In 2014, development began on Lost in Space, a modern reboot of an iconic television science fiction series from the 1960s. Rather than a broadcast or cable network, Netflix won the rights for it just ...

"Give me a child at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life." So the fanatical teacher of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1969) liked to say. And so the TV networks have repeatedly proved.

Since its debut in the 1960s, Lost in Space has been rebooted for both the small and big screen. The original series starred Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Angela Cartwright, Marta Kristen, Billy Mumy, ...

For kids of the ’60s, it was a thrilling weekly ride and for adults revisiting it later, it became a time capsule of an era when television dared to mix earnest family drama with outlandish spectacle.

June Lockhart, beloved for her roles as a mother in Lassie and in Lost in Space, died on Oct. 23 at her Santa Monica, California home of natural causes. She was 100. Harlon Ball, Lockhart’s spokesman, ...