Julia was an American TV sitcom that aired from September 17, 1968, to March 23, 1971. It starred actress and singer Diahann Carroll, and ran for 86 episodes on NBC. These images are from series 3, episode 23 called “Swing Low, Sweet Charity” and feature the original Lost In Space spacesuits, complete and unaltered as best as I can tell.
I have to confess that I knew nothing about this episode, or even this show until I was directed to it by long time blog fan Tim Armstrong. Although weirdly, the theme music is very familiar so whether it did air in the UK for a period remains to be discovered. Either way it is a very cool, obscure find of the kind that we like here.
And now I’ve posted this, I’ll see if I can keep the momentum going and post some more. It’s not like those spacesuits have gone away!
Steve
The suit with the three knobs is Mr Freeze's from Batman.
ReplyDeleteWell spotted,I thought there was something a little weird about it.
DeleteThe silver suit body is the lost in space one,but the weird neck ring & its attached chest piece with the 3 knobs/dials is from Mr Freezes suit,tho its missing the air bottles that go on the back of it.
It also looks like they`ve borrowed the belt from Mr Freezes suit as well,as the actor does have a bit of a bulging gut.