<P> They are aided in the first goal, and at least somewhat hindered in the second, by the leadership of Captain Burton . He behaves as a leader, and as protector to the passengers and crew, and his leadership has rescued them from some difficulties . But Burton also tries to keep the Giants from ever reaching Earth . In the episode "Brainwash," Giant police officer Ashim (Warren Stevens) says "Maybe we can find the home planet of these little people . It may be a very tiny world, but rich beyond our dreams ." In several episodes, Burton puts keeping the Giants away from Earth above the need to get his people home . At the end of those episodes, he destroys devices that would get the Spindrift back to Earth but which would probably enable the Giants to journey there too . </P> <P> Episodes often have the Giants capturing one of the passengers or crew, with the rest having to effect a rescue . The Earth people avoid capture most of the time, because their spaceship is hidden in a wood (in several episodes, described by the Giants as a park) outside the city limits . They also occasionally form alliances with individual Giants for some common beneficial purpose . </P> <P> The show had no proper conclusion about the humans' attempts to return to Earth, and the final episode, "Graveyard of Fools," was a universal tale that could have taken place anytime in the second season . The penultimate episode, "Wild Journey" (guest starring Bruce Dern), has Steve and Dan using alien technology to travel back in time to Earth just a few hours before their ill - fated flight . In a storyline lifted from the Lost In Space episode "The Time Merchant," they attempt to alter the timeline but only succeed in ensuring that the events of the first episode, "The Crash," take place (footage from the pilot, where Spindrift becomes lost, is included in this episode), creating a Twilight Zone - style twist ending, with the impression of a recurring cycle of inevitable events . This episode would have been more effective as the final episode of the season, mirroring Irwin Allen's earlier series The Time Tunnel, in which the events of the final episode return the characters to their starting point in the pilot episode, "Rendezvous with Yesterday"; and Land of the Giants makes more sense with "Wild Journey" switched for "Graveyard of Fools" in reruns . </P> <P> The first season comprised a regular 26 episodes, but season two was left one episode short, having only 25 episodes, leaving the impression that "Graveyard of Fools" was not originally intended to be the final episode of the Season . The show thus comprises only 51 episodes (or 52 episodes including the unaired pilot). </P>

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