Why I'm posting this
I ripped the whole set and tagged every file with its disc and MakeMKV title number, so I can show exactly how MakeMKV lists these discs. If you name files by title number, the first disc of each season will give you the wrong episode numbers. I also went through the bonus material, and some of it is redundant, so this may save you some ripping and encoding time.
Set layout
- Season 1: 6 discs. 29 episodes in black and white, plus the unaired pilot "No Place to Hide" on disc 6. (My disc 6 was hiding under a folded flap of the jacket, so count your discs.)
- Season 2: 6 discs, 30 episodes, colour.
- Season 3: 6 discs, 24 episodes, colour. Discs 1-5 hold episodes. Disc 6 is bonus material only.
- Some bonus items sit on episode discs: "Never Fear, Smith Is Here" is on Season 2 disc 1, and the shorter pilot is on Season 3 disc 5.
- That is 83 broadcast episodes plus the pilot, so 84 files in total.
On several discs the title numbers do not follow episode order. The first disc of each season is the worst:
- Season 1 disc 1: T03 = E01, T04 = E02, T00 = E03, T01 = E04, T02 = E05
- Season 2 disc 1: T05 = E01, T04 = E02, T00 = E03, T01 = E04, T02 = E05 (T03 is a bonus item, see below)
- Season 3 disc 1: T05 = E01, T04 = E02, T00 = E03, T01 = E04, T02 = E05 (T03 is a title I did not rip)
- Season 1 disc 5: T00-T03 are E22-E25, and E21 is at T04
- Season 1 disc 6: T00 is the pilot, then T01 = E27, T02 = E26, T03 = E28, T04 = E29
- Season 2 disc 2: T00 = E07 and T01 = E06 (swapped)
- Season 3 disc 2: T04 = E07, T05 = E06, T00 = E08, T01 = E09, T02 = E10
How to match your titles
- Match by season, disc and title number using the map below. The numbers are zero-based in the file names MakeMKV writes (the first title on a disc is t00).
- All the episodes run about 50 minutes, so runtime tells you a title is an episode but not which one. Use the map.
- Gaps in the title numbers are titles I did not rip (for example Season 3 disc 1 T03, Season 3 disc 2 T03, Season 3 disc 3 T00). I did not record what they contain, and they are not missing episodes.
- Bonus title numbers (such as T66, T64 and T63 on Season 3 disc 6) depend on the minimum title length set in MakeMKV. I used a low minimum so short items were listed. With a higher minimum, some short items may not appear or may be numbered differently, so match bonus items by name and runtime, not by number.
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Season Disc Title Episode Name (US air date)
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1 1 T00 S01E03 Island in the Sky (09-29-1965)
1 1 T01 S01E04 There Were Giants in the Earth (10-06-1965)
1 1 T02 S01E05 The Hungry Sea (10-13-1965)
1 1 T03 S01E01 The Reluctant Stowaway (09-15-1965)
1 1 T04 S01E02 The Derelict (09-22-1965)
1 2 T00 S01E06 Welcome Stranger (10-20-1965)
1 2 T01 S01E07 My Friend, Mr. Nobody (10-27-1965)
1 2 T02 S01E08 Invaders from the Fifth Dimension (11-03-1965)
1 2 T03 S01E09 The Oasis (11-10-1965)
1 2 T04 S01E10 The Sky Is Falling (11-17-1965)
1 3 T00 S01E11 Wish Upon a Star (11-24-1965)
1 3 T01 S01E12 The Raft (12-01-1965)
1 3 T02 S01E13 One of Our Dogs Is Missing (12-08-1965)
1 3 T03 S01E14 Attack of the Monster Plants (12-15-1965)
1 3 T04 S01E15 Return from Outer Space (12-29-1965)
1 4 T00 S01E16 The Keeper - Part 1 (01-12-1966)
1 4 T01 S01E17 The Keeper - Part 2 (01-19-1966)
1 4 T02 S01E18 The Sky Pirate (01-26-1966)
1 4 T03 S01E19 Ghost in Space (02-02-1966)
1 4 T04 S01E20 War of the Robots (02-09-1966)
1 5 T00 S01E22 The Challenge (03-02-1966)
1 5 T01 S01E23 The Space Trader (03-09-1966)
1 5 T02 S01E24 His Majesty Smith (03-16-1966)
1 5 T03 S01E25 The Space Croppers (03-30-1966)
1 5 T04 S01E21 The Magic Mirror (02-16-1966)
1 6 T00 S01E00 No Place to Hide (04-24-1993)
1 6 T01 S01E27 The Lost Civilization (04-13-1966)
1 6 T02 S01E26 All That Glitters (04-06-1966)
1 6 T03 S01E28 A Change of Space (04-20-1966)
1 6 T04 S01E29 Follow the Leader (04-27-1966)
2 1 T00 S02E03 The Ghost Planet (09-28-1966)
2 1 T01 S02E04 Forbidden World (10-05-1966)
2 1 T02 S02E05 Space Circus (10-12-1966)
2 1 T04 S02E02 Wild Adventure (09-21-1966)
2 1 T05 S02E01 Blast Off into Space (09-14-1966)
2 2 T00 S02E07 The Android Machine (10-26-1966)
2 2 T01 S02E06 The Prisoners of Space (10-19-1966)
2 2 T02 S02E08 The Deadly Games of Gamma 6 (11-02-1966)
2 2 T03 S02E09 The Thief from Outer Space (11-09-1966)
2 2 T04 S02E10 The Curse of Cousin Smith (11-16-1966)
2 3 T00 S02E11 West of Mars (11-30-1966)
2 3 T01 S02E12 A Visit to Hades (12-07-1966)
2 3 T02 S02E13 Wreck of the Robot (12-14-1966)
2 3 T03 S02E14 The Dream Monster (12-21-1966)
2 3 T04 S02E15 The Golden Man (12-28-1966)
2 4 T00 S02E16 The Girl from the Green Dimension (01-04-1967)
2 4 T01 S02E17 The Questing Beast (01-11-1967)
2 4 T02 S02E18 The Toymaker (01-25-1967)
2 4 T03 S02E19 Mutiny in Space (02-01-1967)
2 4 T04 S02E20 The Space Vikings (02-08-1967)
2 5 T00 S02E21 Rocket to Earth (02-15-1967)
2 5 T01 S02E22 The Cave of the Wizards (02-22-1967)
2 5 T02 S02E23 Treasure of the Lost Planet (03-01-1967)
2 5 T03 S02E24 Revolt of the Androids (03-08-1967)
2 5 T04 S02E25 The Colonists (03-15-1967)
2 6 T00 S02E26 Trip Through the Robot (03-22-1967)
2 6 T01 S02E27 The Phantom Family (03-29-1967)
2 6 T02 S02E28 The Mechanical Men (04-05-1967)
2 6 T03 S02E29 The Astral Traveler (04-12-1967)
2 6 T04 S02E30 The Galaxy Gift (04-26-1967)
3 1 T00 S03E03 Kidnapped in Space (09-20-1967)
3 1 T01 S03E04 Hunter's Moon (09-27-1967)
3 1 T02 S03E05 The Space Primevals (10-04-1967)
3 1 T04 S03E02 Visit to a Hostile Planet (09-13-1967)
3 1 T05 S03E01 Condemned of Space (09-06-1967)
3 2 T00 S03E08 Flight into the Future (10-25-1967)
3 2 T01 S03E09 Collision of Planets (11-08-1967)
3 2 T02 S03E10 Space Creature (11-15-1967)
3 2 T04 S03E07 The Haunted Lighthouse (10-18-1967)
3 2 T05 S03E06 Space Destructors (10-11-1967)
3 3 T01 S03E11 Deadliest of the Species (11-22-1967)
3 3 T02 S03E12 A Day at the Zoo (11-29-1967)
3 3 T03 S03E13 Two Weeks in Space (12-13-1967)
3 3 T04 S03E14 Castles in Space (12-20-1967)
3 3 T05 S03E15 The Anti-Matter Man (12-27-1967)
3 4 T00 S03E16 Target Earth (01-03-1968)
3 4 T01 S03E17 Princess of Space (01-10-1968)
3 4 T02 S03E18 Time Merchant (01-17-1968)
3 4 T03 S03E19 The Promised Planet (01-24-1968)
3 4 T04 S03E20 Fugitives in Space (01-31-1968)
3 5 T00 S03E21 Space Beauty (02-14-1968)
3 5 T01 S03E22 The Flaming Planet (02-21-1968)
3 5 T02 S03E23 The Great Vegetable Rebellion (02-28-1968)
3 5 T04 S03E24 Junkyard in Space (03-06-1968)
The set contains "No Place to Hide" twice:
- Long version, about 52 minutes: Season 1 disc 6, T00. This is the original unaired pilot. It has no Dr. Smith and no Robot, and uses music from "The Day the Earth Stood Still" in place of the John Williams score. The cast commentary on the Blu-ray is on this version.
- Short version, about 44 minutes: Season 3 disc 5, T03. Published accounts describe it as the shorter edited cut of the same pilot: the credits are moved, a number of scenes are trimmed, and a scream from Penny is replaced by a short "oh!".
The widescreen "Condemned of Space"
Season 3 disc 6 has a "widescreen version" of "Condemned of Space" (about 51 minutes, T00). The show was shot on 35mm film framed for 4:3 (about 1.37:1), so as I understand it from discussion threads, the widescreen version is a crop of the top and bottom of the normal picture and not a different or recovered original. It is the same episode as S03E01. I did not keep it.
Bonus material: what is on the set and what I kept
These are the 12 bonus titles I ripped. Runtimes are from the encoded files and the tag is season / disc / title. Descriptions come from the item titles and published reviews, not from me checking each one, unless noted.
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Item Tag Runtime Kept
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Never Fear, Smith Is Here S02D01T03 43.1 min yes
Original Pilot (short version) S03D05T03 44.4 min no
Animated TV Special (1973) S03D06T02 43.8 min no
The Epilogue (2015) S03D06T01 82.2 min no
Memories S03D06T06 12.8 min yes
Cast Interviews (2015) S03D06T08 18.1 min yes
The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen (1995) S03D06T13 94.9 min no
Dick Tufeld Tribute (2015) S03D06T36 5.7 min yes
Guy Williams Tribute S03D06T63 4.2 min no
Bill Mumy Lunchbox S03D06T64 4.7 min no
Bill Mumy Danger S03D06T66 5.2 min yes
Widescreen version of Condemned of Space (1967) S03D06T00 51.4 min no
- The Epilogue (2015): reviews describe a table read of Bill Mumy's unproduced 1980 epilogue script with Mumy, Angela Cartwright, Marta Kristen, Mark Goddard and others.
- Dick Tufeld Tribute: Tufeld was the series narrator and the voice of the Robot.
- Never Fear, Smith Is Here, Memories, Bill Mumy Danger and The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen: I am going by the titles only.
- Overlap: the longer Cast Interviews (2015) already contains two of the other bonus items. It opens with the Guy Williams Tribute and the Bill Mumy Lunchbox played back to back, and then the interviews. Those two make up about 9 of its 18 minutes, so if you keep Cast Interviews you do not need to keep them separately.
Some reviews also mention bonus items I did not rip, such as a 6-minute "Original Network Presentation" (Season 1 disc 6) and two 1966 radio interviews (Season 2 disc 6). They are not in my list, and I do not know how they are listed on your discs.
If your target is Plex: put the bonus material in a folder called "Other"
I wanted the extras in Plex without making them fake episodes. Plex recognises extras only in a short list of exact folder names, placed in the show folder (or inside a season folder): Behind The Scenes, Deleted Scenes, Featurettes, Interviews, Scenes, Shorts, Trailers, Other. "Bonus" is not on the list, so a folder with that name is ignored. How the options compare:
- An "Other" folder beside the Season folders: the items appear as extras on the show page. They are not counted as episodes, need no episode numbering or metadata matching, and the file name becomes the item's title, so a clean name like "Cast Interviews 2015.m4v" is all you need. It suits a mix of tributes, interviews, a pilot and specials in one folder with no sorting decisions.
- The other named folders (Interviews, Featurettes and so on): these work the same way and are more precise, so use them if you want the extras split by type. For a handful of mixed items I did not think the split was worth it.
- Season 00 (Specials): each item becomes a fake episode, which needs S00Exx naming and has to be matched to metadata that may not exist.
- Loose files in a Season folder, or a folder named Bonus: Plex will probably not recognise them, and they end up unmatched or ignored.
File naming I used for the episodes
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Lost in Space (1965) S01E01 The Reluctant Stowaway, D01T03, 09-15-1965.m4v
Encoding (HandBrake, NVEnc H.264)
- Season 1 (black and white): 5000 kbps average. Seasons 2 and 3 (colour): 6000 kbps average. I compared 4500 to 7500 kbps on sample episodes and saw little visible difference, so I erred on the high side.
- Audio: AC3 mono, 128 kbps, for compatibility.
- Output is .m4v with automatic cropping and the default decomb filter.