
Scripted series · CBS
Lost in Space
A space colony family struggles to survive when their ship is hopelessly thrown off course.
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
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TV DNA
How Lost in Space actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Lost in Space reads strongest on World Building, Humour and Character Depth.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The story
What it's about
The space family Robinson is sent on a five-year mission to find a new planet to colonise. The voyage is sabotaged time and again by an inept stowaway, Dr. Zachary Smith. The family's spaceship, Jupiter II, also carries a friendly robot who endures an endless stream of abuse from Dr. Smith, but is a trusted companion of young Will Robinson
The run
Seasons
3 seasons · 83 episodes.

Season 0 · Unannounced
Specials
57 episodes

Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
196529 episodes
6.1IMDbThe astronaut family of Dr. John Robinson, accompanied by a pilot and a robot, set out in the year 1997 from an overpopulated Earth in the spaceship Jupiter 2 to travel to a planet circling the star Alpha Centauri. The Jupiter 2 mission is sabotaged by Dr. Zachary Smith (an agent for an unnamed foreign government) who slips aboard the spaceship and reprograms the robot to destroy the ship and crew. However, Smith is trapped aboard, and his excess weight alters the craft's flight path and places it directly in the path of a massive meteor storm. Smith manages to save himself by prematurely reviving the crew from suspended animation. The ship survives, but the damage caused by Smith's earlier sabotage of the robot leaves the crew lost in space. The Jupiter 2 crash-lands on an alien world, later identified by Will as Priplanus, where they spend the rest of the season and survive a host of adventures. Smith remains with the crew and acts as a source of comedic cowardice and villainy, exploiting the eternally forgiving nature of Professor Robinson.
Best episode · S01E08 Invaders from the Fifth Dimension

Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
196630 episodes
5.4IMDbThe repaired Jupiter 2 launches into space once more, to escape the destruction of Priplanus following a series of cataclysmic earthquakes. The Robinson's crash-land on a strange new world, to become planet-bound again for another season.
Best episode · S02E06 The Prisoners of Space

Season 3 · Complete
Season 3
196724 episodes
5.6IMDbThe Jupiter 2 travels freely in space, visiting a new world in each episode, as the family attempts to either return to Earth or else at least reach their original destination in the Alpha Centauri system. A newly built "Space Pod" provides a means of transportation between the ship and passing planets, allowing for various escapades.
Recently aired
Latest Episodes
S00E57
Lost in Space: The Epilogue


S03E23
The Great Vegetable Rebellion
- Directed by Don Richardson
- Written by Peter Packer

S03E22
The Flaming Planet
- Directed by Don Richardson
- Written by Barney Slater

S03E21
Space Beauty
- Directed by Irving J. Moore
- Written by Jackson Gillis

S03E20
Fugitives in Space
- Directed by Ezra Stone
- Written by Robert Hamner
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.

Irwin Allen
Showrunner
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Jackson Gillis
Writer
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Robert Hamner
Writer
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Barney Slater
Writer
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Bob Duncan
Writer
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Jack Turley
Writer
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William Welch
Writer
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Peter Packer
Writer
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Margaret Brookman Hill
Writer
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Shimon Wincelberg
Writer
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Allan Balter
Writer
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Carey Wilber
Writer
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Michael Fessier
Writer
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Herman Groves
Writer
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Wanda Duncan
Writer
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William Read Woodfield
Writer
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Irwin AllenProducer
Writing
- Jackson GillisWriter
- Robert HamnerWriter
- Barney SlaterWriter
- Bob DuncanWriter
- Jack TurleyWriter
- William WelchWriter
Direction
- Robert DouglasDirector
- Sutton RoleyDirector
- Harry HarrisDirector
- Paul StanleyDirector
- Seymour RobbieDirector
- Leonard HornDirector
Cinematography
- Gene PolitoDirector of Photography
- Charles G. ClarkeDirector of Photography
- Winton C. HochDirector of Photography
- Frank G. CarsonDirector of Photography
Music
- Herman SteinOriginal Music Composer
- John WilliamsOriginal Music Composer
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