Very arrogant criminal time travellers from the future (one is Warren Stevens) wish to "rule the universe" but first seek out material from the land of the giants...and will kill giants to get it!
Everything described above happens in the short teaser at the start of the episode! The totally cool Richard LaSalle scored teaser, which also contains the Lost In Space space pod, is one of the finest and most memorable moments in the history of Irwin Allen TV. If only things happened this fast in other episodes of Land Of The Giants. I loved watching it in my 1970s childhood and it still looks cool in this century!
Another poster has noted that this hour contains memorable lines and I very much agree. I might add that one line - "You'd better surrender...unless you want to see this young lady blown to bits" - was actually cut from G-Rated Australian prints but was finally heard in the 1990s re-runs when the world was more ready for it.
The pilot, The Crash, is without question the best directed and best made Land Of The Giants episode, but A Place Called Earth contains the most memorable lines of any episode in the series. Granted, the story is partly taken from a 1967 Time Tunnel episode called - Chase Through Time - but Valerie and the gang give the hour a unique identity that you will long remember.
It is more about "the little people" or more about the time travellers than the giants but the giants play a role in the hour and are not just thrown in to stick with the premise of the series (as was the case with time travelling hours Home Sweet Home and Wild Journey).
Great stuff!
Everything described above happens in the short teaser at the start of the episode! The totally cool Richard LaSalle scored teaser, which also contains the Lost In Space space pod, is one of the finest and most memorable moments in the history of Irwin Allen TV. If only things happened this fast in other episodes of Land Of The Giants. I loved watching it in my 1970s childhood and it still looks cool in this century!
Another poster has noted that this hour contains memorable lines and I very much agree. I might add that one line - "You'd better surrender...unless you want to see this young lady blown to bits" - was actually cut from G-Rated Australian prints but was finally heard in the 1990s re-runs when the world was more ready for it.
The pilot, The Crash, is without question the best directed and best made Land Of The Giants episode, but A Place Called Earth contains the most memorable lines of any episode in the series. Granted, the story is partly taken from a 1967 Time Tunnel episode called - Chase Through Time - but Valerie and the gang give the hour a unique identity that you will long remember.
It is more about "the little people" or more about the time travellers than the giants but the giants play a role in the hour and are not just thrown in to stick with the premise of the series (as was the case with time travelling hours Home Sweet Home and Wild Journey).
Great stuff!