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Hi all - longtime lurker around here, and this is my first post. I’ve been reading a recently-published book about the production history of Irwin Allen’s LOST IN SPACE, and in it there is a bit of information I’d never heard of before: apparently Max Steiner was hired to write a score for the series pilot, “No Place to Hide,” and Irwin Allen rejected it, supposedly exclaiming “No, that’s not outer space!”
Kevin Burns, who is involved with the Allen estate, confirms in the book that there is an unused pilot score in the vault, but it’s a former ABC executive, Lew Hunter, who says Steiner was the composer.
I was wondering if any Steiner experts can confirm if the story is true, or can offer an assessment of whether it might be true (it seems unlikely to me that Steiner’s involvement with the show, however brief, could have gone unremarked upon for over fifty years - so I can’t help thinking it might be a case of Hunter simply misremembering the actual composer.)
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