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    "headline": "Lost in Space’s Robot said ‘Danger, Will Robinson’ just once in the 1960s series, in its thi",
    "description": "The Lost in Space Robot says \"Danger, Will Robinson!\" in that exact form only once in the 1965–68 series, in the episode \"Deadliest of the Species.\"",
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    "articleBody": "The most famous line in 1960s television science fiction was barely in the show. According to the public compilation of the original Lost in Space dialogue, the Robot says “Danger, Will Robinson!” in exactly that form only once across the series, and not even as a frantic alarm. That single occurrence comes in “Deadliest of the Species,” an episode from the third and final season, which CBS aired between September 6, 1967, and March 6, 1968. The same compilation notes that the context there is not an urgent warning at all. What the Robot actually kept saying Viewers did hear plenty of alarm from the machine. That dialogue record notes that the Robot frequently cried “Danger, danger!” and “Warning, warning!”, and that he often addressed the boy by his full name, Will Robinson. The show’s encyclopedia entry lists “Warning! Warning!” and “It does not compute” among the lines it is remembered for. Put those habits together and the merged phrase almost writes itself. A robot that shouts “Danger!” and also calls a child “Will Robinson” in the same scenes gives fans every reason to remember a combined sentence, even if the scripts rarely spelled it out that way. Who was behind the voice Lost in Space was created and produced by Irwin Allen and ran on CBS from September 15, 1965, to March 6, 1968, over three seasons. It followed the Robinson family, launched toward Alpha Centauri aboard the Jupiter 2 and thrown off course by the stowaway saboteur Dr. Zachary Smith, played by Jonathan Harris. The Robot, a B-9 environmental control model, was performed inside the costume by Bob May and voiced by Dick Tufeld, who also narrated the show. Robert Kinoshita designed it; he had earlier designed Robby the Robot for the film Forbidden Planet. The Robot’s own encyclopedia entry says the Robot’s catchphrases came with a trademark flailing of his bellows-covered arms, a gesture that helped fix the image in viewers’ heads. How one line outgrew the show The phrase did most of its living after the cameras stopped. Reruns kept the series on the air for decades, and when New Line Cinema released a Lost in Space feature film in 1998, “Danger, Will Robinson!” became its advertising slogan. The film’s official website even used the address dangerwillrobinson.com. The 2018 Netflix reboot redesigned the Robot as an alien machine with a skeletal look, but kept what the character entry calls “his famous line” along with his loyalty to Will. By then the words had long since become shorthand far beyond the show, used as a jokey warning in offices, on forums and in other films. A familiar pattern with famous lines Pop culture often remembers a sharper version of a line than the one on the record. Badiyaa has traced the same drift before: the advice to keep enemies closer came from a 1974 gangster film rather than an ancient general, as our story on the enemies line credited to Sun Tzu that really comes from The Godfather Part II showed, and Caesar’s dying words were shaped by a London stage play, as we found when tracing where “Et tu, Brute?” was first printed. Mark Twain’s quip about his own death notice also grew tidier with retelling, as our look at what Twain actually said in London in 1897 found. The Lost in Space case differs in one way: the exact words do exist on screen. Unlike those misquotes, this one is real but rare, a single line in an 83-episode run that the audience, the marketers and the remakes turned into the show’s calling card. Viewers who want to check for themselves can find the whole original series on Blu-ray, remastered for the show’s 50th anniversary and released on September 15, 2015. Further reading Wikipedia: Lost in Space Wikipedia: Robot (Lost in Space) Image: William Tung, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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