Review of Land of the Lost

I use to religiously watch this incredibly off-the-wall quirky'n'kooky children's TV show every Saturday morning as a kid growing up in the mid to late 70's. Stalwart widowed forest ranger dad Rick Marshall (excellently played by the firm-as-granite Spencer Milligan), his whiny son Will (teen pin-up hunkling Wesley Eure) and spunky daughter Holly (adorable pig-tailed cutie Kathy Coleman) are absorbed through a mysterious time portal into an exotic and dangerous primitive world populated by ferocious dinosaurs, savage cavemen, vicious humanoid lizards called Sleestaks, and other such otherworldly beings. The trio are terrorized by Grumpy the Tyrannosaurus Rex, befriended by Cha-Ka the simpleton furball missing link, and try their best to leave this alternate universe. Of course, they run across plenty of bizarre beasties such as Medusa and the Abominable Snowman. Rick was eventually replaced by the equally gutsy Uncle Jack (rugged Ron Harper), but the show never lost its strangely beguiling and captivating sense of zany oddball fun, with the crude herky-jerky stop motion animation, chintzy sets, endearingly shoddy special effects, offbeat plots, likable main characters, and a simply spectacular spirited hillbilly bluegrass theme song all adding immensely to the hugely entertaining weirdness. An awesome vintage 70's time capsule of lovably ludicrous lunacy.