Robot vs Robotoid: Round 2, FIGHT! | Lost In Space (14/14)

Lost In Space: "War of the Robots" Season 1 Episode 20, aired Feb 9, 1966.

Will and the robot come upon a dead "robotoid." Will wants a crack at fixing it while the robot wants it left alone or destroyed. In fact, something quite strange is happening with the Robinson's robot: he's developing beyond his programming, becoming more than just machine. Thanks to Will's repairs, the robotoid comes to life, but while it quickly presents itself as a subservient boon to the Robinsons, it secretly softens them up for capture by its distant alien masters, who are on their way.

Directed by Sobey Martin, Written by Barney Slater and Irwin Allen.

Starring: Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen, Bill Mumy, Angela Cartwright, Jonathan Harris and Robby The Robot.

Trivia:
The guest star was Robby the Robot from the movie Forbidden Planet (1956) and was used as a model for designing the "Lost in Space" robot.
In several scenes with the robotoid, the theremin-tinged music heard is from Bernard Herrmann's score for The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), specifically those scenes featuring Gort, another robot.

[kencf]

This has a special place in my science fiction kid's heart...

[ramonepedgio]

I've always had a soft spot in my heart for robots. It probably started with Lost in Space.

[tonyfleming]

Angela Cartwright was busy filming the episode where Penny is trapped in the mirror and Michael J Pollard guest stars. Another really good LIS episode

[maddymud]

The Lesson — Robot farts can be deadly

[Vito-ypwh]

Poor doctor Smith...depressed as he mightily might be what with the wrong robot winning the robowar.

[markbanash]

Barney Slater, the writer of this episode, had a particular fondness I think for the Robot and always could write good dialogue and good stories for him.

[walterfechter]

Besides "Gort" from "The Day the Earth Stood Still, " "Robby" and "B-9" are my favourite robots. Happy Science Fiction Day (2 January, 2024)!

[stephenswift]

Wait a minute where's penny Robinson at in this episode

[battlestarmarc]

Good episode.
robby looked so cool in a retro way.

[keithbrown]

Why didnt the robot just blast the robltoid early on???....didnt even appear to take much of a charge to defeat him!!!

[nikkisundori]

oxygen atmosphere? which planet is that

[dennis]

Make Robinson Family Great Again. MRFGA

[dougbrowne]

Nice scene, but like all Lost in Space scripts full of holes.

[HassanHodgkinson]

Bit of an anticlimactic battle. I think they could have up up with something better

[unevenamorphous]

Robot B9's Japanese name is Friday.



[thetruenolan]

"I am only the sum of my programming."

"Yes, but there is something more. Something that doesn't make sense!"

"Doesn't make sense? Exactly. Some of my programmers were Woke women."

[tiapc]

I would have liked Lost in Space better if they didn't have Dr. Smith.