Irwin Allen
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Oct 19, 2026
Len TestaHOST
... has two of those, right? Before that, there was the 1966-1967 show, The Time Tunnel, on ABC.
Jim HillHOST
Irwin Allen, yes.
Len TestaHOST
Yeah.
Len TestaHOST
There we go.
Len TestaHOST
So NBC has two of those, right? Before that, there was the 1966-1967 show The Time Tunnel on ABC.
Jim HillHOST
Erwin Allen.
Jim HillHOST
Yes.
Jim HillHOST
There we go.
Andy MeakinHOST
And when I finished it, I realised it was inevitably going to be, it couldn't help being, a portrait of America.
Andy MeakinHOST
Because following the Irwin Allen formula, I'd sketched out a range of different characters from different walks of life and placed the action in different locations.
Andy MeakinHOST
In this case, California, Nevada, Kansas.
Andy MeakinHOST
New York, Mount Rushmore, and Washington, D.C.
AdamHOST
Yeah.
JoHOST
Obviously, Irwin Allen wrote 84 episodes of the original television series.
AdamHOST
Okay.
JoHOST
He also contributed to writing this 1998 movie and the newer television series from 2018 to 2021.
Shelly BrisbinHOST
So, uh, my first film is one of the inspirations for this here draft.
Shelly BrisbinHOST
It is the 1970s Irwin Allen classic, The Towering Inferno.
Micheline MaynardPANELIST
Sure.
David J. LoehrPANELIST
Mm.
Shelly BrisbinHOST
both 20th Century Fox and Warner Brothers had a very, very similar property, and they did this weird thing where they agreed to make the movie together, and hence you had stars who were fighting for billing and, and sort of weird production fa- But it was a huge, huge hit.
Shelly BrisbinHOST
I remember seeing it as a tiny person because Mom would take me to disaster movies.
Shelly BrisbinHOST
Uh, and uh, it's just, it's, it's Irwin Allen's Towering Inferno.
Shelly BrisbinHOST
I mean, he is known, and we'll, we'll get to this a little later perhaps.
Ashley E. MillerHOST
[laughs]
Mark A. AltmanHOST
Their, um, uh, the differences between Star Trek and, and, and, and the Irwin Allen oeuvre are, um, immense.
Mark A. AltmanHOST
Uh, there had really...
Mark A. AltmanHOST
It, it's safe to say there had never been anything like Star Trek on television before.
John WilliamsHOST
Why don't you tell it now? I can't remember which way it went.
John WilliamsHOST
Did Gene Roddenberry approach CBS and they turned him down because of Lost in Space? Is that correct? Because Irwin Allen had already pitched him on Lost in Space.
VeronicaGUEST
centrally accurate.
VeronicaGUEST
Gene Roddenberry initially pitched Star Trek to CBS, but they passed on it, and NBC picked it up.
VeronicaGUEST
Meanwhile, Irwin Allen's Lost in Space was developed for CBS.
John WilliamsHOST
I'm going to throw something out here that a lot of people don't know.
John WilliamsHOST
Lucille Ball is considered the mother of Star Trek.
Peter LozanoHOST
but where did it come from? Yeah.
Scott YoungbauerHOST
Well, also this movie has a structure of a classic Irwin Allen disaster movie too, which I think is really successful that you're with this group of oddball people and it's a tale of survival.
Scott YoungbauerHOST
Yeah.
Ashley CassedayGUEST
It is.
speaker_1HOST
[laughs] Yes.
ScottGUEST
But, which sort of remind, have you seen, uh, I think it's 1977, there's an Irwin Allen TV movie called Fire, or I should say-
speaker_1HOST
With Patty Duke
ScottGUEST
...
ScottGUEST
It's a bit like The Waltons, if it was a disaster movie in a way.
ScottGUEST
Have you seen, I think it's 1977, there's an Irwin Allen TV movie called Fire.
ScottGUEST
Or I should say Fire.
ScottGUEST
With Paddy Dew.
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