter 2 site while the Robinson family encounter a terrifying cyclops and an ancient deserted city.
Episode 12: The Raft
Actually, Will and Dr. Smith went into an elongated orbit and landed right back on the planet, not too far from the Jupiter II.
Episode 3: Island in the Sky
Professor Robinson attempts to explore a planet that the Robinson's are planning to land on. His para-jet propulsion system fails due to sabotage by Dr. Smith. Major West "lands" the Jupiter II, in spite of the fact that Dr. Smith has also sabotaged the propulsion system of the Jupiter II, and the family and Major West rescue Professor Robinson.
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.
Episode 2: The Derelict
The Jupiter 2 is pulled into a giant alien spaceship where there are advanced bubble-like creatures. While John and Don look for maps and equipment Dr Smith and Will look for trouble.
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.