Customer Reviews

Land of the Lost

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This show is a classic and a must to own! BUT WAIT FOR AMAZON.COM TO RELEASE THE BOX SET!!! Rhino Home Video has also released the COMPLETE SEASON BOX SET. SO DON'T JUST BUY THIS DVD! Why have only a couple of episodes.....WHEN YOU CAN HAVE THEM ALL!!! I love this show....it's the ONLY SID and MARTY KROFT show I can even stand to watch! I grew up watching this show along with Transformers, G.I. Joe, etc, etc. It's great that Rhino Hame Video is bringing these great shows to DVD!
I'll buy 'em all!!! As should you....So they keep releasing more of these great sets!

This television show is the essence of my childhood without a doubt. Back when it aired in the mid 70's I was only about 6 years of age, wearing green pajamas that covered my legs and feet and I walked around the house thinking I was a Sleestack. Every weekend in the morning I loved watching this show, it had awesome stories with mysterious caves and magical colored crystals.

I'm glad that I found this DVD at amazon.com to purchase last week. I couldn't wait for it to arrive and when it did I introduced my 8-year-old niece to this show by watching these 4 episodes with her and she is hooked, as I am and will always be. I wish to purchase them all and I'm looking forward to obtaining them when they're available. This DVD is well worth the purchase, I just wish it had more episodes on it. Thanks Amazon.com for helping me buy a piece of my childhood.

I hadn't seen this show since I was about 5 or 6 years old, so when I saw this DVD at the store, I grabbed it immediately. I don't know how kids today will react to it, given all the high-tech special f/x that are taken for granted. The fact is, this show really had a lot of good ideas behind it and it stands up well. From an adult perspective, it's fun to look at how horrible the f/x look, and wonder how I ever was convinced it was real.

Some of the stuff in these four episodes is pretty far out. Consider the part when ape-boy Chaka comes over for dinner, and little Holly gets all dolled up with make-up and perfume. As Chaka becomes apparently very attracted to the young girl, her brother and father chuckle about how she's "becoming a woman." Then later, Chaka and his ape-parents kidnap Holly and take her back to their home where they can't stop oogling her and sniffing her body (supposedly its because of the perfume). Pretty weird...

The DVD is a good value for the price. There are four episodes which run approximately 22 minutes each. For bonus features there is a very interesting 16-minute interview with Sid and Marty Krofft and even more entertaining a 14-minute new interview with the actor that played Chaka and the actress that played Holly. The adult Chaka is a relatively composed and dignified man. The woman that played Holly, however, laughs hysterically throughout the interview. She seems kind of demented. And boy oh boy-- I had a crush on Holly as a kid, but I would have never thought she would look like this today-- Yikes!

I remember being completely obsessed with LOTL when I was a kid. This show had everything a boy could ask for in a TV show in the early to mid 70's: dinosaurs, adventure, scary monsters, and an underlying creepiness that tingled the spine. LOTL is indisputably a classic to those of us who were growing up 25 or so years ago. In a group of your friends, sing "Marshall Will and Holly." Chances are you'll hear a resounding chorus of "On a routine expedition" in response.

The five stars is for the quality of the show, particularly the enclosed episodes. The extras are interesting, but too brief. The interview with the Krofts peaked my interest in many ways, but I feel that a lot of intersting stuff was edited out, particularly relating to their early years (there's a bit about how holyman Billy Graham condemned them at the Seattle World's Fair in the early sixties because of sexy topless puppets featured in a show of theirs, which of course helped them to be the hottest show there, for example). The bit with the actors who played Chaka and Holly was interesting and all, but I wish they could have got more players involved to show up.

Also, while the four episodes are excellent, I wish they would instead release the entire series chronologically as a box set. Honestly, this teaser just whets your appetite for more.

I grew up watching Sid & Marty Krofft shows! I remember this one the most! Every Saturdat morning I would wait for it to come on and you couldn't pry me away from the Television! (I did cover my eyes immediately when the sleestacks came on, for some reason I was deathly afraid of them back then...I also referred to them as the "sweestacks" and my parents still laugh at me to this day!)

Anyway, I wanted to share my Saturday morning experience with my son because we were recently discussing what was on when I was young. At first I was unsure on which disc to buy. I know that the entire first season is out, but this disc has two great interviews with both Holly and Cha-ka that I think made this disc worth the money. (Along with the episodes that are included on the disc of course!) I loved my Saturday's with the Marshall family : )

It's been fun revisiting my childhood and the Land of the Lost. I have great memories and now they are just a dvd away! It's great to see these older shows coming to dvd and I highly recommend them to anyone that was young or old growing up in the 1970's!

Some people might be tempted to bypass this collection of 'Land of the Lost' episodes now that the complete first season of 'Land of the Lost is available. I advise any die-hard fans of the series, especially Kathy Coleman to reconsider. Even though all of the episodes of this edition are also in the complete first season collection, this edition contains an interview with Kathy Coleman (Holly) and Phil Paley (Cha-Ka) that is well worth the cost of the DVD alone. Just my opinion.

I was anxiously awaiting this DVD's arrival to revisit the Land of the Lost. I dearly loved watching this show as a kid and wanted to share the same experience with my own kids. It was great watching the Marshall family, Chaka and the Sleestacks again. At first my kids didn't care for the "special effects" of the 70's but soon we were all watching and laughing at the graphics, fake scenery and dinosaurs and how much things have changed. It was a nice "blast from the past" and was glad to pass it on to my own kids. I also enjoyed the interviews with the grown actors of "Holly" and "Chaka"

Yeah, I know, this DVD has not arrived in my mailbox yet, but its coming. I ordered the videos(vol 1,2) and gave them to my friend's nephew, and he loved them. Now, I need my DVD. There is something magical about LOTL. I know all the episodes are full of corny lines, campy acting, and really fake looking effects, but we as Krofft fans keep coming back for more. Just as we did when we were kids back in the 70's, I find my self in front of the tv with my sugar coated cereal, watching one of the best Saturday morning shows to have ever graced the tube. I havent even gotten it yet, and im waiting on the next volume. So, take a trip back in time, and get this DVD. You wont regret it....

as a child i was at the time of this show a young 5 years old .but buying this dvd and watching it for the first time brought me back in a time machine to that very year.i was so exicted in all the spended glory of the show as a kid.with the dinosaurs the creepy land scapes.mysteriuos lost city to the o so scary sleestack.so what i did then was grabbed my 2 and 5 year old and wondered if it was me or was this show just kick #SS.SEEING HOW THE two I WAS WATCHING THIS WITH WERE VERY MUCH INTO THE CARTOON NETWORK AND ALL THE GLORIOUS SPECIAL EFFECTS OF TODAY.i was just wanting to see if the would get the same reaction as i did as a kid.well it passed the test they were both glued to the tv set and but the end of the 4 set show.they were both either walking like chaka or making the sounds of the sleestacks and asking me all sorts of question about the show.ones that at the time i wished i could of asked my parents.so if you loved this show and want to be brought back to a time of great kids tv .this is not one to miss out on.watch it with your kids watch it with your wife or husband its just good family entertainment! i cant wait for more! also with a very funny interveiw with kathy coleman "holly" which is also a must see.

Im a little confused by the reviewer who claims to have watched the show along with G.I. Joe, Transformers ect., since Land of the Lost was a show that aired during the seventies,and the aforementioned shows were mainly eighties fare! must be another crude and crass attempt to exploit all things "retro". For those of you who actually watched the show in the seventies, this dvd is recommended and I do not know of a series compliation that is available or forthcoming at this time. I disagree with those who claim the show was a shoddy production at best. The show had some great storylines with some classic sci-fi/fantasy elements written into the script,- dimensional doorways, parallell worlds, aliens, lost worlds, and of course ravenous prehistoric beasts!The stories are not overburdened with trite "moral" commentary like so many youth shows of the seventies and even today contain.(Remember after school specials?, yeccch!)The acting is not corny and the actors give a perfectly suitable performance that is very much enjoyable. The special effects are easy to criticize in comparison to todays standards, but given the era, budget and other factors the shows creators had to deal with at the time, I think it can be excused, besides as a kid your imagination easily filled in the gaps back then.I must admit, Before I got the dvd, I was expected to be dissapointed after all these years, but to my surprise I throughly enjoyed every episode,including the vhs releases, but be aware if you purchase the dvd you will only need vhs volumes 3 and 4, my only complaint is that there are not more available.