Irwin Allen: The sixties Michael Bay

Also made sure that his name was plastered all over the place as though you couldn't figure out it was an Irwin Allen or Michael Bay production.

The big difference is that Bay has budgets Allen could only dream of. Then again if Allen had that kind of money to throw around he would have made a dozen TV shows at a time, not a couple.

I think Allen put all his money into the pilots. Once it was sold to the network he had the sets and he would go from there.