The Day the Earth Stood Still made an early foray into electronic music, one year before Karlheinz Stockhausen and three years before Edgard Varèse, something that was overlooked by the classical elite. 20th Century Fox later reused the Bernard Herrmann title theme in the original pilot episode of Irwin Allen's 1965 TV series "Lost in Space"; the music was also used extensively in Allen's "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" series episode, "The Indestructible Man". Danny Elfman noted "The Day the Earth Stood Still"s score inspired his interest in film composing, and made him a fan of Herrmann. "Variety" praised the documentary style of "The
Land of the Lost (1991 TV series) soon meet another human, a "beautiful" jungle girl named Christa who came from 1960s San Francisco. Christa became trapped in the Land of the Lost when she was very young and grew up alone (an earlier concept would have featured an adult Holly Marshall as the "mystery girl", along with Cha-Ka, but, due to casting, the characters were revisualized as Christa and Stink). The Porters live in a large "treehouse" (although it is actually built between a series of large logs and not rooted trees) that the family built after they realized their tents provided little safety from dangerous predators.