While flicking through the channels on my TV I happened on an old favourite the ‘Land of the Giants’ airing on the Horror Channel and with nothing else to watch I sat back to relive a moment from my childhood. It is a mash-up of other shows on TV around the same time Lost in Space, and Gulliver’s Travels.
Made for US television the dated sci-fi series is a tale of a sub-orbital commercial flight from New York to London they pass through a cloud and end up on an Earth type planet where the natives are seventy-two feet tall. To save on special effects the inhabitants look just like humans, speak English and wear every day sixties clothes even the props, watches and the like are the same has sixties earth.
The crew and passengers of the US rocket ship "Spindrift" are now trapped in this land of giants looking to try to repair and fix their space ship. We know little about the planet they land on but the giants were humans leading a young me to believe they were shrunk going through the cloud and landed back on earth. That idea was soon proved wrong.
They battle the planet's totalitarian government who seem to have knowledge of the little people suggesting previous visits. Their bid to avoid capture is hit or miss has different members of the group are captured with the others coming to their rescue. Very few of the giants are helpful/supportive. Most of the time they are looking for items to help repair the Spindrift which is hidden in some undergrown in what looks like a park so they can get back home.
It was popular when it was aired in the UK on ITV with the first episode airing on December 8, 1968.
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