OTish: Will Robinson Apprecation
I thought this was for the Lost in Space kid.
That's Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet. The real robot from Lost in Space is below
Robby the Robot was built by the same propman as the Lost in Space one. Did you know that the full name of the robot was:
B-9, Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot
But did YOU know in the original aired pilot the robot was programmed by Dr. Smith to destroy the Jupiter and because Dr. Smith miscalculated his escape and got stuck on board he was was able to stop him (although he did throw the ship off course hence the name "Lost in Space". The pilot episode was not made available to syndication so most people have never seen it unless you remember when it first aired OR you bought the boxed set when they began selling the series to the general public.
AND did you know there was actually a second, unaired pilot episode that was much, much darker than the one they ulitmately ran? In that episode the Robinsons crash on a desolate planet and the storylines were planned to go far less "camp" and far more serious/dark? CBS felt that was too "edgy" for the time so they went with the lighter, more comedic version of the series. That pilot was only recently discoverd and was never aired.
March 17th, 2017 at 12:31 AM ^
I didn't catch that in time! Oh well, better to over +1 than under +1 I always say...
Definitely a pioneer, RIP Will Robinson.
I'm sure the other Robinson fellow was a wonderful gent and accomplished much. But come on, man - Lost in Space!
great Detroit Pershing team lost the Detroit City League title to Detroit Northwestern which featured John Mayberry who went on to play baseball with the KC Royals.
I was at Jenison fieldhouse to watch their semifinal win over Detroit Catholic Central as part of a double header with Kalamazoo Central and Flint Central in the second game.
To this day Pershing had the best HS team I have ever seen..
Better than the Southwestern team with Rose, Leonard and Eisley?
Hell, their future NFLer, Rison, even played a bit of point guard while at MSU. Grayer and Rice were both AAs, one at Iowa St; the other one of our all-time greats. Penndleton committed to USC, I believe.
“Good” was an understatement. Seven players from those two teams went on to Divison I schools: Grayer (Iowa State), Rice (Michigan), Rison (Michigan State football), Pendleton (Iowa, USC), Nunn (Wisconsin-Green Bay) and Avery and Darryl Miller (both to Central Michigan). Grayer and Rice had long careers in the NBA.\
27-1 first year, 28-0 second, best ever two year record in state and their 60 consecutive wins is still the Class A standard.
March 17th, 2017 at 11:28 AM ^
And Ralph Simpson a big guard who could do it all. That Soutwestern team was great though, to be sure.
was a basketball coach and a childhood actor? Not bad Will. Not bad.
If I was the Major I would have been lost in her space...
My mother dated him in high school. In short. He's definitely not my father.
Were you reminded of him in the Darko thread? The one in which one poster squarely blamed Robinson for being primarily (entirely?) responsible for the Pistons picking Darko?
That's what reminded me of him recently. FWIW, I agree with the people arguing that Darko seemed a good pick at the time, and either way, I don't believe the Pistons relied largely on Will Robinson's opinion at the time.