DrCrowTStarwars said:

I am not saying it is wrong to enjoy the show or it was badly made, I am just saying that it could be silly.

I enjoy both it and lost in space but you have to admit when your show's premise is that the moon went flying out of orbit and now acts like a spaceship that never runs out of shuttles you are going to have a hard time getting scripts that are not silly.

I am not saying he is completely blameless but in both cases there were other things going wrong with the shows and he had to cope with reduced budgets, so I don't think he is some show wrecking monster who was a complete idiot and hated sci-fi as he is often painted.

I think he was most likely someone who was given a huge job and just wasn't up to the challenge. Sad but I don't think it makes him a bad person or a hack.

At least his bad stuff was the fun and campy kind of bad instead of the boring and depressing kind of bad.

You're getting it mixed up with Star Trek Voyager. ;)

Seriously though. The nuclear waste dump blew up, and it was strongly implied throughout the first season some unknown force was behind the Moon's trajectory.

http://catacombs.space1999.net/press/vxmuf.html

And Moonbase Alpha had a lot of Eagles and the means to repair/replace them.

I enjoy Lost In Space, but the talking carrot episode takes the cake. It was a more serious show in it's first season.