Lost in Space as a happy crew without internal conflicts. While many storylines in the later series focused primarily on Dr. Zachary Smith, a stowaway and saboteur played by Jonathan Harris, he was absent from the unaired pilot. His character was added after the series was commissioned for production. The pilot episode was first aired on television during a 1997 retrospective. CBS bought the series, turning down "Star Trek" in favor of "Lost in Space". Before the first episode was filmed, the characters Smith and the Robot were added, and the spaceship, originally named "Gemini 12", was renamed the "Jupiter 2" and redesigned.
No Place to Hide (Lost in Space) was reused, finding its way into the first five episodes of the weekly series. Although there were obvious inconsistencies, the incorporation was nevertheless creatively carried out. The 1965 pilot was not broadcast until 1997, which was also the year of the fictional mission's liftoff. The pilot was released as part of a VHS box set, "Lost in Space: The Collector's Edition", in February 1995. No Place to Hide (Lost in Space) "No Place to Hide" is the unaired 1965 pilot episode produced for CBS to promote the television series "Lost in Space". The episode was directed by series creator Irwin