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.

Their presence took the show off-course, in another sense. From its original, simple Swiss Family Robinson premise — of a ...

Created by Irwin Allen, Lost in Space is a science fiction series that predominantly revolves around the Robinson family, human space colonialists whose ship loses its way while traversing through the ...