So soon after the 60th anniversary celebrations for Lost in Space comes the devastating news that the actress June Lockhart has passed away, on Thursday 23rd October 2025. June played matriarch of the Robinson Family, Maureen, in Irwin Allen’s Lost in Space. She had a long and illustrious career, starting with a small role with her acting parents (Gene and Kathleen Lockhart) in the 1938 A Christmas Carol, and appearing in classic movies such as Meet Me in St. Louis (with Judy Garland). For a generation of viewers though, she will forever be Maureen Robinson.
There are new journeys through history for Safiyya Ingar and Seán Carlsen in Irwin Allen’s The Time Tunnel:The Dimensions of Time, a box set of full-cast audio drama, due February 2026.
Big Finish Productions’ revival of Irwin Allen’s 1966-67 cult classic TV series The Time Tunnel, under licence from Legendary Entertainment, returns in 2026 with a second volume of three episodes.
In the previous box set, February’s The Nightmare Begins, Captain Lewis Haworth (Seán Carlsen), young hacker MB (Safiyya Ingar), dark web operative Cole Smith (Jay Reum), and marine biologist Clare MacGregor (Rachel Handshaw) found themselves in a changed world, controlled by the sinister Rakervia.
In a secret military base in Arizona, they reactivated the Time Tunnel and set out across history, on a mission to track down the lost scientists Tony Newman and Doug Phillips, and restore the world as it should be.
That quest continues in the three new episodes that make up the second box set, The Dimensions of Time. This time around, the tunnel takes our heroes to New York at the time of the Stonewall uprising, France during the Hundred Years War, and the doomed Titanic.
Irwin Allen’s The Time Tunnel:The Dimensions of Time is available to pre-order now for just £19.99 (download to own) or £24.99 (download to own + collector’s edition 3-disc CD). Please note: the collector’s edition CD box set is strictly limited to 1,000 copies and will not be repressed.
The three brand-new time-twisting tales are:
Families and Lies – June 28, 1969 by Mark B Oliver
Cole arrives, alone, in Greenwich Village, Manhattan on Saturday, 28th June 1969, the day before the Stonewall uprising. With Lewis and MB nowhere to be found, he forges new friendships, but they have their own troubles. Inside the Project Tic-Toc Control Room, Clare must persuade Elenya that reuniting her friends is in all their interests.
Divine Intervention – April, 1429 by Lisa McMullin
MB and Cole find themselves in 15th Century France, towards the end of the Hundred Years War. It’s France versus England but MB and Cole will be lining up on the side of France – alongside the Maid of Orleans herself – Joan of Arc. Is she a witch, a heretic or a feminist revolutionary?
Rendezvous with Tomorrow – April 15th, 1912 by Gary Hopkins
MB and Cole follow in the footsteps of Doctors Newman and Phillips aboard the doomed passenger ship Titanic in the year 1912. It seems that, after all, history can be re-written. Clara MacGregor, meanwhile, discovers that the past can be read in different ways. Is it possible that the journey’s end is in sight?
Producer, director and script editor Gary Russell said: “The Time Tunnel is one of those great Sixties science-fiction shows that ended too soon and without resolution. Ever since I was six years old, I used to think, what happened to poor Doug and Tony? To finally have the opportunity to restart Project Tic-Toc’s computer spools, flashing lights and boot up the Tunnel again – and along the way maybe finally get an answer to Doug and Tony’s fate – was simply too good an opportunity to pass up on.
“We’ve had so much support and encouragement too from Legendary and Synthesis – who look after the Irwin Allen properties with so much love and respect – and for that I’m really grateful. They gave us the chance to bring The Time Tunnel into the twenty-first century with a bang.”
This is the second volume of Irwin Allen’s The Time Tunnel, following February 2025’s release The Nightmare Begins. Big Finish listeners can save money by purchasing Volumes 1 and 2 in a multibuy bundle for just £38 (download to own) or £47 (download to own + collector’s edition 3-disc CD box sets).
60 years ago on Wednesday 15th September 1965, Lost in Space aired for the first time in the United States. Since then it has enjoyed a cult status with generations of fans. Long may this continue.
Richard Chamberlain, star of Irwin Allen’s The Towering Inferno and The Swarm passed away late evening on 29th March 2025 in Hawaii, just 2 days short of his 91st birthday. Aside from his adventures in Irwin Allen movies, Richard was well known for his starring roles in Dr. Kildare in the early 1960s and in television movie series such as The Thorn Birds and Shogun in the early 1980s.
David O’Brien has built a customised version of the Polar Lights Land of the Giants Spindrift kit with lighting. Click on the image above or the link below to view a photo gallery, an informative build presentation, and a video of David’s Spindrift build.
Shocked and stunned to hear the tragic news regarding the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife who were found at their home in New Mexico on Wednesday 26th February 2025. Gene Hackman is prominent and much loved and respected in the Irwin Allen universe for his leading role as Reverend Frank Scott in The Poseidon Adventure. It is going to take time for everyone to digest and understand this very sad news. Our heartfelt sympathies go to all of their loved ones.
News release 31st January 2025: Big Finish Productions are bringing out an exciting new audiobook drama series for Irwin Allen’s The Time Tunnel: “Story details are revealed for The Time Tunnel: The Nightmare Begins, Big Finish Production’s full-cast audio drama continuation of the classic Irwin Allen TV show, coming February 2025.”
We have just learned through the Hollywood Reporter that Christian Juttner (Paul Durant in The Swarm) has died of natural causes at the age of 60 on 29 November 2024. Christian appeared in several well-known television shows and movies during his ten year acting career which began at the age of 7. His list of credits includes Bewitched, Ironside, The Bionic Woman, and Wonder Woman.
