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Lost in Space :: The Junkyard of Space (03x24)
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| Title: | The Junkyard of Space |
| Episode #: | 03x24 |
| Production Number: | 1524 |
| Original Airdate: | Wednesday March 06th, 1968 |
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The Jupiter must land, to repair a fuel tank that is causing fires. But first, someone must explore a cosmic cloud with the space pod to verify the Jupiter can pass through it. Smith draws the short screwdriver, but talks the Robot into taking his place. Then a magnetic force captures the Robot and hauls him to a space "junk yard" run by a bizarre robot junk man. Then a strange form of rust plague infects the Robinsons' food supply, forcing Smith to trade parts from the robot to the junk man in exchange for meals. But when the junk man has what he wants, he plans to cut off the food and steal the Jupiter, stranding the Robinsons on his own wretched world!
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Doctor Smith: Mind your manners, ninny, or you'll lose your friends!
| The Robot: Cruelty! Cruelty! Thy name is Smith.
| Don: Are you all right?
The Robot: Except for a slight... tingling sensation in my rotor, I am functional.
Doctor Smith: Only a complete moron would get himself into such a predicament.
| The Junkman: (kicking the Jupiter 2) Nice piece of metal. Should melt down very nicely.
Will: Melt down?
The Junkman: In my blast furnace.
| Maureen: Our entire food supply has been contaminated by some sort of a... a rust blight. The hydroponic garden is ruined!
Penny: Oh, but we still have our freezer units...
Maureen: No, we haven't. Whatever this rust blight is, it's resistant to cold. There's not a thing that's edible – even in the lockers.
| The Junkman: You are never going to leave here. Nothing ever leaves the junk planet.
| Doctor Smith: Tell me, sir, if I was to arrange to get you this stability unit, could you arrange to get me some proper food?
The Junkman: Plenty of it – from the food lockers of junked space vehicles.
Doctor Smith: Probably crawling with the rust blight.
The Junkman: Oh, no, no – quite the contrary! Only the food in your food lockers is contaminated.
| Doctor Smith: Have you got my food ready?
The Junkman: Our agreement is at an end, Doctor Smith. There is no longer anything I need from you.
| The Junkman: You cannot order me about, as with your mechanical man. I am very, very different – as you will see, Doctor Smith!
| The Junkman: Your company is preferable to that of Doctor Smith. Traveling with him as a companion will be just intolerable!
Doctor Smith: Indeed, sir. I shall be more than happy to sever our acquaintanceship.
| Will: The Robot could love, and you can't. Even if you live for ten thousand years, you'll always be lonely and unhappy!
The Junkman: How does one learn to love, Will Robinson?
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Doctor Smith, preparing to eat a roasted boot, says, “a bit of candlelight, a jug of wine, and thou.” He is likely paraphrasing (and rather poorly) a quatrain from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, an epic poem whose second most famous line reads “Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse, and Thou.” The most famous line is “The Moving Finger writes, and having writ moves on, nor all thy Piety nor Wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”
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About midway through this episode, The Junkman trades Doctor Smith food in exchange for several components taken from the Robot, including a stability unit. He does this because he needs these components to upgrade his own jury-rigged and failure prone systems. But later, he finds repair parts to restore the Robot without extracting them from himself, implying he did have these components. If he did, why cannibalize the Robot in the first place? The only possibility is that the Junkman's capabilities were so improved by his self-repairs that he became aware of his own inventory in new ways, and then realized he'd had the parts all along, but did not know it. That is, however, a flimsy explanation, and it is likely that the truth was simply that Irwin Allen did not regard logic as essential to a plot (or even particularly necessary); individuals giving interviews on Lost in Space DVD bonus material asserted this, but as Allen is dead and cannot defend himself, we may never know the truth.
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