3x16 Target: Earth - Lost in Space Episode Guide

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Episode: 03x16
Title: Target: Earth
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 1516
First Aired: Jan. 03, 1968

Season 3 » Episode #16 - Target: Earth

Summary: Doctor Smith detaches the robot's tracks from his torso, and accidentally launches them and the space pod towards a nearby planet. The aliens there invite the Robinsons to retrieve their missing pod. After they land, Doctor Smith encounters one of the aliens, who looks much like a melted candle with eyes. Smith reveals that humans all look different, prompting one of the aliens, Gitt Proto, to hatch a scheme to capture the Robinsons and replace them with reshaped aliens! They'll then take the Jupiter 2 back to Earth to learn enough to conquer it! Will and Smith evade capture and sneak aboard, but it's still two against five! Fortunately, Will realizes something about the aliens that gives him an edge...

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03x16 Target: Earth (50:14) (Full Episode)

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Officer	played by Thant Brann
Mike Officer	played by Brent Davis
Gilt Proto	played by Jim Gosa
Proto #2	played by Ralph Madlener
Proto #3	played by Jeffrey Trayler
The Robot	voiced by Dick Tufeld

Episode Quotes

Season 3 / Episode 16: - Target: Earth

Gilt Proto: [to John and Don] Do not resist, it is futile.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: The hands of the duplicate Robinsons change from webbed fingers to normal and back again.

TRIVIA

This episode is unique in that there is a brief commercial break in the fourth act. It starts with Will being thrown out of his hiding place in front of the John and Don duplicates. Next comes a freeze frame with the message DON'T GO AWAY - BACK IN A MINUTE. The action unfreezes after the break.
Bill Mumy plays his own role in this flashback episode - the only child actor in one of Irwin Allen (I)'s television series to do so. Of the two child actors in Allen's science fiction series, he was the only one who had not gone through puberty at the time this episode was filmed.

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