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 Robinson was also explored in the film and in the song "Ballad of Will Robinson"—written and recorded by Mumy. In 1998 Dark Horse Comics published a three-part story chronicling the Robinson Clan as depicted in the film. In 2006 Bill Mumy and Peter David co-wrote "Star Trek: The Return of the Worthy", a three-part story that was essentially a crossover between "Lost in Space" and "Star Trek" with the "Enterprise" crew encountering a Robinson-like expedition amongst the stars, though with different characters. In 2016, American Gothic Press published a six-issue miniseries titled "Irwin Allen's Lost in Space, the Lost Adventures",