Their presence took the show off-course, in another sense. From its original, simple Swiss Family Robinson premise — of a family battling for survival on a hostile alien world — "Lost in Space" ...

For kids of the ’60s, it was a thrilling weekly ride and for adults revisiting it later, it became a time capsule of an era when television dared to mix earnest family drama with outlandish spectacle.

Lost in Space started out as a pretty serious science fiction show, but over time it became sillier and more over-the-top. This shift toward campiness meant that Dr. Smith, along with Will Robinson ...

For three seasons, he and a family of five, a wily saboteur and a talking robot were marooned on a distant planet in the far-off future: 1997. By Anita Gates Mark Goddard, the actor best known for ...

Mark Goddard, the actor who made a lasting impression on young sci-fi fans as the daring, forever impatient Major Don West on CBS’ 1965-68 series Lost In Space, died of pulmonary fibrosis Tuesday in ...