Jonathan Harris

Jonathan Harris plays Dr. Zachary Smith on Lost in Space, the stowaway villain who stole Irwin Allen’s space-opera danger with glorious cowardice. The Robinson family and a clanking robot tumble through weekly peril; Guy Williams and June Lockhart headed the mission. Harris took the episode. Danger, Will Robinson — start straighter, stay for the coward. Smith is the comic menace the mission cannot jettison. Those 1965–1968 CBS hours are the ones this desk still uses.

Harris should be met as Dr. Zachary Smith at s01e01. The Reluctant Stowaway is the mission contract: Robinson family, stowaway villain, clanking robot — start straighter than the later camp. Later weather is s02e01: Blast Off Into Space opens the color years: Guy Williams and June Lockhart still heading a mission Jonathan Harris keeps stealing. The 1965–1968 CBS window is enough.

The robot is merch; Smith is the weather. On TV Flash Harris is 1960s adventure craft: a performance that treats cowardice as a star turn, the stowaway who made Lost in Space photograph as a sitcom in orbit.

Jonathan Harris will be missed if you chase only the famous bit. Dr. Zachary Smith is supporting, not optional — filed as 1960s cosmic ham, the stowaway who became the show. Hold s01e08 when the hour still has to turn. Invaders from the Fifth Dimension — early Allen danger still playing space opera, before the catchphrase ate the hour.

A second look at s02e01 is allowed. Blast Off Into Space opens the color years: Guy Williams and June Lockhart still heading a mission Jonathan Harris keeps stealing. Harris does not clock out.