When we think about 1960s sci-fi TV today, we naturally tend to think about the original Star Trek. Debuting in 1966, Star Trek changed the game insofar as it became the first outer-space-oriented sci-fi TV show created for adults, that featured continuing characters. Socially and culturally, Star Trek broke new ground in many other ways, but logistically, it proved that far-out sci-fi was potentially a mainstream, primetime TV product. That said, there were other great ‘60s sci-fi shows, both right before and right after Star Trek. And now, one person behind the ‘60s nostalgia in Strange New Worlds is rebooting even more vintage sci-fi.
As reported by Deadline, Akiva Goldsman — co-creator of Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — is about to tackle remakes of three different sci-fi series, all of which were created by the late Irwin Allen. For casual sci-fi fans, Allen is probably best remembered as the creator of Lost in Space, which was a classic, campy family sci-fi series that, in some ways, was just as foundational to the genre as Star Trek, Doctor Who, or The Outer Limits. Irwin’s style is probably best remembered as bombastic and over-the-top, which was also somewhat true of three of his other 1960s sci-fi shows, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, and Land of the Giants, all of which are getting rebooted by Goldsman. (Lost in Space was, of course, very recently rebooted as a brilliant Netflix series that ran from 2018 to 2021.)
