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This is Alpha Control.

Zero minus seven minutes and holding.

Delay caused by difficulty with liquid oxygen loading valve.

Zero minus seven minutes and holding.

Control, take over.

Ladies and gentlemen, today the first of what may be as many as 10 million

families per year is setting out on its epic voyage into man's newest frontier

for colonization, deep space.

Reaching out into other worlds from our desperately overcrowded planet, a series

of deep thrust telescopic probes into neighboring galaxies have conclusively

established Alpha Centauri.

as the one planet within the range of our technology able to furnish ideal

conditions for human existence.

The space family, selected from more than two million volunteers for its

balance of scientific achievement, emotional stability, and pioneer

resourcefulness, will spend the 98 years of their voyage frozen into the state

of suspended animation.

This is

Alpha

Control. We are at 6 minutes 40 seconds and holding.

We have encountered an electrical power failure in our computer at the commuter

tracking station.

Six minutes, 40 seconds, and holding.

This is Alpha Control resuming countdown. We are at six minutes, 40

counting.

Power has been restored at our commuter tracking station.

Six minutes 30 seconds and topic

The

spaceships electronic brain will take over for the balance of the century

hibernation During which it will be traveling at the almost unimaginable

of light

Here now is the Gemini 12, the culmination of nearly 40 years of

research and the most sophisticated piece of hardware yet devised by the

man. Bold in concept, brilliant in execution, this most delicate yet most

colossal of instruments makes possible man's thrust into deep space and will,

approximately five minutes, set out on its quest for a new world.

Heading the expedition will be Dr. John Robinson.

professor of astrophysics at the University of Stellar Dynamics, now seen

your screen.

With him, marking the first time in history that anyone but an adult male

passed the International Space Administration's grueling physical and

screening for intergalactic flight, will be his wife, Dr. Maureen Robinson, the

distinguished biochemist of the New Mexico College of Space Medicine.

Their daughter, Judith, age 19, was rather heroically postponed, all hopes

career in the musical comedy field for the next two centuries at least.

Their son, Will, who recently was graduated from the Camdo Canyon School

Science at the age of nine, the highest average in the school's history.

And their daughter, Penny, age 11, IQ 147, hobby, zoology.

assistant, Dr. Donald West, graduate student at the Center for Radio

is the same young man who, last year, rocked the scientific world with his

theory regarding other planets' fitness for human habitation.

now come into play.

This cosmic glow, induced through the genius of advanced technology, will put

the Robinson family in a state of limbo, enabling them to make a lifetime flight

while aging but a second in the time of man.

and the family Robinson and their assistant are in a state of suspended

animation which is to last for the next 98 years.

And now... One moment, please.

Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.

Hello, Americans.

Friends all over the world.

Upon the success of this mission...

will depend whether the explosive increase of population on this planet

ultimately lead to a disaster from which none will be exempt or to a new dawn of

plenty for all of humanity.

None can predict the outcome of this audacious venture to the very stars.

To those who have staked their lives upon this bold expansion of man's

I humbly say...

Go in peace.

The prayers of mankind are with you.

This is Alpha Control.

Countdown minus 19 seconds and counting.

All systems are green and go.

Countdown minus 10 seconds.

8, 7, 6.

at Alpha Control are green and gold.

The trajectory now profiles properly.

The spaceship is climbing correctly to plan.

It is now passing the point of maximum dynamic pressure.

If it holds its present attitude, it will reach perfect orbit.

The fantastic acceleration needed to break out of the Earth's gravity has

apparently not affected the well -being of our space travelers.

Medical telemeters show all members of the Robinson family are safe and well,

still in their total blackout of suspended animation during this

acceleration whose pressures would be unbearable otherwise.

miles in diameter immediately ahead of the spaceship.

18 ,400 miles per hour cannot be shifted fast enough in its preset flight

pattern to make total escape possible.

Gemini 12's fantastic ability to regenerate its own damage controls is

last hope for the safety of the Robinson family and the success of the flight.

here at Alpha Control show an outbreak of fire back of all the controls in the

spaceship. Unless fire extinguishing apparatus functions properly and control

regeneration occurs immediately, all hope for the Gemini is now gone.

indicates unhappily that the spaceship has either been destroyed or must be

presumed lost in space.

December 3rd, in the year 2001.

None of us knows for sure how long we traveled in suspended animation.

Our atomic clock indicates three and a half years, but we're not positive.

We do know for a fact that it is now exactly six months since our landing on

this unknown planet.

Thank heaven we survived that terrible crash, which completely disabled the

spaceship.

We are hopeful of its eventual repair and our ability to use it again.

Meanwhile, all goes reasonably well.

We've established a base camp, domesticated some of the local animals,

cultivated a small farm.

Debbie? Hey, come on back!

Come back here when I say come back here! Children, wait till Daddy gets

Come back here!

Hey, come on, come back!

Please, come back!

Mom, when are they coming home?

Well, let's see, they were due back a half an hour ago.

You don't think anything happened?

Oh no, of course not.

The instruments are okay.

This wind might have smashed everything.

The wind is stronger.

It's getting colder.

Look at this thing.

By the day after tomorrow, the temperature will drop 150 below zero.

What do we do?

We're going to have to head south, but fast.

Abandon the spaceship?

What if it's finally spotted by some passing rocket?

They'll televise a picture, back to Earth.

Oh, yeah, that's great.

A picture showing no signs of life, no survivors.

Well, Don, I'd rather not be found at all if I had to be picked up by a pair

ice tongs.

Come on, let's get out of here.

You know, I suppose we could just...

button up the hatches and stick it out inside the spaceship, do you? We freeze

to death.

Take my word for it. Even if we could insulate well enough, the solar

would never stand the drain.

It's moving day, Dr. West.

Wait a minute.

There's one gauge I think we ought to check just to see how much time we do

have.

Couldn't be.

It is.

A footprint.

Not of a man.

Of a something that walks on two feet.

Only five times as big as anything we ever thought of as human.

Giants?

Come on, Doc.

Let's go.

I don't want to leave the family alone a second longer than necessary.

pick too many, dear.

I won't, Mother.

Did you locate Dad?

I'm not so sure.

Well, can't you talk to him? I've got a picture, no sound.

What do you see?

See something?

Holy cow, it is!

A giant!

Let me look again.

Did I... or them take a gun with them?

What's wrong?

What is it? I don't know yet.

Well, then why are you talking about guns?

Mom, we've got to do something. They'll be killed if we don't. Oh, now, Judy,

please, just calm down. There's nothing we can do except wait. Oh, yes, there

is.

Will.

Will, you come back here. Do you hear me?

Where's Satan in here? If we get him any madder, he'll tear this mountain apart.

Sorry, Doc.

I guess I didn't help Matt as much, did I?

At least we know he could feel pain.

Yeah.

And he knows we're hiding it here.

You sure did.

Well?

What are you doing here?

I saw you in trouble over the scope, so I... So you thought you'd come and save

us. And you did save us.

Now, I want you to promise me something on your word of honor.

Yes, sir.

When I tell you to stay and protect the family, don't you ever leave your post

again, understand?

If we're going to survive in this place, we must follow orders.

And that goes for all of us. There may be other giants around.

Here.

Put this on.

There you go.

Ah.

Not as big as you thought you were, huh?

Uh -uh. All right.

Let's move.

Keep moving. I want us out of here in the next five minutes.

All

right,

let's go. I want us to get out of here as quickly as we can.

All right.

Children, come on now, let's go.

Will?

Where's Penny?

Where's your sister?

She was riding on the...

Well, where did she go?

I don't know. I turned around and she wasn't there anymore.

Don't worry. I'll find her.

Penny?

Penny?

Penny?

It's done.

When that blizzard hits, which may be sooner than we expect, the temperature's

going to drop about 60 degrees in less than half an hour.

Now, the moment it hits 10 below, I want you to take off by way of the inland

sea.

Wouldn't we be better off going by land?

We'd have to go through the Giant's Valley.

And that's too risky, especially after that close call we had this morning.

Doc, I'm not going to take off without you. Whether I come back or not.

If I catch pneumonia from this, they're never, ever going to let me play with

either of you again.

I knew turtles were stubborn, but I thought you'd have more sense than to

away. Now we're all lost.

Hey, come back here.

We better stick together or none of us will get home.

Come on, Debbie. Come on.

Good girl.

right. There's nothing to be frightened of.

It's all right. Oh, I'm cold.

I'll bet you are.

Nine below.

One more degree and they'll leave without us. Come on. Piggyback.

Come on, Debbie. Come on.

Come on. Come on.

Come on.

All right?

Yeah. Okay, hang on now. Okay.

I'll die if we don't.

Don, please, just a few more minutes.

You think I like to leave without them?

When Dr.

Robinson said ten below zero, he didn't just pick a number out of a hat.

That's the deadline with the emphasis on dead if we don't stick to it.

No, no, I'm not leaving without them.

Don't start the motor. Don, I'm warning you.

Oh, Judy, please, stop it.

John, take the gun hatch, just in case.

I wonder how cold it is back at the spaceship now.

Too cold. Oh, no.

What's the matter? Those big boulders didn't do the power unit any good.

How long to fix? Couple hours, anyway.

I don't know how safe it is, but we'd better camp here.

Dad decided to camp here. Yeah.

All the comforts of home. Home was never like this.

Judy and Don, he was kissing her on the hand like this.

Betty picked up a million germs.

Well, Penny dear, young people sometimes have ways of doing things which to

wiser heads such as you and I may seem a little strange.

In other words, I should mind my own business?

That's right.

I thought so.

I do find it hard to think of Judy as anything but a child.

Well, considering the population implosion up here, we can't very well

to play the field now, can we?

No, that's right.

Now I know the one scientific specialty we didn't bring from Earth.

What's that?

A marriage counselor.

For them?

Who else?

you now.

Try W -2.

W -2.

We must find a cave for protection. We'll be killed if we don't.

Seatbelts on, huh?

Yes, they're all set.

I'll switch with Claire, Doc.

All right. Hold it steady, then.

Well, it looks like a big cave.

Let's take a look.

It's the city. There are no cities out here for crying out loud.

Then what is it? Some sort of geological accident.

How do I know? Ask Don. My field's electronics.

Well, pardon me.

It looks almost like some sort of a kind of a castle.

You don't suppose there's somebody still living here?

We'll soon find out.

Don, save the flares. We'll need them later.

I'll get the flashlights.

Debbie, come on, Debbie.

We'll see if it's safe enough to spend the night.

Stay with us now.

Now watch this.

Lights? Yeah, here. Will.

Everybody all right back there?

I guess they wandered into another room.

December 5th, in the year 2001.

The attack of the fearful lightning bolts, followed by the equally terrible

earthquake, frightened all of us.

We're still puzzled by the strange signs of civilization we found in the cave.

Either this unknown planet once sheltered human life, or mysterious

lurk in shadows, watching us this very minute.

Perhaps one day we will return to the cave and learn more.

Right now, we feel lucky to be alive and are bending every effort to reach the

inland sea, our last barrier to the great tropics that promises warmth and

peace.

It's working!

Don, look, it's working!

Yeah, I told you you could do it.

Well, you better get back there and fasten your seatbelt.

Well, there it is.

The inland sea.

Hang on. It's a long way across.

Sit down.

Penny, could you get me one of those protein pills, please? Oh, Mom gave us

last one just before we started out. I'm sorry, dear.

We have some coffee pills. Shall I hit one for you? No, I'm not a bot. Well, if

we're not on Mars, you tell us where we are. I don't know if we're

here yet. We might even be on Cerberus.

in the year 2001.

Our great adventure in the wild sea is now happily behind us.

At last we've reached the tropics.

The weather is warm, the vegetation lush, and the stillness of the air

peaceful days.

Yet so much has happened in our short stay on this strange planet that we take

nothing for granted.

We've experienced dangers unknown by Earth -bound men.

We breathe easily now.

But only for the moment.

Our every instinct tells us there are wild wonderful adventures just ahead.