Land of the Lost

Plot synopsis:
Motivated by the success in syndication of the cult 1974 series Land of the Lost, Sid and Marty Krofft created a new version of it. The new Land of the Lost had advanced special effects and a lighter, less survivalist-oriented tone. Frequent writers Len Janson and Chuck Menville had previously crafted numerous scripts for assorted Filmation series, while producer Jerry Golod had earlier collaborated with George A. Romero on Tales from the Darkside.
The series ran for 26 episodes spread over two seasons, with each season consisting of thirteen episodes. It featured the Porter family—father Tom, son Kevin and daughter Annie—trapped in a parallel universe after their Jeep Cherokee fell through a time portal while exploring the back country. They soon meet another human, a beautiful "jungle girl" named Christa who came from 1960s San Francisco. Christa became trapped in the Land of the Lost when she was very young and grew up alone. (An earlier concept would have featured an adult Holly Marshall as the "mystery girl" along with Cha-Ka but due to casting the characters were revisualized as Christa and Stink).
The Porters live in a large "treehouse" (although it is actually built between a series of large logs and not rooted trees) that the family built after they realized their tents provided little safety from dangerous predators. After their first encounter with Scarface, they devised an alarm system by stringing up a series of empty tin cans surrounding the treehouse perimeter that would shake and make noise if Scarface were to show up again.
Intelligent natives of the Land of the Lost include chimpanzee-like Pakuni and the lizard-like Sleestaks, and there are many species of dinosaurs filling the jungle. A Paku named Stink and a baby dinosaur named Tasha were befriended by the Porters. Acting as antagonists were a trio of exiled Sleestak criminals named Shung, Keeg and Nim. Shung is their leader and possesses a powerful crystal sword. Another major obstacle faced by the Porters was a one-eyed Tyrannosaurus named Scarface, who lived near the area where the family made their home and frequently chased after them in an attempt to eat them.
A sorceress named Keela with genuine magical powers was introduced in the second season and appeared in two episodes. Another character added in the second season was Namaki, a strange fish-like humanoid who befriended Christa when she was just a little girl. Twelve episodes of Season 1 were released onto videocassette at two episodes per video. As of 2016 the series has yet to be released on DVD or Blu-ray.

Tags: alternate reality

Review:
people live with dinosaurs.
The special effects are amazing.
So amazing, in fact the same scenes must be reused over and over - and it never gets old!
The episode with the dinosaurs was just great.
Those Sleestaks always gave me nightmares when I was little; creepy!
Ed Gale does such a great job in this show.
15 years later and I still sing the theme song in the shower every morning!!
"Doncha turn your back -- you'll become a snack!" I have all the action figures, and they reside on my mantle.
As I grow older and my hairline recedes, I look more and more like Stink every day.
LOTL will hold a special place in my heart 4eva.
In conclusion if there's anything to be learned from LOTL it is to always wear your seat belt and steer clear of potholes..
This show totally falls short of the Original..
The new Land Of The Lost was a total disappointment to me.
I thoroughly loved the original - it had great dinosaurs for the time, and the new one had dinosaurs that weren't good for this time.
The family in the original was very real - the kids fought, but their love for each other shone through.
The original sleestaks were far scarier than the newer ones, and the backgrounds, the special effects, were so cool on the original.
The story and effects on the new Land Of The Lost were so crazy - a jeep, a bush bunny named Christa, and an extremely unreal looking baby dinosaur.
All that said, I hope that the new one will somehow be as much of an enjoyment, a life-changing, never-to-be-forgotten experience as the original was for this LOTL-er when she was seven years old..
Not as bad as I expected.
As a major fan of the original Land of the Lost, I was excited to hear there would be a remake.
I was unsure whether it would be a retelling of the original story, or something new.
I was disappointed by it initially, but it grew on me over time.
It would have benefited by having better writing!
Having missed the first episode, I was confused by Christa at first.
I thought maybe she was supposed to be Holly, years later!
Even though it turned out to be an "alternate universe", and not the original Land, I still enjoyed it.
Christa was great, with her pet triceratops.
The Sleestak were OK, but I felt like they should have been called something else - they were more like orcs than Sleestak.
The one part that bothered me the most was that the family never ran out of batteries or fuel!
Maybe it was some mysterious unknown quality of the Land...
batteries never die!.
It was a great show in my opinion..
Until Nick at Night did a special where they ran episodes of Lidsville, H.R Pufnstuff, Bugaloos, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, and a bunch of other wierded out 70's stuff...(it was the 90's at the time and the 70's were the major trend, much like the 80's are experiencing a comeback now, THANK GOD!!) ...I had no friggen clue that the Land Of The Lost I used to watch durring saturday mornings on ABC in the early 90's was not an orriginal show (but hey nothing is ever orriginal anymore is it?) I loved the show to death for its strange "Star Trek meets the prehistoric age" atmosphere.
Albeit the characters were meager and there were some nitpicks but the writers usually don't factor in the concept of kids nitpicking Sat Am TV or their parents saying--"Hey!
I remember a similar show back when I was little!"
Because of course those kids will laugh at you and look at you like you're insane so everything is fine.
I myself was born in 1981 and my idea of good TV is Knight Rider.But durring the 90's there was this resurgence of 70's stuff and so alotta music and television programs got re-made.
Land Of The Lost was about a guy and his kids who's jeep got lost in some cave that transported them into the era of the dinosaurs.
A scary and strange enviroment for the son and daughter as well as the dad.Dino's are just about everywhere, and the ancient technological race called "Sleestaks" are always trying to hurt the humans.
The fact that they and the cave girl speak english without being taught doesn't really bother me, its a kids show and I was young when I watched it.
Kids generally don't nitpick inconsistencies in their saturday morning tv shows.I always loved the baby dinosaur and the cave girl, they were the most memorable characters in the show for me.
One of my fave episodes of the show is when the humans think they have gone home but things don't seem quite right in their old house.
Everything is really a fake projection and a T Rex comes storming thru the hologram town.
Awesome and ironic.
Great looking special effects.
And what about the themesong?
Gotta find a place to download that.After seeing the orriginal 70's incarnation of "Land Of The Lost" on Nick at Night I learned that0 - Special effects in the 70's were crude and lame.0 - There was too much obsession over censorship and cleanliness then.0 - I appreciated and miss >MY< 'Land Of The Lost' that much more.And the most important one of all.0 - Its okay for TV producers to refurbish a show from a couple decades back so long as the kids watching it don't have a clue that its not an orriginal concept.I know the feeling of betrayal when your fave series gets remade and all the brats watching the new stuff think you're stupid when you try to tell them about the orriginal.
When Knight Rider gets remade I'm going to complain to those kids at the theatre about the orriginal and..
they're going to look at me like I'm insane.Its conspiracy I tell ya!
-BlazeFoxKitsune=^.^=.
An adventurous dino TV show!.
Nickelodeon was one of my go-to channels for cartoons as a kid, but there were a small handful of live action shows I've watched, including this one.
It's a show about the Porter family who, on the road to vacation, gets sucked into another dimensional portal and into the land of the dinosaurs.
Appearing stuck in that time zone, they built a house there and gets themselves acquainted with the locals - all the while dodging dinosaur attacks.Though I don't remember much from it, I did tune in to several episodes and remember for it being adventurous and just interesting to watch - especially since I am a big fan of dinosaurs.The acting was pretty good, setting was fresh, and you get that all-around innocent feeling in this family series.
The opening scene and the theme song will instantly remind you of 80, 90s fare, but it's still great television - certainly better than what you see on TV well in the 2010s.Grade A-.
What a letdown!.
I was 3 years old when the original show came out.
It was one of my favorite Saturday morning shows.
I still enjoyed it when they put it in reruns on one of the local stations, several years later, even though by then I could tell how hokey some of the special effects were (it was a low-budget show, duh!).
When the new show came out, I was sorely disappointed.
The producers had "modernized" it too much.
I mean, c'mon!
In the original series, the Marshall family got by on the little bit of gear they had when they were whisked away into the "Land of the Lost".
The producers had gone to the trouble of creating a "vocabulary" of 200 words or so for the Pakuni (the little hairy caveman guys), and that added to the story.
Every story was an adventure.
The new show, they got an SUV, for crying out loud, and the Pakuni spoke (broken) English!
I only hope that, when the movie comes out, they do it right...and stick to the original story!.
Good show.
I used to watch this show when I was growing up.
I remember it vaguely, though.
If you ask me, it was a good show.
I also remember the opening sequence and theme song vaguely, too.
In addition to that, everyone was ideally cast.
Also, the writing was very strong.
The performances were top-grade, too.
I hope some network brings it back so I can see every episode.
Before I wrap this up, I'd like to say that I'll always remember this show in my memory forever, even though I'm not sure if I've seen every episode.
Now, in conclusion, if some network ever brings it back, I hope that you catch it one day before it goes off the air for good..
Sub Par Remake.
I have to agree with Wakener below with his comments on this sub par remake of the original show.I wonder if the people who decided to make this show were actually fans of the original or if they were only taking advantage of the current dinosaur craze of the early 1990's.I just hope that the people who are making the theatrical movie version of this show (starring Will Ferrell), which is supposed to stand true to the original series, won't louse it up.I bet if Steven Spielberg or Tim Burton got their hands on a theatrical release of the original television show, a descent movie could be made..
Land of the Lost Remake Rocks.
I never saw the original.
I read up on it and looked into it some more on the internet, and I'm going to have to say the remake definitely gives it justice.
I don't think it really matters if the show wasn't as scientifically proved or logical as the old one from the 70's.
The concept is fine and was made for a younger audience.
It is not something that should be judged by validity of the story line much as the entertainment, colorful world, and characters it brought with it.
The show totally rules, but some of the cast was cheesy (but don't we all like that sometimes).
There was the mini dinosaur Tasha and the sasquatch guy Stink!
The villains were amusing and so was the irony that the (motherless) family that get lost happens to meet a perfect replacement with a woman who had been lost in the world since she was a child!
You totally want them to hook up in the show..
haha.
I watched it when I was younger..
I like the nostalgic TV shows.
I am an 80's TV fan, and i think 80's TV held strong, with influence well throughout the 90's.
I can't say I would ever expect a show like this to air again with the shows on TV today..
Fun kids show from the 90's, my childhood!.
funny thing is, I never forgot about this show, and im 26 now.
the theme song would get stuck in my head randomly.
however I happen to be in the library recently that has a lot of older videos, and I couldn't believe I see a videotape of this show that had 2 episodes on it.
needless to say, I grabbed it and watched it when I came home.
holy moly, that intro REALLY brought back waves of memories that I had almost forgotten.
that theme song still catchy as ever!
of course with my adult eyes I can see just how cheesy the show is, especially the acting, like that teen kevin with is LA 'tude but it was still great to see this awesome hilarious kids show as an adult and it sure was nostalgic to see it!
now I've seen tim bottoms in many different things but I always knew him first as the father from land of the lost.I've never seen or heard of a 70's version of this show as I was a 90's kid so I only know this version.
I looked up the 70's version out of curiosity and jeeeeez I didn't think it could be sillier then the 90's version but my my, it is much worse.
plus the 90's version had Christa, and that automatically raises it for having a hot babe.all in all, I have such fond memories of watching this show with these characters, this was in a time when kids shows were allowed to be a little silly and cheesy, usually had some kind of moral or message and weren't trying to be all super sassy and attitude problems like they do today.
this was in the golden age of nickelodeon, and sadly you wont see something this silly and charming today because everything sucks today, and that's not just my opinion..
I enjoyed it..
When I was around 5 years old this new Land of The Lost came out.
Like any 5 year old I had no idea it was a remake.
I'm 16 now and I still have a vague recalection of these "remake" episodes.
If you'd ask me I loved it.
Although I havn't seen the older ones, if they're better than these I need to try to find one and watch it..
ok everyone needs to get their facts straight....
Ok first of all, their mother died before they left for vacation(before they visited the "lost world").
Secondly, it was cancer that killed her not a T-Rex; therefore, they were not trying to get back to their mother.
"Living in the Land of the Lost" or just "Land of the Lost" was a brilliant show that had limitless possibilities.
This show had a chance to become one of the longest running series on television but it was denied the opportunity!