I've been lucky to acquire some screen used props used on the show, mostly control panels that wouldn't have been thrown out after the series was over, but lived on to be reused in other shows. I got most of them from other collectors and a couple on eBay. The programmer panel was used on a few different episodes, but was last used on The Time Merchant and it is still in the pink wooden cabinet from that episode. Chronos used it to control his time transporter. The 205 panel was one of six that was used on the Jupiter 2 and also Alpha Control. It didn't come with the cabinet so I put it in a replica fiberglass one. It also didn't have the original lights so I used LEDs, however, I did use a Cramer motor driven timer switch to control the light patterns as they originally did. This panel was actually an Electodata panel. Burroughs bought out Electrodata and just changed the nameplate on it. The Burroughs 205s and 220s were the last of the vacuum tube powered computers in the late 1950s so as they became obsolete, prop departments bought them up to turn into props after rewiring the lights. The Cardatron panel was also a Burroughs computer panel that interfaced between the punched card equipment. This one was the same one behind Penny's freezing tube and can be determined since they all had distinctive flashing patterns. The visor is from the helmet that the robot crushed in Island in the Sky, It is a little more fragile than the main helmets so it could be crushed easier. It would have probably been thrown away that day, but one of the crew must have decided to take it home and tossed it in his garage for 40 years before ultimately selling it. Another Burroughs control panel is from a Burroughs 200 computer. It was used in several different episodes in alien spaceship, but is best seen when the robot pushes it over to free Don from his shackles in the episode, The Lost Civilization. The SAGE(Semi-Automatic Ground Enviornment) panel was originally a long range radar input panel used in a military early warning radar installation. There would have been racks full of these, each one connected to a radar at a different location. As a prop it was cut down and used on the Jupiter 2 flight console and there were also two of them in the space pod. They were ubiquitous on the show, used by aliens and on other Robinson equipment as well. Another SAGE panel was the power panel used all over on the lower deck, the galley, observatory, and the lab. A small control panel was built specifically for the show and made with a wood cabinet. It was used as a control panel on the electron telescope. One rack mount control panel was originally a missile propellent control panel and used on one of the many control panel racks during the third season. It can be seen on Space Destructors, The Haunted Lighthouse, and Kidnapped in Space. Another control panel was used on Jimmy Hapgood's spaceship "Travelin Man" on the episode Welcome Stranger. It was built by the prop department using some dialights and IBM switches.

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