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His Majesty Smith: Directed by Harry Harris. With Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen. Doctor Smith delights that he is made ruler of an alien species until he learns that he is also their sacrifice.
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- Adventure, Comedy, Family
- Harry Harris
- 1966-03-16
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Dr. Smith, Will, and the Robot come upon a jewel-laden crown. When Smith decides to try the crown on, the act unleashes a fury of lightning and Will helps his friend remove the crown. The Robot then says the crown holds no danger for Will. To assure Dr. Smith that the crown is harmless to him, Will dons it. Suddenly, trumpets blast and humanoid aliens appear announcing that the wearer of the crown is to be the king of their home world, Andronica. Though flattered by the offer, Will turns them down. Dr. Smith, however, after sending Will and the Robot on their way, tells the leader of the entourage that he is descended from kings and would make a perfect ruler for their planet and suggests that he be considered. After Dr. Smith departs, the leader, Nexus, transmits a message to his superior, a hairy-faced alien who is a true Andronican—the group that Smith and Will had met were nothing more than human-looking androids made by the Andronican.
Smith becomes king and is shortly to be taken to Andronica. The Robot, however, has detected something sinister about the alien party and submits his findings to the rest of the Robinson Family. It is decided that a rescue attempt is to be made before Smith departs.
The alien intercepts the conversation and decides to solve the problem by making a duplicate Smith and passing it off as the real thing. The new Smith is everything the old Smith was not: hardworking, considerate, inventive, and self-sacrificing. The Robinsons suspect nothing.
However, the real Smith discovers that an Andronican king is no more than a figurehead and is sacrificed and stuffed after his coronation. He manages to escape when the Andronican is knocked unconscious and returns to the Jupiter 2 to the surprise of the rest. When the Andronican androids come to reclaim Smith, the duplicate pretends to be the real Smith and goes off in his place. The Robinsons lament the fate of the duplicate Dr. Smith, but the real Dr. Smith assures them it will be safe; the Andronicans have a great respect for virtue; they only choose the most worthless of beings as their kings to rid the universe of such useless creatures.
•Some may think that this is not one of the best of the first season, but it benefits from the performances of Hagen and, in a dual role, Harris. Hagen had previously appeared on Irwin Allen's "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea," and would later portray "Inspector Kobick" on the producer's "Land of the Giants." Though most television fans remember him as "Doc Baker" on the long running "Little House on the Prairie" show.This installment comes from the final half of season 1 of the show and it is another example of the change in format from adventure and survival to farce and fantasy.
•Liam Sullivan played the part of the head android-human Andronican named Nexus. Sullivan was born William Edward Sullivan on May 18, 1923 in Jacksonville, Illinois, USA. He died on April 19, 1998 (age 74) in Los Angeles, California, USA.
•Liam Sullivan was one of the few actors to have appeared on both classic Sci -Fi shows "Lost In Space" and "Star Trek". Sullivan played Parmen, in "Plato's Stepchildren" for Star Trek.
•Kevin Hagen played the actual hairy and homely Andronican alien. Hagen was born Donald N. Hagen on April 3, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He died on July 9, 2005 (age 77) in Grants Pass, Oregon, USA. Most people will know and recognize Hagen from "Little House On the Prairie, where he played Dr. Hiram Baker (Doc).
•Live coverage of the Gemini VIII splashdown meant that Season 1 Episode 24 "His Majesty Smith" was postponed. CBS received over 2000 calls of complaint that night.
•The exterior of the alien spacecraft in this episode is the same as that used in The Keeper.
•Dr Smith: "King Zachary the First....oh my!"
•Dr Smith: "Then I really am the King?" Alien: "Oh yes. You are the King. For festival of sacrifice." Smith: "Sacrifice?" Alien: "Big Festival. Everybody come. Drink gloog. Make sleemoth"
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Day--royal music plays. Smith is on a carry all being fed by a woman, fanned with a feather by another, and served by the other two. He has on a robe, the royal crown. The Robinsons and Don arrive. Will says, "Hi, Dr. Smith." Smith tells him in the future he will address him as his majesty.
With the Robinsons bent on launching a rescue, the chief Andronican creates a Smith-duplicate, imbued with all the industrious and selfless qualities they admire (everything the real Smith is not) to satisfy the Robinsons. It works, but the real Smith manages to escape.
Dr. Smith is conscripted as the leader of a people from another world. Little does he know that the leaders of these people are routinely sacrificed and replaced with other expendible leaders. Smith is just one of a long line of sacrificed rulers.
His Majesty Smith. Available on Hulu. S1 E24: Dr. Smith lobbies to become king of a luxurious planet named Andronica, only to discover he's to be used as a human sacrifice. Sci-Fi Mar 16, 1966 51 min. TV-PG. Starring Liam Sullivan, Kevin Hagen.
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