Anybody know this TV show?

[Dan.Strassberg]

I didn't have access to TV in that era, so I don't recall anything
about a TV show named Land of the Lost, but I do remember (or think I
remember) a radio program of that name. IIRC, it was on network radio
(don't remember which network) as part of a kids strip of four or five
half-hour shows on Saturday mornings in the mid-late '40s. If the
elements of the TV program described in Donna's posting jibed better
with the radio program that I remember, I'd have greater confidence
that the radio show was the progenitor of the TV show that Donna
described. IIRC, the entirely fictional Land of the Lost radio show
was set under the ocean. The two stars (a boy and a girl) had many
adventures and misadventures each week while guided through the
undersea kingdom by a talking fish. There were copious running gags
based on puns. The one I remember was that the undersea communications
system was based on seashells, so the instrument you talked into was
called (naturally) a shellophone. When a call came in, the shellophone
rang like a telephone of that era. The creator of the program was
Isabelle Manning Hewson and the radio series may have been based on
children's books that she wrote.

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Subject: Re: Anybody know this TV show?


Land of the Lost, if that's it, was a Sid and Marty Krofft production
I believe.
Barry Scott uses part of the theme as a bumper: "Living in the land...
of the lost..." and then someone sings "45s" after that.