Land of the Giants (TV Series) Land of the Lost (1969) User Reviews

Up, Up, and Away in My Beautiful, My Beautiful Balloon...

[mgmstar128 · 7/10 · 16 October 2016]

This episode is one of those episodes where fantasy is more in the mix than science fiction. It is silly episode which requires a viewer to suspend one's disbelief even more than usual.

Our castaways are said to be traveling 500 miles per hour in an air balloon going against the wind current. Oh, sure! They are traveling to a society on the other side of the ocean that is inferior to the other side where our castaways are from, yet they also have computers.

Interesting allusion to THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) where an hourglass is used to gamble with someone's life. When the sand runs out, death will be imminent.

No Betty once again. The producers could have filmed a few insert shots to be placed into episodes if they wanted to establish some continuity of characters.

Paradoxical episode however expanded the Giant's world across the sea!!!

[elo-equipamentos · 7/10 · 17 January 2021]

Land of the Lost was one of my favorite episodes of the second season which is branded by ups and downs, the three latest episodes improve gretly after a hiatus of bad stories, this one catch me due the writer William Welch expands with more details the until now reduced world of the Giants, it sounds a little bit bizarre that the whole planet weren't occupied by their inhabitants, actually the planet's name never was mentioned anytime, even the main city, however the giants were described many planets as Earth, Venus, Mars and so on the previous episodes, an unforgiven mistake made by Irwin Allen's crew, this turn ours heroes crossing the storm sea thorough a balloon reaching in a place self-called of no return, this Kingdom is ruled by an evil dictator Titus (Nehemiah Persoff) who has an advanced computer complex that had attracted the tiny balloon against the wind, mighty necklace attached in their slaves and also has an enhanced system of levitation, however didn't know a thing about the rustic inventions like a simple glasses, fireworks and thimble, sadly it sounds utterly paradoxical, more the Earthlings confirm that the others Giants are light years ahead of his country, not forgetting it's an Irwin Allen's show, whereby nothing make sense, at least it allows to us a little bit more about Giant's world, further the lazy Fitzhugh displays his hidden ability to develop a rough balloon at the campsite with your hands under hard efforts and also has a never to jump on parachute, the things are changing fast on The Land of the Giants, fabulous and indelible funny episode!!

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First watch: 1971 / How many: 4 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 7.5

Land Of The Lost Room

[StuOz · 2 March 2015]

The little people fly away in a balloon to an even more dangerous land.

Wow! The John Williams scored teaser is so strong with the disaster of the earthlings being sent away in a balloon by mistake. Act one then gives us welcome hints that something terrible lies ahead in the Land Of The Lost.

But once we get to act two, we become aware that "the most expensive TV series ever made" perhaps went over-budget in recent weeks as the Land Of The Lost is just a room with giant guys in funny cloths all standing around our captured little folk. I was expecting something more...but I guess we get that in the later episode...The Graveyard Of Fools.

Meanwhile back in the "normal" land, Fitz is turning out to be an all out pain as he attempts to blow up a giant balloon with his mouth!

I like the way season two does shows where the little people go places (Earth, Limbo, Graveyard and Earth again) but this hour lacks the required budget to create a pleasing location.

One of the Most Adventurous Episodes!

[richard.fuller1 · 10/10 · 5 August 2006]

Another episode with a balloon (I believe Terror-Go-Round had the other balloon, tho that one was an escape), this time Barry, Valerie, Steve and Mark go aloft in a balloon and sail to a distant land, not supposed to be what we have here on our Earth.

What a fantasy show this thing was! "We've traveled five hundred miles against the wind!" Steve tells Don over the intercom.

Hilarious! They find a foreign land and Steve must return to get proof for the foreigners about the other land, where they came from.

Or the giant foreign land.

the actors don't play it for laughs, which definitely makes it good.

And with fireworks, this episode is incredibly fun.

Want to watch old sci fi? Check out this episode and this show.

Land of a Mess

[fcabanski · 2/10 · 4 November 2016]

The opening of this episode and the approach to the foreign land were terrific. Were our heroes going to spend a few episodes or even the rest of the season in an even worse giant place than they'd originally crashed? But the promise burst like Fitzhugh's overblown balloon when Steve, Val, Mark and Barry finally meet the maniacal laughing "supreme leader' of another land.

Somehow the other land people have the technology to pull a tiny balloon a thousand miles at 500 miles per hour, but they don't have thimbles, nails, or eye glasses. In fact, even tiny explosives like fireworks are foreign to these mysterious people. They have no idea what will happen when they apply fire to gunpowder, and they have no idea about fuses.

They also have some strange, absolute law. Once an agreement of any kind is made, even a threat, it must be followed to the letter. That is, until it's time to follow it. Then the other land people break the "absolute" law. The supreme leader promises to kill the little people captives if Steve doesn't return in time with proof of giants and technology across the sea. When asked to give Steve a little more time, the supreme leader says even he has to follow the law to the letter. He says he absolutely must kill them if time expires before Steve returns. Time expires. Steve returns late. The supreme leader announces "your lives are saved!" The budget of this episode was so low it was mostly set in a room full of stock machines. They couldn't even afford wax to make the supreme leader's eyebrows remain menacingly pointed. In some scenes they're pointed, but in other scenes a single hair is sticking up.

Aside from their super force technology, the other land people have a collar that "affect each person in a different way." The SL uses the collar to make a giant fall and then to knock out the giant. This is all it takes to make the giant obey. But Mark proves unusually tough. Pain to make Mark fall to his knees and pass out doesn't fully condition Mark for obedience. The SL then tells the little people that some folks have to be knocked unconscious a few times before their wills are broken. I guess the collar affects everyone the same way.

The little people tell the giant who helps them - he wasn't totally conditioned - that they have set explosives. But after he runs out to release their balloon into the sky, he runs back in to smash a few machines. He likely realized it was important to erase the possibility of a return appearance. He's caught in the explosion.

The thousand mile trip to other land at 500 MPH took two hours. The return trip, according to Steve, will be finished "by morning". Somehow, even without the miracle other land force, they're traveling at around 100MPH on a toy balloon.