Dr. Smith was a total distraction to me. Totally annoying. Would have loved to have seen him die in the pilot episode somehow.
> Dr. Smith was a total distraction to me. Totally annoying. Would have loved to have seen him die in the pilot episode somehow. <
Oh, the pain, the pain.
You need to think of Lost in Space as a comedy, not a drama.
I will agree that Dr. Smith’s character got progressively sillier and eventually helped sink the show. However, the character was actually quite good when he was a villain with some intelligence. In contrast, the other characters were pretty wooden, which is why (after a while) all the episodes focused on Smith, Will and the Robot. You could also argue that without him, the show may not have survived past the first season.
Long before us young kids knew what homosexuality was, we called Dr. Smith a queer and a fag.