The pencil-poking scene (click here to download the video)
Synopsis: Suborbital Flight 612 from Los Angeles to London passes through a space warp and crash lands in a world of giants.
This episode has some of the most memorable SW scenes ever in any TV or video presentation. The scene of Valerie taped to the desk is an absolute classic.
Betty and Valerie highlights:
Prologue: a terrified Betty and Valerie in the passenger seats, Betty telling Steve and Dan that everyone's scared, Valerie sits in checkered sleeveless dress and boots asking to call her chauffeur to pick her up. Giant kid picks up the space ship and Val falls face forward off her seat.
Act I: Betty screams and is flung about in the pilots' cockpit as the giant boy picks up the Spindrift. Valerie screams when the Spindrift crashlands in a giant forest. Valerie wants to go with Steve in exploring but is shown back to her seat. Betty is flung about when a giant cat attacks the ship. Valerie sneaks out of the spaceship and joins Steve in the giant forest. Valerie sneaks into a giant trap. Door slams on trap with Steve and Valerie inside. Giant scientist appears and peeks into the trap while Steve and Val cower in a corner.
Act II: Val and Steve are bounced around in the trap when the scientist carries it off. Steve and Val break out of the trap and hides on the lab table. Steve and Val climb giant books and shelves. Steve and Val hide behind a glass jar when the male scientist goes toward the shelf they are on. Val unfurls thread from a giant spool and ties knots. Val knocks over a test tube while following Steve down the thread. Giant scientists capture Steve on the thread and Val while running terrified on the table top. Val and Steve are dropped inside the giant jar. Val and Steve huddle together while the giant scientist looks at them with his eyes bulging.
Act III: Betty ties a rope to a giant safety pin. Valerie and Steve get taped down on slides. Giant scientist nudges Val's tummy with a pencil. Val screams and struggles helplessly. Dan cuts Val and Steve loose from the slides. Val leads the little people to a drawer and climbs down the safety pin rope to Mark on the floor. The little people run off with the scientist carrying a butterfly net after them.
Act IV: Val and Betty and the others run to a drainpipe. Val and Betty help free Dan from butterfly net. Little people run from giant who peeks into the drain pipe and yelling "Come Back". Giant's hand reaches into the pipe knocking the little people over and down the pipe. The little people emerge from the pipe into a garbage dump. A giant dog attacks the little people. Val and Betty and Barry hide in an egg carton where the dog tugs at it with his jaws. Girls scream. Dog is frightened off by flammable liquid.
Epilogue: Stunned girls walks off with the little people to go back to the spaceship.
The pencil-poking scene (click here to download the video)
Story by Irwin Allen Teleplay by Anthony Wilson Directed by Irwin Allen
Guest Stars: Don Watters as the giant entomologist, Anne Dore as the female giant scientist, Pat Michenaud as the giant boy.
Michenaud guested in one "Time Tunnel" episode as a young Louis XIV. His brother Gerald played Pepe in the Giants episode "Terror-Go-Round."
Synopsis: The little people find a small town their own size to discover a kindly giant old man and his bratty granddaughter built it.
Betty and Valerie highlights:
Prologue: Valerie, Barry and Fitzhugh hide from a giant tramp. Val and Fitzhugh walk past a giant hand belonging to the tramp who died after being hit with a force field. Val tests the force field by throwing a rock against it. Val and Fitz goes back to get help.
Act I: The little people walk towards the giant tramp's dead body and next to the giant hand. Valerie discovers a tree her size. The little people walk through a small town their size with no people. A pick-up truck with no driver almost runs them down. Valerie cries over the missing Barry.
Act II: Valerie finds a dress in a dress shop and shakes off the dust from it. Betty screams when she discovers a fallen mannequin thinking it is a real person. The little people run to a town saloon to find a dazed Barry. The giant old man finds them and tells them that he built the town. The granddaughter sticks her tongue out at them.
Act III: The little people eat stew made by Akman, the giant old man. The old man's granddaughter surprises them from above. She later pours a bucket of dirt on them. The little people rush out to see Steve tormented by giant matches tossed at him by the granddaughter. Val pleads that they are left at the granddaughter's mercy when the old man leaves.
Act IV: The little people deliberately sets the saloon on fire as a diversion. Val and the others are told to wait by Dan for Steve and Mark.
Epilogue: Val and Betty greet Steve and Mark and they all go home.
Story by Anthony Wilson Teleplay by Gil Ralston and William Welch Directed by Nathan JuranGuest Stars: Percy Helton as Akman, the giant grandfather, Amber Flower as the giant granddaughter, Raymond Guth as the giant tramp.
Helton guested on several episodes of "The Beverly Hillbillies". Helton and Guth appeared in the film "The Flim-Flam Man" with George C. Scott.
Synopsis: The little people witness a giant photographer kill his model and they use the giant's camera to snap a picture of him framing an innocent hobo for the crime.
Betty and Valerie Highlights:
Prologue: Betty, Barry, and Fitzhugh spy on the giant photographer taking pictures of his model. All of the little people gather around a giant camera.
Act I: Betty Val and Barry go get a crowbar to pry off the lens and return. Betty and Barry go on the lookout for the photographer. Valerie volunteers to snap a picture of the killer framing the hobo. Steve and Dan boost Val to the top of the camera. Betty and Barry run under giant foliage to warn the others of the killer returning. Val and Steve snap the picture and hide behind the camera as the giant turns around.
Act II: Val volunteers to develop the picture. Steve and Val get comfortable inside the giant camera. Betty and Barry sent to go keep watch again. They run back when the killer brings two giant cops. The little people watch the hobo get arrested. The killer picks up the camera causing Val to slip from her perch. Betty and the others follow the killer to the police station and then to his apartment. Val starts to get panicky and Steve calms her down. Val and Steve see the killer get antsy. The killer takes the camera into his darkroom.
Act III: Betty helps buy time for Mark and Dan to enter the killer's apartment by telling Fitzugh to send a yapping Chipper to Barry as a diversion. Steve and Val exit the camera and hides behind a tray of developing liquid. The killer develops the picture in front of them and then he destroys the negative.
Act IV: While Dan diverts the killer's attention, Val carries off the giant print. Mark, Steve, and Val climb down the safety pin rope from the table to the floor. Dan joins them and they hide behind a coat rack stand as the killer searches for the print and when giant cops enter.
Epilogue: The little people toss the print to the cops who arrest the killer. The little people run out of the apartment. The freed hobo leaves a box camera for the little people as a gift.
Written by Mann Rubin Directed by Harry HarrisGuest Stars: Paul Carr as the giant photographer/killer, Doodles Weaver as the giant hobo, Linda Peck as the giant model/murder victim, Dennis Cross as Giant cop #1, Baynes Barron as Giant Cop #2.
George Paul Carr appeared with Heather Young in one episode of the religious drama "Insight". Doodles Weaver played Friar Tuck, one of the "Archer's" (Art Carney) henchman on the "Batman" series and was a regular on the "Spike Jones" radio program.
Synopsis: A giant professor forces the little people to retrieve and destroy a document in a heavily guarded room.
Betty and Val highlights:
Prologue: No appearances
Act I: Betty and Valerie tend to a campfire when Steve appears telling everyone to get in the spaceship fast. The little people gather in the cockpit to hear Capt. Hartman's message of rescuing them. Val and Fitzhugh sneak off to meet Capt. Hartman. Steve catches up to them. Giant Prof. Gorak traps them in a giant can.
Act II: Gorak inverts the can in his hand to reveal the trapped Val, Steve, and Fitzhugh and takes them to his cave hideout. Gorak empties the little people in a crate. Val, Steve, and Fitzhugh talk to Gorak whose legs are in front of the crate they are standing in. Gorak reveals he was Capt. Hartman in a ruse. Betty, Mark, and Barry stand by the radio and then go out to look for the others, Gorak discloses his plans about retrieving the letter in the security building and uses a pencil to point to a map Steve is holding with Val standing next to him. Dan attempts to unlock the crate to free the others but Gorak catches him.
Act III: Betty, Mark, and Barry go to Gorak's cave but find it empty. Gorak keeps Val inside his coat pocket and pats it to make a point to the others. Gorak returns to the cave with all of the little people and packs Fitzhugh inside a parcel to infiltrate the building. Gorak puts each of the little people inside a mail sack to take them to the building. The little people enter a drain duct and start removing rocks blocking its path with a giant candle providing light.
Act IV: Girls continue digging, getting their clothes dirty.
Epilogue: Little People clear the duct and destroy the letter. They escape into the forest where Steve eulogizes Gorak who died while helping them escape.
Written by Charles Bennett Directed by Sobey MartinGuest Stars: Joseph Ruskin as Carlos the giant gypsy, Arthur Batanides as Luigi the giant gypsy, Gerald Michenaud as Pepe, Carlos' son, Arch Whiting as the giant policeman.
Joseph Ruskin appeared in the Giants episode "Secret City of Limbo" and voiced the commander in "A Place Called Earth". Arthur Batanides guested on "Lost in Space" in the episode "The Space Primevals". Arch Whiting played Sparks on "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea".
Synopsis: Creepy giant gypsies attempt to sell the little people to a circus
Betty and Val highlights:
Prologue: No Betty or Val
Act I: Val sees Mark and Steve test explosives outside the Spindrift. Little people see Carlos and Luigi the giant gypsies. Betty and Val bang pie tins to distract the giants. Carlos captures Betty, Val, Dan, and Mark.
Act II: Carlos cages Val, Betty, Dan, Mark, with the already captured Fitzhugh and Barry. The little people witness Carlos play ring toss with Mark tied to a stake. The gypsies place Val and Betty inside one of the pipes of an organ and place the others in different pipes to hide them from a giant policeman. Luigi plays the organ causing the little people to writhe in agony.
Act III: The giants take the little people out of the pipes after the cop leaves. Seteve rescues Mark and Barry but the others are placed back in the cage. The giants drive off to the circus with the cage in the back in their truck. Steve talks to the caged little people about a plan to escape using a giant balloon. The giants arrive at the circus.
Act IV: Betty pretends to be sick as a diversion, while Stve, Mark and Barry pump helium into the balloon. Mark frees the others from the cage. All of the little people climb into the gondola of the balloon. The balloon floats upwards. Carlos tries to shoot the balloon with a rifle. A bullet nicks the gondola causing Val to scream.
Epilogue: The balloon floats off and the little people hang on. The balloon finally lands in the forest. The little people jump off and they all go back to the spaceship.
Written by Ellis St. Joseph Directed by Sobey MartinGuest Stars: John Abbott as Gorak the giant professor, Lance LeGault as Giant cop, Jerry Catron as the the giant sentry, Ivan Markota as the giant fugitive, Paul Trinka as giant guard #1, Jim Gosa as giant guard #2.
John Abbott played Sesmar the alien in "Lost in Space", Lance LeGault played Colonel Decker on "The A-Team". Ivan Markota appeared as a SID Man in the Giants episode "Target Earth". Paul Trinka appeared on "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea".
Synopsis: A miniaturized giant befriends the little people in a scheme to steal their spaceship.
Prologue: Betty, Fitzhugh, and Barry find a man their size being chased by two giants. Betty befriends the scared man named Joe. They hide from the giants in the grass. Joe's groans almost tip off the giants.
Act I: Giants walk off. Betty takes Joe to the Spindrift. Steve chews out Betty for not contact him first before bringing Joe over. Joe staggers off. Giants appear...the girls go inside the Spindrift to hide.
Act II: Betty, Mark, and Dan find Steve who escaped from the giants. They discover Joe at the cockpit of the Spindrift reading a flight manual. Betty suggests Joe can learn to fly the ship. Betty and Steve follow Joe who ran off to meet with his giant buddies. Betty and Steve see the giants walk away. Joe walks behind them and gets their attention. Joe goes back to the spaceship and gets his wings. Joe runs off to take his miniaturization pills and Betty sees him argue with Steve and run off. Betty goes after Joe. She sees him radio his giant pals. Joe forcibly takes Betty to the giants' house.
Act III: Betty is forced to go into a giant cage. She slaps Joe when he gets rough. Joe warns that the giants could get rougher if she doesn't cooperate. Val and Fitzhugh search for Betty with no results. Joe returns to take the others to get ion propellant from a heavily guarded building to power the spaceship. The little people try to find Betty but a giant blocks their path. Val, Fitzhugh, and Barry stay outside while the men go get the ion.
Act IV: Mark and Dan give Val, Fitzhugh, and Barry the ion to guard while they go rescue Joe from a security guard. Giant cops force the little people to scatter. Mark takes Val and Barry. Joe goes back to the giants' house and frees Betty. Betty is suspicious. The giants won't let her go. The other little people gather outside the giants' house. They get caught in a net and taken inside. The giants threaten to kill them. Joe takes the ion propellant to buy time for the little people to escape.
Epilogue: The little people escape. An explosion rocks them. They go to the destroyed house and sadly gather around Joe's giant-sized dead body.
Written by Peter Packer Directed by Harry HarrisGuest Stars: Linden Chiles as Joe/Logar, William Bramley as the first giant...the bald one in the red shirt, Myron Healey as the second giant Molluck...the pipe smoker, John Pickard as the giant security guard.
Linden Chiles guest starred in "The Time Tunnel" as Tony Newman's (James Darren) father who was killed in the Pearl Harbor attack and in "The Invaders" as David Vincent's (Roy Thinnes) brother. He starred in the tv series "James At 15" as James' father. William Bramley appeared in the Giants' episode "Giants and All That Jazz". He played Officer Krupke in the film "West Side Story".
Synopsis: A giant convict on the run carries off the Spindrift and ends up trapped in quicksand.
Betty and Valerie highlights:
Prologue: Val, Betty, Dan, and Barry go inside the spaceship when Steve radios a warning that the giant convict and the guards who are chasing him are headed their way. The convict spots the ship.
Act I:Val attempts to close a porthole shield and sees the giant convict's eye staring at her. Val, Betty, Dan, and Barry strap in their seats. The convict picks up the ship and runs, while the little people inside are jiggled and shaken. When the convict stops to take a rest outside a house, the little people see him fight the owner of the house through the cockpit window. Convict carries off the ship again and falls into quicksand. The little people get tossed around as the convict struggles in the quicksand.
Act II: More tossing about. Betty gets nervous and starts straightening the same pillow in a seat over and over. Dan tells the others that they are in the quicksand. Steve attempts to create a rope from the convict's shirt for him to pull himself and the ship out but the rope breaks, causing the convict to pull the ship under the quicksand.
Act III: With the oxygen running out, Val passes out on the floor. Betty reawakens Dan who explodes a control panel to restart the air in the ship. Dan revives Val. Dan shunts out the beta controls of the ship to fly the ship to safe ground and the others run out of the smoky cabin.
Act IV: Steve saves the convict by shunting out the ship's beta controls again and in turn the convict grabs Betty, Val, Barry and Chipper and deposits them inside the ship. He takes the ship and runs off and puts it back to the same spot where he found it. The girls hear the guards coming and stay put inside the ship.
Epilogue: The convict fights off the guards and runs off after saying Thank You to the little people. The little people wave good-bye to him as he leaves.
Written by J.E. Selby and Stanley H. Silverman Directed by Sobey MartinGuest Star John Napier as the giant convict
John Napier appeared in an unsold Irwin Allen pilot "The Man from the 25th Century" that starred James Darren.
Synopsis: Giant scientists use a sound detector to capture Betty and Valerie.
Betty and Valerie highlights:
Prologue: Betty or Val do not appear.
Act I: Val mentions that Fitzhugh takes the easy jobs and never miss a meal time. Val, Mark, and Steve help revive Fitzhugh at the outpost when giant muggers knock him down. They hear an alarm clock ringing and attempt to move it unsuccessfully. Val and Fitzhugh are sent back to the ship to get Dan and Betty. Fitzhugh is caught in a net trap and Val pulls him down to free him. The little people pull a wagon full of radium from the clock's dial. Betty plays peacemaker when Steve and Mark argue. Two giant scientists drive up and set up their sound detector while the little people hide. Val sees one of them with scoop nets.
Act II: Betty and Val go to dug up mud to stop the clock from ticking. The sound detector picks them up. Val and Betty see a scared Chipper. A giant net traps them.
Act III: A Giant scientist keeps the girls in a jar. The scientist holds up the jar and ask questions to them. Betty and Val exaggerate their answers to throw the giants off. The scientist puts down the jar and says the questioning will continue later. Betty and Val both admit to each other that they are scared. Steve, Mark, and Dan vote to rescue them (Smart move!) with Fitzhugh refusing at first. Steve and Dan enter the giants' tent and see the ladies but can not rescue them yet as the giants are also inside sleeping. Betty and Val lay inside the jar asleep.
Act IV: Steve and Dan cut the jar lid open. Betty and Val awaken. Betty boosts Val up to Steve and Dan and then Betty is pulled out of the jar. They hide behind some giant cans.
Epilogue: Val, Betty, Steve, and Dan escape when Fitzhugh blows up the sound detector. Val and Betty reward Fitzhugh with kisses for saving them.
Written by Jack Turley Directed by Sobey MartinGuest Stars: Stewart Bradley as the senior giant scientist (The black haired giant who asks Betty and Val the questions), Morgan Jones as the junior scientist (the blonde giant), George Robotham as one of the giant muggers.
Stewart Bradley appeared in the Giants episode "Six Hours to Live". George Robotham was a stuntman on the series.
Synopsis: A friendly giant doctor advises Steve in an operation on Barry who has appendicitis.
Betty and Val Highlights:
Prologue: Betty lights a candle for Barry's birthday party. The little people get a call from Fitzhugh that Barry is sick and giant cops are looking for them.
Act I: Val tends to Barry lying in bed in pain. Betty reads a first aid manual inside the spaceship as Barry's symptoms match those of appendicitis. Betty and Val tend to Barry with an acorn cap full of water. Betty tells the others that Barry's symptoms are getting worse and he needs a doctor or immediate surgery. Betty is the first aid expert but is too scared to operate. Steve volunteers and the men go to the hospital to get supplies.
Act II: Steve radios Betty from the hospital to check on Barry. Betty says Barry is getting worse. Fitzhugh returns to the ship and talks to Betty about inspiring Barry to fight for his life. Val sees Fitzhugh offer his stolen money to Barry. Val and Betty wait and hold off contacting the men in the hospital for fear that the giants might find them.
Act III: Val, Betty, and Fitzhugh take Barry in a stretcher to a far off area for the operation. With giant Dr. Brulle watching with a magnifying glass, Steve operates with Betty assisting, Valerie checking Barry's heartbeat, and Mark administering the ether.
Act IV: The operation continues. The operation is a success. A giant hospital janitor and two giant cops search for them...Barry can not be moved and Betty stays with him, hiding under giant leaves. The little people hide and watch Dr. Brulle ran the other way to lead the giants in the wrong direction. They see Dr. Brulle get shot by the cops.
Epilogue: A handcuffed and injured Dr. Brulle sends the cops in the wrong direction. The little people take Barry back to the ship where he recovers.
Written by Bob and Esther Mitchell Directed by Sobey MartinGuest Stars: Paul Fix as Dr. Brulle, Henry Corden as Jabbo the giant janitor, Wesley Lau as the first giant cop, Grant Sullivan as the second giant cop, Gary Tigerman as the giant delivery boy.
Paul Fix appeared as Dr. Brulle in the Giants episode "Deadly Lodestone". He appeared in the film "Dr. Cyclops" as Dr. Mendoza who was killed off by Dr. Thorkel (Albert Dekker) in the opening scenes of the movie. He also played the original doctor of the Enterprise, Dr. Mark Piper, on "Star Trek". Henry Corden is the current voice of Fred Flintstone replacing Alan Reed who died in 1977. Corden also voiced Ookla in the "Thundarr the Barbarian" cartoon series, played Mr. Babbitt, the landlord on "The Monkees", and guested on "The Brady Bunch" as Mr. Haskell the ice cream shop owner. Wesley Lau played Sgt. Jiggs on "The Time Tunnel" series. Gary Tigerman guested on "Lost in Space" as Oggo the cave boy.
Synopsis: An amnesia-suffering Fitzhugh joins two giant crooks to steal a priceless ruby.
Betty and Val highlights:
Prologue: Valerie, Fitzhugh, and Barry drag a bag of rags for clothing. They hear a party from a giant house and Valerie remembers her party days on Earth. They hide from two giant crooks named Hook and Lobo. Val and Barry run off to hide and see Fitzhugh gets knocked out when Hook drops a giant trinket on him. They see the crooks carry off an unconscious Fitzhugh.
Act I: Val and Barry follow the crooks to their hideout. Val goes back to camp to get the others.
Act II: Val and the others arrive at the hideout. Val goes to look for Barry who is captured by the crooks and finds Chipper. Steve spies on the giants and tells Betty, Mark, and Dan that an amnesiac Fitzhugh is working with the crooks. Hook captures Steve, Betty, Mark, and Dan and brings them inside and drops them on a table with giant cans of Pepper, Pork and Beans, and Sardines. The little people watch as the crooks pocket Fitzhugh and Barry and they go to the museum to steal a ruby. Val and Chipper enter the house through a mouse hole and they see the other little people climb down the table with a rope. A giant cat blocks the mouse hole.
Act III: The girls watch Steve, Mark, and Dan bring down a can of Pepper and they jump on it to scare away the cat. The little people leave the house...the girls hide in the grass while the men go to the museum to follow the crooks.
Act IV: Steve, Mark, and Dan return to the crooks' house after they steal the ruby. Betty is missing and thinking the giant cat ate her, Barry gets angry at Fitzhugh. Steve quietly tells Barry that Betty is outside and safely waiting with Val and Chipper.
Epilogue: The men join the girls outside to watch the crooks fight each other and the giant cops arrive to arrest them. They watch as a panicky Fitzhugh is slapped by Steve and returns back to his normal self.
Written by Bob and Esther Mitchell Directed by Harry HarrisGuest Stars: Willard Sage as Hook the giant crook, Lane Bradford as Lobo the giant crook, Howard Culver as the giant museum curator, Ted Jordan as the policeman at the museum, Joseph Ryan as the policeman at Hook and Lobo's hideout when it catches fire.
Willard Sage appeared in the Giants episode "The Deadly Dart"
Synopsis: The little people encounter a half-crazed, long lost Earth astronaut.
Betty and Val highlights:
Prologue: Valerie in a new hair-do, Betty, and Barry see Chipper sniff out something in the bushes. Val picks up an Earth human-sized tape recorder but she can't play it.
Act I: Using a giant battery, the little people play the tape player and hear Major Kagan's voice warning them about the giants. Betty bandages Mark's arm as they listen. The girls turn in with Val carrying the razor hatchet in the ship.
Act II: Val and Fitzhugh discover Barry is gone. Steve takes Major Kagan and Barry back to the ship but Kagan mistrusts the little people. Steve plays the warning tape with Kagan's voice. Kagan reveals that his ship was taken to a giant science building. The little people prepare to go get the ship.
Act III: The little people find Fitzhugh and Kagan gone. Steve and Mark find them and radio the others to meet them at the science building. Betty and Val go with Mark and Steve to the front of the building. They are stuck behind a lamp post as a giant guard sits outside the entrance. Val holds the safety pin rope. Mark opens the lamp post control door and the squeek from the door attracts the guard's attention.
Act IV: Mark dims the lamp post light, causing the guard to unable to see the little people. The four runs to the front door. The little people enter the lab room and walk against a wall. They see Dan's signal from a duct door and opens the door to let Dan and Fitzhugh in. Betty spots Kagan's ship on a table top and the men climb up to see it dismantled. A giant scientist who was napping is reawakened and goes to get the security guard, causing the little people to hide under an electrical outlet and then scatter, Val with Dan and Steve with Betty. The guard shines his flashlight on the floor, causing the little people to run and hide. Steve and Betty are cornered and a giant hand reaches to grab them. Steve hits the hand with the razor hatchet and they run off. Dan, Val, and Mark find a giant flash bulb and they explode it to blind the giants. The little people escape through the duct on the wall.
Epilogue: The little people watch Kagan get killed by a giant spider. They return back to camp to see Barry record a tribute on the tape recorder.
Written by Ellis St. Joseph, Directed by Harry HarrisGuest Stars: Glenn Corbett as Major Kagan, Don Gazzaniga as the giant watchman
Glenn Corbett starred in the tv series "Route 66" replacing George Maharis
Synopsis: Mark is entranced by a long-lost and brainwashed Earth woman.
Betty, Valerie, and Marna highlights:
Prologue: Valerie walks over a giant carrot that Dan dragged in the ship and she serves dinner. Val laments the food shortage. Betty and Barry run to the ship where they are chased by two giants. The little people gather in the cockpit quietly. The giants walk off. Steve and Mark discover a woman their size in a glass jar by a giant tree. She admires herself in a mirror.
Act I: Mark is fasincated by the woman, but Steve thinks she is bait for a giant trap. Steve and Mark argue but return to the ship while the woman takes a nap. Dan and Betty go to a picnic site to find food. Dan lifts up a giant paper plate and Betty crawls underneath to find giant peas and potato chips to take back to the ship. Steve and Mark return to the ship and refuse food that the others offer. Steve mentions the lady in the jar and Mark is upset that he can not rescue her from Steve's orders. Mark leaves the ship and the others follow. They see Mark frees the woman who calls herself Marna. Giants approach and block Mark and Marna's path while the little people hide.
Act II: Mark and Marna run off but the giants don't follow them. The giants pick up the empty jar and smile at each other. The little people follow Mark and Marna. Mark asks Marna of her past. Marna claims the giants are her friends and that her father and mother are missing after their spaceship crashed. Marna remembers Marna's father as the man who helped give him his start on Earth. The little people split up, Betty with Steve, Val with Dan. Steve and Betty meet up with Mark and Marna. Steve and Mark argue as Betty takes Marna to one side. Steve and Mark fight in front of the ladies.
Act III: Steve wins the fight. Mark and Marna walk off. Marna sees Mark worrying and wins his trust by kissing him. Val and Dan see Fitzhugh attempt to harpoon a giant turkey with a suspenders slingshot. The slingshot snares the turkey's leg. Steve briefs the others on Mark's status and Val convinces Fitzhugh to carry on. Mark hesitates going through a giant gate to Marna's house. Marna goes in first and Mark follows. The door locks shut after them.
Act IV: Mark is angry. Marna convinces him that he can leave but invites him to her house. A giant scientist appears on a tv monitor inside and tells Mark that Marna is taken care of and her parents are dead. Marna shows Mark around the house. Mark sees the entrance to her garden but Marna can't go because of the white line on the floor. Mark touches the door and is electrically shocked. Mark is upset that Marna is a prisoner of the giants but Marna tearfully says she is happy. Mark calms down and promises to return. Marna gives Mark a giant jewel in a box and tells him to be careful. Mark meets Steve and show the others the jewel. Mark suspects a homing device is in the jewel. The little people go to Fitzhugh's turkey. Mark and Steve see two giants follow with a sound detector.
Epilogue: The men tie the jewel box to the turkey leg and sets the turkey free. The giants follow the turkey. The little people gather back at the ship and Val needles Fitzhugh on his lost turkey. Mark sits silently and thinking about Marna. Steve thinks Mark might have inspired Marna somehow. Mark apologizes to and thanks Steve.
Written by Jack Turley, Directed by Sobey MartinGuest Stars: Celeste Yarnall as Marna, Douglas Bank as the giant scientist, Dawson Palmer as the first giant, Page Slattery as the second giant
Celeste Yarnall guested on "Star Trek" as Yeoman Martha Landon in the episode "The Apple". Douglas Bank appeared in the Giants episode "Sabotage". Dawson Palmer appeared as several monsters on "Lost in Space".
Synopsis: 4 stranded Juvenile Delinquents from Earth and a giant trapper caused trouble for the Spindrift people.
Prologue: Val, Betty, Steve, and Mark seek lubricating plants for the ship's repairs. Betty finds a glue plant by mistake. They see a giant trapper leaving traps out. The little people walk past a trap. They hear a whistling signal. Nick and his group of young punks corner them.
Act I: Nick explains how he and his pals Dolf, Hopper, and brother Joey, arrived at Giant Land via space ship crash during their All-American Youth Flight...where underprivileged kids had a free one month trip around the world. They are the last 4 survivors out of 28. Val decides to dance with Nick. She switches on the walkie-talkie so Dan can hear. Nick shoves Val away. Nick instructs Dolf and Hopper to tie up Val and Betty. Dolf takes them away. Dolf, Val, and Betty hide from the giant trapper. Val and Betty sneak away and run but Dolf catches up to them.
Act II: A tied up Betty and Val ask Dolf to loosen the ropes on their wrists. Betty kicks Dolf. Dolf gets mad and moves closer threateningly with the razor hatchet.
Act III: Val kicks Dolf and he hits his head on a rock, knocking him out. Val and Betty untie each other and then tie up Dolf. The girls join Steve, Dan, and Mark to help Joey who is caught in a trap. Val and Betty spring another trap as a diversion as Hopper watches. Steve and the Spindrift people go help Fitzhugh who passed out after eating strange fruit. They see the trapper pick up Fitzhugh and puts him in the same cage as Joey and puts a rock in front of the cage as a block. The little people pull the rock away but the trapper captures Nick and puts him in the cage.
Act IV: The little people make juice from the strange fruit. Steve diverts the trapper's attention as the little people pours the juice in the trapper's coffee. The others watch the trapper drink the spiked coffee.
Epilogue: The little people set the trapper pass out. They open the cage with Dan and Val climbing to the top of the cage to hold the door open to free Steve, Fitzhugh, Nick, and Joey. Nick thanks the little people and his group walks away hoping to find survivors from their flight. The little people return to the Spindrift.
Written by Bob and Esther Mitchell, Directed by Harry HarrisGuest Stars Zalman King as Nick, Jack Chaplain as Joey Lee, Jay Lambert as Hopper, Tommy Webb as Dolf, Dave Dunlap as the giant trapper.
Zalman King directed "9 1/2 Weeks" and the adult "Red Shoe Diaries" movie series.
Synopsis: The little people's plan to use an Earth-built communications center are thwarted when an ambitious police chief and his assistant sprays Steve with "truth foam."
Prologue: No Betty or Val
Act I: Betty and Val in the Spindrift cockpit with Mark, Steve, and Barry hearing Fitzhugh use the communications center to contact Earth. Mark jams the transmission and asks the others to scatter in the forest with static on their radios so it won't be tracked by the giants. Steve checks on Betty and Barry together and then Valerie.
Act II: Dan tells Val that Steve was captured by the giant police and that he is sending Mark to find him.
Act III: No Betty or Val.
Act IV: Steve tells Val to find Betty and Barry and to go back to the ship.
Epilogue: No Betty or Val.
Written by William Welch Directed by Harry HarrisGuest stars: Warren Stevens as Captain Ashim, Leonard Stone as Dr. Kraal, Len Lesser as the giant convict, Robert Dowdell as the giant policeman.
Warren Stevens appeared in the Giants episode "A Place Called Earth". He appeared in the film "Forbidden Planet". Leonard Stone appeared in the Giants episode "The Unsuspected". He guested on "Lost in Space" as Farnum B. the space circus showman and appeared recurringly on "LA Law" as a judge. Len Lesser appeared on "Seinfeld" as Uncle Leo. Robert Dowdell starred in "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" as Captain Chip Morton.
Synopsis: A giant camper captures Valerie for a reward.
Betty and Valerie highlights:
Prologue: The little people see giant park rangers put up reward posters for the capture of little people.
Act I: The little people go back to the ship. Steve tells everyone to step up the repairs on the ship. Val and Betty take Fitzhugh to search for repair items. The girls find a giant hairpin while Mark and Steve find a giant nail. Val needles Mark into having a little mutiny against Steve's orders for fun.
Act II: Betty and Val wash dishes after supper and Betty compliments Val on her salad. Betty believes they can escape if everyone pulls together. Val brings up the subject of a giant gun Mark found at a camper's tent. Steve forbids Mark to get the gun. Mark goes to get the gun after he has words with Valerie. Betty tells Val that she has got the mutiny. Betty tells Steve that Mark left to get the gun. Steve leaves while Valerie needles Barry into showing her a giant cookie the camper's daughter offered to him. They discover bread. Val goes to eat the bread and is caught in a giant net.
Act III: A netted Val is taken to the giant camper's tent. She pleads with the camper's daughter to let her go. The giant girl gives Val a piece of bread to eat instead. Val thanks the giant girl but she wanted out instead. Betty helps Mark set up the giant gun he brought back to the spaceship. Steve and Fitzhugh go to rescue Val. Steve climbs up a giant box and frees Val from the net with his razor hatchet. The giant girl sees Steve and Val climb down the box from her bunk and she lets them go. The little people escape the tent but Fitzhugh left glowing footprints after taking some bread by the tent. Val, Steve, and Fitzhugh return to camp to set the giant gun set up. Fitzhugh discovers his glowing footprints and he, Val, Betty, and Barry go to wipe them out. The giant camper discovers Val is missing and follows Fitzhugh's footprints.
Act IV: Val, Betty, Barry, and Fitzhugh return to the ship when Chipper smelled a giant coming. The giant camper approaches the spaceship. The little people fire the gun and was shaken them off their feet after the shot. The camper is hit in the arm and staggers off in the forest. The little people follow and see the camper collapsed on the ground. Betty and Val offer to help the camper while Mark refuses and thinks of killing the giant. Steve volunteers Mark to the job but Mark can't not bring himself to kill. Dan, Betty, and Val go climb the giant's arm to bandage it. The giant stirs and Dan and Val climbs off after bandaging his arm. Betty falls in the giant's hand and the giant squeezes tightly.
Epilogue: Betty screams for help in the hand. The camper's daughter appears and persuades his father that the little people were defending themselves and they helped bandage his arm and to let go of Betty. The camper releases Betty. The daughter says "they are so scared, because they are so little." Giant park rangers appear asking where the little people are. The camper sends them in the wrong direction. Fitzhugh offers the bread he found to the others. They all accept and they go back to the spaceship.
Story by Anthony Wilson, Directed by Harry Harris
Guest Stars: Paul Sorenson as the giant camper, Kimberley Beck as the giant camper's daughter.
Paul Sorenson guested on "The Brady Bunch" as bully Buddy Hinton's father. Kimberley Beck appeared on "Fantasy Island" as Mr. Roarke's assistant for one season.
Synopsis: A giant mad scientist threatens the little people with his night vision goggles.
Betty and Val highlights:
Prologue: No Betty or Val
Act I: The little people examine the giant goggles on a sardine can cart at the spaceship.
Act II: Betty, Val, and Barry see Murtrah, the mad scientist, capture Fitzhugh in the park. Dan and Mark order the girls and Barry back to the spaceship for safety.
Act III: The little people read a note that a freed Fitzhugh bring back from Steve saying to destroy Murtrah and his lab with explosives along with Steve in it, to prevent his goggles from being used to find the others.
Act IV: No Betty or Val
Epilogue: No Betty or Val
Story by Anthony Wilson Teleplay by Sheldon Stark Directed by Sobey Martin.Guest Star Michael Ansara as Murtrah the giant scientist.
Michael Ansara appeared in the film version of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" with his future and ex-wife Barbara Eden. He was the voice of Mr. Freeze on "Batman: The Animated Series".
Synopsis: Inspector Kobick uses a special metal detector to track down the little people.
Betty and Val highlights:
Prologue: No Betty or Val
Act I: Steve warns the others to stay at the ship when Kobick uses his device to stop Mark and him at a giant market. Betty gets upset when Fitzhugh criticizes her cooking. Mark mentions to Steve that the group is going stir-crazy from not being able to leave the ship area for several days. He, Val, and Fitzhugh take a walk from the ship. Kobick and SID Sgt. Karf use the metal detector to follow them. The little people changes directions but the giants continue to follow them. Val trips and falls. Mark and Fitzhugh help her up and they hide as Kobick and Karf approaches.
Act II: Kobick and Karf find Val's metal broach where she fell. The giants are unable to find the little people and they walk away. Mark asks Val on what type of metal her broach was made from. Back at camp, Val massages her ankle while trying to recall what her broach was made of. Betty remembers Val has a matching set and goes to get it. Betty gives another broach to Mark. Mark says it is made from "Inella metal". Steve discovers his compass is made from the same metal. Fitzhugh gathers all of the Inella items and buries them. Later, after a failed mission, Dan admits his leg has an Inella metal pin in it to mend a broken bone during the Olympics. Dan feels he has to leave the group to avoid detection by Kobick and Betty puts together some supplies for him.
Act III: No Betty or Val.
Act IV: Steve reveals a plan to ask giant Nurse Helg to communicate to an imprisoned Dr. Brulle to operate on Dan's leg to remove the pin while the others scatter Inella metal items that Fitzhugh buried all over the giant city to throw Kobick and the SID off. Steve asks Val to assist and Val has already prepared by packing medical supplies in a bundle. Steve will radio the others when to move. Steve meets Val and Dan inside a sewer pipe for the operation. Nurse Helg arrive on street level and mentions that she tipped off Kobick on the operation. The little people get angry but Nurse Helg said she had no choice. The giant Nurse mentions Kobick plans to interrupt the operation in the middle to tie them down for tracking. Nurse Helg wants to take Dan to the hospital so she can operate in private. Steve and Val distrusts her but the giant nurse convinces them to go along. Dan agrees and Nurse Helg takes him to the hospital while Steve plays out the deception with Dr. Brulle. Steve tells Val to help scatter the Inella. Val tosses an Inella item in a giant trash can where the SID men stop a garbage truck and climbs in to sift through the garbage.
Epilogue: No Betty or Val. The operation was a success.
Written by William L. Stuart, Directed by Harry HarrisGuest Stars: Kevin Hagen as Inspector Kobick, Paul Fix as Dr. Brulle, Bill Fletcher as SID Sgt. Karf, Robert Emhardt as Mr. Secretary of the Supreme Council, Sheila Mathews as Nurse Helg, Gene Dynarski as The Warden
Bill Fletcher guested on "MASH" as the nicer of the two intelligence officers...the other was the crazy Colonel Flagg (Ed Winter). Robert Emhardt played the police chief in the Saturday series "The Kids from C.A.P.E.R." Sheila Mathews appeared in the Giants episode "Wild Journey". She is the wife of creator/producer Irwin Allen. Gene Dynarski appeared on "Star Trek".
Synopsis: Giant kids mistake Fitzhugh for a magic elf.
Prologue: No Betty or Val (Betty does not appear in the episode)
Act I: Barry goes to camp to tell Val, Steve, Mark, and Dan that two giant kids captured Fitzhugh. The little people go to the giant orphanage. Val, Dan, and Barry wait outside as Mark and Steve go inside to look for Fitzhugh.
Act II: No Val.
Act III: Dan tells the others that the giant kids plan to drop a bag with Fitzhugh inside in an open fire when the moon rises as a holiday ritual. The little people follow the kids to a park. They see a giant monkeny hold a bag with a rock. Okun, the organ grinder and the monkey's owner, switch bags with the kids to get Fitzhugh. Val, Mark, and Barry from under a mailbox see the monkey shake the bag with the rock around, not knowing Fitzhugh is not inside. Val, Mark, and Barry meet Steve and Dan to search for Fitzhugh. They see Okun tie up the kids. They see the monkey carry a bag with Fitzhugh in it.
Act IV: The little people see Okun making a switch to beat the kids with. Val, Mark, and Barry watch the giant monkey while Steve and Dan goes back to get the giant orphanage director, Mr. Parteg. Steve joins Val and Barry and they follow the monkey. They see Mr. Parteg fight Okun. Val chases Barry to get a giant cookie. Val and Barry carry the giant cookie.
Epilogue: Val tosses the cookie to the monkey to prevent the animal from grabbing Steve and Fitzhugh. Mark and Dan join the others after they cut the kids loose and help Mr. Parteg fight off Okun. The little people greet a free Fitzhugh and watch Mr. Parteg and the kids leave to happily celebrate the holiday together. The little people go back to the ship for some boiled roots for dinner.
Written by Bob and Esther Mitchell Directed by Sobey MartinGuest Stars Alfred Ryder as Mr. Parteg, the orphans' home supervisor, Jay Novello as Okun the organ grinder, Teddy Quinn as Garna the giant orphan, Michael A. Freeman as Tobek the giant orphan, Miriam Schiller as the giant housewife.
Alfred Ryder appeared in the John Wayne film "True Grit". Jay Novello played the mayor of the Italian village on "McHale's Navy". Miriam Schiller appeared in the Giants episode "A Small War".
Synopsis: When Chipper get captured and put on display in a giant zoo, the little people end tangling with Inspector Kobick and the SID there.
Betty and Val highlights:
Prologue- No Betty or Val
Act I: Val, Betty, and Fitzhugh search for Chipper with no luck. Mark finds a giant poster promoting Chipper as the "world's smallest dog" on display at the zoo. Steve won't allow Barry to rescue Chipper. Val and Betty later discover Barry is missing. The little people split up to search for Barry. Val and Fitzhugh go to the giant zoo. They see Grotius the giant zoo employee put up signs with directions to Chipper. Val and Fitzhugh get netted by SID Sgt. Arnak and taken to the zookeeper's office where Barry and Chipper are caged. They get tossed into the cage. Kobick asks the little people where the others are. They refuse to answer. [Nice shot looking out of the cage here, with a giant face staring in at Val and the others.] Kobick orders that the little people will not get any food. Mark and Betty wait for Steve and Dan at the zoo. They spot a SID man posing as a zoo employee. Steve, Dan, Mark, and Betty hide in a tree stump in the middle of a cage of giant hyenas.
Act II: Steve tells Mark and Betty that if Dan and he should get captured then the two of them should go back to the spaceship, evacuate the camp, and hide in a safe place. Mark and Betty wait inside the hyena cage while Steve and Dan look for Barry and the others in the zoo. SID Sgt Arnak asks Val, Fitzhugh, and Barry for answers but don't get any. Another SID guard taunts the little people in the cage.
Act III: Grotius captures Dan and puts him in the cage with Val, Fitzhugh and Barry. Dan attempts to find a way to unlock the cage...Val doesn't see anyone guard the cage. The SID guard suddenly appears and knocks Dan over with his hand. Steve goes back to the hyena cage to get Mark and Betty. The three run out of the cage to the zookeeper's office. Steve shows Mark and Betty a giant tranquilizer capsule that he plans to use on the guards. Grotius blocks their path to the office.
Act IV: Grotius makes a deal with Steve and the others that he will free the caged little people in exchange for Chipper. Steve doesn't trust him and the little people enter the building through a drain. Mark and Betty climb a table and free the others from the cage while Steve sets fire to Sgt Arnak's box of bullets. The little people run past a giant telephone to climb from the table using a net and they run on the floor. The little people hide under a table when Kobick and the SID men enter the room. The little people then run inside a leopard's cage and hide behind a water dish. They see Steve go sedate the leopard with a tranquilizer but he gets trapped behind a box under the table.
Epilogue: The little people watch as Mark shorts out the lights and Dan drops the telephone on the SID guard's head to save Steve. They all escape through the drain. Kobick admits the little people are ingenius as they all go back to the Spindrift with Chipper.
Written by Bob and Wanda Duncan Directed by Harry HarrisGuest Stars: Cliff Osmond as Grotius the zoo keeper, Chris Alcaide as SID Sgt. Arnak, Garry Walberg as SID man at the zoo office, Rico Cattani as SID man at the zoo, Erik Nelson as SID man at the zoo
Cliff Osmond appeared in the Giants episode "Chamber of Fear". He appeared in the film "Invasion of the Bee Girls". Chris Alcaide appeared in the 1950-60s tv series "The Untouchables". Garry Walberg played Speed in the tv version of "The Odd Couple" and Lt. Monahan on "Quincy", both with Jack Klugman. Erik Nelson appeared in 6 Giants episodes, all playing SID men. He played the ship's officer who died in Gene Hackman's arms in the film "The Poseidon Adventure".
Synopsis: Mark offers to help a giant scientist perfect his guidance system as a chance to go home to Earth.
Prologue: No Betty or Val highlights.
Act I: Mark examines the schematics of the giant guidance system and goes to offer his services to the giants with Val and Fitzhugh tagging along after Steve and Dan refuse. Steve gives Mark a walkie-talkie inside the scientists' lab to communicate with the ship if they get in trouble but not to come running to the ship. Steve tries to persuade Fitzhugh and Val but they refuse with Val saying she is tired of running and hiding from the giants like an insect and she wants to go home. After Steve leaves, Mark tells Val and Fitzhugh to wait outside the lab so he can talk to the scientist, Franzen.
Act II: Val and Fitzhugh enter the lab with Mark and they meet the married scientists Franzen and Altha. Kobick enters and attempts to grab the little people but Franzen calls his superior Logar. Logar refuses to hand over the little people to Kobick (however behind closed doors, Logar agrees to turn them over to the SID after the project is finished). Mark, Val, and Fitzhugh enter the guidance system unit and they work the controls. Back at camp, Betty sees Steve is worried and Dan is tightlipped. At the lab, a jealous Altha pumps steam into the unit. Val fears they are being cooked alive!
Act III: Mark, Val, and Fitzhugh pound on the door for help. Mark disconnects the steam connector. Fitzhugh's hands are badly burned in the process. Franzen opens the door to free the little people, with their clothing damp from the steam. Fitzhugh soaks his hands in a giant cup of ice water while Val helps. Mark sends Val and Fitzhugh back to camp and asks Steve and Dan to replace them. Fitzhugh and Val wait in the park and radio the ship. Steve and Dan show up to see the SID men coming.
Act IV: The little people scatter as the SID men and dogs chase and capture Steve and Dan and taken to Franzen's lab. Val, Betty, Fitzhugh, and Barry stay in camp to hear Steve radio that he and Dan were captured and are in Franzen's lab.
Epilogue: No Betty or Val.
Written by Arthur Weiss Directed by Sobey MartinGuest Stars: Arthur Franz as Franzen, Dee Hartford as Altha, Peter Mamakos as Logar, Denver Matson as the SID Sgt in the park, Ivan Markota as the SID Sgt in the park, Ted Jordan as the SID man at Franzen's lab.
Arthur Franz starred as normal-sized agent Bill Winters in the tv series "World of Giants". Dee Hartford played Verda the alien lady on "Lost in Space" who fell in love in a male alien named IDAK played by Don Matheson (Mark Wilson here).
Synopsis: A giant boy genius invents a candy formula that makes Chipper and Fitzhugh giant-sized.
Prologue: No Betty or Val.
Act I: The little people at camp are surprised to see a giant Fitzhugh.
Act II: The little people get angry at Fitzhugh being giant-sized. Fitzhugh walks off in a huff. The girls are told to stay at the ship as the men go search for Fitzhugh who was accused of a crime and hauled off to jail.
Act III: Betty and Val still stay at the ship while Dan takes another set of Fitzhugh's clothes to the jail where Fitzhugh is being held.
Act IV: Kobick leafs through photos of the little people (Steve, Betty, Mark) after he meets with a giant-sized Steve posing as Fitzhugh's lawyer and gets suspicious.
Epilogue: No Betty or Val.
Written by Bob and Esther Mitchell Directed by Sobey MartinGuest Stars Ronny Howard as Jodar, Jacques Aubuchon as Zurpin, Paul Trinka as the police officer in the city, Patrick Culliton as the cop with Kobick, Rusty Jones as the boy witness, Vic Perrin as the short giant man
Ronny Howard played Opie on "The Andy Griffith Show", and Richie Cunningham on "Happy Days". He won an Oscar for directing "A Beautiful Mind" and directed "Backdraft", "Willow", "Apollo 13" and many other films.Patrick Culliton appeared in the Giants episode "Panic". Vic Perrin was the voice of Dr. Zinn on the "Jonny Quest" cartoon show in the 60s.
Synopsis: The little people are befriended by a giant magician who was wrongly accused of a crime.
Val highlights:
Prologue (Betty does not appear in the episode): Val, Steve, Mark, Fitzhugh, and Dan run from a storm and enter a spooky house through a mouse hole. They see a giant ghost appear.
Act I: Val screams and the little people run from the giant ghost to a mouse hole. The ghost attempts to grab the little people in the hole but misses them with his hand. They hear giant boys break a window in the house and the ghost walks off. The little people exit the house into the storm. Two giant boys surprise them. Dan and Val run off while the boys taunt Fitzhugh, Steve, and Dan. One giant boy corners Dan and Val. A giant sized Steve in green smoke appears to scare off the boys and Inidu the giant magician appears laughing. Dan and Val watch as Inidu puts Fitzhugh, Steve, and Mark in his hat and goes inside the house. A giant hawk attacks Dan and Val. Val loses her composure and Dan tries to calm her down. The hawk flies off. Dan and Val crawl under a giant door to get inside the house. Dan and Val stop inside the mousehole to look around.
Act II: Val accidentally turns on a giant tape recorder that plays scary noises. Inidu discovers them. Inidu tells the little people not to be scared. He was the ghost that scared them earlier. Inidu shows off his posters as a great magician but was accused of involuntary manslaughter when a volunteer in an audience died during a trick. Inidu teleports Dan and Val on a top of a crate to join the others. Inidu conjures up lollipops to give to Barry. Inidu sprinkles magic dust on Fitzhugh's hand to demonstrate the green smoke illusion that involved Steve earlier. Inidu zaps the little people to the floor where they can hide while Inidu goes outside to check on things. Another giant appears through the door.
Act III: The giant walks into the room where the little people are and starts searching for something. The little people scare off the giant with Val and Fitzhugh screaming and with Inidu's tricks. They see Inidu return with the giant who is Enog, his assistant. They witness Enog put poison in the wine that he gives to Inidu to drink.
Act IV: The little people warn Inidu of the poison. They see Inidu and Enog perform magic tricks. Enog demands to see Inidu's book of tricks. A snake trick scares the little people inadvertently. Enog threatens Inidu physically and ties up his hands. Mark, Steve, and Dan attempt to save Inidu while Val and Fitzhugh are told to wait in the mouse hole. Enog discovers them. Val goes to help by throwing the razor hatchet to Steve but she, Dan, and Mark are captured. Enog holds Val in his hands and threatens to kill her in front of Inidu if he doesn't tell him where the book is. Enog confesses he rigged the magic trick that killed the volunteer that Inidu was accused of.
Epilogue: Val is placed in a jar with Mark and Dan. Enog gets the book and says he will kill the little people and Inidu so there will be no witnesses. Fitzhugh uses the green smoke dust to attract the giant policeman who is outside. Steve cuts Inidu's hands loose and Inidu teleports Val, Mark, and Dan to the floor below to free them. They hide in a mouse hole as the giant cop hears a tape of Enog confessing the murder that Fitzhugh recorded on the giant tape player. The cop arrests Enog who gives back the book to Inidu. The little people leave the house to go home after Inidu conjures up some lollipops to give to Barry.
Written by Bob and Esther Mitchell Directed by Sobey MartinGuest Stars Jack Albertson as Inidu, Peter Haskell as Enog, Tony Benson as Grot, Jerry Davis as Torg, Steven Marlo as the giant policeman.
Jack Albertson appeared in the Giants episode "Panic". He starred in the tv series "Chico and the Man" and appeared in the film "The Poseidon Adventure". Peter Haskell starred in the tv series "Bracken's World". Steven Marlo appeared in 4 Giants episodes. He was the series' dialogue coach.
Synopsis: The little people attempt to save two giant kids trapped in a crumbling well.
Betty and Valerie highlights:
Prologue: The little people are chased by SID Sgt. Gedo. Gedo throws a smoke bomb at the little people. The little people scatter in different directions.
Act I: The little people see a tv newsman report the news of the giant kids being stuck in the well and hear Lt. Emar of the rescue squad saying his team may be too heavy to climb down to rescue the kids. Sgt. Gedo unsuccessfully attempts to net the little people. The little people see Steve and Dan get captured by Gedo. Mark sends Val, Betty, and Barry back to the ship for safety. Val and Betty climb a giant park bench to talk to the trapped kids' mother about a plan to ask Inspector Kobick for permission to use Steve and Dan to help rescue the kids in exchange for their freedom. Betty and Val climb back down to the ground when the kids' father comes over. Mark and Fitzhugh join Betty and Val and asks what their plan was.
Act II: Mark, Fitzhugh, Val, and Betty see Rescue Squad leader Emar radio Kobick for the use of the little people. Val and Betty comfort a worried Barry. Val and Betty try to find a way to distract Kobick and Gedo who had blocked Mark and Fitzhugh's path.
Act III: The girls get the giant kids' mother's attention who asks Kobick and Gedo to go to the rescue site. Mark and Fitzhugh escape...later Mark orders Val, Betty, and Barry back to the ship for safety.
Act IV: No Betty or Val.
Epilogue: Betty and Val greet all of the others after they rescue the kids and escape from Kobick and Gedo.
Written by Bob and Esther Mitchell Directed by Harry HarrisGuest Stars: Tom Reese as SID Sgt. Gedo, Lee Meriwether as Mrs. Barra, the giant mother, Michael J. Quinn as Rescue Squad Leader Lt. Emar, Don Collier as Mr. Barra, the giant father, Buddy Foster as Tedor, Blair Ashley as Leeda, Roy Rowan as the news reporter
Tom Reese starred as Insp. Velie in the "Ellery Queen" show in the 70s. Lee Meriwether starred in "The Time Tunnel" and "Barnaby Jones". She played the Catwoman in the 60s "Batman" movie. Michael J. Quinn appeared in two Giants episodes "Six Hours to Live" and "Our Man O'Reilly". Buddy Foster is the younger brother of Jodie Foster. Blair Ashley starred in the "V" miniseries and series billed as Blair Tefkin.
Synopsis: The little people are caught in a power struggle between a sympathetic giant senator and an ambitious opponent who plays dirty.
Betty and Val highlights:
Prologue: Betty, Val, Steve, Fitzhugh, and Barry in the Spindrift cockpit hear Dan radio the ship saying he and Mark are cornered by giant Security Chief Bolgar and his assistant Zarkin.
Act I: No Betty or Val
Act II: Val, Betty, Fitzhugh, and Barry in the cockpit worry about the others when they haven't radioed in for a while.
Act III: No Betty or Val
Act IV: Betty in the cockpit gets frustrated while waiting for the others to return. She calls Val, Barry, and Fitzhugh to hear Chief Bolgar's political speech branding the little people as dangerous and they need to be captured. Val gets angry at the speech.
Epilogue: no Betty or Val.
Written by Bob and Esther Mitchell Directed by Harry HarrisGuest Stars Robert Colbert as Bolgar, John Marley as Zarkin, Parley Baer as Senator Obek, Elizabeth Rogers as Obek's secretary, Keith Taylor as the newsboy, Douglas Bank as the policeman
Robert Colbert starred in the tv series "The Time Tunnel" and appeared as Brent Maverick in the "Maverick" tv series. John Marley appeared as Movie Producer Wentz who found a beheaded horse's head in his bed in the film "The Godfather". Parley Baer is the voice of Ernie Keebler for the Keebler Cookie company commercials. Elizabeth Rogers guested on "Star Trek". She is the wife of Erik Nelson who guested in 6 Giants episodes. Keith Taylor played Bartholomew the teen alien in a "Lost In Space" episode.
Synopsis: A giant deaf boy takes the Spindrift ship to his house.
Prologue: No Betty or Val.
Act I: Fitzhugh runs to the ship from the waterfront after escaping the giant boy. Betty and Val decide to go to the waterfront to bring back giant seafood to eat. Betty and Val hide behind a giant toy boat while they see the giant boy play with lobsters and then play with giant seashells. A giant lobster crawls toward the girls. Betty and Val attempt to run away but Val's foot is caught in a net and can't move. Betty attempts to free Val as the lobster approaches. Steve, Dan, and Mark appear to help the ladies. Dan and Mark hide as Steve frees Val and they and Betty hide in a giant seashell. The giant boy named Dal takes the seashell with them home.
Act II: Val and Betty realize Dal is deaf. Dal arrives at his house and puts the shell on a table. The little people hear Dal's parents talk about having money troubles. Dal attempts to clean the shell with a stick and he almost pokes Val with it. Steve pushes the stick away from her. Dal flips the seashell over and Steve, Val, and Betty tumble out to the table next to a giant pencil and cans. Dal's parents come in the room and the little people hide behind the cans. Talf, Dal's father, spots them and removes the cans they are hiding behind. Talf believes they are hostile aliens and want to turn them in for a reward to pay for his son going to a school for the deaf. Talf puts Steve, Val, and Betty back into the giant seashell and takes them as he searches for their spaceship. Dal and his parents find the spaceship and carry it away.
Act III: Talf puts Steve, Val, and Betty in the ship while he carries the ship back to his house. Talf puts the Spindrift inside the closet. Steve opens the hatch and he and the girls discover they are inside a closet. The girls see Steve radio Mark and Dan to ask if they can build a hearing aid for Dal in exchange for their freedom. Steve talks to Dal's mother Osla to arrange a trade with Mark and Dan in exchange for Betty and Val. Osla agrees and takes Val and Betty outside while Mark and Dan come in the house. Val and Betty run outside to Barry and Fitzhugh. They see Talf returning to the house.
Act IV: The girls and Barry watch Fitzhugh attempt to divert Talf's attention to give the others time to build the hearing aid. Talf captures Barry.
Epilogue: The girls see Dal carry off the Spindrift to put it back in the forest. They see Talf running after him. The girls and Fitzhugh roll a giant can out from behind a giant fire hydrant and Talf trips over it. Osla convinces Talf to let the little people go after Mark's hearing aid works on their son. They do and the girls and Fitzhugh thank them and run to the forest.
Written by William Welch and Bob and Esther Mitchell Directed by Harry HarrisGuest Stars Gary Dubin as Dal, Larry Ward as Talf, Jan Shepard as Osla, Tol Avery as Mr. Derg
Larry Ward guested on "The Time Tunnel". Tol Avery guested on "Lost in Space".
Synopsis: Inspector Kobick forces the little people to track down some giant rebels in exchange for Betty, Val, and Fitzhugh's freedom.
Betty and Val highlights:
Prologue: The SID captures Fitzhugh, Betty, and Val in a cage and takes them to SID headquarters. Kobick holds them prisoner in a force field-guarded detention area. Kobick threatens to make them talk. Giant anti-government rebel Naylor enters the room at gunpoint and forces Kobick to open a safe with secret papers in it. Kobick fights Naylor. Naylor tosses a bomb in the room before leaving. Kobick tells the little people to get down before the bomb explodes.
Act I: Smoke covers the room from the smoke bomb explosion. Kobick chases Naylor outside and engages in a gunfight before the rebels escape. Kobick runs back to check on the little people who are unhurt. Kobick wishes to send a note to Steve and he releases Valerie to go back to camp. Steve reads Kobick's note asking for two of the men to go on a mission for the SID in exchange for the little people's freedom.
Act II: Dan returns to the ship to Val after Kobick and the SID captures Steve and Mark. Dan and Val prepare to go rescue the others. Kobick tells Steve and Mark to track down the rebels who are flooding the giant city with counterfeit money to bring down the government. As a gesture of good faith, Kobick releases Fitzhugh but Betty remains in the force field detention area. Fitzhugh returns to camp and tells Dan and Val of Kobick's plans. Dan and Val hear Steve through the radio of their whereabouts.
Act III: Dan, Val, and Fitzhugh hide behind a giant fire hydrant outside SID headquarters with Dan contacting Steve by the radio. Steve and Mark create a diversion to get Kobick out of his office to allow Dan, Val, and Fitzhugh to enter SID headquarters. Dan, Val, and Fitzhugh crawl under a door to the room where Betty is held captive. Val, Dan, and Fitzhugh use an electric cord plugged into a giant wall outlet to climb up to the table. Val is pulled up the cord with a rope tied to her leg.
Act IV: Val hides behind some giant books as Dan unsuccessfully attempts to short out the force field. Val talks to Steve as Fitzhugh and Dan use a giant pencil to knock out one of the force field electrodes. Dan and Fitzhugh creates a small explosion and they are stunned. Kobick returns to toss Val, Dan, and Fitzhugh into the detention area. Kobick tells the others that he has no intention of releasing them. Steve overhears Kobick's voice and later convinces the rebels Naylor, his brother Trilling, and their father Golan that they will help them. After another phony diversion by Steve, Kobick leaves the office. Naylor and Trilling, disguised as SID men, enter the room. Steve and Mark enter to climb to the table and turn off the safe alarm. Naylor and Trilling grab the secret papers from Kobick's safe and attempt to rescue the captive little people. A real SID man enters to stop them.
Epilogue: Naylor and Trilling overpower the SID man and they shoot the force field system controls to free the little people. They grab all of the little people as they run out and throw a bomb in the room. Naylor and Trilling engage Kobick and the SID men in a gunfight before escaping. They drop off the little people and drive off. The little people all go back to the ship.
End of the first season episodes of "Giants" broadcast from 1968 to 1969 on ABC on Sunday Nights.
Written by Arthur Weiss and William Welch Directed by Sobey MartinGuest Stars Robert F. Lyons as Naylor, Timothy Scott as Trilling, Normann Burton as SID Sergeant, Patrick Sullivan Burke as Golan, Erik Nelson as SID Man
Normann Burton appeared in the film "Gumball Rally".
Synopsis: The little people are forced by a giant scientist to help make improvements on a tall robot man he created. First episode of the second season.
Prologue: No Betty or Val
Act I: Betty answers Steve's radio call in the ship. Val and Barry help Dan outside the ship and all go inside the ship when Betty calls them. Dan and Val go to the giant drugstore where Steve witnessed a tall giant robot man wreck the pharmacy and kill a special police officer. They hear the SID blame the little people. Dan and Val radio Steve. Steve and Val watch as Dan uses the thermal tool to enter the lab of the robot man's creator, Professor Gorn. They crawl under a door to the room where they hear Fitzhugh screaming inside a giant cage where Gorn and his assistant Zoral placed a giant weasel inside.
Act II: The little people watch Fitzhugh escape the weasel. Dan, Val, and Steve crawl under another door and spot the robot man sitting in a chair. They run to a corner where Gorn and Zoral talk to Mark. They see a SID man enter Gorn's lab asking if he saw the little people. Gorn and Zoral claim they didn't and the SID man leaves. Steve radios Betty and Barry to follow up and to warn them not to leave the ship. Val, Steve, and Dan warn as Gorn and Zoral test the robot. The robot malfunctions and goes berserk, tossing a giant chain towards the little people and stepping on a cage with Mark inside.
Act III: Zoral stops the robot and takes a stunned but unhurt Mark to another room. Steve, Val, and Dan stay in the corner to see Zoral make adjustments on the robot and to see Mark work on the robot from the inside. They later see Gorn test the robot by having it pick up Fitzhugh and then place Mark in a cage with Fitzhugh.
Act IV: Val is left alone in the corner as Steve and Dan crawl under a door to watch Gorn contact Secretary of War Mek. Fitzhugh distracts Zoral and Gorn as Steve and Dan aid Mark in sabotaging the robot by yelling and pointing out Val. Val runs and crawls under a door as Gorn and Zoral look for her. She hides behind a coat rack and then climbs into a box. Zoral finds her and carries the box to the table where Fitzhugh is. Fitzhugh is offered some whiskey and lies on purpose to the giants that Betty is the ruthless leader of the little people as Val watches in amusement. Fitzhugh gets drunk. Val and Fitzhugh are placed in the same cage and she congratulates Fitzhugh for a good diversion. Secretary Mek arrives to inspect the robot and spots Val and Fitzhugh in the cage.
Epilogue: Fitzhugh and Val see the robot work out on a gymnastic horse. Mark controls the robot and sends it to free Val and Fitzhugh and then turns it out of control. Steve and the others escape as the robot destroys Gorn's lab and attack Gorn as Zoral and Mek run away. The robot and Gorn's lab explode. The little people hide in a corner and then escape back to the ship.
Written by William L. Stuart Directed by Harry HarrisGuest Stars Broderick Crawford as Professor Gorn, Stuart Margolin as Zoral, Gorn's assistant, James Daris as the giant robot, William Chapman as Secretary of War Mek, Steven Marlo as SID Man at the drugstore, Erik Nelson as SID Man at Gorn's lab, Richard Carlyle as the special policeman
Broderick Crawford starred in the tv series "Highway Patrol". Stuart Margolin starred as Angel on "The Rockford Files" and appeared regularly on "Love American Style" as one of the sketch players.
Synopsis: The little people race against time to prevent the execution of an innocent giant for murder.
Betty and Val highlights:
Prologue: No Val or Betty
Act I: Betty stays at the ship while Val, Steve, Mark, Dan, and Fitzhugh go to a drugstore for supplies. They climb through a window. Dan, Val, and Fitzhugh go to get tranquilizers. Fitzhugh pours a giant can of liquid tranquilizer to a container Dan is holding with Val standing next to him. Fitzhugh sneezes and spills the tranquilizer on a table. The giant druggist appears and the little people escape by climbing up to the window to the outside. Giant reporter Joe Simmons meets the little people at a gas station after Steve calls him and promises a big scoop on the innocence of condemned prisoner Martin Reed. Simmons goes to make a call to a phone booth, perhaps to the SID.
Act II: Simmons discover the phone booth is out of order. He returns to the little people and listens to Steve's plan to have him smuggle Steve and Dan inside a camera in the prison to reach Reed. Simmons has doubts but agrees. Val, Mark, and Fitzhugh go to the farmhouse of the real killers, Harry and Martha Cass to get more proof or to stall them. Mark, Val, and Fitzhugh enter the Cass's house within a wall. Mark attempts to cut through the wall with the thermal tool, causing debris to land on Fitzhugh. Val goes to get a damp cloth from a giant water faucet outside. Val attempts to calm Fitzhugh and to quiet him so his groans won't attract the Casses. Mark cuts through. Mark, Val, and Fitzhugh hide in the kitchen.
Act III: Joe Simmons call the Casses on their thoughts on Reed's execution. The Casses plan to leave the house right away. Val and Fitzhugh hide behind a coat rack stand while Mark climbed to the table and shorted out the radio with the thermal tool. Mark, Val, and Fitzhugh attempt to steal the Casses' car key to prevent them from leaving.
Act IV: Val, Mark, and Fitzhugh watch as the Casses pack their belongings to get away. They see Harry Cass drop his car keys on the table. Mark and Fitzhugh climbs up to the table and lowers the car keys on their safety pin rope to Val on the floor. Mark and Fitzhugh climb back down and hide with Val and the keys. The Casses look for the keys. After breaking Martin Reed out of prison, Steve radios Mark that he and Dan are outside the farmhouse. Steve and Dan join the others. Steve calls Joe Simmons at the prison and tells him to listen for the scoop he promised. The little people watch as Martin Reed appears at the Cass's house and gets a confession from Harry and Martha that they committed the murder that Reed was accused of. Martha points a shotgun at Reed.
Epilogue: The giant police enter the house as the little people hide behind the radio. The policeman arrests the Casses while Simmons and the prison warden hear the confession over the telephone. Martin Reed is a free man and he thanks the little people. The little people go home.
Written by Dan Ullman Directed by Sobey MartinGuest Stars Richard Anderson as Joe Simmons the giant reporter, George Mitchell as Harry Cass, Anne Seymour as Martha Cass, Bill Quinn as Warden Sloan, Larry Pennell as the prison guard, Michael J. Quinn as the prison gateman, Stewart Bradley as the police sergeant, Max Power as the giant pharmacist, Sam Elliott as Martin Reed
Richard Anderson played Oscar Goldman in the "Six Million Dollar Man" and "The Bionic Woman" series. George Mitchell guested on "The Time Tunnel". Anne Seymour appeared in the film "Field of Dreams" Bill Quinn played Mr. Van Renasleer, the blind bar patron on "Archie Bunker's Place". Sam Elliott appeared in the films "Lifeguard", "Tombstone", and "Mask" with Cher.
Synopsis: The little people try to outwit a giant security chief at a racetrack while Fitzhugh attempts to bet on the races with help from a friendly giant bum.
Betty and Val highlights:
Prologue: No Betty or Val
Act I: Val sees Mark braid giant horse hair to make tensile cable for the ship. Betty, Val, and Mark go look for Fitzhugh. They see a giant goat at the track. They try to crawl through a hole in a fence but are blocked by a giant security guard. The guard grabs Mark and puts him in a paper sack and then traps the girls inside his hat.
Act II: A giant horse groomer want to see the little people but the guard orders him away. The groom opens a desk drawer to reveal Val, Mark, and Betty taped down by flypaper. The guard orders the groom out and then nudges the little people with a wooden stick. After Dan knocked the guard out by dropping a horseshoe on his head, he and Steve pry the drawer open with the stick and climb in to free the others. A giant rooster flies to the top of the table and walks above them.
Act III: Steve and Dan free the others. After tossing the stick at the rooster which flies off, the little people climb on the table. Chief Rivers and the guard enter the room and attempt to grab the little people. The rooster flies in Chief Rivers' face, giving the little people time to spot a hole in the wall. The little people hide on a ledge. Rivers and the guard pull the table away from the ledge. The little people run inside the hole before the guard's hand can grab them. The little people stay put while Rivers and the guard go look for them outside. The little people come out of the hole and use the stick as a bridge to walk to the table. Val tries to walk across and she almost falls as she is distracted by the giant rooster walks below. Mark helps her across. Betty crawls across the bridge. The others follow and meet in a stable.
Act IV: The little people meet up with Barry. They spot a giant syringe filled with a horse doping drug that was dropped by a cheating gambler. Val crawls under a door to warn the others that Chief Rivers is approaching. Steve, Mark, and Dan inject the drug into Rivers' ankle. The little people escape as Chief Rivers collapses and then gets butted by the goat as he tries to get up.
Epilogue: Dan and Mark remove the barrier at the fence and the little people escape. Fitzhugh wins at the races but his winnings are too big to carry home!
Written by Richard Shapiro Directed by Harry HarrisGuest Stars Arch Johnson as Chief Rivers, Ben Blue as Moley the bum, Joe Turkel as the guard, Vic Tayback as the hood, John Harmon as the groom
Arch Johnson starred with Leonard Stone in the tv series "Camp Runamuck" and guested on "The Monkees." Ben Blue appeared in the film "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World" as a plane pilot. Joe Turkel appeared in the film "Village of the Giants" as the sheriff. He also appeared in the films "The Shining" and "Blade Runner". Vic Tayback played Mel the diner owner in the tv series "Alice". John Harmon guested on "Star Trek" as a bum in the episode "The City on The Edge of Forever".
Synopsis: A giant tycoon uses the little people as living chess pieces on a booby-trapped chessboard.
Betty and Val highlights:
Prologue: Giant tycoon Kronig spots Val, Barry, and Fitzhugh walking on his property with a security camera. He instructs a guard to capture them. The guard walks in front of them and stuns them with a handheld device.
Act I: The guard puts the unconscious little people in a cage and takes them to Kronig's mansion. Steve radios Betty at the ship to track down their coordinates as he, Mark, and Dan witnessed the others' capture and goes to rescue them. The guard empties Val, Barry, and Fitzhugh on Kronig's chessboard. Kronig says that he observed the little people on his property and wishes to play a game with them to prove his superiority. Steve radios Val. Val tells Steve that they are on a chessboard in Kronig's study. Val walks across the board and almost falls through a booby-trapped square that leads to a furnace. Fitzhugh and Barry pull her up. Kronig's friend Dr. Lalor tells Kronig to turn off the traps on the board. The guard captures Steve, Mark, and Dan and dumps them on the board with the others. Kronig makes a deal...if the little people play him and win, he will let them go...if they don't play or lose the game, he will turn them over to the SID. The little people agree. Kronig gives them a miniature chess table and chairs to pick their own champion. Barry is chosen.
Act II: Barry has doubts but Steve has a plan to smuggle Mark outside so he can go back to the ship to rig the Spindrift computer to figure out chess moves. Kronig is insulted that Barry, a boy, is to play him. He orders the little people to tie each other to the chess pieces. Dr. Lalor protests but goes through with the game in helping Barry move his pieces. Val is tied to the queen's piece. Kronig and Barry play.
Act III: Steve and Mark's pieces are captured and they escape to the outside. Mark asks Betty over the radio to warm up the computer generator. Steve asks Betty to broadcast her voice as a diversion when a giant guard searches for them. Mark gets away but is snared in a animal trap. Betty wants to help but Mark tells her to stay at the ship. Mark frees himself and asks Betty to make adjustments. Betty makes the wrong adjustment and sparks fly from the computer. Mark calms her down and asks her to make the right adjustment. Mark returns to the ship and he gets frustrated when Barry doesn't answer right away...Betty calms him down. Barry gets Mark's instructions and is beating Kronig. Kronig gets mad and switches on the booby-traps on the board. Val feels the board's traps activating.
Act IV: A trap door opens in front of Val. Dr. Lalor begs Kronig to turn off the traps. Kronig locks him in a closet. Kronig returns to play Barry. Barry beats Kronig with Mark's help. Steve and Dan short out the booby traps. Kronig dumps Val, Barry, and Fitzhugh into the unlit furnace and attempts to turn it on. Dan tells Steve that the others were dumped in the furnace and Steve is in shock. Val radios Steve saying the furnace hasn't been turned on. Steve and Dan throws keys to Dr. Lalor in the closet to unlock himself. Kronig grabs Steve and Dan and throws them in the unlit furnace with the others.
Epilogue: Dan cuts through the furnace wall with the thermal tool and the little people escape to the outside. Kronig is electrocuted during his fight with Dr. Lalor. Steve radios Mark and Betty that everyone is coming back to the ship.
Written by Arthur Weiss Directed by Nathan JuranGuest Stars Alex Dreier as Kronig the giant millionaire and chess fanatic, John Zaremba as Dr. Lalor, Charlie Briggs as the guard, Steven Marlo as the technician
Alex Dreier was a former newscaster who turned to acting. John Zaremba starred in the tv series "The Time Tunnel".
Synopsis: Toxic mushroom spores turn Steve in a dangerous paranoid who captures the little people one by one and attempts to turn them over to Inspector Kobick.
Betty and Val highlights
Prologue: Betty and Mark look for Steve in the forest. Mark gets knocked out by a rock thrown at his head. Betty goes to check on Mark. She spots someone approaching and screams.
Act I: Mark hears Betty scream but he can not find her. Dan and Fitzhugh run back to the Spindrift where Val and Barry are. They see Mark stagger back to the ship. Mark asks if Betty returned and the others say no. Mark, Fitzhugh, and Dan go look for her and Steve while Val and Barry stay at the ship. Steve, covered with the toadstool spores, returns to the ship and takes Val out to look for Betty. Barry follows them later and spots Steve tying up Val in the forest. Steve gags and ties Barry and takes them to a giant office as captives.
Act II: Steve ungags Val inside a vent in the giant office. Val asks what Steve had done with Betty. Steve gags Val and he tells Val and Barry that he believes the others want to turn him over to the giants and he tries to capture the others first. Steve captures Fitzhugh and takes him to the giant office vent. Val overhears Steve confiding with Fitzhugh on his plans to capture the little people and turn them over to the SID.
Act III: No Betty or Val.
Act IV: Mark is captured by Steve. Val attracts Fitzhugh's attention and he ungags her. Val convinces Fitzhugh that Steve is not responsible for his actions. Fitzhugh attempts to untie Val. Steve puts the razor hatchet against Fitzhugh's neck and threatens to kill him. Steve ties up Fitzhugh and Mark and holds them prisoner in the vent with the others. Dan tricks Steve and unties Mark and the others in the vent. Mark and Dan fight Steve who returns back to normal as the spores' effects wear off. The SID arrives at the office. Val's legs are numb and she can not walk. Dan and Steve help Val up and they escape before Kobick and SID Sgt. Eson can find them.
Epilogue: The little people gather in the alley behind the office. Steve asks where is Betty. The others ask Steve where she is and he can't remember. Val suspects the worst but Betty radios in from the ship saying she is okay and to watch out for Steve who seemed out of his mind. Betty was tied up and left in a gully but she escaped. Dan radios back saying Steve is all right and with everyone else. The little people go back to the ship.
Written by Bob and Esther Mitchell Directed by Harry HarrisGuest Star Leonard Stone as SID Sgt. Eson
Synopsis: Dan agrees to train a giant musician on jazz playing in order to get him to release Valerie and Barry.
Betty and Val highlights:
Prologue: Barry plays a trumpet and Fitzhugh and Val stop him. They go to a giant jazz club after seeing an ad looking to audition new acts. They see giant musician Biff Bower practicing his trumpet playing. Two gangsters, Hanley and Loach, enter the club demanding Biff to repay a loan. Biff doesn't have the money and Hanley and Loach beat him up. Biff is knocked to the floor where he spots Val, Fitzhugh, and Barry.
Act I: Val, Fitzhugh, and Barry run outside. Hanley and Loach throw Biff out of the club. Biff sees Val and Barry and puts them in his pocket. Fitzhugh runs back to the ship as Biff goes back to his apartment. Inside, Biff places Val and Barry on a table. He wants to call the SID for the reward to pay off Hanley but he hesitates. Fitzhugh returns to tell the others that Val and Barry were captured. Betty stays at the ship while the others go to Biff's apartment. Biff practices the trumpet while Val and Barry criticize his playing.
Act II: Steve taps into Biff's phone line and poses as a SID man to prevent Biff from calling the real SID. Val and Barry hears Dan playing his trumpet over the vent in Biff's apartment. Biff goes to investigate after locking Val and Barry in a cage. Biff returns and places Dan on the table. Dan asks Biff to let Val and Barry out of the cage which he does. Dan asks Biff to get a mute for his trumpet. Biff leaves the apartment to get one. Dan climbs down to the floor and lowers a rope in the vent for Steve, Mark, and Fitzhugh to climb up. Biff returns and asks Dan why he is on the floor.
Act III: Dan says he dropped his mute on the floor. As Biff goes looking for the mute, Val on the table top next to a giant lamp, drops the mute to Dan on the floor. Biff puts Dan back on the table and the lessons begin with Val and Barry watching. Val and Barry applauds the duet with Dan and Biff. Steve and the others climb up to the apartment and joins Dan, Val, and Barry. The little people attempt to climb down from the table, but Hanley and Loach enter the apartment and stop them.
Act IV: Hanley forces Dan to teach Biff to play so Hanley can become Biff's agent for a 70% cut. Biff refuses and Hanley tells Loach to squash any of the other little people except Dan. Biff relents. Hanley books Biff on a tv show to perform. They go off while Loach keeps watch over the little people. Hanley gives him instructions that if any of the little people try to escape, he is to step on him. Mark booby-traps the tv set. Loach watches Biff perform on tv. When Steve asks him to turn up the tv's volume, Loach gets an electric shock and is knocked out. The little people start a fire in a wastebasket as a diversion. They run out of the apartment to rescue Fitzhugh who was captured by the lady next door. A giant snake blocks the little people's path. Dan plays a snake charming song on his trumpet which freezes the snake and Steve frees Fitzhugh from a cage. The little people attempt to run out but are stopped by Hanley who points a gun at them.
Epilogue: Biff pays off Hanley and then beats up Hanley and Loach. Biff lets the little people go free and thanks Dan.
Written by Richard Shapiro Directed by Harry HarrisGuest Stars Sugar Ray Robinson as Biff Bower the giant jazz musician, William Bramley as P.G. Hanley the gangster, Mike Mazurki as Loach, Hanley's henchman, Diana Chesney as Nell Herpe, Biff Bower's neighbor
Sugar Ray Robinson was a professional boxer. He appeared in the Irwin Allen tv movie "City Beneath the Sea". Mike Mazurki was a former professional wrestler turned actor. He played one of the henchmen (with Cliff Osmond) of the Siren (Joan Collins) on the "Batman" tv show. Diana Chesney guested on "The Monkees" (with Arch Johnson) in the episode "The Chaperone".
Synopsis: Valerie is forced to become a dancer on a booby-trapped music box in a plot for a giant to murder his rich uncle.
Betty and Val highlights:
Prologue: The girls and Fitzhugh discover a giant cable in a trash can. Steve and Dan attempt to remove the cable while the others hide behind some giant cans. A SID man chases Steve and Dan away and the others go to get the cable. A giant dog walks over and starts barking at them up close.
Act I: The girls and Fitzhugh run away from the dog and split up. Betty and Val hide inside a giant goldsmith shop by going through a vent and hiding behind a box. Garak, a customer who ordered a custom-made music box, spots them. Betty escapes through the vent but Garak captures Val by throwing a hankerchief on her. Garak puts Val in his coat pocket. Garak drives off to get the money to pay for the music box. Betty tells Fitzhugh that Val was captured and Fitzhugh radios Steve and Dan. At his house, Garak puts Val in a cage and offers to let her go if she acts as a ballerina on the music box to celebrate his rich Uncle Tojar's birthday. Fitzhugh and Betty radio Mark at the ship. Steve and Dan meet up with Betty and Fitzhugh as Garak returns to the goldsmith shop to pay for the box. Steve sends Betty back to camp and he rides Garak's car bumper back to his house.
Act II: Betty returns to the ship and assists Mark and Barry in using the ship's guidance system to track down Steve. Mark goes off to meet Steve at Garak's house. Garak instructs his wife to teach Val dance moves. Mrs. Garak creates a ballerina outfit for Val to wear. Steve sees Garak put explosives inside the music box.
Act III: Val models the ballerina outfit for Mrs. Garak. Mrs. Garak puts Val back in the cage. Mark, Dan, and Fitzhugh arrive to attempt to free Val. Garak returns and puts Val inside the music box. Garak puts a combination lock on the cage and puts a slipcover over the cage. Dan and Fitzhugh climb under the cover and hang on to the cage. Garak arrives at Uncle Tojar's mansion and puts the music box on Tojar's desk. Fitzhugh and Dan hide in a drawer on the desk. Garak reveals the music box and Val to Tojar. Garak turns on the box and Val dances inside. Tojar realizes the ballerina is one of the little people and is impressed.
Act IV: Val is unafraid of the ruthless Uncle Tojar. Garak and Tojar intend to keep Val inside the music box. Tojar attempts to figure out the combination lock, unaware the box is set to explode if it is opened. Garak and Tojar go off for a drink. Fitzhugh and Dan attempt to pry the bars on the box with a pencil to free Val. Val is freed and she climbs down an electric cord to the floor first. Garak and Tojar return and see the little people. Garak grabs Val and puts her back on the desk. Mrs. Garak arrives and places Steve and Mark with the others.
Epilogue: Garak attempts to leave the room, leaving Tojar and his wife with the bomb. Mrs. Garak leaves in a huff and suggests Uncle Tojar should call the police. Garak and Tojar fight while the little people escape. Garak and Tojar knock over the music box and the mansion explodes. The little people all go back to camp.
Story by Sidney Marshall Teleplay by Bob and Wanda Duncan and Sidney Marshall Directed by Sobey MartinGuest Stars Guy Stockwell as Garak, Robert H. Harris as Uncle Tojar, Susan Howard as Mrs. Garak, George Sperdakos as the goldsmith, Erik Nelson as the SID Man
Guy Stockwell was actor Dean Stockwell's ("Quantum Leap") brother. Robert H. Harris starred with Gary Conway in the film "I Was A Teenaged Frankenstein". Harris played the mad scientist creator who turned the injured Conway into the title monster. Susan Howard appeared on "Dallas" as the wife of Ray Krebbs (Steve Kanaly).
Synopsis: Valerie and Barry take an injured Chipper to a giant vet.
Prologue: Steve, Val, and Barry watch as the lazy son of a veterinarian named Carl sic a giant movie stunt dog named King on a man. Chipper goes to see King up close. King's barks knock Chipper out as the little people watch. Barry says Chipper is dead.
Act I: Steve, Val, and Barry make their way back to camp. Barry wants to take Chipper to the vet but Steve refuses. Val stops Barry in front of the vet's office. Val goes with Barry to leave Chipper at the vet's with a note. Val climbs an electric cord to the top of a table and using a safety pin and cloth, she pulls Chipper up to the table. Val starts to write a note. Ben, the vet's assistant, appears in the vet's room and sprays disinfectant. Val and Barry cough loudly from the spray. Ben grabs Barry and puts him on the table and prevents Val from climbing down. Barry points out the injured Chipper to Ben. Ben agrees to help. Barry offers to give himself up to the SID if Ben can save Chipper. Ben agrees and promises not to turn them in. Steve and Dan enter the vet's office. The operation is completed but Chipper can not be moved. Carl returns and Ben places Val, Barry, and Chipper inside a drawer. Ben leaves the room. Steve and Dan climb up and using a giant tongue depresser, attempts to pry open the drawer to free Val and the others. The tongue depresser breaks and Steve and Dan fall down. Carl hears the commotion and walks in the room to spot Steve and Dan.
Act II: Ben fights Carl and Steve and Dan escape. After Carl leaves walking out with King, Ben checks on Chipper's condition. Chipper will recover. Carl returns after King runs off. Ben goes out to find King. Carl opens the drawer after hearing Chipper yap and discovers Val and Barry.
Act III: Carl takes a cage and puts Val inside it. He gets a mean giant guard dog named Krona and slowly saws the chained leash after he puts Val's cage in front of the dog. He wants Val to tell him where the other little people are. Mark distracts Carl by letting a chimp loose in the pet shop. Carl goes out to investigate. Steve appears and attempts to cut through Val's cage with the thermal tool. Carl returns and Steve hides as Val attempts to draw a map of the park with a giant pencil and pad. Mark agitates the chimp some more by throwing dog food at it. Carl puts Val back in the cage and goes out to put the chimp back in its cage. Steve cuts through the cage and frees Val. They and Mark hide in a hole in the wall. Carl returns and unleashes Krona to track down the little people.
Act IV: Krona sniffs out the little people. Carl sprays disinfectant in the hole in the wall and the coughing little people stagger out. Ben returns to the pet shop. He hears Val scream that Carl is going to kill them. Ben fights Carl. King chases Krona out. Val, Mark, and Steve spray disinfectant on Carl to temporarily blind him. The little people then unplug the drain so Dan and Fitzhugh can come in. Dr. Howard, the vet, returns to see the little people. Carl tells his father to turn the little people in.
Epilogue: Dr. Howard is impressed with Ben's operation on Chipper. He makes Ben a full partner and tells Carl to get a haircut and to work at the pet store. He doesn't turn in the little people. King jumps up to look at the little people in appreciation.
Written by Jerry Thomas Directed by Harry HarrisGuest Stars Michael Anderson Jr. as Ben the vet's assistant, Tom Nardini as Carl, the vet's lazy son, Oliver MacGowan as Dr. Howard, the giant vet, Robert Shayne as Mr. Clinton, the nearby shopkeeper
Tom Nardini appeared in the film "Cat Ballou". Robert Shayne played Perry White in the 1950s. "Superman" tv series with George Reeves.
Synopsis: The little people get mixed up with giant jewel thieves in a spooky wax museum.
Betty and Val highlights:
Prologue: Val and Fitzhugh walk in the night in a giant alley. They spot giant sculptor and thief Deenar walking his dog. The dog sniffs out the little people and Deenar chases Val and Fitzhugh into a pipe. Deenar yells at them to come out and they refuse. Deenar rolls a giant baseball into the pipe and it knocks down Fitzhugh and Val. Deenar then rattles a can inside the pipe. Val and Fitzhugh split up to escape. Fitzhugh is caught by Deenar and taken to his apartment. Val follows.
Act I: Val leads the others to Jolo's Wax Museum where Deenar had taken Fitzhugh. Jolo slaps Deenar around to find the whereabouts of a giant diamond they stole. The little people crawl under the door of the museum and see the scary giant wax statues around them. They spot a figure resembling Fitzhugh on a table. Jolo and Deenar fight again and knock over Fitzhugh which was a figurine Deenar made and it breaks on the floor. Jolo kicks Deenar out and the little people follow Deenar back to his apartment. Val and Mark wait outside while Steve and Dan go inside. They return to tell Mark and Val that Fitzhugh is inside and offers to make a deal with Deenar to find the diamond in exchange for Fitzhugh's freedom. Steve sends Mark and Val back to Jolo's museum to find the diamond.
Act II: Val and Mark crawl under the museum door. Jolo's cat activates a giant monk statue and it walks by itself towards the little people. Mark and Val checks under and inside the statues for the diamond. Val slips and gets her neck caught inside of the statue's interiors.
Act III: Mark climbs up and frees Val. They climb down together. Deenar checks on Mark and Val at the museum on their progress. Mark and Val continue to look inside the statues. Val almost slips and falls inside another statue but she hangs on and climbs down herself. Jolo's cat knocks over a giant sword one statue was holding and it almost hits Val on the floor. Val hides behind the sword when Jolo and Deenar hear noises in the museum. Mark and Val climb inside the giant monk statue. Val accidentally activates the monk's gears causing the monk to move and causing Mark to fall on the gears and knocking him unconscious. Val climbs on the moving gears and attempts to wedge the gears with her feet and body to prevent them from crushing Mark.
Act IV: A struggling Val radios Steve and Dan first unsuccessfully and then Betty and Barry at the ship. Val tells Betty to go to an old house nearby and use the telephone to call the police to get them to come to Jolo's museum. Betty goes to the house while Barry radios Steve and Dan. Betty crawls under the door of the house, lifts up the giant telephone receiver, and dials the police. Barry radios Val that he can't reach Steve or Dan. Val screams to try again. Betty gets through to the police but the police don't believe her story. Steve, Dan, and a rescued Fitzhugh arrive at the museum and help Val remove Mark from the gears. Mark looks up and sees the diamond hidden high in the monk statue. The little people run to the door to escape but Fitzhugh climbs inside the monk to get the diamond. The little people hide when Deenar's wife and accomplice Mara shows up at the museum demanding a fair cut of the diamond. Jolo finds that the diamond is gone.
Epilogue: Jolo spots the little people and threatens them with a sword. Steve carries the diamond. A giant policeman shows up after getting Betty's call. Steve tips off the policeman and leaves the diamond. The little people crawl out the door and escape as the policeman arrests the thieves.
Written by Arthur Weiss Directed by Sobey MartinGuest Stars Cliff Osmond as Jolo, the wax museum owner and crook, Christopher Cary as Deenar, the sculptor and thief, Joan Freeman as Mara, Deenar's wife, Robert Tiedemann as the giant monk statue, Don Kennedy as the policeman
Christopher Cary starred in the tv series "Garrison's Gorillas" and guested on "The Time Tunnel".
Synopsis: A giant has-been actor attempts a comeback by co-starring with the little people in a cheap horror movie.
No Betty in this episode.
Prologue: Val, Steve, Mark, and Fitzhugh carry a giant carrot over a freeway overpass. They see a sad giant preparing to jump off the overpass in a suicide attempt. Steve stops him from jumping. The giant traps the little people under his hat.
Act I: The giant puts the little people in a shoebox and talks to them. The giant is Egor Crull, a formerly famous horror movie actor. Egor plans to make the little people movie stars. The little people are jostled inside the box as Egor walks to different movie studios and gets rejected. Egor goes to cut-rate producer Max Manfred. Egor convinces Manfred to make a movie with the little people titled "Dance of the Devil Dolls" and shows him the little people in the box. Manfred palns to add "Baby" to the cast. Dan and Barry who followed Egor and the others into the movie studio see that Baby is a giant ape.
Act II: Quigg, Manfred's assistant, takes Baby inside to the soundstage. Fitzhugh is eager to act while the others go along to help out Egor. Manfred explains the movie's story with the little people as living dolls planning to kill their butler played by Egor for an inheritance. The camera rolls and the little people act unconvincingly. Manfred instructs Val to walk to the balcony and open the door...to reveal Baby on the other side. Baby grabs Val and she screams. Egor tells Baby to put Val down. A dazed Val falls on Steve and Mark's arms and they carry her back to the set. They go back to the dressing room. Steve sends Fitzhugh out to distract Manfred while he radios Dan. For the next scene, Manfred gives Steve and Mark sabres for a duel. Steve and Mark duel and Steve almost falls over a loosened wall. Steve hangs on over a burning trash basket.
Act III: The others pull up Steve up from the burning trash. Manfred and Quigg place a prop gun for the next scene. The little people refuse to act but Manfred's fast-talking convinces them to carry on. Manfred sends Val to the dressing room. Fitzhugh tells Val her hair is frowsy and she is spoiling his star acting. Val calls Fitzhugh a ham. Fitzhugh is supposed to fire the giant gun at Egor in the next scene. Dan radios the others to say Manfred put real bullets in the gun. Steve and Mark move the gun as it fires, nicking Egor on the arm. A protesting Egor is locked in a closet. The little people refuse to continue but Manfred says the next scene is a death scene...Val's. The little people rush over to see Val hanging on a rope over flaming embers while a candle slowly burns the rope holding Val.
Act IV: Steve climbs on a ledge to reach Val. Steve grabs the rope after the candle burns through it. Mark attempts to reach Val and he almost falls over. Fitzhugh pulls him up. Steve swings Val on the rope over to Mark and Fitzhugh and they pull her down to safety. Steve swings over to join the others. Manfred won't let the little people go. Dan shorts out the lights. Steve, Mark, and Val escape to join Dan and Barry but Fitzhugh is captured and taped down by Manfred. Dan explodes the lock on the closet door to free Egor. Egor fights Manfred and Steve frees Fitzhugh. The little people run. Baby blocks their path but later goes over to beat up Manfred. Baby locks Manfred in a cage. The little people escape.
Epilogue: Egor leaves the studio and waves good-bye to the little people.
Written by Richard Shapiro Directed by Harry HarrisGuest Stars John Carradine as Egor Crull, the washed-up horror actor, Janos Prohashka as Baby the giant gorilla, Jesse White as Max Manfred, the sleazy movie producer, Fritz Feld as Quigg, Manfred's assistant, James Jeter as the movie studio gateman, Olan Soule as the cameraman
John Carradine starred in many horror films in the 1940s. He was the father of actors David, Keith, and Robert Carradine. Janos Prohashka appeared as another gorilla in the Giants episode "The Marionettes". Jesse White was famous as the lonely Maytag washing machine repairman in the commercials in the 1960s to the 1980s. Fritz Feld guested on "Lost in Space" as Mr. Zumdish, the president of the Intergalactic Department Store. Olan Soule was the voice of Batman in the Filmation Studios "Batman" cartoon series in the 1960s and on "The Superfriends" from the 1970s to the 1980.
Synopsis: Two giant scientists create physically and mentally unstable clones of the little people.
No Betty in this episode (actress Heather Young was pregnant during the second season of filming "Giants" and either appeared in a few scenes or not appeared at all in some episodes).
Prologue: Giant Dr. Arno carries a cage in the forest. He looks inside and asks Val and Barry inside where is their camp. Val doesn't know and asks Dr. Arno to set the cage on the ground and open the door...which he does. Val and Barry make a break for a gopher hole. Dr. Arno calls them out and then uses a giant stick to poke them out. Unsuccessful, he lights some leaves on fire and tries to smoke them out.
Act I: Coughing from the smoke, Val and Barry find another way out and they escape from Dr. Arno. They return to camp. They say Fitzhugh is still held captive in the lab. Dr. Arno and his assistant Dr. Gault captured them and placed them in tubes and filled it with steam. Chipper barks angrily at Barry. Steve, Dan, and Mark go to the lab to rescue Fitzhugh. Dan checks one room and sees Fitzhugh yelling at the giants from a cage. Dan climbs a window curtain cord to a tabletop where the cage is. Dan sees Fitzhugh and surprised to see Val and Barry in the same cage. Dan thought he left Val and Barry in camp. Dr. Arno and Dr. Gault come in and grab Dan. Val and the others see Dan placed in a tube and covered with steam. An exact copy of Dan appears in the tube next to him.
Act II: Dan awakens in the cage with Val, Barry, and Fitzhugh. Dan remains confused why Val and Barry are in the cage if he left them at camp. Drs. Arno and Gault look at an incubator cage of clones of Dan, Val, Barry, and Fitzhugh and takes the cage and places them next to the original little people. The originals are amazed that the clones are exactly like them. Dr. Arno is distracted when a computer doesn't work and both sets of little people escape the cages and climb down the window curtain cord to the floor. Mark and Steve are surprised to see two Valeries. The others join them and run to the air vent to escape. Dr. Arno sees them and turns on the suction. The little people are violently pulled by the wind inside. Steve, Mark, and Dan escape. Dr. Arno opens the vent and puts the two Vals, Fitzhughs, Barrys, and the one Dan into cages. Back at camp, the clone Val ties up Chipper and plans a surprise for the others inside the ship. The clone Val and Barry discover brown spots on their skin. They wait in the bushes to ambush Steve and the others. The clone Barry collapses and the clone Val wildly attacks Steve with the razor hatchet and she collapses. Steve and the other watch as the clones vanish.
Act III: Mark opens a booby-trapped supply cabinet in the ship as the clone Val's surprise. Steve and Dan rescue Mark from the smoke and fire. Back at the lab, Dr. Arno makes another copy of Dan and locks up the original Dan with the original Val, Fitzhugh, and Barry. Dr. Arno attempts to feed them vitamins but the originals refuse to take any. Dr. Arno discloses that he plans to clone the giants with the best minds over and over. Back at camp, the clone Dan attacks Steve and then vanishes. Steve and Mark go back to Dr. Arno's lab to rescue the others. Dr. Arno grabs the original Dan and tapes him to a slide. He plans a thorough examination of Dan's body even if it means killing him.
Act IV: The caged original Val asks the caged cloned Val what is happening. The clone Val says Dr. Arno is examining the original Dan and the clone Dan both taped to slides. Steve and Mark jam the air vent, knock out Dr. Arno with a sedative, and climb up to rescue the others. Chipper sniffs out the originals and Mark frees them. The clones vanish. Val and the others climb down. Steve rescues the original Dan and is threatened by the clone Dan.
Epilogue: The clone Dan shoots Dr. Arno's equipment with a flare gun, causing it to spark. The clone Dan vanishes. The little people run outside as the lab explodes. They all go back to the ship.
Story by Oliver Crawford Story and Teleplay by Bob and Esther Mitchell and Oliver Crawford Directed by Nathan JuranGuest Stars William Schallert as Dr. Arno, the giant scientist, Sandra Giles as Dr. Greta Gault, the giant scientist
William Schallert appeared in the films "The Incredible Shrinking Man" as Scott Carey's (Grant Williams) physician and "Innerspace" as Martin Short's physician as well as starring on "The Patty Duke Show" as Patty Lane's father. Sandra Giles appeared in the Giants episode "The Marionettes".
Synopsis: Two homicidal time travelers from Earth in the year 5477 plot to invade the Land of the Giants.
Prologue: No Betty or Val.
Act I: Steve and Val carry a giant piece of bread and are stopped under a fire hydrant by Fitzhugh and Barry who saw two Earthling men at their camp site. Steve and Val go to the Spindrift and see a giant gun left by a giant thief who was killed and whose body was made to disappear by the time travelers named Olds and Fielder. Steve and Val hide when the giant thief's brother Mezron and his crooked partner Bron search for him and pick up the gun. Olds and Fielder, disguised as Navy men, surprised Steve and Val. Steve sends Val away. Olds and Fielder detect Val's leaving and question Steve. Steve attempts to punch Fielder but Fielder is protected by a force field and Steve is knocked out. Val goes to a giant log to meet Dan, Barry, and Fitzhugh. Mark and Betty hide when Mezron and Bron walk by. They return to the ship where they are frozen by Fielder.
Act II: Fielder unfreezes Mark and Betty. Fielder tells them that Olds and Steve are trying to find a hiding place for 100 people. Mark and Betty agree to help find a hiding place. Steve runs away from Olds and return to the ship to see Val, Fitzhugh, and Barry there. He sends Barry and Fitzhugh away and hides with Val and Dan as Olds returns to the ship. Steve communicates by radio to Val in which Olds can telepathically hear their conversation.
Act III: Betty and Mark find a cave for Fielder. Mark and Betty sneak away back to camp. Mark communicates by radio to Val to stay away from Olds and Fielder...but the two time travelers telepathically hear their conversation. Steve shoots Olds with a truth serum and Olds discloses a plan from him to wipe out Earth with a virus, take 100 dull unimaginative people to Giant Land, and return to Earth one year later as their ruler. Mark and Betty return to the giant log where the others are and then Mark goes off to find Steve. Mark radios Val. Mezron spots Mark and slowly crushes him under his shoe.
Act IV: Mezron argues with Bron and Mark escapes. Val tries to radio the others. Olds kills Mezron and Bron and then freezes the approaching Val, Betty, Barry, and Fitzhugh. Olds unfreezes Val and threatens to kill her with his medallion weapon.
Epilogue: Val runs into the hiding place to Steve. Olds kills Fielder with the medallion. Olds attempts to kill the others but Olds' commander stops him and returns him to the future for punishment. Back at the ship, Fitzhugh stands in front of Val and Betty and says he thought the Navy men were imposters. Val says...just like Fitzhugh.
Written by William Welch Directed by Harmon JonesGuest Stars Warren Stevens as Olds, the time traveller, Jerry Douglas as Fielder, the time traveller, Rex Holman as Mezron the giant crook, Jerry Quarry as Bron, the giant crook, Gene LeBell as Mezron's brother, another crook, John Mooney as the giant pharmacist, Scott Thomas as the messenger, Joseph Ruskin as the voice of Olds and Fielder's, commander
Rex Holman guest starred on "Star Trek" as Wyatt Earp. He appeared in "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier". Jerry Quarry was a former professional boxer. Gene LeBell is a stuntman and played a boxing referee in various episodes of "Taxi" and appeared as the wrestling match referee in the film "Ed Wood". Scott Thomas starred in the tv series "The New Land".
Synopsis: The little people ride a balloon to a giant foreign land run by a tyrannical ruler. Betty doesn't appear in this episode.
Prologue: Val and Barry drag a giant firecracker to add to their collection. They hide under a giant mailbox when a giant boy approaches and lights some of the fireworks. The boy leaves behind his toy balloon as he walks off with a sparkler. Sparks from the fireworks above from a nearby carnival causes Barry to fall in the balloon gondola and hurt his ankle. Val climbs in to help Barry. The balloon starts to float away and Steve and Mark jump in. The balloon floats upwards as giant firework sparks shower them.
Act I: The balloon continues to float upwards. Steve releases some of the air in the balloon and almost falls off. The balloon is now moving over the ocean against the wind. Dan radios Steve from the Spindrift and Steve tells him they are floating over the ocean at 500 miles an hour against the wind over the Sea of Storms where no one has returned. Dan tracks them down until the radio goes dead. The balloon enters over a city and lands. Two figures walk toward the little people. The giants pick up the balloon and takes thm to their ruler, Titus, who laughs when he sees them.
Act II: Titus, who controlled the balloon's movements with his computer, is the absolute ruler of his land. His guards bring in a rebel named Andros who refuses to answer Titus's questions. Titus fits a collar on Andros' neck which tortures him when Titus activates it. Titus holds up a thimble, eyeglasses, and fireworks to the people and demands to know what they are. The little people answer him but he does not believe them. They threatens them and puts them in a cage. Steve sneaks under the cage and lights a firecracker to distract the guards. The others escape to the floor into a hole in the wall which leads to Titus's computer controls. Mark and Steve's watches stop from the radiation in the room and they tell the others to escape. Titus appears as the guards sound an alarm.
Act III: Titus dumps the little people on a table. Steve offers to find proof that the people living across the sea are giants like him. Titus allows Steve to return and find proof within a time deadline or else he will kill the others. Steve flies back to Dan and Fitzhugh. Titus attempts to force Val to answer his questions but Val refuses. Val, Mark, and Barry stand by a giant hourglass counting off the time Steve has to return. Titus commands Andros to take Mark to fit a collar on him. Andros and Titus returns with Mark and a collar around his neck. Titus tortures Mark in front of the others.
Act IV: Steve, Dan, and Fitzhugh fly back in the balloon. Dan and Fitzhugh parachute out. Steve arrives back in time and Titus spares the others. Titus views photographs that Steve, Dan, and Fitzhugh stole from SID headquarters of the giants across the sea. Dan and Fitzhugh plant explosives in Titus's computer control room and are caught by Titus's guards.
Epilogue: The guards dump Dan and Fitzhugh with the others. Titus threatens to kill all of the little people except Mark. Andros fights Titus and carries out the little people in the balloon to freedom. Andros explodes Titus's computer and Titus's castle blows up. The little people fly in the balloon back to the Spindrift.
Written by William Welch Directed by Sobey Martin and Nathan JuranGuest Stars Nemehiah Persoff as Titus, the giant ruler, Clint Ritchie as Andros, the giant rebel, Peter Canon as the first giant slave, Brian Nash as the giant boy at the carnival, Bob Braun as the balloon vendor, Ron Huisman as the flight controller, Fred Villani as the giant sentry
Nemehiah Persoff guested on "The Time Tunnel", "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", and "Law & Order". Clint Ritchie appeared as one of the Joker's henchmen on the "Batman" tv series Brian Nash appeared on the tv series "Please Don't Eat the Daisies".
Synopsis: Steve and Fitzhugh uses a time travelling craft to go back to Earth in the year 1900. No Betty in this episode.
Prologue: No Betty or Val.
Act I: Fitzhugh and Barry return to the ship where Val is preparing lunch. They don't tell Val about the space pod used by the time travellers in the episode "A Place Called Earth" that they found. Steve and Mark come back for lunch. Val sees Dan and Fitzhugh go off to fix the space pod. Mark, Steve, and Barry follow.
Act II: Val answers Steve's radio message after Steve and Fitzhugh blasted off in the space pod to avoid capture by Giant Park Rangers Wilson and Jack.
Act III: Val is worried that Dan and Barry hasn't come back to the ship.
Act IV: Val goes out to look for Dan and Barry. She gets netted by Ranger Wilson who picks her up and puts her with the already captured Dan and Barry.
Epilogue: Steve and Fitzhugh returns to Giant Land after leaving Earth at year 1900. They freeze time when they arrive to prevent the giant Rangers from grabbing them. They see Val, Dan, and Barry also frozen. Fitzhugh moves them away from the giants. Steve sends the space pod off on auto-pilot and time unfreezes. Dan, Val, and Barry unfreeze and the Rangers leave empty-handed. Fitzhugh attempts to show a dollar bill he stole from year 1900 but it disappears in front of everybody.
Written by William Welch Directed by Harry HarrisGuest Stars John Milford as giant Park Ranger Wilson, William H. Bassett as giant Park Ranger Jack, Mort Mills as the constable, William Benedict as Villager Peabody, Robert Adler as Villager Sloacum, Pete Kellett as the jail guard, June Dayton as Mrs. Perkins
John Milford guest starred on "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and "The Invaders."
Synopsis: A superstitious Irish giant thinks the little people are leprechauns.
Prologue: Val, Steve, Mark, Dan, and Fitzhugh walk in the forest at night and see the giant O'Reilly being chased by security guard boss Krenko and a guard. O'Reilly trips and falls with some brush near him trapping Fitzhugh. O'Reilly moans and Steve attempts to quiet him before Krenko finds him.
Act I: Steve gags O'Reilly and Krenko and the guard leave. Fitzhugh is freed. O'Reilly sees the little people and thinks they are leprechauns. Steve gets him to turn his back and count to 1000 as they leave. Fitzhugh tells Barry and Betty back at the ship about O'Reilly and decides to make O'Reilly help him get materials to fix the ship. Steve is against the idea but Mark and Val support him. Val and Mark radio Fitzhugh who is carried in O'Reiily's pocket and getting the supplies they need, arousing Krenko's suspicions.
Act II: Krenko marches O'Reilly off, thinking an arrest was made for some burglaries that Krenko's guards committed. Instead, Krenko buys O'Reilly drinks and plans to frame him for the robberies later. O'Reilly returns with some repair materials and pours a bottle of Cognac on a bottle cap that Fitzhugh and Val hold. Steve, Dan, and Mark join them and toast O'Reilly. The little people go back to the ship while Krenko spies on O'Reilly in the forest.
Act III: The little people need wire and drill bits. Fitzhugh tells O'Reilly who tears off a jeweler's advertisement in the phone book for the little people as Krenko watches. Betty and Val stay outside in the alley while O'Reilly brings Steve, Dan, Mark, and Fitzhugh inside the building where the jeweler's shop is located. Fitzhugh radios Val and Betty that they are inside.
Act IV: Betty and Val in the alley hear O'Reilly fighting with Cunningham the jeweler and hide when Krenko approaches. Val radios Steve that Krenko is coming intending to frame O'Reilly for burglary and to catch the little people. O'Reilly lowers a shoebox with Mark and Dan and the tools they need inside to the alley. O'Reilly and Krenko fight. Steve and Fitzhugh trip Krenko with a wire and is knocked out. O'Reilly escapes before the guards and the police arrive.
Epilogue: O'Reilly carries the shoebox with all of the little people inside back to the forest. The little people carry the tools back to the ship as Fitzhugh waves good-bye to O'Reilly.
Written by Jackson Gillis Directed by Sobey MartinGuest Stars Alan Hale Jr. as O'Reilly the Irish giant, Alan Bergman as Krenko the crooked security company boss, Billy Halop as Harry the bartender, Michael J. Quinn as Jake the watchman, Lindsay Workmann as Cunningham the jeweler, Edward Marr as Brynie the street peddler, Dusty Cadis as Warner the security guard
Alan Hale Jr played The Skipper on "Gilligan's Island". Billy Halop appeared in the Bowery Boys/Dead End Kids movie series in the 1930s and 40s and guested on "All in the Family" as one of Archie Bunker's friends Lindsay Workmann appeared on "The Brady Bunch" as the principal of Cindy and Bobby Brady's elementary school.
Synopsis: A radiation blast causes the little people to hallucinate and to vanish. No Betty in this episode.
Prologue: Val sees Fitzhugh and Barry pack their cases as they expect Steve and Mark to repair the ship using an experimental Delta device. The device malfunctions and exposes the little people and Andre the friendly giant scientist who created the device to radiation.
Act I: Dan warns the others that giants, Andre and Dr.Berger, Andre's suspicious superior, are approaching the Spindrift. Berger spots the Spindrift but it vanishes in front of his eyes. Berger swings his cane to find the ship and knocks over the lean-to, rocks the ship, and almost hitting the little people. Chipper runs off and Val and Barry follow. Val sees Barry and Chipper vanish in front of her eyes and then spot a giant lizard. Steve joins up with Val and they hide when Dr. Berger brings Inspector Kobick with him to look for the little people. Dr. Berger disappears in front of Steve and Val's eyes. Steve sends Val back to the ship but she is grabbed by the grinning Kobick.
Act II: Kobick locks Val inside a cage in his office. Dr. Berger accuses Andre of working with the little people which he denies. Andre and Dr. Berger can not see Val in the cage. Kobick goes out of the office to get a full report on this matter. Andre and Dr. Berger still can't see Val. They open the cage and Berger sticks a ruler inside the cage to prod Val. Val ducks the ruler [see photos and video below...one of the best SW scened ever on TV!]. Kobick returns to find the cage door open and Val gone. Andre and Dr. Berger still can't see her. Kobick yells at them to look for Val.
Act III: Val returns to the ship and radios Mark. She says she is scared. Mark calms her down and asks her to meet him in the forest.
Act IV: Mark meets Val in the forest. Val explains that Dr. Berger opened the cage door and she escaped SID headquarters. Mark explains that the radiation caused the giants to become invisible to the little people and that they become invisible to the giants, but the effects are wearing off. Andre appears in the forest and talks to Mark and Val. Dr. Berger and Kobick appear as well. Andre cleverly turns the tables on Berger and Kobick threatens to arrest Berger for letting Val go. The giants leave. Mark and Val see Steve, Fitzhugh, and Dan return from the city back to normal. Barry returns to the ship unaware that Fitzhugh switched on the Delta device and it is about to explode. Fitzhugh realizes this and tells the others. The men run back to the ship while Val tries to radio Barry to get out of the ship.
Epilogue: The men remove Barry from the ship and deactivate the device. Val, Fitzhugh, and Barry unpack their cases as the ship remains stuck.
Valerie dodges the ruler (click here to download the video...it's big, though)
Guest Stars Torin Thatcher as Dr. Berger the giant scientist, Yale Summers as Andre, the friendly giant scientist
Torin Thatcher played the evil wizard Sokurah who shrunk Princess Parisa (Kathryn Grant) in "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad," which was also directed by Nathan Juran. [Hmm, these two must be closet SW fans!] Yale Summers starred in the tv series "Daktari" in which Don Marshall guested in 3 episodes.
Synopsis: A giant piper who resembles Dr. Smith from "Lost in Space" pipes the little people for capture and attempts to kidnap a son of a giant Senator.
Prologue: Val, Betty, Dan, Fitzhugh, and Barry are attracted to flute music in the forest. Barry trips over a bush and is left behind. The little people float into a cage as the music plays. The little people snap back to normal after the music ends and a giant piper appears and looks at them in the cage.
Act I: The piper plays a tune that the little people dance to until they are tired (Val dances with Fitzhugh, Betty with Dan). The piper tells them he has a contract with a giant Senator to capture them for a reward. Fitzhugh says the piper was the same Pied Piper who got rid of the rats and stole the children of Hamelin. The piper takes the little people to the Senator's house. The Senator refuses to pay the piper and the piper swears to kidnap his son Timmy as revenge.
Act II: The piper sits outside the house and plays his flute, causing Timmy to attempt to go outside of the house. Dan and the others warn the Senator and offer to help him save Timmy. The Senator tries to drown out the music by playing a Biff Bower jazz tune on the radio but that doesn't work. The Senator lets Dan out of the cage, who radios Steve to hold up his radio to the piper's music. Dan tells the Senator to record the music and to splice the tape so it runs backwards to cancel out the hypnotic effects. The backwards tape works and the piper angrily walks off. The Senator refuses to let the little people go. Barry sets a small fire in the house basement. The Senator takes Timmy and the cage of little people outside. Mark and Steve trip the Senator with a wire and he drops the cage, setting Dan and the others free. The little people escape. They return to the ship to see Chipper dancing to the piper who is now their size. Steve attempts to rush the piper, but the piper grows to giant size.
Act III: Steve is trapped under the piper's giant-sized flute. The piper removes the flute and turns back to little people size. The piper offers the little people to go back home to Earth if they help lure out Timmy to him. Fitzhugh is interested but the others refuse. Val suspects the piper has no emotions, which the piper agrees. The piper leaves. Fitzhugh follows and offers to help the piper get Timmy by turning off the backwards tape. The little people attempt to follow but the piper pipes a giant badger to attack the ship as a diversion.
Act IV: The little people are rocked back and forth by the badger. Betty offers Steve some red pepper to scare off the badger but Mark has electric rods as a weapon. Steve lures the badger closer while Mark and Dan hold the rods to zap the badger. Val turns on the juice and the badger to scared off by the electric shock. Dan, and the girls stay at the ship while Mark, Barry, and Steve follow Fitzhugh to the piper's office after seeing the piper walk away with Timmy. The piper pipes up Dan and the girls to join the others in a shell game in which either Timmy is set free or the little people gets captured. Steve and Dan play only to lose Chipper and Betty in the game. The piper places Chipper and Betty in his pocket. The piper puts Barry under the shells for Fitzhugh to play. Fitzhugh wins and saves Barry. Timmy is set free but the angry piper attempts to swat the little people on his desk. The piper attempts to pipe the little people but his mouth burns.
Epilogue: Fitzhugh revealed that he marked the shell Barry was under before the game started. Steve revealed he put the red pepper Betty gave him earlier in the piper's flute. The little people go back to the ship.
Written by Richard Shapiro Directed by Harry HarrisGuest Stars Jonathan Harris as the Piper, Peter Leeds as The Giant Senator, Michael James Wixted as Timmy, the Senator's son
Jonathan Harris starred as Dr. Smith on "Lost in Space" and as Commander Gampu on "Space Academy". Peter Leeds was in the cast of the Stan Freberg radio program in the 1950s. Michael James Wixted starred in the tv series "The Smith Family" with Henry Fonda.
Synopsis: The little people discover a hidden underground society of giants.
Prologue: Mark, Val, and Fitzhugh see two giant archaeologists, Dr. Krane and Mylo, digging. A giant from the underground, General Asa, fires a gun that almost kills the archaeologists. Fitzhugh is hurt in the blast and Mark and Val carry him off. The giants spot the little people and blame them for the explosion. The little people enter a cave and are transported to the underground. Taru, a member of the underground society, spots them.
Act I: Taru grabs the little people and places them on a desk next to some giant books. Taru doesn't believe someone from his society would appear on the surface. Mark draws a picture of the gun General Asa as proof. Taru believes Mark. Taru freezes Mark and Val with his gun and hides them behind the books when someone approaches. Steve radios Barry with Betty and Dan at the ship. Betty and Barry stay at the ship as Dan joins Steve to search for Mark. General Asa meets with Taru to discuss an election in which they are running against each other as leader. Taru fires a red ray from a gun into Taru's drink. Asa leaves and Taru unfreezes Mark and Val. Mark warns that Asa poisoned Taru's drink. Taru thanks Mark for saving his life and goes to help Fitzhugh. The giant places Fitzhugh with Val while he allows Mark to return to the surface to get help.
Act II: Taru gives Fitzhugh a cotton wad with a painkiller he invented. Fitzhugh recovers. Taru demonstrates a device that allows people to walk through walls. Val puts her arm on a rock and it goes through. Mark brings Steve to the underground. Taru places them with the others and he explains there might be a war if his society is exposed. Steve tells Taru that the archaeologists plan to blast the are above them and threatens to expose their society. Mark and Steve hide as General Asa discovers Val and Fitzhugh and freezes them. Taru sends Steve and Mark up to the surface to prevent the archaeologists from blasting.
Act III: Steve radios Betty to bring some jump cables and an electronic kit. Taru unfreezes Val and Fitzhugh. Betty and Barry join Mark, Dan, and Steve as they watch Dr. Krane and Mylo. Mark uses the cables to call Mylo as a distraction. Posing as a reporter, Steve gets Mylo to disclose that if the element Omicron-4 is discovered in the are, it may cause an underground fire and rendering the digging useless. Steve returns to the underground and Taru mixes chemicals to form Omicron-4. Mark and Betty get impatient in waiting but Dan tells them to wait longer.
Act IV: Taru gives Steve the Omicron-4 mixture and transports him back to the surface. Betty diverts the archaeologists' attention as Steve goes to add Omicron-4 to the digging surface. Betty is captured by Dr. Krane and Mylo and taped to a table to get her to talk. Mark goes to free Betty as Steve adds the Omicron-4 mixture into a test tube. Taru wins the election, but Asa starts a fight with him hoping to start a war on the surface. Asa immobilizes Taru and goes to the surface. Steve warns Mylo that Asa is approaching with his gun. Mylo and Dr. Krane fight Asa. Asa hits his head on a rock during the fight and dies. Mylo goes to phone the police and see the Omicron-4 in the test tube. The archaeologists leave. Steve, Mark, and Betty drag Asa's gun to the cave where the transporter is.
Epilogue: Fitzhugh and Val operate Taru's gun and unfreezes him. Mark teleports to say Asa is dead and there will be no blasting. Taru thanks the little people and transports all of them to the surface. Steve drags Asa's gun to the teleporter. Taru destroys the teleporter afterwards and the little people go back to the ship.
Written by Bob and Esther Mitchell Directed by Sobey MartinGuest Stars Malachi Throne as Taru, Joseph Ruskin as General Asa, Peter Jason as Mylo the archaeologist, Whit Bissell as Dr. Krane the archaeologist
Malachi Throne starred as Noah Bain, Alexander Mundy's (Robert Wagner) boss in the tv series "It Takes A Thief" and guested on the "Batman" series as Falseface. Whit Bissell starred as General Kirk on "The Time Tunnel" and appeared with Gary Conway in the movie "I Was A Teenaged Frankenstein".
Synopsis: A friendly giant inventor offers to help the little people return to Earth with his teleporter invention.
Prologue: Betty and Fitzhugh walk in the forest to find a strange humming pole The pole freezes Fitzhugh and he walks past it. Betty radios Steve and then she freezes when she touches Fitzhugh.
Act I: Steve, Dan, Mark, and Val see the frozen Betty and Fitzhugh. They all hide when SID Sgt. Rogers appears with his attack dog and gathers Betty and Fitzhugh and puts them in his pocket. He takes them to SID headquarters to SID Scientist Dr. Marad. Marad threatens them with a blowtorch. Betty and Fitzhugh suddenly disappear in front of Marad and Rogers. Marad knows who is behind it. Betty and Fitzhugh appear inside an apartment. Friendly giant Prof. Kirmus tells them not to be afraid. Kirmus hates Dr. Marad and the SID and teleported them to his place for safety with his teleportation device. Betty and Fitzhugh hide as the landlady Mrs. Evers appears to bring him tea. She spots Fitzhugh's radio. She leaves to contact Dr. Marad. Fitzhugh asks Kirmus to send the others back to Earth. Kirmus demonstrates the device in teleporting a glass. He leaves to get his space charts to locate Earth's coordinates. Fitzhugh and Betty tune in the teleporter's screen to see Earth. Mrs. Evers appears with a giant can to trap the little people but they escape in time. Kirmus returns and Mrs. Evers holds him at gunpoint and says she works for the SID. Kirmus teleports her gun to his hand. Mrs. Evers runs out of the apartment building to Dr. Marad and the SID men outside. Kirmus teleports the gun to the bottom of the ocean and teleports Betty and Fitzhugh outside to Steve and the others. Marad arrests Kirmus and takes him to SID headquarters. Betty climbs inside the barrel of SID man Willis's gun to hide. Mrs. Evers spots the other little people and Willis draws his gun ready to fire.
Act II: Willis sees a cat and puts his gun away. Steve radios Mark and Val to meet them at SID headquarters. Marad interrogates Kirmus on his teleporter invention. Willis drops his gun and Betty crawls out and hides. Kirmus is locked in a jail cell. Betty gets his attention and tries to find a way to free him. Kirmus picks her up and she radios Steve that Kirmus will help the little people return to Earth if they free him. Steve and Fitzhugh return to Kirmus' apartment to retrieve a control knob to operate the machine. Mark and Val attempt to enter the SID building while Dan goes to rescue Betty. Dan enters Kirmus's jail cell and Kirmus places him next to Betty. They spot a key to the cell door and attempt to reach it by having Betty sit on Dan's shoulders. However, Willis hear a commotion and captures them. He places them in a box and contacts Dr. Marad.
Act III: Marad places Dan and Betty in a cage and then inside a freezing chamber where he sets it to drop one degree a minute if Kirmus doesn't talk and reveal his teleporter plans. Mark and Val spot a giant cat who is electrically shocked when it touches a vent grating. Steve retrieves the knob with Fitzhugh. Mark, Val, and Steve climb inside the SID building between the grating using a wooden plank. Mark radios Dan but he and Betty are desperately try to move around to keep from freezing to death.
Act IV: Steve and Fitzhugh activate the teleporter through Kirmus's instructions. Mark cuts the power cord to the freezing chamber and frees Dan and Betty who collapse as Val watches. Kirmus is interrogated by Marad while Kirmus secretly instructs Steve through their radio to push a self-destruct button to destroy the teleporter. Dan lowers Betty to the floor with a rope from the table and Dan climbs down to join the others. Steve focuses the teleporter on the little people just as Marad and Willis enter the room.
Epilogue: Steve sets the self-destruct lever. He teleports the little people, himself, and Kirmus outside. The teleporter explodes as Marad approaches it. The little people and Kirmus escape.
Written by Bob and Wanda Duncan Directed by Sobey MartinGuest Stars Jack Albertson as Kirmus the inventor, Mark Richman as Dr. Marad, the SID scientist, Diane McBain as Mrs. Evers, Kirmus' landlady and SID agent, Edward G. Robinson Jr as SID Guard Rogers, Patrick Culliton as SID Guard Willis, Steven Marlo as SID Sgt. Burns
Mark Richman appeared on "Dynasty" and in the film "The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear".
Synopsis: Mark is the prime suspect in a series of giants' deaths by poison darts.
Prologue: No Betty or Val
Act I: The little people in the forest see the dead body of SID Inspector Swan. They see SID Lt. Grayson and Sgt. Barker arrive to examine the body. Lt. Grayson contacts Doc Jelko that Swan was killed by a curare dart with the initials "MW" carved on it. Fitzhugh suspects Mark was behind it. The little people run off as Grayson suspects the little people were responsible and fires his gun at them. The little people listen to a radio broadcast by giant radio host Bertha Fry who demands justice and the capture of the little people for the series of murders of giants. Mark appears in camp after his fishing trip and his escape from Insp. Swan. Fitzhugh blames Mark for the murders and Mark fights Steve and the others. Mark angrily runs off.
Act II: The little people witness an explosion some distance away. Fitzhugh, Val, and Betty begin packing their cases to prepare to evacuate the ship as Steve and Dan go to SID headquarters.
Act III: Betty radios Mark as Steve and Dan return to the ship. They hear muffled screams from Mark as he is bound and gagged inside a shoebox. Dan takes Fitzhugh and Val and Steve takes Betty and Barry to look for Mark. Steve, Betty, and Barry fall into a magnetic trap set by Swan. Steve shorts out the trap and they escape before it explodes. Steve and Betty hear Mark's muffled screams again. Steve radios Dan, Fitzhugh, and Val. Steve traces the coordinates of Mark's radio transmission and discover he is inside SID headquarters.
Act IV: The little people arrive at SID headquarters. Steve sends Betty and Val back to evacuate the ship in case the SID goes looking for them.
Epilogue: The little people meet with a freed Mark as the spot where he battled Insp. Swan and explains that SID Sgt. Barker was the killer who was passed over for promotion that Swan received and that he killed Swan for that reason and then the other giants for a false trail to blame the little people.
Written by William L. Stuart Directed by Harry HarrisGuest Stars John Dehner as SID Inspector Grayson, Christopher Dark as SID Sgt. Barker, Madlyn Rhue as Bertha Fry, giant radio show host, Kent Taylor as Doc Jelko, the SID doctor, Donald "Red" Barry as Zoral, the giant scientist assistant, Willard Sage as SID Inspector Swan Erik Nelson as the SID man
John Dehner played cowboy hero Paladin in the radio version of "Have Gun, Will Travel". Madlyn Rhue played Lt. Marla McGiver who fell in love with conqueror Khan (Ricardo Montalban) on the "Star Trek" episode "Space Seed". Donald "Red" Barry was a stuntman and played the henchman to the villainess Black Widow (Tallulah Bankhead) on the "Batman" tv series.
Synopsis: A giant female terrorist plants bombs all over the giant city with the little people caught in the middle.
Prologue: Steve, Dan, Betty, and Fitzhugh walk to a giant bakery to steal some food. They hear a gunshot and see a speeding giant car coming at them. They hide in an alley. They spot a wounded man stumble out of the car and go into his apartment. The little hear the man's groans and crawls under the door to help him. They see him lying on the floor. They use his phone to call for an ambulance but the giant reaches over with his hand to stop them.
Act I: Betty tells the giant named Arthur Kamber to release Steve who is trapped under his hand. Kamber begs the little people not to call the authorities and asks them to call Dr. North. Dr. North enters the apartment and asks Kamber if he finished the job. He says he completed the wiring and the SID pursued him and shot him. Kamber dropped a coin outside when he staggered in his apartment. He pleads with Dr. North to take him with her on a boat. Dr. North refuses and in the ensuing struggle, Kamber dies. Dr. North hears the little people hiding in a hole in a wall. She slips a bomb into the hole which explodes. Dr. North leaves. Fitzhugh's leg is broken when debris fell on him and can not be moved. Steve radios Mark and Val at the ship to get a metal detector to find Kamber's coin. The little people gather in the hole to help Fitzhugh with some drugs they stole at a giant pharmacy. They use an unknown antibiotic on Fitzhugh which causes him to turn feverish and then unconscious. Betty can't find his pulse and she thinks he's dead.
Act II: Fitzhugh's pulse returns. Steve, Mark, and Dan go to search for Kamber's coin while Betty and Val stay with Fitzhugh. Kobick and a SID sergeant find Kamber's car and enter his apartment to find Kamber's body covered in a sheet. They hear Fitzhugh's groans and Kobick uses a pencil to poke at Fitzhugh inside the hole. Betty stops him and give herself up to Kobick so he can help Fitzhugh. Val stays behind in the hole. At SID headquarters, Kobick questions Betty and Fitzhugh in a cage and doesn't believe them when they mention Dr. North's plot to blow up the giant city. Val tells Steve and the others that Kobick captured Betty and Fitzhugh. Dr. North sends henchman Warkin to kill the little people and blow up SID headquarters.
Act III: Val stays behind as Steve, Mark, and Dan find Kamber's coin which has a map where the bombs are planted and head for Kobick's office. Betty and Fitzhugh spot Steve in a vent and Steve tells Kobick of the map with the bomb locations. Warkin plants a bomb in Kobick's office. Steve sees it and throws the bomb out the window where it explodes. Steve escapes as an angry Kobick orders his men to cover every entrance in SID headquarters. Val sits on the telephone in Kamber's apartment while Dan radios Steve that Dr. North is really Dr. Greer and to meet Mark and him at her apartment.
Act IV: Val poses as a travel agent and fools Dr. North into revealing the bombs' whereabouts on the maps. Steve calls Kobick about the bombs' locations as Betty and Fitzhugh watch. Steve, Mark, and Dan go back to SID headquarters and free Betty and Fitzhugh. Steve is captured by Kobick who lets him go after Steve reveals the whereabouts of Dr. North/Greer.
Epliogue: The little people hear a radio report at the ship that Kobick and the SID found every bomb in the city. The little people are then visited by Pedro, Dr. North's pet monkey who freed Steve, Dan, and Mark from Dr. North.
Written by Dan Ullman Directed by Harry HarrisGuest Stars Francine York as Dr. North/Greer, Charles Dierkop as Arthur Kamber, Dr. North/Greer's henchman, Ed Peck as Mike Warkin, Dr. North/Greer's henchman, Tom Drake as the SID Sergeant
Francine York guested on "Lost in Space" as Neolani, the hostile alien. Charles Dierkop starred in the series "Police Woman". Ed Peck guested on "Happy Days" as Fonzie's enemy, Police Officer Kirk. Kevin Hagen was billed in the credits as Inspector Turner although he played Inspector Kobick.
Synopsis: The little people battle a giant boy and his war toys.
Prologue: No Betty or Val
Act I: Fitzhugh takes Barry back to camp after a toy soldier squeezed Barry too hard. Fitzhugh takes Steve, Mark, and Dan to show them the soldiers while Betty and Val tend to Barry in the lean-to. Steve radios Betty to bring a flame thrower to fight off the toy soldiers attacking them. Betty arrives and Steve melts the soldiers with the flame thrower. The giant boy who owns the soldiers named Alek threatens revenge. Betty, Steve, and the others return back to camp. They hear a motor approaching them. They take cover when Alek sends more soldiers in a toy jeep that fires wooden pellets at them. Steve and Dan push Betty and Val out of the way of the oncoming jeep which crashes into some bushes. A toy nurse walks over, looks at the wreckage, and walks off. Alek appears thinking that the little people are toys belong to another giant boy named Falco. Alek threatens to destroy the little people and their ship.
Act II: Fitzhugh, Barry, Betty, and Val are sent back to the ship. The others return after failing convince Alek that they are not toys. Alek sends a remote control plane to drop rocks on the little people and on the ship. He also sends a giant tank over that shoots flaming sparks. Mark uses the toy jeep's machine gun to shoot out the tank's tires. The tank cannon fires and burns Val's face. Dan goes to help her while Steve and Mark destroy the tank's internal controls. Mark wants to kill the giant boy but Steve forbids him. The other little people go back to the ship. Mark slugs Steve and goes to explode a gas cannister near Alek.
Act III: Alek sends the toy plane to drop rocks on the little people. They hide as they watch rocks fall on the lean-to. The plane lands and gets ready to take off. Steve, Dan, Fitzhugh, Betty, and Val hold the plane to prevent it from taking off. Steve sends Betty to check on Alek while he and Dan attempt to remove some rocks inside the plane and find the controls. The plane takes off. Steve, Dan, and Betty go to rescue Mark and Barry who were captured by Alek and placed inside a prison camp with an electric fence surrounding it. Val and Fitzhugh distract Alek while Steve shorts out the fence and Dan cuts through the fence to free Mark and Barry. Alek shoots Dan with the machine gun on the toy jeep. Dan falls and Betty runs to help him. Betty shows Alek Dan's blood to prove they are not toys. Alek's father, Mr. Erdap, appears and Alek hides Betty and Dan under a box.
Act IV: Mr. Erdap searches for the little people. He spots Val and Fitzhugh and they hide inside a gopher hole. Erdap uses a tree branch to poke them out. Steve and Mark free Betty and Dan who hurt his shouler. Betty and Dan hide while Steve pilots the toy plane to distract Erdap away from the gopher hole. Steve buzzes Erdap several times allowing Val and Fitzhugh to escape. Erdap throws rocks at the plane, knocking out Steve. The plane sputters as Steve falls unconscious.
Epilogue: Alek controls the plane with his remote control and it lands safely. Betty and Mark help Steve out of the plane and they hide. Erdap takes the toys and Alek home. Alek says he doesn't want to play with his war toys anymore. He waves good-bye to the little people.
This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award for best sound effects editing.
Written by Shirl Hendryx Directed by Harry HarrisGuest Stars Sean Kelly as Alek, the giant boy with the war toys, Charles Drake as Mr. Erdap, Alek's father, Miriam Schiller as the toy nurse.
Sean Kelly appeared in the film "The Cowboys" with John Wayne.
Synopsis: Betty and Fitzhugh help a friendly giant puppeteer by becoming his marionettes.
Prologue: Fitzhugh, Val, and Betty watch from under a giant trash can as giant circus performers audition their acts for circus boss Brady. They see giant puppeteer Goalby audition his unimpressive puppet act for Brady. A giant gorilla named Bobo escapes from his trainer and the circus is in a panic. Fitzhugh and the girls run and separate. Bobo spots Val and chases her.
Act I: Val screams as Bobo follows and then grabs her. Betty, Fitzhugh, Steve and the others follow. Betty and Fitzhugh toss rocks to get Bobo to free Val. Bobo sets Val down for a moment and then grabs her and climbs up a tree. The little people attempt to set some leaves on fire to create smoke to bother the gorilla. Goalby appears and spots Bobo in the tree. Bobo drops Val but Goalby catches her. Goalby sets Val down for the others. Steve and the others take Val back to the ship while Goalby alerts the trainer to bring Bobo down. Betty and Fitzhugh walk back to the ship. Betty is caught in an animal trap. Goalby helps her escape but his hand is caught in the trap.
Act II: Fitzhugh radios the others. Steve uses the thermal tool to cut the trap loose. Goalby returns to the circus with a broken hand. Steve sends Betty and Fitzhugh back to the ship but they go to help Goalby. Val radios Steve who is getting explosives at the circus that Betty and Fitzhugh didn't come back to camp. Steve and Mark spot Betty dressed as a ballerina and Fitzhugh dressed as a clown as marionettes to help out Goalby. They refuse Steve and Mark's help to free them. Dan and Val go to find explosives. They run past Bobo's cage but Val trips and is grabbed by Bobo again.
Act III: Goalby shows off the Betty and Fitzhugh "puppets" to his niece Lisa. They sing "Be A Clown" for Lisa to Steve and Mark's amusement. Val is trapped inside the cage as Bobo tosses a piece of banana to her. Brady watches Goalby's new "puppets". He sees Bobo getting excited and goes to his cage where he sees Val and he grabs her. He also spots Dan who runs. Brady tells Carl the knife thrower to stop him and pins Dan down on the ground with his knife.
Act IV: Brady grabs Dan and is suspicious about Goalby's puppets. Brady returns to see Goalby's act and Betty and Fitzhugh sing "Be A Clown" again. Brady tosses Val and Dan on the stage and renders Betty and Fitzhugh helpless with their strings. Brady threatens Val with a pencil if Goalby refuses to perform for him. Brady puts Val, Betty, Dan, and Fitzhugh in the cage and then calls to negotiate a contract to nake them work. Steve and Mark explode Bobo's cage and Bobo goes on the loose. Goalby and Lisa attempt to free the caged little people. Carl tosses knives at them but Steve tosses explosives to distract him. The little people run free. Bobo attacks Brady.
Epilogue: The little people watch Goalby and Lisa's improved puppet act with new hand controls and a tape recording of Betty and Fitzhugh singing "Be A Clown". They leave and go back to the ship.
Written by William Welch Directed by Sobey MartinGuest Stars Frank Ferguson as Goalby the giant puppeteer, Bob Hogan as Brady the circus boss, Victoria Vetri as Lisa, Goalby's former puppeteering assistant, Janos Prohashka as Bobo the giant gorilla, Sandra Giles as the harem dancer, Carl Carlsson as Carl the knife thrower, Al Lampkin as the fire eater, Diane Krabbe as Diane the kid who wanted to see the puppets perform, Bob Baker as the actual puppeteer, Martin "Win" Liverman as Bobo's trainer
Bob Hogan guested on "Law & Order" and starred in the tv series version of "Operation Petticoat". Victoria Vetri appeared in the films "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" and "Invasion of the Bee Girls". She was a former Playboy Playmate. Martin Liverman appeared in the Giants episode "Wild Journey".
Synopsis: Steve and Dan uses a time traveling device to return to the hours before they manned the flight to the Land of the Giants.
Prologue: No Betty or Val.
Act I: Berna and Thorg, two time travellers observing life on the giant planet, meet Steve and Dan after escaping from a SID man. Thorg demonstrates his STM (Space Time Manipulator) device to escape from the SID man and to show the moments before they crashed on the giant planet as well as the hours before the flight when they see Betty in the Los Angeles airport. Steve and Dan attempt to sneak away from the time travellers but they follow them. The SID man's attack dog grabs Thorg in its jaws causing him to drop his STM device. Steve and Dan pick it up as Berna uses her STM to rescue Thorg. Steve activates Thorg's STM and he and Dan appear at the Los Angeles airport on the day of their ill-fated flight (Sept. 25, 1983...although the first episode had the date of June 12, 1983). Steve and Dan meet Betty in the waiting room who was making preparations. Thorg and Berna appears and asks Betty where Steve and Dan are.
Act II: Thorg and Berna use their STM to chase after Steve and Dan. Steve slides the STM he took from Thorg over to them as they hide in their superior, Ms. Collier's, office. Thorg and Berna continue to pursue them all over the airport. They finally catch up to them. Thorg attempts to send them back to the giant planet but remembers that Steve and Dan has to relive the flight and enter the giant planet the same way as before or else the universe could be damaged. Steve and Dan refuse to fly. Thorg can not kill them but he shrinks them to little people size.
Act III: A tiny Steve and Dan run off. Thorg and Berna shrink themselves to their size and chases them but they lose the trail inside a sewer drain. Thorg and Berna restore themselves to normal size and go to the passenger waiting lounge to see the passengers board Flight 612. Steve and Dan appear in the waiting room and see Mark, Fitzhugh, and Val's secretary Miss Smith enter. Betty greets Mark but Mark turns rude when he is told the flight may be delayed or cancelled. Val enters the room. Thorg and Berna spot Steve and Dan and freezes time there so they can restore Steve and Dan back to normal size. Thorg gives them pills which restore their size but also cause them to lose all memory of what has happened so they can fly Flight 612.
Act IV: Thorg and Berna unfreeze them and they leave. Steve and Dan attempt to convince Mark, Val, and Fitzhugh not to take the flight but they refuse to listen. Berna returns to tell Steve and Dan that if the original crew and passengers are not on the ship, there will be no survivors when it crashes. Berna leaves. Steve and Dan attempt to sabotage the spaceships but they lose their memory before they can sabotage the Spindrift. Steve and Dan pilot the ship with Mark, Val, Fitzhugh, and Barry as the passengers (the passenger list was small because of a flu epidemic) and Betty as the stewardess. The ship hits the space warp and they crash in the Land of the Giants.
Epilogue: No Betty or Val.
Written by William Welch Directed by Harry HarrisGuest Stars Bruce Dern as Thorg the time traveller, Yvonne Craig as Berna the time traveller, Sheila Mathews as Miss Collier, Steve and Dan's boss, Erik Nelson as the SID Man, Martin Liverman as the security guard, Marshall Stewart as the man passerby, Louise Lorimer as Miss Smith, Valerie's secretary.
Bruce Dern appeared in the films "Coming Home" where he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar, "Black Sunday", and "The Cowboys". He is the father of actress Laura Dern. Yvonne Craig played Batgirl/Barbara Gordon in the "Batman" tv series. She appeared in the film "Mars Needs Women". Marshall "Michael" Stewart was credited in the Giants episode "Graveyard of Fools" but his scenes were edited out of the episode.
Synopsis: Giant twin scientists send the little people in a toy plane to a land of giant insects and prehistoric creatures.
Prologue: Val and Fitzhugh see a low flying toy plane controlled by giant scientist assistant Tagor. They run to a fire hydrant for a closer look and are captured by giant head scientist Melzac who places them in a box. Melzac plans to fly them to the other side of the planet in an experiment. Steve and the others watch and Steve realizes the giants plan to fly them to the "Graveyard of Fools".
Act I: Steve tells Betty and Barry to stay behind with the thermal tool while he, Dan, and Mark go to rescue Val and Fitzhugh. Melzac puts Val and Fitzhugh inside the toy plane. Melzac later captures Steve and Dan when they try to free Val and Fitzhugh while Mark attempts to knock out the computer controls of the plane. Melzac places Steve and Dan inside the plane with the others. Tagor takes the plane and flies it off while Melzac contacts his twin brother Bryk on the other side of the planet to expect the little people.
Act II: Steve and Dan attempt to fly the plane manually but the controls begin to short out. Melzac instructs Bryk to activate the Servo-Actuator device that can transport objects anywhere with thought processes. The little people and the plane vanish. Val wakes up in a fog-shrouded jungle. She finds gravestones with Steve and Fitzhugh's name while a hand reaches to grab her leg. Fitzhugh grabs her shoulder to get her attention. They walk back to Steve's gravestone and Steve appears. Dan joins the others but all of the little people are knocked out by Bryk. The little people awaken to see a giant mantis and a giant lizard in front of them.
Act III: Fitzhugh panics and runs while Dan chases after him. Steve and Val run away from the lizard into a tube that leads to Bryk's Servo-Actuator device. Back at Melzac's lab, Betty uses the thermal tool to cut a hole inside to free a captured Mark. Bryk opens the tube and spot Steve and Val who are inside the atomic furnace that powers the Servo-Actuator. Bryk gives them a part for them to install to boost the power. Bryk turns the tube over, knocking Steve and Val off their feet.
Act IV: Mark and Betty break into the computer wires to control the plane. Steve and Val hear the Servo-Actuator hum louder and going critical. Steve warns Bryk that the furnace will explode but Bryk does not believe him. Dan and Fitzhugh enter Bryk's lab and helps Steve and Val escape by tossing their safety pin rope to them. Steve and Dan use their mind power to control the Servo-Actuator to escape. They go inside the toy plane where Mark is able to control the plane to escape. Bryk holds the plane back.
Epilogue: Bryk runs to the Servo-Actuator where it explodes. The plane and the little people are transported back to Melzac's lab. Mark and Betty escape the lab and join the others. Melzac's lab explodes. The little people return to camp.
Last aired episode of the series and end of the second season on ABC from 1969 to 1970.
Written by Sidney Marshall Directed by Sobey MartinGuest Stars Albert Salmi as Melzac and Bryk, evil twin giant scientists, John Crawford as Tagor, Melzac's assistant, Michael Stewart as the janitor
Albert Salmi starred in the tv series "Petrocelli". He guested on "Lost in Space" as Tucker the space pirate. John Crawford guested on "Lost in Space", "The Time Tunnel", and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and appeared as The Bookworm's -Roddy McDowall- henchman on the "Batman" tv series. He appeared in the films "The Poseidon Adventure" and "The Towering Inferno".
Synopsis: The original version of "The Crash" that was shown to ABC network executives before it aired on tv. It used "Lost in Space" music as well as some original music cues written by Alexander Courage who also wrote the theme song but was dropped and a theme and background music composed by John Williams was used instead. Irwin Allen edited out the character introduction and some dialogue scenes and added additional special effects action scenes. In the following descriptions, the sentences with a ( ) are scenes that were dropped in the aired version. Notes after each act will describe the scenes Irwin Allen added. The unaired pilot was shown in Canada in the late 1980s and sold on video cassettes in comic book conventions and mail order.
Prologue: June 12, 1983. The Spindrift is rocked in a cosmic storm. (Betty goes to the cockpit to bring Steve and Dan coffee. Betty sees Mark Wilson's seat belt light is on and goes back to the passenger cabin. Betty attempts to take Fitzhugh's valise of stolen money to put in the overhead rack but Fitzhugh politely refuses. Betty helps Barry tie back his identification tag. Betty tells Mark Wilson to put on his seat belt as he works on a project. Mark rudely tells Betty to go pass out some chewing gum. Mark falls out of his seat from turbulence. Betty offers him some chewing gum. Betty goes to Val who is asleep in her seat. Betty places Val's fur coat on her. Val stirs and asks if she was coming or going to London. Betty says she is going to London. Val asks Betty to wake her up when they arrive so she can look good for the photographers after they land. Betty picks up a magazine titled "The Happening" and see Val on the cover skydiving with the blurb "'The Happening' interviews a swinging socialite in flight". Val and Betty are rocked by turbulence.) The passengers spot the space warp ahead of them. The ship goes into the warp. Betty goes to check on Steve and Dan in the cockpit. After they pass the warp, Betty goes back to the passenger cabin. (She adjusts the passenger seats forward to prepare for landing.) The Spindrift lands and Steve and Dan go outside to explore. They are almost run over by a giant car. Notes: The aired pilot deleted the intro scenes and added the scenes where Betty comforting the passengers after they landed, Steve and Dan running back to the Spindrift after the giant car drives over them, and a giant boy picking the ship up.
Act I: Steve and Dan run back the ship to take off. A giant boy picks up the ship. The ship takes off but crashlands in the forest. (Steve tells the passengers about the giant car and boy. Mark and Val don't believe him.) Fitzhugh sneaks out of the ship and Barry follows. Betty tells Steve that Fitzhugh and Barry are gone. He goes out to look for them. Val follows him. (Fitzhugh and Barry see how big the trees are). Fitzhugh and Barry return to the ship. They are chased by a giant cat who attacks the ship. Steve and Val see a giant trap. Val ventures inside and Steve follows. They are trapped. The giant entomologist looks inside as Steve and Val hide. Notes: The aired pilot removed the scenes where Steve tells the passengers about the giants and some moments when Fitzhugh and Barry venture outside. Scenes added include the gas leak in the ship when the cat attacks it and Mark turning it off and Steve running away from giant spiders.
Act II: Dan and Betty lose track of Steve and Val on the radar screen. Fitzhugh shows Barry his survival gun. Steve and Val escape the trap and walks on the table in the giants' lab. They climb giant books, hide behind jars, and unspool thread to climb down. Val knocks over a test tube and the giants capture them and imprison them in a jar. Notes: No changes in scenes from the unaired and aired pilot. The giants do not speak in the unaired pilot, while they speak English in the aired pilot.
Act III: Betty works on a safety pin grappling hook. Fitzhugh threatens Dan with his gun. Dan refuses and he and Mark go to rescue Steve and Dan. Val and Steve are taped on slides and Val is nudged on the tummy by a pencil. Mark and Dan cause a gas explosion and free Val and Steve. The little people run as the giant scientist follow them with a net. Notes: No changes in scenes in the unaired and aired pilot.
Act IV: The little people escape the lab but Dan is caught in the net. Fitzhugh shoots the giant with his gun. The little people free Dan and run into the sewer pipe. The giant reaches for them but the little people escape. (Steve regroups the others into trying to work together to escape the giant land. Fitzhugh finds a trail of money which he dropped when the giant cat chased him. Fitzhugh tells the others that he found a way back to the ship. The others follow.) Notes: The last scene was changed to the little people ending up in a garbage dump from the sewer pipe and being attacked by a giant dog.
Harry Harris directed 24 Giants episodes, the most. He directed episodes of "Lost in Space", "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", and "The Time Tunnel" as well as the 1980s miniseries "Alice in Wonderland" for Irwin Allen. He also directed episodes of "Dallas" and "Eight is Enough".
Sobey Martin directed 20 Giants episodes and co-directed one ("Land of the Lost") with Nathan Juran. He directed episodes of "Lost in Space", "Time Tunnel", and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" for Irwin Allen.
Nathan Juran directed 4 Giants episodes and co-directed one with Sobey Martin. He directed episodes of "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" under the name Jerry Juran and directed the films "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad", "Attack of the 50 Foot Woman", and "Jack the Giant Killer".
Irwin Allen directed and co-wrote the pilot episode "The Crash".
Harmon Jones directed one Giants episode "A Place Called Earth". He directed the films "Pride of St. Louis" and "The Legend of the Sea Wolf".
Bob and Esther Mitchell wrote 12 Giants episodes, the most. William Welch wrote 10 episodes. Anthony Wilson wrote 4 episodes...he also wrote episodes for the "Invaders" series. Richard Shapiro, who wrote 4 episodes, created the tv series "Dynasty" with his wife Esther.
Deanna Lund (Valerie Ames Scott) was first a weather girl for a Miami, FL tv station. She guested on the "Batman" tv series as Anna Gram, henchgirl to the Riddler ( played by John Astin, not Frank Gorshin) in the episodes "Batman's Anniversary" and "A Riddling Controversy". She appeared in the films "Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine" as the bikini-clad Android #8 and "Tony Rome" with Frank Sinatra. While she was appearing on "Giants", she also appeared as a regular celebrity guest on the game show "Stump The Stars" which was a charades game played for prizes and cash. After "Giants" ended, she appeared (with her then-husband Don Matheson) in the soap opera "General Hospital" as secretary Peggy Lowell. She guested on tv series such as "The Incredible Hulk" as a murdered model and "Love American Style" as a cave girl. She appeared in the films "Hardly Working" as Jerry Lewis's love interest, "Elves" with Dan Haggerty, "Red Wind" with Lisa Hartman-Black, and tv films "Revenge for a Rape" with Mike Connors and Robert Reed and "Hanging by a Thread" with Patty Duke. She divorced Don Matheson in the late 1970s and was rumored to be engaged to talk show host Larry King, but King married someone else.
Heather Young (Betty Ann Hamilton) first appeared in the "Batman" tv series as a telephone operator in the episodes "The Contaminated Cowl" and "The Mad Hatter Runs Afoul" with David Wayne as the villain Mad Hatter. She appeared in the film "A Guide for the Married Man" as the girl with the megaphone. She guested on Irwin Allen's "Time Tunnel" series in the final episode as a young woman who helps time travellers Tony and Doug battle invading aliens in the year 1978. After "Giants" ended, she appeared in two episodes of the religious series "Insight", in an unsold tv comedy pilot titled "The Nurses" as Lou Ann, one of several nurses living together, and guested on "Galactica 1980" as a Shirley Temple impersonator. She retired from acting and raises a family in Utah. She is active in the Mormon community and stages local stage shows and musicals for children.
Gary Conway (Steve Burton). First appeared in the title role in the film "I Was A Teenaged Frankenstein". Co-starred with Gene Barry in the tv series "Burke's Law" as Los Angeles Police detective Tim Tilson. After "Giants", he guested on "Columbo" as a young playboy threatening to sell a family winery and was murdered by his brother (Donald Pleasance) who wanted to keep the winery. He also guested on "The Love Boat". He wrote the film "Over The Top" with Sylvester Stallone as a trucker who enters an arm-wrestling contest and wrote and appeared in the film "American Ninja" as a drug lord. His production company announced plans for a "Land of the Giants" movie in the 1990s but nothing came about it. He runs a winery in California with his wife.
Don Matheson (Mark Wilson). Guested twice on "Lost in Space" first as an alien father whose family was vulnerable to Earth cold germs and as IDAK the android who fell in love with a female android. Also guested on "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" as an evil invading Amphibian. After "Giants", he appeared on "General Hospital" as bad guy Cameron Faulkner and on "Falcon Crest" as Padgett, the henchman to David Selby's character who sought to take over the Channing Family vinyards. He guested on a two-part "Magnum PI" and "Murder She Wrote" crossover episode as a hit man and on "Hill Street Blues" as an attorney. He appeared in the films "The Longest Yard" and "Younger and Younger" and in the Irwin Allen mini-series "Alice Through the Looking Glass" as the Red Knight who battled Lloyd Bridges as the White Knight. He married Deanna Lund after the series ended in 1970 and divorced in the late 1970s, but they remain good friends. Their daughter is actress Melissa Matheson.
Stefan Arnigrim (Barry Lockridge). Guested on the tv series "Here Come the Brides" and "Combat". After "Giants" as a teenager, he appeared in the films "Fear No Evil" and "Class of '84" and guest starred on the tv series "Viper". His sister is actress Alison Arnigrim who played mean Nellie Olsen on "Little House on the Prairie". His mother was actress Norma McMillan who was the voice of Sweet Polly Purebred on the "Underdog" cartoon series.
Don Marshall (Dan Erickson). Guested on "Star Trek" in the episode "The Galileo Seven" as Lt. Boma who clashed with Mr. Spock on his unemotional logic. Guested on "Dragnet" and "Daktari". After Giants, Marshall appeared in the films "Terminal Island" with Tom Selleck and Marta Kristen and "Uptown Saturday Night" as a henchman of Harry Belafonte. He also guested on the tv series "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century", "The Incredible Hulk", and "Good Times". He owns a patent of a car alarm system.
Kurt Kasznar (Alexander Fitzhugh). Noted stage actor. Appeared in the films "My Sister Eileen", "Casino Royale", and "The Ambushers" with Dean Martin. Guested on "The Man from UNCLE". After Giants, he guested on "Love American Style" and "Barnaby Jones". Died in 1979 from cancer at age 69.
Kevin Hagen (Inspector Kobick). Guested on "The Twilight Zone", "Lost in Space", "The Time Tunnel" 3 times, and "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" twice. After Giants, he guested on "Mission: Impossible". Appeared recurringly as Doc Baker, the town doctor on "Little House on the Prairie". Appeared in 9 Giants episodes. Season 1: "Deadly Lodestone", "Genius At Work", "Seven Little Indians", "Target Earth", "Rescue", "The Chase". Season 2: "The Unsuspected", "Nightmare", "Doomsday".
The original Land of the Giants concept first had two Earth spacemen named Steve and Alex stranded on the Giant planet and befriending a group of little people (dressed as medieval hunters with bows and arrows) already living there and being hunted by the giants. Steve and Alex befriended a female member of the little people tribe named Tyce. The little people were one inch tall on the giant planet. A sample script was written but Irwin Allen revamped the idea to make the little people 6 inches tall to make more functional giant props and to add different little people characters.
A presentation reel for Giants was made in 1967 for the ABC network to sell the series, using clips of the "Lost in Space" Jupiter 2 as Flight 612 and music from "Lost in Space" and "The Time Tunnel" and illustrated drawings of the characters. Tycoon Mark Wilson, Stewardess Betty Hamilton, Co-pilot Dan Erickson, and orphan Barry Lockridge were original characters that remained for the series. The captain's original name was Tim Burton, but was changed to Steve Burton because Gary Conway had played a character named Tim Tilson in the series "Burke's Law" and wanted a different character first name. Con-man/bogus Naval Commander Peter Linglehopper was changed to conman Alexander Fitzhugh. A female passenger was named Dr. Joan Templeton who was a geneticist flying to London for a medical conference and was changed to a more interesting younger swinging heiress Valerie Scott. Don Matheson hosted the 15 minute presentation reel that had storyboards for "The Crash" pilot including Tim Burton and Joan Templeton being captured and taped down on slides and examined by the giant scientists.
"Land of the Giants" was originally scheduled as a mid-season replacement show in 1967 by ABC's executives were so impressed with the pilot episode that they scheduled it for fall 1968 on Sunday Nights at 7pm Eastern/Pacific when it aired for 2 seasons. A third season was planned with Mark and Val getting married (Don Matheson and Deanna Lund were married after the show was cancelled) and having children but the series was cancelled in 1970.