Product Details

• Actors: Wesley Eure, Kathy Coleman, Philip Paley, Spencer Milligan, Walker Edmiston
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Rhino Video
• VHS Release Date: July 20, 1999
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305458081
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #48,355 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Editorial Reviews

Product Description

"The Search"--Will passes up an opportunity to return to Earth, refusing to leave his injured father behind. "The Paku Who Came to Dinner"--Cha-Ka follows Will and Holly home to their cave and, after smelling Rick's good cooking, decides to stay permanently.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great tape full of 70s nostalgia, fashion and dinosaurs!, June 20, 2000

By	Shelley Shay (Denton, TX **(God Bless the USA!!)**) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

I can't say how much I love these tapes. I have been begging Rhino Records to come out with a DVD version of this via several emphatic e-mails.

They did a superb job of delivering the broadcast quality of these classic shows onto VHS. The FBI warning is just as entertaining.

This tape includes a very groovy iron-on of a sleestak, which is very 70s itself. Very good (if not over-done) acting by all the characters and some of the cheesiest special effects you have ever seen.

In the opening scenes when the theme song is playing, "shook their tiny raft...," the special effects are so awful, it looks like they borrowed them from the 1973 "Tidy Bowl" commercial. Still, these were low-budget shows and they still brought great entertainment to children. The dinosaurs are still menacing even though they have muppet-like mouths (no throats!)... thanks to the original music and panicked family.

The show was watched by adults as well due to the clever concepts in sci-fi... aliens called Sleestak from a different time and place, the most terrifying looking lizard people I ever saw as a child. Even the sounds they made gave me the willies. Enik, the talking Sleestak from another dimension has a powerful voice and an interesting culture which he shares reluctantly with Marshall, Will and Holly.

Exploding crystals and primitive Pakuni abound. It's funny to see all of the necessary-to-live items that the family brought with them on the "routine expedition" before they got thrown into the land of the lost.... Holly brought her makeup kit, they all have tons of rope, pulleys and camping gear. Regardless of some of the cheesy props and poor SFX, it is still an awesome show and especially endearing for those of us who saw it in its hey-day when we were kids. I had all but forgotten that Holly had a pet brontosaurus named "Dopey" and that Cha Ka's parents were so weird. A scene on this tape in which one of the Pakuni kidnaps Holly and throws her over his shoulder is side-splitting.

This is a safe video to show to kids... no bad language or sexual inuendo and nothing subversive is being taught... just family bonds developing through crisis, sacrifice, trust and friendship.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Well Done Fiction, November 21, 2002

By	C. A. Luster "The Rook" (Burke, VA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This was a nicely done series. If you enjoy any of "The Lost World" movies or TV shows based on the book by Arthur Conan Doyle, you will probably enjoy this "Land of the Lost" series. This was definitely made for family entertainment and it does not fail. The cast is good, and the sets and music add to make a great production by Sid and Marty Krofft. Children will especially enjoy it.

5.0 out of 5 stars The ''search'' was good show, July 4, 2001

By	Mike davis (brodhead, wI) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

the search starts off there looking for more crystals, then will see's something in the distance, turns out to be lots of crystals, will this help them get home? maybe, got to watch this one, because someone might go home, who is it? this is great show if your into land of the lost like I was, one of those you have to watch. and lots more of caves and sleestaks great for kids to watch too. funny and somewhat stupid, but make a great show. I grew up with these shows.