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Land of the Giants Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1968 - 1969
Episode 1
The Crash
Sun, Sep 22, 196850 mins
On June 12, 1983, a sub-orbital aircraft named the Spindrift flying from Los Angeles is pulled into a space warp which transports its crew and passengers into another dimension. The ship eventually lands on a planet where everything is 12 times larger than normal. In their first night on the planet they are attacked by a giant cat and two of their party, Captain Steve Burton and jet set heiress Valerie Scott, are captured by a pair of giant scientists but are eventually rescued by the rest of the castaways. Unfortunately, they soon realize that for the time being they are stuck on this strange world.
Episode 2
Ghost Town
Sun, Sep 29, 196850 mins
While being chased by a hobo, the castaways find themselves trapped by a force field. They then find a town without any people in it. They soon find out that the town was built by a lonely old man who built the town based on pictures he found on a ship that crash landed on the planet years earlier. They appreciate the old man's kindness, but still try to find a way to escape. Complicating matters is the old man's sadistic granddaughter, who is jealous of them and tries to kill them.
Episode 3
Framed
Sun, Oct 6, 196850 mins
While looking for lenses to use to charge the Spindrift's solar batteries, the castaways witness a photographer murder the model he was photographing after he attempted to make a pass at her. He then tries to pin the blame on a bum, but they take a picture of him as he tries to plant evidence. Val, who is an amateur photographer, agrees to go with Steve to try to develop the film and try to clear the bum of a murder rap.
Episode 4
Underground
Sun, Oct 20, 196850 mins
The castaways are contacted by someone claiming to be from Earth and who promises to help them get back home. However, they soon find out that the "earthman" is really a giant scientist who is part of an underground movement bent on overthrowing the planet's totalitarian government. He then makes a deal with Steve and the others that if they help him retrieve some information on some political prisoners that he will help them get back home.
Episode 5
Terror-Go-Round
Sun, Nov 3, 196850 mins
Fitzhugh and Barry get caught by a traveling circus act, using a bear to keep other little people to make them escape. Mark and Commander Burton must find a way to divert the kidnappers attention. However the rest are caught and Burton must find a way, maybe the help of the boy who travels with them to escape from this fate to be sold at a carnival...
Episode 6
The Flight Plan
Sun, Nov 10, 196850 mins
The castaways meet a supposedly amnesiac man from Earth. They decide to take him in against Steve's better judgment. It is soon revealed that the "little person" is a giant who has taken a drug to shrink himself down to the size of the earthlings. He eventually kidnaps Betty and takes her to their hideout with hopes the others will follow so they can be captured.
Episode 7
Manhunt
Sun, Nov 17, 196850 mins
A prison escapee tries to hide from policemen. While Steve, Mark and Fitzhugh are away, the prisoner takes the Spindrift with the rest of the crew inside. However, he falls in a quicksand pit with the spaceship. The threesome must get the giant out of the instable ground before he sinks with the ship and what's inside...
Episode 8
The Trap
Sun, Nov 24, 196850 mins
While scavenging parts to repair the Spindrift, two of the crew are captured by scientists. The rest of the crew unite to undertake a daring rescue attempt with everything now on the line.
Episode 9
The Creed
Sun, Dec 1, 196850 mins
While out foraging for food, Barry collapses in pain and it soon becomes apparent that he is suffering from appendicitis. It is then decided that Betty, who has nurses training, will perform the operation. Steve and Mark then go to a local hospital to get the supplies needed for the operation. However, they soon encounter sympathetic Doctor Brulle, who decides to help the castaways and supply them with a medical kit that was on another ship that crashed on the planet on one condition; that Fitzhugh helps to translate a medical encyclopedia that is written in German. After the terms are agreed upon, the doctor supplies them with the medical kit and the rest of the castaways transport Barry to a clearing in the forest for the operation. Unfortunately, a janitor who felt the doctor was treating him badly, follows the doctor and reports him to the police.
Episode 10
Double-Cross
Sun, Dec 8, 196850 mins
Fitzhugh is captured by two giants who instantly realize his small size will be of value for a gem robbery they have planned. Unfortunately the men need someone even smaller and go in search of the other members of the crew.
Episode 11
The Weird World
Sun, Dec 22, 196850 mins
The castaways find a tape recorder which has the taped log of Major Kagan, an astronaut who crash landed on the planet with his crew a few years earlier. Barry is later captured by the paranoid Kagan, who thinks that the castaways are working with the giants. However, they later convince him that they are not and he agrees to help them go to the giant's science center to help retrieve his ship, which is being examined by their scientists. However, when they get there Kagan does not enter with them due to the fact that he remembers that something horrible is in there and it killed his crew. However, when the castaways are being chased by a giant scientist he must conquer his fear and save them.
Episode 12
The Golden Cage
Sun, Dec 29, 196850 mins
The crew finds a woman of their size while on a trek. Mark falls in love with her, who in return, invites him to her home. Burton tries to convince Mark that this is a trap set to become a guinea pig for the Giants. However, blinded by love, Mark is unable to make up his mind, even that his urge ends up with a fight with the commander itself...
Episode 13
The Lost Ones
Sun, Jan 5, 196950 mins
The castaways encounter another group from Earth. However, they are a group of juvenile delinquents lead by a hard nose named Nick who crash landed on the giants' planet two years earlier and now they think the Spindrift crew is in league with the giants and take Steve, Mark, Val and Betty hostage. Things really become complicated when Nick's brother Joey becomes caught in an animal trap. Now the two groups must work together to save the young man before he becomes a lab specimen.
Episode 14
Brainwash
Sun, Jan 12, 196950 mins
Steve and Fitzhugh find a small cavern loaded with electronic equipment that appears to be whats left of a previous expedition from Earth. The race is on once the Giants become aware of the equipments existence and try to recover it for their own needs.
Episode 15
The Bounty Hunter
Sun, Jan 19, 196950 mins
The Giant's search for the humans intensifies in the forest. The crew of the Spindrift work with ever increasing urgency to get the ship repaired until one of them makes a chance discovery that could lead to a game changing weapon.
Episode 16
On a Clear Night You Can See Earth
Sun, Jan 26, 196950 mins
Steve and Fitzhugh are threatened with death when they get involved with a mad giant inventor and his latest contraption.
Episode 17
Deadly Lodestone
Sun, Feb 2, 196950 mins
The SID uses a new type of metal detector in its pursuit of the castaways. The detector is programmed to key in on an alloy that is only found on Earth. They hide any and all objects made of the alloy except for one. Unfortunately, the one object they can't hide is a surgical pin in Dan's leg, which was used to fix a broken leg he suffered while competing in the Olympics. They then decide to try to contact their old friend Dr. Brule, who is now in prison after he was caught helping them when Barry needed an operation to remove his appendix. However, Brule and his nurse are being forced by Kobick and the warden at the prison to go ahead with the operation as a way to capture Dan and the others.
Episode 18
Night of Thrombeldinbar
Sun, Feb 16, 196950 mins
Fitzhugh is captured by an orphan while trying to flee from a gypsy and his monkey. The kid brings him to a orphanage, where he and his friend think he is an elf called Thrombeldinbar. However, their minder, who is not keen since he missed his vacation because of them, gives them a hard time. However, Barry told Commander Burton and his crew to free Fitzhugh from the children. However, the two orphans escape and falls in with the old gypsy, who is interested by the small pawn the children has in the bag.
Episode 19
Seven Little Indians
Sun, Feb 23, 196950 mins
The earthlings are captured one by one, victims of an ingenious trap offering no likely chance of escape.
Episode 20
Target: Earth
Sun, Mar 2, 196950 mins
A giant scientist has invented a device that is to be used as a guidance system for their space program. Unfortunately, it is flawed and has failed a critical test. Mark, going against Steve's orders, decides to help fix the problem and in return the scientist promises to help them return to Earth. However, the wife of the scientist is jealous of Mark and feels that any help he gives her husband will help to discredit him and as a result she reports what is going on to Inspector Kobick.
Episode 21
Genius at Work
Sun, Mar 9, 196950 mins
Barry and Fitzhugh befriend a 12-year old scientific genius named Jodar (Jody) who has invented a substance which causes growth. While talking to the boy, Barry's dog Chipper eats some of the formula and grows to gigantic size. After seeing this, Fitzhugh decides to eat some with the idea that he will no longer have to worry about being hunted down. However, he is mistaken for a giant who was accused of nearly killing a boy. Also, Fitz is found with some of the money he stole back on Earth he is taken to SID headquarters for questioning. When Steve finds out, he goes to Jody and takes some of the formula as part of a plan to get Fitzhugh out of jail and to try to find the man who Fitz was mistaken for.
Episode 22
Return of Inidu
Sun, Mar 16, 196950 mins
The castaways befriend a giant magician named Inidu after he saves them from a couple of giant bullies. Inidu tells them that he is on the run after being falsely accused of murder when someone died as a result of one his tricks going horribly wrong. Later, his protégée, a young magician named Enog, who was always ambitious, admits to sabotaging the trick as part of a plan to supplant his teacher. Unfortunately, Enog captures Valerie and threatens to kill her unless Inidu reveals his greatest trick to him.
Episode 23
Rescue
Sun, Mar 23, 196960 mins
The little people are witness to an attempt to save two children from a cave-in accident. Since the earth is too instable, the little people proposes to the parents to find a way to let the children escape successfully. But Inspector Kobrick gets aware of this plan, and might find a way to capture the little people once the rescue is done...
Episode 24
Sabotage
Sun, Mar 30, 196950 mins
A fanatical plot is developing to turn the giants against little people.
Episode 25
Shell Game
Sun, Apr 13, 196950 mins
A near-bankrupted giant wants to find a way to help his deaf son. He soon captures several of the little people who were hiding in the shells. Since they notice he is deaf, Mark wants to find a way to help the boy get an hearing aid. He suggests his family help, despite their reticence, as hosting little people is a crime. They finally agree to help, knowing that maybe this hearing aid might get him financially viable.
Episode 26
The Chase
Sun, Apr 20, 196950 mins
A gang of rebels are attacking the Secret Police headquarters. Inspector Kobick needs the help of the Little People promising their freedom if he catches them. However, he keeps Betty in hostage, while Burton and Mark are going under the city's sewers to track them down, as they are also counterfeiters...