How was the 1960s show “Lost in Space” filmed?”
Lost in Space was an American television series produced by Irwin Allen from 1965-1968. The program was known almost as much for its rivalry with Star Trek as for its content, which pushed the limits of both technology and sexuality. The show focused on the Robinson family, their pilot and their robot who were sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony on Alpha Centauri for various sex crimes. But due to the actions of their incompetent guard Dr. Smith, they never made it. Instead, they became hunted criminals. They fled from planet to planet, survived numerous crashes, and dealt with dozens of bounty-hunting space aliens bent on capturing them. While Star Trek fans have continually criticized it, the program won a number of Emmy Awards and Peabody Awards. Many employees of America’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) credited the show’s technical accuracy with sparking their interest in rocket science (some claim NASA was actually based on the program’s Alpha Contro
Lost in Space is a science fiction television program created and produced by Irwin Allen, produced by 20th Century Fox Television, and broadcast on CBS. The show ran for three seasons, with 83 episodes airing between 1965 and March 6, 1968. The first season was shot with black and white film, the rest in color. In 1998, a film based on the series was released. The show focused primarily on Jonathan Harris as Dr. Zachary Smith, originally an utterly evil would-be killer who as the first season progressed became a cowardly character, providing comic relief to the show (and causing most of the problems).
