30 January 2012

I’m Penny Robinson, and I’d like to thank all my wonderful fans!

Welcome to the

Penny Robinson Fan Club!

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  We continue on our voyage across space and time, indulging in this wonderful retrospective on a classic TV series and celebrating the character of Penny Robinson.

Along the way, we’ve published a complete novel-length trilogy, Endless Skies, which is a bit of an alternate – timeline the Robinsons may have taken, and looks at them several years after we last saw them on TV. Penny has grown up into a beautiful young woman, and . . . well, we’ll just say she’s very happy to see a new face in town! We’ve also published the first volume of Lost In Space Adventures, which re-think and re-imagine a number of actual episodes which had some very good ideas in them, but, for whatever reason, didn’t make it to air time as everything they might have been. Essentially, they have been rewritten as serious science fiction short stories for grown-ups. Well, mostly serious. Dr. Smith remains the thorough scoundrel he originally was, but he does lend some light touches still! More of both Endless Skies and Adventures will be coming soon. Just look up top, in the drawer labeled “The Written Word.”

And of course hundreds? thousands? of screenshots from early Season One to early Season Three, all showing off the beautiful girl who is Penny. Lots of our own thoughts and comments on many episodes, too.

Now here! A video gallery!!

We have to be very careful  posting video, as Lost In Space is still copyrighted material, but we have a growing gallery of short clips featuring some of Penny’s best scenes, and other related material. Check out our first clips now! Mark Goddard fans, be sure and visit the Golden Wheel Saloon, where we’re showing complete episodes of Johnny Ringo,  co-starring Mark in his first TV series as deputy “Cully” to Sheriff Johnny Ringo in old Arizona Territory. A classic Western from the Golden Age of the American Western!  And learn how you can get your very own Johnny Ringo DVD set. The first three episodes of Johnny Ringo are now playing in the Golden Wheel Saloon!

The Fan Club Inaugural Photo!

More new fans just landed!

But now . . .

PENNY NEEDS HELP

OK, more accurately, the Penny Robinson Fan Club would appreciate your help. 

We’ve just renewed and upgraded our WordPress account so we can host music and video as well. You’re probably hearing the official anthem of the Fan Club as we speak: Pennies From Heaven, and you can enjoy some of Mark Goddard’s first television work in the Golden Wheel Saloon. But the bottom line — the bottom line is always the bottom line, isn’t it? — we’d appreciate it if you could chip in just a little to help defray our subscription cost. Paypal any amount you like to the Penny Robinson Fan Club on the Paypal button below; make it $25 and we’ll send you as a free premium a real, professionally printed and bound, softcover book of our Endless Skies trilogy. (Sorry, US only. Will ship abroad, but must ask for a bit more to cover postage. Just ask, though!)

 

Please, dear friends . . . don’t let Penny down.

A Trilogy of Tales

Yes, this beautiful cover can be yours, along with the three delightful tales of Penny Robinson and Bobby Cain, building a family, a life, and a world in deep space.

 

 

Well, in the picture, I guess she really does need to be let down.

But that’s not what I meant.

I mean, I’m sure you knew that, I know you’re pretty bright.

But just in case –

Yes, Penny dear, I’ll shut up now.

 

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28 January 2012

Welcome Spacers!

Welcome, fans of the classic TV show, Lost In Space, and especially all those who were, and are, fans of Penny Robinson.

After all this time, Penny remains a compelling, touching, and beautiful character.   She was portrayed by the incredibly talented Angela Cartwright, who at age 12, gave us more and better acting in any given ten minutes of Lost In Space than has been seen on TV in the last 20 years.

The purpose of this site is simply to showcase and celebrate Penny Robinson.  There are slideshows in the Gallery pages where stills of Penny appear, collected by episode. Some galleries will be devoted to a single episode. Others will collect a few episodes together which (sadly) had little Penny content.

To the left,  you will find links to a number of related (but independent) sites:  other fan sites, personal sites of the actors and actresses, including Angela Cartwright herself, of course.

Under “The Written Word” you will find a growing collection of commentary and analysis on different episodes, mostly Season 2 at this time, as well as a look at the entire series itself. Also, some original short fiction speculating on Penny’s life and adventures beyond Season 3, in what is probably a slightly alternate timeline, but crammed full of good sci-fi action, all the Jupiter 2  crew you love. . .and new characters, too! Enjoy!

Much of the content summarizes comments I have made over on a couple of the Yahoo! Lost In Space discussion groups:

LIS4Ever (http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/LIS4EVER/) and

Lost In Space (http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/LostinSpace/),

two wonderful online communities of fans of Lost In Space and other Irwin Allen shows.  Thanks to all my friends there for the stimulating and engaging dialogue!

Also:

Now appearing here, “LOLs in Space!”, a collection of humorously captioned (I hope!) stills from “Lost In Space.”  There are two separate galleries, “LOLs In Space” looks at the actors and actresses”behind the scenes,” as themselves; “Lost In Space Oddities” gives the characters themselves the works!

Now, go buy the DVDs, sit down by the Wayback Machine, and get yourselves . . .

LOST   IN   SPACE!!!!

 

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