History Series / LandOfTheGiants

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The show was very popular in Europe, to the point that there were ''riots'' in Romania when it was cancelled.

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

Not only that, the equivalent of Inspector Norse to them as six [[Series/TheFugitive Richard Kimbles]], with the government offering a substantial reward for the capture of any of the ''little people'' as they are called. They end up on a series of adventures, often helping people out of jams that they get into.

* 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 Meriweather, and John Zaremba from ''Series/TheTimeTunnel'' all appear in separate episodes.

* SmartPeoplePlayChess: In "Deadly Pawn," somewhat undermined as Mark, the crew's TheSmartGuy, is expected to be the best chess player. Barry actually turns out to be superior.

* QuicksandSucks: A criminal (of the 40-foot-man variety) steals their ship (by picking it up and taking it with him, in his case it's about the size of a beach ball) and takes it quite a distance, and then falls into a pit of quicksand, dropping the ship and allowing them to escape. They decide, as bad as he was, that he doesn't deserve to die, and use the ship's engines to pull him out of the pit. Once he gets out of the pit, he grabs the ship again, making them believe that they committed a colossal blunder in allowing themselves to be betrayed, but they discover that the man, in gratitude, has taken the ship and put it back exactly where he had originally stolen it from.

* SpecialGuest: Jonathan Harris from [[Series/LostInSpace a certain other Irwin Allen show]] shows up as the Pied Piper of Hamlin in "Pay the Piper."

* TenLittleMurderVictims: Although neither is strictly a murder mystery, the Giants pick off the Little People one by one in the aptly named "Seven Little Indians." In the second season, Steve does a drug-induced FaceHeelTurn and captures his crewmates one by one.

* TenLittleMurderVictims: Although neither is strictly a murder mystery, the Giants pick off the Little People in the aptly named "Seven Little Indians." In the second season, a psychotic Steve does a FaceHeelTurn and captures his crew mates one by one.

* EasyAmnesia: In "Double Cross," Fitzhugh receives a TapOnTheHead, forgets who he is, and helps two Giant thieves steal diamonds. Fails to be IdentityAmnesia because Fitzhugh is a criminal type in the first place. He does do a FaceHeelTurn and betray his fellow Little People.

* EasyAmnesia: In "Double Cross," Fitzhugh receives a TapOnTheHead and helps two Giant thieves steal diamonds. Fails to be IdentityAmnesia because Fitzhugh is a criminal type in the first place.

You have the pilot, the co-pilot, the pretty spoiled heiress, the pretty but serious stewardess, TheSmartGuy, the ConMan, [[ABoyAndHisX the little boy and his dog]].

Late 1960s Creator/IrwinAllen science fiction TV series, can be summarized as the on the inverse of both ''Literature/GulliversTravels'' [[hottip:* :Gulliver ''did'' travel to a land of giants called Brobdingnag in his second voyage; however, PopculturalOsmosis rarely mentions any parts of the book other than Lilliput.]] and IncredibleShrinkingMan. A commercial spaceship gets into a freak storm and is transported to a world where the people on that world are all forty feet tall, a skyscraper is two miles high, and when they're found out, the government wants them for scientific research.

You have the pilot, the co-pilot, the pretty spoiled heiress, the pretty but serious Jr. stewardess, TheSmartGuy, the ConMan, [[ABoyAndHisX the little boy and his dog]].

* EasyAmnesia: In "Double Cross," Fitzhugh receives a TaponTheHead and helps two Giant thieves steal diamonds. Fails to be IdentityAmnesia because Fitzhugh is a criminal type in the first place.

* JustEatGilligan: While not as offensive as Doctor Smith on ''Lost in Space'', Fitzhugh endangers the crew through his greed and cowardice far more often then he does anything to contribute to their escape.

* SpecialGuest: Jonathan Harris from [[Series/LostInSpace a certain other Irwin Allen show]] shows up as the Pied Piper of Hamlin.

You have the pilot, the co-pilot, the pretty but serious stewardess, the pretty but serious Jr. stewardess, the ConMan, [[ABoyAndHisX the little boy and his dog]].

* FiveManBand: Steve = TheLeader, Dan = TheLancer (relaxed and level-headed), Don = TheSmartGuy, Betty and Valerie = TheChick.

* FiveManBand

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* {{Expy}}: Fitzhugh is an attempt to replicate Zachary Smith, the BreakoutCharacter from Allen's previous series ''LostInSpace''.

* SpecialGuest: Jonathan Harris from [[LostInSpace a certain other Irwin Allen show]] shows up as the Pied Piper of Hamlin.