![]() It was one of the six episodes of the second season which was shot on videotape in a short-lived experiment aimed to cut costs. In the episode, a 5-year-old boy named Billy communicates with his dead grandmother using a toy telephone that she gave him on his birthday. Along with partner Robert Haimer, Mumy also formed Barnes and Barnes, a satiric musical-comedy duo that Mumy describes as “a release of excess energy.” The group, whose sixth album comes out this month, is best known for its novelty number “Fish Heads,” a Doctor Demento favorite (the video for “Fish Heads” has appeared on Saturday Night Live and in various international film festivals). It originally aired on March 31, 1961, on CBS. He continues to work with America, having written or co-written eight songs on their last three albums. And after a friend introduced Mumy to members of the group America, he was soon playing and writing for those ever mellow popsters. He played in childhood pal Shaun Cassidy’s touring band at the height of the TV teenybopper’s success. Mumy became something of a musical hired gun. Having just graduated from high school, he decided to concentrate on recording and touring with Redwood, one of a number of rock bands he sang and played with during the Seventies and Eighties. “It was like being the hero in a comic book - you got your superhero suit, you got your robot, you got your ray gun, you got to be an adventurer.”Īfter starring in the poorly received film Bless the Beasts and the Children in 1972, Mumy went into early retirement. So don’t move!’ I was fucking petrified.”Ĭompared with such traumas, Mumy’s life as Will Robinson in Lost In Space was idyllic. Mumy recalls one run-in during the shooting of a classic episode, “Bang, You’re Dead.” Seven-year-old Mumy was getting restless between takes, when, he says, “Hitchcock comes over in this black suit, and he’s sweating like a pig, and he weighs like a thousand pounds, and he leans over to me so nobody else can hear, and he goes, ‘Little boy, if you don’t stop moving about, I’m going to get a nail, and I’m going to nail your feet to your mark, and blood will come pouring out like milk. Mumy remembers The Twilight Zone‘s Rod Serling fondly, but not so Alfred Hitchcock. Before the age of seven, Mumy had appeared regularly on The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. The West Los Angeles native, who eventually won fame as Lost in Space‘s resourceful junior astronaut Will Robinson, did not enter show business as a complete outsider: his grandfather had been Boris Karloff’s agent. By the time the cast came off, I was going, ‘Hey, that’s what I want to do. ![]() “I broke my leg when I was four, and I was in a cast for six months. “You might say it was a lucky break,” explains Bill Mumy about how he became a child star.
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