Land of the Giants

I haven't seen the pilot before but many of the other episodes on afternoon reruns in the 70s or 80s. Similar feel to Lost in Space but without good characterizations. I see Fitzhugh is the Dr. Smith of this group but after the pilot, he kind of settled down into a team player of sorts (& wasn't anywhere near so fey-thank God). The rest of the cast are all stock characters that I have a hard time keeping apart. The 2 girls are interchangable, the 3 young toughs have a token black. The kid is cute & wise. The captain gives Fitzhugh an earful but not Ms. Scott who got them trapped? If they are about 4 to 6 inches high, those spiders shouldn't be bigger than they are unless the giant world is radicallly different than ours. In fact, I always thought they had gone back to our world in the past & shrunk since they speak & write in English and drive Mustangs, etc.

As first episodes go i thought \'The Crash\' was brilliant, here we learn how they became stuck in a Giants world. Even in the first episode you could see Fitzhugh becoming a very annoying character although i think superbly played by Kurt Kasznar. Also the Dog was to become a real annoyance for me as it seemed to always land them in trouble. The episode itself is really enjoyable..infact i personally think one of the best, we meet all the main characters, and also see a giant cat and a dog and then there\'s the giants. One thing i remembered whilst watching this episode was my brother having a crush on Deanna Lund, infact i think he only watched because of her..lol. Not my fave episode but one of the best.