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Visiting 1960’s TV again, we find another of Irwin Allen’s sci-fi efforts, this being the infamous series Lost In Space. Based (very) loosely on the 19th century novel Swiss Family Robinson and much more closely on an early 1960’s comic book named Space Family Robinson, the series lasted three seasons, from 1965 – 1968, and its initial popularity was one of the factors that enabled green-lighting of the familiar (and famous) TV series Star Trek TOS.
The first season was filmed in black-and-white and the last two in color. As with other of Irwin Allen’s works, it began quite well but ended up as a self-parody of itself, becoming at the end somewhat painful to watch.
We used to watch this at the dinner table, and my father, whose tastes ran more to things like Hogan’s Heroes, simply dismissed it as “El Fantasmo”, which was…The post Lost In Space (1965-1968) appeared first on FeedBox.