For those tiny detail flaws everyone over analyzes, one must appreciate the "big picture", everyone makes mistakes including Lost in Space .But it could be possible to have that kind of orbit. I wouldn't expect it either, but if after hundreds of years of only being able to study our 9 planets, and farther out is harder to obtain info, but having a lopsided orbit but without anyone to live there. With millions of other galaxies they can't all be the same arrangement and pattern. And maybe have another planet with people as well. We are only a spec in size, so with or without scientific knowledge, anybody with commons sense would expect any type of life out there exist.

That planet has an impossibly-fast orbit. Realistically, it should take months to go from one extreme to the other as the planet followed its long, ovoid orbit. And not life-forms like those on Earth.
Rated it OK out of nostalgia and the character conflicts.

You can find the first few episodes if you ask to see all episodes. They are all here even the first pilot episode that doesn't have a Dr. Smith

I was 8 years old in 66. It was strange to see the prayer. I liked it, that dont happen now on tv. There was no profanity. All sweetness and light. Want to find the first 5, they are missing from here. But really appreciate this channel. I missed a lot of these too, seems like I was more in the truck with my dad and tv took a back seat. They had to tear me away from this show.

Missed a lot of these when I was a kid and thrilled to find it on HULU. Between this and the Time Tunnel i'm in 60's TV sci-fi heaven. May seems corny to some but to me it is great familty entertainment--where today can you see a family praying? Part of our American heritage so lacking today in Hollywood. Thanks Irwin Allen!!!

Fairly exciting episode even with the re-used scenes from the pilot epiisode. The whirlpool scene is extremely well-done and much of this is good stuff. And the Chariot remains my fav LIS gadget. A marvel of effieciency.
Bonus scene: Dr. Smith sings while the Robot strums guitar!!!

Good grief, it's a wonder they even survived for one day! They all act like they've got their heads up their butts. No one seems capable of asking a simple and direct question, or giving a simple and direct answer. But, I don't want to seem like a totally Negative Neda ... I actually rather like these early b&w episodes. They're a little more grounded, not quite as campy or ridiculous as later seasons, though those episodes are fun in their own way, too. Dr. Smith was rather murderous in these early eps, though judging from the events here, he's not completely without a conscience. And best of all, this episode has Debbie the Bloop, the space chimp, in it! Fortunately the series ended before she grew old enough to go bonkers and rip Penny's face off.