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My Friend, Mr. Nobody: Directed by Paul Stanley. With Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen. Penny strikes up a friendship with a deep voice in a deep cave.
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- Adventure, Comedy, Family
- Paul Stanley
- 1965-10-27
- Overview
- Notes:
Penny is somewhat resentful of her brother Will when he is allowed to help their father and Don, but not she. Will is very blunt with her and says she does not even understand what he is doing, but her father is somewhat kinder even though he tells her to run along.
Left to her own devices, Penny goes off to play with her "friends," an animate bush that drops its leaves when she curtseys to it, and a fountain that gushes up out of a pool of water. She suddenly hears a voice, but mistakenly believes it is only an echo of her own. She gradually realizes that it is in fact a real voice and tracks it into a nearby cave. Although she finds no one there, it dawns on her that there must be some sort of intelligence dwelling in the darkness.
Everyone dismisses Penny's story as an imaginary friend, but Dr. Smith becomes interested when the girl returns to camp one day carrying some diamonds. Determined to find the source, he follows her to the cave and learns the location of the diamonds, although he knows nothing of Penny's friend inside.
As Smith enlists the Robot's aid in gaining further information, Penny's relationship with the disembodied voice grows in depth and quality. The Robot's only finding is that he senses danger. When Dr. Smith tries to trick Penny into believing he is her unseen friend, the real voice disappears and Penny is heartbroken.
Undeterred, Smith tricks Don into blasting over the cave in order to find some clay-bearing soil, apparently something which the Robinsons need. Heedless of Don's warning, Smith uses too much explosive, unaware that Penny has returned to the cave below to look for her friend. Penny is knocked unconscious in the catastrophic explosion, and when her friend fails to rouse her, it goes on a rampage, manifested in tremors, violent winds and lightning.
The Robinsons are defenceless in the face of the oncoming disaster. Only when Penny regains consciousness and struggles back to camp to beg for their lives does the creature's rage quieten. At that point something strange happens; having left its cave, the creature has begun some process of metamorphosis and begins to move out into outer space as it says good-bye to Penny.
•This is the episode in which Dr. Smith first utters his classic catchphrase "Oh, the pain."
•William Bramley provided the voice of Mr. Nobody.
•This is Angela Cartwright's favorite episode.
•The teaser has a great overhead shot that establishes the size of the set. Sadly, such shots were typically limited to the beginning of the first season.
•This is the third consecutive episode where the robot is disassembled in some manner. Smith seems to fix the robot in the space of a few hours. Over the course of the season, Smith would lose the ability to fix the robot.
•The delicate and lyrical music for this episode is the last Lost in Space score written by John Williams. However, he would return to the series one final time to compose new theme music for the third season.
MUSIC-JOHN WILLIAMS. NARRATION: Last week, we left our small party of space colonists as they began their first test drilling for radioactive materials. Materials that could be transformed into enough atomic fuel to lift their disabled space ship off this strange and alien planet. TEASER-fully recapped. Will and John are at the drill site.
Penny makes friends with a mysterious invisible entity in a cave. It talks to and learns from her. But Dr. Smith draws the wrath of the entity when he destroys the cave in search of riches and, in the process, inadvertently injures Penny. Download Episode Watch Episode Online.
