Updated: April 20, 2026

Lost in Space is an American science fiction family franchise centered around a television series filmed by 20th Century Fox Television, broadcast on CBS and created and produced by Irwin Allen, who referred to it as science fact science fiction. The Classic Series, which consisted of 83 episodes across 3 seasons between September 15th, 1965, and March 6th, 1968, chronicled the challenges and adventures of a pioneering family. The Robinsons, who struggle to survive in space after their spaceship, the Jupiter-2, is sabotaged and thrown off course in a loose remake of The Swiss Family Robinson. This cult classic, pop culture icon suitable for all ages spawned a variety of spinoffs and continuations, including a comic book series, an animated special, a novel and a feature film, with it own spinoff novels and comics. A new rebooted version premiered in 2018 on Netflix. However, despite its successors and remakes of varying success, the original version still maintains a large and devoted following of fans.