It was Sid & Marty Krofft's most ambitious project to date, and its most successful.
Land of The Lost premiered on NBC 50 years ago today, with the theme song explaining how the Marshall family (Spencer Milligan, Wesley Eure, & Kathy Coleman) ended up in what amounted to an alternate world. In the opener, the Marshalls meet & befriend "Cha-Ka" (Philip Paley), a member of the Pakuni tribe.
Famed science fiction writers David Gerrold, DC Fontana, & Larry Niven were contributors to the series. Gerrold, years later, claimed to have created the series, in addition to serving as a story editor. Land became the 2nd straight Krofft series to earn a renewal from NBC, after Sigmund & The Sea Monsters, and the 3rd overall, with the animated Star Trek, which Gerrold, Fontana, and possibly Niven all also wrote for, being the other. Speaking of Trek, Walter Koenig had one of his first scripts used on the show.
Rating B--.
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