Back in October we told you that Fox was working on bringing
Land of the Giants "Season 1, Volume 1" to DVD, but those plans were
scrapped in December in favor of releasing a complete series set.
A friendly retailer has sent us details on the complete series set, which looks pretty darn good:
After their sub-orbital space craft is drawn into a space warp, the passengers and crew of the Spindrift, crash into a planet where everything is 12 times its normal size!
The 9 disc set will include all 51 episodes of the series (2658 mins), an unaired pilot, and a lot of bonus material:
Disc 1 Side A:
- The Crash
- Ghost Town
- Framed
- Underground
Disc 1 Side B:
- Terror-Go-Round
- The Flight Plan
Disc 2 Side A:
- Manhunt
- The Trap
- The Creed
- Double-Cross
Disc 2 Side B:
- The Weird World
- The Golden Cage
Disc 3 Side A:
- The Lost Ones
- Brainwash
- The Bounty Hunter
- On A Clear Night You Can See Earth
Disc 3 Side B:
- Deadly Lodestone
- Night of Thrombeldinbar
Disc 4 Side A:
- Seven Little Indians
- Target: Earth
- Genius At Work
- Return of Inidu
Disc 4 Side B:
- Rescue
- Sabotage
Disc 5 Side A:
- Shell Game
- The Chase
- The Mechanical Man
- Six Hours To Live
Disc 5 Side B:
- The Inside Rail
- Deadly Pawn
Disc 6 Side A:
- The Unsuspected
- Giants and All That Jazz
- Collector's Item
- Every Dog Needs A Boy
Disc 6 Side B:
- Chamber Of Fear
- Comeback
Disc 7 Side A:
- The Clones
- A Place Called Earth
- Land of The Lost
- Home Sweet Home
Disc 7 Side B:
- Our Man O'Reilly
- Nightmare
Disc 8 Side A:
- Pay The Piper
- The Secret City Of Limbo
- Panic
- The Deadly Dart
Disc 8 Side B:
- Doomsday
- A Small War
Disc 9 Side A:
- The Marionettes
- Wild Journey
- Graveyard of Fools
Unaired Pilot
Bonus material includes:
- Gary Conway Interviews:
- The Series' Lasting Effects
- The Influence of Gulliver's Travels on the Show
- Fight Scene in the Cage
- Humerous Moments
- A Couple Memorable Episodes
- Memories of Irwin
- Don Marshall Interviews:
- Acting and the Actors on the Show
- Memories of Kurt Kasznar
- Memories of Cast Members and the Director
- Popularity of the Show in England
- Presentation Reel
- Special Effects Shots (no audio)
- Irwin Allen Home Videos (no audio):
- Meeting
- Irwing Directing Actors in Interior Sets
- Irwing Directing Actors in Exterior Sets
- Rope Climbing
- Escape Through the Tunnel
- Glass Prison
- Escape from the Giant Hand
- Irwin Directing Forest Scene
- Stefan Arngrim Interviews:
- Irwin's Direction
- Dogs
- The Mechanical Hand
- Directors Harry Harris and Sobey Martin
- The Popularity of the Show
- The Tone of the Show
- The Concept of the Show
- The Second Season
- The Stunts and Effects
- The Ship's Name
- Don Matheson Interviews:
- Perparation for Irwin's Shows
- What Attracted Him to the Show
- Imagination
- Climbing the Rope
- The Dog
- Saying the Dialogue
- Deanna Lund Interviews:
- Her Appreciation of the Show
- Acting on the Show
- How She Got on the Show
- Ballet in a Bird Cage
- Her Friendship with Don Matheson
- The High Cost of the Show
- Where Did the Story Take Place?
- Still Galleries:
- Merchandise
- Mad Magazine Parody
- Publicity Photos
- Episodic Photos
- Deanna Lund Gallery
Episodes will be Full Frame (1.33:1), with English and Spanish mono audio tracks. List price is $199.98, which means you'll probably pay $130-$145 in stores when it's released on
July 24. Please keep in mind the studio hasn't officially announced this set yet, and some of the information above may change.
Gord's Editorial
This is a significant release for Fox; it's the first time they've released multiple seasons in a deluxe "Complete Series" set (before releasing seasons or volumes first), and many people will be watching to see how well it sells. Hopefully it does well, and shows Fox, and the other studios, that fans are willing to plunk down money to buy the complete run of a show, and prefer this treatment over season sets (or in this case, season 1, volume 1, season 1, volume 2) that are collected over a few years.
