Land of the Giants
Seen it?1968 | 2 seasons | 60 min | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Drama
Weeknight Watchearly ratingWhy it’s a Weeknight Watch
With a short run with a modest audience, it's a mixed bag. Fine if it's on; don't plan your night around it.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- Made for sci-fi fans and action fans. If you loved Doctor Who or Andor, start here.
- The mood
- Exciting.
- The pace
- 2 seasons: a few weeks of evenings, hour-long episodes, about 51 hours in all.
- What might put you off
- Made in 1968: an older pace and style.
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 earned its rating
- CriticsNot counted
Not enough reviews on record yet
- AudiencesNot counted
Not measured yet: not enough ratings
- AwardsNot counted
No major awards or nominations
- Reach & staying powerBelow par
Ran for 2 seasons and reached a small audience so far; still draws a steady audience long after release
- Buzz & cultural impactSolid
About 75K people sought it out in the past year
Season by season
The show overall is a Weeknight Watch. Here's how each season stacks up; Season 2 is the high point.
- Season 11968 · 26 episodes · 6.3 out of 10Weeknight
Season 21969 · 25 episodes · 7.5 out of 10Sunday
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Cast & crew
Created by Irwin Allen
- Don MarshallDan Erickson
- Heather YoungBetty Hamilton
- Don MathesonMark Wilson
- Stefan ArngrimBarry Lockridge
- Gary ConwaySteve Burton
- Deanna LundValerie Scott
- Kurt KasznarAlexander B. Fitzhugh