Editing Irwin Allen (section)

==In popular culture==
On January 3, 2008, [[BBC Four]] showed a night of Allen's work which included the 1995 documentary ''The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen''{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}} along with episodes of ''[[Lost in Space]]'', ''[[Land of the Giants]]'' and ''[[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV series)|Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea]]''.<ref name="BBC">{{cite web |title=BBC Four – The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008l40d}}</ref>

Episode 57 of the Disney TV series ''[[DuckTales (1987 TV series)|DuckTales]]'', broadcast on December 8, 1987 and titled "[[List of DuckTales (1987 TV series) episodes|The Uncrashable Hindentanic]]", features a character called "Irwin Mallard" who films the destruction of [[Scrooge McDuck]]'s airship called the ''Hindentanic'' in the disaster movie style of Irwin Allen.<ref name="BBC"/>

"The Irwin Allen Show" was a skit on ''[[Second City Television|SCTV]]''. The Irwin Allen Show was a [[Johnny Carson]]–style talk show with Allen as the host. The guests were stars in Allen's movies, and they were each individually victims of an Irwin Allen–style disaster while a guest on the talk show (e.g. Red Buttons was attacked by a swarm of bees).<ref>{{YouTube|j0Gfl-Rzsn0|The Irwin Allen Show (A skit on SCTV)}}</ref>

In the film ''[[Ocean's Thirteen]]'' (2007) Linus Caldwell (played by [[Matt Damon]]) announces aloud to a catatonic Reuben Tishkoff that Rusty Ryan is doing an 'Irwin Allen' which is a reference to the fake earthquake they stage later in the story.

American noise rock band [[Killdozer (band)|Killdozer]] released a song about Irwin Allen's work called "Man vs. Nature".<ref>{{YouTube|o3R0mVqVpyE|Killdozer – Man Vs. Nature}}</ref>

The second half of "[[Marge vs. the Monorail]]," often considered the best episode of the long-running animated comedy ''[[The Simpsons]]'', is a parody of Irwin Allen's disaster films.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Zinoman |first1=Jason |title=Conan O'Brien Doesn't Matter* |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/arts/television/conan-obrien.html |access-date=21 June 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=21 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Conan O'Brien on Writing "Marge vs. the Monorail" for "The Simpsons" | work=[[The Howard Stern Show]] | date=November 9, 2022 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x46kEaOvXsM|via=YouTube |access-date=April 15, 2024}}</ref>