Land of the Giants (TV Series) Brainwash (1969) User Reviews

Reasonably Entertaining Episode With A Great Climax

[StuOz · 16 July 2020]

The little people find a powerful radio they think will get them back to earth, then the giants get the signal.

This is good but not great. It features two very talented guest stars - Leonard Stone and Warren Stevens - who are not given very interesting dialogue, which becomes an issue because I know both guys really sparkle when given great lines (see Lost In Space's Space Beauty and Land Of The Giants episode A Place Called Earth).

Foam, foam everywhere! The climax might have given the makers of 70s series Space 1999 some ideas for a first season episode?

Nice to see all those Time Tunnel blinking light computers were used later.

Perhaps the giants in question would have seemed more deadly if they behaved in the less talkative fashion of the giants seen in the pilot - The Crash. Instead they come out with a lot of dialogue that is basically stating the obvious. But the series was mainly directed at kids, maybe the writer thought the obvious needed to be spelt out?

Whatever the case, by the time we get to the great climax, you walk away from Brainwash with a big smile on your face.

Best Episode of Season One

[adamtheactor-97677 · 9/10 · 10 October 2019]

As an adult watching this episode on DVD, I realise very little happens in it (No pun intended). The little people find a communication station in a storm drain in the city, and manage to power it up. Whilst Mark Wilson begins repairing it and adapting it to communicate with Earth, using his ever increasing tool box that must have come from somewhere? At the same time, unknown to the little people, Two giants are aware the station has been re-booted and are looking to trace the signal. One of them, a scientist (Who is wearing a lab-coat to show us he is a scientist) convinces the other giant, a police commissioner; to try out this new foam he has developed, and I don't mean to shave. The foam has the ability to make whoever is covered in it to confess all, and tell nothing but the truth. The downside to the foam is that it causes the subject to die after a few minutes. The plot seems rather far fetched, but then so is the concept of the show. What I love about this episode is the final scenes, a fight to turn on the destruct lever and blow up the communicator (Steve does not want it to fall into the giants hands). And then the storm drain being filled with the deadly foam, and the little people trying to run for their lives.