No Place to Hide
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No Place to Hide is the working title of the pilot episode produced for CBS to promote the television series Lost In Space. It was not broadcast for the first time until 1997, which is also the year of the fictional mission's liftoff.
The pilot features a single-deck spacecraft with no airlock, no seats for the pilot, very few controls at the front of the craft, no central astrogator, and a crew of just six. Nearly all of the footage found its way into the first five episodes of the weekly series. Although there are obvious inconsistencies, the incorporation was nevertheless creatively carried out.
The craft was initially called the Gemini 12, and postulated to undertake a century-long flight to Alpha Centauri. The passengers were stellar in scholastic accomplishment, the children prodigies. Don West was a doctor of geology, and John Robinson's title was also "Doctor". The craft was damaged by a meteor swarm shortly after liftoff; the resulting damage sent the craft out of control and it was lost.
The craft crashed on a habitable planet, and at some point after the crash, controlled regeneration awoke the six crew. John Robinson was hopeful of a repair. After some weeks, they began to encounter problems of a serious nature that required them to abandon the craft and hurry south to avoid a severe cold. After a perilous crossing of a sea, they reached a tropical sanctuary, where aliens observed them.
