Judy Robinson (Taylor Russell) and the Robot (Brian Steele) are seen looking up in Netflix's Lost in Space. Image via Netflix The 1960s were very much a Golden Age for science fiction on television.

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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.