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Remembering Irwin Allen, who was born 110 years ago today. Flawed though his sci-fi productions were, they gave me a great deal of joy growing up, especially The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants.
Here he is directing Don Marshall and Gary Conway on the set of the very first episode of Land of the Giants. The fact that the Spindrift crash-landed on the giant world on 12 June was a deliberate in-joke.
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Never forget...
June 12, 1983: Suborbital flight 612, the Spendrift, encountered a space warp and was transported to... The Land of the Giants
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Here we have a promotional Land of the Giants badge. Well, here in the UK we'd call it a badge; in the States it's a button or a pin. Whatever you want to call it, it was produced in the 1960s, and as a little boy I would have worn it proudly if only it had been available in the UK.
I have to say, though, the wording puzzles me. Why has "are" been changed to "is"? This might be a question that one of my American friends can answer for me.
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I’m always posting anniversaries and birthdays, but some are a little more special to me than others. Case in point…
Happy 81st birthday to Heather Young, aka ‘Spindrift’ stewardess Betty Hamilton from Land of the Giants — one of my earliest crushes.
#LandOfTheGiants #HeatherYoung #BubblegumCards #RetroSciFi #ClassicSciFi #IrwinAllen
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A very happy 90th birthday to Gary Conway — actor, writer, artist, and so much more. He’s the very definition of a Renaissance man.
On top of his many talents and accomplishments, for my generation Mr Conway will always have a special place in our hearts as Captain Steve Burton, leader of the diminutive Earth people trapped in the Land of the Giants.
All the very best, sir.
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Land of the Giants (1968) opening titles
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Land of the Giants premiered on US TV on 22 Sept 1968.
In the UK, I discovered it in 1969 through Joe 90: Top Secret comic, then finally saw the series on ITV in ’72.
Land of the Giants came into my life at a very important time. I was being traumatised by a real-life ogre of my own – my drunken and violent father. Whenever I suffered another “accident”, I thought of the crew of the Spindrift. If they could survive their ordeal, then so could I.
I will always be grateful.
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June 12, 1983: On this day in the distant future/past, sub-orbital passenger flight 612, en route from Los Angeles to London, ran into some very big trouble...
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As it happened, I already owned a variation of the same pose on one of my precious Land of the Giants bubble-gum cards.
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Land of the Giants listing from TV Times, dated 28th April, 1972.
My nine year-old self was delighted by the publicity picture. Such things were to be treasured back then, and I recall carefully cutting this one out and pasting it into my scrapbook.
Funnily enough, the exact same picture appeared in TV Times the following week. That was fine, though—I could never have too many pictures of Land of the Giants.
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I'm constantly posting anniversaries and birthdays, but some are a little more special to me than others. Case in point...
Happy 80th Birthday to Heather Young, alias 'Spindrift' stewardess Betty Hamilton from Land of the Giants, one of my earliest crushes.
#LandOfTheGiants #HeatherYoung #RetroSciFi #IrwinAllen #BubblegumCards
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Will these reboots, IF they happen, manage to capture the charm and the spirit of the original series? Stay tuned.
https://deadline.com/2025/02/akiva-goldsman-irwin-allen-sci-fi-legendary-television-1236297827/
#LandOfTheGiants #TheTimeTunnel #IrwinAllen #VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea
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Legendary Television and Akiva Goldsman will be developing new versions of classic TV series 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea", "Land of the Giants" and "The Time Tunnel", possibly creating a shared universe.
#VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea #LandOfTheGiants #TheTimeTunnel #AkivaGoldsman #LegendaryTelevision #Entertainment #Television #TV #Streaming
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Akiva Goldsman To Reimagine 3 Classic Irwin Allen Sci-Fi Titles For TV With Legendary Television
#News #AkivaGoldsman #IrwinAllen #LandoftheGiants #LegendaryTelevision #TheTimeTunnel #VoyagetotheBottomoftheSeahttps://deadline.com/2025/02/akiva-goldsman-irwin-allen-sci-fi-legendary-television-1236297827/
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Akiva Goldsmith To Reimagine 3 Classic Irwin Allen Sci-Fi Titles For TV With Legendary Television
#News #AkivaGoldsman #IrwinAllen #LandoftheGiants #LegendaryTelevision #TheTimeTunnel #VoyagetotheBottomoftheSeahttps://deadline.com/2025/02/akiva-goldsmith-irwin-allen-sci-fi-legendary-television-1236297827/
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Before he hit the big time, John Williams was Johnny Williams, and he composed the theme tunes for Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel and Land of the Giants. Here he is letting the creator of those series, Irwin Allen, play with his baton (I suspect there's a crude joke there, but I'm really not the sort of chap to make it).
Happy Birthday, Johnny... John.... Mr Williams... Sir!
#JohnWilliams #IrwinAllen #LostInSpace #TheTimeTunnel #LandOfTheGiants #RetroSciFi
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Happy Birthday to Gary Conway, a.k.a. Captain Steve Burton from Land of the Giants, a TV series that is very special to me.
Long ago, when my age was numbered in single figures, I was terrorised by a 'giant' of my own - a drunken and violently abusive father. Watching Captain Burton and the other diminutive Earthlings win through each week gave me something precious... hope. If they could survive their ordeal then so could I - and I did. I remain forever grateful.
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Just another day in the Land of the Giants.
Pages from the Land of the Giants colouring book,
Whitman Publishing, 1969. -
Land of the Giants is the, erm, big draw in this advertisement for issue 2 of Joe 90: Top Secret comic.
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Issue 1 of Joe 90: Special Agent comic, cover-dated 18th January, 1969.
In my personal history of being a geek, this comic is an important milestone. It's where I was first introduced to Star Trek and Land of the Giants, two U.S. Sci-Fi series that have had a major (and very positive) effect on my life.
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What I want for Christmas... 1969.
(Spoiler, I found both under the Christmas tree that year. Thanks, Nan.)
#StarTrek #LandOfTheGiants #RetroSciFi #Annuals #Telefantasy
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My first exposure to Land of the Giants was as a weekly two page picture-strip in 'Joe 90: Top Secret' comic, published in 1969.*
Throughout the strip's run, the Spindrift was mistakenly referred to as the Spendthrift. The name stuck with me and, even now, all these decades later, I occasionally catch myself writing Spendthrift instead of Spindrift.
*Where I lived we didn't get the TV series until 1972.
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What's that you say? Post a picture of a spaceship that isn't from Star Trek or Star Wars. If you insist...
My all time favourite fictional spaceship is the Spindrift from Land of the Giants. Okay, the Spindrift didn't do much flying through space as it crashed in the first episode, but it's a gorgeous design with similarities to the Flying Sub from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and the Proteus from Fantastic Voyage.
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Before there was Irwin Allen's #LandoftheGiants there was "WOG" (LOL) aka World of Giants.
I have never of this series, some say its pretty bad, I'm going to check it out.