jptuttleb 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.

bkoganbing Passing through a mysterious cloud a small subspace vehicle with the speed of the Concorde the passengers and crew of the futuristic ship land on an earth like planet. Only the people are giants compared to them about 12 times bigger. Funny thing is that they all speak perfect English.But so did the giants of Brobdingnag in Jonathan Swift's classic Gulliver's Travels. Seven people and a dog now have to survive in a very horrible place where you have to fear the house cat. Seven people on Gilligan's Island as well, 7 people on Lost In Space as well. Seems to be the right number for a television series.Lost In Space also had as its main feature the relationship between the boy, the rogue, and a robot. Here it was boy Stefan Arngrim, rogue Kurt Kaszner and a dog instead of a robot. The rest of the cast was Gary Conway, Don Marshall, Don Matheson, Deanna Lund, and Heather Young. Like in Lost In Space they took a backseat to the aforementioned.Surprised how few credit Irwin Allen from using Jonathan Swift as an inspiration. Land Of The Giants was not a classic, still it has a following to this day and rightly so.

Peter Hayward As a kid I watched LOTG when it first aired,as a teenager I watched the reruns,as a Young Man I waited for pay TV to arrive so once again I could relive a childhood memory,as a aging Man I now own the complete set on DVD That should tell you something that I really like this show.The plots for the show were basically all the same-little person gets caught,saved by one or more his or hers colleagues or a giant in distress and a little person helps out but other than that this TV show for its day was a television masterpiece-just a pity like most Irwin Allen creations never had an ending so since Hollywood loves making movies out of old TV shows I think LOTG should be included also.

contradad-1 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.