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Comeback (Land Of The Giants)
This is a list of episodes from the television series '' Land of the Giants'', which ran for two seasons between 1968 and 1970. The list below gives original airdates, writer, director, guest stars, and brief synopsis information of each episode. Series overview Episodes Season 1 (1968–69) Season 2 (1969–70) {{Episode table , background=#C0C0FF , overall=2 , season=2 , title=24 , writer=23 , director=17 , airdate=15 , prodcode=6 , episodes= {{episode list , Title = The Mechanical Man , EpisodeNumber = 27 , EpisodeNumber2 = 1 , ProdCode = 4703 , OriginalAirDate = {{Start date, 1969, 9, 21 , WrittenBy = William L. Stuart , DirectedBy = Harry Harris , ShortSummary = The Earthlings witness a giant who goes berserk, trashes a drugstore, and murders a security guard with his bare hands. They learn the man is really a malfunctioning android, created by a scientist named Gorn, who manages to capture Mark and Fitzhugh. When Gorn learns Mark is an engineer, he makes a deal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Land Of The Giants
''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 and released by 20th Century Fox Television. The series was filmed entirely in color and ran for 51 episodes. The show starred Gary Conway 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 Set in 1983 (at that time, 15 years in the future), the series tells the tale of the crew and passengers of a suborbital transport ship named ''Spindrift''. In the pilot episode, the ''Spindrift'' is en route from Los Angeles to London, on an ultra-fast suborbital flight. Just beyond Earth's boundary with space, the ''Spindrift'' enc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Cross
Dennis Cross (December 17, 1924 – April 6, 1991) was an American film and television actor. He was known for playing the role of Commander Arthur "Tex" Richards in the American syndicated television series '' The Blue Angels''. Life and career Cross was born in Whitefish, Montana. At the age of 17, he served in the United States Marine Corps, fighting against the Japanese at Guadalcanal. He then studied acting, attending Actors' Laboratory Theatre in Hollywood, California, on the G.I. Bill. Cross began his acting career in 1948. He and his family moved from New York to California in 1955. Later in his career, Cross appeared in the stage play ''The Trip to Bountiful'', which was televised on ''The Philco Television Playhouse''. He played Harrison Ticket Man. He worked as a assistant manager in San Fernando Valley, California. Cross then moved to California, where he appeared in six episodes of the western television series ''The Rifleman''. He also played the lead role of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radium
Radium is a chemical element with the symbol Ra and atomic number 88. It is the sixth element in group 2 of the periodic table, also known as the alkaline earth metals. Pure radium is silvery-white, but it readily reacts with nitrogen (rather than oxygen) upon exposure to air, forming a black surface layer of radium nitride (Ra3N2). All isotopes of radium are radioactive, the most stable isotope being radium-226 with a half-life of 1600 years. When radium decays, it emits ionizing radiation as a by-product, which can excite fluorescent chemicals and cause radioluminescence. Radium, in the form of radium chloride, was discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898 from ore mined at Jáchymov. They extracted the radium compound from uraninite and published the discovery at the French Academy of Sciences five days later. Radium was isolated in its metallic state by Marie Curie and André-Louis Debierne through the electrolysis of radium chloride in 1911. In nature, radium is found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Turley
Jack Bradford Turley (July 21, 1927 – January 19, 2021) was an American screenwriter. He was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team for his work on ''General Hospital''. His credits included ''Gunsmoke'', ''Bonanza'', ''Tales of Wells Fargo'', '' The Fugitive'', '' Rawhide'', ''Hawaii Five-O'', ''O'Hara, U.S. Treasury'', ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', ''The Love Boat'', ''Vega$ ''Vegas'' (stylized as ''Vega$'') is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC from September 20, 1978, to June 3, 1981, with the pilot episode airing April 25, 1978. ''Vegas'' was produced by Aaron Spelling and created by Mich ...'' and '' 12 O'Clock High''. Turley died in January 2021, at the age of 93. References External links * 1927 births 2021 deaths American male screenwriters American soap opera writers American male television writers American television writers 20th-century American screenwriters 20th-cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Pickard (American Actor)
John M. Pickard (June 25, 1913 – August 4, 1993) was an American actor who appeared primarily in television westerns. Early life Pickard was born in Lascassas in Rutherford County, near Murfreesboro in Middle Tennessee. He graduated from the Nashville Conservatory in Nashville, Tennessee. His first acting roles were small parts in films, mostly uncredited, beginning in 1936 as a dueling soldier in the picture '' Mary of Scotland'', based on the 16th century queen, Mary of Scotland. From 1942 to 1946, Pickard served in the United States Navy, having been the model for naval recruitment posters during World War II. Career Pickard returned to acting after the war and appeared in supporting roles in scores of westerns and action dramas before landing the starring role in the syndicated television series, '' Boots and Saddles'', set on an Arizona fort in the late 19th century. His second film role, also uncredited, came in John Wayne's ''Wake of the Red Witch'' (1948). P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myron Healey
Myron Daniel Healey (June 8, 1923 – December 21, 2005) was an American actor. He began his career in Hollywood, California during the early 1940s and eventually made hundreds of appearances in movies and on television during a career spanning more than half a century. Early years Healey was born in Petaluma in Sonoma County, California, the son of Dr. and Mrs. Robert D. Healey. He served in World War II as an Air Corps navigator and bombardier, flying in B-26 Martin Marauders in the European Theatre. After the war he continued military duties, retiring in the early 1960s as a captain in the United States Air Force Reserve. Acting career Healey's film debut came in 1943 with ''Young Ideas.'' Returning to film work after the war, Healey played villains and henchmen in low-budget Western films. He also did some screenwriting. In the post-war period he was frequently seen in Westerns from Monogram Pictures, often starring Johnny Mack Brown, Jimmy Wakely and Whip Wilson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arch Whiting
Harold Joseph Archambault (September 29, 1936 – May 7, 2007) was an American television actor. He was known for playing the role of "Sparks" in the American science fiction television series '' Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea''. Life and career Whiting was born in Larchmont, New York. He began his career in the 1950s, where Whiting worked as a production assistant on the variety television program '' The Ed Sullivan Show''. Whiting studied acting with Sanford Meisner. In 1959, he appeared in the television series ''Paradise Kid'', in which Whiting said that, "it was a flop". He continued his career, mainly appearing on television, as his credits includes, '' The Fugitive'', ''Mannix'', '' Land of the Giants'', ''The F.B.I.'', '' Star Trek: The Original Series'', '' Joe Forrester'', '' Cannon'', ''Garrison's Gorillas'', '' Run for Your Life'', '' Barnaby Jones'' and '' The Bold Ones: The Lawyers''. Later in his career, Whiting co-starred in the science fiction televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Batanides
Arthur Batanides (April 9, 1923 – January 10, 2000) was an American film and television actor, originally from Tacoma, Washington. Biography and career He became enamored with acting after performing stand-up routines in front of fellow GIs in Europe during World War II. He was educated in dramatic art at the Actors' Lab in Los Angeles, followed by extensive stage experience. In the 1959-1960 season, Batanides appeared in a supporting role as Police Sergeant Olivera in the syndicated crime drama '' Johnny Midnight'', starring Edmond O'Brien as a New York City actor-turned-private detective. Batanides guest starred in such series as ''Crusader'', ''Tombstone Territory'', ''Zorro'', ''Combat!'', ''The Twilight Zone'', ''The Asphalt Jungle'', '' One Step Beyond, Blue Light'', ''Lost in Space'', '' Mission: Impossible'', ''The Silent Force'', ''I Spy'', ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'', ''The Wild Wild West'', ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'', ''Bearcats!'', ''The Odd Couple'', ''The Andy G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Ruskin
Joseph Ruskin (born Joseph Richard Schlafman; April 14, 1924 – December 28, 2013) was an American character actor. Also appeared in several underworld character roles on the tv series The Untouchables (1959-1963) Early life Ruskin was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts. After graduating high school in Cleveland, he served in the U.S. Navy and studied drama at Carnegie Mellon University, and began acting at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. Although he gained his greatest recognition in television and film, he continued to appear on stage throughout his career. Career Ruskin appeared in an episode of '' The Outer Limits'', called "Production and Decay of Strange Particles". He played in ''The Time Tunnel'' episode, "Revenge of the Gods", as well as two separate, two-part '' Mission: Impossible'' episodes: "Old Man Out" and "The Slave". He had a non-credited role as the voice of the Kanamits in ''The Twilight Zone'' episode, "To Serve Man", a season after playing the genie in another e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Bennett (screenwriter)
Charles Alfred Selwyn Bennett (2 August 1899 – 15 June 1995) was an English playwright, screenwriter and director probably best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock. Biography Early life Charles Bennett was born in a disused railway carriage in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, England, the son of Lilian Langrishe Bennett (1863–1930), an actress and artist. Bennett's mother told him his father was Charles Bennett, a civil engineer killed in a boiler explosion, though he thought it was actor Kyrle Bellew (1855–1911). Bennett had an elder brother, Frederick (known as Eric), and a younger brother, Vere. His father is recorded in his baptismal register as Frederick Bennett, engineer. The film historian John Belton has asserted that Bennett's father died when he was four. In the 1911 census, Lilian Bennett recorded herself as a widow, and an artist. Bennett was mostly educated at home, but also briefly at St Mark's College, Chelsea. Actor Bennett was a child actor, appearing in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lance LeGault
William Lance LeGault (May 2, 1935 – September 10, 2012) was an American actor. He was best known as U.S. Army Colonel Roderick Decker in the 1980s American television series ''The A-Team''. Early and personal life LeGault was born May 2, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Mary Jean (née Kovachevich; died December 21, 1980) and Ernest Legault (1906–1941). LeGault's father, Ernest, was French-Canadian from Moose Creek, Ontario, Canada. LeGault's mother, Mary, was born in Illinois, the daughter of immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The family was poor. He lived in an orphanage for a time between his father's death in 1941 and when his mother remarried in 1943. He started working at 11, and was fired from the railroad at 13 when they discovered he was not 18 as he had claimed. He grew up in Chillicothe, Illinois and graduated from Chillicothe Township High School in 1955. He received a full football scholarship to the Municipal University of Wichita, where he m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Trinka
Paul Francis Trinka (January 26, 1932 – December 28, 1973) was an American film and television actor. He was known for playing Patterson in the American science fiction television series ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea''. Life and career Trinka was born in Blairsville, Pennsylvania to Mrs. Gabriel (Panac) Trinka and Joseph Trinka. He also had 4 sisters - Ann Coster; Mary Shaw; Mildred Strbak; Helen Curtis and 1 brother -Joseph Jr. He attended Blairsville Middle-High School where he graduated in 1952, and served in the United States Army in Korea. He also served in the United States Air Force. After being discharged, Trinka attended Los Angeles City College, where he studied in drama and psychology. He performed in theatre in New York and Los Angeles, California. Trinka began his screen career in 1959, appearing in the film ''Operation Dames''. He also guest-starred in television programs including ''Ben Casey'', ''My Three Sons'' and '' Adventures in Paradise''. Trinka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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