On June 14, 1995, he and the rest of his cast paid tribute to producer Irwin Allen who had died late in 1991. After Goddard's best-known role on Space, Goddard remained very close to Harris. Goddard's on- and off-screen chemistry with Jonathan Harris had been very remarkable. Zachary Smith (Jonathan Harris) and his friends who could always be counted upon to save him and all of the inhabitants of the Jupiter 2-the Robot (Bob May) and Will Robinson (Bill Mumy), the youngest of the three Robinson children. The plot lines increasingly centered around the mishaps of Dr. By the middle of the second season, the show took on a more comic tone. There was a blossoming romance between Don West and Judy, the eldest daughter of the Robinson family, but it did not extend further than the first season. The original 1965 pilot was much different from the pilot that aired and the episodes that followed in the actual series. There were two pilots shot for the series. Goddard's next role was for the three seasons of Lost in Space (1965–1968), in which he played Major Don West. Elena Verdugo, later on ABC's Marcus Welby, M.D., and Mickey Manners were also in the cast. The program starred John McGiver as the head of the complaint department of a fictitious Los Angeles department store. He was featured in the 1965 film A Rage to Live, starring Suzanne Pleshette.įrom 1964-1965, Goddard starred in another one-season CBS series, Many Happy Returns, in which he portrayed Bob Randall, the young husband of Joan Randall, played by Elinor Donahue, formerly of Father Knows Best and The Andy Griffith Show. In 1963, Goddard appeared as Roy Mooney on CBS's Perry Mason, in the episode "The Case of the Potted Planter." In 1965 he played Lester Crawford in "The Case of the Frustrated Folk Singer." He also appeared with Keir Dullea as sparring college roommates in an episode of ABC's drama series Channing, costarring Jason Evers and Henry Jones. The Detectives was a hit series which ran on ABC and NBC from 1958 to 1961, and starred film actor Robert Taylor, along with actors Tige Andrews, Russell Thorson, and Goddard as Chris Ballard. Goddard was also signed for a role lasting three years and sixty-four episodes in The Detectives, another series produced by Four Star Television. He played Tod Rowland in the 1960 episode "The Mormons" on CBS's Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater. He was cast as Sheldon Hollingsworth in the 1960 episode "To See the Elephant" of the ABC western series The Rebel, starring Nick Adams. Goddard appeared as Norman Tabor in the 1960 episode "Surprise Party" of the CBS anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson. At this time, he changed his name to Mark Goddard at the suggestion of his friend and mentor, Chuck Connors of ABC's The Rifleman. In 1959, after just three weeks in Hollywood, he landed a role in the CBS Four Star Television series Johnny Ringo, having played the character of Cully, the deputy, to Don Durant's character of Ringo, and Karen Sharpe's Laura Thomas, the girlfriend of Ringo. After two years, he moved to Los Angeles, California. He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. Goddard dreamed of becoming a basketball player but eventually turned to acting. He led both his high school baseball and basketball teams to the state championship finals. He is the youngest of five children, and grew up in Scituate, Massachusetts. Goddard was born Charles Goddard in Lowell, Massachusetts.
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