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’ve never seen Lost in Space, it was a sci-fi series from the 1960s about a family stranded in space, trying to survive and find their way home. The show had robots, aliens, and lots of crazy ...