Today is Mark Goddard's 84th birthday. We celebrate.

Best known as Major West from the original "Lost in Space" television series, Goddard took his career to new heights in 2011 when he was a guest on our "Ten from the Line" free-throw-shooting video series. We are dusting off that classic (truly) episode. Mark (or Chuck, his pre-Hollywood name) shot extremely well, outdoors, on a fabulous February day in Middleboro, Mass. where he was a special education teacher at the Chamberlain School.

The video involves far more than basketball. We bombarded Goddard with the tough "Lost in Space" questions which the mainstream press had previously and has subsequently been too spineless to ask. How did he know which way Cyclops would fall? Wasn't Prof. Robinson actually a lousy father, given the access he gave Dr. Smith to young Will? And did Major West, Jupiter 2 pilot, ever avoid a meteor storm?

If you find Mark Goddard as likeable as we did nine-and-a-half-years ago, you may want to join Facebook's Mark Goddard Appreciation Society.

If bored, email Greg Sullivan at gsullivan@heraldnews.com. In Twitter Village, he hangs @GregSullivanHN.