Planet of giants
Television series | |
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German title | Planet of giants |
Original title | Land of the Giants |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Year (s) | 1968-1970 |
Production company |
20th Century Fox Television Irwin Allen Productions Kent Productions |
length | 60 minutes |
Episodes | 51 in 2 seasons |
genre | Science fiction |
idea | Irwin Allen |
production | Irwin Allen |
music |
Richard LaSalle Leith Stevens Joseph Mullendore |
First broadcast | September 22, 1968 (USA) on ABC |
German-language first broadcast |
January 20, 1992 on Pro7 |
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Land of the Giants is an American science fiction - television series . The series was broadcast from September 22, 1968 to March 22, 1970 on the US broadcaster ABC . The first season consisted of 26 episodes, the second season 25 episodes.
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When the passenger spaceship Spindrift is on a space flight from Los Angeles to London, it gets caught in a storm and deviates from its intended course due to an instrument failure. It is approaching a planet that looks very similar to Earth and has to make an emergency landing here, severely damaging the spindrift. To their great surprise, the astronauts discover that this is not the earth, but the planet of the giants. The huge inhabitants are twelve times the size of the people. The stranded include Captain Steve Burton, copilot Dan Erickson, stewardess Betty Hamilton and the passengers, actress Valerie Scott, engineer Mark Wilson, criminal Alexander B. Fitzhugh and twelve-year-old orphan boy Barry Lockridge with his dog Chipper. When trying to make their spaceship airworthy again in order to leave the planet as quickly as possible, the crew members are disturbed by oversized children and gigantic insects, and the huge inhabitants of the alien planet try to capture the spacemen as test objects. Since the residents are not as technically advanced as the people, the totalitarian government of the giants offered a reward to the space travelers to fathom modern technology. In the period that followed, the stranded experience various adventures on the planet and repeatedly find themselves in the most hair-raising situations.
Episode list
season 1
No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast in the USA | German language first broadcast ( D ) |
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1 | 1 | The crash landing | The crash | 2nd September 1968 | January 20, 1992 |
2 | 2 | The ghost town | Ghost town | 29th September 1968 | May 4th 1992 |
3 | 3 | Crime witnesses | Framed | October 6, 1968 | March 16, 1992 |
4th | 4th | In secret mission | Underground | 20th October 1968 | April 6, 1992 |
5 | 5 | Circus of horror | Terror-Go-Round | 3rd November 1968 | May 18, 1992 |
6th | 6th | The escape plan | The Flight Plan | November 10, 1968 | March 30, 1992 |
7th | 7th | Quicksand | Manhunt | 17th November 1968 | March 9, 1992 |
8th | 8th | The trap | The trap | November 24, 1968 | 3rd February 1992 |
9 | 9 | The operation | The Creed | 1st December 1968 | March 23, 1992 |
10 | 10 | The ruby | Double cross | December 8, 1968 | April 13, 1992 |
11 | 11 | Another world | The Weird World | 22nd December 1968 | January 27, 1992 |
12 | 12 | The golden cage | The Golden Cage | December 29, 1968 | 17th February 1992 |
13 | 13 | The lost ones | The Lost Ones | 5th January 1969 | February 24, 1992 |
14th | 14th | Brainwashing | Brainwash | January 12, 1969 | May 11, 1992 |
15th | 15th | The bounty hunters | The Bounty Hunter | 19th January 1969 | February 10, 1992 |
16 | 16 | Look at the earth | On a Clear Night You Can See Earth | January 26, 1969 | April 20, 1992 |
17th | 17th | Deadly metal | Deadly Lodestone | 2nd February 1969 | June 9, 1992 |
18th | 18th | The night of the goblin | Night of Thrombeldinbar | 16th February 1969 | June 15, 1992 |
19th | 19th | Dashed the bill | Seven Little Indians | February 23, 1969 | June 22, 1992 |
20th | 20th | Destination: Earth | Target: Earth | March 2nd 1969 | June 29, 1992 |
21st | 21st | The genius | Genius at Work | March 9, 1969 | June 1, 1992 |
22nd | 22nd | The night of the ghosts | Return of Inidu | March 16, 1969 | July 13, 1992 |
23 | 23 | The rescue | Rescue | March 23, 1969 | July 6, 1992 |
24 | 24 | sabotage | sabotage | March 30, 1969 | May 25, 1992 |
25th | 25th | A world of silence | Shell Game | April 13, 1969 | August 29, 1992 |
26th | 26th | Traces in the underground | The Chase | April 20, 1969 | August 30, 1992 |
season 2
No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | First broadcast in the USA | German language first broadcast ( D ) |
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27 | 1 | The robot | The Mechanical Man | September 21, 1969 | September 12, 1992 |
28 | 2 | Six hours left to live | Six Hours to Live | September 28, 1969 | 20th September 1992 |
29 | 3 | Easy come easy go | The Inside Rail | 5th October 1969 | 5th September 1992 |
30th | 4th | Checkmate! | Deadly Pawn | October 12, 1969 | 3rd October 1992 |
31 | 5 | Paranoia | The Unsuspected | 19th October 1969 | September 26, 1992 |
32 | 6th | Play it again, Dan! | Giants and All That Jazz | October 26, 1969 | 19th September 1992 |
33 | 7th | Music box of death | Collector's Item | 2nd November 1969 | September 13, 1992 |
34 | 8th | Risk to chippers | Every Dog Needs a Boy | November 9, 1969 | October 10, 1992 |
35 | 9 | Cabinet of Secrets | Chamber of Fear | November 16, 1969 | September 6, 1992 |
36 | 10 | The clones | The Clones | November 23, 1969 | October 11, 1992 |
37 | 11 | The horror film | comeback | November 30, 1969 | 17th October 1992 |
38 | 12 | Travel through time | A Place Called Earth | 7th December 1969 | September 27, 1992 |
39 | 13 | The sea of storms | Land of the Lost | December 14, 1969 | 4th October 1992 |
40 | 14th | The time machine | Home sweet home | December 21, 1969 | October 24, 1992 |
41 | 15th | Our friend the giant | Our Man O'Reilly | December 28, 1969 | October 25, 1992 |
42 | 16 | The delta effect | Nightmare | 4th January 1970 | October 18, 1992 |
43 | 17th | The Pied Piper | Pay the piper | January 11, 1970 | November 1, 1992 |
44 | 18th | The underground city | The Secret City of Limbo | January 18, 1970 | November 7, 1992 |
45 | 19th | panic | Panic | January 25, 1970 | October 31, 1992 |
46 | 20th | Arrows of death | The Deadly Dart | 1st February 1970 | November 15, 1992 |
47 | 21st | At eleven o'clock the world ends | Doomsday | February 15, 1970 | November 8, 1992 |
48 | 22nd | Deadly toy | A small war | February 22, 1970 | November 22, 1992 |
49 | 23 | The puppets | The Marionettes | March 1, 1970 | November 28, 1992 |
50 | 24 | trip to the past | Wild Journey | March 8, 1970 | November 14, 1992 |
51 | 25th | Cemetery of Fools | Graveyard of Fools | March 22, 1970 | November 21, 1992 |
actor
Well-known actors such as Sam Elliott , Susan Howard , John Carradine , Ron Howard , Kevin Hagen , Cliff Osmond , Richard Anderson , John Abbott and Paul Fix appeared in individual episodes over the course of the series.
Web links
- Land of the Giants in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Planet of the Giants in the online movie database
- Episode guide at fernsehserien.de
- Official website