Land of the Giants

Land of the Giants

1968
Land of the Giants
Land of the Giants

Land of the Giants

7.1 | NR | en | Drama

Set fifteen years in the then-future year 1983, the series tells the tale of the crew and passengers of a sub-orbital transport ship named Spindrift. In the pilot episode, the Spindrift is en route from Los Angeles to London, on an ultra-fast sub-orbital flight. Just beyond Earth's boundary with space, the Spindrift encounters a magnetic space storm, and is dragged through a space warp to a mysterious planet where everything is twelve times larger than on Earth, whose inhabitants the Earthlings nickname "the Giants". The Spindrift crash-lands, and the damage renders it inoperable.

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP25  Graveyard of Fools
Mar. 22,1970
Graveyard of Fools

The Earthlings become involved with twin brothers who are plotting to take over the planet.

EP24  Wild Journey
Mar. 08,1970
Wild Journey

Using a device stolen from time-travelling researchers, Steve and Dan return to the day of the Spindrift's launch and try to alter history and stop the ill-fated flight.

EP23  The Marionettes
Mar. 01,1970
The Marionettes

The Earthlings aid an injured puppeteer by pretending to be his dancing puppets, but the owner soon suspects they are involved and prepares to capture them for the reward.

EP22  A Small War
Feb. 22,1970
A Small War

A sadistic child unleashes his mechanical toys on the hapless Earthlings.

EP21  Doomsday
Feb. 15,1970
Doomsday

The Earthlings become involved in a sabotage scheme to destroy the nearby city.

EP20  The Deadly Dart
Feb. 01,1970
The Deadly Dart

Mark is framed for the murder of two Giants and begins acting suspiciously, turning his crewmates against him.

EP19  Panic
Jan. 25,1970
Panic

A friendly Giant has a teleport device that can send the Spindrift crew back to Earth, but the SID use the whole thing as a trap.

EP18  The Secret City of Limbo
Jan. 18,1970
The Secret City of Limbo

The Earthlings become involved in the politics of a secret underground city.

EP17  Pay the Piper
Jan. 11,1970
Pay the Piper

An alien piper, claiming to be the Pied Piper of Hamlin, brings his act to the Land of the Giants.

EP16  Nightmare
Jan. 04,1970
Nightmare

While working with a helpful Giant scientist, the Earthlings are subjected to radiation which causes strange hallucinations.

EP15  Our Man O'Reilly
Dec. 28,1969
Our Man O'Reilly

The Earthlings become involved with a superstitious Irish Giant who believes they're leprechauns.

EP14  Home Sweet Home
Dec. 21,1969
Home Sweet Home

Fitzhugh and Steve accidentally return to Earth in a space-time pod but end up in 1900 and must deal with hostile villagers.

EP13  Land of the Lost
Dec. 14,1969
Land of the Lost

Barry and Valerie are carried off in a balloon to a distant land ruled by a malevolent dictator.

EP12  A Place Called Earth
Dec. 07,1969
A Place Called Earth

Two time travellers from 5477 come to the Land of the Giants to conquer Earth.

EP11  The Clones
Nov. 30,1969
The Clones

A giant scientist performs cloning experiments on the Earthlings.

EP10  Comeback
Nov. 23,1969
Comeback

The Spindrift come to the aid of a has-been horror actor but during his comeback movie they find themselves in danger from his enthusiastic director.

EP9  Chamber of Fear
Nov. 16,1969
Chamber of Fear

Fitzhugh is captured by the owner of a wax museum who is involved in a stolen-diamond racket.

EP8  Every Dog Needs a Boy
Nov. 09,1969
Every Dog Needs a Boy

When Chipper is injured by a giant dog, Barry and the others must turn to a giant veterinarian and his sadistic son for assistance.

EP7  Collector's Item
Nov. 02,1969
Collector's Item

Valerie is forced to act as a toy ballerina in a giant's scheme to kill his rich uncle.

EP6  Giants and All That Jazz
Oct. 26,1969
Giants and All That Jazz

The Earthlings aid a giant trumpet player against crooks.

EP5  The Unsuspected
Oct. 19,1969
The Unsuspected

Steve is turned into a raving paranoid by exposure to mushroom spores, and cuts a deal with Inspector Kobick to betray his crewmates.

EP4  Deadly Pawn
Oct. 12,1969
Deadly Pawn

The Earthlings must play a game of real-life chess with a demented giant industrialist.

EP3  The Inside Rail
Oct. 05,1969
The Inside Rail

Fitzhugh tries to use his gambling expertise to pick the winners at a local racetrack, but has to enter into a deal with a giant to do so.

EP2  Six Hours to Live
Sep. 28,1969
Six Hours to Live

The Earthlings come to the aid of a convicted criminal who has been falsely accused.

EP1  The Mechanical Man
Sep. 21,1969
The Mechanical Man

The Earthlings become involved in a scientist's scheme to build an indestructible android.

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7.1 | NR | en | Drama , Action & Adventure , Sci-Fi | More Info
Released: 1968-09-22 | Released Producted By: Kent Productions , Irwin Allen Productions Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
Synopsis

Set fifteen years in the then-future year 1983, the series tells the tale of the crew and passengers of a sub-orbital transport ship named Spindrift. In the pilot episode, the Spindrift is en route from Los Angeles to London, on an ultra-fast sub-orbital flight. Just beyond Earth's boundary with space, the Spindrift encounters a magnetic space storm, and is dragged through a space warp to a mysterious planet where everything is twelve times larger than on Earth, whose inhabitants the Earthlings nickname "the Giants". The Spindrift crash-lands, and the damage renders it inoperable.

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Cast

Don Marshall , Heather Young , Don Matheson

Director

Jack Martin Smith

Producted By

Kent Productions , Irwin Allen Productions

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Robert Gold What is never explained to us is why the giants are taking care of the girl Marna. What did they want her for? What would they have done with all the others? How did her parents die? Did they kill them, and were they experimented upon too? It was an interesting episode featuring other shipwrecked passengers, but this plot line was not explored enough. It shows that perhaps not all giants wanted to harm the little people, but why not? This sort of built up a nice possibility to connect the giants with the stranded castaways, but then the link was broken quickly. Land of the Giants share much with its sister show Lost in Space, but this gaping plot hole might have been addressed there better in that series.
jimprax-1 Having just read all the comments I had an idea of why this show made such a strong impression on so many.It seems many of the people that were fans were kids when this first aired (I was six, probably became truly imprinted on my neural circuits in early syndication). I believe this show connected so much with its audience because as young children we all felt in some way that we were living in a Land of the Giants and so we identified very much with all the characters.Anyway, sorry for the cheesy pop psychiatry, but that's my theory and I'm sticking with it.Now if I can only figure out why I loved so many other 60's/70's TV sci-fi (Star Trek, Lost In Space, UFO, Space 1999, etc)
bcolquho Kevin Hagen, Doc Baker in Little House on the Prairie, was deliciously evil on Land of the Giants. His character, Inspector Kolbek, was the nemesis of the passengers and crew of the Spindrift. He wasn't above blackmailing them to help him. The passengers of the Spindrift, Don, an engineer, Veronica, a spoiled heiress, Barry, an orphan, his dog, Chipper, and Alexander Fitzhugh, supposedly a commander in the Navy, always had a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. Was he carrying top secret documents? No, he was carrying a million dollars in cash which he'd stolen from a bank in Los Angeles. The Spindrift's stewardess, (what we'd call a flight attendant today,) was Betty Hamilton. Her pilot and copilot were Steve Burton and Mark Wilson. Besides Kevin Hagen, who was billed as a guest star, others included Jonathan Harris as the Peid Piper of Hamelin, and Ron Howard. There are some similarities to the ABC series Lost. There are also a few exceptions. For example, the pilots of Oceanic Flight 815, its flight attendants, and other personnel, didn't survive.
contradad-1 At a cost of over $250,000 per episode, "Land of the Giants" was the most expensive show of its time.(As well as the highest ratedwhen it premiered in October of 1968). That money was well spent on impressive visual effects, camera tricks, and enormous realistic props that had the audience believing they were watching 7 space travellers accidentally stranded on a world where everything was twelve times the size of the equivalent things on earth. This show remains visually quite impressive and is well remembered by those of us old enough to have seen it during its first run. Gary Conway and Don Marshall lead the cast as the pilot and co-pilot of the ill-fated 'Spindrift' spacecraft andand Kevin Hagen is extremely effective in several episodes as the government agent of the giant world with the assigned task of hunting the earthmen down.