Nostalgia Lane: Land of the Lost

Wow. Chances are if you're over the age of ten you have seen something in your youth that stuck with you whilst much else faded from memory. Might have been great, it might have been mundane. I've got a lot of things like that rattling around in this noggin of mine, and I just became re-acquainted with one interesting nugget of my childhood, and in fact might be recognizable to a lot of you if you were born in the nineties. Or the seventies!

Heck yeah

A strange yet creative and fun show first aired in the seventies, remade in the 90's and then mutating into the horrifying atrocity that was the soulless movie, this was a cheesy, low-budget but oddly charming series starring small family, the Porters and the Marshalls respectively, falling through rifts in time and space to a dimension full of dinosaurs and colorful characters. It's very much like Lost in Space meets The Lost World.

If you dare to look these up, be prepared for the kind of cheesiness that would knock a Parisian unconsciousness. And yet I find it to be a precious fragment of my childhood. In spite of the crude effects and dated camera style, the show had an impressive amount of imagination and really tried to make the most of their tiny budget. It's oddly original with the humanoid dinosaurs, the Sleestaks, inter-dimensional travel, iconic dinosaur characters and a slew of other interesting facets.

I've actually found that it's fueling a lot of my writing ideas in multiple settings. I mean, come on. Supernatural crystals, inter-dimensional portals, dinosaurs, underground cities and bizarre technology? How could you NOT get ideas from it?

If you grew up in the nineties this is a real blast from the past. Even more-so if you watched it in the seventies! If you haven't watched it, give it a shot. For kids born in the 2000's, you'll probably suffer a stroke. But I'd still take it over a lot of shows today.

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