Don't listen to the negative reviews

Absolutely Fantastic

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Kevin Hagen, Doc Baker in Little House on the Prairie, was deliciously evil on Land of the Giants. His character, Inspector Kolbek, was the nemesis of the passengers and crew of the Spindrift. He wasn't above blackmailing them to help him. The passengers of the Spindrift, Don, an engineer, Veronica, a spoiled heiress, Barry, an orphan, his dog, Chipper, and Alexander Fitzhugh, supposedly a commander in the Navy, always had a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. Was he carrying top secret documents? No, he was carrying a million dollars in cash which he'd stolen from a bank in Los Angeles. The Spindrift's stewardess, (what we'd call a flight attendant today,) was Betty Hamilton. Her pilot and copilot were Steve Burton and Mark Wilson. Besides Kevin Hagen, who was billed as a guest star, others included Jonathan Harris as the Peid Piper of Hamelin, and Ron Howard. There are some similarities to the ABC series Lost. There are also a few exceptions. For example, the pilots of Oceanic Flight 815, its flight attendants, and other personnel, didn't survive.

At a cost of over $250,000 per episode, "Land of the Giants" was the most expensive show of its time.(As well as the highest ratedwhen it premiered in October of 1968). That money was well spent on impressive visual effects, camera tricks, and enormous realistic props that had the audience believing they were watching 7 space travellers accidentally stranded on a world where everything was twelve times the size of the equivalent things on earth. This show remains visually quite impressive and is well remembered by those of us old enough to have seen it during its first run. Gary Conway and Don Marshall lead the cast as the pilot and co-pilot of the ill-fated 'Spindrift' spacecraft andand Kevin Hagen is extremely effective in several episodes as the government agent of the giant world with the assigned task of hunting the earthmen down.

I first watched Land of the Giants when Channel 4 screened it in the late 1980's and early 1990's as I wasn't born when it was first made. Irwin Allen (Lost in Space) directed it.A spaceship, The Spindrift, passes though a strange cloud while traveling from New York to London and ends up on an earth like world, but everything is miles bigger. People on board the ship include the Captain, co-pilot, a rogue and a boy and his dog, Chipper. This is where the adventures begin. They become known as the Little People while in this strange land.The cast is lead by Gary Conway (I Was A Teenage Frankenstein).I rather enjoyed this series and would be nice to see Channel 4 repeat it again.Rating: 4 stars out of 5.

I first watched this Irwin Allen sci-fi series when it was shown in the late 80s on Channel 4 in the UK. I found it a lot more entertaining than Allen's other creations "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", "Lost in Space", etc.Yes, the special effects and props used were basic, but this was obviously in line with what was available in 1968-70. In my view, it was mostly the late Kurt Kasznar's acting that carried the series. Kurt played the role of Alexander Fitzhugh, one of the stranded Spindrift's passengers. He formed a close fatherly bond with Barry (played by child actor Stefan Arngrim), the youngest member of the stranded group. Fitzhugh was seldom co-operative with other members of the party. He loved his wisecracks, was always hungry, and was rather selfish. He was understandably desperate to return to Earth, but with or without the others (including Barry!).It was quite obvious that actors Gary Conway, Don Marshall, and some of the others performed most, if not all, of their own stunts. This provided a touch more realism to the series.I'll always remember guest star Michael Ansara's evil laugh in the episode "On a clear night you can see Earth". I watched the whole series again when it was rerun on BSkyB's sci-fi channel. Excellent entertainment for all age groups!My rating : 8.5 out of 10!