For three seasons, he and a family of five, a wily saboteur and a talking robot were marooned on a distant planet in the far-off future: 1997. By Anita Gates Mark Goddard, the actor best known for ...

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.

"Give me a child at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life." So the fanatical teacher of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1969) liked to say. And so the TV networks have repeatedly proved.

The original version of Lost in Space began as a gripping sci-fi adventure, following a family stranded in the cosmos as they battled for survival against alien threats and the unknown. But by its ...