Land of the Lost
One of Our Pylons is Missing
TV Flash files “One of Our Pylons is Missing” as hour 21 of 43 in the TV Flash guide — Land of the Lost (1974–1976) on NBC, season 2, episode 4, aired 1975-09-27, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E04: listed hour 21 of 43 in the Land of the Lost guide, hour 4 of 13 in season 2. It aired 1975-09-27 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Fair Trade” (S02E03). Next is “The Test” (S02E05).
Viewer FAQ
Where does One of Our Pylons is Missing sit in the Land of the Lost guide?
S02E04 is listed hour 21 of 43 — hour 4 of 13 in season 2, season 2 episode 4.
When did Land of the Lost S02E04 air?
One of Our Pylons is Missing aired 1975-09-27 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Kids' show or real science fiction?
Kids' sci-fi with unusually rich concepts: linguists and SF writers on a Krofft Saturday. Weird as world-building, not as a shrug.
In the series
Why this series still plays
The Marshalls fall into a pocket universe of dinosaurs, Pylons, and Sleestak nightmares that still live in Saturday-morning trauma. Kids' sci-fi with linguists and writers who treated the weird as serious world-building. Foam-and-miniature craft, ambitious for cereal hour, and still stranger than the later joke remake.
The Sleestak arrives before the joke remake. NBC, 1974–1976: a family rafting trip plunges them into a pocket dimension of dinosaurs, primate-like Pakuni, and sinister lizards, and Sid and Marty Krofft — with David Gerrold and Allan Foshko among key contributors — treat the weird as serious world-building. Spencer Milligan's Rick Marshall, Wesley Eure's Will, Kathy Coleman's Holly, Phillip Paley's Cha-Ka in a canyon that never stopped being strange. Linguists and science-fiction writers on a cereal-hour clock.…
Filed against
- Spencer Milligan as Rick Marshall
Spencer Milligan fell into Land of the Lost as Rick Marshall — dad, ranger, a 1970s Saturday-morning pocket universe of dinosaurs, Pylons, and Sleestak nightmares that still live in the trauma drawer. Foam-and-miniature craft, serious…
- Wesley Eure as Will Marshall
Wesley Eure’s Will Marshall fell into Land of the Lost — pocket universe of dinosaurs, Pylons, and Sleestak nightmares that still live in Saturday-morning trauma. Kids’ sci-fi with linguists and writers who treated the weird as serious…
- Kathy Coleman as Holly Marshall
Kathy Coleman's Holly Marshall fell into Land of the Lost, 1970s Saturday-morning sci-fi with dinosaurs, Pylons, and Sleestak nightmares that still qualify as cereal-hour trauma. Foam-and-miniature craft, weird treated as world-building.…
- Phillip Paley as Cha-Ka
Phillip Paley played Cha-Ka on Land of the Lost, 1970s Saturday-morning trauma in a pocket universe of dinosaurs, Pylons, and Sleestak nightmares. Kids’ sci-fi with linguists and writers who treated the weird as serious world-building.…