Lost in Space TV Series
Lost in Space is a science fiction TV series 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 September 15, 1965 and March 6, 1968. Lost in Space was the second of Allen's four science fiction television series. The show's first season was in black and white, and the second and third seasons were filmed in color.
Cast
Doctor John Robinson (Guy Williams): John is the expedition commander, a pilot, and the father of the Robinson children. He is an astrophysicist who also specializes in applied planetary geology.
Doctor Maureen Robinson (June Lockhart): Maureen is John's biochemist wife. Her role in the series is often to prepare meals, tend the garden, and to help with light construction, whilst adding the much needed "voice of reason". Her status as a doctor is mentioned only in the first episode.
Major Don West (Mark Goddard): Don is the pilot of the spacecraft and is frequently Dr. Smith's intemperate and intolerate foil. There is a romantic interest in Judy Robinson which is never developed on screen. In the pilot, West was also an astrophysicist and expert in interplanetary geology.
Judy Robinson (Marta Kristen): Judy is the oldest child. She planned a career in musical theater, but went with her family, instead.
Penny Robinson (Angela Cartwright): Penny is the middle child. She loves animals and classical music. She acquires an alien pet she names Debbie (To viewers, quite obviously a chimpanzee wearing a fur hat). The chimp made one sound, "Bloop", and is sometimes remembered by that name.[2] Penny, however, named the creature Debbie.
Will Robinson (Billy Mumy). Will, the youngest, is a child prodigy in electronics. Often, he is a friend to Dr. Smith when no one else is.
Doctor Zachary Smith (Jonathan Harris): Doctor Zachary Smith is ostensibly a specialist in environmental and intergalactic psychology, is actually an enemy agent (these roles are dropped early in the series). His attempt to sabotage the mission strands him aboard the Jupiter 2. He begins as sinister, but while never losing his self-serving qualities, he evolves into passive-aggressive, often cowardly and effeminate behavior as comic relief. He frequently trades barbs with the Robot and Major West. He was often portrayed as the typical 'mad scientist' of science fiction comics.
The Robot: The Robot is a Model B-9, Class M-3 General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Control Robot, which had no given name (Jonathan Harris once jokingly suggested the robot be named "Clawed"). Although a machine endowed with superhuman strength and futuristic weaponry, he often displayed human characteristics such as laughter (usually at Smith, thus provoking the latter's rage), sadness, and mockery. The Robot was designed by Robert Kinoshita (whose other cybernetic claim to fame is as the designer of Forbidden Planet's Robby the Robot) and was performed by Bob May in a prop costume built by Bob Stewart. The voice was dubbed by Dick Tufeld, who was also the series' narrator.Read full review
