The Lost In Space Episode With Michael J Pollard As The Boy Who Lived On The Other Side Of The Mirrors

If Morbius went home already I will probably have to wait until Monday for a response.

anything with michael j pollard pwnz all comers.

Exactly. Here is documentary about his daddy.

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explain me this again??

i think i remember this episode traumatizing me as a kid but i need details

Here's my recollection: Will Robinson ran down a rabbit hole trying to escape an alien or playing hide and seek with Robbie The Robot and ended up in this weird place with all these old, dusty, unused mirrors propped up everywhere. This being Lost In Space, it just seemed like some abandoned basement of the property department was being used as the set -thus saving paying the wage of an actual set dresser- which always seemed to add to the eeriness and creepiness. Turns out that it wasn't quite uninhabited down there, because after some scurrying and running out from behind a mirror popped Michael J. Pollard. Somehow all those mirrors corresponded to the other side of all the actual mirrors in the universe including some on the Robinsons's spaceship (did it have a name?). Perhaps Michael and Will observed Dr. Smith concocting some mischief in one mirror and Will tried to warn the Robinsons through another, but to no avail, the mirrors were only one way. Somehow Penny ended up there too, and MJP worked some of his cool charm on her. At the end Will escapes back through one of the mirrors or the rabbit hole and Penny tries to convince MJP to come with her through the exit and finally experience real life and grow up, but he just can't do it, he has lived too long in this solipsistic voyeuristic world in which he never ages, so with some sorrow, she leaves him behind.

I remember being completely creeped out by this, and now I realize why the homeless guy who ends up frozen in Scrooged looked so familiar.

he was your father.

exactly, from that other parallel universe of 1965.

also, we only had black & white tv, so I didn't quite recognize him until he was frozen.

Only one that might be creepier is the one with the John Robinson doppelganger, sanctified in some alien rite while wearing a cheapo gold mask in another room in the prop department basement, who was going to replace the original, pilot the ship back to earth and allow his keepers to rule the universe!

Ah, just read the synopsis of "The Magic Mirror" on IMDB. It was Penny who went through the mirror and then Dr. Smith who followed her.

She was being chased by a "bloop."

Haha early MJP role was as Maynard G. Krebs's weird cousin Jerome on Dobie Gillis.

Also learned from IMDB that MJP was the creator of the title The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys.

I have now put the entire series on the netflix queue. After Mr. Jaq bought me the F-Troop dvd (so I could relive my Ken Berry crush-of-shame) and it was just too awful to watch, I'll rent these old series.

I have hated Lost in Space since childhood.

I am surprised that MJP was on it, in the Beforetime.

RIP guy in robot suit

^^^should have own thread

OK RIP Guy In Lost In Space Robot Suit

Dr. Smith saying creature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mF6dCD8n2E

RIP

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/michael-j-pollard-dead-bonnie-clyde-oscar-nominated-actor-was-80-1257237

RIP indeed

those brows

Thanks. That obituary covers all the bases.

Did not remember he played Barney Fife’s cousin, nor did I know that the “Miri” episode of Star Trek TOS - as well as “The City on the Edge of Forever” and some others- was filmed on the Mayberry backlot. https://metv.com/stories/when-star-trek-visited-mayberry

he was only about 8 years younger than Shatner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm6gjQBwPFM

Trying to remember who wrote that episode.