Land of the Giants
| Land of the Giants | |
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| Genre | Science fiction |
| Created by | Irwin Allen |
| Directed by |
Harry Harris Sobey Martin |
| Starring |
Gary Conway Don Matheson Kurt Kasznar Don Marshall Stefan Arngrim Deanna Lund Heather Young |
| Theme music composer | John Williams |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 51 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Irwin Allen |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Irwin Allen Productions Kent Productions |
| Distributor |
20th Century Fox Television 20th Television (current) |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC |
| Picture format | 1.33 : 1 |
| Audio format | Mono |
| Original release | September 22, 1968 – September 6, 1970 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | local programming |
| Followed by | The F.B.I. |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Land of the Giants is an hour-long American science fiction television program lasting two seasons beginning on September 22, 1968, and ending on March 22nd, 1970. The show was created and produced by Irwin Allen. Land of the Giants was the fourth of Allen's science fiction TV series. The show was aired on ABC and released by 20th Century Fox Television. The series was filmed entirely in color and ran for 51 episodes. The show starred Gary Conway and special guest star Kurt Kasznar.
Five novels based on the television series, including three written by acclaimed science fiction author Murray Leinster, were published in 1968 and 1969.
Set fifteen years in the future, in the 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.
Very little is known about the home planet of the Giants. This is partially because the Spindrift crew very seldom leave the area where their spaceship crashes in the opening episode. Only two other (unidentified) giant societies are ever seen, in the episodes The Land of the Lost and The Secret City of Limbo.
No name is ever established for the mysterious planet, but the inhabitants seem to know of Earth, Venus and Mars, referring to them by name in one episode. Exactly where the planet is located is also never made clear. In the episode On a Clear Night You Can See Earth, Captain Steve Burton (Gary Conway) claims to have seen Earth through a set of infrared goggles invented by the giants, implying that the two planets are indeed separate worlds, but near enough to be able to see one from the other. The only established method by which Earth people may reach the giants' planet is high-altitude flight, passing through what one giant calls a "dimension lock" (a term whose meaning is obscure).
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