Irwin Allen

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Irwin Allen (1916-1991) was a producer, director, and writer who spent most of his career at 20th Century Fox, initially directing science-fiction films like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961, with Peter Lorre). After adapting Voyage as a television series in 1964, Allen launched a series of campy sci-fi shows: Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, and Land of the Giants as well as a range of unsold pilots. In the seventies, Allen re-established himself as a producer of big budget disaster movies with all-star casts, beginning with The Poseidon Adventure and including The Towering Inferno and The Swarm (which he also directed).
Lost in Space was adapted as a feature film in 1998, with the Robot and a digital alien supplied by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
==References==
:see also The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno
* Fearful that the wormonauts on board the spaceship Wiggleprise won't be able to course correct on their way to the moon in Sesame Street Episode 3713, a catastrophizing Telly Monster repeats several times — with emphasis, and a corny musical sting — that the worms will wind up, "lost in space!"
* Farscape had John Crichton quote the Robot's warning "Danger, danger, Will Robinson" in the first season episode "Nerve."
* An Animal Jam episode is titled "Not So Lost in Space."
* Lost in Cyberspace is coming up on the Computer Channel in "Elmo's World: Computers."
* Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea is referenced as "Voyage to the Bottom of the Barrel" in Fozzie's pitch e-mail in the Muppets Now episode "Fever Pitch."
 
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