Any original ’Land of the Lost’ fans here?

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blackjacktarr@reddit

Cheesy, yes. But the plots were often Grade A Science Fiction. As a grade-schooler, I was suddenly pondering alternate universes, alternate history, alien civilization, societal collapse, and advanced technology. This is how kids shows ought to be - fuels for imagination and inspiration for study.

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Simple-Purpose-899@reddit

Never watched the show as I'm late GenX, but watch the movie at least once a month. A true classic.

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BrendonWahlberg@reddit

Daddy, DO SOMETHING!!

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JBocc00@reddit

They only "tumbled down 1,000 feet below"... that's like one city block length and for years couldn't climb back up? 🤣🤣

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heyknauw@reddit

Sleestaks freaked me TF out.

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4stargas@reddit

I used to scare my cousin with these lol

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KickstandSF@reddit

All my brothers had to do was make the sleestak sucking noise and I would run screaming. 😱Needless to say, they did it constantly.

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inhalien@reddit

Me too. I didn't like the music when the came on scene, the black pyramid freaked me out and their mittens were disturbing.

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Staff_photo@reddit

Disturbing Mittens is a great band name.

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Flat_6_Theory@reddit

Right up there with Murder Biscuits.

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original_greaser_bob@reddit

or scared of chaka

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Jennaaa1971@reddit

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Humble_Nobody2884@reddit

I both loved and hated this show.

It came on so early where we were, at least, that sometimes it’d still be dark outside.

Those f^*kin’ Sleestaks coming on screen, glowing into that quiet, black Saturday morning void while our parents were still asleep was hell on my lil’ kid psyche.

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I_am_ChivoBlanco@reddit

Somehow still less creepy than H.R. Pufnstuf. We were doomed from the beginning.

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JoshDM@reddit

less creepy than H.R. Pufnstuf.

Preschool me used to hide behind the TV whenever Wonderbug screamed driving at the screen to get the bad guys.

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imtoowhiteandnerdy@reddit

H.R. Pufnstuf

It wasn't until I was an adult that it occurred to me what "Pufnstuf" probably meant.

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I_am_ChivoBlanco@reddit

Always thought it was weed, but upon further review pretty sure it was PCP. Weed back in the day was a bit mild compared to today. I was destined for rehab before I was 5 lol. (Kidding, I never went to rehab.)

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Gribitz37@reddit

There's no way they came up with HR Pufnstuf, Lidsville, and The Bugaloos from smoking weed. They were definitely dabbling in the hard stuff.

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MrSurly@reddit

Also ... Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

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RightLegDave@reddit

The app we use to buy medical weed in Australia is called Honalee

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JoshDM@reddit

They guy made of stars freaked me outhe also made that guest appearance at the end of Peter Gabriel's iconic "Sledgehammer" video.

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MrSurly@reddit

When we were in our teens/early 20s for a time we used this as an insult. As in "shut up you fucking sleestak!"

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bzee77@reddit

Came here to say this

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Uninteresting_Vagina@reddit

Still do. Though I do go at my family in the kitchen, pretending that I am a Sleestak. Only at night, though.

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Jennaaa1971@reddit

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Sssssssssschhhsssss

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im_dead_sirius@reddit

Didn't I see those in "Spore"?

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LeveragedPittsburgh@reddit

Four years at Juliard and you play a space frog.

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labhag@reddit

I was so afraid of those things, and those stupid kids kept going into those caves. I knew what was going to happen. I always left the room until it was safe to come back!

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CeruleanPinecone@reddit

Aleta’s were my favorite.

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The_Sleestak@reddit

Thanks, you’re pretty ok too. 👍🏻

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The_Sleestak@reddit

Hey now…we’re not that bad once you get to know usssssss.

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cazbot@reddit

The second nightmare I remember having was about these guys.

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CawlinAlcarz@reddit

No shit. They are my first and last thought (with a shiver) any time this show gets mentioned.

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weare1consciousness@reddit

Remember there was one nice one but he was brown not green and he could talk too! 😆

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tuna_safe_dolphin@reddit

The Sleestaks used to freak me out. They still do but they used to, too.

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adudeguyman@reddit

Whenever they showed up, I had to switch to watch something different. I've seen it as an adult and think my fear was a bit silly but they really creeped me out

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MK5@reddit

Not the Sleestaks so much for me, it was the Sleestak 'god' in the pit. The thing 70's Saturday morning budgets never let them show. The way the dry ice fog would shift and billow, ten year old me imagined that meant it had crawled up into the shallow part of the pit and was lurking just under the surface in all it's imaginary gnarly glory, hungry for a sacrifice!

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bearrito_grande@reddit

I think of sleestaks when I come out of my office building into the sun at break time and do the circling-arm thing and sssssss thing in my head.

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methos3@reddit

“The DayStar! It BURNS!!!”

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Aware-Owl4346@reddit

Nightmare fuel

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lordxamnosidda@reddit

Touch the crystals!

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JImagined@reddit

I always wanted to touch the colorful crystals!

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NerdDaniel@reddit

JFC, as a kid these guys scared the 5hit out of me.

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Ncfetcho@reddit

I used to ask my Daddy to sit with me when It was on, I loved the show but they freaked me out. We had a trap door/ not really access to the attic from the Pantry and every time I went in there,I was afraid they were going to drop down out of there and get me lol.. good times

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BeeSlumLord@reddit

Same.

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rudedawg425@reddit

They always had to go down that hall of hibernating sleesak sentries. I would lose my mind.

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fongaboo@reddit

Oooohhhh yeah

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chachi1rg@reddit

Such a fun show. They didn’t freak me out. I was intrigued by them.

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1questions@reddit

Same! I want super scared of stuff as a kid, but those sleestaks? 😱 No thanks.

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RAWR_Orree@reddit

They freaked my little brother out, too. I didn't always get to watch the show because he'd go tell Mom they were scaring him and I'd have to change the channel.

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groovynermal@reddit

Same. Looking back, no idea why. They were loud and slow. But as a preschooler, they shook me up.

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Cominghome74@reddit

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Suspicious-Grand9781@reddit

I can smell the vinyl.

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Busy_Log_7128@reddit

Sleep suits with the zipper in the front and the vinyl feet we could slide all throughout the shag carpet

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Minirth22@reddit

Shag carpet was so soft!!!! My lunatic parents had royal blue shag carpet. Great to lay on when watching Land of the Lost!!!

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Jena71@reddit

Ours was rust orange. ORANGE! The 70’s were wild…

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Minirth22@reddit

Omg I LOVE IT. Did you have an ugly floral couch to match? We did!!!

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cakevictim@reddit

Outs was grass green and I raked it with a bright yellow plastic rake 😂

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Minirth22@reddit

GRASS GREEN SHAG!?!?!? Love it!

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Original-Move8786@reddit

My mom used to cut off the feet when they got too small when we were growing just to get a few more weeks out of them.

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grumblegeek@reddit

and the sharp as razor edges of the mask.

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Impossible_Diet6992@reddit

For those of you from LA, do you remember the tagger, Chaka? He was named after the character in this show. Also, how is the picture clearer than it looked aired on TV?

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AdHumble4486@reddit

The Great Space Coaster 😂🤣

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AdHumble4486@reddit

Bill Laimbeer was a Sleestak as a teenager 😂😆

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AdHumble4486@reddit

Chaka 😂🤣

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jfleyden@reddit

We had a guy in my fraternity we called Chaka

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Admirable_Image_8759@reddit

I liked the show intro where they went off the waterfall

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Admirable_Image_8759@reddit

Chaka was wild. And I was scared of the sleestaks

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Cocaine_Ewok@reddit

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Lost2BNvrfound@reddit

I still hate Chaka. So annoying.

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MiltonsFarm@reddit

I got a Monchichi for my Birthday one year when I was a kid. I asked WTF it was…and my parents told me it was Chaka. I believed this for years, that I had a Chaka doll.

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MoBeamz@reddit

Icky pawa nu!

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Thrashbear@reddit

He was there when the walls fell.

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madmutant01@reddit

Temba, his arms wide!

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JImagined@reddit

I honor your Trek reference! 🙇‍♀️

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I_am_ChivoBlanco@reddit

Not his fault Marshall, Will, and Holly never listened to him in his own damn world. Homie tried.

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PaxSatanas@reddit

Yup. I had such a crush on Will. My pre-teen “awakening” 😁

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EquivalentStage3305@reddit

As one who appreciated convincing animation AND good story writing, I had only disdain for this show, as a kid, no less!

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Blankboo97@reddit

Loved it!

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Lampwick@reddit

For as low-budget as the show was, the worldbuilding was both incredibly complex and mostly internally consistent. Basically, the "land of the lost" was a small pocket dimension created by an advanced race of aliens as a sort of "transfer station" in a much larger transit system. The alien race is long gone by the time of the show, and the transit system is in disrepair. Also, the pocket dimension has manged to inadvertently "collect" a bunch of weird creatures that wandered in through open gateways and got stuck there. They never overtly explained this in the show, and instead just allowed to to become apparent as the show progressed, basically putting the audience in the same position as the main characters. The Pakuni characters even spoke an intelligible language developed by a linguist hired specifically for the task, based roughly on several west African languages.

A lot of depth for a simple 22 minute per episode children's show.

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Correct_Roll_3005@reddit

Holly and Chocka had the cutest kids!

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HorrorMovieBoy@reddit

At the end of the opening credits when the T-Rex would turn around and roar, I’d hide behind the sofa.

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Little-Efficiency336@reddit

Huge fan!

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RegretAccumulator72@reddit

When this show came on it was time to go outside.

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hettuklaeddi@reddit

i just now realized how similar the casting was for little house and brady bunch

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Zestyclose_Stage_673@reddit

I am.

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onearmedmonkey@reddit

I sucks that my family didn't get that channel where we lived! I would definitely have watched it otherwise.

(Hashtag GenXProblems)

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rowantree67@reddit

Yes!! The one where Holly meets her adult self rocks.

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jfdonohoe@reddit

I remember this show was yes cheesy but also had some legit cool sci fri themes, like time travel, lost sleestak civilizations, ancient mysterious technologies.

Good fodder for imaginative play in the neighborhood later in the day

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Wuz314159@reddit

That whole ancient mysticism of the 1970s was weird.

Anyone remember The Phoenix?

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jfdonohoe@reddit

Oh yeah. I have distinct memories of using this show for my imagination. Power of the sun!

Along with pretending I was raised by wolves like Lucan

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OkManufacturer767@reddit

Exactly!

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schmearcampain@reddit

My brother made me watch it, but I always hated the sleestacks and chaka. They were so weird looking.

Never liked Lidsville or HR Puffnstuff for the same reasons.

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icollectskippers@reddit

Loved them. Watched them all

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tspoon-99@reddit

This and G-force (Battle of the Planets) were my favorites as a kid

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I_am_ChivoBlanco@reddit

Core memory unlocked, forgot about G-Force. Any other Starblazers fans out there?

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motorik@reddit

I used to wake up at 06:30 in the morning to watch that show.

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dfjdejulio@reddit

Oh hell yes.

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InsaneLordChaos@reddit

Have them all on DVD for many years now

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crazy-diam0nd@reddit

Same, even Season 3: The Bolar Wars, which didn’t air in our market, and I didn’t know existed until over a decade later.

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I_am_ChivoBlanco@reddit

I was only able to find season one. Between Go-bots and Starblazers, I've always been the outlier. Too bad for everyone else I guess. Can I ask where you found them? I honestly haven't looked in decades.

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Redsetter@reddit

Bar, bar-bar, bar, barp-bar…

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Dry_Photograph_3559@reddit

My friends and I would play G-Force. I was always Jason.

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advwench@reddit

Will and Jason, my two major tv crushes as a kid lol.

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motorik@reddit

There's a scene where they stand on top of a mountain and look through binoculars at the mountains across the way and see the backs of themselves looking through binoculars at the mountains across that way that freaked my 9 year-old self out.

Enik the Smart Sleestack had an existential crisis when he realized the dumb Sleestack were not his people's past, as he had though, but their future. I had no idea how later-in-life me would come to understand exactly how Enik the Smart Sleestack felt. "Ssssssss" say the mean hillbillies that pick the president.

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islandbeef@reddit

I met Will and Holly at a Star Trek Convention in Vegas recently. They were greeting fans at their booth. I thanked them for helping make my childhood memorable.

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larrybobsf@reddit

I was a fan. I especially liked Enik, who was an ancestor of the Sleestaks. I have since learned that the episode he first appeared in was written by Walter Koenig (who played Chekov in Star Trek.)

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Minirth22@reddit

I did not know that!!!! Was Emil the golden sleestak?!?

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larrybobsf@reddit

yes

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Minirth22@reddit

Thank you!! My memories are incredibly vague and I’m afraid to watch it as an adult. I don’t want to murder my childhood memories!

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ShaperLord777@reddit

The series was created by Star Trek Writer David Gerold. He also wrote the bulk of the episodes in seasons 1 and 2. Gerold was Most known for his famous “trouble with tribbles” episode of OG trek.

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Main-Elevator-6908@reddit

Marshall, Will and Holllly, on a routine expedition….

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Minirth22@reddit

On a raging “river” that was CLEARLY coming from a water hose

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dfjdejulio@reddit

...which we all recognized immediately due to drinking out of them so often.

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Minirth22@reddit

RIGHT??!

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tuna_safe_dolphin@reddit

Even as a kid, you could tell those were some janky special effects.

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imtoowhiteandnerdy@reddit

Great, now I hear mad banjos.

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Wuz314159@reddit

How'd we move on to Deliverance?

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4strangr@reddit

I've always wondered why they say this when the dad's name was Rick and their last name was Marshall.

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GirassolYVR@reddit

I have this theme song on my phone and it makes me stupidly happy when it randomly plays.

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Dry_Photograph_3559@reddit

Loved this show but sleestacks scared me.

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The_Sleestak@reddit

Yeah, we got a bad rap from that show.

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Open_Mortgage_4645@reddit

A lot of us were terrified by the Sleestacks. Like, therapy-scared. Lol

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I_am_ChivoBlanco@reddit

We all remember the hiss...

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gafflebitters@reddit

it was not lame and cheesy, watch it again, available free on streaming services, the special effects hold up well, i have seen full length movies with much worse effects. Surprisingly it was a great show for it's time, yes the dinosaurs are obviously stop motion but that does not make them cheesy.

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LeveragedPittsburgh@reddit

I loved the horrible green screen scenes.

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Von_Quixote@reddit

The Feral kid in The Road Warrior, reminded me of Cha-Ka. Loved that show, wished I could eat some of the giant fruit!

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Wise-Novel-1595@reddit

I’ve been waiting for crystal based technology since I was like 4.

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TitoBandito5@reddit

Oh yeah - I was 7 & never missed it

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Easy_does_it78@reddit

This was such a weird TV show but I did watch it

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Street-Quail5755@reddit

As a kid, it was a great show. Watched it as often as possible.

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Kali-of-Amino@reddit

Major fan here. I would squee seeing the names of famous science fiction writers in the credits. Nobody else was giving those guys a platform in those days.

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We_Can_Escape@reddit

This show was the OG Lost, IMO. I think HBO or another streaming service should do a new remake. I would even go so far as to keep it set in the 60s-70s with maybe the same Title song. It would be awesome to have a new show with the same mysterious tone and updated creature effects. Who doesn't love dinosaurs and Sleestacks? Maybe even some of the OG writers are still around to help write new episodes as well.

I remember in the original, the dad, Marshall got sucked into another dimension at some point in the series, then they brought in Uncle Jack. Always wondered if they ever found the dad again? I seem to remember a series finale where they made it back to modern(at the time) civilization.

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Striking_Bee_9369@reddit

I loved this show

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brickbaterang@reddit

Sleestak, what's a Sleestak?

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Paulbac@reddit

My first must see show.

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UpOrDownItsUpToYou@reddit

Only in the rosy fog of memory. In reality it sucked.

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worrymon@reddit

You say original as if there's any sort of remake out there.

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ShaperLord777@reddit

Sadly, there were two.

A crappy 90’s tv show reboot, and a travesty of a Will Farrell comedy movie (I wish I was joking).

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worrymon@reddit

Neither one exists and you can't make me think otherwise.

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ShaperLord777@reddit

Fair. That’s the approach I’d preffer to take as well.

Think of how epic a dark multi season HBO style take on this franchise would slap.

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Turkn8r@reddit

TMBG’s song Cloisonné includes the lyric “Sleestak, What’s a sleestak?”

I’m still trying to answer this question.

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Mumblix_Grumph@reddit

I will never forgive Will Ferrel for unzipping and peeing on this show!

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ShaperLord777@reddit

Yea, of all the rambles/reboots they could have made from the IP, that was about the worst attempt they could have made.

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DreadoftheDead@reddit

Yes, I have great memories of watching it with my dad and older brother. Loved that show!

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These-Educator-1959@reddit

I have no idea what the sleestacks did. They hissed and moved slow and if I remember right when they caught you they put you in fisherman’s nets in caves but whatever it was it scared the everliving beegeebiz out of 7 year old me.

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ShaperLord777@reddit

They dragged people to the caves to sacrifice them to “The God of the Pit.”

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These-Educator-1959@reddit

Oh you are bring back memories. I am seeing pit filled with 70’s dry ice “smoke” and something growling like a loud PeptoBismol commercial.

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ShaperLord777@reddit

Yup, you never saw what it looked like, just will’s horrified reaction when he fell into the pit and laid eyes on the “sleestak god”. It left it feeling ominous and lovecraftian. You can watch all of the episodes of the show for free on YouTube.

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53andme@reddit

dude the episode where the sleestaks had red glowing eyes was f'n terrifying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i don't i just dreamed that right. they did that to us.

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Cautious_Artichoke_3@reddit

I loved the pylons. Just cool little mysterious plot devices

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ShaperLord777@reddit

I fvcking love this show. Campy, outdated, but such a rich an in depth lore. The pylons, the crystals, time loops, altrusians. All written by famed Star Trek writer David Gerold. I still aay that a dark gritty survival sci fi movie should be made from this franchise.

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zip-a-dee_doo-dah@reddit

Season 3 Holly, I was about 8 years old and she was about the hottest girl in my life lol

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Garuda34@reddit

Same

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firepitt@reddit

Grew up on Saturday morning TV!

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_RLW_@reddit

I watched the show regularly even though I thought it was pretty hokey even as a kid. It made a nice pairing with Sigmund & The Sea Monsters.

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RedJive@reddit

You bet!

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Ixliam@reddit

Loved to watch that on Saturday morning as a kid. Even got to go to the Sid and Marty Kroft Amusement Park that is now CNN here in Atlanta, ride in the pinball machine as a kid when it opened.

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the1marin@reddit

I totally identified with Holly. It was good to have a strong girl to relate too.

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ffsinffl@reddit

Was not a “cartoon” fan, so Land of the Lost was an awesome “real people” Saturday morning alternative! Loved it!

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No_Builder7010@reddit

Loved it! I still reference Sleestaks all the time!

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Blast-Off-Girl@reddit

I'm a fan of Krofft Super Stars, in general.

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External_Side_7063@reddit

AHHHHHH!

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MarshallGibsonLP@reddit

We were so lucky to grow up with shows that were made for us by old LSD taking hippies.

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vandyke_browne@reddit

Chaka

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Jaded-Preparation-89@reddit

I loved the Sleestaks.

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Sea_Committee9480@reddit

I always thought this was a fever dream and could never figure out the name of this show! Thank you for posting!

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Awe3@reddit

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InternationalDuck879@reddit

I have a gem addiction thanks to the sleestaks.

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FelixTook@reddit

Probably explains all of my D&D dice

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_Aardvark@reddit

Touch the orange D12 to the red D20 and you create a fireball!

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tuna_safe_dolphin@reddit

They had their own version of Lite Brite.

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TealFlamingoCat@reddit

Yes! I think I only saw this show a couple times as a kid and the only thing I remember was the gem wall. For years I didnt know what show it was but the image of all those colors stuck in my head

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FushiginaGiisan@reddit

I was obsessed with those colorful crystals and the giant strawberries.

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Minirth22@reddit

I love shiny rocks and it never occurred to me that it might have come from the giant crystals!!!!

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ChaosAside@reddit

Huh. I’ve never made this connection before.

Loved the pylons with the gem “board.”

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East-Action8811@reddit

🙋‍♀️

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FabulousDentist3079@reddit

Ta Saa Chakka

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Professional-Day-748@reddit

Loved this show!

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GreaseSlitherspoon@reddit

Og fan here! Rewatched it all again as an adult and it was way better than it needed to be.

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imrealwitch@reddit

On Saturday mornings I would watch this on a black and white television

I'd sit on the floor with a bowl of Captain crunch cereal

Thank you for unlocking this memory

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latomar@reddit

I ate Wheaties.

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WendySteeplechase@reddit

Loved this show! There was one episode I never forgot: Holly goes in a magic cave and meets herself as an adult woman.

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JonLSTL@reddit

Poor Enik, so alone.

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Clairemoonchild@reddit

Fan is a stretch, but we watched it.

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tommyalanson@reddit

Loved that show!

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Zealousideal-Help594@reddit

Loved that show as a kid. Found it online years later to show my own kids. Dang, the acting was bad and that claymation LOL. Was super awesome in the original time-o-sphere though. 😂

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asthmatic-smoker@reddit

I remember watching this show as a kid. I think it came on after Fat Albert lol

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RhodiumPlated@reddit

I hated that fog-filled pit inside the sleestak domain.

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Dr_Overundereducated@reddit

I hated Land of the Lost simply because when it came on, cartoons were over. I liked the intro. That was all.

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JaneFairfaxCult@reddit

I remember being so scared when they were hiding from Grumpy in half an egg shell and the dad says “Don’t move. Don’t even breathe.”

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marshallkrich@reddit

WHEN i LOOK ALL AROUND, I CAN'T BELIEVE THE THINGS I FOUND! I'M KOST, I'M LOST, FIND ME!!!!

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Wallfacer218@reddit

There's great moments of true science fiction in Land of the Lost! I remember one where the climb to the top of a peak and are nearer the curvature of the little pocket universe in which they are trapped. Looking with binoculars, they can see their own backs in the distance.

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homeofscott@reddit

The pylon and the crystals were amazing to me! And the theme song I would hum for the rest of the morning.

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joefatmamma@reddit

I only liked when the dinos or sleestaks were in the story. Cha-Ka annoyed me.

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MagentaMist@reddit

My sister was utterly terrified of the Sleestacks.

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IdahoDuncan@reddit

Oh man , loved this!

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Honest_Performance42@reddit

👋

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Positron14@reddit

I only vaguely remember it. Just enough to make me want to play with my plastic dinos all the time.

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what-isthis123@reddit

Chaka!

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Basic_Lemon_9401@reddit

Absolutely!!! This show is 100% why I was chased by a T-Rex in my dreams…still to this day🤣

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basscat474@reddit

I pulled it up for my 8 yr old grandson thinking he would like it because, well, dinosaurs, sleestaks,you know. He was not impressed, I guess the special effects just couldn’t hold a candle to what he has watched all of his 8 years.

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erkose@reddit

Stream it free on Tubi.

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Open_Mortgage_4645@reddit

Tubi's got some absolute gold.

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squirtloaf@reddit

They are also free on youtube in good quality rips.

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Minirth22@reddit

Omg I need to do this. Thank you!

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Thrashbear@reddit

I tried to a couple months ago but it kept bringing up the 90's remake. Then when I try to bring up the 90s remake, it starts to show season 3 of the original. Something glitched in their system.

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erkose@reddit

I haven't tried it because I don't expect it to have aged well for me. I did enjoy it when I was a kid.

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Suspicious-Grand9781@reddit

Thank you.

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Open_Mortgage_4645@reddit

🎶 Living... In the land of the Lossssssssssssst! 🎶

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basscat474@reddit

I hated the sleestaks

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bluefancypants@reddit

Yes. I was so afraid of slestacks though

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PheesGee@reddit

So I just introduced my 5yo granddaughter to this show. She LOVES it!

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beccabebe@reddit

The son was my first tv crush. And ditto on the creepy sleestaks. Loved that show!

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BeenDragonn@reddit

So I've seen the movie with Will Ferral, and have not seen anything from the show before.

This screen shot is hilarious.

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Constant-Box-7898@reddit

The characters' names were Rick Marshall, Will Marshall, and Holly Marshall. So who the hell are Marshall, Will, and Holly in the theme song? 🥴

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Josefius@reddit

I'm one :)

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H1landr@reddit

My four year old just pointed at my phone and said, "is that land of the lost?"

I am doing it right. He has watched the DVDs multiple times.

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GhostFour@reddit

Team Stink!

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Spiritualy-Salty@reddit

Marshall, Will and Holly on a routine expedition met the greatest earthquake ever known….

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Unluckiest-of-All@reddit

When you realize that Will Ferrell’s character in ‘Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back’ was Marshall Willenholly. 🤣

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W0gg0@reddit

And that was eight years before he played Rick Marshall in the Land of the Lost movie.

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Minirth22@reddit

No wait. What? I need to rewatch Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back!!!

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Murquhart72@reddit

One of the few kid shows that didn't assume we were weak, dumb children just watching toy commercials. Could be enjoyed by adults just as well.

There are still sleestak in my basement though...

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Justin_Sideme@reddit

Chacka Chacka Chacka

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crs1904@reddit

https://i.redd.it/e9m1t5a4xuuf1.gif

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Fit_Abroad_9228@reddit

I wasn’t big into cartoons so this was my favorite Saturday morning show.

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GrayLightGo@reddit

Fan is a stretch, but there weren’t a lot of options back then.

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Upper_Economist7611@reddit

Yessss! This was my favorite show! I still have the occasional Sleestak nightmare. But don’t we all?

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TheMiloG@reddit

Yup! I'm one

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soifua@reddit

Routine expedition, my ass

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Slim_Chiply@reddit

I watched it pretty regularly.

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mrsbeeps@reddit

It’s nightmare fuel. Is that… chukka? I completely blocked that out. :/

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EllaMcWho@reddit

The show was a little before my time but I met Kathy Coleman at a sci-fi convention. She’s a delightful lady

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4Q69freak@reddit

Loved it. Very disappointed in the movie, they ruined a childhood memory by making it a comedy.

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Hypestyles@reddit

Grumpy was scary to kindergarten aged me. 🦖

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YamPotential3026@reddit

Definitely

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Watch_Noob_72@reddit

Great, now I’ll I want is Rock Soup.

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Diela1968@reddit

My lineup was usually Land of the Lost, Electra Woman and Dynagirl, Wild Boy… Saturday mornings were great.

It’s sad that today’s kids don’t have Saturday morning to look forward to anymore.

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Lady_of_Shalottt@reddit

I kinda hate-watched it but I remember liking when the crystals showed up

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guiltyas-sin@reddit

I have been on that set! My uncle worked for Syd and Marty in the 70' I also saw the set for Sigmund and the Sea Monster.

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Smoothvirus@reddit

I love that even though it was sort of a silly kids show they brought in hard sci-fi elements from writers like Larry Niven and D C Fontana. Wish they had leaned into that for the movie but they just went with the whacky comedy angle.

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indicus23@reddit

Classic pulp adventure, great show.

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shlomitisfeisty@reddit

I still have nightmares about sleestaks!

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randyiamlordmarsh@reddit

Everyday after elementary school this would be on. Though I couldn't tell you a single episode today lol. Only memory I have is, them running out of their makeshift shelter and getting chased back in by a T.rex.

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OkraFar1913@reddit

Loved this show!

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Embarrassed-Shake314@reddit

Ah thank you for this! I could not for the life of me remember the name of this show. All I could remember was the cheesy dinosaurs.

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erilaz7@reddit

TV Guide article about the Pakuni language:

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Farpoint_Farms@reddit

Loved it! Picked up the series on DVD a decade or so ago, but still haven't had the chance to watch it.

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Hefty-Ad5593@reddit

Watched'em every Saturday along with a few others!!

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BottleKnockers@reddit

I have a Sleestak trucker hat… one of my favorites

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topsmack@reddit

My buddy got me the same hat. It is epic.

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Minirth22@reddit

That’s ICONIC

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BrucellaD666@reddit

Actually, yes! I have the series on DVD. I love it, I'm quite influenced by it, even now after all these years. I would love to travel through it, and try to figure out the pylon system, and everything.

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excitableboy69@reddit

Loved it. It was great waking up on a Saturday morning and watching cartoons and this.

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Original-Move8786@reddit

I loved that weird crystal keyboard like thing they were always playing with.

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Naive_Product_5916@reddit

I was just thinking how stinky they must be because they always had the same clothes on.

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PolychromeMan@reddit

Fabulous world building, and some interesting episodes written by great sci-fi authors from the time period! Super bad production values, though.

This could really use a high quality reboot along the lines of 'Lost' (of course). Something that takes itself seriously, unlike a certain movie.

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SkinTeeth4800@reddit

I had the lunchbox in 1st grade!

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drock303@reddit

This was the highlight of Saturday morning TV.

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Gnatlet2point0@reddit

The episode where an older Holly helped out her younger self struck a cord in me when I was really young.

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squirtloaf@reddit

Hah. I'm not the only one! That full episode in on Youtube in good quality HERE

Now I am wondering if there was something about that specific episode. I meannn, I do not remember any of the other ones really, just bits.

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PleasureDelayer@reddit

I remember that one!

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SOGGY-TORTILLA-X@reddit

Great Kai Cenat reference.

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Beetso@reddit

I am a fan of all things Sid and Marty Crofft!

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425565@reddit

This and Sigmund and the Seamonsters!

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jmaddy1984@reddit

No, but I remember the '90s version. And maybe it's because that version was a bit better for me to watch.

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Altruistic-Curve-600@reddit

Sunday mornings were spent watching this or land of the Giants or Lost in Space. Great times

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FelixTook@reddit

One of my favorite shows as a kid. I was so fascinated by the ancient sleestak culture, the gold one (Enoch?) and their gemstone tech time travel portals. I always wanted to know more but we didn’t get a lot. Comically slow walkers though.

It would have been fun to have a crossover, place a sleestak planet in Stargate

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imtoowhiteandnerdy@reddit

I loved the theme song.

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Historical-Gap-7084@reddit

Yup. I watched it every Saturday.

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QuokkaNerd@reddit

Oh definitely!!

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ghjm@reddit

I saw it when it was on, but have no particular memories of it. I actually have stronger memories of the almost-forgotten Far Out Space Nuts. And for some reason these shows always make me think of The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show, assuming that's a real thing and not just a fever dream of mine.

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TinCanSailor987@reddit

I’m 53 snd the Sleestaks still scare me.

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zaxxon4ever@reddit

I love "Land of the Lost!" It was such a great show. It really deserves to return to TV screens. Imagine, with all the technology and camera wizardry that's available now, how incredible it could be!! (That stupid movie was so terrible!)

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Minirth22@reddit

I hated every single moment of that movie and have never forgiven Will Ferrell for it

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ChaosAside@reddit

Yep, own the dvd box set.

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Minirth22@reddit

It’s my earliest tv memory. For decades I had recurring dreams of banging crystals together to drive away the dinosaurs. I wanted to know what the hell was up with the pylons!!!

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LoreKeeper2001@reddit

Kind of. I remember often not knowing what the heck was going on. I should rewatch it.

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Both-Leading3407@reddit

I loved the idea of the time traveling Sleestak moving the crystals on the podium. It opened up such a realm of imagination that made civilization seem fragile as well as de evolution a concept that was not common in that time of TV shows. The great thing about Land of the Lost was it's amazing imagination of concepts that were really ahead of it's time. I thought the Movie that came out was an insult to the show and did more to insult the original themes with stupid comedy tropes.

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RunJumpSleep@reddit

I used to watch this in the morning before school as a kid. I loved it so much.

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Agitated_Mess3117@reddit

So scared of Sleestaks still! Love me som Chaka!

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Gwynnavere@reddit

Wait i know this episode. It’s when the kids find the tiki figurine that starts to bring them bad luck, then they hula with Alice.

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ForwardCulture@reddit

While the show was corny, it covered a lot of ground with themes in sci-fi, lost history, alternative history etc. Some of the subject matter entered mainstream conversations decades later. Like the whole reptilian conspiracy theory, various new findings questioning historical facts, evidence civilizations were much older etc.

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I_am_ChivoBlanco@reddit

Cha-Ka does not understand "fans". Why ask about air moving?

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strumthebuilding@reddit

I remember I used to watch it but I was super young and barely have any memories of it. The theme song still echoes in my head tho

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Atheist_Simon_Haddad@reddit

For me it was a sign there was nothing on TV. Sid & Marty Kroft did nothing for me, with the one exception being Pryor's Place.

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Gazas_trip@reddit

I wore a sleestack costume for Halloween in the mid 70s.

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doa70@reddit

I loved getting up on Saturday mornings to watch LotL! I rewatched most of the series when SciFi ran it when the movie came out, and still enjoyed it enough considering it was a children's show and I was almost 40 at the time. I seemed to recall the later episodes after they had moved to the abandoned city (?) when I rewatched it.

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phxor@reddit

nope

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F-Cloud@reddit

I loved it but my memories have faded, I can't remember any particular episodes. I'll never forget Chaka though and Sleestaks are sort of cult cool now.

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Responsible_Tax_9455@reddit

I remember. Used to sleep on my dad’s couch every other weekend and watch that there.

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quackman2025@reddit

I was really young, and watched it cause of my older sister.

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Tire-Swing-Acrobat@reddit

I watched it as a kid and I thought the bad guys were ridiculous

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Mike_Conway@reddit

I loved the fact that there was continuity to the show, a nice ongoing story where things changed and actions had consequences down the line. I enjoyed the difference it had from the lighter Saturday morning fare.

It would make a great movie. It's too bad there was never one made.

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Biofred@reddit

Definitely remember watching Land of the Lost just your normal every Saturday morning line up. My dad use to go to Shipley's Doughnuts and get 2 dz glazed doughnuts.

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Cazmonster@reddit

Not the whole show, but I loved the Sleestaks. Wish I could do a proper Sleestak costume for conventions.

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UnfairNight7786@reddit

Also go fuck yourself AI.

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Thrashbear@reddit

Yes! Friday afternoons after school were always the best because that's when it aired. I even named my plush dinosaur after Grumpy!

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Separate-Succotash11@reddit

Meeee! I used to shout “In the land of the loooost” around the house and drive my mom nuts.

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UnfairNight7786@reddit

Laaaaaaaaaand of the Lost

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bedlog@reddit

Chaco !!!!

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NibblesMcGiblet@reddit

This was the first show/movie that I thought to myself "wow that looks terribly fake" yet still enjoyed watching it. An educational moment, really.

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Busy_Log_7128@reddit

I loved that show!

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PrettyGreatOldOne@reddit

I watched this as a kid, but when SyFy re-aired the entire series as a promo for the Will Farrel movie [not bad, IMHO. Not Oscar-worthy, by any means, but not bad] I realized how much of the plot sailed straight over my head. True they had a set budget that made Doctor Who look like Star Wars, but the writing was phenomenal for a "Saturday Morning Kids Show."

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punasuga@reddit

Mandatory viewing. I’d sing the theme song everywhere 😆

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Mockchoi1@reddit

Loved it. Loved the pylons with the extra-dimensional space inside and the crystal tables. Loved Enik. Loved that circular episode where they had to get themselves stuck there in order to leave.

It doesn’t hold up though :( Some things best left in the past. I’d love to see it remade with some of the same sci-fi ideas.

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nevadapirate@reddit

I am pretty sure I watched every episode.

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heretik77@reddit

Fuck yeah. One degree of separation from Chaka when I was slinging coffee in the SFV. I have the entire series on DVD because I don’t trust streaming anymore. Favorite episode was the one with Medusa.

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