The Only Major Actors Still Alive From The ’70s Land Of The Lost TV Series

The 1960s and 70s were a turbulent period in a myriad of aspects for people around the world. The United States was mired in an unnecessary war in Vietnam, while at home, the young population of the country descended in the streets to protest against this conflict as well as to show its support for the civil rights movement, equality of women and other social / politicians causes. As often happens at such very controversial moments, art has become revolutionary and deeply bizarre.

Inspired by the experimentation of substances altering consciousness such as marijuana and acid, artists in a variety of media explored a psychedship with a joyfully reckless abandonment. The Beatles recorded “the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” ” Dennis Hopper made “Easy Rider”, “ And the designers incorporated the noisy and whirlwind colors of this creative movement in clothing and household modes. Shag’s carpet has become one thing, and people have dug it so much that they put it on their walls. The whole world had become groovy and children’s entertainment would not be spared.

You didn’t need to be alarm clock and bake in the bed on Saturday morning and feel that something really weird was happening on children’s television. Light “The Banana Splits”, and you would have treated the adventures of four bright costumes who lived on an acid journey and played rock music on the side. Then there was “HR PUFNSUFF”, the bizarre idea of ​​Sid and Marty Kroft which pushed a naufraged human boy on an island populated by a gently dragon, a singing frog and a speaking flute.

Compared to “HR PUFNSUFF”, the “Land of the Lost” of the Krofts was a docudrama. For three seasons between 1974 and 1976, the science fiction / adventure series followed the adventure of Marshalls, a family of three whose camping trip turns into a strange interdimensional trip when they make a trip in the bad waterfall . While the Marshals are trying to find their way home, they meet animals that are both friendly (the Pakuni) and hostile (Sleestaks) while trying not to be eaten by dinosaurs in stop motion. The show is always the most popular creation of the Krofts (it even generated a large screen, unjustly criticized with Will Ferrell and Danny McBride), which means that its analog charms have been shared with several generations of children.

Since it has been out of the air for almost 50 years, it should not be surprising to learn that a large part of the main distribution has since died. But three stars “Land of the Lost” are always with us! Let’s get them a little Pakuni love!

After studying the game for several years at the American Shakespeaare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut, Wesley Eure won two big breaks in 1974 by being interpreted as Mike Horton on the NBC “Day of Our Lives” and, of course, as 16 years 16 years old -End Will Marshall on “Land of the Lost”. This last concert was a kind of surprise for Eure, because he was 23 years old at the time and playing a real adult on the first, but he settled with Spencer Milligan (who played Papa Rick Marshall, and died in 2024 at the age of 86) and Kathy Coleman (like Sister Holly Marshall).

Although it is probably even better known for his representation of Will Marshall, he certainly held occupied in the past 49 years. He was almost interpreted to replace David Cassidy in “The Partridge Family”, and made a horrible impression on horror fans as Kent Kingsley disturbed in the classic of the cult slasher of Dennis Donelly “The Toolbox Murders”. Eure was also a guest of regular celebrity in the NBC game program “Password Plus” between 1979 and 1981, and then welcomed the first two seasons of the Nickelodeon game show “Finders Keepers”. Then, from 1999, he was a writer, developer and creative producer of the animated series of PBS “Dragon Tales”. Eure’s latest performance in a feature film was “Sins of Our Youth” of 2016.

Although it has received credits on reality and talk shows in the last decade, it seems that the 73-year-old went to acting roles. Apart from action, however, it has been very active in many causes and HIV / AIDS fundraising.

Unlike Wesley Eure, Kathy Coleman was close to the age of her character Holly Marshall in real life when she joined the distribution of “Land of the Lost” in 1974. Born in 1962, it was the first big concert of Coleman’s actor (after appearing in many advertisements), and he turned out to be one of the few that she would reserve throughout her career. In addition to appearing in an episode of The NBC cop “Adam-12” drama In 1975, Coleman made very little television and cinema in the past 50 years. She married at the age of 18 in 1980 and had two children before divorcing her husband in 1987.

In a 2019 interview with Fox NewsColeman put to rest all fear that she had the professional exhaustion of her years as a child actor. Although she recognized that her divorce was “really tough”, she quickly stressed that she was very happy with her life today. Coleman appeared in three episodes of a television series produced independently entitled “Fault” in 2021, but she did not follow with anything in terms of performance in the past four years. If, however, you are curious to find out more about the old Holly Marshall, you can read his memory “Lost Girl: The Truth and nothing but the truth, then help me Kathleen” and his “Land of the Lost” Memoir “Run, Holly, run.”

Born in 1963, Phillip Paley was the baby at the “Land of the Lost” set when he was interpreted as the Marshall Punaki Sidekick Cha-Ka. Fur and sport coating This distinctive unibrow, the cha-ka of Paley was an ingenious member of the Marshall unit; After all, he knew the threat of the earth and had a lot of experience by dodging hungry dinos and these insidious sleetaks. (The character was less useful as played by Jorma Taccone In the adaptation of the film “Land of the Lost” 2009.))

Although millions of sofa potatoes from the 1970s and 80s can identify the cha-ka in sight, they could probably not choose a paley not done in a range. If you think that other children from showbiz in Hollywood could have been likely to give Paley a difficult period to play Cha-Ka, I advise you to think again: the boy held a black belt in karate at nine years And appeared on “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson” in 1973 to strut Alongside his teacher Chuck Norris. No one played with the young M. Paley.

As for what the actor has done since “Land of the Lost” ended in 1976, the answer would be “not to act”. He played in an episode of “Airwolf” in 1985 and was interpreted as the head of the sexual comedy produced by Roger Corman “Beach Balls” three years later. However, apart from an unbeaned turn in an animated function in 2020 entitled “The last page of the summer”, Paley has been completely withdrawn from the action for years.