I sat up watching Lost In Space, the old TV series. It was about twenty minutes of material stretched out over a full hour. The men's costumes were awful. Their butts looked huge and they made no effort to conceal it. I looked on IMDb.com and it said there was a big costume change for the male characters one season, so maybe I wasn't the only one who saw the problem. They needed to add jackets or have them untuck their shirts. Natural fibers wouldn't have hurt anything.
The trouble with the show was that they were all in the same family. There was some violence and they had weapons, but no one was expendable like on Star Trek. Why would anyone take their children out in space? I've only sat through three episodes and the children were in jeopardy in each one.
According to Billy Mumy, he and Jonathan Harris became the focus of the show because they hit their marks and didn't flub their lines. They could do a scene in one or two takes so it sped things up.
So it was nice when they focused on the girl for one episode and had HER menaced by a seemingly friendly alien for a change. Like the time on Little House on the Prairie when they had a pointless episode which focused on the fantasy life of the youngest girl who never did much of anything on the show. She fell down while frolicking in the opening credits and that was only big moment on the show.
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