Lost in Space
(1965 — 1968)
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LOST IN SPACE
60 Minute Drama
Science Fiction

ORIGINAL TRANSMISSION
1965 — 1968

BROADCASTER
CBS

SEASONS / EPISODES
3 Seasons / 84 Episodes
1 Movie (1998)

Irwin Allen's greatest sci-fi triumph, and also his greatest failure.

Lost in Space started life as a drama about a family who are sent into space aboard the Jupiter II to colonise a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri, but who get hopelessly lost after the intervention of the villainous Dr Smith. The second and third seasons descended into farce as the double act of Smith and the ship's robot were allowed to steal the show.

The series hit its low-point during Season 3 with the risible Great Vegetable Rebellion in which the crew of the Jupiter II get menaced by a carrot monster and Dr Smith gets turned into a walking, talking stick of celery...

A movie version was released amidst great hype in 1998, but completely failed to conjure up the spirit of the better episodes of the television series.

More recently, a pilot episode for a revived version of the show has been filmed, but a full series failed to materialise.
Movie Novelisations
Lost in Space

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by Joan D Vinge
  • United States
  • Paperback
  • HarperPrism
  • 1998
Other Editions
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Finland / Paperback / Otava / 1998

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Germany / Paperback / Heyne / 1998

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UK / Paperback / HarperCollins / 1998

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Novelised Movie
Lost in Space
Back Cover Blurb — HarperPrism
The Robinsons are blasting off again in an all-new, major motion-picture. This all-new Lost in Space combines the familiar pleasures of the classic television show with an exciting contemporary edge, as the Robinsons find themselves "lost in space" once again: crash-landing on a planet breaking up from tectonic storms, threatened by a horde of spiderlike aliens, and most surprising — discovering an alternate time-stream link to Earth's distant future!
Notes
  • The book includes eight pages of colour photographs in the middle.
Original Novels
Lost in Space

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by Dave van Arnam and Ron Archer
  • United States
  • Paperback
  • Pyramid Books
  • 1967
Back Cover Blurb
ADRIFT
...among the clouds of stars that fill the Universe

TRAPPED
...on an alien planet billions of years old

SHOCKED
...by the incredible powers of a planet-sized "mind"

KIDNAPPED
...by a civilization of masterless robots

Here are CBS-TV's famous Robinson family and the rest of the crew of the Jupiter II — Don West, the colorful Dr. Smith, and the sardonic Robot — in a brand-new adventure, the first in an exciting series from PYRAMID BOOKS.
Notes
  • Ron Archer is a pseudonym for Ted White. Despite what was written on the back cover, this was the only Lost in Space novel to be published by Pyramid.
Lost in Space: Promised Land

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by Pat Cadigan
  • United States
  • Paperback
  • HarperCollins
  • 1999
Lost in Space: The Vault

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by Gene DeWeese
  • United States
  • Paperback
  • HarperCollins
  • 1999
Back Cover Blurb
WILL THEY FIND SALVATION — OR THEIR ULTIMATE DESTRUCTION?

Still lost in uncharted space, the Robinsons land the Jupiter Two on an Earthlike planet that has suffered a mysterious disaster. There is apparently no one alive. Roads and cities have literally melted, except for one mysterious building protected by a still-active force field.

Inside, they find a maze of doors, each opening to a terrifying alien experience — and an awesome new power beyond imagining. Will the secret of the Vault save the Jupiter Two and show the way home to Earth? Or will it be used by the nefarious Dr. Smith to destroy the hated Robinsons once and for all?

Gene DeWeese gives an exciting, fresh spin to science fiction's most popular series in this authorized new original novel that continues the adventures of the Robinsons begun in the hit film Lost in Space. This all-new Lost in Space combines the nonstop thrills of the classic series with an exciting contemporary edge.
Young Adult Novels
Lost in Space: The New Journeys #1: Robotworld

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by JJ Gardner
  • United States
  • Paperback
  • Scholastic
  • 1998
Lost in Space: The New Journeys #2: The Passengers

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by Nancy Krulik
  • United States
  • Paperback
  • Scholastic
  • 1998
Lost in Space: The New Journeys #3: The Perils of Quadrant X

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by JJ Gardner
  • United States
  • Paperback
  • Scholastic
  • 1998
Lost in Space: The New Journeys #4: Journey to the Planet of the Blawps

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by Nancy Krulik
  • United States
  • Paperback
  • Scholastic
  • 1998
Lost in Space: The New Journeys #5: Warriors

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by JJ Gardner
  • United States
  • Paperback
  • Scholastic
  • 1999
Lost in Space: The New Journeys #6: The Virus

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by Nancy Krulik
  • United States
  • Paperback
  • Scholastic
  • 1999