Land of the Giants

Land of the Giants
Title screen from season 1
GenreScience fiction
Created byIrwin Allen
Directed by
Starring
Theme music composerJohn Williams
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes51 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producerIrwin Allen[1]
Producers
  • Irwin Allen
  • Bruce Fowler Jr.
  • Jerry Briskin
Running time60 minutes (including commercials)
Production companiesIrwin Allen Productions
in association with Kent Productions Inc. and 20th Century-Fox Television[2]
Original release
NetworkABC
ReleaseSeptember 22, 1968 (1968-09-22) –
March 22, 1970 (1970-03-22)
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Land of the Giants is a one-hour American science fiction television series that aired on ABC for two seasons, beginning on September 22, 1968, and ending on March 22, 1970. The show was created and produced by Irwin Allen. Land of the Giants was Allen's fourth science-fiction TV series. The show was released by 20th Century Fox Television. The series was filmed entirely in color and ran for 51 episodes. The show starred Gary Conway and special guest star Kurt Kasznar.

Five novels based on the television series, including three written by acclaimed science-fiction author Murray Leinster, were published in 1968 and 1969.[3]

  1. ^ Alex McNeil. "Land of the Giants", Total Television. New York: Penguin, 1996. p. 402
  2. ^ "Land of the Giants Outro Short..." YouTube: AJ Orendain. 2 October 2016. Archived from the original on 2021-12-13.
  3. ^ Leinster, Murray (1968). Land of the Giants. New York: Pyramid Books.