Mark Goddard has said several times in interviews that he could only get through the scenes with Mr. Carrot by NOT looking at Stanley Adams.
With regards to the ep, He also cursed, "I went to Julliard for
THIS?!"
I personally found the episode about the Hippie Planet where Smith was frugging in a mod go-go wig wearing an absurd medallion like something Hugh Hefner would have sported on "Playboy after dark" to be more ridiculous.
Perhaps I'm more forgiving of that one because it actually gives Angela Cartwright something to do besides having Penny help her mother with dinner or work in the hydroponic garden.
All that to one side, the first season of LOST IN SPACE is on a completely different plane with that beautiful black and white photography. And some genuinely terrifying moments.
Yes, the first season is definitely the best. Damn that CBS exec and Batman!!
Back in 2015, a "Blu Ray" set of this series was issued where the same thing was done as happened to the 1991 DS, with tops and bottoms of the frame being cut off to fit today's preferred 16 x 9 screens. I read in a couple of reviews, however, that the original "full screen" versions of the shows were included.
If only the same had been done with the '91 Series!! Though I would have wanted them to have transferred the correctly color timed 4X3 versions, NOT versions that were incorrectly color timed, like the 16X9 versions the set ended up with...