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Land of the Giants
1968 - 1970 6.7 (42 votes) 2 Seasons
Genres
Sci-Fi & Fantasy Action & Adventure Drama
Networks
ABC
Created By
Irwin Allen

Land of the Giants

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Producer: Irwin Allen

Top Cast

Don Marshall
Don Marshall

Dan Erickson

Heather Young
Heather Young

Betty Hamilton

Don Matheson
Don Matheson

Mark Wilson

Stefan Arngrim
Stefan Arngrim

Barry Lockridge

Gary Conway
Gary Conway

Steve Burton

Deanna Lund
Deanna Lund

Valerie Scott

Kurt Kasznar
Kurt Kasznar

Alexander B. Fitzhugh

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1968)

No overview available.

26 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Crash
1968-09-22

The Spindrift crashes on the Land of the Giants and its crew and passengers quickly find themselves in a struggle for survival.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Ghost Town
1968-09-29

The Earthlings find themselves trapped in an Earth-sized town run by a giant eccentric and his sadistic daughter.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: Framed
1968-10-06

When a giant hobo is framed for murder, the Earthlings come to his aid.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Underground
1968-10-20

The Earthlings become involved in an underground resistance in the giant civilization.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: Terror-Go-Round
1968-11-03

Barry and Fitzhugh are captured by giant Gypsies.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: The Flight Plan
1968-11-10

The Spindrift crew find an amnesiac Earthling, Joe, but it turns out to be a ploy by giant crooks to get hold of the ship's power supply.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Manhunt
1968-11-17

A giant escaping convict takes the Spindrift but then wanders into quicksand, endangering everyone.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: The Trap
1968-11-24

The Earthlings try to salvage radium from a clock but find themselves at the mercy of giant scientists using a sound detector to home in on them.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: The Creed
1968-12-01

Barry is strick by appendicitis and the Earthlings have no choice but to turn to a giant doctor for assistance.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Double-Cross
1968-12-08

An amnesiac Fitzhugh falls in with two giant thieves and becomes their willing accomplice.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: The Weird World
1968-12-22

The Spindrift crew finds a paranoid survivor from Earth...but his suspicions endanger everyone.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: The Golden Cage
1968-12-29

Mark falls for an attractive Earth girl - the survivor of a previous space flight.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: The Lost Ones
1969-01-05

This time around, four punk kids from Earth run up against the Spindrift crew.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: Brainwash
1969-01-12

The Giants have invented a chemical that forces those exposed to it to tell the truth, and plan to test it on the Earthlings.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: The Bounty Hunter
1969-01-19

When the giants increase their search efforts, the Earthlings must increase their salvage efforts and end up captured by a giant and his daughter.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: On a Clear Day You Can See Earth
1969-01-26

The Earthlings become involved with an insane giant scientist who has infra-red goggles he can use to find them whenever he wants.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Deadly Lodestone
1969-02-02

The Giants have invented a detector that can home in on Earth-based metals, and Dan puts the entire group at risk due to the surgical pin in his leg.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: Night of Thrombeldinbar
1969-02-16

Fitzhugh pretends to be an elf to entertain two orphan children, but things turn deadly when it's revealed that traditionally the children sacrifice the elf to make a wish come true.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: Seven Little Indians
1969-02-23

Kobick uses a captured Chipper as bait in a trap to capture the entire Spindrift crew.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: Target: Earth
1969-03-02

Mark is roped into helping two giant scientists build a spaceship that can return them all to Earth.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Genius at Work
1969-03-09

A giant boy-genius comes up with a pill that can enlarge an Earthling to Giant-size.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: Return of Inidu
1969-03-16

The Earthlings come to the aid of a giant magician.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: Rescue
1969-03-23

After the Earthlings are inadvertently responsible for two children becoming trapped in a well, they volunteer their servicse to rescue them.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: Sabotage
1969-03-30

The Spindrift crew must deal with the head of Police Security, who is attempting to undermine a Senator who believes in their cause and frame the Earthlings for sabotage.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: Shell Game
1969-04-13

The Earthlings come to the aid of a giant deaf boy and his poverty-stricken family.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 26: The Chase
1969-04-20

Inspector Kobick of the SID involves the Earthlings in a plan to track down counterfeiters.

Runtime: 60 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1969)

No overview available.

25 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Mechanical Man
1969-09-21

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 2: Six Hours to Live
1969-09-28

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 3: The Inside Rail
1969-10-05

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 4: Deadly Pawn
1969-10-12

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 5: The Unsuspected
1969-10-19

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 6: Giants and All That Jazz
1969-10-26

The Earthlings aid a giant trumpet player against crooks.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 7: Collector's Item
1969-11-02

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 8: Every Dog Needs a Boy
1969-11-09

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 9: Chamber of Fear
1969-11-16

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 10: Comeback
1969-11-23

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 11: The Clones
1969-11-30

A giant scientist performs cloning experiments on the Earthlings.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 12: A Place Called Earth
1969-12-07

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 13: Land of the Lost
1969-12-14

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 14: Home Sweet Home
1969-12-21

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 15: Our Man O'Reilly
1969-12-28

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 16: Nightmare
1970-01-04

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 17: Pay the Piper
1970-01-11

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 18: The Secret City of Limbo
1970-01-18

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 19: Panic
1970-01-25

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 20: The Deadly Dart
1970-02-01

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 21: Doomsday
1970-02-15

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 22: A Small War
1970-02-22

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

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 23: The Marionettes
1970-03-01

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 24: Wild Journey
1970-03-08

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.

Runtime: 60 min
Episode 25: Graveyard of Fools
1970-03-22

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

Runtime: 60 min

Videos

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