Land of the Giants

Land of the Giants

Land of the Giants is an hour-long American science fiction television program lasting two seasons beginning on September 22, 1968, and ending on March 22, 1970. The show was created and produced by Irwin Allen. Land of the Giants was the fourth of Allen's science fiction TV series. The show was aired on ABC and released by 20th Century Fox Television. The series was filmed entirely in color and ran for 51 episodes. The show starred Gary Conway and special guest star Kurt Kasznar.

Five novels based on the television series, including three written by acclaimed science fiction author Murray Leinster, were published in 1968 and 1969.

Show premise


Set fifteen years in the then future year 1983, the series tells the tale of the crew and passengers of a sub-orbital transport ship named Spindrift. In the pilot episode, the Spindrift is en route from Los Angeles to London, on an ultra fast sub-orbital flight. Just beyond Earth's boundary with space, the Spindrift encounters a magnetic space storm, and is dragged through a space warp to a mysterious planet where everything is twelve times larger than on Earth, whose inhabitants the Earthlings nickname "the Giants." The Spindrift crash-lands, and the damage renders it inoperable.

Very little is known about the home planet of the Giants. This is partially because the Spindrift crew very seldom leave the area where their spaceship crashes in the opening episode. Only two other (unidentified) giant societies are ever seen, in the episodes "The Land of the Lost" and "The Secret City of Limbo."

No name is ever established for the mysterious planet, but the inhabitants seem to know of Earth, Venus and Mars, referring to them by name in one episode. Exactly where the planet is located is also never made clear. In the episode "On a Clear Night You Can See Earth," Captain Steve Burton (Gary Conway) claims to have seen Earth through a set of infrared goggles invented by the giants, implying that the two planets are near enough to see one from the other. The only established method by which Earth people may reach the giants' planet is high-altitude flight, passing through what one giant calls a "dimension lock".

Although various episodes establish that at least six other flights have landed on the planet, no episode confirms anyone ever returning to Earth. The first mention of other visitors from Earth was in episode 2, "Ghost Town," in which another ship was said to have crashed long ago without any survivors. In episode 4, "Underground," another Earth ship is described as crashing three years previously, again with no survivors.

Several episodes show crews surviving the initial crash, only to be killed later. The episode "Brainwash" has a crew of little people surviving long enough to build a radio station that can communicate with Earth. They are killed shortly after that. The episodes "Golden Cage" and "The Lost Ones" show there have been a few survivors of other crashes. Only the Spindrift crew seems to have survived for long with its party intact.

One continent, or hemisphere, is dominated by an authoritarian government which tolerates full freedoms within a capitalist system, but it does not tolerate any effort to effect political change. Exactly what the political situation is on other continents is not known, although at least one overseas land has a despotic ruler. The Air Traffic Control tells those who venture out to sea that they should turn back, that nothing beyond that sea has been explored nor is there current contact; whether this is an official government line or the truth is not known.

Culturally, the Giant society closely resembles the contemporary United States of 1968 (in various episodes it has a police force, private hospitals, prisons, a State Governor, radio and television services, a zoo, jazz clubs, even a racetrack – and the Giants speak English, drive American cars, attend Vaudeville-style theatres, and even play chess). The Earth people find themselves able to cope, and their efforts to get around are facilitated by the ubiquity of large drains leading directly from interior rooms to the pavement, in an outside wall of most buildings. The Giant government has offered a reward for the capture of the small Earth people (whom the Giants call the little people).

In spite of the authoritarianism, there are several dissident movements at work that either help other dissenters (such as the Earth people) or are actively working to unseat the ruling party. The government has established the SID, Special Investigations Department, to deal with assorted dissidents but it also takes the lead in dealing with the Earth people. The Giant technology mostly resembles mid-20th century Earth, but inconsistently: significantly more advanced in some episodes (e.g. cloning, cybernetics, force fields, magnetic stunners, androids, and teleporters) and slightly behind in others (no microelectronics, hearing aids, or manned space flight).

The little people's objectives are: (1) survival, by obtaining food and avoiding capture by the Giants or attacks from animals, such as cats and dogs; and (2) repair of their spacecraft, so they can attempt to return to Earth. They largely manage to survive by the help of sympathizers and stealth, making the most of their small size, plus their ingenuity in using their technology where it's superior to that of the Giants.

They do not achieve the second objective, as the primary systems of the craft are severely damaged, although in some episodes (including "The Flight Plan") Burton implies it is only a lack of fuel which prevents the ship lifting off. The secondary systems are insufficient to enable them to achieve the sub-orbital flight required. They are unable to use Giant technology, as it is bulky and less advanced; in one episode an experimental nuclear reactor, provided by an engineering student, produces dangerous side effects and is prone to overloading. They also cannot trust the Giants, who in another episode ("Target: Earth") offer the little people a ride home in exchange for technical assistance with their space program, but then double-cross them.

They are aided in the first goal, and at least somewhat hindered in the second, by the leadership of Captain Burton. He behaves as a leader, and as protector to the passengers and crew, and his leadership has rescued them from some difficulties. But Burton also tries to keep the Giants from ever reaching Earth. In the episode "Brainwash," Giant police officer Ashim (Warren Stevens) says "Maybe we can find the home planet of these little people. It may be a very tiny world, but rich beyond our dreams." In several episodes, Burton puts keeping the Giants away from Earth above the need to get his people home. At the end of those episodes, he destroys devices that would get the Spindrift back to Earth but which would probably enable the Giants to journey there too.

Episodes often have the Giants capturing one of the passengers or crew, with the rest having to effect a rescue. The Earth people avoid capture most of the time, because their spaceship is hidden in a wood (in several episodes, described by the Giants as a park) outside the city limits. They also occasionally form alliances with individual Giants for some common beneficial purpose.

The show had no proper conclusion about the humans' attempts to return to Earth, and the final episode, "Graveyard of Fools," was a universal tale that could have taken place anytime in the second season. The penultimate episode, "Wild Journey" (guest starring Bruce Dern), has Steve and Dan using alien technology to travel back in time to Earth just a few hours before their ill-fated flight. In a storyline lifted from the Lost In Space episode "The Time Merchant," they attempt to alter the timeline but only succeed in ensuring that the events of the first episode, "The Crash," take place (footage from the pilot, where Spindrift becomes lost, is included in this episode), creating a Twilight Zone-style twist ending, with the impression of a recurring cycle of inevitable events.

The first season comprised a regular 26 episodes, but season two was left one episode short, having only 25 episodes, leaving the impression that "Graveyard of Fools" was not originally intended to be the final episode of the Season. The show thus comprises only 51 episodes (or 52 episodes including the unaired pilot).

This is a list of episodes from the television series Land of the Giants which ran for two seasons between 1968 and 1970. The list below gives original airdates, writer, director, guest stars, and brief synopsis information of each episode.

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Season 2 (1969–70)
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{{episode list Guest Stars: Broderick Crawford (Prof. Gorn), Stuart Margolin (Zoral), William Chapman (Secretary Mek), James Daris (Super Giant Robot), Richard Carlyle (Special Policeman), Steven Marlo (Minor SID Official), Erik L. Nelson (SID Officer) }} {{episode list Guest Stars: Richard Anderson (Joe Simmons), Anne Seymour (Martha Cass), George Mitchell (Harry Cass), Bill Quinn (Warden Sloan), Sam Elliott (Martin Reed), Larry Pennell (Guard), Michael Quinn (Gateman), Stewart Bradley (Police Sergeant) }} {{episode list Guest Stars: Ben Blue (Moley), Arch Johnson (Chief Rivers), Joe Turkel (Sergeant), Vic Tayback (Hood), John Harmon (Groom) }} {{episode list Guest Stars: Alex Dreier (Kronig), John Zaremba (Dr. Lalor), Charles Briggs (Guard), Steven Marlo (Technician) }} {{episode list Guest Stars: Kevin Hagen (Insp. Kobick), Leonard Stone (Sgt. Eson) }} {{episode list Guest Stars: Sugar Ray Robinson (Biff Bowers), Mike Mazurki (Loach), William Brambley (P.G. Hanley), Diana Chesney (Nell) }} {{episode list Guest Stars: Guy Stockwell (Garak), Robert H. Harris (Uncle Tojar), Susan Howard (Mrs. Garak), George Sperdakos (Goldsmith), Erik L. Nelson (SID Man) }} {{episode list Note: Series regular Heather Young (Betty) does not appear in this episode. Guest Stars: Michael Anderson Jr. (Ben), Tom Nardini (Carl), Oliver McGowan (Dr. Howard), Robert Shayne (Mr. Clinton) }} {{episode list Guest Stars: Cliff Osmond (Jolo), Christopher Cary (Deenar), Joan Freeman (Mara), Don Kennedy (Policeman), Robert Tiedemann (The Monk) }} {{episode list Note: Series regular Heather Young (Betty) does not appear in this episode. Guest Stars: William Schallert (Dr. Arno), Sandra Giles (Dr. Greta Gault) }} {{episode list Note: Series regular Heather Young (Betty) does not appear in this episode. Guest Stars: John Carradine (Egor Crull), Jessie White (Max Manfred), Fritz Feld (Quigg), Olan Soule (Cameraman), James Jeter (Studio Gateman), Janos Prohaska (Baby Gorilla) }} {{episode list Guest Stars: Warren Stevens (Olds), Rex Holman (Mezron), Jerry Douglas (Fielder), Jerry Quarry (Bron), Scott Thomas (Messenger), Gene LaBell (Mezron's Brother), John Mooney (Pharmacist) }} {{episode list Guest Stars: Nehemiah Persoff (Titus), Clint Ritchie (Andros), Bob Braun (Balloon Vendor), Peter Canon (Slave #1), Brian Nash (Boy in Park) }} {{episode list Guest Stars: John Milford (Ranger Wilson), Mort Mills (Constable), June Dayton (Mrs. Perkins), William Bassett (Ranger Jack), William "Billy" Benedict (Villager Peabody), Robert Adler (Villager Sloacum), Pete Kellett (Guard) }} {{episode list Guest Stars: Alan Hale Jr. (O'Reilly), Alan Bergmann (Krenko), Billy Halop (Bartender Harry), Eddie Marr (Peddler Brynie), C. Lindsay Workman (Cunningham Jeweler), Michael Quinn (Watchman Jake), Dusty Cadis (Store Guard) }} {{episode list Note: Series regular Heather Young (Betty) does not appear in this episode. Guest Stars: Yale Summers (Andre), Torin Thatcher (Dr. Berger), Kevin Hagen (Insp. Kobick) }} {{episode list Guest Stars: Jonathan Harris (Mr. Piper), Peter Leeds (Senator), Michael-James Wixted (Timmy) }} {{episode list Guest Stars: Malachi Throne (Taru), Whit Bissell (Dr. Krane), Joseph Ruskin (General Aza), Peter Jason (Mylo) }} {{episode list Note: Series regular Stefan Arngrim does not appear in this episode Guest Stars: Jack Albertson (Prof. Kirmus), Peter Mark Richman (Dr. Marad), Diane McBain (Mrs. Evers), Edward G. Robinson Jr. (SID Guard Rogers), Patrick Culliton (SID Officer Willis), Steven Marlo (SID Officer Burns) }} {{episode list Guest Stars: John Dehner (Lt. Grayson), Madlyn Rhue (Bertha Fry), Christopher Dark (Sgt. Barker), Don "Red" Barry (Dr. Zoral), Kent Taylor (Doc Jelko), Willard Sage (Insp. Swan) }} {{episode list Guest Stars: Kevin Hagen (Insp. Kobick), Francine York (Dr. North), Tom Drake (SID Sergeant), Charles Dierkop (Arthur Kamber), Ed Peck (Mike Warkin) }} {{episode list Guest Stars: Charles Drake (Mr. Erdap), Sean Kelly (Alek), Miriam Schiller (Nurse) }} {{episode list Guest Stars: Frank Ferguson (Goalby), Victoria Vetri (Lisa), Robert Hogan (Brady), Sandra Giles (Harem Dancer), Martin Liverman (Trainer), Janos Prohaska (Bobo Gorilla), Carl Carisson (Knife Thrower), Al Lampkin (Fire Eater) }} {{episode list Note: Series regular Stefan Arngrim (Barry) only appears in this episode via stock footage from the pilot. The storyline for this episode is lifted from the Lost In Space episode The Time Merchant. Guest Stars: Bruce Dern (Thorg), Yvonne Craig (Berna), Sheila Allen (Miss Collier), Erik L. Nelson (SID Man), Louise Lorimer (Miss Smith), Marshall Stewart (Passerby) }} {{episode list Guest Stars: Albert Salmi (Melzac/Bryk), John Crawford (Tagor), Marshall Stewart (Janitor)
 * Title = The Mechanical Man
 * EpisodeNumber = 27
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 1
 * ProdCode = 4703
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|9|21}}
 * WrittenBy = William L. Stuart
 * DirectedBy = Harry Harris
 * ShortSummary = The Earthlings witness a giant who goes berserk, trashes a drugstore, and murders a security guard with his bare hands. They learn the man is really a malfunctioning android, created by a scientist named Gorn, who manages to capture Mark and Fitzhugh. When Gorn learns Mark is an engineer, he makes a deal with him to figure out what is wrong with his robot in exchange for his freedom. Mark gets the machine working, but when Gorn isn't forthcoming with his end of the deal, Steve and the others climb inside the robot and hijack it.
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 * Title = Six Hours to Live
 * EpisodeNumber = 28
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 2
 * ProdCode = 4706
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|9|28}}
 * WrittenBy = Daniel B. Ullman
 * DirectedBy = Sobey Martin
 * ShortSummary = The little people overhear an anxious farmer named Cass admit to committing a murder that an innocent man named Reed is to be executed for. Steve decides to help Reed, and contacts a reporter named Simmons who is covering the execution. In exchange for the story of his career, Simmons sneaks Steve and Dan into Reed's cell and the two help him escape. Meanwhile the other Earthlings try to delay Cass and his wife, who are trying to sneak out of town with a stash of money they stole during the crime. When Reed shows up to confront them, they think he is a ghost, and Cass confesses to the murder and theft while being secretly tape recorded.
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 * Title = The Inside Rail
 * EpisodeNumber = 29
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 3
 * ProdCode = 4701
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|10|5}}
 * WrittenBy = Richard Shapiro
 * DirectedBy = Harry Harris
 * ShortSummary = While at a horseracing track, Fitzhugh finds a winning ticket on the ground and makes a deal with a giant racetrack bum named Moley, to split the winnings 50/50. Moley cashes the ticket, but a security guard becomes suspicious and arrests him. Moley leads the guard back to Fitzhugh who manages to get away, but Mark, Valerie and Betty are captured by a second guard who secures them in a desk drawer. While Steve and Dan attempt to rescue the others, Fitzhugh discovers a giant thug who is trying to drug the favourite, Mannequin, so he will lose in the next race.
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 * Title = Deadly Pawn
 * EpisodeNumber = 30
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 4
 * ProdCode = 4709
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|10|12}}
 * WrittenBy = Arthur Weiss
 * DirectedBy = Nathan Juran
 * ShortSummary = An insane Grandmaster (chess) named Kronig captures the little people, but proposes a deal with them – play him at chess and if they win, they go free; lose and he turns them over to the SID. The Earthlings choose Barry, their strongest player and a junior state chess champion on Earth. An enraged Kronig believes the little people are being disrespectful by having a boy oppose him, and he has the other humans tied to the chess pieces. Kronig has lied however-the Chessgame is a no win-no win for in reality if their piece is captured, they will fall through the squares of the mechanical chess table and down into a blast furnace! Dr Lalor, Kronig's therapist, protests against Kronig's cruelty, so Kronig has him locked in the closet. Steve and Dan escape from the chessboard and try to release Lalor. Meanwhile, Barry starts to lose the game, putting the lives of those still on the board in jeopardy.
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 * Title = The Unsuspected
 * EpisodeNumber = 31
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 5
 * ProdCode = 4707
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|10|19}}
 * WrittenBy = Bob and Esther Mitchell
 * DirectedBy = Harry Harris
 * ShortSummary = Steve is exposed to spores from a poisonous mushroom and he becomes violently paranoid. Thinking the others are trying to turn him over to the SID, he lures them away one by one from the ship and ties them up inside a vent. Meanwhile, Inspector Kobick, knowing Steve has been exposed to the mushroom, expects the human to turn on his friends. He radios Steve with a deal to turn in those he captured and he'll help him get back to Earth. When Dan comes in contact with the mushroom, he experiences its hallucinatory effects and realizes Steve has been drugged.
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 * Title = Giants and All That Jazz
 * EpisodeNumber = 32
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 6
 * ProdCode = 4705
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|10|26}}
 * WrittenBy = Richard Shapiro
 * DirectedBy = Harry Harris
 * ShortSummary = Fitzhugh, Barry and Valerie check out a music club and witness a man named Hanley rough up a down-on-his-luck trumpet player named Biff Bowers who owes him money. Later Bowers manages to capture Valerie and Barry, and knowing they are worth a hefty reward, he calls the SID. Unbeknown to Biff, Mark has rigged the phone and Steve intercepts the call to SID and buys the others some time where Dan tries a different approach – make Bowers a star overnight by teaching him Earth's jazz, in exchange for letting his companions go.
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 * Title = Collector's Item
 * EpisodeNumber = 33
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 7
 * ProdCode = 4704
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|11|2}}
 * WrittenBy = Bob and Wanda Duncan (s), Sidney Marshall (t)
 * DirectedBy = Sobey Martin
 * ShortSummary = Valerie becomes the centerpiece of a golden music box when a man named Garak captures her and puts her inside it as a dancing figurine. Garak then presents the box as a birthday gift to his wealthy toy-collecting uncle, but Steve and Mark soon learn Garak stands to inherit a fortune from his uncle and the box is really a bomb triggered to go off if someone opens the cage door. While Dan and Fitzhugh try to rescue Valerie, Steve and Mark warn Garak's wife that her husband is trying to commit a murder.
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 * Title = Every Dog Needs a Boy
 * EpisodeNumber = 34
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 8
 * ProdCode = 4711
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|11|9}}
 * WrittenBy = Jerry Thomas
 * DirectedBy = Harry Harris
 * ShortSummary = Chipper is injured when the bark from a giant dog sends him tumbling into a wall and Barry risks capture by taking him to a vet at a pet store. Valerie follows and helps Barry get Chipper into the vet's office, but they are discovered by the vet's assistant Ben who does what he can to help the tiny dog. Soon the shop owner's bullying son Carl arrives, and learns little people are hiding there and tries to capture them. Later, Carl loses a valuable movie dog named King and Ben goes to search for it leaving Carl to snoop around and find Barry and Valerie's hiding spot.
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 * Title = Chamber of Fear
 * EpisodeNumber = 35
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 9
 * ProdCode = 4702
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|11|16}}
 * WrittenBy = Arthur Weiss
 * DirectedBy = Sobey Martin
 * ShortSummary = Fitzhugh is captured by a wax sculptor named Deenar who is partner to a jewel thief named Jolo. When Jolo orders the artist to cut up a large diamond into ten small pieces, he refuses believing three pieces would be worth more, and Jolo angrily ends their partnership. When Steve and Dan come to rescue Fitzhugh, they offer Deenar a deal to sneak the diamond away from Jolo in exchange for the release of their friend. Deenar agrees but Steve sends Mark and Valerie to fetch the diamond while he and Dan try to release Fitzhugh. The rescue becomes more difficult when they learn Fitzhugh is being guarded by a fierce dog.
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 * Title = The Clones
 * EpisodeNumber = 36
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 10
 * ProdCode = 4713
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|11|23}}
 * WrittenBy = Oliver Crawford, Bob and Esther Mitchell (t)
 * DirectedBy = Nathan Juran
 * ShortSummary = A giant scientist abducts some of the little people and begins making clones of them. After the duplicates of Valerie and Barry sabotage the ship and try to kill the others, Steve, Mark and Dan try to rescue the originals who are being held in a lab. The near-perfect clones have a flaw however, as they become violent and then die within hours of being created. They can also be identified by dark spots on their skin, but the scientist has a special plan for Dan when he realizes the spots are invisible on Dan's dark skin and his clone will make a better spy.
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 * Title = Comeback
 * EpisodeNumber = 37
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 11
 * ProdCode = 4712
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|11|30}}
 * WrittenBy = Richard Shapiro
 * DirectedBy = Harry Harris
 * ShortSummary = Steve, Mark, Valerie and Fitzhugh talk a washed up movie star named Egor out of committing suicide, but he repays their kindness by putting them in a shoebox and trying to sell them to a movie studio. Unfortunately, Egor is rejected at every turn until he visits a B-movie studio whose greedy producer, Manfred, gets an idea for a movie about living dolls. Meanwhile, Dan and Barry try to rescue the others from the set before Manfred makes them the hapless victims of gory death scenes that are not in the script.
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 * Title = A Place Called Earth
 * EpisodeNumber = 38
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 12
 * ProdCode = 4708
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|12|7}}
 * WrittenBy = William Welch
 * DirectedBy = Harmon Jones
 * ShortSummary = Two humans, Olds and Fielder, travel from the year 5477 to observe Earth in the past, but they accidentally arrive on the giants' planet. They show up at the Earthlings' camp just as a giant stumbles upon the Spindrift, but the futuristic humans kill the intruder and disintegrate the body with an amulet weapon before anyone realizes what happened. Steve quickly becomes suspicious of their new guests and learns they are renegades who originally planned to kill all humans on Earth and leaving those few they captured to repopulate the future Earth with humans they can easily control.
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 * Title = Land of the Lost
 * EpisodeNumber = 39
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 13
 * ProdCode = 4710
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|12|14}}
 * WrittenBy = William Welch
 * DirectedBy = Nathan Juran, Sobey Martin
 * ShortSummary = Steve, Mark, Valerie and Barry become caught in a toy balloon and end up pulled by a strange force over a thousand miles across a violent ocean to a land ruled by a ruthless dictator named Titus. The despot, however, has no knowledge of the land across the ocean and thinks all the inhabitants are as small as the little people, but when Steve explains that giants live there as well, Titus demands he bring back proof of their existence and technology. While Titus holds the others hostage, Steve travels back to get photos of the giants and to fetch Dan and Fitzhugh who try to sabotage Titus's attraction beam that pulled them there. Note: Series regular Heather Young (Betty) does not appear in this episode.
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 * Title = Home Sweet Home
 * EpisodeNumber = 40
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 14
 * ProdCode = 4715
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|12|21}}
 * WrittenBy = William Welch
 * DirectedBy = Harry Harris
 * ShortSummary = The humans discover a space pod left behind by the time traveling visitors from the year 5477. While they investigate the craft, two giant park rangers appear and try to capture them. Steve and Fitzhugh manage to escape in the pod but the ship is on a preflight course to coordinates unknown. After escaping the giants, Mark tries to decipher the pod's operation manual and help Steve navigate back. Soon however, the pod is caught in an energy storm that takes Steve and Fitzhugh back to a small New England town on Earth – but stuck 75 years in the past. Note: Series regular Heather Young (Betty) does not appear in this episode.
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 * Title = Our Man O'Reilly
 * EpisodeNumber = 41
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 15
 * ProdCode = 4716
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1969|12|28}}
 * WrittenBy = Jackson Gillis
 * DirectedBy = Sobey Martin
 * ShortSummary = A bumbling giant named O'Reilly stumbles upon the little people, but he thinks they are leprechauns and offers to serve them. Steve thinks the giant could be dangerous, but Mark believes he could be useful and has Fitzhugh guide him along to fetch various materials and tools needed to fix the Spindrift. Meanwhile, a shady police detective named Krenko sticks his nose into O'Reilly's business and disrupts the Earthling's repair efforts. Secretly however, Krenko plots to frame O'Reilly in a jewelry theft.
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 * Title = Nightmare
 * EpisodeNumber = 42
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 16
 * ProdCode = 4714
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|1|4}}
 * WrittenBy = William Welch
 * DirectedBy = Nathan Juran
 * ShortSummary = A giant engineer named Andre helps the little people develop a new power source – the "Delta Device" – which could power the Spindrift, but during a test the Earthlings are exposed to a burst of radiation. Afterward, they realize they have become invisible to the giants when Andre's superior, Dr. Berger, comes to the Spindrift campsite yet is not able see the humans right under his nose. As the weird effect begins to grow out of control, it creates strange warps in space and time where the giants become invisible to the humans and Steve becomes trapped in a nightmarish dimension. Note: This episode is also called '"The Delta Effect".
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 * Title = Pay the Piper
 * EpisodeNumber = 43
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 17
 * ProdCode = 4718
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|1|11}}
 * WrittenBy = Richard Shapiro
 * DirectedBy = Harry Harris
 * ShortSummary = A mysterious flute player lures Dan, Valerie, Betty and Fitzhugh into a cage with his mesmerizing music. The man claims to be not only the fabled Pied Piper of Hamelin, but also a being capable of traveling between worlds and changing his size and appearance. The Piper takes the captured humans to a giant Senator, but the politician refuses to pay him for the capture. As revenge, the Piper tries to lure the Senator's young son away. Mark devises a way to cancel out the Piper's music by recording the music and playing it backwards. The Piper comes up with another scheme, and reduced to the size of the humans, he offers Fitzhugh a ride back to Earth if he disables the tape recorder.
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 * Title = The Secret City of Limbo
 * EpisodeNumber = 44
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 18
 * ProdCode = 4719
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|1|18}}
 * WrittenBy = Bob and Esther Mitchell
 * DirectedBy = Sobey Martin
 * ShortSummary = After Mark and Valerie witness a pair of giant archeologists get attacked by a man with a laser gun, they hide in hole where they find a teleporter that sends them to an underground city called Limbo which is populated by giants unknown to those living on the surface. Their leader Taru, explains that if the archeologists discover Limbo, they will start a war which the more advanced underground giants will surely win. Taru wishes to avoid war, but his rival, General Aza, is trying to start one and had sent the gunman to kill the scientists. With the other's help, Mark comes up with a plan to contaminate the soil at the dig site with an explosive chemical that would prevent the surface giants from blasting and discovering the hidden city.
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 * Title = Panic
 * EpisodeNumber = 45
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 19
 * ProdCode = 4717
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|1|25}}
 * WrittenBy = Bob and Wanda Duncan
 * DirectedBy = Sobey Martin
 * ShortSummary = Betty and Fitzhugh are caught in a paralyzing trap and taken away by a SID officer to an interrogator named Marad. Suddenly, they are teleported away to the home of Professor Kirmus who has developed a matter transport device capable of sending anything anywhere – including the little people back to Earth. Unfortunately Kirmus's housekeeper is really a SID operative and she turns Kirmus in to the authorities, but Marad is really after the secrets of the teleport machine. Meanwhile, Steve and the other Earthlings search for a missing component of the device hidden by Kirmus, who promises them a trip back home.
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 * Title = The Deadly Dart
 * EpisodeNumber = 46
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 20
 * ProdCode = 4722
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|2|1}}
 * WrittenBy = William L. Stuart
 * DirectedBy = Harry Harris
 * ShortSummary = Two SID agents turn up dead, killed by poison injected at the ankle, and at the crime scene the police find the footprints of little people and a blowgun with Mark's initials inscribed on it. Back at the Spindrift, the humans learn a giant reporter named Bertha Fry is spreading accusations that the Earthlings are murderers and should be exterminated. Fitzhugh openly accuses Mark of being the killer and when more evidence mounts against him, Mark mysteriously disappears. When a giant lab is blown up and another giant is murdered, Steve races to locate Mark who he suspects is really being set up by the reporter who wants her "big story". Note: This episode is also called "The Retaliator".
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 * Title = Doomsday
 * EpisodeNumber = 47
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 21
 * ProdCode = 4720
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|2|15}}
 * WrittenBy = Daniel B. Ullman
 * DirectedBy = Harry Harris
 * ShortSummary = The little people help a giant man named Kamber who has been shot by police, but he refuses medical help and has the humans contact a woman named Dr. North instead. Once North arrives, it is revealed she and Kamber are part of terrorist plot to blow up half-a-million people. When she learns that the Earthlings have overheard the plan, she tries to kill them, but the humans manage to escape, with Fitzhugh injuring his leg. Betty and Valerie stay with Fitzhugh, while the others try figure out a clue left behind by Kamber that could lead to the location of the bombs. However, Inspector Kobick captures Betty and Fitzhugh, and doesn't buy their story of the terror plot, leaving Steve and the others to foil the plan themselves.
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 * Title = A Small War
 * EpisodeNumber = 48
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 22
 * ProdCode = 4724
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|2|22}}
 * WrittenBy = Shirl Hendryx (t), Anthony Wilson (s)
 * DirectedBy = Harry Harris
 * ShortSummary = The little people encounter a giant boy named Alek who has come to play war with another unseen opponent named Falco. Armed with several mechanical army men, and a remote controlled jeep, tank and airplane, Alek launches an assault upon the little people who he thinks are Falco's mechanical toys. Unfortunately for the Earthlings, at their scale, the war toys are just as lethal as the real things and must be stopped. Steve tries to reason with the boy, but is unsuccessful; and after Alek "bombs" the Spindrift camp with stones from the plane, a fed up Mark attempts to stop the child even if it means having to harm him.
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 * Title = The Marionettes
 * EpisodeNumber = 49
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 23
 * ProdCode = 4725
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|3|1}}
 * WrittenBy = William Welch
 * DirectedBy = Sobey Martin
 * ShortSummary = After a gorilla escapes from a circus and captures Valerie, the little people help guide a puppeteer named Goalby in finding the beast. Although Valerie is freed from the ape, Betty becomes caught in an animal trap and Goalby helps release her too. In doing so, he injures his hand and cannot perform. To repay him, Betty and Fitzhugh decide to be Goalby's marionettes until his hand heals. Meanwhile, Dan and Valerie are captured by Brady, the circus master; and he quickly realizes Goalby's puppet show is a farce. Instead of firing the puppeteer, Brady schemes to make a fortune off the realistic puppet act and forces Goalby to maintain the illusion. Goalby instead, tries to help Steve and Mark rescue their friends.
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 * Title = Wild Journey
 * EpisodeNumber = 50
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 24
 * ProdCode = 4721
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|3|8}}
 * WrittenBy = William Welch
 * DirectedBy = Harry Harris
 * ShortSummary = Steve and Dan encounter two time-travelling people their size, Throg and Berna, who escape a SID agent by using an amazing device called the STM – "Space-Time Manipulator". Throg demonstrates the abilities of the STM which can send anyone, to anywhere, to any time. Steve believes he could use the device to return to Earth and change everyone's current predicament by avoiding taking off for the fateful flight of the Spindrift. Steve manages to gets a hold of the device and he and Dan teleport back to Los Angeles spaceport on Earth just before the flight. Throg and Berna soon arrive and angrily explain that it is forbidden to change history, but Steve and Dan do not want to go back to the giant world so easily. Oddly, though the Spindrift left on their trip on June 12, 1983 in the pilot, their departure date here is September 25, 1983.
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 * Title = Graveyard of Fools
 * EpisodeNumber = 51
 * EpisodeNumber2 = 25
 * ProdCode = 4723
 * OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1970|3|22}}
 * WrittenBy = Sidney Marshall
 * DirectedBy = Sobey Martin
 * ShortSummary = Steve, Dan, Valerie and Fitzhugh are caught by a mad scientist named Melzac who puts them in a model plane and flies it to the "Graveyard of Fools" – an uncharted land on the giants' world that no one has ever returned from. During the flight, the plane enters a mysterious vortex and vanishes along with the little ones who find themselves in a bizarre world under the control of Melzac's twin brother Bryk. Meanwhile, Mark is caught by Melzac who reveals he and his brother's plans to fix an alien device, the "servo actuator", which is causing ripples in space and time and requires the use of the little ones to get inside it and conduct repairs.
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Season 1 (1968–69)
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