Beloved ‘70s Saturday Morning TV Series 'Land of the Lost' Is Getting a Reboot
Land of the Lost, the beloved Saturday morning live-action series from the 1970s, will be finding its way back to TV. The Sid and Marty Krofft adventure series will be remade for Netflix, Deadline reported on June 17.
Sid and Marty Krofft Productions, headed by Marty Krofft’s daughter Deanna Krofft Pope, will produce the project, which is in very early stages of development, alongside Legendary Television, the outlet noted.
Land of the Lost aired on NBC's Saturday morning schedule from 1974 to 1976 and was remade for ABC in 1991, where it aired for two seasons. In 2009, a Land of the Lost feature film was released.
The original Land of the Lost followed a park ranger named Rick Marshall (Spencer Milligan), and his two children Will and Holly (Wesley Eure and Kathy Coleman), who found themselves teleported into a world inhabited by dinosaurs and lizard men called Sleestak. The show combined live action with stop-motion animation.
The iconic Krofft brothers were the creators of some of the most beloved children’s shows of the 1970s, including The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, H.R. Pufnstuf, and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters.
In 2019, Coleman, now 63, told Fox News why the original Saturday morning Land of the Lost needed to end when it did. “It was an expensive show to run," the actress said. “It required a big budget, and the executives thought it was just a kid show. I would definitely say money, but I’m sure there were other factors.”
Coleman also noted that she began growing out of the part that she started when she was 12. “My brother [Eure] got the part when he was like 20 or 21,” she added. “I was starting to look at him straight in the eyes, and he supposed to be my older brother.”
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