Land of the Giants: StuOz Top 15 Episodes
51 episodes were made. 15 were outstanding, 28 were reasonably entertaining and eight were total stinkers. The eight stinkers were Return to Inidu, The Mechanical Man, Inside Rail, Giants And All That Jazz, Comeback, Collector's Item, Our Man O'Reilly and The Marionettes.
Link to a 2016 LOTG fan-made remake:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZvz0ah3USY
Link to a 2016 LOTG fan-made remake:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZvz0ah3USY
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- DirectorIrwin AllenStarsGary ConwayDon MathesonStefan ArngrimOn 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.
- DirectorNathan JuranStarsGary ConwayDon MathesonStefan ArngrimWhile 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.
- DirectorSobey MartinStarsGary ConwayDon MathesonStefan ArngrimA 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...
- DirectorSobey MartinStarsGary ConwayDon MathesonStefan ArngrimWhile 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.
- DirectorHarry HarrisStarsGary ConwayDon MathesonStefan ArngrimThe 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.
- DirectorSobey MartinStarsGary ConwayDon MathesonStefan ArngrimThe 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...
- DirectorHarry HarrisStarsGary ConwayDon MathesonStefan ArngrimFour teen-age punks, the last remnants of another wrecked Earth spaceship, capture Betty and Valerie.
- DirectorHarry HarrisStarsGary ConwayDon MathesonStefan ArngrimThe 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.
- DirectorSobey MartinStarsGary ConwayDon MathesonStefan ArngrimBarry 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.
- DirectorHarry HarrisStarsGary ConwayDon MathesonStefan ArngrimWhile playing with a giant dog, Chipper is injured when the dog sneezes and it causes him to hit a wall. Against Steve's orders, Barry, along with Val, goes to the veterinarian's office where the dog is being kept. They then meet his young assistant who agrees to help save Chipper. Unfortunately, the vet's lazy son finds out and holds Barry and Val hostage. The young man also was responsible for the dog that Chipper was playing with to run away. Now Steve, Mark, Dan and Fitzhugh must not only save Barry and Val, but also find the giant dog, which was a valuable movie dog, before it is too late.
- DirectorHarmon JonesStarsGary ConwayDon MathesonStefan ArngrimA pair of time travelers from Earth's distant future are sent back to the past by their superiors on a mission of observation. However, the pair use the trip to plot for the eventual takeover of Earth in the future by wiping out most of mankind with a deadly virus and using the planet of the giants as a staging base. They eventually run into the castaways and use them as unwitting accomplices to their plot. Eventually Steve, Mark and the others find out the pair's scheme and try to stop them before they change mankind's future.
- DirectorHarry HarrisStarsGary ConwayDon MathesonStefan ArngrimSteve and Fitzhugh attempt to return to Earth in a spacepod, but travel back in time to the year 1900 where the local villagers decide they are being attacked by warlocks.
- DirectorNathan JuranStarsGary ConwayDon MathesonStefan ArngrimWhile working on a small nuclear reactor invented by a sympathetic giant scientist, the castaways are accidentally exposed to strange radiation that causes them to seemingly vanish or experience wild hallucinations. They then try to find a way to alleviate the symptoms. However, while Steve, Mark and Dan are away, an impatient Fitzhugh activates the device and it gets dangerously close to critical mass.
- DirectorSobey MartinStarsGary ConwayDon MathesonStefan ArngrimThe little people witness a battle between several giants involving a mysterious new weapon, the owner of which subsequently disappears into a cave. It transpires that he is from a secret underground society which lives beneath the surface of the planet.
- DirectorHarry HarrisStarsGary ConwayDon MathesonStefan ArngrimSteve and Dan meet up with a pair of time travelers from another planet. The two pilots wind up stealing the device the pair uses for their travels and use it to go back to the day the Spindrift crashed on the planet of the giants in order to prevent the accident from happening. However, the two time travelers have followed them and warn the pair that if they do change history there is a good chance that when the Spindrift crashes that this time no one will survive.
- CreatorIrwin AllenStarsGary ConwayDon MathesonStefan ArngrimA spaceship from Earth crash-lands on an Earth-like planet on which everything, including the human-like inhabitants, is twelve times the size of its counterpart on Earth.