Wild Journey

Should be one the best episode so fair on second season if the plot focused in the Giant planet, instead turns back to Los Angeles's Airport trying avoid the Spindrift flying into the time warp that drove into Land of the Giants, already it was made part of the past time that it should not change anymore, but forgetting it let's say about the present episode.

Steve and Dan intersect with two Time Travelers from outer space Torg (Bruce Dern) and the eye candy Berna (Yvonne Craig) they handle a little all-purpose devise on the forest, Steve figure out that such device should be them back at Earth before Spindrift takes off, somehow they return and avoid the flight 612, therefore all earthlings were in Earth's ground utterly safety, no Giant Land would there be, however Torg and Berna already know the infamous rule of whom nothing can change the past due it could wreck irretrievable damages in the future, then they track down Steve and Dan at L. A,'s Airport to stop them.

Both Pilots drop out to driven such ill-fated journey, aiming for to call of the flight, but other pilots are available, worst all original passengers don't want any postpone at all, Torg and Berna in order to avert Steven and Dan miniaturize them, they must go back to Earth but are doomed live as little people like in Land of the Giants.

A question that must be answered, in the opening episode Spindrift took off toward London on June 12 of 1983, and this episode strangely it happens in September 25 of 1983, a crying shame for the writers that unnoticed such blunder!!

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Resume: First watch: 1971 / Source: TV-VHS-DVD / How many: 5 / Rating: 7.5.

Wild Journey wastes no time in getting into the story as the opening frames of the teaser deal with "the little people" discovering two time travellers.

Early in act one we are already in the guts of the story about two of "the little people" going back to earth before the tragic blast off. Bruce Dern is very pleasing in his attempts to bring reality to such a way out script, his casual style of speech is in contrast to the more tense tones of previous Giants time traveller Warren Stevens. This is my second favourite Yvonne Craig performance (after Star Trek) as she does a great job of making the viewer think she has been partnered with Dern for years. They behave like a couple.

I get the odd feeling that ABC took one look at the script and said "This is Land Of The Giants with no giants?" and writer William Welch may have responded with "Well, okay, when Steve and Dan go back to earth I will make them even more little". I hated this when I was a kid and I still hate it today. Turning Steve and Dan into "little people" on earth is a really stupid idea which does mild damage to the show.

But this is Land Of The Giants, one of the greatest TV shows ever made, so I can forgive this small problem in the script.