Land of the Giants

A colourful, earnest Saturday-matinee adventure where tiny castaways dodge oversized dangers each week, more playful spectacle than dread.

Created by

Irwin Allen

Genres

Sci-fi & fantasy, Action & adventure, Drama

Starring

Don Marshall, Heather Young, Don Matheson

Overview

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.

How it feels

Campy, tense, earnest and whimsical. Measured and easy to follow.

About

Survival, isolation, freedom, power

Content

Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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