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Can you describe this book better. Thinking about it but for $45 the description is vague.
Okay imagine a book where you open it up and every page has at least one picture or more, with 95% of them something you've never before seen. Then either Bill or Angela writes a brief anecdote about each picture. Some of the stuff is fairly pedestrian, while other anecdotes are funny and some off color. Think of it as a scrapbook with cool stories about each picture. If there is a downside, it's the lack of a cohesive narrative with a beginning, middle, and end, but I didn't go in expecting that. It's a little pricey for what you get, but for me it was worth it because I was in a LIS head when I got it, watching the BDs, and it was perfect. Hope this helps.
 

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That's the site I went to where I referred to it as vague.
 

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That's the site I went to where I referred to it as vague.

If you're a hardcore or lifelong fan of the show and photographic memories from Mumy and Cartwright are of interest then go for it. If you have the slightest doubt whether it will be of interest I would skip it.
It is an expensive book but it is hardback which for me is crucial in this day of cheap paperbacks.
The publishers are only a small outfit but the book is lovely and deserves to be a success althought the $115 version is a mad price even though it does include a photo signed by both stars but autographs have never excited me.
It makes for the perfect companion to the show if you have an interest that goes deeper than the surface.
 

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The book has a slight homemade feel to it. The copy editing is adequate but not expert. I ignored all that and enjoyed the pictures and the memories. LIS is an odd one for me because pound for pound, IMHO, it's not a very good show. Yet for nostalgia, I can't beat it. And I will watch those first seven or eight episodes over and over until I die. I think the music is spectacular. The cast is wonderful. So all of that, all of the things I love about the show, are evoked by the book, for me at least. That is why it was a must buy.
 

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The book has a slight homemade feel to it. The copy editing is adequate but not expert. I ignored all that and enjoyed the pictures and the memories. LIS is an odd one for me because pound for pound, IMHO, it's not a very good show. Yet for nostalgia, I can't beat it. And I will watch those first seven or eight episodes over and over until I die. I think the music is spectacular. The cast is wonderful. So all of that, all of the things I love about the show, are evoked by the book, for me at least. That is why it was a must buy.

That matches my feelings almost perfectly.
Season 1 has some great episodes, and there's quite a few in season 3 where the overall story is the usual wacko package but they have enough haunting imagery and exciting moments to make them rewatchable. As you say, nostalgia plays a huge part.
It was my favourite show ( along with Dr Who) when I was 6-10 years old and thanks to the oddities of UK broadcasting I had the envious ability to be able to see 2 different episodes each week for a couple of years. Usually one on a Monday and one on a Friday and always from different seasons so it was great when episodes I'd already enjoyed turned up on my alternate ITV region.
I was too young at the time to realise that season 2 was dreadful so while imagery from that season stayed in my memory for a long time my viewing of the show when adult informed me why ITV had taken the show from a peaktime slot in 1965-1966 and then taken it off completely after season 1 and then not aired it at all until production had ended and then put it on in the kids 5pm slot ( rather like the BBC did with Star Trek which premiered in a kids/family slot in Summer 1969)

The release of the cd soundtrack confirmed my feelings that while the John Williams music is incredible and remains so , the rest of the music is quite dull and not memorable in the slightest. I could always notice when Williams music was reused in the later seasons and it really did actually make the lesser episodes more tolerable.

The book's home made feel might be intentional. It certainly reads like it could be Bill and Angelas personal LIS album that they might keep in a drawer in their living room and for that very reason the book takes you back to being on the set or behind the scenes like no other book ever has done. As I do when I watch much of the Bluray edition the book makes me feel 10 years old again.
 

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Been delving into season two, and hit another glitch. The disc froze up for a couple seconds in the middle of The Toymaker, and my player made so many weird noises in protest I thought it was about to break down!
The set being so huge, even if I can still exchange it, I'd have to rewatch everything from the beginning and hope I don't get another bad batch.
Having flashbacks to all the defective CBS/Fox Laserdiscs I had the misfortune of getting back in the day.


At this point in the series, you'd think the family would take Will at his word when he comes running back the ship talking about weird aliens. ;)
 

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Been delving into season two, and hit another glitch. The disc froze up for a couple seconds in the middle of The Toymaker, and my player made so many weird noises in protest I thought it was about to break down!
The set being so huge, even if I can still exchange it, I'd have to rewatch everything from the beginning and hope I don't get another bad batch.
You could just switch the bad disc out from the new set and keep all the discs that you've already watched. Although if you're going to do that, I'd recommend finishing the set so if you hit any other problems, you can switch out those discs as well.
 

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Finally finished watching the series - this set was incredible, loaded with colorful menus and extra features. I especially enjoyed the Round Table reading of Bill Mumy's epilogue script, including the participation of original cast members Bill Mumy, Angela Cartwright, Mark Goddard and Marta Kristen. In addition, Guy Williams Jr. stood in for his father's part, his sister Toni played an alien, Angela's sister actress Veronica Cartwright filled in for June Lockhart, and Kevin Burns did a great job as Dr. Zachary Smith. Also the young son of an actor with whom Bill Mumy acted with in "Bless The Beasts And The Children" participated as the young son of Major West's and Judy's characters. And of course, the Robot. Well done with accompanying music and film clip special effects, emotional and nostalgic.
 

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Just finished season 2. The Dr. Smith character would be so much easier to take if he would have only acted silly in silly situations. Instead, he turns on the over-acting in both dramatic and action scenes too, which is totally inappropriate. It's a forced mash-up of comedy (if you can even call it that) during a tense situation. No matter how funny it might be, no one would act this way in a life or death situation. But I've still enjoyed the boxed set.

Question: at the very end of season 2, there is a preview for the next episode, which would have been the very first season 3 episode. The characters are already in their new uniforms. Was that added for the box set? I can't imagine that aired on the original broadcast.
 

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Question: at the very end of season 2, there is a preview for the next, season 3, episode. Was that added for the box set? I can't imagine that aired on the original broadcast.

Correct. That preview would have aired at the tail end of the summer rerun season. On the original broadcast, a rerun teaser would have been employed.
 

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They were adamantly against single-season releases during the production of the special features. Hopefully that will change over time.

With the work & care that went into this boxed set, I can see why they would be against it. The investment made on the special features alone was done to sell this as an individual product, and not 3 separate ones.

Personally, I love the care that goes into complete series boxed sets like this one, The Dick Van Dyke Show boxed set, the Batman boxed set, etc. Had a similar approach been done for I Love Lucy and The Andy Griffith Show (along with more reasonable pricing), then those 1-unit products would have done very well.

Yes, the Griffith Show was 8 seasons. But the amount of video encoding and run time of LIS equalled 6 seasons of Andy Griffith (60 minute shows vs. 30 minute shows). I think people would have paid for a complete Andy Griffith Show on Blu-ray, especially with the same love that went into the LIS boxed set.
 

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With the work & care that went into this boxed set, I can see why they would be against it. The investment made on the special features alone was done to sell this as an individual product, and not 3 separate ones.

Personally, I love the care that goes into complete series boxed sets like this one, The Dick Van Dyke Show boxed set, the Batman boxed set, etc. Had a similar approach been done for I Love Lucy and The Andy Griffith Show (along with more reasonable pricing), then those 1-unit products would have done very well.

Yes, the Griffith Show was 8 seasons. But the amount of video encoding and run time of LIS equalled 6 seasons of Andy Griffith (60 minute shows vs. 30 minute shows). I think people would have paid for a complete Andy Griffith Show on Blu-ray, especially with the same love that went into the LIS boxed set.
I really appreciate your comments on Lost In Space, Batman and Dick van Dyke. Thanks.
 

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Personally, I love the care that goes into complete series boxed sets like this one, The Dick Van Dyke Show boxed set, the Batman boxed set, etc. Had a similar approach been done for I Love Lucy and The Andy Griffith Show (along with more reasonable pricing), then those 1-unit products would have done very well.

I agree with you. Add "Twilight Zone" to the list of incredibly well done classic TV on Blu-ray releases. (I think the same people that did Dick Van Dyke worked on that one too.) I'm watching Dick Van Dyke with my fiance now - we're towards the end of the second season, and it looks and sounds fantastic.

By the time the first season of "I Love Lucy" came out on Blu-ray, my fiance had already purchased the complete series on DVD for under $100 - I think her complete series purchase price was about the same as my Season 1 BD purchase. Since we had never watched the show together but had wanted to, I got her the Season 1 BD (worth it for the "night of broadcast" versions in and of themselves), and we enjoyed it. When we finished that, we moved right on to her DVDs, and we finished the complete series before the Season 2 BD was even announced. At this point, having just watched the show in its entirety and being reasonably satisfied with the DVDs, I'm not eager to spend $100 a season to rebuy something I just watched and probably won't watch again for quite a while. Had they put them out as a complete series set instead of Season One, I definitely would have bought it. And I probably still would. But I'm not likely to buy individual seasons at $75+ each at this point.
 

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For those that waited, it's on an Amazon sale @ $49.99. A much discounted price over what I paid.

I'm glad I got it though. Completely enjoyed it and probably the best produced TV on BD series I've ever had. Loaded with relevant and new commentaries and bonus features. And looks amazing. A steal if you were on the fence.
 

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