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Late'''''Land of the Giants''''' is a late 1960s [[Irwin Allen (Creator)|Irwin Allen]] science fiction TV series, that can be summarized as the on the inverse of both ''[[Gulliver's Travels (Literature)|Gullivers Travels]]'' <ref>Gulliver ''did'' travel to a land of giants called Brobdingnag in his second voyage; however, [[Popcultural Osmosis]] rarely mentions any parts of the book other than Lilliput.</ref> and ''[[The Incredible Shrinking Man]]''. 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 but serious stewardess, the pretty but serious Jr.junior stewardess, the [[Con Man]], [[A Boy and His X|the little boy and his dog]].

Not only that, the equivalent of Inspector Norse to them as six [[The Fugitive (TV series)|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.

* [[ArtAttack Majorof Physicsthe 50-Foot Whatever]]: The premise of the show, which of course required[[Artistic ignoringLicense Physics|ignores the]] [[Square-Cube Law]].

* [[Continuity Drift]]: In the first few episodes, the heroes are completely unable to understand the giants (one episode features a giant putting them in a jar hooked up to a complicated listening device so he can communicate with them). The writers quickly realized how much this limited the kind of stories they could tell, and changed the giants to be perfectly understandable with no explanation. [[MST3K Mantra|This is the kind of thing you could get away with back then.]]

* [[Expy]]: Fitzhugh is an attempt to replicate Zachary Smith, the [[Breakout Character]] from Allen's previous series ''[[Lost in Space (TV)|Lost in Space]]''.

* [[Mouse World]]: [[Playing Withwith a Trope|Played with]]; in this series, ''humans'' are the mice.

* [[Quicksand Sucks]]: A criminal (of the 40-foot-man variety)criminal 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 thenbefore 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.

* [[Special Guest]]: Jonathan Harris from [[Lost in Space (TV)|a certain other Irwin Allen show]] shows up as the Pied Piper of Hamlin.

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