My dad was a SFX tech on LOTG(also, Voyage, Lost in Dpace, Time Tunnel). As a ten yr old in 1967, I'd go into work with him, and the Giants set was somewhat my playground. I'd sit at the helm of the Spindrift, lift rocks as nig as I was over my head, and swoon( as much as a ten yr old could) over Deanna Lund. I ended up in the industry (Lighting) for 42 years, nut mever jad as much fun as my summers w/with dad on the 20th Century Fox lot. Great content, Dan. Thanks for all you do?

My cousin was on that show. His name is Stefan Arngrim. He played the kid. His sister, Allison Arngrim , also my cousin *(funny how that works)* played Nellie Oleson in “Little House on the Prairie”.

I met Kurt Kasznar when I joined the Broadway cast of "The Sound Of Music" in 1960. I was one of the two boys playing "Kurt Von Trapp" and Kurt was playing "Max Detwiler". We developed an Uncle-Nephew kind of relationship that continued to his death in 1979. Along with several other adult actors in the cast, Kurt was one of my earliest acting teachers. Being originally from Vienna, Austria, Kurt used to tutor me when I started learning the German language in high school and later visited me in German when I was stationed there in the U.S. Army, He was a wonderful man and a good friend.

Born in 1961- loved this show as a kid.

I read in the long defunct Starlog magazine years ago that Gary Conway (Steve Burton) had tried to get a revival of the show to be made in Australia where it was hugely popular in the 1980s. He failed but years later Don Marshall (Dan Erikson) wrote a script called "Escape From A Giant World", intended to be a finale the show never got. The surviving cast was apparently excited about doing it but again, it didn't happen. I met all of the cast, except for Kurt Kaznar (Alexander Fitzhugh), who had died in 1979, at a couple different convention events in the 2000s and had seen Stefan Arngrim (Barry Lockridge) at a few events since. All nice people to talk to at the time. Heather Young (Betty Hamilton) was particularly nice to me, calling me 'sweetheart' a few times during our conversation. Sadly, a few of them have passed away since then with only Gary, Heather and Stefan left from the 7 member main cast. I LOVE this show, as I do ALL things Irwin Allen and feel privileged I was able to see all of Irwin's shows in first run in the 1960s. I'm nearly 69 years old and am actually 6 months older than Stefan! Dan, thanks for this glowing tribute to the show, you really brought back some nice memories! By the way, thanks also for mentioning Jonathan Harris in "Pay The Piper"! Although many fans think this episode was TOO ridiculous, I loved it! Jonathan was pitch perfect as the Piper and his classic blend of Ham really worked in it! In addition, the badger attack on the Spindrift in that show was one of the most exciting sequences filmed, similar to the giant cat attack in the pilot. Looking forward to your future follow-up on the Spindrift miniature restoration! 👍

Land of the Giants airs on MeTV every Sunday morning at 3 am here in the East coast, it's bookended by three Irwin Allen shows, Lost in Space at 1 am, Voyage to the Bottom of the sea at 2 am and The Time Tunnel at 4 am

I was a kid in the 1960's & I saw "Land Of The Giants" in 1968 & I loved it instantly. I saw "Lost In Space" in prime time & I enjoyed that show I never missed an episode. The 60's had the best TV shows & was the best time to be a kid. I saw "Batman" when it was new & I had a Munsters lunchbox in 1964.

This was the darkest show of the four produced by Irwin Allen and that is why I like it so much. Very little humor in it. Fitzhugh wasn't clownish like Dr. Smith and the landing party faced danger at every turn. Great show!!!

Spindrift looks a lot like the flying mini-submarine from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea😁

As a very young man, I went to the Universal Studios with my grandfather and climbed onto a table used to film Land of the Giants. There was a giant salt shaker on the table that was bigger than me and a giant fork, knife, and spoon I may have tried lifting. I was thrilled at the creativity and impressed with the engineers for the pre-CGI methods at achieving the verisimilitude of achieving housecat-level smallness.

hi Dan, as a kid that was one of my favorite. The internet allowed me to see the first episode that I had missed as a kid. Keep on the good work!

When I was a kid I had every model kit of all the sci-fi TV shows ships back then. Even the Saturn 5 Apollo rocket with the lem in it. And I had the Batmobile and the Black Beauty. I was so into those model kits.

Unlike Lost in Space, Land of the Giants never fully fell into the campy silliness. It was a very dark show, and the episode "On a Clear Night You Can See the Earth", the Spindrift's people must contemplate killing a giant scientist who has invented a pair of infrared binoculars that can see the Earth. Another episode had a kindly old man offer to allow the little people to live in a model village scaled to their size, but his granddaughter becomes hateful of them and tries to kill them. So, in a way, this was Lost in Space if it'd stayed more on track as a serious show.

I wish I had the flying sub. I do still have the spindrift model I built when it first came out 😮

The special effects were actually pretty good for TV and the time era. This was one of my favorite shows and similar to Lost In Space and Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea.

I got the DVD set of Land of the Giants that came in a box that looks like one of the cages that was used to capture the little people. It came with some postcards, key chain, a Golden Key comic book. I keep that and the metal lunch box close together. I wish they would do a remake or a new series. I would watch it.

Land of the Giants was among my favorite TV shows back in the 1960s when I was a little kid. Others were Lost in Space, The Invaders, Night Gallery, Ironside, Mannix, Mission Impossible, Star Trek, et al...

When I was a lad, I was horribly envious of a friend who had the Spindrift model and he felt the same way about my flying sub.

I think you really enjoyed making this one Dan! Thanks for all the fun and enthusiasm you communicate. Cheers mate.

The Land of the Giants metal lunchbox was my very first lunchbox!

Speaking of Batman. I was born in early 1968 and my mom always told this story about my first word being not mama or dadda but Batman! She used to tell it like it was a bad thing, He didn't even say mama or dadda just Batman! lol I have always been proud my first word on this world was BATMAN!

I met Don Marshal and Gary Conway at a Chiller Theater convention in New Jersey about 2011. I was surprised when Marshal said that he had written a new screenplay about what happened to the Spinthrift people on the Giant World years later. The Earth people agree to help the giants overthrow their repressive government in exchange to be helped by them to repair their ship and return home. But this was like ten years ago and it looks like a Land of the Giants movie sequel is not going to happen.

Side note. When the show ended in 1970 Deanna Lund would marry her co-star Don Matheson before eventually producing one child and a divorce in 1980.

Another hit. I have fond memories of all the Irwin Allen shows. Like you I grew up watching the the re-runs.

The giants also had trouble seeing in the dark which made it seem ridiculous when they ran around town in broad daylight. Don’t forget they also had a dog on the show named Chipper.

Deanna Lund’s _Valerie in Giant Land_ takes place after the show, but doesn’t have them returning their Earth and time. They’ve adapted to their circumstances.

It surprises me that with all the nostalgic reunion shows of the late 70s and early 80s, they never did wrap up Lost in Space or Land of the Giants.

When Land of the Giants was in production, my parents took our family to Universal Studios and we got to see some of the sets (and the sets for H. R. Puffenstuff). The lunch area had some of the giant props to play with. One of my great memories.

I didn't appreciate Diana Lund as five year-old but boy, I do now.

Great series, and I watched it often. Deanna should have put a poster out. She was a smokeshow.

The Spindrift looked a lot like the Flying Sub from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

As I recall (being an eleven year old at the time), Tunnel and Giants ran back to back on Friday nights on ABC. I couldn't wait for them to come on. I was into building models at the time but I can't understand how I missed the Spindrift from Aurora.

That redhead was a firecracker. 💥

Very nice overview of the show. I think the series did get cancelled due to the cost, but apparently it became the biggest selling series to the international market the studio ever had, which led the execs to regret axing it. The show had a big surge in popularity in the UK in the 1980s when it was rerun. And yes, we loved it here in Australia, along with the rest of Irwin Allen’s shows. Lost in Space was Australia’s most repeated series.

I always liked this show, I remember watching it as a kid along with lost in space and batman. I used to have the spindrift model but it got lost over the years. I still have my original batmobile, bat boat & yellow submarine from corgi.

Oh wow!!! This absolutely shaped my love of science fiction as a child. I would run home from school and watch this - it had to be sometime in the late 70’s here in New Zealand 🇳🇿

One episode used the Mayberry town set. I think the town was called Midberry. It was always surreal to see Mayberry in Star Trek, Batman and other shows.

There were so many great scifi shows on TV when I was a young boy growing up in South-East England. We got not only all the American shows like the Irwin Allen classics, but also homegrown stuff like Thunderbirds, Doctor Who, Timeslip.... I could always find some great scifi show to watch. I still happily watch them at the age of 61.

I met Stefan Arngrim (Barry) and his wife at Chiller Theatre on Saturday (4/27/24) and we watched this video together! Another guy sharing a table with Stefan brought a huge Spindrift model and he saw us watching the video. He said "I know Dan" and showed us a B9 robot he built. They were all very nice people and we had a great time. Thanks for this video!

I have a 'Land of the Giants' memory that has been burnt into my brain since I was a child. I was at a relative's house and went into the living room to watch the television while the grown-ups talked in the dining area, well 'Land of the Giants' was on and I was watching it when midway through the show my uncle Johnny came in the room and changes the channel to a football game. My heart just sank, I believe it was the episode with that guy with the goatee and glasses and I was mesmerized by the show's production design and its effects. From that day I thought my uncle Johnny was a jerk and also from that day I disliked sports. The funny thing is about ten years ago I was at someone's home, and I really didn't know too many people there so I went into the living room where the television was on showing some cartoon, there was a group of kids in the room and they were in the corner playing with their backs turned away from the T.V., I thought they weren't watching it so I changed the channel. And just at that moment they all turned their little heads in unison and stared at me exactly like the children from the film "' The Village of the Damned', having personally identified with that situation I turned the channel back and they turned away from the T.V. and resumed playing. I felt that it could have been a Larry David moment if "Land of the Giants" was airing a rerun on the other channel when I changed it and then back again. It just goes to show you how much times have changed.

I watched all these as a 10 year old. Great exciting television!

I hope you do some vids about Gerry Anderson shows like UFO and Space:1999

I have always believed that the Spindrift full size mock-up spaceship was originally meant to be the flying sub from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea in its final season. Irwin allen, and Irwin Allen Productions, was well known for reusing props onto new television shows.

Thanks for the photos of just Deanna Lund. You know what I mean

When kids TV was worth watching..and of course it had the gorgeous Deanna Lund

--> a few of my childhood favorites; Jonny Quest, Dark Shadows, and I Dream of Jeannie.

Fun fact, the seats in the Spindrift were lifted from the set of the Icarus, the ship in Planet of the Apes! I have always wondered why LotG never got a big budget movie like Lost in Space. AMAZING VID!

Don Marshall was in an episode of Star Trek Title Galileo 7 They crashed on a planet and were attacked by giants. 🖖

Remember seeing this in reruns. Some station ran it and lost in space back to back. Found it creepy as a kid, so would just watch Lost in space, after the first couple episodes. May have to track it down and give it another chance. That Deanna Lund is quite the babe.

This is when TV was great with only 6 channels to watch. Not like today with 1 billion channels, streaming services with 8 shows to count for a season, and nothing to watch on either.

I loved this show back in the 1960s and wat he'd manybof the reruns when it went into syndication. Especially loved Deanna Lund. What a beauty.

Beautiful Deanna Lund passed away in 2018 at the age of 81.

The series starts off cool...then the suits roll in the screw it all up. Rinse and repeat. Lost in Space, Land of the Giants, Firefly... Another nice episode Dan. Thanks.

Loved the show. I got to meet the cast at their first renion 20 odd years ago at the Chiller Convention, held in Meadowland in NJ. The props were pretty cool for the time

In the US there's an over the air channel MEtv. Every Saturday night they air Batman, Star Trek, Kolchak the Nightstalker, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Land of the Giants, Time Tunnel, The Invaders and Thunderbirds.

Excellent video...thanks for posting it. The one thing I was surprised you didn't mention was that it took place in the futuristic year of 1983 and everyone is wearing 1960's fashion. I heard Don Marshall had a re-union script that never got produced while most of them were still alive. Too bad it would have been good to get a conclusion.

Best voice ever.

As a serious ship and model car builder, I could NEVER resist buying all those Aurora TV sci-fi models. Good clean fun from a bygone (and better) era. I miss those pre-video game and smart phone/social media days !

Nope. We rushed home to watch Barnabus Collins and Dark Shadows.

The late Don Marshall wanted to revive Land of the Giants in a more kind of Lost direction where two warring sides are coming close to mutual destruction, and the passengers, who there are loads more, some align with the giants, some do not, but all one goal, to get off the planet before it destroys itself. The time line is 2051 for Earth, and for the Giant's planet, late 60s to early 70s. The Giants get wind of the advance technology of the little people, and this is their motivation to capture them in the hope to apply the advanced technology to win decisively over the other civilization on the other side of the planet. It would have been an exciting approach.

This was one of my dad's favorite shows, along with Wild Wild West.

When I was little, I loved star treck, lost in space, Jhonny Socco, looneytoons, Iron sides, perry Mason, major Astro and his cartoon network. Andy griffith,Batman, later Jim Neighbors playing Gomer Pile U.S.M.C.!

Dan I remember watching the show in it's original airing on tv back in the 60s. I thought it was the coolest show. I also loved Time Tunnel. I actually loved all of Irwin Allen's shows. Lost In Space became too cheesy for me though. I liked the seriousness in the show. That's the way I wish it would have stayed.

Gary Conway was the title character in I Was a Teenage Frankenstein.

Great video Don. I’m 60 and used to watch all the Irwin Allen programmes in the 1970’s. Great TV then 😊

When the series was last broadcast on UK television, channel 4 did an interview with Gary and Deanna. Always going well but, towards the end, there is a huge something noise, like the sound of Matthew footprints. Gary and Deanna look worried and quickly exit the frame. That was fun! 🙂

This one brings back memories of my brother having that lunch box and I having the Wild, Wild West box. Still missing you, My brpther.

As a young boy growing up in California my parents took me to Universal Studios in the early70s. They had several props from Land of the giants one being a giant phone which I climbed on. I was about 7yrs old.

Another great one Dan - thank-you! (and OMG Deanna Lund was GEORGEOUS !!!!!) [I was WAY too young to appreciate her at the time]

Land of the Giants, Lost in Space, Voyage, Time Tunnel I can watch these over n over n over again. Even back then we were aware of the inconsistencies and a stretch of the imagination Still beats anything on today! Of course I have a prejudiced connection as I was around back then so I have the nostalgic memory thing going.

Dan, of all of Irwin Allen's properties, the one that intrigued me the most was the TV movie City Beneath the Sea. It was corny and a big pile-up of crisis upon crisis, but I appreciated its optimistic outlook on the year 2054. Will we ever touch on that? When I think of Giants, I think of an era when TV movies, or possible TV show pilots, seemed to be contemplating parallel Earths which were somehow nearby yet never detected before. One pilot, called The Stranger, had Glenn Corbett on an Earth with three moons, run by a dictatorship. A British movie, Doppelganger, known here in the States as Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, from the same people who brought us UFO and Space: 1999, was about a "mirror image" Earth. Would that it was so simple! Anyhow, I will always remember City (if only because of Susana Miranda), so if you can ever find anything on it, I will appreciate it. Thanks.

Was born in 68 so I had no clue this series (also Time Tunnel, VTTBOTS and The Invaders) ever existed till a few years ago on Me TV. What great historical shows! Can't wait for part two with some character background and other info. Great work Dan and keep Invaders in mind !!!

You asked about the giant hand. It went to Universal and was located at an outdoor tram tour stopover,Standing straight up,with a giant lipstick in it's hand !!! Other props there were the giant phone,I think the camera was there,Next to a sign about the props was a set of keys,the paint had started chipping off them ,exposing the fact that they were made of wood.This was about 1973/74 or thereabouts. I'm sure being outside took it's toll on the props.

I can remember watching this show in it's prime time slot as a very young kid. I loved, loved this show as a small kid you empathized with the crew in the show as all the adults around you looked like the Giants they had to deal with. The part that intrigued me was the Giant world was ruled by an totalitarian government and the little people would help the resistance like it was a WW2 movie. After the show ended I felt bad they were stuck there forever with no escape.

As a new subscriber, I really appreciate the amount of research that goes into these videos. Considering the quality of the content, it's amazing how frequently a new vid is released. Much respect.

I loved that show when I was a little kid.

One of my favorite classic TV show. I have all the models and the DVD set.

The SFX were very crude, but for kids we filled in the gaps with our imaginations. Psychology-wise, think that kids liked it because the small people represented them in a 'big world". I remember being terrified when the cast were in physical danger of being squashed, or eaten by a house cat. Great show for kids!!!

Another great episode...thanks Dan...but then all your uploads are really nostalgic and exciting...thanks for all the trivia and knowledge you bring to us every time of the wonderful shows we grew up with. ❤

I loved this show! A big favourite here in Australia. I lived in with my mother at a private nursing home, she was deputy matron there, and the lady who was matron had two kids. Us three terrors would play at being in Land of The Giants. They renovated part of the building and we’d play among the wooden boards and so on, everywhere we were forbidden to go, and it was just bloody marvellous❤️

I had the pleasure of meeting and having dinner with Don Marshall. Great guy. Very personable.

I remember watching voyage to the bottom of the Sea and Land of the Giants, lost in space a s a small kid, i remember acting these characters out in the backyard with my buddies!! 😂😎

I love your videos on these old school tv shows. Having grown up in the 60’s I remember watching these shows!

When I was 5 Don came to my home town on a promotional tour and I got to meet him. Was my favorite show of the time. They had over twice the buget of star trek. Amazing!

Land Of The Giants was a huge hit in England too. My dad loved the show.

Interesting to note that that shows are still often cancelled without a story arc being completed or the protagonists 'getting home'. Today, as in the past, the studio execs don't give a damn about the fans of a show, but are only interested in how much money they are making.

1:00 - LAND OF THE GIANTS - I loved this show.

When I was a kid. The props from that show were at U.V. studios. That was great to see and touch. Fantastic.

Great information about these classics! I don't remember watching them back when they were new, but I have been watching them every Saturday night on MeTV. I was in Vietnam in '66-'67 so that might be why I didn't see them. The whole line up of shows is on MeTv every Saturday starting with Lost in Space and going through to Invaders. Dr Smith was the most despicable character I have ever seen. Keep doing what you do. Really great to see the actors and their stories.

Wow...64K subscribers. Not too far away from hitting 100K!, keep them coming.

This first ran on Sunday night, which was bittersweet because it also meant the weekend was over and school tomorrow.

One of my all time favourite sci-fi TV series. It had some great scripts, and was well acted. I still have my Aurora model kits and all five issues of the comic book.

Like almost all of Irwin Allen's shows,they started off right,with intriguing concepts,good to excellent effects,but somehow got mired in repetitiveness or ridiculousness as time went on.I bought the box set of this series,but could only watch a select few episodes,that meant anything.

I used to watch Land of the Giants in the early 80s and Time Tunnel in '89. Really was enthralled by them as a teenager.

Thanks, Dan for another wonderful video… I’m rather late getting into Land of the Giants, even though I was old enough to watch it during its first run on tv… I now watch it every Saturday late night… Fun show to watch I appreciate your deep dive into this classic Erwin Allen show…. Thanks!

I have fond memories of watching all of the Irwin Allen TV shows with my father. We loved Science fiction and western shows. I miss those simpler times. Love your KZfaq channel. 😊

Thanks for the look back into the past. LOTG was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid. I used to try and figure out how big objects were and how much they weighed. I was so disappointed when I learned that the show was being canceled.

Was the giant hand the same giant hand used in Attack of the 50' Woman? It sure looks like it to me.

What a great channel. Love all these retro looks at such classic shows. Thanks for making them!

Hi Dan, this show looks so interesting. I guess syndication (reruns) are very region-specific at different points in time. You and I are about the same age. After school in the 1970s, I was saturated with reruns of Lost in Space (as well as I Dream of Jeanie, Hogan's Heroes, Andy Griffith, Gilligan's Island, F Troop, etc). However I never heard of ANY of these other Irwin Allen sci fi TV shows - nothing other than Lost in Space - until I was an adult enthusiast. Like you, I was not around for the original broadcasts, but these non-LIS Irwin Allen shows just never got syndication in my area during my formative years. Thanks for the great video essay.