I used to watch this as a very young boy but I didn't remember much outside of the fact that there was dinosaurs and 3 humans and some lizards.
I started watching it again 42 years later, quite by accident and realized, despite the pour production value, which can be distracting for a modern viewer, the stories are actually pretty clever for their time.
The show follows a family of 3, widowed Rick and his two children Will and Holly into a pocket universe containing alien creatures with a surprising H.G. Wells-esque lore, advance technology that maintains the weather, pre-Neanderthal like hominids, and dinosaurs. Visitors of all varieties come and go, but the Marshall's can't seem to catch a break.
A few episodes are written by Star Trek veterans like Walter Koenig and DC Fontana. Koenig's "The Stranger" is a good example of some of the quality story telling. It could be great retold with modern effects, provided the writers don't try to dumb it down with overly ambiguous plot arcs, e.g. LOST.
I started watching it again 42 years later, quite by accident and realized, despite the pour production value, which can be distracting for a modern viewer, the stories are actually pretty clever for their time.
The show follows a family of 3, widowed Rick and his two children Will and Holly into a pocket universe containing alien creatures with a surprising H.G. Wells-esque lore, advance technology that maintains the weather, pre-Neanderthal like hominids, and dinosaurs. Visitors of all varieties come and go, but the Marshall's can't seem to catch a break.
A few episodes are written by Star Trek veterans like Walter Koenig and DC Fontana. Koenig's "The Stranger" is a good example of some of the quality story telling. It could be great retold with modern effects, provided the writers don't try to dumb it down with overly ambiguous plot arcs, e.g. LOST.