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.

If you were among the countless young fans in the ’60s who dreamed of owning the robot from the classic TV show “Lost in Space,” you might experience a twinge of envy for Mike Joyce.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Actress June Lockhart, beloved TV mother on “Lassie” and “Lost in Space,” died Thursday. She was 100. Lockhart’s ...

"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.

When it comes to the sci-fi genre, one undeniable gift that the 1960s gave to pop culture was, of course, the original Star Trek in America and, through the BBC in England, Doctor Who. At the same ...

June Lockhart, who became the archetypal TV mom of the 1950s and 1960s with her roles on the campy sci-fi series “Lost in Space” and alongside a collie and a little boy on the family drama “Lassie,” ...