Land of the Giants

Remember Lost in Space, with its camp storylines and wonderfully cheesy sets? It was pure Irwin Allen, a prolific disaster film maker and maven of camp sci fi. Other titles he did for television included The Time Tunnel (I have also reviewed this, for the unfamiliar), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and the one I am currently reviewing, Land of the Giants. While the uninitiated might suppose it was a romp about giants and little people set in a fantasy landscape , they would be half wrong. It IS a show about giant people, animals and plants and normal sized people, but set in an alternate Earth type scenario. We get a group of ordinary people on an orbital ...

LAND OF THE GIANTS was the television show Irwin Allen made after LOST IN SPACE concluded its run. The premise of the series is that in 1983 (fifteen years into the show’s future) seven people are on a spaceship (called the ‘Spindrift’) which passes through a space warp into another dimension. In this new dimension, they are on Earth, but an Earth where everything is much much larger than the Earth which they are used to (12 times larger, in fact). As you would expect, the series concerned these people’s encounters with giant people, giant sets and giant props. In typical Irwin Allen fashion, early episodes showed some merit, although it ...