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This week, CBS premiered Lost in Space episode “The Magic Mirror,” in which Penny tumbles through the looking glass into a surreal world where time stands still, and she encounters a strange boy played by Michael J. Pollard.
The series had fallen behind in delivering episodes to the network, due to the difficulty in producing what was essentially half a science fiction movie each week. For that reason, Irwin Allen had two episodes filmed at once – this one which primarily featuring Angela Cartwright and didn’t need the regular standing sets for more than a day, and “War of the Robots,” which was filmed on the standard sets with the rest of the cast. The situation had become that desperate.
The series had fallen behind in delivering episodes to the network, due to the difficulty in producing what was essentially half a science fiction movie each week. For that reason, Irwin Allen had two episodes filmed at once – this one which primarily featuring Angela Cartwright and didn’t need the regular standing sets for more than a day, and “War of the Robots,” which was filmed on the standard sets with the rest of the cast. The situation had become that desperate.
Read about all the drama behind the filming of these and all the episodes in the new three-book series,
Irwin Allen’s Lost in Space: The Authorized Biography of a Classic Sci-Fi Series,
by Saturn Award-winning author Marc Cushman.
Irwin Allen’s Lost in Space: The Authorized Biography of a Classic Sci-Fi Series,
by Saturn Award-winning author Marc Cushman.
