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
Lost in Space job for its "Lost in Space" appearance, while space monster costumes would be reused on "Voyage" as sea monsters. The clear round plastic pen holder used as a control surface in the episode "The Derelict" turned up regularly throughout the show's entire run both as primary controls to activate alien machinery (or open doors or cages), and as background set dressing; some primary controls were seen used in episodes such as Season 1's "The Keeper (Parts 1 and 2)", "His Majesty Smith", and Season 3's "A Day At The Zoo", and "The Promised Planet". Spacecraft models, were also routinely re-used.