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The Best Episodes of Land of the Giants

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The Best Episodes of Land of the Giants

Set fifteen years in the then-future year 1983, the series tells the tale of the crew and passengers of a sub-orbital transport ship named Spindrift....

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  1. Background image for Rescue
    8.1/10(80 votes)

    #1 - Rescue

    S1:E23

    After the Earthlings are inadvertently responsible for two children becoming trapped in a well, they volunteer their servicse to rescue them.

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  2. Background image for The Golden Cage
    8.0/10(87 votes)

    #2 - The Golden Cage

    S1:E12

    Mark falls for an attractive Earth girl - the survivor of a previous space flight.

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    Director:Sobey Martin
  3. Background image for Deadly Pawn
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Deadly Pawn

    S2:E4

    The Earthlings must play a game of real-life chess with a demented giant industrialist.

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    Director:Nathan Juran
  4. Background image for The Creed
    7.9/10(75 votes)

    #4 - The Creed

    S1:E9

    Barry is strick by appendicitis and the Earthlings have no choice but to turn to a giant doctor for assistance.

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    Director:Sobey Martin
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for The Weird World
    7.8/10(89 votes)

    #5 - The Weird World

    S1:E11

    The Spindrift crew finds a paranoid survivor from Earth...but his suspicions endanger everyone.

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  6. Background image for Deadly Lodestone
    7.8/10(67 votes)

    #6 - Deadly Lodestone

    S1:E17

    The Giants have invented a detector that can home in on Earth-based metals, and Dan puts the entire group at risk due to the surgical pin in his leg.

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  8. Background image for Seven Little Indians
    7.7/10(63 votes)

    #7 - Seven Little Indians

    S1:E19

    Kobick uses a captured Chipper as bait in a trap to capture the entire Spindrift crew.

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  9. Background image for Genius at Work
    7.7/10(75 votes)

    #8 - Genius at Work

    S1:E21

    A giant boy-genius comes up with a pill that can enlarge an Earthling to Giant-size.

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  10. Background image for Shell Game
    7.7/10(71 votes)

    #9 - Shell Game

    S1:E25

    The Earthlings come to the aid of a giant deaf boy and his poverty-stricken family.

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  11. Background image for The Chase
    7.7/10(67 votes)

    #10 - The Chase

    S1:E26

    Inspector Kobick of the SID involves the Earthlings in a plan to track down counterfeiters.

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  12. Background image for Ghost Town
    7.6/10(148 votes)

    #11 - Ghost Town

    S1:E2

    The Earthlings find themselves trapped in an Earth-sized town run by a giant eccentric and his sadistic daughter.

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  13. Background image for Underground
    7.6/10(92 votes)

    #12 - Underground

    S1:E4

    The Earthlings become involved in an underground resistance in the giant civilization.

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  14. Background image for Brainwash
    7.5/10(72 votes)

    #13 - Brainwash

    S1:E14

    The Giants have invented a chemical that forces those exposed to it to tell the truth, and plan to test it on the Earthlings.

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  15. Background image for On a Clear Day You Can See Earth
    7.5/10(74 votes)

    #14 - On a Clear Day You Can See Earth

    S1:E16

    The Earthlings become involved with an insane giant scientist who has infra-red goggles he can use to find them whenever he wants.

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    Director:Sobey Martin
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Night of Thrombeldinbar
    7.5/10(86 votes)

    #15 - Night of Thrombeldinbar

    S1:E18

    Fitzhugh pretends to be an elf to entertain two orphan children, but things turn deadly when it's revealed that traditionally the children sacrifice the elf to make a wish come true.

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    7.4/10(103 votes)

    #16 - Framed

    S1:E3

    When a giant hobo is framed for murder, the Earthlings come to his aid.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Mann Rubin
  18. Background image for The Flight Plan
    7.4/10(88 votes)

    #17 - The Flight Plan

    S1:E6

    The Spindrift crew find an amnesiac Earthling, Joe, but it turns out to be a ploy by giant crooks to get hold of the ship's power supply.

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    Director:Harry Harris
  19. Background image for Double-Cross
    7.4/10(81 votes)

    #18 - Double-Cross

    S1:E10

    An amnesiac Fitzhugh falls in with two giant thieves and becomes their willing accomplice.

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  20. Background image for Sabotage
    7.4/10(67 votes)

    #19 - Sabotage

    S1:E24

    The Spindrift crew must deal with the head of Police Security, who is attempting to undermine a Senator who believes in their cause and frame the Earthlings for sabotage.

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  21. Background image for The Crash
    7.3/10(183 votes)

    #20 - The Crash

    S1:E1

    The Spindrift crashes on the Land of the Giants and its crew and passengers quickly find themselves in a struggle for survival.

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    Director:Irwin Allen
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Target: Earth
    7.3/10(73 votes)

    #21 - Target: Earth

    S1:E20

    Mark is roped into helping two giant scientists build a spaceship that can return them all to Earth.

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    Director:Sobey Martin
  23. Background image for Return of Inidu
    7.3/10(72 votes)

    #22 - Return of Inidu

    S1:E22

    The Earthlings come to the aid of a giant magician.

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    7.2/10(94 votes)

    #23 - Manhunt

    S1:E7

    A giant escaping convict takes the Spindrift but then wanders into quicksand, endangering everyone.

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    7.2/10(71 votes)

    #24 - The Bounty Hunter

    S1:E15

    When the giants increase their search efforts, the Earthlings must increase their salvage efforts and end up captured by a giant and his daughter.

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    Director:Harry Harris
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Terror-Go-Round
    7.1/10(95 votes)

    #25 - Terror-Go-Round

    S1:E5

    Barry and Fitzhugh are captured by giant Gypsies.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Rescue" is the best rated episode of "Land of the Giants". It scored 8.1/10 based on 80 votes. Directed by Harry Harris and written by Esther Mitchell, Bob Mitchell, it aired on 3/23/1969. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Golden Cage".