The Swiss Family Robinson is an American action/adventure series that aired during the 1975-76 season. The two hour pilot for the series debuted on April 15, 1975. Based upon the novel The Swiss Family Robinson, the pilot and 20 subsequent episodes of the series were produced by Irwin Allen, who had earlier produced a futuristic adaptation of the same novel called Lost in Space.
The series starred Martin Milner (formerly of Route 66 and Adam-12) ...
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The Swiss Family Robinson is an American action/adventure series that aired during the 1975-76 season. The two hour pilot for the series debuted on April 15, 1975. Based upon the novel The Swiss Family Robinson, the pilot and 20 subsequent episodes of the series were produced by Irwin Allen, who had earlier produced a futuristic adaptation of the same novel called Lost in Space.
The series starred Martin Milner (formerly of Route 66 and Adam-12) as Karl Robinson, the survivor of a shipwreck who found himself, his wife, and two sons stranded on a volcanic island. In one of her first acting performances, Helen Hunt co-starred as a young girl who was stranded on the island from the same shipwreck and taken in by the Robinson family. Befriending the Robinsons was Jeremiah Worth (played by Cameron Mitchell), a sailor who had survived on the island alone for seven years following an earlier shipwreck.
The series was initially scheduled opposite NBC's Wonderful World of Disney and CBS's...
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