In September, sci-fi master Irwin Allen's 1965 cult TV classic, Lost In Spacemarked its 50th anniversary. Now, Netflix has won a bidding war to remake the series. Meanwhile... Lost in Space ran for three seasons, from 1965-68. All 83 episodes can be seen on Hulu. (Free. US Only.)
The first episode in the Hulu playlist is the unaired pilot, "No Place to Hide," written and filmed before the addition of Dr. Smith and The Robot. The pilot that actually aired is episode #2: "The Reluctant Stowaway." First season is in black and white, but the second and third are in color.
Wikipedia has a thorough entry on Lost In Space. And of course, the show's theme song was composed by John Williams.
DANGER! WILL ROBINSON! DANGER!
A pilot for Lost in Space: The Animated Series was produced by Hanna-Barbera in the early 70's but it never sold, so no other episodes were produced. The Lost In Space wiki says that the pilot aired as part of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie series on September 8, 1973. The only actor from the original series to voice a character in the pilot was Jonathan "Dr. Zachary Smith" Harris.
We're doomed!
In the early 2000's, the CW network won their own bidding war for the rights to a remake of the series. The commissioned pilot, The Robinsons: Lost In Space, was directed by John Woo but not picked up for a series.
Documentaries and Interviews
In 1997, the SciFi Channel included interviews with the '60's cast during a Lost In Space marathon: Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4(The cast discusses the infamous episode, "The Vegetable Rebellion" in part 3.)
* A&E Biography (2002): Jonathan Harris.
* In 1994, Jonathan Harris performed before a live audience at the Seymour Theatre - Sydney Australia, with his lifelong nemesis
Archive of American Television Interview: Bill Mumy
* Lost In Space Castmates
* Working with Jonathan Harris
* Working with The Robot
* The character of Will Robinson
* How Lost in Space changed between the pilot and the series
* The show's cancellation
In 1995, four years after Irwin Allen passed away, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen, Jonathan Harris, Bill Mumy and Angela Cartwright appeared in a television tribute: The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen. The Lost in Space segment begins at around 23:30.
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