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Jeff Spry

'Lost In Space' at 25: How this big-budget sci-fi reboot in 1998 steered wildly off course

Lost in Space movie poster from 1998.

Danger, Will Robinson! Danger! Geeks of a certain age and lovers of classic sci-fi might recognize that insistent robotic warning as originating from one of the most seminal science fiction adventure TV shows of the 1960s named "Lost in Space." 

Created by disaster master Irwin Allen, "Lost In Space" grew from a concept that's essentially the "Swiss Family Robinson In Outer Space." Following a sabotage that sent the crew's ship spinning out of control in the cosmos, the story becomes a wholesome tale of the Robinson family and their companion service robot aboard the Jupiter 2 colony spaceship in the year 1997 trying to find an Earth-like planet in the Alpha Centauri system.  

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