Updated: November 28, 2025

The inherent dangers of the alien planet continue as the Robinsons flee south to avoid the terrible, sub zero deep freeze threatening them. Dr. Smith defiantly stays behind in the Jupiter-2 where he obtains peculiar orbital data. Initially delighted that the Robinsons are blindly heading to their doom, deprivation from human contact finally gets to the devious doctor and he sends the robot to warn them that they're jumping straight from a freezer into a frying pan. And a once frozen sea becomes a tempest tossed danger.

Trivia:

This episode seems to be the start of Smith's descent from cold, calculating villain to comic coward.

Goofs:

If the Jupiter-2 couldn't keep one person warm with temperatures of 120 Fahrenheit, how could it keep them warm in the cold of deep space? Above Goof is in error because, when in space, the ship is powered including the heating and cooling systems. The ship on PrePlanus is pretty much non functional.

Quotes:

Dr. Zachary Smith: No planet could have an orbit like this. Not even this woebegone, flea bitten chunk of depressed galactic real estate.

Connections:

Edited from Lost in Space: No Place to Hide ( 1993 )

Soundtracks Home, Sweet Home ( Uncredited ) Lyrics by John Howard Payne Music by H.R. Bishop Performed by Jonathan Harris and Bob May