FIRST RUN EPISODES:
Note: All first run episodes were broadcast on 7:30 PM ET Wednesdays
Year one: September 15, 1965
to April 27, 1966
Year two: September
14, 1966 to April 26, 1967
Year three: September
6, 1967 to March 6, 1968
RATINGS HISTORY:
Year one: 17.6%
Year two: 16.9%
Year three: 14.3%
EPISODE GUIDE:
0. "No Place to Hide" (unaired pilot)
The Gemini 12 space ship, carrying the Robinson family and Major Don West, encounters
a meteor swarm and is redirected to an unknown planet.
Written by Shimon Wincelberg ("Naked City"),
Directed by Irwin Allen
Guest Cast: Don Forbes ("Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"),
Brett Parker, Lamar Lundy
YEAR ONE
1. "The Reluctant Stowaway"
Through the efforts of villainous Dr. Zachary Smith, the Robinson family, on a pioneer
trip to settle on another planet, becomes lost in space.
Written by Shimon Wincelberg
Directed by Anton (Tony) Leader ("Children of the Damned")
Guest Cast: Don Forbes, Hal Torey, Brett Parker, Fred Crane ("Gone With the
Wind"), Tom Allen
2. "The Derelict"
The lost space family is drawn into a cavernous space ship where there are wonders of a
vastly advanced civilization and strange, bubble-like creatures who run it.
Written by Peter Packer
Directed by Alex Singer ("The Return of Marcus Welby, MD")
Guest Cast: Don Forbes, Dawson Palmer
3. "Island in the Sky"
After Robinson has plummeted through space the space craft itself crash lands, the result
of Smith having tampered with the controls.
Written by Norman Lessing
Directed by Anton (Tony) Leader
Guest Cast: None
4. "There Were Giants in the Earth"
As the Robinsons prepare their surroundings for living, they discover giants in the area
before they are forced to head south because of severe drops in temperature.
Written by Carey Wilber
Directed by Leo Penn ("Dark Secret of Harvest Home")
Guest Cast: Lamar Lundy
5. "The Hungry Sea"
Barely escaping a fiery death as the unknown planet's sun suddenly fills the sky, the
Robinsons manage to guide the chariot through storms and earthquakes back across the
inland sea to the temporary safety of their space ship.
Written by WIlliam Welch
Directed by Sobey Martin
Guest Cast: none
6. "Welcome Stranger"
A long lost astronaut visits the Robinsons' stranded space ship, wanting their help in
returning to Earth.
Written by Peter Packer
Directed by Alvin Ganzer "Country Music Holiday")
Guest Cast: Warren Oates ("The Wild Bunch")
7. "My Friend, Mr. Nobody"
Penny makes friends with a cosmic force and is responsible for saving everyone from its
stormy wrath, which Smith has caused.
Written by Jackson Gillis ("Cry Tough")
Directed by Paul Stanley ("Cotter")
Guest Cast: William Bramley ("West Side Story")
8. "Invaders From the Fifth
Dimension"
An alien space ship, run by luminous pilots, invades the Robinson space colony looking for
a "humanoid" brain to replace a guidance control computer.
Written by Shimon Wincelberg
Directed by Leonard Horn ("The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart")
Guest Cast: Ted Lehmann, Joe Ryan
9. "The Oasis"
Faced with dying of thirst, the Robinsons find a new source of water in fruit which causes
violent growth when sampled by Dr. Zachary Smith.
Written by Peter Packer
Directed by Sutton Roley ("Chosen Survivors")
Guest Cast: none
10. "The Sky is Falling"
The Robinsons are unable to understand the electronic language of an alien family that
drops from the sky on beams of light and they wonder if their visitors are friendly
explorers or hostile invaders.
Written by Barney Slater and Herman Groves
Directed by Sobey Martin
Guest cast: Don Matheson ("Land of the Giants"), Francoise Ruggieri, Eddie
Rosson
11. "The Raft"
The Robinsons build a small space vehicle from parts of the Jupiter with the hope of
sending Major West on a test flight, but Dr. Smith steals the ship and heads back to
Earth.
Written by Peter Packer
Directed by Sobey Martin
Guest Cast: none
12. "Wish Upon a Star"
Smith;'s greediness causes a strange Rubberoid creature to reclaim a magic cerebral
machine that Will found in an abandoned space ship, and which materialized wishes.
Written by Barney Slater
Directed by Sutton Roley
Guest Cast: none
13. "One of Our Dogs is Missing"
A twenty year old space dog lands on the unknown planet and becomes instrumental in
leading Robinson and Don to save Judy from the clutches of a great hairy mutant.
Written by William Welch
Directed by Sutton Roley
Guest Cast: none
14. "The Attack of the Monster
Plants"
Giant cyclamen plants that manufacture duplicates of whatever they are fed pose a new
threat to the Robinson colony when they devour a vital fuel supply and cause Judy to
disappear.
Written by William Read Woodfield and Allan Balter ("Earth 2"-- the movie, not
the TV show)
Directed by Justis Addiss
Guest Cast: none
15. "Return From Outer Space"
Will Robinson makes a Christmastime trip back to Earth through a matter transfer machine,
but no one will believe his fantastic story of interplanetary travel.
Written by Peter Packer
Directed by Nathan Juran ("Attack of the 50 Foot Woman")
Guest Cast: Reta Shaw ("Mary Poppins"), Keithy Taylor, ("Born
Wild")Walter Sands ("Johnny Tremain"), Donald Losby
16. "The Keeper (part 1 )"
An alien beast collector threatens to abscond with Will and Penny.
Written by Barney Slater
Directed by Harry Harris ("Eight is Enough: a Family Reunion")
Guest Cast: Michael Rennie ("The Day the Earth Stood Still"),
Wilbur Evans (London cast, "South Pacific")
17. "The Keeper (part 2)"
The Keeper threatens to allow his entire animal collection, let loose by Smith, overrun
the planet unless Penny and Will are turned over to him as specimens.
Written by Barney Slater
Directed by Harry Harris
Guest Cast: Michael Rennie
18. "The Sky Pirate"
A self-proclaimed pirate in a mystery space
ship gives the Robinsons new hope of rescue.
Written by Carey Wilber
Directed by Sobey Martin
Guest Cast: Albert Salmi ("The Brothers Karazamov")
19. "Ghost in Space"
A turbulent "ghost" threatens the Robinson colony and Dr. Smith insists it's the
troubled spirit of his Uncle Thaddeus.
Written by Peter Packer
Directed by Don Richardson
Guest Cast: none
20. "The Magic Mirror"
Penny Robinson and Debbie, the bloop, disappear into a magic mirror where they find a
dark, weird world inhabited by an alien boy.
Written by Jackson Gillis
Directed by Nathan Juran
Guest Cast: Michael J. Pollard ("Bonnie and Clyde")
21. "The War of the Robots"
Will Robinson repairs a rusty robot from an advanced civilization, causing trouble he
can't control when the revived mechanical man challenges the Robinson's robot.
Written by Barney Slater
Directed by Sobey Martin
Guest Cast: Robbie the robot ("Forbidden Planet"), Wilbur Evans
22. "The Challenge"
A ruler from another planet and his son try to prove their superiority over Earth people
by challenging Professor John Robinson and his son will to a test of strength and courage.
Written by Barney Slater
Directed by Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Michael Ansara ("The Robe"), Kurt Russell ("Escape From New
York")
23. "The Space Trader"
An alien space trader tries to trick the Robinsons into trading him a human: namely,
Smith.
Written by Barney Slater
Directed by Nathan Juran
Guest Cast: Torin Thatcher ("Great Expectations")
24. "His Majesty Smith"
Smith is nearly sacrificed in an alien race's primitive religious rites.
Written by Carey Wilber
Directed by Harry Harris
Guest Cast: Liam Sullivan ("The Magic Sword"), Kevin Hagen ("Land of the
Giants")
25. "The Space Croppers"
Smith almost marries into an alien family whose space crop threatens to devour all life on
the Robinsons' planet.
Written by Peter Packer
Directed by Sobey Martin
Guest Cast: Mercedes McCambridge ("The Exorcist"), Sherry Jackson ("The
Breaking Point"), Dawson Palmer
26. "All That Glitters"
Smith discovers that all that glitters is not platinum when his greed turns a magical
power he has acquired into a leper's nightmare.
Written by Barney Slater
Directed by Harry Harris
Guest cast: Werner Klemperer ("Hogan's Heroes"), Larry Ward ("Deathbed
Virgin")
27. "Lost Civilization"
Will awakens the sleeping princess of an underground world planning to conquer the
universe.
Written by William Welch
Directed by Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Kym Karath ("The Sound of Music"), Royal Dano ("Killer Klowns
From Outer Space")
28. "A Change of Space"
Will and Smith penetrate the sixth dimension with diverging results.
Written by Peter Packer
Directed by Sobey Martin
Guest Cast: Frank Graham
29. "Follow the Leader"
Professor John Robinson is trapped in a cave by an unseen alien spirit who attempts
to possess his mind and body.
Written by Barney Slater
Directed by Don Richardson
Guest Cast: Gregory Morton ("Counterpoint")
End of Year One.
