Speaker 1: Hi, this is Bill Mumy from Lost in Space and
Speaker 1: Battle on five the Twilights on ETCA. But what's more
Speaker 1: important than that is you're listening to The Doctor Sky Show.
Speaker 1: And that's a good thing, a real good thing.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen to our show, always exciting guests.
Speaker 2: Here on this particular edition of our show, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Speaker 2: a very special guest today will be speaking with Bill Mummy, actor, musician, writer,
Speaker 2: and so much more. Best remembered for his role as
Speaker 2: young Will Robinson on the television classic Loston Space. Actor
Speaker 2: musician writer, Bill Mummy was born back on February one,
Speaker 2: nineteen fifty four, in San Gabriel, California. After beginning his
Speaker 2: TV career at age five with an appearance on the
Speaker 2: series Riverboat, went on to appear on countless program in
Speaker 2: the years to follow, including great guest shots on smashes
Speaker 2: like The Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and the Adventures
Speaker 2: of Ozzie and Harriet. Bumming additionally made his film debut
Speaker 2: in the nineteen sixties The Wizard of Baghdad, going on
Speaker 2: to rolls in features including nineteen sixty three. Is a
Speaker 2: Child Is Waiting in nineteen sixty five, deer Burgitt. Also
Speaker 2: in nineteen sixty five, he was cast on Lost in Space, remaining,
Speaker 2: of course, with the cult favorite series until it's ceased
Speaker 2: production three years later. He also has important stories to
Speaker 2: talk about Babylon five. A privilege and honor to have actor,
Speaker 2: musician and writer Bill Mummy here to talk about his
Speaker 2: upcoming appearance at Comic Con thirteen this Memorial Day weekend
Speaker 2: at the Phoenix Convention Center. Bill, A real privilege and honor.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Doctor Sky. It's good to be with you.
Speaker 1: It's real good. You sound like a superhero. It's doctor Sky.
Speaker 1: I kind of like that. You know that that would
Speaker 1: make a comic book character.
Speaker 2: I'd had to use you. Well, that's so wonderful to
Speaker 2: have you here. And as I was mentioned into the
Speaker 2: audio to you off air, you know when I was
Speaker 2: a kid who wasn't a person as a young boy
Speaker 2: that wanted to be Will Robinson. And we're so grateful
Speaker 2: to be able to hear your story today and in
Speaker 2: this short interview today again highlighting your parents coming up
Speaker 2: here at the Great Comic Con Comic Con Phoenix Comic
Speaker 2: Con thirteen this Memorial Day weekend at the Phoenix Convention Center.
Speaker 2: Bill talk to us about how you actually got started
Speaker 2: in the show business world. And I understand from reading
Speaker 2: part of your bio this was your interest in getting
Speaker 2: into this. It wasn't your parents, you know, like a
Speaker 2: lot of parents that want to force their kids to
Speaker 2: do this as actors and child models. You you wanted
Speaker 2: to pursue this career.
Speaker 1: That's absolutely true. My parents got married to each other
Speaker 1: kind of late in life. My mother was forty one
Speaker 1: years old when I was born. My dad was forty nine,
Speaker 1: and he was almost retired at that point in time.
Speaker 1: He was a pretty well the guy. I broke my
Speaker 1: leg when I was four years old playing Zoro. You
Speaker 1: might say it turned out to be a lucky break
Speaker 1: because while I was in the cast for several long weeks,
Speaker 1: you know, not able to run around outside with my pals,
Speaker 1: I just sat around every day and waited for my
Speaker 1: favorite shows to come on the television set. Of course,
Speaker 1: we didn't have DVRs or anything. You could, you know,
Speaker 1: watch whatever you wanted to do. You just had to
Speaker 1: be patient and wait for your shows to come on.
Speaker 1: And I sat there watching George Reeves as Superman and
Speaker 1: Guy Williams as Zorro, and something about those caped adventurer
Speaker 1: superhero type characters just absolutely resonated within my very young being,
Speaker 1: and I was adamant about wanting to get inside the
Speaker 1: television set and be like Zoro or Superman. My mother
Speaker 1: had worked as a writer's assistant at twenty century Fox
Speaker 1: Studios for eleven years before she married my dad. Her father,
Speaker 1: my grandfather, Harry Gould, had been a successful agent in
Speaker 1: the thirties and early forties. His probably most high profile
Speaker 1: client was Boris Karloff, and he handled a lot of
Speaker 1: writers and directors, but some actors, and you know, he
Speaker 1: negotiated the Frankenstein deeal and everything. And to make a
Speaker 1: long story short, my family wasn't intimidated by, impressed with,
Speaker 1: or you know, in the show business. Was just a
Speaker 1: natural thing, wasn't a big deal. We lived in West
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, near all the studios. I was an only child,
Speaker 1: and my father's perspective was, well, you know, if that's
Speaker 1: really what he wants to do, and you want to
Speaker 1: take him to my mom, then go ahead and see
Speaker 1: what happens. So you know, you can't escape your destiny.
Speaker 1: My mother wisely signed me up for a show called
Speaker 1: Robber Room, which was basically just a regular kind of
Speaker 1: preschool television show. I think it was syndicated all over
Speaker 1: the country. I remember it, well, Yeah, regular civilians. You
Speaker 1: weren't necessarily an entertainer to be on Romper Room. But
Speaker 1: she did that to see if I would be comfortable
Speaker 1: under the lights and with a camera on me and stuff,
Speaker 1: which I thought was smart when I look back on it,
Speaker 1: and I was very comfortable, and I actually stayed for
Speaker 1: a extra session on Robber Room, and so we got
Speaker 1: an agent and started working. And Bob's your uncle.
Speaker 2: Well, Bill, I say this because I spent a very
Speaker 2: short time and I don't want to spend time on
Speaker 2: my life here. This is an interview about your very
Speaker 2: interesting career which continues in force even as we're speaking today.
Speaker 2: And absolutely always young and always thinking about the next
Speaker 2: thing to do here, the next new thing. I spent
Speaker 2: a little time in television doing commercials with an agent,
Speaker 2: and I realized the only reason I'm mentioning it just
Speaker 2: to have you comment on it further is to me,
Speaker 2: it was extremely a lot of pressure. You know, obviously
Speaker 2: when you go in for those auditions and interviews. You know,
Speaker 2: I was rejected a lot of times, and I'll be
Speaker 2: very honest with you about that. I didn't get the part.
Speaker 2: But isn't that difficult obviously for any kid out there
Speaker 2: when you're young, handling the rejection and going through the pace.
Speaker 2: You're the person who succeeded To give some advice out there,
Speaker 2: because I'm sure a lot of parents who listened to
Speaker 2: the program, they say, you know, I'm going to get
Speaker 2: my Johnny or Jeanie into show business.
Speaker 1: Any advice, well, you know, I would imagine that my
Speaker 1: best advice would be, you know, follow the energy of
Speaker 1: your children, not follow the energy of your own ego.
Speaker 1: My parents were very supportive of my choices. If I
Speaker 1: didn't get a part, that it just was no big deal.
Speaker 1: Nobody put pressure on me for better or worse. I
Speaker 1: got so many I was very prolific as a youngster,
Speaker 1: So you know, I mean, yes, the audition process can
Speaker 1: be stressful, whether you're fifty or whether you're five. But
Speaker 1: the you know, some people have certain gifts that they
Speaker 1: just are given. Maybe you can make a great Caesar salad.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can throw a baseball straight and fast. Maybe
Speaker 1: you can memorize dialogue and say it believably, or maybe
Speaker 1: you can play the accordion, whatever it might be. We
Speaker 1: all have our gifts, and I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: I truly had those gifts to act, to become another character,
Speaker 1: and to kind of it was. It was always very
Speaker 1: easy for me to memorize a lot of dialogue quickly,
Speaker 1: no stress to do that. It was just very easy.
Speaker 1: And I liked the process of, you know, pretending to
Speaker 1: be other people. And I was very fortunate to work
Speaker 1: in so many different arenas of acting as a kid.
Speaker 1: You know, one week I would be you know, a
Speaker 1: scary mutant on the Twilight Zone. Then I'd go do
Speaker 1: a Walt Disney movie for a couple of months, and
Speaker 1: I'd come back and you know, be un Bewitched, or
Speaker 1: then I'd go do a western with some you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I got to work in all those different
Speaker 1: categories with so many great actors and actresses and directors
Speaker 1: that it was really it was a blessing. We didn't
Speaker 1: want to be tied down to a television series until
Speaker 1: Lost in Space came along, and when it did, it
Speaker 1: was exactly like the reason I wanted to be an actor.
Speaker 1: In the first place. You know, Will Robinson, we liked
Speaker 1: Zoro or Superman. He was a superhero.
Speaker 2: Basically, ooks are just joining us here. Bill Mummy, actor, musician,
Speaker 2: and writer, and so much more is joining us here
Speaker 2: on our special edition of our show today. He's also
Speaker 2: talking about his upcoming appearance, which we'll get to here
Speaker 2: in a moment. Phoenix Comic Con thirteen taking place this
Speaker 2: Memorial Day weekend at the Phoenix Convention Center. Interesting enough
Speaker 2: as time flies. As our special guest will tell us
Speaker 2: in a little while, this is a twentieth anniversary of
Speaker 2: Babylon five, a reunion that also takes place this Saturday,
Speaker 2: five pm to six thirty at the Comic Con event
Speaker 2: taking place in Phoenix.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that blows my mind. You know, when someone reminds
Speaker 1: me that Lost in Space was forty years ago. You know,
Speaker 1: I know it was the nineteen sixties, and I know
Speaker 1: I was a kid, so certainly, and I have great
Speaker 1: affection for all those people. We still get together socially often.
Speaker 1: But when you tell me it was twenty years ago
Speaker 1: that we started Babylon five, that blows my mind, because there,
Speaker 1: you know, I was, I was an adult, I was
Speaker 1: settled in I had. My son was a baby when
Speaker 1: we started the show. My daughter was born on the
Speaker 1: second season of that show. But when I think twelve
Speaker 1: years is past, that went by really quick, really quick.
Speaker 1: But it'll be nice to get together with everybody from
Speaker 1: the cast, and oh, I'm sure they're sisky and it'll
Speaker 1: be fun. I look forward to seeing everybody.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about the Twilight Zone. One particular episode that
Speaker 2: I'm just so enamored with and so many people it's
Speaker 2: a good life. You know it. You were there and
Speaker 2: it airing No. Number third, nineteen sixty one year Anthony
Speaker 2: Fremont in the little town of what Peaksville, Ohio. For
Speaker 2: anybody out there, shame on you if you haven't seen
Speaker 2: this episode. But to me, this is like what the
Speaker 2: Time magazine, I understand rates this the number three and
Speaker 2: the best of all the episodes of the Twilight Zone.
Speaker 2: But tell us a little bit about that episode, because boy,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you the angles of the camera, your energy.
Speaker 2: That whole episode to me is like, boy, that really
Speaker 2: trades stamp marked you and stamped you on the you know,
Speaker 2: in Memoryville there. I can't forget that one.
Speaker 1: Well, it's good, you can't forget it. It's real good.
Speaker 1: Get out of the Cornfield free card, Doctor Sky, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, Anthony Fremont is certainly an iconic character, and
Speaker 1: I'm lucky to have played him. And I did three
Speaker 1: of the original Twilight Zones, then a cameo in the
Speaker 1: feature film, and then I wrote one of the revised series,
Speaker 1: and then we returned to that character and that show
Speaker 1: with Chlorus Leachman and my own dog Liliana for a
Speaker 1: sequel forty years later called It's Still a Good Life,
Speaker 1: which was really a special special treat for me to
Speaker 1: go back with Cloris to that character. But in terms
Speaker 1: of the original episode, it is I think most of
Speaker 1: all the Twilight Zones hold up really really well. Rod
Speaker 1: Serling was such a singular talent and so grateful that
Speaker 1: I spent some time with him and knew him briefly
Speaker 1: even though I was little. And James Sheldon directed that episode,
Speaker 1: and I worked with him several times when I was young,
Speaker 1: and he was a wonderful director and very very pleasant
Speaker 1: to hang around. Chloris Leachman is a gift to any
Speaker 1: actor who gets the opportunity to work alongside her, for
Speaker 1: she's so great and she bumps her game up. And
Speaker 1: even though I was I guess six, maybe seven when
Speaker 1: we made that show, or seven when I stared, I
Speaker 1: learned a lot from her. She taught me things at
Speaker 1: that early age. She's still a good friend of mine.
Speaker 1: I see her somewhat often, and yeah, I'm not ashamed
Speaker 1: or you know, puffed up to say that's a really
Speaker 1: good television show.
Speaker 2: No, it's an awesome experience. Just a little bit more.
Speaker 2: If you can tell us Rod Sterling amazing man from
Speaker 2: what I've read, you've met him, tell us a little
Speaker 2: bit about him, any story or something.
Speaker 1: Well, what's interesting to me in my recollections of mister
Speaker 1: Serling is that in other instances, when the producer, creator,
Speaker 1: the boss of a television series comes onto the set,
Speaker 1: people in the crew and the cast, they usually get
Speaker 1: a little uptight, you know what I mean. Like when
Speaker 1: Erwin Allen would walk on the Lost and Space said,
Speaker 1: everybody was like, oh attention, Irwin's here, you know. But
Speaker 1: with mister Serling, when he came on the sets of
Speaker 1: the Twilight Zones, everybody in the crew was really happy
Speaker 1: and at ease and very pleased to see him there.
Speaker 1: They all wanted to discuss upcoming episodes that he was
Speaker 1: working on. In essence, he was the star of the
Speaker 1: Twilight Zone because there was no reg or cast members,
Speaker 1: so ergo, you don't have that potential for egos to
Speaker 1: get kind of out of control on a television series
Speaker 1: because people were working for you know, three or four days,
Speaker 1: and then there would be a whole new cast. So
Speaker 1: the only regulars on the Twilight Zone were the crew
Speaker 1: and Rod Serling. So I remember him being on this set.
Speaker 1: I remember him telling jokes. I remember him being a
Speaker 1: very light presence, and when you see him he seems
Speaker 1: pretty brooding and dark and perhaps kind of moody. But
Speaker 1: I recall him being very very light on the set.
Speaker 1: Everybody very comfortable in his presence. And the first episode
Speaker 1: of the Twilight Zone I did, which was called Long
Speaker 1: Distance Call, the story about a little boy who's dying
Speaker 1: grandmother gives him a toy telephone. Then she dies and
Speaker 1: then he speaks to her from the Great Beyond and
Speaker 1: she tries to get him to join her in the afterlife.
Speaker 1: When we were filming that, Rod Serling came onto the
Speaker 1: set and he had something about this big climactic scene
Speaker 1: that didn't feel right to him, and we just stopped
Speaker 1: production for about forty five minutes or so when he's
Speaker 1: walked over to the corner of the soundstage and rewrote
Speaker 1: this great scene and we shot it the way he
Speaker 1: rewrote it immediately, and it was just, you know, so
Speaker 1: cool because it was much better. He really makes it
Speaker 1: better quickly. He was cool. I mean, it's not like
Speaker 1: he and I went out for margaritas after after we
Speaker 1: wrapped every day, as I was, you know, seven years
Speaker 1: old or something, but he must have liked it. I
Speaker 1: went back three times.
Speaker 2: I'm really privileged to have you here, Bill Mummy, actor, musician,
Speaker 2: and writer, and so much more. We're reminiscing literally legies
Speaker 2: and gentlemen about time and space and no pun intended,
Speaker 2: but yes, we're talking now about this very amazing television
Speaker 2: series in American television, Lost in Space. This is how
Speaker 2: I really came to know you and so many other
Speaker 2: people through our television sets. And talk about that, because
Speaker 2: to me, that has to be another their amazing part.
Speaker 2: As the space program is going on, we're racing to
Speaker 2: the moon. So many similarities here, but talk to us
Speaker 2: a little bit about your role in that. I mean
Speaker 2: that would take hours, but some of.
Speaker 1: The I could. I could. I could babble on about
Speaker 1: Lost in Days for a long time. The part of
Speaker 1: Will Robinson was offered to me. I didn't audition for it.
Speaker 1: I was extremely happy to to fall into that project.
Speaker 1: My family lived less than a mile from the studio.
Speaker 1: I used to ride my bike, my shwindow cutlery to
Speaker 1: the studio half the time. You know, Will Robinson was
Speaker 1: everything I wanted to get into television to be. He
Speaker 1: was really smart, he was really capable. He could program
Speaker 1: the robot, he could fly the ship. He saved everybody's
Speaker 1: butt week after week. He had these cool little superhero outfits.
Speaker 1: He had a laser gun and he used it several times,
Speaker 1: which I like. Who wouldn't like Will Robinson? And all
Speaker 1: of those people are are that are still with us,
Speaker 1: are our dear like family to me, and we all
Speaker 1: get together often. It was a wonderful three and a
Speaker 1: half years, and I never had a bad day on
Speaker 1: Lawton Space, And quite honestly, I would return to that
Speaker 1: character this afternoon if the opportunity presented it itself.
Speaker 2: See folks, Now, that's an interesting statement from the man
Speaker 2: who did it and the man who continues to talk
Speaker 2: about it. Bill Mummy, here is our special guest. You know,
Speaker 2: I understand from all the actors that you obviously have
Speaker 2: that are still with us, you obviously have a close
Speaker 2: relationship with If you would, sir, just talk with us
Speaker 2: that is a little bit about Jonathan Harris. I know
Speaker 2: that there's a special bonding that was between the two
Speaker 2: of you, and if you'd like to share some of
Speaker 2: that with the audience, I'm sure they'd.
Speaker 1: Like to hear that. Yes, indeed, he was a one
Speaker 1: of a kind. Oh dear, oh dear, Jonathan Harris. How
Speaker 1: can you speak of Jonathan Harris without great explatives of wonder?
Speaker 1: Jonathan single handedly created the character of doctor Smith. He
Speaker 1: was brought on the show to be a snarling, one
Speaker 1: dimensional saboteur villain, and he very wisely understood that that
Speaker 1: would get boring and he would probably be written off
Speaker 1: or killed off in a handful of episodes, so he
Speaker 1: slowly started to turn him into the character we love
Speaker 1: to hate. You know that with all of the alliterative
Speaker 1: insults that he threw at the robot, you, bubbleheaded booby, etc.
Speaker 1: They were all written by Jonathan. He used to just
Speaker 1: completely rewrite his dialogue and Somewhere mid way through the
Speaker 1: first season, he was called into Irwin Allen, our creator producer,
Speaker 1: his office, and Irwin Allen said to Jonathan, hey, I
Speaker 1: know what you're doing. Do it more. It was a
Speaker 1: very interesting, very specific period in time, that mid sixties period.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at Lost in Space, which
Speaker 1: started in nineteen sixty five as a black and white
Speaker 1: adventure ensemble of this family against the alien environments that
Speaker 1: they faced, it kind of quickly became as it went
Speaker 1: to the second season and we went to this wow
Speaker 1: color version. It became this kind of campy pop art
Speaker 1: piece which was nineteen sixty six nineteen sixty seven, and
Speaker 1: we reflected that cultural change and it went to the
Speaker 1: extreme for a while, and then by the third season
Speaker 1: we did eighty four episodes, and by the third season,
Speaker 1: I think it was more of an amalgam of both.
Speaker 1: It kind of became sci fi and comedy at the
Speaker 1: same time. And Will Robinson, my character, was really the
Speaker 1: grounding force throughout all of those episodes because I always
Speaker 1: played it straight, whether you know, whether the robot was,
Speaker 1: you know, wearing some scarecrow outfit or doctor Smith was
Speaker 1: acting like, you know, a maniac. I always played it straight.
Speaker 1: Will All always believed the environment that he was in.
Speaker 1: So I think that that's why it's kind of seen
Speaker 1: through his eyes more than anyone else's. Now I'm curious
Speaker 1: about this. You're on the set, of course, in this
Speaker 1: particular series eighty three and then eighty four episodes as
Speaker 1: you described to us, Describe that set, because if you
Speaker 1: look into the background, is that a wall with a painting?
Speaker 1: I mean, how large a set or were there multiple sets?
Speaker 1: We had three permanent sound stages at twenty century Fox.
Speaker 1: It was a great, great studio and a great time
Speaker 1: to be there. There were so many wonderful productions going
Speaker 1: on every week every month. But we had three stages permanently,
Speaker 1: and what is now known as Century City in Los
Speaker 1: Angeles was most of our back a lot where we
Speaker 1: also shot a lot of our exterior stuff. You know.
Speaker 1: There was the interior stage where we had the upper
Speaker 1: deck of the Jupiter two and that little camp scene
Speaker 1: around it, you know, with the sand and the bad
Speaker 1: foam rubber rocks and yet, and there was a big canvas
Speaker 1: painting around that, And then there was another set that
Speaker 1: had the lower deck of the Jupiter two on it
Speaker 1: and other interiors that we would use for different places
Speaker 1: we went into. And then we had another set that
Speaker 1: had like the space pod and blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: We had three of them, and it was, you know,
Speaker 1: Irwin Allen's designs that were actually done by a guy
Speaker 1: named paul's ast put Naevitch. I'll cluse you on that later. Anyway,
Speaker 1: you know, he had a tendency to really make his
Speaker 1: pilots wonderful. Our music was done by John Williams. You know.
Speaker 1: The robot. The robot was designed by Robert Kinoshita, who
Speaker 1: had also designed Robbie the robot from Forbidden Planet. The props,
Speaker 1: the ship, the chariot, the robot, et cetera, the costumes,
Speaker 1: the laser guns. It all looked great. And he spent
Speaker 1: a lot of money on his pilots, and he cast
Speaker 1: his projects I think really well if I do say
Speaker 1: so myself. And then you know, as we progressed onto
Speaker 1: weekly television, he got a lot cheaper. We used to
Speaker 1: share a stage. You know, there were two stages within
Speaker 1: this one kind of building. We would share stage ten
Speaker 1: and eleven with Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,
Speaker 1: another Rwin Allen production, and I swear to you this
Speaker 1: is true. He'd have some poor stuntman in a you know,
Speaker 1: rubber wetsuit with a mask on, being some underwater creature
Speaker 1: in voyage to the bottom of the sea, and he
Speaker 1: would literally just walk that guy over to our stage
Speaker 1: and then spray paint him like orange or silver. Wow,
Speaker 1: we'd use him as our talka budget. I love it
Speaker 1: because we also had David Hetison of the Voids at
Speaker 1: the bottom of the Sea here, another great personality. But
Speaker 1: in this limited time that we have, I want to
Speaker 1: try to get so much in here. And I appreciate
Speaker 1: your guests appearance here today. Talk a little bit about
Speaker 1: Bob May inside the robot, and also I guess Dick
Speaker 1: is he the gentleman who does the voice of the robot?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Yep, Bobby and Dick and Jonathan are no longer on
Speaker 1: this plane of reality, but they were great, and Bobby
Speaker 1: worked was really the unsung hero of the show. He
Speaker 1: worked really, really, really hard. He loved being inside that
Speaker 1: prop and believe me, I was in there once or twice.
Speaker 1: It's incredibly claustrophobic and weird. There's all these wires and
Speaker 1: electricity and charges and batteries running right around your head.
Speaker 1: And certainly it took special effects. Guys. You know, they
Speaker 1: had to get him in and out of it. You
Speaker 1: couldn't get out of it yourself. It was a I
Speaker 1: couldn't have done it. But Bobby really brought character to
Speaker 1: the robot. He invented that kind of the way he
Speaker 1: would twist his bubble and flail his arms around, and
Speaker 1: he memorized all of the dialogue, and he gave us
Speaker 1: all of the robot's dialogue on set, and of course,
Speaker 1: you know, it sounded like a guy inside of a
Speaker 1: So it was re recorded by Dick Tufeld, who was
Speaker 1: a fantastic voiceover artist, great guy and a real jazz
Speaker 1: kind of series. He was actually really really good friends
Speaker 1: with Miles Davis, which is an interesting thing to be
Speaker 1: able to say, because I don't think many people can
Speaker 1: say they were friends with Miles Davis. But Dick two.
Speaker 2: That's why I'm very fortunate to have you as a
Speaker 2: guest to hear all these different stories and amazing things
Speaker 2: going on here. And I saw just one thing Bill
Speaker 2: a painting done very high class painting. It shows a
Speaker 2: desert landscape with the Jupiter two in the distance and
Speaker 2: the C fifty seven starship from Forbidden Planet. In a
Speaker 2: fifty seven chovy, we have the two robots driving off
Speaker 2: into the sunset. I thought that was an amazing piece
Speaker 2: of Noah.
Speaker 1: That sounds great. We had Robbie the robot who he
Speaker 1: guest starred on two episodes has Lost Night. It was
Speaker 1: good to have him around.
Speaker 2: Well in our last few moments with you, and again
Speaker 2: I appreciate your time. Let's talk about the main reason,
Speaker 2: of course for your parents. Phoenix Comic Con thirteen. Again, ladies, gentlemen,
Speaker 2: this is coming Memorial Day. We can event begins made
Speaker 2: the twenty third through the twenty sixth of the Phoenix
Speaker 2: Convention Center. Our special guest Bill Mummy will be there
Speaker 2: because of another special event, the twentieth anniversary of Babylon five,
Speaker 2: a reunion that takes place Saturday five pm to six
Speaker 2: thirty pm at Comic Con. But talk about in the
Speaker 2: last few moments Babylon five. I get this means theme
Speaker 2: and I wonder if you agree. Bill. The main theme
Speaker 2: that I get is sacrifice for a greater cause as
Speaker 2: one of the themes that I get at at Babylon five.
Speaker 2: You were there for so long tell us a bit
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: Well, I was there for five years, and like the
Speaker 1: Twilight Zone, Babylon five is really one man's vision. The
Speaker 1: way the Twilight Tone was Rod Serling's, Babylon Five is
Speaker 1: Joester Zinsky's. He was the creator and he kind of
Speaker 1: upped the anti for sci fi shows because Babylon Five,
Speaker 1: although things changed over the course of the project, it
Speaker 1: was largely in place. The whole arc of all five seasons,
Speaker 1: and the arcs of the characters were largely place from
Speaker 1: the beginning, and there were major swings and major arcs
Speaker 1: for all of these characters. So you have to applaud
Speaker 1: somebody who persisted in maintaining his original vision and telling
Speaker 1: it like a novel. In fact, when Dabylon five finished
Speaker 1: the fifth season, the networks and Warner Brothers wanted to
Speaker 1: carry on, and Joe's attitude was, no, this is this
Speaker 1: is the story. I set out the tale and I've
Speaker 1: told it and I'm not going to milk it any further.
Speaker 1: For me, playing the alien Lanier was tough, you know, physically,
Speaker 1: I had to undergo a lot of time in the
Speaker 1: makeup chair and wear this a little you know, it
Speaker 1: was it was It was a physically a challenge that
Speaker 1: I never really got too acclimated to wearing that alien stuff.
Speaker 1: But the character was a great Laneer was a great
Speaker 1: character to play, and it was you know, I'm proud
Speaker 1: and to be a part of that.
Speaker 2: Project absolutely as we are proud to have you here today, sir.
Speaker 2: And let's talk a little bit in a few moments
Speaker 2: we had love your music career. There's another spin off
Speaker 2: and probably a lot of things that people don't know about.
Speaker 2: Bill Mummy, talk about that because that also occupies your time.
Speaker 1: A lot of that's that is my main you know,
Speaker 1: artistic alley that I'm in and for you know, I
Speaker 1: started playing guitar when I was ten. There are several
Speaker 1: episodes of Lost in Space where little Will Robinson is
Speaker 1: out there strumming a guitar, you know, singing old folk
Speaker 1: songs in Lost in Space. So it goes way back
Speaker 1: to that. My next solo album is called Illuminations. It'll
Speaker 1: be out at the end of June. I'm working on
Speaker 1: two new videos for that. Right now, I'm writing a
Speaker 1: comic book called The Curse of the Movie on a
Speaker 1: Blue Water Press. I do a weekly radio show called
Speaker 1: The Real Good Radio Hour. I'm pretty busy doing voiceovers
Speaker 1: and animation and where I just finished a I'm a
Speaker 1: recurring character on a show called Bravest Warriors that my
Speaker 1: daughter Liliana is star of, and you know it's I'm
Speaker 1: still pretty busy and enjoying all of these different arenas
Speaker 1: of showbiz. I get to play in well.
Speaker 2: Bill, it's real privilege and honor. As I mentioned before,
Speaker 2: this audience, I'm sure learned so much as I did
Speaker 2: in this interview. I hope we can talk again, but
Speaker 2: tell us one more time. The Real Good Radio Hour.
Speaker 2: People can go to their smartphone there, you know, iPhone.
Speaker 1: A Real Good Radio Hour is actually on Wednesdays at
Speaker 1: seven o'clock, regardless of what coast you happen to be on.
Speaker 1: It's ww dot KSA, v ksave dot org. But it's
Speaker 1: all the shows are archived. I've done about one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty five of hours of the Real Good Radio Hour,
Speaker 1: and really it just focuses on different styles of music
Speaker 1: or different lyrical themes each week, a little bit of
Speaker 1: information about the artists past and present, and hope it
Speaker 1: turns people on to some real good music they might
Speaker 1: not be familiar with and brings back some old friendly
Speaker 1: favorites that they may not have heard for a while.
Speaker 2: To learn much more, ladies and gentlemen, about Bill Mummy, actor,
Speaker 2: musician and writer and all the things that he's currently
Speaker 2: involved in. His flagship website is triblew dot Bill Mummy
Speaker 2: dot com, And ladies and gentlemen, don't forget the main
Speaker 2: reason that we had our special guest here today and
Speaker 2: appreciate his time more than you can imagine folks out there.
Speaker 2: Busy schedule, Busyman Phoenix Comic Coom thirteen taking place May
Speaker 2: the twenty third through the twenty sixth here in Phoenix
Speaker 2: at the Phoenix Convention Center. To learn much more about
Speaker 2: tickets and availability, go to triblew dot Phoenix coomiccom dot com.
Speaker 2: And ladies and gentlemen, it's always amazing to have guests
Speaker 2: that talk about the realms of astronomy, space, aviation, and weather,
Speaker 2: the good stuff of doctor Sky dot com and doctor
Speaker 2: Sky dot TV. Bill, thank you so much for staying
Speaker 2: with us, if if you'll be kind enough to stay
Speaker 2: with us just a few moments off air as we
Speaker 2: are from top of the hour, appreciate our time today,
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, with Bill Mummy, actor, musician, writer, and
Speaker 2: of course Will Robinson. I always wanted to be Will Robinson.
Speaker 2: I'm sure so many young boys out there. You've really
Speaker 2: made me so thrilled, sir, to be able to hear
Speaker 2: your story, and I want to thank you so much
Speaker 2: for being a part of our show today.
Speaker 1: Well I had a real good time.
Speaker 2: Thank you, ladies, and I We'll be back with more
Speaker 2: interesting programming right after these breaks here at the top
Speaker 2: of the hour, so stay tuned, we will be right
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