UNFILMED SCRIPTS:
Carnival in Space
An early draft for "The Great Vegetable Rebellion," written by Peter
Packer. I have no idea why this script wasn't used, as it is actually superior
to the final draft. The script revolves around an alien harnessing the Robinsons'
emotions.
It would have made better than average LOST IN SPACE episode.
The Great Space Race
This was supposed to be a parody of the film "The Great Race." This
script is rumored to have been written for the fourth season, but I have seen
no proof that it still exists, or for that matter that it ever existed.
Malice in Wonderspace
A rather nicely done script by Carey Wilber. A new character was to be inserted
on the show in the fourth season: Willoughby, a talking, telekinetic purple
kangaroo. The story is an adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland," set
to LOST IN SPACE's style. What's sad is that the script actually worked, and
would have made a good, if not great, LOST IN SPACE episode.
SPIN-OFFS:
LOST IN SPACE: the cartoon
A Saturday Superstar ABC one-shot; supposedly a pilot for an animated LIS series.
Network air date: 9/8/73. Plot: The Robinsons become lost in space and land
on a planet inhabited
by two races: the good, frog like Throgs, and the evil robot race, the Tyrannos.
A Hanna-Barbera Production
Cast: Jonathan Harris, Don Messick, Sid Miller, Sherry
Alberoni, Vincent van Patten
LOST IN SPACE: The Motion Picture
A retelling of the first five LOST IN SPACE episodes. To be released sometime
in 1997. No cast as of this writing. This film will be shot at Shepperton Studios,
London, England. A New Line Cinema Production.
Written by Akiva Goldsman ("Batman Forever")
Directed by Stephen Hopkins ("Predator 2")
MAJOR TELEVISION AWARDS:
LOST IN SPACE was nominated once for an Emmy for special effects (for
the Dr. Smith masks in the episode "The Space Destructors"), but it
did not win.
BOOKS:
LOST IN SPACE by Dave van Arnam
and Ron Archer (Ted White), Pyramid, 1967
The Alpha Control Reference Manual by
William Anchors and Gary Stork, Alpha Control Press, 1986
The LOST IN SPACE Technical Manual
by Richard Messmann and James van Hise, New Media, 1986
The Jupiter 2 Operator's Manual by
Robert Rowe, Alpha Control Documentation, 1986
The LOST IN SPACE Files, Volumes
1-6, New Media, 1986-1987
The LOST IN SPACE Anniversary Tribute Book
by James van Hise and Hal Shuster, New Media, 1987
The LOST IN SPACE Handbook
by Paul Monroe, Alpha Control Press, 1989
The Complete LOST IN SPACE Book
by John Peel, New Media, 1989
The LOST IN SPACE 25th Anniversary Celebration
by Flint Mitchell, Alpha Control Press, 1991
The Complete LISFAN 10th Anniversary Celebration
by Flint Mitchell, Alpha Control Press, 1991
The LOST IN SPACE Scrapbooks,
Volumes 1-3, Edited by Bill Anchors and Flint Mitchell, Alpha Control Press,
1991
LOST IN SPACE Guest Star Biographies
by Ed Shifres, LISFAN Press, 1992
LOST IN SPACE Forever by Joel
Eisner and Barry Megan, Sheisskopf Press, 1992
The Irwin Allen Scrapbook,
Volume 2, edited by Bill Anchors, Alpha Control Press, 1992
You Can Build... the LOST IN SPACE Robot
by Flint Mitchell, LISFAN Press, 1996
Space Family Robinson: the True Story
by Ed Shifres, Windsor House Publishing Group , 1996
LIST IN SPACE: The Ultimate Unauthorized
Trivia Challenge by James Hatfield and George Burt, Kensington
Press, 1998
The LOST IN SPACE Encyclopedia
by Flint Mitchell, LISFAN Press, 1998