Lost in Space - Volume One

 Irwin Allen’s Lost in SpaceThe Authorized Biography of a Classic Sci-Fi Series, Volume One by Marc CushmanForeword by Bill MumyEdited by Mark Alfred Soft Cover - Available NOW!      Documents the early career of Irwin Allen.  It is a true rags-to-riches story, as Allen ventures from a humble beginning in the Bronx to his later incarnations in Hollywood as an entertainment journalist, radio and television host, a literary agent – all before becoming a successful motion picture producer and director.  After winning an Academy Award in 1954, Allen entered the fantasy genre with films such as The Lost World and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.  He then rolled the dice again with a move into television, creating and producing Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and, one year later, Lost in Space.      Lost in Space was the first primetime weekly series to take viewers into outer space’s strange new alien worlds – something the networks believed impossible on a TV budget and schedule.  In this