Too many fans seem to be blown away

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Irwin Allen, the creator and producer of the Land of the Giants series, was involved with Hollywood productions for decades. Land of the Giants was not the first screen story that depicted a cat chasing and endangering very tiny people. In both Dr. Cyclops (1940) and The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957), there is a tabby cat terrorizing unnaturally small human beings. These were obviously released prior to Land of the Giants (1968-1970). Irwin Allen was probably influenced and inspired by either or both of these films.

This show had so much going for it early on but like many an Irwin Allen production, things always go from good to bad. The earlier episodes had the giants talking in muted, distorted tones giving them an evil presence. You also couldn't quite see all of them. It was truly quite creepy, and you really weren't sure if they were on Earth or some strange Nazi like parallel planet. But after a few episodes the giants, and the scripts, became mediocre with the "little people" escaping from some giants evil laboratory every week. This show is also famous for disappearing cast members. Barry would disappear from time to time, as well as his dog, but none vanished as quickly as Betty. Even when she was around, she didn't have much to do. All eyes were on Valerie, so Betty got relegated to keeping an eye on the space ship. It's surprising that this has not been adapted into a full length motion picture. With the technology today they could do so much more than have a big rubber hand come lumbering in and pick up a screaming Valerie.

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.