Land of the Lost - The Complete Second Season
by Bob Lally, Gordon Wiles
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Actor: Brooke Bundy, Kathy Coleman, Marvin Miller, Van Snowden, Wesley EureDirector: Bob Lally, Gordon Wiles
Writer: Dick Morgan
Writer: Donald F. Glut
Writer: Joyce Perry
Writer: Margaret Armen
Writer: Marty Krofft
Writer: Sid Krofft
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 320 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Rhino Theatrical
DVD Reviews of Land of the Lost - The Complete Second Season
DVD Review: My childhood in a blue cardboard box
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been waiting for literally two decades to see these episodes again. Buying the first four episodes of "Land of the Lost" on a bootleg VHS at a science fiction convention in Chicago in 1996 only worsened my pain -- the first jolt of seeing those special effects that I loved as a kid, rendered fuzzy and cheezy-looking in glorious nth-generation NTSC-o-vision, made me almost regret loving this show as a bespectacled 6 year-old. These DVDs provided much needed salvation, and made me again recapture the awe I felt watching the earthquake strike the Marshalls' tiny raft in the opening credits when I was six.
What helps make "Land of the Lost" essential viewing even now is the care with which these DVD sets have been put together. These episodes look great all cleaned up, bearing in mind that most of us only ever saw them on non-cable TV in the 1970s or on UHF in the 1980s. The DVD producers have added lively commentary tracks on five of the episodes, the best of which feature Will (Wesley Eure) and Holly (Kathy Coleman) all grown up. They alternate their tracks singing the theme tune, praising each other's non-Emmy caliber performances, and making fun of some of the less plausible moments in each story. Eure also hosts an interactive trivia game on the final disc.
Not only do these discs perfectly recapture the nostalgia value on "Land of the Lost", and celebrate the now cheezy look of the model dinosaurs and the old school chroma-key overlays, but they do something else: they display just how much thought went into the scripts for these children's shows.
Think about it: "Land of the Lost" Season 1, script edited by "Star Trek"'s David Gerrold, brilliantly introduced the audience to a world of dinosaurs, reptilian Sleestaks, and missing-link hominid Pakuni. Season 2 continues the trend of strong SF scripts, but also goes a step further, by growing the characters and revealing more mysteries. We learn more about the Sleestak and more about the Pakuni; more about the mysterious Pylons that regulate day, night, entry and exit into the Land. The Marshalls have more tools and more luxuries, and the characters of Will and Holly are both seen to mature. They're even learning how to speak Pakuni, the language designed just for the show (and this is before America learned Klingonese).
Character growth from season to season on a low-budget kids' show in the mid 1970s. Amazingly, this show was able to do some of the same things that "Lost" does so incredibly well for adults in prime time right now. I'm so glad I have all of this show on DVD, and my older nephew, almost six himself, has just a few months left before he too enters the Land of the Lost.
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