The lunchbox measures (including the handle) about 8-1/4'' x 7-3/4'' x 3-3/4''. It appears to be in good condition as pictured with some over all wear from use, especially at the edges, but it still displays well.
Below here, for reference, is some reference for the hit television show “Land Of The Giants”:
Land of the Giants
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Land of the Giants is a one hour American science fiction television series that aired on ABC for two seasons, beginning on September 22, 1968, and ending on March 22, 1970. The show was created and produced by Irwin Allen. Land of the Giants was Allen’s fourth science fiction TV series. The show was released by 20th Century Fox Television. The series was filmed entirely in color and ran for 51 episodes. The show starred Gary Conway, Deanna Lund and special guest star Kurt Kasznar. Five novels based on the television series, including three written by acclaimed science fiction author Murray Leinster, were published in 1968 and 1969.
Series overview
This article’s plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. The travelers are trapped in a giant zoo. Set in 1983 (at that time, 15 years in the future), the series concerns the passenger aircraft Spindrift, which is lost during a suborbital spaceflight from Los Angeles to London. Just beyond Earth’s boundary with space, the ship is dragged through a “dimension lock” and crashes on a planet which is similar to Earth, except that everything is twelve times larger in size. The shipwreck is hidden in the woods outside of a city, inhabited by a humanoid race which the Earthlings refer to as “Giants”.
Aside from their size, the Giants are indistinguishable from Earthlings. Culturally, their society resembles the United States of the 1960s with a police force, private hospitals, prisons, a State Governor, radio and television services, a zoo, jazz clubs and even a racetrack. They speak English, have a combination of alien and Earth like names, drive American style cars, attend Vaudeville style theaters and play chess, but they are dominated by an authoritarian government which tolerates full freedoms within a capitalist system, refusing to tolerate any effort to effect political change, even with repeated dissident activity. Exactly what the political situation is on other continents is not known, although at least one overseas land has a despotic ruler. The Air Traffic Control tells those who venture out to sea that they should turn back, that nothing beyond that sea has been explored nor is there current contact; whether this is an official government line or the truth is not known.
The Giants are familiar with the planet Earth and the “little people” who inhabit it, due to the arrivals of other ill fated ships prior to the Spindrift. Some of the Giants’ technology exceeds that of 20th century Earth, including cloning, cybernetics, force fields, magnetic stunners, androids and teleporters, while remaining slightly behind in other areas, lacking microelectronics, hearing aids and manned space flight. As such, the Earthlings cannot easily use the Giants’ resources to return to the dimension lock, and the Giants have no way to study the little people except by capturing those that become stranded on their planet.
The Spindrift crew and passengers spend the series in search of supplies and the means to return to Earth, while avoiding capture. However, the ship's captain, Steve Burton, places a higher priority on preventing the Giants from obtaining the means to travel to Earth. The Giant government offers a reward for the Earthlings, who at times receive assistance from the dissident movement and other sympathizers. The Giants cannot easily be trusted, though, as some offer help only to later double-cross the Earthlings.
The show had no proper conclusion resolving the Earthlings’ efforts to return home. The final episode, “Graveyard of Fools”, was not designed to serve as a series finale. The penultimate episode, “Wild Journey”, presents a time travel plot in which the Earthlings go back into the past to prevent the Spindrift flight, but instead create the circumstances that cause the ship to be lost. The first season comprised a regular 26 episodes, but season two was left one episode short. The show thus comprises only 51 episodes (or 52 episodes including the unaired pilot).
Cast
Gary Conway: as Captain Steve Burton, pilot of the Spindrift
Don Matheson: as Mark Wilson, a multi millionaire engineer
Stefan Arngrim: as Barry Lockridge, a recently orphaned boy traveling with his dog Chipper to London to live with cousins.
Don Marshall: as Dan Erickson, co-pilot of the Spindrift
Deanna Lund: as Valerie Scott, a wealthy heiress
Heather Young: as Betty Hamilton, flight attendant on the Spindrift
Kurt Kasznar: as Commander Alexander Fitzhugh, who had stolen $1 million and was trying to flee to London, where he did not know police were waiting to arrest him.
Kevin Hagen: as Inspector Kobick (recurring character)
Land of the Giants guest stars included many familiar faces from other 1950s and 1960s sci-fi / fantasy and adventure series, including Jack Albertson, Michael Ansara, John Carradine, Yvonne Craig, Charles Drake, Alan Hale Jr, Jonathan Harris, Lee Meriwether, Larry Pennell, Warren Stevens, Glenn Corbett and Ron Howard.
Production
The show was created by Irwin Allen. With a budget of $250,000 per episode, Land of the Giants set a new record. The actors had to be physically fit, as they had to do many stunts, such as climbing giant curbs, phone cords, and ropes. Don Marshall, who played the part of Dan Erickson, credited his previous football, track, and pole vaulting work for helping him with the stunts required.
Elements of Allen’s Lost in Space series recur in Land of the Giants, notably the relationship between foolish, greedy, on the run bank robber Commander Alexander Fitzhugh (Kurt Kasznar) and the young boy Barry Lockridge (Stefan Arngrim), paralleling the relationship on Lost in Space between Doctor Smith and the young Will Robinson. Also, for main cast billing, Kasznar was treated contractually in the same manner as Jonathan Harris had been on Lost in Space, billed in last place on the opening credit sequence, but billed as “Special Guest Star” (though he was a series regular). Apart from this, Gary Conway received solo star billing in the opening credits, with the other regulars all receiving “also starring” billing.
The show was originally intended to premiere as a midseason replacement in the spring of 1968, and the first 12 episodes were shot in the fall of 1967. This was changed and Giants premiered in September 1968 for a full season. The network screened the episodes in a significantly different order from the production sequence. This caused disconcerting lapses in continuity, since in the first 12 episodes filmed (but not in later episodes) the Giants moved slowly and hardly spoke. For example, “Ghost Town” was the 14th episode filmed (i.e. was not one of the original 12 episodes), but was the second episode aired.
The cost of production was immense, partly because of the special optical effects needed to matte the little people into shots also showing the giants, and partly because of the oversize sets and physical props needed for the Earth people to interact within shots depicting the giant sized world, and the futuristic spacecraft sets that were needed to represent the Spindrift. Because of the enormous cost, filming episodes in pairs using the same sets was more efficient and cost effective, so writers were informed about what giant sized props were available, which they could incorporate into their storylines. These episodes were filmed back to back.
To save on production costs, Allen was not above using the same device he had employed on The Time Tunnel reusing stock footage from 20th Century Fox’s film library. For instance, in the episode “Collector’s Item”, footage of Wayne Manor from Batman is recycled as the luxury mansion home of a rich giant.
