Malachi Throne and "Lost in Space". He also played the character Sandifer in the 1964 "Perry Mason" episode "The Case of the Simple Simon". He co-starred, with Robert Wagner, in the ABC TV series, "It Takes a Thief". Throne was a favorite actor of the TV producer Irwin Allen since he appeared in numerous roles in Allen's series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", "The Time Tunnel", "Land of the Giants", and "Lost in Space", often as several different characters in the same series. Throne played in two episodes of "" on CBS-TV, during seasons one and four, as two different
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Wilkins. Calvert wrote the book "Surface at the Pole" about this and the other Arctic missions of USS "Skate." The film "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" begins with "Seaview" in the Arctic for the final phase of her sea trials, including a dive under the ice cap. Two milestones in underwater exploration were achieved in 1960, the year before "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" was released. On January 23, 1960, Jacques Piccard and Lieutenant Don Walsh (USN), in the bathyscaphe "Trieste", made the first descent to the bottom of the Challenger Deep. The Challenger Deep is