Irwin Allen Irwin Allen Irwin Allen (June 12, 1916 – November 2, 1991) was an American television, documentary and film director and producer with a varied career who became known as the "Master of Disaster" for his work in the disaster film genre. His most successful productions were "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972) and "The Towering Inferno" (1974). He also created several popular 1960s science fiction television series, such as "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", "Lost in Space", "The Time Tunnel", and "Land of the Giants". Irwin Allen was born in New York City, the son of poor Jewish immigrants from
TV Land TV Land TV Land is an American cable television network which first started transmissions on April 29, 1996. It is owned by MTV Networks, a division of Viacom, which also owns MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon and Nick Jr.. TV Land is a spinoff of Nickelodeon's Nick at Nite. TV Land's programming primarily consists of reruns of television series from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970's, and 1980's. More recently shows that aired from the 1990s and 2000s have been aired, such as "Roseanne", "", "", "", and "Laverne & Shirley". Another interesting aspect of the channel is that for several years the station