June Lockhart IS 100!

So young!

Early friend of the gays!

Happy Birthday, June!

So youthful!

Stay away from oil rig fires, June.

In the 90s I attended a journalism convention in Los Angeles with my university class. June Lockhart was there for some reason and my professor sniffed that she would show up to the opening of an envelope. I'd never heard that expression before that and thought it was hilarious. After that I noticed how frequently she was a guest star on all types of TV shows. But hey a girl's gotta eat

What was her last public appearance?

In The Remake (2016).

We all know that her father was famed character actor Gene Lockhart (Miracle on 34th Street), don’t we?

I didn't even realize she was still alive!

She was one gal I couldn't lick.

In a fight, I mean.

She Wolf Of London!

R6 I can never forget that line as it was wonderfully dispatched in “Death Becomes Her”. Your professor must have been a campy queen.

Does she have an OnlyFans?

Good for her!

That's hilarious, r13. The convention would have been a year or so after Death Becomes Her came out so maybe that's where my professor heard it. My professor was a woman and such a comment was out of character for her so it kind of makes sense if she was quoting the movie though she didn't say it playfully and genuinely seemed to making a dig at Lockhart. At the time I only knew Lockart as the mom from Lost In Space and Lassie reruns so I was struck that someone would find her offensive in some way.

So that makes at least TWO actors from "Meet Me in St Louis" who are still alive.

It's too bad Harry Davenport couldnt have hung on for a little while longer.

Besides genetics, attending envelope openings may be a reason for her longevity. It's kept her engaged in the world.

I tried watching all of Lost in Space - I made it through season one, but gave up in season two. It was just too boring.

More successful than Star Trek TOS but laughably pedestrian in comparison.

I knew her 100th was coming up. Nice to know she made it. By all accounts she was always a very nice person.

Season 1 of Lost in Space was great, all in black and white, but they approached it is a more serious Sci-Fi series which Ewrin Allen decided to dumb down for children more in season 2 and 3 with ludicrous aliens that were either space hippies or broccoli people. Dr. Smith went from a serious subversive stowaway to a bumbling 40 year old queen with back problems and liking for young Will Robinson.

She was one of the Cratchit girls in A Christmas Carol (1938) with her real life parents Gary Lockhart and Kathleen Lockhart.

The classic also stars Reginald Owen, Leo G. Carroll, and DL fav Ann Rutherford.

What became of her daughter Anne? (Was there an e?)

I remember them from an old USPS commercial about using the right zip code. Probably aired in the months before Xmas. Young Danielle Brisebois was also featured.

Happy birthday, June!!!

Her mom also appeared opposite husband Gene, as Mrs. Crachit in 1938’s “Christmas Carol.”

In Bill’s and his co-stars’ different books or recollections about “Lost In Space,” they describe how off-camera June was anything but mild-mannered TV mom. She was a wild lady! 😍 She loved rock music, hosting fabulous home Halloween costume parties, was a very bright individual always following DC politics and public affairs, and the one on “LIS” set who, right before shooting a scene, would shout out to the castmembers around her (including not just any of the female ones): “Ok, everybody, tits and lips!”, apparently reminding all to stand straight with shoulders back and lips licked shiny. She sounds like she’s always been quite a hoot of sn amazingly cool lady! ❤️🎂

Late 1960s or early 1970s tabloids went nuts over her affair with a much younger man from Jesus Christ Superstar.

She was an inferior replacement for Kate Bradley!

Many happy returns of the day, June!

June's comments that R2 is referring to. Pretty bold for that era.

thank you r30

June Lockhart's last on screen appearance in 2016. She was 91 at the time.

R32 - see R8!

June and Betty White two of my life long favs.

I love seeing color photos vrom the first B&W season of “Lost in Space.”

Yes, it was a terrible series, R22, but it’s srill worth you looking up a couple of episodes from seasons two and three to check out the brilliantly color-coordinated costumes of the cast. Hot oranges, browns and yellows for season two, psychedelic Easter pastels for season three.

It's watchable, and kind of like a soap opera. But just so baaaaad.

June is just fine.

She played Elizabeth Taylor as an adult in the White Cliffs of Dover.

R6, it's a tired and common phrase, first used by Jack O’Brian in 1974 about Sylvia Miles.

Miss Lockhart, being part of the popular culture zeitgeist over decades, had a right to accept invitations given her. Was she supposed to stay home? And, if so, why? Was her accepting an apparent honorary attendance a sign of neediness or appreciation?

If your professor isn't dead, you could check to see what meetings and conferences she attended in the last 20 years. And you could drop celebrating a saying that is now hackneyed.

As R22 said, the first season was great (I highly recommend episode 8, "Invaders from the Fifth Dimension," which featured some of the creepiest aliens in the history of sci-fi TV). The second and third seasons were the ones that did not live up to their potential, though each had a few fairly good episodes between them.

Lost in Space got downright campy and hilarious towards the end of S3. They knew it was axed and just went hog wild. Check out the episodes “The Great Vegetable Rebellion” and “The Promised Planet” - they are absolutely awesome.

[quote] I tried watching all of Lost in Space - I made it through season one, but gave up in season two. It was just too boring.

Here's what you missed: in every single episode, June (as Maureen Robinson) would say, "Oh John, you can't! It's much too dangerous!"

R41, that's also what made seasons 2 and 3 so frustrating (aside from the campy scripts) -- they completely sidelined the women. They had much more substantial roles in season 1 but became basically mannequins the last two years of the series. I figured that may be why they switched things up in the Netflix remake and gave the women the more prominent roles over the men (Maureen was the ship's captain as I recall and not John).

June played Felicia's great grandmother, Mariah Ramirez, on General Hospital in the 1980s.

In which episode did Judy get replaced by the plant replicant, which angrily snarled at her mother during dinner, "I DON'T WANT ANY SALAD!!" That's still my favorite episode.

I loved June in that roll when I was a kid because my mother worked full time AND raised 3 kids so I grew up with strong woman as role models who could do both. At the time most woman still were either single with light jobs or married stay at home mothers. Maureen Robinson was introduced as: Dr. Maureen Robinson; a distinguished biochemist Plus I had the hots for Mr. Robinson.

R44, I think you might mean this one:

Since we are doing Lost in space mention must be made of Guy Williams' outrageous VPL.

Well, R47, if we're going down that road, I thought Mark Goddard was one of the most beautiful, sexiest men on '60s television:

For R35:

She played Leon’s mother on an episode of Roseanne and was one of the few bright spots of the dreadful final 2 seasons.

Guy Williams screen test, smoking on cam, almost has a George Clooney vibe.

He had a great smile 😁

I felt so bad for the rest of the cast that got sidelined when the robot and Dr Smith became the stars of the show.

Seasons 2 and 3 of LIS were focused mostly on Dr Smith, Will & The Robot. The high cost of producing season 1 almost got the show cancelled. They had to bring the costs down considerably to continue, and going campy to compete with the very popular Batman series audience, which worked ratings wise, but it did somewhat sideline the rest of the cast. As a kid I would watch reruns of the show, and I, like most boys between 5-12 wanted to be Will Robinson. The excitement, the adventure, the futuristic gadgets, the robot. You also discount the real dangers that the adventures bring.

What I often found ridiculous (and yes, even insulting) was how the writers would have Will, who was supposed to be what 12 or 13, ordering Judy and Penny around as if he was their older brother and not the reverse. But of course he was supposed to be a boy genius while they were just girls.

Jonathan Harris said the cast should have been grateful because he kept them On the air.

[quote]Well, [R47], if we're going down that road, I thought Mark Goddard was one of the most beautiful, sexiest men on '60s television:

I didn’t have words for it as a kid watching the reruns but I wanted Mark inside me QUITE deeply

Mark Goddard was just mesmerizing.

I certainly didn't understand it as a kid. All I knew is he was the one I wanted to focus on the most of the cast. Could care less about Dr. Smith. Give me Don West all the way.

R44 That is from “The Great Vegetable Rebellion” and why some of S3’s campiness was legendary!

Mark Goddard & his then-wife found the dead body of their friend Karyn Kupcinet.

R58 Oh my god. I cannot tell you how many fantasies I jerked off to thinking of Mark Goddard. In one far distant memory I have, they were on some remote planet with no food or water. And they were forced to drink each other’s urine to survive. And I “had” to drink Mark Goddard (Don West)‘s.

Apologies to June Lockhart for hijacking her thread into the Mark Goddard thirst match. But ya know…

June certainly knows how handsome and delectable Mark Goddard was.

Wonder what kind of fantasies she had about him.

Lucky Johnny Crawford getting to check out Mark's rifle.

I think many gaylings had a hard on for Major Don West. When you think about it show was pretty gay even before the camp. Don West and older "married" daddy John Robinson. Those two spent more time together out and about than they did with the women. There there was the weird Pedo relationship with Dr. Smith and Will Robinson. Then Dr. Smith himself being haunted by green alien pussy outside the ship in outer space calling his name making him mortified at the thought.

Don West in futuristic bondage rack? Drone fantasy?

@ 0.45

I agree Mark Goddard was gorgeous, but his character Don West was such a cruel bully I could never stand him. Even as a child I could tell he always made things worse for everyone by picking on Dr. Smith all the time.

Wasn't Guy Williams supposed to be the star and got sidelined by Will and Dr Smith and the robot? So he moved to Brazil or Argentina and spent the rest of his life there playing Zorro..

I was shocked to learn Jonathan Harris was married to a woman and had kids. It had to be a lavender marriage, right?

They ALL got sidelined in the 2nd and 3rd season to the point most of them had one line per episode. They were not happy about it.

I watched the re-make on Netfix. Oddly enough, the first season was great! They made them kind of a blended family, marriage sort of on the rocks, and Dr. Smith played by a women Parker Posy as a twisted evil manipulative cunt. Which in my opinion stole the show. Mr.s Robinson was the smart one getting them out of trouble. Don West was played by an equally hot Hispanic guy and the monkey was replaced by a chicken.😂

Then in season two and especially season three it was all about the scary CG robot you never were sure if he would turn on you.

Harris was straight, he was not that silly queen when the cameras were off.

If true that has to be the greatest performance of all time.

Jonathan talks about June at 19.45.

Sounds like June had the same reaction Guy did. Throws a bit of shade at how Bill Mumy's career turned out.

There is a lot more character development in the Netfix series. The relationship of Mr and Mrs Robinson in the original series was a lot more uptight and hands off. But I guess that was the sign of the times.

That Netlix series really lucked out that it came out during the streaming boom. These days, with the numbers it was getting, it would have been cancelled after the first season.

I watched the r39 episode. I like the alien ship shimmery curtains. Maureen went along in the chariot to look for will.

She should have been Commander of that Space X carny ride and taught those bitches a thing or 2

Bitch!

I'm pretty sure June and Guy Williams fucked. Over the years, June has alluded to how "close" she and Guy were and their chemistry.

[quote]She follows the politics

I absolutely would not be following politics past the age of, let's say 80. What a waste of your remaining nerves. Just take me out to the garden, so I can watch the flowers and the birds splashing about in the birdbath all day long. Heaven!

She played Wendy Jo Sperber’s mother in the 1978 ABC After School Special - Dinky Hocker.

Elizabeth Taylor played June's mother at some point.

As a young gayling I despised her with the heat of a thousand suns for:

1. Her name - I have always hated the name “June”,

2. Her fringe,

and;

3. Her opportunity to bump uglies with John Robinson every night.

John Robinson and Major west spent a lot of time together in the hot engine room of the ship for some reason.

n which episode did Judy get replaced by the plant replicant

R44 - I rewatched this and we don't know what happened to the replicant after the real Judy is rescued. Did they eat her?

Check out this fan of the show, he rebuilt the interior of his house to look just like the ship.

Her fringe

R84 - I liked it when she wore her hair down and it was long.

She was a bigger bitch on set than even I.