The concept of LOST IN SPACE, just about ev-er-y-thing about the pilot episode of LOST IN SPACE, was plagiarized by Allen & Co. from an Ib Melchior script written circa 1960. A whole book was written about this rip-off (I never saw a copy 'til I went to Monster Bash last week; a guy was debating with himself whether to ask Melchior to sign it); I had an article about it, and the way Melchior was more recently screwed by the producers of the LOST IN SPACE movie, in a recent MONSTERS FROM THE VAULT.