Growing up in Chile, my Sunday mornings were an absolute gem watching tv, with one good show after another... Johny Quest, Banana Splits, Land of the Giants, Thunderbirds, and one or two others.
I was obsessed by this series as a kid. I still am a big fan of the two seasons at 63. Star Trek made me starved for Science Fiction. I love all the Sci Fi shows from the 50's & 60's.
I'm still obsessed with LAND OF THE GIANTS at 60. I'm a fan of the original STAR TREK, but it's GIANTS that has the edge for me. The neat thing about it is that it avoided being topical in the TREK vein, which is why GIANTS hasn't dated and people all over the world can relate to it.
Wow... memories! Land Of The Giants, Time Tunnel, Star Trek, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, The Champions and more that I don't remember right now... Those were the days....
Oh my gosh, The Champions. I hadn't thought about that in forever. It was British ... a great show! At the time it was a little over my head, but I liked watching it.
As a child in the 60s I had The Land of the Giants lunch box to carry to school. I loved the snot outta that thing! Although I loved Lost in Space more, I never got a Lost in Space lunch box. That was my first lesson that life is cruel sometimes. LoL. Thanx for the amazing fill-in-the-blanks info on the show. Thumbs Up!
Religion and political leaders are the giants on this planet and we are the tiny people. It might be just a tv show but carries a strong message about how things run in our world.
as an 11 year old, thought this was the coolest show, never missed it. remember having a crush on deanna lund's character, and getting mad at fitzhugh, who was always getting the group in trouble. special effects were amazing. always liked different stuff on tv, and this show definitely fit that bill.
This was my favorite show when I was a little kid. I remember sitting on my dads lap in the early 70's and watching this with him. The visuals, the music, the large props were really exciting to my young mind. When I was in high school in the 80's it used to air in reruns on a local VHS channel right before Star Trek and I became and even bigger fan. So much so that I actually named our new family dog, Chipper, the name of Barry's dog on the show. Sure the FX look cheesy today, but as a young person they were thrilling and I loved it. I would LOVE this show to be rebooted today like NetFlix did with Lost in Space, another favorite. NetFlix.... are you listening???? :-)
"Land Of The Giants" was actually a better show than it ever got credit for being. Vastly superior, in my opinion, than the campy hit, "Lost In Space." It was more watchable than "The Invaders," but never as good as "Star Trek." Still, with today's better special effects, this is definitely a show they should think about remaking.
Part of the magic was that they never fully explained where the Spindrift landed, did they go through a wormhole to another part of the universe or to a completely different universe entirely?
Shame those shows never made it to five seasons. Would have loved to see The Invaders go the distance. The first season of Lost in Space was it's best, reminding me of Swiss Family Robinson. Time Tunnel was good too until it got to be too SciFi instead of Historical like it was in season 1.
Don Marshall was with 6 actors in "The Galileo seven, " in a shuttle craft crash, then again in " The land of the Giants " with 6 actors in the Spindrift crash. What luck.
It was overall better, but LiS had a much stronger relationship/bond between characters. That was powerful, kept it going in reruns and in people's hearts.
LAND OF THE GIANTS is the coolest of Irwin Allen's shows. I love the spontaneity in the dialogue and how the characters interact. The friction dynamic between Gary Conway and Don Matheson is always good. It was progessive in showcasing a black actor in an important role, one of the few shows to do this at the time. It hasn't dated the way LOST IN SPACE has, opting for a more serious premise whereas LOST IN SPACE got sillier as it went on with Jonathan Harris, Billy Mumy and the Robot monopolizing the episodes.
Land of the giants and the time tunnel definitely need to be remade for tv would love to see new versions of two of the greatest underated sci fi shows of the 60s.
My uncle was a key grip, which was lighting set-up, in LA and was asked if he would like to try working behind the camera and he did as he did the filming of this series!
I saw a few episodes of Land of the Giants when I was a kid. Somehow, I could never get in to it. I was one of those Star Trek kids who like plausibility. I'm glad you liked it though. Today's kids aren't going to have anything like our memories.
I was a little kid when this show came out and I had seen it "suggested by TH-cam" to me and had to watch an episode.....funny it all came rushing back that I used to watch this show with my father!! But I actually forgot the name of it!! Seems one of the few things I have forgot from my childhood was this show....which is weird because I recall the names of old shows all the time like Wonderbug, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, The Far Out Space Nuts, Salvage 1, and even another show nobody around me seems to recall Doctor Shrinker!! I also recall Bob Denver (Gilligan) was in a western called Dusty Trails that I would watch too, yet some how in my head....I lost this one and I used to watch it too!!! Hey I still even recall my dad's sky blue Ford Fairlane and my uncle's black on black GTO from around the time I was 4 years old in 1968-1969 and I remember the space launch and watching that with my father too!! In fact there are other shows from the time I remember and remember well from Dragnet, Adam 12, Petty Coat Junction, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers!!
I have the boxed set of this .It was my favourite Irwin Allen show .followed by Voyage and season 1 of Lost in Space.The matt shots were great and i remember one episode where a giant dies and they walk behind his outstretched hand which i thought was clever for the year.
Cool. I loved these shows and I got to see them when they were new episodes as well. It was a different time then where sci-fi wasn't common and things like Star Trek, Time Tunnel, Lost in Space and land of the giants were something really unique and different.
Actually on the ghost town episode . the old man tells.Steve that. There.was other little people before them in the scaled down town , but they mysteriously died. Wasnt til Steve. and the rest moved in that they found out the old.mans little daughter was a mean spoiled.brat, who tortured the original Earth people to death.. Steves people almost.get the.same.fate.
I had the "Land of the Giants" Colorforms set and Aurora model kit. I would also make some of the tiny props, like a tiny walkie-talkie and, of course, their safety-pin grappling hook. I was such a nerd for this stuff. Still am.
A fun & entertaining show that I grew up watching in reruns in the Late 70s into the early 80s. Imaginative stories mixed with some political intrigue. Brings back the memories of growing up in San Francisco in those days watching this show , Star Trek, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Night Gallery, Bat Man & "Steam Punk" shows like Wild Wild West. Enjoyable times as a young lad.
I thinks it's a shame that this show and 'lost in space', 'Time tunnel', never went on a little longer and had a satisfying end. Even though I'm 60, I sometimes think back and wonder.
I remember watching Land Of The Giants as a little kid, was probably one of the 1st shows I watched along with Bonanza and Gunsmoke.... I thought the show was so cool !
I just loved all the Irwin Allen sic-fi shows back in the sixties. As well as other shows like Star trek. I guess Star Trek actually felt more futuristic in a way. It was supposed to be set about 300 years into the future but the technology achievements featured were more like about 3000 years into the future.
Interesting clip of Joanathan Harris being interviewed about Kurt Kasner. It is very clear that in the first few episodes Fitzhugh is supposed to be an analagous character to Dr Smith.
This show would be wonderful for a movie remake. The survival of a group of people only several inches tall in a world of gigantic size filled with giant people would make a great horror/adventure. Several of the little people could be expendable in the movie and shown being crushed to death by Giants or captured and taken away by Giants to be kept as family pets.
Alexander Courage also composed a theme for "Land Of The Giants" which was rejected after a theme by Joseph Mullendore was too rejected. Both can be found on La La Land's boxed set of music from the series.
i remember watching rerun of land of giants ep on snowy tv station in rhode island i think, because local boston station showed something else and i loved the show. i liked how they could recharge spindrift's battery & valerie :)
I would have liked to have seen a third series with the Spindrift crew returning to Earth at the end. Irwin Allen never seemed to conclude his science fiction series, he left Steve Burton and Co to survive forever in the "Land of the Giants", Tony and Doug were left forever travelling through time and space in the "Time Tunnel" and the space family Robinson forever "Lost in Space". Allen was the master of unfinished science fiction serials.
Agreed. Although, toward the end of season 3 they were running out of ideas. We were seeing episodes like, "The Wax Men" which featured a midget clown running around the ship controlling wax versions of the crews. By season 4 we were seeing Vincent Price and puppet versions of the crew. All in all, very entertaining.
Sorry but there was very little stock footage used on LAND OF THE GIANTS compared with LOST IN SPACE, VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, and TIME TUNNEL.
That was very well done- thanks. Interesting mind candy to consider a additional movie made in 2019, one that would tie up the fate of all the main characters. But alas that would be tough to do, as the series was a product of the 60's in so many ways. I consider myself very fortunate to have grown up watching Irwin's production. I know you have moved on to the other side Irwin- but many thanks the entertainment!
They should do a reimagined / rebooted Land of the Giants series, much like the new Lost in Space show. The series would put more emphasis on the totalitarian nature of the giants' world. They'd have a series-long arc centered around their plan to get home, as well as the secret underground resistance among the giants. The setting for the show would be 2045, however, the giants' world would be more backward, the equivalent of ca. 1980-1990 in Earth standards. Inspector Kobick would be a female character, who had to climb the ranks of the secret service, battling all the sexism and prejudices, hence, she is a truly hard boiled character, who learned how to be as cold and efficiently ruthless as possible. She is not someone you'd like to catch the wrong side of.
Thank you. I've always thought that if they did come back for season three three one of the things they could have done was have the Spindrift crew work with the underground and in exchange they would help the earthlings repair the Spindrift. In fact, there were some of the giants who helped the castaways in the past who would have made great supporting players.
Your plot points sound a bit 'woke' and agenda laden to me. Look how that worked for the latest Star Wars and a host of other recent 'remakes'. Not well. People have learnt to hate 'social justice' narratives shoved down their throat all the time. Try to remember that the main appeal of these old programs was due to their escapism.
I watched Land Of The Giants when I was a kid. I remembered the show as quite scary because of the premise. I remember seeing the comic book(but I couldn’t read at the time). Fast forward to the late 80’s, I was able to see Land Of The Giants on the USA network. USA was the go to network for watching old television shows as was Nickelodeon’s Nick A Night. Land Of The Giants would come on after Lost In Space. I watched as much as I could. As I began to understand what it was that scared me about the show when I first saw it, the parts about the fascist government scared me more than the giant creatures that occasionally appeared. I have read somewhere that a story about the Spindrift’s crew and passengers finally repairing the Spindrift and returning to Earth, only to discover that it was doomed to be destroyed. The passengers and crew board the Spindrift and return to the Land Of The Giants bringing other ships with them to escape. That story never came to fruition. I am curious about the possibility of a remake of the series but I am skeptical about the execution. It is possible to do just about anything with the technology used in film production today, something that Irwin Allen would’ve taken a chance on if it were available back then. Lost In Space was a great family show. Land Of The Giants was a very dark adventure. About Ron Howard’s appearance on Land Of The Giants. The episode was called Genius At Work. Howard was in a film called Village Of The Giants as a boy called Genius, who creates the substance that increases the size of animals and people. He does the same thing in this episode.
The house on the left of the brown 'mansion' (Time-stamp1:56) is the home of Sheriff Andy. The brown mansion was the 'haunted house' where the moonshiners nearly caused Barney Fife (Deputy Fife.., sorry, Barn), to die of fright.
I LOVE ALL THE EARLY TV SCI-FI'S BUT I NEVER SEEM TO BE ABLE TO FIND THE (ORIGINAL B+W SERIES OF THE OUTER LIMITS WHICH SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME WHEN I WAS A KID)
In the novelization, which I read *MANY* years ago, the Spindrift was still operable. It made more sense. Also, I recently read there are THREE novelizations, but I have yet to try to find the other two books.
I loved watching this as a kid. I seem to remember an episode where they go back in time to earth but are still tiny and they see themselves before they boarded the ship that sent them to the land of the giants. I think they were trying to prevent themselves from ever leaving earth. Am I imagining this or was it an actual episode?
While great scriptwriting was not something often found in any tv series produced by Irwin Allen, he could atleast be relied on to provide both fine art direction, and special effects that, for the most part, still look pretty awesome.
The show had two great credit music themes by John Williams, and a good opening episode, but it honestly bored me a great deal, the slow pacing, the mute Giants, the formula scripts. It didn't pay off on the dangerous situations.
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Growing up in Chile, my Sunday mornings were an absolute gem watching tv, with one good show after another... Johny Quest, Banana Splits, Land of the Giants, Thunderbirds, and one or two others.
The 60s and 70s was a golden age in tv SCI-FI!
Deanna was beautiful all her life, such a great actress too. She was very kind to the fans.
I was obsessed by this series as a kid. I still am a big fan of the two seasons at 63. Star Trek made me starved for Science Fiction. I love all the Sci Fi shows from the 50's & 60's.
Land of the Giants and Time Tunnel.
Me too.
I'm still obsessed with LAND OF THE GIANTS at 60. I'm a fan of the original STAR TREK, but it's GIANTS that has the edge for me. The neat thing about it is that it avoided being topical in the TREK vein, which is why GIANTS hasn't dated and people all over the world can relate to it.
I absolutely loved this show when I was kid
Started watching these and I gotta say I really enjoy.
Brings back a lot of memories.
I loved thus show as a kid
I used to love this show when I was a kid. I never missed an episode.
Land of the Giants, Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Loved those shows then, still love them now. TV isn't like what it used to be.
I wish that he would have set all these shows in the same decade, so that crossover episodes could have been done.
@@thed.a.4939 No, it sure as hell isn't. For Example, You wouldn't be able to do All In The Family now, with out alienating half the country...
@AceTheBathound Indeed.
Nobody ever remembers the Return of Captain Nemo, also by Irwin Allen.
Wow... memories! Land Of The Giants, Time Tunnel, Star Trek, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, The Champions and more that I don't remember right now... Those were the days....
Oh my gosh, The Champions. I hadn't thought about that in forever. It was British ... a great show! At the time it was a little over my head, but I liked watching it.
So many great tv shows back in the 60’s,70’s and 80’s.
"Land of the Giants" was my favourite television series when I was a child in Jakarta in 1980. I was still six years old, watching it through TVRI.
Watched this show. Like several others,wish they had made it home.
RIP Kurt Kasznar who died in the 1980s, he was so talented, funny and yet serious when needed
Very Underrated and Expensive TV Show
Definitely an underrated show.
As a child in the 60s I had The Land of the Giants lunch box to carry to school. I loved the snot outta that thing! Although I loved Lost in Space more, I never got a Lost in Space lunch box. That was my first lesson that life is cruel sometimes. LoL. Thanx for the amazing fill-in-the-blanks info on the show. Thumbs Up!
Loved it. Wish they would have gotten home. Should have done a movie, where the little people got rescued or repaired the spaceship.
land of the giants was easily my favorite show when was a 4-5-year old - i watched it every week!
Great, great show -- nothing like it on TV before or since. I still love watching it as much now as I did as a kid on its first network run.😊
Religion and political leaders are the giants on this planet and we are the tiny people. It might be just a tv show but carries a strong message about how things run in our world.
I loved these shows and couldn't wait for new episodes to be aired
as an 11 year old, thought this was the coolest show, never missed it. remember having a crush on deanna lund's character, and getting mad at fitzhugh, who was always getting the group in trouble. special effects were amazing. always liked different stuff on tv, and this show definitely fit that bill.
Great TV back then, very much
missed xxx
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This was my favorite show when I was a little kid. I remember sitting on my dads lap in the early 70's and watching this with him. The visuals, the music, the large props were really exciting to my young mind. When I was in high school in the 80's it used to air in reruns on a local VHS channel right before Star Trek and I became and even bigger fan. So much so that I actually named our new family dog, Chipper, the name of Barry's dog on the show. Sure the FX look cheesy today, but as a young person they were thrilling and I loved it. I would LOVE this show to be rebooted today like NetFlix did with Lost in Space, another favorite. NetFlix.... are you listening???? :-)
Thanks for the ride on the way-back machine! Irwin Allen was remarkable!
I loved this show, it was great. Of course TV screwed up and removed the Land of the Giants after two seasons to find out how popular it really was.
"Land Of The Giants" was actually a better show than it ever got credit for being. Vastly superior, in my opinion, than the campy hit, "Lost In Space." It was more watchable than "The Invaders," but never as good as "Star Trek." Still, with today's better special effects, this is definitely a show they should think about remaking.
Part of the magic was that they never fully explained where the Spindrift landed, did they go through a wormhole to another part of the universe or to a completely different universe entirely?
Shame those shows never made it to five seasons. Would have loved to see The Invaders go the distance. The first season of Lost in Space was it's best, reminding me of Swiss Family Robinson. Time Tunnel was good too until it got to be too SciFi instead of Historical like it was in season 1.
Don Marshall was with 6 actors in "The Galileo seven, " in a shuttle craft crash, then again in " The land of the Giants " with 6 actors in the Spindrift crash.
What luck.
It was overall better, but LiS had a much stronger relationship/bond between characters. That was powerful, kept it going in reruns and in people's hearts.
LAND OF THE GIANTS is the coolest of Irwin Allen's shows. I love the spontaneity in the dialogue and how the characters interact. The friction dynamic between Gary Conway and Don Matheson is always good. It was progessive in showcasing a black actor in an important role, one of the few shows to do this at the time. It hasn't dated the way LOST IN SPACE has, opting for a more serious premise whereas LOST IN SPACE got sillier as it went on with Jonathan Harris, Billy Mumy and the Robot monopolizing the episodes.
Huge fan of the model work in all of these shows.
I loved his shows.... And this has to be one of my favorites !!!!
Loved the show. I still watch it today.
Great video, I remember one Christmas I got the Aurora Spindrift kit I loved it! This brings back a lot of memories.
Rd G I still have mine!
OMG, you're profile pic is the logo of that band that featured Rex Smith's brother. I had their "Attention Shoppers" album.
@@dalethelander3781 yes my friend... back in the day!
Man that would of been so cool. Loved that ship but never got the model.
I had a cheap one, printed cardboard and toothpicks
Wow….now HERES a remake I’d LOVE to see!!!!
Man I was one of those kids that loved the ship in LAND OF THE GIANTS. Heck I loved the ships in many of those 60s scifi shows and films!
Great video. I too was obsessed with these shows. Thank you for reminding me
My God I completely forgot about this show. I use to love it as a kid. That and Time Tunnel too.
Land of the giants and the time tunnel definitely need to be remade for tv would love to see new versions of two of the greatest underated sci fi shows of the 60s.
There was an attempt to reboot The Time Tunnel a few years ago. It didn't get past the pilot. th-cam.com/video/mETHT5npqOI/w-d-xo.html
My uncle was a key grip, which was lighting set-up, in LA and was asked if he would like to try working behind the camera and he did as he did the filming of this series!
Always loved the Spindrift.
fond memories of the show and i always remember that skip-run they used to do and still do it automatically today
I saw a few episodes of Land of the Giants when I was a kid. Somehow, I could never get in to it. I was one of those Star Trek kids who like plausibility. I'm glad you liked it though. Today's kids aren't going to have anything like our memories.
I was a little kid when this show came out and I had seen it "suggested by TH-cam" to me and had to watch an episode.....funny it all came rushing back that I used to watch this show with my father!! But I actually forgot the name of it!! Seems one of the few things I have forgot from my childhood was this show....which is weird because I recall the names of old shows all the time like Wonderbug, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, The Far Out Space Nuts, Salvage 1, and even another show nobody around me seems to recall Doctor Shrinker!! I also recall Bob Denver (Gilligan) was in a western called Dusty Trails that I would watch too, yet some how in my head....I lost this one and I used to watch it too!!! Hey I still even recall my dad's sky blue Ford Fairlane and my uncle's black on black GTO from around the time I was 4 years old in 1968-1969 and I remember the space launch and watching that with my father too!! In fact there are other shows from the time I remember and remember well from Dragnet, Adam 12, Petty Coat Junction, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers!!
I have the boxed set of this .It was my favourite Irwin Allen show .followed by Voyage and season 1 of Lost in Space.The matt shots were great and i remember one episode where a giant dies and they walk behind his outstretched hand which i thought was clever for the year.
I'm still watching this show on METV!
Cool. I loved these shows and I got to see them when they were new episodes as well. It was a different time then where sci-fi wasn't common and things like Star Trek, Time Tunnel, Lost in Space and land of the giants were something really unique and different.
The outer limits was the pioneer science fiction television show in the early 1960s and I consider it still the greatest SF of all time.
Actually on the ghost town episode . the old man tells.Steve that. There.was other little people before them in the scaled down town , but they mysteriously died. Wasnt til Steve. and the rest moved in that they found out the old.mans little daughter was a mean spoiled.brat, who tortured the original Earth people to death.. Steves people almost.get the.same.fate.
This was always one of my favorites along with Star Trek, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space and Batman.
I had the "Land of the Giants" Colorforms set and Aurora model kit. I would also make some of the tiny props, like a tiny walkie-talkie and, of course, their safety-pin grappling hook. I was such a nerd for this stuff. Still am.
I watched all those shows too....to include Star Trek, Lost in Space...I was born in '57 so I was a sci-fi kid in the 60's and 70's.....
I got it now on DVD, Love it
I watched this in reruns as a kid, in the early 80s. Lol
Steve Pelt. Me Too and I loved it.
This show NEEDS a 21st Century re-boot!
No! Please! They'll only screw it up.
Yeah it would probably be stupid and woke. The world is too pretentious for this sort of whimsical SciFi these days.
Rich O would be the best thing to ever happen to tv. Too much crap on current tv.
It would be drab, dreary and pretentious.
Just leave it be.
Heather Young was the reason I would watch this show.
i have to confess, it was the same for me.... :))
WOW *Amazing* Thanks for sharing.
I love this series. Have it on dvd. Im 59 now and I still watch it
*Using today's CGI technology this show really needs a 3 season*
Yes such a shame they should have escaped in season 3 that season 2 theme kept me mesmerised
A fun & entertaining show that I grew up watching in reruns in the Late 70s into the early 80s. Imaginative stories mixed with some political intrigue. Brings back the memories of growing up in San Francisco in those days watching this show , Star Trek, Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Night Gallery, Bat Man & "Steam Punk" shows like Wild Wild West. Enjoyable times as a young lad.
I thinks it's a shame that this show and 'lost in space', 'Time tunnel', never went on a little longer and had a satisfying end. Even though I'm 60, I sometimes think back and wonder.
Great videos. I used to dig this show as well.
I remember watching Land Of The Giants as a little kid, was probably one of the 1st shows I watched along with Bonanza and Gunsmoke.... I thought the show was so cool !
I spent two weeks watching all the programmes.
I just loved all the Irwin Allen sic-fi shows back in the sixties. As well as other shows like Star trek. I guess Star Trek actually felt more futuristic in a way. It was supposed to be set about 300 years into the future but the technology achievements featured were more like about 3000 years into the future.
300th Like. New Sub. I almost forgot Land of the Giants, thanks for the reminder, watched a lot when I was very very young..
I have the complete box set and the complete wooden box set awesome show love it thanks for awesome video.
Great review and interviews of the stars. Thoroughly enjoyed it!
Interesting clip of Joanathan Harris being interviewed about Kurt Kasner. It is very clear that in the first few episodes Fitzhugh is supposed to be an analagous character to Dr Smith.
Harris appeared as an alien in one episode of LOTG
This show would be wonderful for a movie remake. The survival of a group of people only several inches tall in a world of gigantic size filled with giant people would make a great horror/adventure. Several of the little people could be expendable in the movie and shown being crushed to death by Giants or captured and taken away by Giants to be kept as family pets.
Like Stop Over in a Quiet Town on the Twilight Zone
Loved the show. The big hand freaked me out
Alexander Courage also composed the music for Star Trek "The Original Series ".
Alexander Courage also composed a theme for "Land Of The Giants" which was rejected after a theme by Joseph Mullendore was too rejected. Both can be found on La La Land's boxed set of music from the series.
i remember watching rerun of land of giants ep on snowy tv station in rhode island i think, because local boston station showed something else and i loved the show. i liked how they could recharge spindrift's battery & valerie :)
I would have liked to have seen a third series with the Spindrift crew returning to Earth at the end. Irwin Allen never seemed to conclude his science fiction series, he left Steve Burton and Co to survive forever in the "Land of the Giants", Tony and Doug were left forever travelling through time and space in the "Time Tunnel" and the space family Robinson forever "Lost in Space". Allen was the master of unfinished science fiction serials.
Incredible Video
I think his best show was voyage to the bottom of the sea
The first two seasons were; after that, no good at all.
Agreed. Although, toward the end of season 3 they were running out of ideas. We were seeing episodes like, "The Wax Men" which featured a midget clown running around the ship controlling wax versions of the crews. By season 4 we were seeing Vincent Price and puppet versions of the crew. All in all, very entertaining.
@@ericredlefsen5554 they were pretty funny just like the lost in space episodes 😁
If ypu look at.the.spindrift"s front end.it looks.like the designer of the flying sub.was.behind it.
Sorry but there was very little stock footage used on LAND OF THE GIANTS compared with LOST IN SPACE, VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, and TIME TUNNEL.
That was very well done- thanks. Interesting mind candy to consider a additional movie made in 2019, one that would tie up the fate of all the main characters. But alas that would be tough to do, as the series was a product of the 60's in so many ways. I consider myself very fortunate to have grown up watching Irwin's production. I know you have moved on to the other side Irwin- but many thanks the entertainment!
The friendly giants were usually FULLY trusted. You also missed THE LOST ONES and THE GOLDEN CAGE for other earth people.
loved this show!
Golly Sept 22 1968 was also the day i was born.
They should do a reimagined / rebooted Land of the Giants series, much like the new Lost in Space show.
The series would put more emphasis on the totalitarian nature of the giants' world. They'd have a series-long arc centered around their plan to get home, as well as the secret underground resistance among the giants.
The setting for the show would be 2045, however, the giants' world would be more backward, the equivalent of ca. 1980-1990 in Earth standards.
Inspector Kobick would be a female character, who had to climb the ranks of the secret service, battling all the sexism and prejudices, hence, she is a truly hard boiled character, who learned how to be as cold and efficiently ruthless as possible. She is not someone you'd like to catch the wrong side of.
Thank you. I've always thought that if they did come back for season three three one of the things they could have done was have the Spindrift crew work with the underground and in exchange they would help the earthlings repair the Spindrift. In fact, there were some of the giants who helped the castaways in the past who would have made great supporting players.
Your plot points sound a bit 'woke' and agenda laden to me.
Look how that worked for the latest Star Wars and a host of other recent 'remakes'.
Not well.
People have learnt to hate 'social justice' narratives shoved down their throat all the time.
Try to remember that the main appeal of these old programs was due to their escapism.
I loved this show as a kid, and having recently watched a rerun of the time tunnel on the horror channel would love to see Land of the giants again
The magic of Practical Effects, not that i am down on CGI, but its soooooo overused, because it is cheap, in movies these days.
I watched Land Of The Giants when I was a kid. I remembered the show as quite scary because of the premise. I remember seeing the comic book(but I couldn’t read at the time).
Fast forward to the late 80’s, I was able to see Land Of The Giants on the USA network. USA was the go to network for watching old television shows as was Nickelodeon’s Nick A Night. Land Of The Giants would come on after Lost In Space. I watched as much as I could. As I began to understand what it was that scared me about the show when I first saw it, the parts about the fascist government scared me more than the giant creatures that occasionally appeared. I have read somewhere that a story about the Spindrift’s crew and passengers finally repairing the Spindrift and returning to Earth, only to discover that it was doomed to be destroyed. The passengers and crew board the Spindrift and return to the Land Of The Giants bringing other ships with them to escape. That story never came to fruition.
I am curious about the possibility of a remake of the series but I am skeptical about the execution. It is possible to do just about anything with the technology used in film production today, something that Irwin Allen would’ve taken a chance on if it were available back then.
Lost In Space was a great family show.
Land Of The Giants was a very dark adventure.
About Ron Howard’s appearance on Land Of The Giants. The episode was called Genius At Work. Howard was in a film called Village Of The Giants as a boy called Genius, who creates the substance that increases the size of animals and people. He does the same thing in this episode.
The should REMAKE this great show!!
That's the views from bonney wee Scotland!
I'd love that if it were done right. However, most of the remakes of classic shows are garbage so I'm trying not to get my hopes up.
Great content and narration.
From the moment this show first aired, I had a theory that they had passed through another dimension or some kind of Parallel universe planet Earth 🌎
Another brilliant video, thanks Jonny. Loving the series and films you're choosing.
The house on the left of the brown 'mansion' (Time-stamp1:56) is the home of Sheriff Andy. The brown mansion was the 'haunted house' where the moonshiners nearly caused Barney Fife (Deputy Fife.., sorry, Barn), to die of fright.
Great show.
Remember this show on Sunday nights 😉
I grew up watching this show when I could find it
I LOVE ALL THE EARLY TV SCI-FI'S BUT I NEVER SEEM TO BE ABLE TO FIND THE (ORIGINAL B+W SERIES OF THE OUTER LIMITS WHICH SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME WHEN I WAS A KID)
Heather young was the only reason I would look at this show. She is gorgeous.
Why can't this show still be on? Followed by "The Time Tunnel" 💜📺
All this was was Gulliver's Travels meets Planet of the Apes ,Fantastic Voyage and Lost in Space-minus specific elements.
True!
Irwin Allen,like Kelso on Star Trek was a clever theif
@@mavericstud Well he WAS the King of TV minimalism!
Have this on DVD
I loved the show's intro theme.
In the novelization, which I read *MANY* years ago, the Spindrift was still operable. It made more sense.
Also, I recently read there are THREE novelizations, but I have yet to try to find the other two books.
"I couldn't have been so ... Creative ... thank God, for Geniuses, in Cinema ... thankyou ... at least, I had a Fun Adolescence !"
I loved watching this as a kid. I seem to remember an episode where they go back in time to earth but are still tiny and they see themselves before they boarded the ship that sent them to the land of the giants. I think they were trying to prevent themselves from ever leaving earth. Am I imagining this or was it an actual episode?
I still like watching this show. Now on MeTV.
While great scriptwriting was not something often found in any tv series produced by Irwin Allen, he could atleast be relied on to provide both fine art direction, and special effects that, for the most part, still look pretty awesome.
The show had two great credit music themes by John Williams, and a good opening episode, but it honestly bored me a great deal, the slow pacing, the mute Giants, the formula scripts. It didn't pay off on the dangerous situations.
It was expensive because shrinking the actors down cost a lot of money.