Speaker 1: Hello, this is June Lockhart. You may remember me as
Speaker 1: doctor Marie Robinson from Lost in Space and you're listening
Speaker 1: to The Doctor Sky Show.
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Speaker 2: Sky Show concerns great guest and great guest, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: from the realms of astronomy, space, aviation, and weather, with
Speaker 2: celebrity guests in the mix. Today, ladies and gentlemen, a
Speaker 2: phenomenal guest once again on The Doctor Sky Show, A
Speaker 2: legend of both stage and film, will be speaking in
Speaker 2: just a few moments with actress June Lockhart. June Lockhart
Speaker 2: has played not one, but two classic TV moms. First,
Speaker 2: she was Timmy Martin's mom in Lassie, and then in
Speaker 2: the nineteen sixties she played doctor Maureen Robinson on the
Speaker 2: campy favorite Lollston Space, a very popular show. We're excited
Speaker 2: to talk to June Lockhart today as she celebrates eighty
Speaker 2: years as a professional actress here in January twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2: With that, would like to have aready welcome, of course,
Speaker 2: from myself and the entire audience, Welcome June Lockhart to
Speaker 2: the Doctor.
Speaker 1: That's a lovely introduction.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, June, thank you so much for
Speaker 2: being here. I'm so fascinated about the story that we're
Speaker 2: going to hear about today. You, of course born into
Speaker 2: the business of show business, so to speak, getting involved
Speaker 2: as a young child with your mom and dad.
Speaker 1: Describe that, well, I should really say, but not of
Speaker 1: the business, because my father insisted that I get a
Speaker 1: good education before I went onto contract. And any films
Speaker 1: that I did, the first one I did was Christmas
Speaker 1: Carol with Them, which shows every year on Turner Classic Movies,
Speaker 1: and I played Belinda in it, and they were both
Speaker 1: mister and missus Bob Cratchett. But any films that I
Speaker 1: did subsequently were done because they were first class of productions,
Speaker 1: wonderful opportunities and a grand moment in which to see
Speaker 1: how the grown up world worked, but he was absolutely
Speaker 1: insistent that I not go through the studio school system,
Speaker 1: which is not really sure a good way for any
Speaker 1: child to get a good education.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and again we salute Teen Lockhart and Kathleen Lockhart
Speaker 2: here on the show. Very important of course in your
Speaker 2: Parents described to us you played opposite well your parents
Speaker 2: in the film version of a Christmas Carol that we
Speaker 2: were talking about too.
Speaker 1: Well, that's what I just said.
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, just so amazing to have you as a
Speaker 2: guest today, June, and so many questions that would like
Speaker 2: to ask you. But let's talk as we moved through
Speaker 2: time and space here on the Doctor Skyshow, Let's talk
Speaker 2: about something that's phenomenal here. Let's talk about you being
Speaker 2: Timmy Martin's mom in Lassie somewhat some two hundred episodes
Speaker 2: or so.
Speaker 1: Of Yeah, we did six years of that.
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
Speaker 1: And went through four main dogs and you know, they're
Speaker 1: all trained and ready to go if one fails. So
Speaker 1: we had four over the time that I worked. There
Speaker 1: were four main dogs. And then at the same time
Speaker 1: it was a dog who did the running, a dog
Speaker 1: who did the stunts, and a dog who was a
Speaker 1: stand in.
Speaker 2: It's a very interesting show and it's almost amazing. And
Speaker 2: I was mentioning before June, before we were on the
Speaker 2: air that many of these television shows are appearing here
Speaker 2: across the nation on MeTV, and to describe that they're
Speaker 2: bringing back all the great classics like Lassie, Lost in
Speaker 2: Space and so many other great shows.
Speaker 1: Well, Petty co Junction, I did too for the last
Speaker 1: few years it was on.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, and that's another the Lady Doctor on it.
Speaker 1: Well, it's great fun to watch Lost in Space on
Speaker 1: me TV. I'm enjoying that a lot. And Lassie is
Speaker 1: on every Saturday morning here in Los Angeles at nine
Speaker 1: o'clock on a Trinity Broadcasting. I guess they feel it's
Speaker 1: a rather pure show and appropriate for that kind of
Speaker 1: well Christian broadcasting.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, ju And I wanted to ask you for young
Speaker 2: people that are listening out there, the advice that you
Speaker 2: would give them if they want to pursue a career
Speaker 2: on stage television acting. You give us some advice because,
Speaker 2: as we're talking before, you're celebrating your eightieth year this
Speaker 2: year this month, that is January of twenty as.
Speaker 1: A paid performer. Yes, it really really is remarkable. Well,
Speaker 1: and what advice would I.
Speaker 2: Get yes, absolutely, well absolutely.
Speaker 1: First of all, get a good education, and aside from
Speaker 1: what you're taught in school, be an activist. Participate in
Speaker 1: activities which intrigue you. Be a volunteer. Get out there
Speaker 1: and do things that will bring you into contact with
Speaker 1: people that you otherwise would not meet. Like I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, there's meals on wheels, there's cleaning parks. Get
Speaker 1: involved that you're with your local music, whatever the You
Speaker 1: don't need to play an instrument, if you don't be
Speaker 1: an usher at the concerts. If there's an art museum
Speaker 1: where you live, volunteer for that. Learn about art, just
Speaker 1: find some passion and get involved in it as you're working,
Speaker 1: your working your homework, or your school or your regular job,
Speaker 1: even if it's just one day a week. And also,
Speaker 1: this is so important. Read the press. I read the
Speaker 1: New York Times. If you can every day.
Speaker 2: Well, that's awesome. Absolutely, And that's that's no easy feet.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you must know what's going on in the world
Speaker 1: because we're all connected. But I think that volunteering is
Speaker 1: something that any young person can do. If you like politics,
Speaker 1: volunteer to be involved in campaigns. Sure, or here's something
Speaker 1: else too. The police departments in all these cities always
Speaker 1: need volunteers to help, and that's a fascinating thing. Here
Speaker 1: in Santa Monica, we have a wonderful citizens Academy, which
Speaker 1: I did twice and it's just brilliant. But you don't
Speaker 1: have to have an academy to go to. But as always,
Speaker 1: as a result of that, I became so involved when
Speaker 1: they were going to lose the horses here. My family
Speaker 1: and I were able to do a lot of promotion
Speaker 1: and activities and appearances and I sold pictures and T
Speaker 1: shirts and we saved our Santa Monica Mounted Police Unit,
Speaker 1: so we still't have our horses.
Speaker 2: That is awesome. And I just want to let you
Speaker 2: know I'm a volunteer with our Sheriff's office. One are you.
Speaker 1: Really well there? It is I'm talking to the right guy.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, JU, And I guess I can't thank
Speaker 2: you enough for mentioning that because it doesn't have to
Speaker 2: be actually being a police officer. You're right exactly out
Speaker 2: and do a lot of.
Speaker 1: Things and they really need help. So that would be
Speaker 1: my strong advice, as well as why you're getting a
Speaker 1: good education and read and read and read, know what
Speaker 1: new books are out, follow politics, which is fascinating. And
Speaker 1: you don't need to stay at home in your basement
Speaker 1: with your video on all the time.
Speaker 2: Absolutely as much as you've been on the television, right,
Speaker 2: maybe we need to be away from the television screen
Speaker 2: and the computers. Would you think that maybe children spend
Speaker 2: a little too much time today in the video game area.
Speaker 1: I would guess so from all that I hear.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, that's very interesting if you're just joining us,
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen on the Doctor Sky Show. An absolutely
Speaker 2: phenomenal guest, a legend of both stage and film. We're
Speaker 2: speaking with actress June Lockhart, who celebrates eighty years as
Speaker 2: a professional actress this January of twenty fourteen. June, again,
Speaker 2: thank you so much for your time today. You're being
Speaker 2: selected as one of the nine Legendary Ladies of Stage
Speaker 2: and Screen to have items from your career inducted into
Speaker 2: all places. The Smithsonian institutions.
Speaker 1: Broadway in nineteen forty seven and I was given a
Speaker 1: Tony for the best debut that year. It was the
Speaker 1: first debut award they had ever given, and so recently
Speaker 1: the Smithsonian asked if I would give them my Tony.
Speaker 1: Now in those days, what they gave the ladies was
Speaker 1: a gold disc and the man got I think a
Speaker 1: cigarette case which shows you what year it was, you bet.
Speaker 1: So this was for the forty seven forty eight season,
Speaker 1: and so I had the it's a gold disc on
Speaker 1: a gold bracelet. That was the gift. So I gave
Speaker 1: them the Tony, but I first had it copied by
Speaker 1: a marvelous jeweler here in Santa Monica, so that I
Speaker 1: do have a replica of it which is exact.
Speaker 2: No, that's awesome, very interesting. As we talk with actress
Speaker 2: June Lockhart. Ladies also with.
Speaker 1: The Smithsonian is a lunch box from Lost in Space.
Speaker 2: Now, that is so cool. I remember having one of
Speaker 2: those myself. Did you really well, absolutely, June. I mean
Speaker 2: I'm like a little child listening to these stories because
Speaker 2: I'm going back in time like many of our listeners
Speaker 2: to talk about I think one of the great highlights
Speaker 2: of you.
Speaker 1: Well, your enthusiasm really goes way back then, doesn't it.
Speaker 2: Oh. Absolutely, I wanted to be Will Robinson. I mean
Speaker 2: I even tried to dress up with the part with
Speaker 2: the boots and everything. And I remember we just recently
Speaker 2: had Bill Muomei on this particular archive. Also, isn't he
Speaker 2: a dear wonderful person. I met him at the Comic
Speaker 2: Con shows. Are you still doing the Comic Con shows?
Speaker 1: No, I don't. I haven't been to them recently because
Speaker 1: the mob is beyond what I can endure. I do
Speaker 1: a lot of conventions, though, which is wonderful because so
Speaker 1: does Billy and Marta and Angela and Mark Goddard when
Speaker 1: he's out here. Sure, And it's wonderful because we have
Speaker 1: a great Oh and John Provos too from Lassie, so
Speaker 1: we have this wonderful opportunity to all get together and
Speaker 1: gossip and dish and hang out. But I'm in touch
Speaker 1: with them by phone all the time anyway.
Speaker 2: Well, June, it's again really a great honor to have
Speaker 2: you here, and I think the highlight of your career,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, is, of course, the National Arisonatics and
Speaker 2: Space Administration NASA presents you with their exceptional public achievement.
Speaker 1: Mom, isn't that amaze?
Speaker 2: Well, you sure earned it, and tell us all about that.
Speaker 2: That's phenomenal.
Speaker 1: Well, it was a total surprise to me. I was
Speaker 1: absolutely blown away by it. But for years I have
Speaker 1: been very involved with NASA as a volunteer, and they've
Speaker 1: asked me that princess. They'll call and say, could you
Speaker 1: please speak to our employees Edwards Air Force Base. So
Speaker 1: I will go up there and have a chat with
Speaker 1: the employees and will or then they'll say would you
Speaker 1: like to go to a launch at Vandenberg were sending
Speaker 1: up a Noah satellite su and or let's see what else. Oh,
Speaker 1: I've done a couple of concerts for them at the
Speaker 1: Kennedy Center, and beyond that though, I've attended many, many
Speaker 1: other events that they've asked for. I've been to two
Speaker 1: Shuttle launches which were extraordinary.
Speaker 2: Aren't beautiful?
Speaker 1: And of course when the Endeavor landed here at LAX
Speaker 1: I was there. And then when it went to the
Speaker 1: Forum and paused on its way downtown to the Science Center,
Speaker 1: I was able to speak to people. Fifteen thousand people
Speaker 1: came to the Forum which to see the Endeavor. And
Speaker 1: you know what I said, isn't it wonderful to have
Speaker 1: a mode of transportation which when you drive it off
Speaker 1: the lot doesn't lose its value exactly?
Speaker 2: Now, there is a good way to put it. I
Speaker 2: surely love that.
Speaker 1: And then of course I was down at the Science
Speaker 1: Center when it arrived, and I've been down there several
Speaker 1: times since for occasions, and it's glorious, a wonderful, wonderful,
Speaker 1: beautiful thing. And previously years ago I had been to
Speaker 1: an Endeavor lunch and so I had a sentimental value,
Speaker 1: you know, feeling about it. So it was really lovely.
Speaker 1: It's beautiful.
Speaker 2: Well, June, it's amazing. I was attending as a member
Speaker 2: of the media, of course, the last launch of the
Speaker 2: Shuttle back in July of time. Oh, you were there, good,
Speaker 2: It was amazing. That was my first launch, prob was it.
Speaker 2: It was the first time I'd ever seen it, And
Speaker 2: you know, it still resonates in my mind that.
Speaker 1: I'm indescribable, emotional, wonderful. Didn't you tear up?
Speaker 2: Oh? I think I did, yes, standing there in front
Speaker 2: of the television camera, just thinking that, you know, here's
Speaker 2: the problem where we're not seeing a lot of this
Speaker 2: happening anymore. And that's the problem. And I wanted to
Speaker 2: ask you, as our special guest, June Lockhart, where do
Speaker 2: you feel America should be as far as is the
Speaker 2: future of our space program.
Speaker 1: Well, of course it should be funded because people do
Speaker 1: not realize that the the amount of marvelous science that
Speaker 1: is being done as spinoffs of all our NASA things.
Speaker 1: For instance, there are well, I'll just run through a
Speaker 1: few of these medical things, infusion pumps for insulin. A
Speaker 1: vehicle controller for the handicapped was developed by by NASA
Speaker 1: weather forecasting, which I'd love to talk to you about
Speaker 1: a little later if you like. Sure, there are speech
Speaker 1: things to help real time speech things that are it's
Speaker 1: called an autocure water recycling. It's been all developed by NASA.
Speaker 1: Reading machine for the blind, a breathing system for firefighters,
Speaker 1: so that and also the mask now that is in
Speaker 1: that firemen pulled down is made of a certain type
Speaker 1: of fabric material that they can see through and doesn't
Speaker 1: steam up or smoke up. Yes, there's dental braces, the
Speaker 1: new dental braces that are clear all of that, and
Speaker 1: anti corrosion paint. For instance, when they did the repainted
Speaker 1: the Golden Gate Bridge, and there are many bridges around
Speaker 1: the country that have been repainted with anti corrosion paint
Speaker 1: that was developed by NASA. Laser heart surgery and flame
Speaker 1: resistant materials. There are just so many many things, and
Speaker 1: in medicine, what's been developed people for people who are diabetic.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it goes on and on and on.
Speaker 2: Well, June, it's great having you here, as I've mentioned
Speaker 2: many times, but if I may, with your permission, move
Speaker 2: towards some specific that I think the listeners would love
Speaker 2: to hear about Lost in Space. I'm identifying you here
Speaker 2: is doctor Marian Robinson. How about this doctor of biochemistry
Speaker 2: from the New Mexico College of Space Medicine as what
Speaker 2: you were described in one of the pilot programmed or
Speaker 2: episodes really of Lost in Space. I'm looking here at
Speaker 2: the archive from a book that we call the Saucer Fleet.
Speaker 2: It's the most in depth book I've ever seen. June
Speaker 2: on everything about the Jupiter iiO, the spacecraft, the people
Speaker 2: like yourself in the show, but described to us the
Speaker 2: whole beginnings of this with Irwin Allen. I'm fascinated by
Speaker 2: the beginnings of this whole Lost in Space phenomenon.
Speaker 1: Well, they had the script and he was doing this
Speaker 1: new pilot, but I did a voyage at the bottom
Speaker 1: of the sea for him, and on the second day
Speaker 1: of shooting, after he had seen the rushes, he came
Speaker 1: on the set and he said, we're doing a new
Speaker 1: pilot and it's a space show. Would you be interested
Speaker 1: in doing another another series? Because I had just left
Speaker 1: Lassie a couple of months before, and I said, oh, yes,
Speaker 1: I certainly would. So he gave me the script and
Speaker 1: I read it. I was enchanted with it, of course,
Speaker 1: and the next day I said, I'd love to do
Speaker 1: this for you. He said, okay, that's great, and so
Speaker 1: that was it. I was the first one cast. Everyone
Speaker 1: was sort of cast around me and the part as
Speaker 1: it developed through the shooting of the series. Mostly when
Speaker 1: I was supposed to be working on a project or
Speaker 1: in my lab, I just appeared in a scene with
Speaker 1: a clipboard and that was it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's amazing. And the colorful outfits that they had
Speaker 2: in this show. Describe this. I mean, there was so
Speaker 2: much color in all of your uniforms and all of
Speaker 2: the monsters. There was a very colorful set.
Speaker 1: Well, as you remember, the first year was black and white, yes,
Speaker 1: because CBS hadn't gone completely color yet and so but
Speaker 1: we knew we would go to color. So Paul Zastomyevich,
Speaker 1: who was the designer of all the all he had
Speaker 1: an input to most of the sets and also the
Speaker 1: to the all the wardrobe designs them because he knew
Speaker 1: they would be very colorful, and we loved our outfits
Speaker 1: and they fit wonderfully.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's very very advanced for the day. And yes,
Speaker 2: ribe a most wonderful show. I wanted you to comment
Speaker 2: please about Dick Twofeld and Bob May. Many people may
Speaker 2: not even recognize who these two people are.
Speaker 1: Well they two felt was the voice of the robots
Speaker 1: and Bobby May was the man inside the robot. He
Speaker 1: got the part because he fit the robot, and he
Speaker 1: had a show business background. I don't know whether you
Speaker 1: ever saw Hell's of Poppin'. No, his grandparents were the
Speaker 1: creators that, and so he had been very athletic and
Speaker 1: a gymnast, and so he was not very tall, but
Speaker 1: he was very enthusiastic and quite a dear man. And
Speaker 1: so we remained friends right up and he died a
Speaker 1: few years ago. But he was quite wonderful.
Speaker 2: Well robots in this particular show.
Speaker 1: So he would come in in the morning and get
Speaker 1: in the robot suit. But you know, he somehow or
Speaker 1: another developed that robot to where the robot has had
Speaker 1: a personality. He gave it personality and through what he
Speaker 1: did with the arms and how he spun it around
Speaker 1: and moved it. It was really very very clever of him.
Speaker 1: And then Dick, of course, Dick Twofeld, who had been
Speaker 1: an ABC newsman for years and was doing voiceover it.
Speaker 1: He then was able to infuse it with the a
Speaker 1: proper robot voice that that at least Irwin Allen thought
Speaker 1: would be a robot voice. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: I don't know whether you know now there is a
Speaker 1: wonderful robot up in space called Robinot.
Speaker 2: Yes, I've heard of it on the International Space Station.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, this thing is so amazing. I saw
Speaker 1: it when I was in Houston on my last trip there,
Speaker 1: because whenever I go East, I always come back food Houston,
Speaker 1: so I can go to the Space Center. Al oh,
Speaker 1: that's right, and I hang out with my astronaut friends
Speaker 1: and they show me what's going on that's new. But this,
Speaker 1: this robanaut is all. It has a white it's covered
Speaker 1: in a in a white silky fabric which I don't
Speaker 1: know if you ski it all, but you know, winter
Speaker 1: silk's the thing that you the underwear that you wear
Speaker 1: under your ski outfit.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm not a skier, but no, I'm you know
Speaker 2: what I mean.
Speaker 1: It's got that that sort of texture on it as
Speaker 1: you feel it. Put your hand on the arm of it. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's warm to the touch because of the wires inside,
Speaker 1: but you get the sense that you are touching the
Speaker 1: muscle of this man. Every digit on its hand moves
Speaker 1: as though it could play the violin. Every single digit
Speaker 1: is programmed. Uh. You keep looking up into the mask
Speaker 1: because you really expect to see a face. It has musculature,
Speaker 1: it has a chest, and it's just remarkable. I wanted
Speaker 1: to date it.
Speaker 2: Tune that is awesome.
Speaker 1: Yes, actually at is stunning.
Speaker 2: Well what does it actually do?
Speaker 1: It helps the Oh well yes, at the moment, it's
Speaker 1: helping with lighthouse keeping up there so that which to
Speaker 1: free the astronauts on their other scientific duties.
Speaker 2: No, folks, it's amazing to have a special guest like
Speaker 2: this today, a legend of both states.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's so well informed.
Speaker 2: No, I thank you, June. We just got a few
Speaker 2: more minutes with you today. But as I mentioned, if
Speaker 2: you're just tuning into the Doctor Sky Show, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 2: a very special guest, a legend of both stage and film.
Speaker 2: June Lockhart, the actress, is celebrating eighty years as a
Speaker 2: professional actress this January of twenty fourteen, and she's kind
Speaker 2: enough to join us from her home in California. June,
Speaker 2: in the last five or six minutes that we have
Speaker 2: left today, described to us the importance of Lost in
Speaker 2: Space as part of the whole science fiction movement. I
Speaker 2: mean this ranks obviously very high, and actually started before
Speaker 2: the whole you know, the whole thing with Captain Kirk.
Speaker 2: And that's right with all the guys in that particular show.
Speaker 1: Yes, we were on the year before. Well, the thought
Speaker 1: of a family going to space, I think was intriguing
Speaker 1: to most people, and somehow it was so splendidly cast.
Speaker 1: We had the family. You know, we were really uh uh,
Speaker 1: well fused to each other. We all enjoyed each other,
Speaker 1: and our friendship has lasted still all these years. Guy
Speaker 1: Williams was a wonderful choice as Professor Robinson. He was
Speaker 1: a dear man by the way, we all just loved him.
Speaker 1: He was Italian. His real name was Armando Catalano. Isn't
Speaker 1: that beautiful?
Speaker 2: I would have figured that out.
Speaker 1: So I would always call him Guido and uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was a lovely man and uh. And of course
Speaker 1: Mark Goddard we loved, Yeah, we really uh And we
Speaker 1: did laugh a lot, and with Chap sat Irwin because
Speaker 1: he wanted us to take it all seriously.
Speaker 2: But you know, you I heard a story June that
Speaker 2: guy will other guy Williams. But as far as we
Speaker 2: took at Mark Goddard, he's a distant relative of the
Speaker 2: original Runcket pioneer.
Speaker 1: At the Goddard Space Center. Yes, I have heard that too.
Speaker 2: That's so amazing that he was put into that. I mean,
Speaker 2: how how appropriate for a space series of it was?
Speaker 1: It just came about, you know, much later he mentioned
Speaker 1: to us once you know, oh yeah, my second cousin
Speaker 1: or something is the founder of the Godds. And we said,
Speaker 1: what didn't you tell anybody? He said, well, no, I
Speaker 1: didn't think they'd care.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a big that's a big thing right there.
Speaker 2: You bet with Goddard, you know, he lost in space,
Speaker 2: as you know, would not be lost in space without
Speaker 2: Jonathan Harris. Talk about Jonathan Harris, Well, what can I say?
Speaker 1: He was the same on his off He really was,
Speaker 1: had a wonderful sense of humor, but it was not
Speaker 1: always very kind, and he was pretty greedy and sort
Speaker 1: of he wrote all his own lines as the show
Speaker 1: went along.
Speaker 2: Oh I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, he would write the lines and bring in
Speaker 1: and in the morning he'd come in and say, Billy,
Speaker 1: come here, dear, I've got new lines for us. And
Speaker 1: so he was permitted to sort of take over the.
Speaker 2: Show there June. The most amazing part of this particular show,
Speaker 2: besides you guys on the robot, is the Jupiter two spacecraft.
Speaker 2: Described this on the set. It was there a full
Speaker 2: model of the spacecraft and tell us a little bit.
Speaker 1: But it was a little model which they used when
Speaker 1: it was flying, you know, to land and crash. It
Speaker 1: crashed every time it landed, and it was up at
Speaker 1: the Pinnacles and Trona. I think that's in Nevada.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: Well, anyway, that's where they shot it or used it.
Speaker 1: But they had a little model. But then of course
Speaker 1: the big model. The big set was really quite extraordinary.
Speaker 1: Lots of blinking lights and it was very Irwin Allen esque.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, like the voyage at the bottom of the sea.
Speaker 1: That's right. The other and sometimes interchangeable parts we would
Speaker 1: use something, and then we had an astrogator. It was
Speaker 1: called in the pilot and for the first episodes, but
Speaker 1: that was finally dumped because it was so difficult to
Speaker 1: move the camera around it, so it it was filling
Speaker 1: up the space in the that where the camera needed
Speaker 1: to be moved around, and also the robot was on
Speaker 1: tracks initially, then finally as the years went by, Bobby
Speaker 1: May was just what we call the rubber Bermuda pants
Speaker 1: and he would shuffle along.
Speaker 2: It must have been very warm inside that.
Speaker 1: Oh I'm sure it was.
Speaker 2: Let's give me claustrophobia.
Speaker 1: But he would stay in there and smoke cigars and
Speaker 1: he had a little reading material and he got jo.
Speaker 1: They liked it in there, I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Can imagine as Juman that became his kind of
Speaker 2: home away from home.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: June Lockhart, you're a phenomenal guest, and I want to
Speaker 2: congratulate you on eighty plus years now as a professional
Speaker 2: actress and celebrating your life and in the last two
Speaker 2: minutes we have here and please stay on the line
Speaker 2: with us as we go to the heartbreak at the
Speaker 2: top of the hour. Here for our radio listeners, but Okay,
Speaker 2: I wanted to just ask you the current Jewne Lockhart.
Speaker 2: You sound like you're so involved with so many wonderful things,
Speaker 2: and of course space related. Tell us more. What other
Speaker 2: projects are you involved in that are important to June
Speaker 2: Lockhart now?
Speaker 1: Well, one of the things that I'm quite involved with
Speaker 1: now is music and the Lawyers. The Los Angeles Lawyers
Speaker 1: Philharmonic is an extraordinary organization of about eighty musicians of
Speaker 1: judges and lawyers. We're having a big concert to celebrate
Speaker 1: the one hundredth anniversary of the city of Beverly Hills
Speaker 1: and that will be tomorrow night. Well that'll be I
Speaker 1: should say Tuesday, the twenty eighth, since I don't know
Speaker 1: when you're airing this right.
Speaker 2: This will be on probably another week or so.
Speaker 1: But oh all right, well, then I can say it
Speaker 1: was on the twenty eighth of January. And then also
Speaker 1: as a spinoff of that, they have formed the Big
Speaker 1: Band and they do music of Glenn Miller and Jimmy
Speaker 1: Dorsey and Count Basie and Les Brown. I mean, they
Speaker 1: are marvelous on piano. We have Judge Arthur Gilbert, who
Speaker 1: is the Judge of the Superior Court of Appeal of
Speaker 1: the state of California, and on vibes is Judge Stuart Waxman.
Speaker 1: They are all lawyers and they come in. I can
Speaker 1: always tell who's had a court date by the way
Speaker 1: they dress when they come to rehearsal, because they have
Speaker 1: on a suit and tie. And one day, now that's
Speaker 1: the big band. Now. One day we were rehearsing a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, and the conductor, Gary Green, who
Speaker 1: of course is a lawyer, apologized to the eighty musicians
Speaker 1: who were there ready to play for the concert that
Speaker 1: we gave at the in Beverly Hills. He said, I'm
Speaker 1: sorry we're missing a trombone tonight because he has a mediation.
Speaker 1: And then then everybody laughed. I said, oh, oh ha ha.
Speaker 1: And then he said, but wait, the mediator is Judge
Speaker 1: Bob from the violin section.
Speaker 2: That is incredible. So, you know, June, no pun intended,
Speaker 2: But with these judges involved as musicians, it gives a
Speaker 2: new meaning, a whole new meeting to what we call
Speaker 2: having a new hearing.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right. Oh, and would you would be amazed
Speaker 1: they use those jokes. They have wonderful humor when at
Speaker 1: a recent concert. Oh and we're preparing also for our
Speaker 1: fourth concert at Disney Hall. They do everything from jazz
Speaker 1: to up and down. I mean, it's just beautiful, well,
Speaker 1: you know, and.
Speaker 2: I'm happy that you would celebrate your life with us
Speaker 2: today and I hope in the future. I'd love to
Speaker 2: ask through your publicist if we may contact you. I'd
Speaker 2: love to ask your kindness and being part of our
Speaker 2: Doctor Sky public forums on the phone where we gather
Speaker 2: lots of people who are interested in science and space,
Speaker 2: and maybe you'd consider being one of those guests that
Speaker 2: people could listen to.
Speaker 1: And yes, I think that would be fun because I
Speaker 1: can certainly talk to them about the new Mars probe
Speaker 1: that's coming up. It was launched, you know, November fourteenth,
Speaker 1: and it's to study the climate change on Mars because
Speaker 1: they're very curious about where the atmosphere went on Mars
Speaker 1: and then there. Yes, I could certainly, I think hold
Speaker 1: my own with that talking about various things of of satellite, oh, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and will particularly relating to weather.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I'd love to hear that. And we want to
Speaker 2: thank you June Lockhart, our special guest. Ladies and gentlemen, Juan,
Speaker 2: please stay on the line with us as we go
Speaker 2: now to the heartbreak at the top of the hour.
Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, a legend of both stage and film.
Speaker 2: We're happy today to celebrate June's life and she celebrates
Speaker 2: eighty years as a professional actress this January of twenty fourteen.
Speaker 2: That concludes this exciting edition of The Doctor Sky Show.
Speaker 2: Always great guests from the realms of astronomy, space, aviation,
Speaker 2: and weather with celebrity guests mixed in. And today, yes,
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, we've had both a celebrity and a
Speaker 2: person who knows so much about the realms of space
Speaker 2: from her time in that sensational series Boston Space. Thank
Speaker 2: you so much, Actress June Lockhart, Thank you.