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The Swiss Family Robinson (1975)

The Swiss Family Robinson poster
Directed by
Christian I. Nyby II, Leslie H. Martinson
Genre
action television series
Country
United States
Length
1 season, 20 episodes
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A family of Swiss settlers are stranded on a deserted island after a shipwreck. They work together to build a new life and survive the challenges of the wilderness.

adventurousfamily-friendlysurvivalisthopefulnostalgiclighthearteddeterminedearnest

What happens

The Swiss Family Robinson is an American action and adventure series that aired on ABC from September 14, 1975 to April 11, 1976. The two-hour pilot for the series was first shown on April 15, 1975. Based upon the 1812 novel The Swiss Family Robinson, the pilot and its 20 subsequent episodes of the series were produced by Irwin Allen, who had earlier produced a futuristic adaptation of the same novel in the 1965 TV series Lost in Space. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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