The earth people find a town that might be earth.
Despite pinching ideas from a B&W Twilight Zone episode, Ghost Town is one of my favourite episodes of this 51 episode series and the energetic teaser is one of the best moments of any Irwin Allen series. We begin with a giant hobo and earth kid Barry struck by a force field, feisty Valerie then throws a rock at the force field - all done with John William music blasting away! When they call Irwin Allen a master showman, they are talking about teasers like this - Irwin knew how to hook viewers into an hour!
Ghost Town is different to any other first season episode in that is does not feature little people climbing desks or running around a studio jungle - instead we are in a earth-like town. Also, the hour generally seems to have more gusto than many other episodes.
A much later second season episode - A Small War - does have shades of this hour as it features another trouble making giant kid (this time a boy) who has an army of toys that upset the little people. Perhaps this would have been better if they brought back the giant girl from Ghost Town?
In a nutshell - this episode is a knockout!
Despite pinching ideas from a B&W Twilight Zone episode, Ghost Town is one of my favourite episodes of this 51 episode series and the energetic teaser is one of the best moments of any Irwin Allen series. We begin with a giant hobo and earth kid Barry struck by a force field, feisty Valerie then throws a rock at the force field - all done with John William music blasting away! When they call Irwin Allen a master showman, they are talking about teasers like this - Irwin knew how to hook viewers into an hour!
Ghost Town is different to any other first season episode in that is does not feature little people climbing desks or running around a studio jungle - instead we are in a earth-like town. Also, the hour generally seems to have more gusto than many other episodes.
A much later second season episode - A Small War - does have shades of this hour as it features another trouble making giant kid (this time a boy) who has an army of toys that upset the little people. Perhaps this would have been better if they brought back the giant girl from Ghost Town?
In a nutshell - this episode is a knockout!