AfterLost in Space, Here Are 5 More Vintage Scifi Shows Worth Revisiting

Netflix ’s reimagining of Lost in Space debut last workweek , the latest in a very longsighted blood line of classic scifi telecasting shows that have either been bring up ( sometimes more than once ) and/or made into feature film . But there are still a few lesser - known properties , unaffected since the sixties and ’ 70s , floating out there in the universe that deserve a relaunch . We had to dig moderately late to find them , but here are our trace .

1) Far Out Space Nuts

The original premise : breed from the head of Sid and Marty Krofft , legendary producer of psychedelic TV scheduling aim at kids ( but equally beloved by weedians of all age ) , mid-1970s oddity Far Out Space Nuts regorge comedians Bob Denver ( a.k.a . Gilligan from Gilligan ’s Island ) and Chuck McCann as NASA grunt who accidentally blast off after a slender controller - panel misapprehension ( “ I say lunch , not launch ! ” ) With their trustworthy alien friend , Honk , they trip the universe , get unusual adventures on strange new earth .

How to make over it : A wacky scifi comedy about a twosome of bumbling space travelers could actually work , especially if whoever made it leaned into the stoner liquid body substance with originative enthusiasm . The original show was radical low - budget — it ’s a toss - up as to which be less , the especial effects or the solidifying and costumes — and evidently a modern re - do would need to be a fiddling less rough around the edges . But a certain amount of cheesiness would be essential , and under no circumstances should the theme call be rewrite . Also , you ’d be a damn fool to change the name of anything style Far Out Space Nuts .

2) Space Academy

The original premise : In the year 3732 , a school designed to train the full untried minds in the galaxy ( some of whom had superpowers , include a couplet of telepathic Gemini the Twins ) is construct on an asteroid , the ideal location when your “ classroom ” is really a serial of jaunts through quad . Lost in Space grad Jonathan Harris ( the O.G. Dr. Smith ) played the Space Academy headmaster — an impeccably coiffed 300 - year - old whose many years of deep infinite exploration help him slow the aging appendage . Space Academy aired in the Year of Our Star Wars , 1977 , and boasted a cast of squeaky - unclouded stripling clad in polyester uniform , a whimsical automaton brother named Peepo , the periodic stop - motion space dinosaur , and a disco stem song .

How to remake it : Keep the basic conception : teenager with superpowers and superintendent - smarting are invited to study at an elect academy situated on a rock in deep blank space . They go on interplanetary adventures and through black holes , and learn hard object lesson about why it ’s important to work as a team . But while a do - over should honor the original show ’s surprisingly diverse cast , this clock time , hire youthful actors who do n’t perpetually look like “ Gee whiz ! ” is the next thing to derive out of their mouths . In fact , just make everything edgier . advance the stake by , like , a million — total some tangible conflict that audiences will really give care about week after week . mayhap the teachers are on the QT malevolent stranger and the child find out their superscript brain are being trained not for the goodwill of the beetleweed , but for some other , far more malevolent purpose . Maybe someone ’s superpowers , combined with the angst of being a untried adult far out from home , will transform them into a supervillain . You could do a lot with Space Academy , and still keep it fun — because there ’s always plenty of room for space dinosaurs .

3) Land of the Giants

The original premise : Producer and stock - footage aficionado Irwin Allen is likely well - known today for his epic string of disaster - themed blockbusters , including 1972 ’s The Towering Inferno , 1974 ’s The Poseidon Adventure , and 1978 ’s The Swarm . However , in the sixties he was mostly focalise on his scifi TV conglomerate , which included the original recede in Space . The Allen vault also admit — among others — fourth dimension - travel escapade The Time Tunnel ( which itself was almost remade back in 2002 ) and the cult - darling Land of the Giants . Giants debut in 1968 , but it was set in the far - flung next year of 1983 . Its sorta Lost in Space - ish premise follows a spaceship gang that accidentally warp into a dimension where everything is deucedly huge and is ruled by inimical giants who live very much like Americans circa 1968 . Land of the Giants ’ generous production budget ( said to be $ 250,000 per episode , a hefty meat back then ) was mostly used on its special upshot , which were heavy on gargantuan airplane propeller for the actors to skitter around on , as well the many instances in which the mini - sized actors were add into scenes with actors ( and beast ) playing outsize rendering of themselves .

How to remake it : manifestly particular gist have gotten right smart better and more price - efficient . And though Honey I Shrunk the Thomas Kyd kind of wore out the concept 20 years ago , Ant - Man ( and that Rick and Morty installment where they climb a bean straw and end up in Giant Court ) proved that there ’s still a ton of cool hooey you could do with “ shrinky - dinked people in a monolithic world . ” That said , there ’s still a goofy boot in seeing a hissing , hulking pool cat chase a teeny - tiny human … specially in stunned place .

4) Future Cop

The original premise : leave about Karl Urban ’s recent show Almost Human ( chances are , you already have ) , and drive to the far reaches of your mind a little movie visit RoboCop . Future Cop , which first aired in 1977 , starred Ernest Borgnine and John Amos as LAPD officers who ’re task with working with the newfangled guy on the force — but only Borgnine ’s character is in on the secret that the rookie is secretly an android . ( Conveniently , the bozo ’s stilted , formal way of address and his power to run super - fast , among other suspicious and/or enhanced traits , are n’t enough to blow his blanket . ) And here ’s a bit of far-famed trifle : After the show ’s brief clock time on the zephyr , its producers were sued by acclaimed scifi author Harlan Ellison and Ben Bova , who were able to demonstrate the show rip off a concept they ’d sold to them a few years prior .

How to refashion it : Legal entanglement would plausibly make this unsufferable , but would n’t it be awesome to see the Ellison - Bova playscript make it to the airwaves after all these years ? Beyond that , the whole “ fuzz with a robot mate ” concept has been done a wad , but while Future Cop was fundamentally a drama , it was n’t exactly a high - tech action thriller . And despite its title , it was set incisively when it was made . Can the mankind of 2018 address a buddy pig series ( with moments of gritty seriousness and broad clowning ) that pairs a yoke of gruff old - timers with a young officer who pass to be a humanoid robot … set in 1977 ? Keep the wah - wah soundtrack and it just might work .

5) The Invaders

The original premise : An other - life history creation from Larry Cohen — whose many credit let in the crucial cult horror movies It ’s Alive , God Told Me To , and Q : The wing Serpent — The Invaders ran from 1967 to 1968 and was about one man ’s frenzied quest to prove that an exotic invasion is afoot . ( Shades of The X - Files , but the main character is an designer , not a government federal agent . ) It was remake into a 1995 miniseries starring Scott Bakula , but that reading was more of a sequel than a remaking .

How to make over it : The original show capitalized on Cold War unease , and we ’ve got our own surreal version of that variety of paranoia now — with a hefty battery-acid of “ What the fuck is happening now ? ” with every Twitter feed refresh . “ The nightmare has already begun , ” the show ’s possibility credits inform us . It sure has … and would n’t it be almost an awful relief to find out that malign E.T.s are to fault for everything that ’s happening in the White House ? The timing certainly seems just right for a new spin on this var. of scifi terror .

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