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
Land of the Giants the part of Dan Ericson, credited his previous football, track and pole vaulting work for helping him with the stunts required. Elements of Allen's "Lost in Space" series recur in "Land of the Giants", notably the relationship between foolish, greedy, on-the-run bank robber Alexander B. Fitzhugh (Kurt Kasznar) and the young boy Barry Lockridge (Stefan Arngrim), paralleling the relationship on "Lost in Space" between Doctor Smith and the young Will Robinson. Also, for main cast billing, Kasznar was treated contractually in the same manner as Jonathan Harris had been on "Lost In Space": billed in last place on the opening