Here, patient reader, you will find episode summaries for both season one and two. I will try to be brief and just list the main points, but like most things, keeping it brief is not my strongest suit. At least it might jog your memory about your favourite episode. I won't presume to rate the episodes as I love them all.

Land of the Giants - The Tv Show

Main Cast Members

Gary Conway .......... Captain Steve Burton
Don Marshall ......... Dan Erickson
Stefan Arngrim ....... Barry Lockridge
Heather Young ........ Betty Hamilton
Don Matheson ......... Mark Wilson
Deanna Lund .......... Valerie Scott
Kevin Hagen .......... S.I.D. Inspector Kobick
Kurt Kasznar ......... Commander Alexander Fitzhugh

Episode guide with original air-dates

Land of the Giants - The First Season

1.The Crash (9/22/68) - Pilot Episode
Here we meet out intrepid travellers for the first time, aboard the Suborbital spacecraft The Spindrift, on Flight 703 enroute from LA to London on June 12th 1983. They encounter a space anomaly that transports them to a planet that is earthlike in appearance but where everything is 12 time Earth size. On landing the Earth people encounter a car, boy, cat, entomologist/scientist and a dog, in roughly that order. A great start to their adventures in the Land of the Giants.

2.Ghost Town (9/29/68)
The Little People discover a scale model of an Earth town when they go looking for Barry who has been injured by a force field. They find themselves trapped in the town by an old man and his grandaughter. The little girl tries to kill them while the Grandfather is away, but they manage to disable the force field and escape.

3.Framed (10/6/68)
The Earthlings witness the murder of a photographers model, then see the murderer try to frame an innocent Hobo. They take a photo of the frame-up but Steve and Valerie have to ride in the camera to get to the mans darkroom to develop the picture. To prove the Hobo innocent they distract the man while Steve and Val secure the photo, when the man calls the police to find the Little People, they leave the photo where the police find it, then make their escape.

4.Underground (10/20/68)
The Little People witness a man captured by the SID in the woods, Steve, Valerie and Fitzhugh are themselves lured to a cave where they are captured by a man who needs their help to destroy a secret list of members of an underground group of rebels. They hatch a plan to get smuggled into the vault where the letter is kept, using Fitzhugh in a shoebox and the rebel leader dressed as a postman. The plan almost works but Fitzhugh is knocked out, so Steve and Dan have to sneak into the complex while the others tunnel through a blocked air duct into the vault. With a last minute distraction from the rebel leader the letter is burnt and the list destroyed. In the process the leader is shot and dies, the Little People escape down the cleared air vent to freedom.

5.Terror-Go-Round (11/3/68)
The crew and passengers of the Spindrift are captured by gypsies on the way to a carnival. A small boy, the nephew of one of the men tried to help them but has limited success. Steve manages to rescue Mark and Barry from the pipes of a Calliope, and later they devise a rescue from the back of a truck using a balloon and helium for the others.

6. The Flight Plan (11/10/68)
7. Manhunt (11/17/68)
8.The Trap (11/24/68)
Fitzhugh and Barry see a man being mugged in the woods. When the others arrive they discover a giant alarm clock that Mark thinks will help them with repairs to the ship. While salvaging the clock two scientists arrive with sound detection equipment. They capture Betty and Valerie. To rescue the girls, Mark suggest using a fuel cell to blow the equipment as a distraction to get the Giants out of their tent so Steve and Dan can effect the rescue. The plan works after Fitzhugh helps an injured Mark blow up the Giants machine, against Fitzhughs better judgement. The group award Fitzhugh a hero's medal.

9.The Creed (12/1/68)
Barry contracts appendicitis on his birthday, and it is decided that Steve will need to operate to save his life. On a trip to the local hospital for supplies they are found by a Surgeon who offers to help them in return for help translating a German medical book from a previous downed ship from Earth. They perform the operation using a medical kit their size also from the doomed spaceship, but a medical orderly has informed the SID and they track the Surgeon to the woods, shooting him when he tried to lead them away from where the Little People are hiding. Mark and Dan use the anaesthetic to lure the Giants away so they can escape. The Doctor gives them the medical bag and book to keep.

10. Double-Cross (12/8/68)
11.The Weird World (12/22/68)
Barry finds a tape recorder that he takes back to camp. Things start to disappear from the campsite. Barry is kidnapped by a wild man who has been stealing their stuff. He is the only survivor from a previous spaceship crash, and doesn't trust the people of the Spindrift, thinking they are in league with the Giants. Steve finds him and Barry and take him back to camp. Fitzhugh does a con-job on him and the man, Kagan, takes Fitzhugh back to his cave but a Gopher attacks as Steve and Mark arrive. Kagan tells them of his spaceship being held in a laboratory in the city, they decide to all go and investigate. Kagan leads them to a vent but won't go in, fearing something inside. The others, except Barry all go inside and find the ship, but it is in pieces. A scientist and guard try to capture them, and Barry goes into the vent to help but gets trapped by a spiders web. Kagan goes in to rescue Barry but gets caught himself just as the others arrive. He dies and the others return to the ship, Barry adding a last entry on the tape recorder.

12.The Golden Cage (12/29/68)
Steve and Mark find a beautiful girl in a glass cage in the woods, they return to the ship without her, but later Mark goes to rescue her. He finds out that she is Marna, the daughter of his mentor who disappeared with his wife and child on a flight to Paris many years ago. Steve and the others follow and try to stop Mark leaving with Marna and they have a fight. Mark leaves and Marna takes him to her house in the woods where she is cared for by Giants. Mark realises that she has been brainwashed by them and that they only want to capture all the Little People. Meanwhile, while searching for Mark and Marna, Fitzhugh finds a Giant turkey and captures it in some suspenders. Marna gives Mark a present of a huge diamond and tells him to bring the others. Mark leaves and meets Steve and the others. They all leave but the Giants use a tracking device in the diamond to follow them. They attach the diamond to the suspenders and let the turkey lead the Giants away so they can escape.

13.The Lost Ones (1/5/69)
Steve, Mark, Valerie and Betty are captured by a group of youths who are the only survivors of an All American Youth Flight that crashed on the planet. They think the Little People are in league with the Giants and they want a friends of theirs returned or Betty and Valerie will be harmed. Val manages to clue Dan, using the leaders radio and he manages to untie Steve and Mark while the gang are off looking for him. Valerie and Betty have been dragged off my another member of the gang to be used as hostages for the friends release. During a fight the brother of the leader is trapped in a cage and carried off by a Giant trapper. The girls manage to overpower their kidnapper and escape, despite this the Spindrift group stick around to help free the other boy. Fitzhugh, on look out, eats a fruit that knocks him out. He is found by the Trapper and put into the cage, then the leader of the youths is captured and also put in. The others devise a plan of using the fruit to knock out the Trapper by putting it into his coffee thermos. The plan succeeds when Steve gets himself captured and stages a fight to draw the Trappers attention while the other spike the thermos. They all escape and go their separate ways.

14. Brainwash (1/12/69)
15. The Bounty Hunter (1/19/69)
16. On A Clear Night You Can See Earth (1/26/69)
17. Deadly Lodestone (2/2/69)
18.The Night of the Thrombeldinbar (2/16/69)
Fitzhugh is captured by two orphan boys and taken back to their room at the orphanage. The boys believe Fitzhugh is a magical elf called Thrombeldinbar. While the others, led by Barry, race to rescue him, Fitzhugh adopts the persona of the elf to entertain the boys. The supervisor of the orphanage sets the boys some impossible maths problems to solve, which Fitzhugh, together with Mark and Steve's help, solves for them. The supervisor doesn't believe the boys and locks them in their room. The boys run away, carrying Fitzhugh in a paperbag, into the woods, that they plan to burn when the moon rises to release Thrombeldinbar, according to the Giants holiday custom. The rest of the group give chase, seeing the bag containing Fitzhugh taken off the boys by an Organ Grinder and his chimpanzee. The Giant swaps the bags, giving the boys one containing a rock. Steve and Dan tell the orphanage supervisor, who rushes of and fights the organ grinder, while Mark and Dan free the boys, who also join the fight. Fitzhugh manages to break out of the paper bag and join the others. They watch as the man and his monkey are chased away by the boys and their supervisor.

19. Seven Little Indians (2/23/69)
20. Target ... Earth (3/2/69)
21.Genius at Work (3/9/69)
Fitzhugh and Barry are in the woods, meeting a boy called Jodi whose a scientific genius. Jodi has invented a substance that makes small things big. By accident Chipper eats some of the formula and ends up giant size. A Giant finds Chipper and takes him away, leaving Barry heartbroken. Jodi leaves and Fitzhugh and Barry return to camp with their incredible tale. Later, Fitzhugh returns and finds a scrap of the formula and takes it himself. Back at camp Barry is very upset with the loss of Chipper,but they are interupted by the arrival of a Giant Fitzhugh. Mark angers Fitzhugh, who takes off to enter Giant society. Barry follows and sees Fitzhugh arrested for disturbing the peace. In jail Fitzhugh is identified by a boy as being the man who injured his friend and put him in hospital. The Little People find Fitzhugh and find out he could be charged and sent to jail. Steve goes to Jodi to get an antidote, but while Jodi works on that Steve takes some himself and poses at Fitzhugh's lawyer to free him. Kobick becomes suspicious and looks at some photo's taken of the Little People, recognising Steve but not believing his eyes. Back at the jail, Steve is locked in with Fitzhugh, but Mark arrives with the antidote which Steve and Fitz take and become small again, escaping out of the floor drain. On the way home, they stop to rescue Chipper, alerting the police to the real culprit with the aid of a baseball as evidence.

22.Return of Inidu (3/16/69)
During a storm, the Little People take shelter in a spooky house. They are chased out by a "ghost" only to be found by two bullies who in turn are chased off by an apparition of Steve in green smoke. Val and Dan see a cloaked stranger take their friends back into the house. They find out that a Magician, Inidu, is hiding out in the house. He, in turn, is hiding from the police as he's escaped after being falsely accused of murder. When he leaves another man arrives. The Little People use Inidu's tricks to scare him away, but he returns with Inidu. The man turns out to be Inidu's old assistant in his magic show. The man tries to poison his old mentor but the Little People alert Inidu in time. The man is actually after Inidu's magic book with all Inidu's secrets, and after capturing Valerie, he tries to blackmail Inidu into revealing it whereabouts. Using a tape recorder, Fitzhugh captures the mans confession to the original murder. The police arrive and Inidu plays them the tape. During the scuffle the Little People escape.

23. Rescue (3/23/69)
24. Sabotage (3/30/69)
25.Shell Game (4/13/69)
Fitzhugh is spotted by a boy at the waterfront. Fitzhugh returns to the Spindrift and Valerie, together with Betty decided to surprise the men with a seafood banquet. At the waterfront, Val and Betty see the boy but he doesn't appear to be able to hear. They watch him sort some huge seashells, but don't see a crayfish threatening them. Mark and Steve arrive in time to see Valerie trapped by a fishing net. Steve frees her, then with Betty they hide in one of the seashells. Dan and Mark watch as the boy picks up the seashell with the Little People inside. Back at his house, the boy tried to clean the shell but instead finds the Little People inside. The father, an impoverished fisherman, sees the Little People as a solution to their financial problems. The boy, who comunicates via hand signals tells his mother that he's seen other Little People and leads his parents to the Spindrift while carrying Steve and the girls in the fathers pocket. The father picks up the ship and carries it off before Mark and Dan can reach them. The ship is placed in a cupboard back at the boys house and the parents debate whether to phone the SID. Meanwhile Mark and Dan find Fitzhugh and Barry who hid when the giants arrived. They go back and devise a plan for Mark to be exhanged for the girls. Mark will build a hearing device for the boy in exchange for their freedom. The Giant mother agrees and frees Val and Betty. Mark makes the hearing aid but it doesn't work at first. By using a small shell and fixing the hearing aid inside they make it work. The boy then puts the Little People inside the Spindrift and returns it to a new location, the whereabouts unknown to his parents.

26. The Chase (4/20/69)

Land of the Giants - The Second Season

27. The Mechanical Man (9/21/69)
28. Six Hours to Live (9/28/69)
29.The Inside Rail (10/5/69)
The Little People are at the racetrack, collecting horse hair. Fitzhugh can't resist watching the horses close up, after a race, where he nearly gets run over, Fitzhugh and Barry find an unclaimed betting ticket. Enlisting the help of a race bum, Fitzhugh arranges collection of their winnings. The Bum is picked up by the Local security chief who deduces that Little People are loose on the grounds. Alerting his guards they capture Mark, Valerie and Betty. Steve and Dan get themselves into the room where their friends are being held, knock out the guard and try to escape. Fitzhugh and Barry wait in a loose box and see a man caught trying to tamper with a racehorse, dropping the syringe in the process. Knowing that they need to get past the Chief somehow, they devise a scheme to use the syringe on the Chief, knocking him out and escaping. The race bum gives Fitzhugh his half of the winnings, but Fitzhugh has to leave it behind as its Giant money, too big to carry.

30.Deadly Pawn (10/12/69)
Valerie, Fitzhugh and Barry are captured by an eccentric Chess master. Using a stun gun, Steve, Mark and Dan are also captured. They find themselves on a Giant chess table, with the chess master wanting to pit his wits against the Little Peoples best chess player. Barry is found to be their best and the others are tied to the chess pieces. By losing some of his pieces Steve, Dan and Mark are able to escape. Mark gets back to the Spindrift and uses the ships computer to help Barry, via radio, win the game. The Chess master sees Barry cheat and tips the chess board over, sending Valerie, Fitzhugh and Barry into a furnace. Steve manages to get them out and they escape.

31. The Unsuspected (10/19/69)
32. Giants and All That Jazz (10/26/69)
33.Collector's Item (11/2/69)
Valerie and Betty are chased into a jewellers shop where Val is captured by a man having a music box made. The man then makes a bargain with her that if she will dress up like a doll and dance in the music box for his Uncle, he will set her free. Betty escapes and, together with Steve and Dan and Fitzhugh devise a rescue. Steve hooks onto the bumper of the mans car when he comes to collect the finished music box. He leads the others to the mans house where Valerie is being fitted for the roll of a dancing doll. The man has fitted a bomb to the underside of the box which Steve sees. Mark and Dan try to free Valerie but fail. When the man covers the golden music box cage with Valerie inside, Dan and Fitzhugh slip under the cover and go for a ride with Valerie when the man takes the present to his Uncle. Mark finds Steve and they find the plans for the bomb but set off some of the explosive by accident. The wife finds them and takes them with her to visit the Uncle. The Uncle is intrigued with Valerie's perfomance and the Nephew tries to leave, but can't. Dan and Fitzhugh try to free Valerie when the two giants leave to have a celebratory drink but Fitzhugh triggers the Uncles collection of music boxes and they get caught. The wife arrives with Steve and Mark and it is revealed that she believe's the Little People's story about the bomb. The nephew is caught out and the wife leaves, a fight ensues which masks the escape of the Little People. The bomb explodes killing the nephew and the uncle.

34. Every Boy Needs A Dog (11/9/69)
35. Chamber of Fear (11/16/69)
36.Comeback (11/23/69)
The Little People are out collecting food when they see a man, Igor Crull, about to jump off a bridge. Igor captures them and takes them to a movie studio in an attempt to revive his own flagging stardom. The director uses the Little People in a miniature house, putting them through several dangerous scenes, one involving a gorilla, while filming. Dan and Barry have followed Igor to the studio and help avert a disaster involving a gun. Valerie is suspended over a pit and Steve manages to rescue her, Dan shorts the lights and they escape, but Fitzhugh is recaptured during the attempt. The gorilla escapes when Igor and the Director have a fight, the ape finally bailing the director up in the Gorilla's cage. Steve frees Fitzhugh and they are able to leave the studio.

37. The Clones (11/30/69)
38. A Place Called Earth (12/7/69)
39.Land of the Lost (12/14/69)
During a Giant holiday, Valerie and Barry are carried off in a toy balloon, together with Mark and Steve. They find themselves flown at speed over an ocean, against all the rules of physics. Dan keeps contact by using the ship's radio. The balloon is carried to a land over the sea where they are taken to the presence of the Ruler, Titus, who asks them about artefact from the other continent. Steve is sent back to find proof that the Little People are not off the Giant world. While he's gone Titus fits Mark with a control collar. When Steve arrives back at the Spindrift, he collects Dan and Fitzhugh, complete with parachutes and photos and they head back to Titus. Dan and Fitzhugh jump off the balloon and enter the complex, planting explosives in the powerplant. Steve shows Titus the photos but the giant decides to keep them their so Mark can build rockets for him to use against the other Giants. A rebel, Androse, fights Titus and get the Little People back into the balloon, and on their way back to their own land.

40. Home Sweet Home (12/21/69)
41. Our Man O'Reilly (12/28/69)
42. Nightmare (1/4/70)
43. Pay the Piper (1/11/70)
44. The Secret City of Limbo (1/18/70)
45. Panic (1/25/70)
46. The Deadly Dart (2/1/70)
47. Doomsday (2/15/70)
48.A Small War (2/22/70)
A Giant boy is playing in the woods with his remote control toy soldiers. He spots Barry and tries to capture him, thinking Barry is a rivals Toy Soldier. The Giant Boy then sends a jeep complete with wooden pellet machine gun to attack the Little People. When that fails he uses a tank and aircraft. Mark gets mad when Valerie is burned by the tanks firework missiles. He vows to stop the boy but gets captured instead, along with Barry. The Valerie and Fitzhugh distract the boy while Steve and Dan break Mark and Barry out of the stockade. Dan now decides to stop the Giant boy but gets shot by a wooden pellet from the machine gun on the jeep. Betty runs over and manages to convince the boy that they are real people not toys. Before they can escape the boys father appears and chases Valerie and Fitzhugh into a gopher hole. Steve pilots the plane in an attempt to draw the father away from the hole but gets knocked out when the father throws rocks at the plane. The boy brings the plane down by remote control, saving Steve. Valerie and Fitzhugh escape and they all watch at the father and son leave.

49.The Marionettes (3/1/70)
All the Little People are at a circus, gathering black powder for explosives. The gorilla, Bobo, escapes and chases Valerie, Fitzhugh and Betty, into the woods. Bobo grabs Valerie and carries her off. Mark, Steve and Dan try to rescue her but fail. A puppeteer, searching for the Gorilla, catches Valerie when the Gorilla drops her, returning her to the men below. Later Betty is caught in an animal trap and is rescued by the same Giant, who gets a hand caught in the trap as well. Betty and Fitzhugh decided to help the injured Puppeteer when he returns to the circus. Mark and Steve find them both dressed at puppets, but Betty and Fitzhugh won't leave until the Puppeteer has passed his audition for the circus. The men continue to collect explosives and call on Valerie to bring more bags. She is captured by Bobo again when passing the gorilla cage. The owner of the Circus, Brady, takes Valerie off Bobo and realises that the puppets he's just watched are in fact Little People. Everyone is caught except Steve and Mark, who blow the lock on the Gorilla cage and in the mayhem, the puppeteer releases the Little People in the cage.

50. Wild Journey (3/8/70)
51. Graveyard of Fools (3/22/70)