Congratulations to everyone who answered the quiz question correctly. The three winners are as follows:
We will be running further competitions in the coming weeks on the IANN competition page.
We are running a new competition to win one of three prizes, a Land of the Giants DVD, a Time Tunnel T Shirt or a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea poster. The competition ends on Sunday 10th July. Click here to enter the Irwin Allen Competition.
The latest news on the 15-17 July 2011 Hollywood Show is that the show will have a Poseidon Adventure gathering with Ernest Borgnine, Carol Lynley, Stella Stevens, Pamela Sue Martin, Eric Shea and Ernie Orsatti (Saturday only) in attendance. Also scheduled to attend is veteran television actor Joseph Ruskin who guest starred in several Irwin Allen shows, Stefan Arngrim (Land of the Giants), Julie Adams (star of Code Red), Leif Garrett who starred in the TVM Flood, Peter Mark Richman (Land of the Giantsand Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea), and Land of the Giants guest stars Richard Anderson (Six Hours to Live) and Bruce Dern (Wild Journey). This will be Eric Shea’s first ever appearance at an autograph show. Note that no celebrities will be there on Friday 15th.
Stefan Arngrim was interviewed on The Late Show with Ian Collins on UK radio channel TalkSport on the night of 23/24 June 2011. You can listen to the interview at
http://www.talksport.co.uk/radio/listen-again/episode/38700
Click on the 0000-0030 time range and he was on at 00:20 (ie. 12.20am).
We have just received confirmation that Stefan Arngrim will be interviewed on The Late Show with Ian Collins on UK radio channel TalkSport at approximately 12.15am UK time (4.15pm PST) tonight. There are a number of ways you can listen to the show:
Land of the Giants has definitely had an influence on television commercials including the VW Polo and Santander commercials we’ve mentioned on several occasions.
We have just seen the BBC commercial for their radio and television broadcasts of the Glastonbury Festival coming up on 22-26 June 2011, and they feature hundreds of little people seated around a giant television, ready to watch the festival.
If we can find a clip showing the commercial online somewhere, we will add a link to it.
The time has finally arrived. The Time Tunnel is now available as a complete DVD box set and to celebrate, here is the promo video from Revelation Films.
The UK DVD release of Land of the Giants Season 2 is available from Monday 13th June 2011 and features the very special audio commentary recorded by all of the cast. Here’s a photograph taken during the recording showing the Land of the Giants cast watching the pilot episode, The Crash.
Steve Causey was taking some photographs of the night sky recently and caught this on camera:
SciFiNow issue 55 features an 8 page article on Land of the Giants and chats with Gary Conway, Heather Young, Stefan Arngrim and Giants Log about this classic television series. Available in UK stores now. The magazine can also be purchased online at the Imagine Shop.