‘Land of the Giants’ debuts on ABC-TV 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 22 1968)


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(Sunday, September 22, 1968, 7:00-8:00 p.m. EDT)Land of the Giants, an American science fiction television series about the crew and passengers of a spaceship from Earth that crash lands on an Earth-like planet on which everything, including the human-like inhabitants, is twelve times the size of its counterpart on Earth, debuted tonight on ABC.

Created by Irwin Allen, the series starred Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Kurt Kasznar, Don Marshall, Stefan Arngrim, Deanna Lund and Heather Young