Today, we focus on a children's tv show and cult classics, which lasted 43 episodes from 1974-76, before being remade into a tv show of the same name in 1991, and then a royal box office cinematic flop of the same name in 2009 with Will Farrell. The film, amazingly enough, somehow ballooned up to $100,000,000 in costs and it only regained $50,000,000 back. But, perhaps, if it got people in Sofia, Bulgaria, interested in a tv show from our childhood then it was all worth it!
All three incarnations of "Land of the Lost," which was yet another Sid and Marty Krofft venture, revolve around the Marshall family from Indiana. The father Rick, his son Will, and his daughter Holly all managed to get trapped in an alternative universe filled with dinosaurs and evil lizard people. So, I guess it's sort of like "Jurassic Park Meets Swiss Family Robinson" (I actually came up with that, excuse the temporary narcissism).
The agrresive lizard people were called Sleestak, in case it comes up at a Jeopardy game at a science-fiction convention. Of course, you will still get decked by a man from New Jersey who has read "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe" at least 30 times.
Our question today is a relatively simple one. As I was browsing through a buyers guide on lunch boxes from tv shows of our vanishing youth, I was stunned by how much ones from the Krofftt series, which also included "H.R. Pufnstuf*" and "Sigmund and the Sea Monster" were going for. Sure enough, if you have the thermos with your "Land of the Lost" lunch box and you don't live in Malibu, Calif., you might make a down payment on your condo!
What is the (most expensive) "Land of the Lost" lunch box on e-bay worth; is the answer?:
A) $149
B) $179
C) $199
D) $224
*-The spelling for H.R. Pufnstuf (not Puffnstuff) on our tags is wrong; forgive us for the error!
PS_ The answer to last week's Bonus Road Trip, which asked how far Mount Airy, NC, is from Milwaukee, is B) 14 hours.
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