Questions for fans of this show.
1) Did they ever get home?
2) Was the land of the giants really 60's earth because they lacked the technology of future earth?
3) That guy who worked for the FBI, or whatever it was - did he ever find out/capture the earthlings?
Thanks.
1. Same as with Lost In Space and Time Tunnel - Irwin Allen never bothered to tie up the loose ends.
2.I think the Land of the Giants planet seemed to be inferior in their technology - furthermore, the inhabitants viewpoint seemed time-warped around the McCarthy-Communist Plot fiasco, even their hairstyles and wardrobe seemed to reflect that period.
3.Kobick (if that's who you mean) kind of faded into oblivion around the middle of the second season.
- Brian
If you sort the orders out in the order filmed, you realize that Kobick got kicked upstairs--that is, promoted out of the SID into a job that paid more but offered him no real responsibility. The episode "The Deadly Dart" was all about a deadly campaign of pseudo-ops by a frustrated SID Sergeant who saw his one-time peer, Grayson, become a lieutenant and gain the fast track to be the next Inspector. So this sergeant makes a pact with a yellow journalist to stoke the fears. But everything fails when Steve catches the sergeant red-handed, about to kill Grayson and make it look as if "The Little People" did it.
My problem was this: the show had several opportunities to turn into a political thriller, and an incisive commentary on American politics. Why did Senator Obek ("Sabotage"), who laid the blame for a vicious government pseudo-op where it belonged, never appear again? Why didn't we see more of him?
If I had been in charge of scripts for that show, I'd have insisted that the first season end in a cliffhanger: Senator Obek is standing for re-election (do we ever see Giants vote?), and has an opponent who has another pseudo-op in the works to lay the blame on Steve and Obek both. At the same time, the original "Underground" is back, and they don't trust anybody, except they want Steve to join their rebel movement in earnest. Now it's all on Steve. Whom does he trust? Can he maybe get The Underground to trust Obek enough to work with him, this time to stop the pseudo-op before it happens?
And what's with that Supreme Council? Who selects them?
Let's get some more out of those terrorist incidents ("Doomsday") on one hand, and pseudo-ops ("Sabotage", "The Deadly Dart") on the other. Not to mention the tendency by so many Giant citizens to act like "sheeple."
The final episode of Land of the Giants guest stars Bruce Dern and Yvonne Craig as mysterious travelers themselves who flaunt the means to go back in time and prevent the Spendrift from leaving in the first place, thereby preventing the voyage to the Land of the Giants.
Steve and Don get hold of this remote control device (truthfully, they don't steal it, and possessing the means of preventing a tragedy, is that a crime?) and use it to go to Earth two years earlier, before the Spendrift leaves.
However, they are thwarted by Dern and Craig, who tell them they must take the voyage or else.
In the end, Bruce and Yvonne give them memory lapse pills, so they will forget all about knowing about the crash, and Steven and Don make the voyage.
Most notable about this final episode is we never see Stefan Arngrim, other than rerun scenes from the first episode. Apparently he had aged considerably over two years and wasn't as small as he had been.
Once back in the present, Steve finds a piece of paper, a discipline form with his name and the date the Spendrift departed, in his jacket pocket, where he had put it, but he has no idea what it was for.
I was often puzzled by the conversation Steve and Don had at the end. It almost sounded to me like they may have made the journey still, but didn't take the others with them, but apparently the voyage still took place.
Not exactly a conclusion, but it offered a concept of the journey never taking place.
As to Time Tunnel, its final episode also looped around to the first episode, and we see our time travelers back on the Titanic.
The Robinson family, alas, are still . . . . . Lost In space.
That seems to be the biggest glitch of this show. Like somebody didn't think if they wanted them on Earth or not.
It seems apparent in later episodes that they were supposed to be on another planet, but still everything looked like Earth, didnt it?
One episode had a danger territory to the north or something (think I'll watch that episode in a while), and then there was the Thrombeldinar episode and Inidu, attempting to make up some foreign, alien cultures.
One episode is supposed to have the little people look up at the Earth in the sky or something at the end, thereby concluding that it wasn't Earth they were on.
Or did they see the moon, thereby confirming they were on earth?
Ah, I can't recall.
If you mean the episode where Fitzhugh and Betty use a machine which enables them to pinpoint Earth's location, Richard, that's as close to Terra Firma as the Little People were likely to get...
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