Traveling Back In Time…

Recently I passed through San Francisco Int’l Airport, where the main concourse boasts a vast, impressive display of TV memorabilia from the first days of b&w moving pictures to the heyday of 70’s television and my childhood.

My brother and I weren’t lucky enough to own lunchbox sets like this one, which is freaking AWESOME, but we did have “Space: 1999″ toys like the uber cool starcraft gathered near the M*A*S*H* and Star Trek displays. Maybe better, on our annual backpacking trips with our father, we never failed to find a waterfall and float sticks over the plunge while singing: “In the LAND… of… the LOST!!!!”

Anybody else remember this treasure?

Aha ha ha. Watching this spotty YouTube video makes me laugh at the incredibly schlocky special effects, but we didn’t care when we were seven years old. Now I gotta ask, why is the theme song a tub-thumping country jingle? Were Marshall, Will, and Holly good ol’ boys? Did this show eventually spawn “Deliverance”?

Either way, you gotta admit the concept is HIGH CONCEPT, baby.