History Series / LandOfTheGiants

* SpecialGuest: With a side helping of ProductionPosse. Jonathan Harris from [[Series/LostInSpace a certain other Irwin Allen show]] shows up as Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin in "Pay the Piper." Robert Colbert, Whit Bissell, Lee Meriwether, and John Zaremba from [[Series/TheTimeTunnel yet another Irwin Allen show]] all appear in separate episodes.

* HideYourPregnancy: Heather Young was pregnant during much of the second season and had to either be filmed mostly from the waist up or was written out of several episodes altogether.

* CloningBlues: In the aptly named "The Clones." There is a bit of WhatMeasureIsANonHuman tossed in, but only for the Dan clone, who pulls a HeroicSacrifice at the end.

* ABirthdayNotABreak: "The Creed."

* ForgottenBirthday: In "The Creed", someone says how Barry must think they've forgotten his birthday. Even if he did think that, it ends up being the least of his problems.

* AnimatedCreditsOpening: In the first season. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHQ_r8ZwPOw It's very striking,]] especially combined with the memorable Creator/JohnWilliams theme music.

* AnimatedCreditsOpening: In the first season. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHQ_r8ZwPOw It's very striking,]] especially combined with the memorable John Williams theme music.

* SpecialGuest: Jonathan Harris from [[Series/LostInSpace a certain other Irwin Allen show]] shows up as Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin in "Pay the Piper." Robert Colbert, Whit Bissell, Lee Meriwether, and John Zaremba from [[Series/TheTimeTunnel yet another Irwin Allen show]] all appear in separate episodes.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The travelers are from TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, but the giants' world resembles... l968-70 America, but with advanced tech when the story calls for it (including {{Teleportation}}, [[SomeKindOfForceField force fields]], magnetic stunners, cybernetics and androids).

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The travelers are from TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, but the giants' world resembles... l968-70 America, but with advanced tech when the story calls for it (including {{Teleportation}}, [[SomeKindOfForceField force fields]], magnetic stunners, cybernetics and androids.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The travelers are from TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, but the giants' world resembles... l968-70 America, but with advanced tech when the story calls for it (including {{Teleportation}}, [[SomeKindOfAForceField force fields]], magnetic stunners, cybernetics and androids.

* WouldHurtAChild: Fitzhugh, sort of, although he has his limits. In "Pay the Piper", he makes a DealWithTheDevil with Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin -- if he helps capture a senator's son, the Piper will take him back to Earth. Fithigh even cons Barry into helping him. However, due to his JerkWithAHeartOfGold ethos, in the end he helps save everybody.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Aired from 1968 to 1970s, set in 1983.

* CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer: A review of one of the DVD releases referred to Valerie as an entertainer.

* CutShort: Just as in the case of "Lost in Space" and "The Time Tunnel", the series was cancelled, and the ''Spindrift'' crew never made it home.
* DirtyCommunists: The giants' society is portrayed pretty much as a Soviet-type dictatorship, with the Special Investigations Department (S.I.D.) serving as a KGB-type secret police. Much like in Stalin's Russia and Mao's Red China, "good citizens" are expected to report suspicious activities. An underground resistance movement also appears in a bunch of episodes. The S.I.D. offers a reward for the capture of the little people, which several giants try (and fail) to collect throughout the series.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The travelers are from TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, but the giants' world resembles... modern-day America.
** Except for their teleporters. And forcefields. And magnetic stunners. And cybernetics. And androids.

* SpecialGuest: Jonathan Harris from [[Series/LostInSpace a certain other Irwin Allen show]] shows up as the Pied Piper of Hamlin in "Pay the Piper." Robert Colbert, Whit Bissell, Lee Meriwether, and John Zaremba from [[Series/TheTimeTunnel yet another Irwin Allen show]] all appear in separate episodes.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: Aired in the 1968-1969 and 1969-1970 seasons, set in 1983.

* AbsenteeActor: Heather Young, for part of the second season and the first season episodes "Night of Thrombeldinbar" and "Return of Inidu." Stefan Arngrim also missed "Inidu" and several other episodes. Their in-universe absences were rarely explained (and when they were, usually consisted of something along the lines of "he's/she's/they're back at the ship").

* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Betty's in "Panic," "The Deadly Dart," and a few other late second season episodes.

* {{Nepotism}}: In "Every Dog Should Have a Boy", kindly veterinarian Dr. Howard has his son/employee Carl run his practice while he's away. Unfortunately, Carl is a {{Sadist}} who likes to sic dogs on people ForTheEvulz. When one of these dogs injures Chipper, a desperate Barry brings him to Ben, Dr. Howard's well-meaning assistant -- which results in Carl {{bully}}ing Ben while trying to turn the little people in to the S.I.D. [[spoiler:Fortunately, Ben saves Chipper, and Dr. Howard rewards Ben and punishes Carl when he gets home.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: Fitzhugh starts out as a near-absolute JerkAss (he even threatens the others with a gun at one point!), but his experiences over the course of the early episodes do turn him into a better person. He'll always be the [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong Complainer]] and SourSupporter, but (unlike [[Series/LostInSpace Dr. Smith]]) he becomes a passably dependable asset to the team. Best exemplified in the episode where he gets amnesia and turns back into a complete jerk for a while.

* CharacterDevelopment: Fitzhugh starts out as a near-absolute JerkAss (he even threatens the others with a gun at one point!), but his experiences over the course of the early episodes do turn him into a better person. He'll always be the [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong Complainer]] and SourSupporter, but (unlike [[Series/LostInSpace Dr. Smith]]) he becomes a passably dependable asset to the team.

* AliensAreBastards: Though we actually do meet a fair number of sympathetic giants, they're far outnumbered by the opportunistic bullying jerks among them.

* AnimatedCreditsOpening: In the first season. It's very striking, especially combined with the memorable John Williams theme music.

* AnimatedCreditsOpening: In the first season. From a technical standpoint, it's not that complicated, but it's very striking (especially combined with the memorable John Williams theme music).

* AnimatedCreditsOpening: In the first season. From a technical standpoint, it's not that complicated, but it's very striking.

* AnimatedCreditsOpening: In the first season. From a technical standpoint, it's nothing complicated, but it's very striking.

* AnimatedCreditsOpening: In the first season.

* LikeRealityUnlessNoted: Most of the time, the Giants' world seems very much like 20th century Earth. Over time, though, we learn they have any number of oddly advanced technologies, and their planet has things like a lost continent and a secret [[BeneathTheEarth subterranean civilization.]]