Land of the Lost
Hot-Air Artist
TV Flash files “Hot-Air Artist” as hour 38 of 43 in the TV Flash guide — Land of the Lost (1974–1976) on NBC, season 3, episode 8, aired 1976-10-30, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E08: listed hour 38 of 43 in the Land of the Lost guide, hour 8 of 13 in season 3. It aired 1976-10-30 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Flying Dutchman” (S03E07). Next is “Abominable Snowman” (S03E09).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Hot-Air Artist sit in the Land of the Lost guide?
S03E08 is listed hour 38 of 43 — hour 8 of 13 in season 3, season 3 episode 8.
When did Land of the Lost S03E08 air?
Hot-Air Artist aired 1976-10-30 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.…