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Lost in Space Quicksand
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2024 1:52 am
by Mudbogz
Hi gang... Don't know if this has been posted here but this just popped up a bit ago. It's a blast from a lot of our pasts... from the old Irwin Allen TV show Lost in Space. In the episode "Attack of the giant plants" both John and Don are pulled into quicksand by vines.
Re: Lost in Space Quicksand
Posted: Wed Sep 18, 2024 5:41 am
by PA Jack
I remember watching this scene live on TV. It was a dry QS pit, as it was on all the Irwin Allen shows at that time (same on Time Tunnel). A decent scene, but I wished that it had been Penny and Judy in there instead! (or even June Lockhart would have been good!)
Re: Lost in Space Quicksand
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2024 11:44 am
by DangerGirl
I always wondered what he used for his quicksand. It gave way really easily, but then behaved kind of hinky once the people were in it (piling up and such). It looks a lot like kitty litter to me, but having never sunk in kitty litter, I really can't say if it was or not.
Re: Lost in Space Quicksand
Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2024 12:40 pm
by Duncan Edwards
I remember this episode when it aired. Even at that young age I sensed something special and something missing. A few more years went by and it became obvious that Penny and Judy were the missing element. I recall another episode where Mrs. Robinson (June Lockhart) was telling the girls to stay away from a place where their father was working because it was "full of quicksand". Regrettably they listened to mom.
Re: Lost in Space Quicksand
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 1:53 am
by quicksand3D
PA Jack wrote:I remember watching this scene live on TV. It was a dry QS pit, as it was on all the Irwin Allen shows at that time (same on Time Tunnel). A decent scene, but I wished that it had been Penny and Judy in there instead! (or even June Lockhart would have been good!)
Re: Lost in Space Quicksand
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 6:01 am
by PA Jack
Oh yes!!! This is the way the scene should have gone! Thanks for recreating this. And to Danger Girl’s point above, wouldn’t it be nice to know how they constructed this dry quicksand pit? It might be a liquid-free way for a sinking enthusiast to make their own home-pit.
Re: Lost in Space Quicksand
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 6:35 am
by MadMax359
well done, qs3d!
Re: Lost in Space Quicksand
Posted: Fri Sep 20, 2024 9:51 pm
by quicksand3D
PA Jack wrote:Oh yes!!! This is the way the scene should have gone! Thanks for recreating this. And to Danger Girl’s point above, wouldn’t it be nice to know how they constructed this dry quicksand pit? It might be a liquid-free way for a sinking enthusiast to make their own home-pit.
The Lost in Space pit looks like it was made of ground up cork. When I asked her, Yvonne Craig (Batgirl) told me the caviar was dyed styrofoam pellets like the stuffing in a bean-bag chair.
Re: Lost in Space Quicksand
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2024 1:29 am
by Boggy Man
I seem to vaguely recall a scene that I think was from Lost In Space
, that had a quicksand pit below a cliff or steep embankment. A creature that looked like a sasquatch, unless it was a robot (my memory of shows I watched in the 1970's is fragmented and sometimes things get altered in my mind
) dumbly walked into the quicksand from the flat side opposite the cliff/embankment, sinking out of sight as it moved forward. I remember some of the characters sliding down the steep cliff/embankment into the quicksand.
Re: Lost in Space Quicksand
Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2024 6:25 am
by MadMax359
i'd love to see Yvonne/Batgirl in the vat--- but they've ripped open her costume...