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 As Penny and Judy Robinson pick flowers in
order to make a bouquet for their mother in the second season episode "Revolt of the Androids," they hear
someone moaning and groaning nearby. Uncharacteristically, Penny is ready to turn back and
hightail it toward the Jupiter 2. But Judy says, "No, somebody's been hurt;
they need our help." Soon they find a woman all dressed in silver . . . yet she has a
humanoid skin color, silver-sparkle eye makeup, and silver antennae coming out of a
high-piled ‘do (which make her look a little like the Bride of
Frankenstein). Neither
Penny nor Judy recognize her as Verda, the android who became very close to Will and
Penny—but who ultimately went back to the Celestial Department Store—in
"The Android Machine." (For a discussion of the early Verda, see the Catfights
in Space! page Sirens, Beasts, and Machines.)
Well, Verda is back! And she’s more human than ever. By the end of "Revolt of the Androids," this Bride has nabbed her android Frankenstein (the super android, IDAK model Alpha 12), and they are headed for a distant, Edenic planet to avoid the destructive Generating Machine that serves the interests of the Celestial Department Store. In the third season episode "Kidnapped in Space," Dr. Smith, Will, Don, John, and the Robot all meet Alien #1220, who—along with her male associate Alien #764—has summoned Dr. Smith down to their planet to operate on their leader, a giant computer. Alien #1220 is the brunette, silver-skinned alien who holds a fairly high position in her alien world. Indeed, she is the woman who wields the glowing, circular, Romper Room-ish doohicky which indicates to the aliens that Will Robinson is the member of the J2 party whom the Robot loves the most.
The victor in this catfight? Verda.
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Madame Fenestra, famous clairvoyante, |
Couldn’t find her jewels. |
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With a wicked pair of earrings.
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The other two luscious brunettes on Lost in Space are women who are both adept at making things—or themselves—materialize and dematerialize. The Robinsons meet Madame Fenestra in the second season episode "Space Circus." It seems that an intergalactic traveling circus troupe has landed on the planet upon which our intrepid space family is residing. One of the troupe members is a lovely lady by the name of Madame Fenestra. She is a medium, a "window" to the paranormal ("fenêtre" means "window" in French). During the show the circus members put on for the Robinsons, Fenestra has a bit of trouble with the equipment she uses in her act: it seems that someone has tampered with the cord she uses to make a golden goblet "materialize" after suggesting a vision of such a goblet in young Will Robinson’s eyes. Dr. Marvello and another circus member look on as Fenestra struggles to locate the cord. But before she is able to . . . <boink! > a golden goblet appears in Will Robinson’s hands! As Dr. Marvello says, "That was no trick. The boy has the gift; he has the power." Okay, it seems that Fenestra is a bit of a sham, but she’s good for helping Will channel and focus his mental energies . . . er, at least until he becomes an adolescent, that is.
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 In "The Haunted Lighthouse," Dr.
Smith makes the acquaintance of the lovely Zaybo, a creature that can take many forms,
including a lion. The Zaybo is waiting in the cabinet, sitting on a pile of jewels, ready
to tease and have fun with Dr. Smith. In a catfight between the icy hot Fenestra and
the luscious Zaybo, who would win? Well, Madame Fenestra may be something of a
fake—i.e., the real channeller seems to be Will Robinson—but Fenestra has
enough of "the gift" so that she can help Will. And—it must be
said—the Zaybo is really not in control of her own materialization:
Penny’s young friend J-5 is in charge of that.
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Penny Robinson comes face-to-face with Nancy Pi Squared in the third
season episode "Space Beauty." Penny and Judy encounter Farnum B., and Nancy Pi
Squared (Farnum B.’s manager, as it turns out) soon shows up—and she's packing!
What would happen if the lovely Penny got into a catfight with the attractive Nancy? Well,
Nancy Pi Squared is a smart cookie (she sells Farnum B.’s soul—but
not her own—as part of a business deal), but she is a little bit flaky,
which gives Farnum B. ample opportunity to chastise Nancy verbally. Ms. Effra has to
say that Penny Robinson’s purity of heart would ultimately help her in any
catfight with the enterprising, completely commerce-oriented Nancy Pi.
