Album (Land of the Lost)

Written by Dick Morgan and directed by Bob Lally, it was first broadcast in the United States on October 19, 1974, on NBC.

Will awakens in the early morning to a high-pitched whirring sound which fills the jungle, but eventually it goes away, and only he can hear it.

Holly sees that a creature has been breaking into their stores, so at Rick's suggestion she starts to build a trap and Will goes to weed the garden.

The next morning the trap has failed again, but both Will and Holly display utter disinterest, and when Rick pries into the issue, Will yells at him and leaves.

He finds his children being led to the Sleestak god, and takes the blue stone from them immediately breaking the hypnotic spell.

Rick surmises that the blue stones allow people to see what they love the most by exerting "some form of hypnosis".

The online review site Premium Hollywood described "Album" in 2009 as a "tight installment" that shows how "twisted" the Sleestak can be.

[1] The film historian Hal Erickson criticized the episode for its inconsistent explanation of the powers of the fourth dimensional nodes.