No Place to Hide (Lost in Space) were prodigies, and Don West was identified as a doctor of geology. The pilot did not include later series regulars Dr. Zachary Smith or the Robot, and featured no scary monsters. It was instead about the adventures of the Robinsons, a happy family. The cooperative, friendly family depicted in the pilot were somewhat less so in the series, and still more different from the dysfunctional space family depicted in the 1998 spin-off motion picture. The theme music for this pilot was taken from the 1951 film "The Day the Earth Stood Still". Nearly all of the footage from the pilot
Lost in Space the ship, was published by Pyramid Books, and written by Dave Van Arnam and Ted White (as "Ron Archer"). A scene in the book correctly predicts Richard Nixon winning the Presidency after Lyndon Johnson. In the 1972–1973 television season, ABC produced "The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie", a weekly collection of 60-minute animated movies, pilots and specials from various production companies, such as Hanna-Barbera, Filmation, and Rankin-Bass – Hanna-Barbera Productions contributed animated work based on such television series as "Gidget, Yogi Bear, Tabitha, Oliver Twist, Nanny and the Professor, The Banana Splits", and "Lost in Space". Dr. Smith (voiced by Jonathan