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Killdozer's 1989 song "Man vs. Nature" referred to Allen, calling him "the Master of Realism." The song's three verses mention three prominent disaster films of the 1970s, including The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake (which has nothing to do with Allen, in spite of the song's misattribution), and The Towering Inferno.
In the film Ocean's Thirteen, "Irwin Allen" is a nickname for a con where the mark is manipulated by using the threat of a large natural disaster.
On January 3, 2008, BBC Four showed a night of Allen's work which included the 1995 documentary The Fantasy Worlds Of Irwin Allen along with episodes of Lost In Space, Land of the Giants and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Episode 57 of the Disney TV series Duck Tales screened December 8 1987, titled 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.
In Season 1, Episode 18 of the CBS sitcom Alice ("The Hex," first broadcast 5 February 1977) Flo and Alice are discussing Alice's blind date the previous evening. Flo: "You mean the whole thing was a disaster?" Alice: "Disaster? Irwin Allen could have made three pictures out of it!"
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