For kids of the ’60s, it was a thrilling weekly ride and for adults revisiting it later, it became a time capsule of an era when television dared to mix earnest family drama with outlandish spectacle.

June Lockhart, beloved for her roles as a mother in Lassie and in Lost in Space, died on Oct. 23 at her Santa Monica, California home of natural causes. She was 100. Harlon Ball, Lockhart’s spokesman, ...

"Give me a child at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life." So the fanatical teacher of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" (1969) liked to say. And so the TV networks have repeatedly proved.

A Tony Award winner and daughter of actor Gene Lockhart, she also starred in 'Meet Me in St. Louis' and 'Petticoat Junction.' By Mike Barnes Senior Editor June Lockhart, affectionately known as Lassie ...

Alien: Earth was the franchise's first-ever incursion into the TV space, daring to ask the question, "What if Alien, but good again?" The answer? A critical hit and one of the most brilliant sci-fi ...

When it comes to the sci-fi genre, one undeniable gift that the 1960s gave to pop culture was, of course, the original Star Trek in America and, through the BBC in England, Doctor Who. At the same ...