The Space Giants

Nothing great, a bit like a Godzilla show or another one where some dude held his arms in the air and said "Help me overlord" before changing into a giant robot. This one follows the adventures of a young boy who has a whistle that when blowed could summon a little boy, a young woman, and a giant dude named Goldar in America to his aid. A fact that most of the other reviewers seemed to have forgotten. Most of them seem to say so much about the show, but fail to mention these characters and go on about spiritualism, wicca and all this while not mentioning the family that turned into ships. Another thing I remember about this one was the rather creepy looking villain and the episode where this dude made a super heat wave where they tried to make it rain to cool things down, but all it did was rain really hot water. The monsters other than the main villain are a blank to me as I remember the monsters from the one about the guy sticking his arms in the air, but almost none of them from this show. Still, while not super great this show kept me entertained as a child.

To be honest, I don't remember the details well enough to write a very in-depth review. But I can say that as a small child, I would have moved Heaven and Earth before missing an episode. I enjoyed this show more than anything I've watched before or since, so that ought to be worth something.

So long I have wanted to see anything of this series again. The heroes Goldar,dad like; Silvar,mom like; and Gan ,boy like ;there was also a kid who called on them with special whistles,one for each hero They were robot-like aliens thats what they looked like anyhow that could turn into jets, the bads guy were awesome the way their costume turned from seemingly human filled into a oozing blob of a green pudding filled looked lots cooler than I described. My favorite episode was about this young boy who would dream bout a monster and then it would come to life. Oh what I wouldn't give to see an episode of my favorite childhood show...

This was a great show but the rumors of no DVD or video release are not true. They are out but the only place I have seen them is yahoo auctions. I don't know why they have not gone into a more wide release.

This show was my first introduction to Japanese to English dubbing. It makes it really interesting to see how out of sync the conversations can get. These were dubbed really badly in some parts. The DVD release also has the areas that never got dubbed into English for whatever reason so you can be going through a conversation and all of a sudden it switches to Japanese.

The originals are also more violent than the US edits. Not your standard kids show fair. I would highly recommend seeing the complete series in it's unedited form. It gives you a better overview of the entire series if you can find it.

SPACE GIANTS combines several story styles in it's recipe for syndicated success in the 1970's and 1980's. With similar production values to LAND OF THE GIANTS, SPACE GIANTS was released in the united staqtes to success in syndication. The program meshes spirtiaulism, the UFO folklore, and a tale of spy and invasion intruige to tell it's story line which also invovled GODZILLA sized hijinks. Fun and never taking itself too seriously SPACE GIANTS was a enjoyable view for families and college students. Before POWER RANGERS hit america this program used martial arts and robots and aliens to garner a audience of afterschool fans. The show was sort of a program that followed the traditions of the 1930's serial.