Although fans around the world will know him as Will Robinson from the television series “Lost in Space”, Bill Mumy is almost always ready to make music these days. The only CD of his most recent project, entitled “Captain or Guest”, is in these words the most recent out of the box. “I just did it all in my studio here. Before you know it, it’s done. It’s solo in the truest sense of the word. I wrote it, I played it all, I wrote it all, I mixed it all. The only thing I didn’t do was own it,” Mumy said by phone from California . “Most importantly, I learned very early in the creative world not to ignore the ‘Muse’ when he visits. I respect that gift of inspiration and I always take the time to put it down when he visits, so to speak.”
Departing lands always pack a guitar
Now 53, Mumy started her career in 5. “I literally cut my teeth working in television and television is the medium where you do it, it’s done and you’re on the next episode or the next show. It’s not like a story or even an album where you sing a month or whatever you can do.
Mumy 10 years ago and also started play guitar. There are several episodes of “Lost in Space” where Will Robinson is strumming some kind of evil ballad of foreign rock with his acoustic guitars a > he said, playing and singing.
Chapter fish anyone?
With Robert Haimer, Mumy “Barnes & Barnes” formed a musical duo that is perhaps best known for the novelty song “Fish Heads”. “I’d like to do another ‘Barnes & Barnes’ reminiscence; I’m going to write quirky, novelty lyrics that I’d put down for that potential.”
Lost in the Comics
In the early 1990s, Innovation Publishing acquired the rights to make a comic book based on the “Lost in Space” television show. When the title began to run, the characters were a little older and the situations they never saw in the original series. Initially, when they (Innovation) got the rights to do it as comic books, I was brought up. on the board to appear to be the editor’s character and keep an eye on it. I think I wanted to basically prove the right to sell moral books” Mumy said. “I started to write. the third time this is done. Those characters are very vivid to me and will be easy to tell.”
Alpha Centauri at last
“Voyage to the Land of the Soul” in the 12-part story that began in the second year of the comic’s run, took the story and the characters in a very different direction. The Robinson family, along with Dr. Smith finally made it to Alpha Centauri, but things aren’t very great since the ground is there. “Innovation will fail in the middle of the night and it will be milked without any solution and in the middle of that half of the story will be left to us,” Mumy said.
Complete call
Mumy after the last issue of “Lost Space” hit comic shops, Mumy told John Severin, Jr. the son of legendary comic book artist John Severini, he wanted to join the original team and complete the series, including the footsteps of “Lost in Space” artist Michael Dutkiewicz in Australia.
“He (Dutkiewicz) had all the original pages to the first 6 issues, so they were good. He finished this one and that one (the graphic novelres eres I stopped turning and printing their book, I was already 24 to finish the writer’s issue, he said. “So my work as a writer in this project was done. The last time I wrote it was ‘closed book’ and I opened the bottle Champagne to celebrate it, and at the time it was only half-issued.
“Life is still good”
Before leaving the galaxy as Will Robinson, he played Mummy Anthony Fremont in an episode of “Twilight Zone” titled “The Good Life”. At the tender age of 6, Anthony could read minds, sense emotions and change reality. Anyone who did not relegate happy thoughts to the “crop” crop.
For the latest incarnation of “The Twilight Zone,” Mumy teamed up with Cloris Leachman, who played the mother in that episode, for “Life’s Still Good,” a sequel that takes place 40 years after the original. “I was really happy to go back to it with a script that I felt Rod Serling had thumbs-up to,” Mumy said. “It was great to work with Cloris Leachman again; she’s a fantastic actress.”
Mummy’s real-life daughter Liliana played Audrey, Anthony’s daughter who shares a unique power. Having Liliana in it with me was the icing on the cake. “Really,” he said, “it’s very rare that someone continues with the same characters and the same after 40 years. It was really fun to do that and I thought it was a good half hour of television,” he said.
Muse to be made
Mumy said he still enjoys performing, but it’s not the same as writing a song and seeing it through to the perfect mix. . “It’s more in my mind than in someone else’s chess piece, to remember someone else’s lines and take direction from someone else, to hit your mark and do it. This (acting) is a job and I like it, but it’s not the same,” he said.
