Foreword by Bill Mumy                                                                             iii
Preface by Marc Cushman                                                                    xvii
Author’s note (the TV ratings)                                                               xix
1: The Way It Was … 1965                                                                       1
2: Irwin Allen                                                                                              3
3: A Plunge into TV: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea                       69
4: Countdown to Creation                                                                       96
5: The Other “Space Family Robinson”                                                113
6: An All-Star Cast                                                                                 124
7: “No Place to Hide”                                                                             187
8: T-Minus Eight Months to Launch and Counting                                 217
9: Fall 1965                                                                                          242
10: Episode 1: “The Reluctant Stowaway”                                           249
11: Episode 2: “The Derelict”                                                                  273
12: Episode 3: “Island in the Sky”                                                         292
13: Episode 4: “There Were Giants in the Earth”                               305
14: Episode 5: “The Hungry Sea”                                                       320
15: “Refuge of the Damned”                                                                   332
16: Episode 6: “Welcome Stranger”                                                      334
17: Episode 7: “My Friend, Mr. Nobody”                                             345
18: Episode 8: “Invaders from the Fifth Dimension”                          358
19: Episode 9: “The Oasis”                                                                  374
20: Episode 10: “The Sky Is Falling”                                                     387
21: Episode 11: “Wish Upon a Star”                                                       395
22: Episode 12: “”The Raft”                                                                    405
23: Episode 13: “One of Our Dogs Is Missing”                                      416
24: Episode 14: “Attack of the Monster Plants”                                      427
25: Episode 15: “Return from Outer Space”                                          441
26: Episode 16: “The Keeper, Part 1”                                                    453
27: The Inner Office and Inner Mind of Irwin Allen                                471
28: Episode 17: “The Keeper, Part II”                                                   477
29: Episode 18: “The Sky Pirate”                                                            489
30: Episode 19: “Ghost in Space”                                                           502
31: Episode 20: “War of the Robots”                                                      517
32: Episode 21: “The Magic Mirror”                                                         531
33: Episode 22: “The Challenge”                                                            546
34: Episode 23: “The Space Trader”                                                      564
35: Episode 24: “His Majesty Smith”                                                      574
36: Episode 25: “The Space Croppers”                                                 586
37: Episode 26: “All That Glitters”                                                         601
38: Episode 27: “The Lost Civilization”                                                   613
39: Episode 28: “A Change of Space”                                            624
40. Episode 29: “Follow the Leader”                                                   633
41. That’s a Wrap!                                                                                   643
Appendix / Season One Quick Reference                                          647
Bibliography                                                                                           654
Quotation Index                                                                                    681

Irwin Allen's Lost in Space
The Authorized Biography of a Classic Sci-Fi Series, Volume One

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