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While on a routine rafting trip the Marshall family, Rick Marshall and his two children, Will and Holly, fall through a time portal into a world inhabited by prehistoric creatures and misplaced beings. Forced to learn to survive in a world turned upside down the Marshall's would have to rely on some help from unexpected places. Living day by day and running from dinosaurs or evil Sleestack, a race of lizard-like humanoids, the family grew closer together. Eventually the family would be able to return home only to have another Marshall family from another rift in time enter the dimension. Land of the Lost was an intelligent show that didn't take children for granted. The shows episodes were written by some of the top names in science fiction of the time. Walter Koenig, of Star Trek fame, wrote what may be the shows best episode, The Stranger, which introduced Enik a more evolved Sleestak from an earlier time who ultimately aided in the Marshall family returning home. Check Ou...

Unfortunately this is going to be a very busy Saturday so I won't be able to do one of my usual Retro Saturday Morning features. I did want to post something so instead of doing an in-depth feature I have opted to feature a really cool video clip I discovered on YouTube. It's from a feature that appeared in the 1978 series The Krofft Superstar Hour (later known as The Bay City Rollers Show) called The Lost Island, "The Lost Island" featured a number of characters from other Krofft shows. Stories would somehow combine H.R. Pufnstuf, Enik, Sigmund the Sea Monster, and other unlikely characters into one storyline while they stay one step ahead of Dr. Deathray. Enik was the King of the Sleestak who lived within the Lost City and the island was also inhabited by dragons (utilizing stop-motion footage of Grumpy and Big Alice from "Land of the Lost"). Check this out:    History: The Krofft Superstar Hour is a Saturday morning children's variety show, produc...