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 (TV series) and sea monsters. The season ended with the "Seaview" crew fighting a foreign government to save a defense weapon. The first season included gritty, atmospheric story lines devoted to Cold War themes and excursions into near-future speculative fiction. Many episodes involved espionage and sci-fi elements. Aliens, sea monsters and dinosaurs were featured, but the primary villains were hostile foreign governments. While fantastic, the scripts had a semblance of reality. During the course of the first season, Nelson was promoted from a three-star to a four-star admiral. It was also established that while essentially a marine research vessel, SSRN "Seaview" was