they never got home!!! dammit!!! : )

[davidfinn]

hi all. it's embarassing but I've ALWAYS remembered land of the lost. it was on early weekdays before school in sydney, australia, in the early eighties. i remember some parts of it quite clearly although i was very young.
at the time i realised it was OLD (i actually assumed in later years it was a sixties show) but also quite cool. the actual actors who played the human characters i don't recall but the green 'alien?' lizard things were quite sinster at times. : )

but they (the father, son & daughter) never got out/home!!! that is a real dissapointment for me. i had really always hoped that Dad got the kids back. :(

a dream crushed...

ah well...anyway, thanx for this site, this was one of those "little questions" i've always had in my mind. cheers, david finn.

i'd welcome the chance to chat a little more land of the lost info, although i must admit i am very rusty. but who isn't, right? heh.

[DaveD]

G'Day mate!
Glad to see LOTL had fans in the
land down under! There's only one thing you
had mistaken. Land of the Lost was a senventies show, making it's debut in Sept
1974. Just thought you'd like to know!
See Ya!

[Brian Lombard]

One other correction. Dad did get home by the third season, stranding the kids there, but was soon replaced by Uncle Jack.

[Scott F]

I alway thought how conveinent it was that how uncle jack came in just as the father left...

[Roger Roger]

Actually, they did get home at the end of the first season, right? They went home and another version of the family got lost at the same time. It's complicated, but that's what I recall.

[Frank]

David, I agree with you, I always thought the natural conclusion would have been to have the Marshalls finally get home. I mean, even if the series was cancelled in the third season, the decent thing to do would have been to allow them to do one more episode to finish it off.

Or, another option would have been to slightly alter the episode "Timestop" -- one of the last episodes in the third season -- so that instead of having Torchy destroy the pylon they could have all used Enik's device to get home. It wouldn't have been very difficult to change that episode, just a few extra lines of dialogue, and then they could have aired that episode as the last one instead of "Medicine Man." I don't know, am I missing something here? Anyone else have some thoughts on this?

[Marc]

You want the Marshalls to get home? No problem. I actually wrote the story. It's called Exodus. It always bugged me that they never got home either. I tried to answer a lot of mysteries about LOTL in that story, including, what the heck happened to Rick Marshall. It begins with retelling his return to Earth from Rick's point of view, and I take it from there. Check it out:

http://www.linkline.com/personal/enik1138/exodus.html

[JP]

If they broadcast an episode where THE MARSHALLS RETURN TO THEIR WULD! that eliminates any chance of the show being picked up for another season by another station, forget a movie. Who Knows what kind of offers Sid & Marty were getting, they had to leave the outcome a mystery. Sidney, Marty, we know you are reading. Get off your PUFFINSTUFF ASSES AND MAKE A MOVIE! Is it not time? well....MAKE IT TIME! THE MARSHALLS MUST RETURN TO THEIR WULD! Thats my two cents worth. Thank you and good evening.