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.

Mark Goddard, an actor best known for playing Major Don West in the 1960s television show “Lost in Space,” has died. He was 87. He died Tuesday in Hingham, Mass., of pulmonary fibrosis, his son John ...

Mark Goddard, known for playing Major Don West on the CBS series “Lost in Space,” died in Hingham, Mass. on Oct. 10 of pulmonary fibrosis. He was 87. In statement posted to Facebook, Goddard’s wife, ...

Mark Goddard, the actor known for playing Maj. Don West, in the campy, popular 1960s science fiction series “Lost in Space,” died of pulmonary fibrosis on Tuesday, at a hospice center in Hingham, Mass ...

The beginning of the third season finds the Robinsons having to quickly leave the planet they are on, which is a similar plot to the beginning of the second season. Once in space, the robot is swept ...

Lost in Space star Bill Mumy recalled reuniting with his costar, June Lockhart, on a surprising show 30 years later. On Saturday, November 1, the actor — who portrayed Will Robinson in the ’60s series ...

Mumy once shared that being reunited with Lockhart nearly 30 years after they played a mother and son on Lost in Space was a ...

Mark Goddard, the actor who made a lasting impression on young sci-fi fans as the daring, forever impatient Major Don West on CBS’ 1965-68 series Lost In Space, died of pulmonary fibrosis Tuesday in ...

He played Major Don West, the hot-tempered pilot of the Jupiter 2, on the 1960s CBS adventure series. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Mark Goddard, who played Major Don West, the hot-tempered pilot of ...