A very happy 90th birthday to Gary Conway — actor, writer, artist, and so much more. He’s the very definition of a Renaissance man.
On top of his many talents and accomplishments, for my generation Mr Conway will always have a special place in our hearts as Captain Steve Burton, leader of the diminutive Earth people trapped in the Land of the Giants.
All the very best, sir.
Land of the Giants (1968) opening titles
Land of the Giants premiered on US TV on 22 Sept 1968.
In the UK, I discovered it in 1969 through Joe 90: Top Secret comic, then finally saw the series on ITV in ’72.
Land of the Giants came into my life at a very important time. I was being traumatised by a real-life ogre of my own – my drunken and violent father. Whenever I suffered another “accident”, I thought of the crew of the Spindrift. If they could survive their ordeal, then so could I.
I will always be grateful.
June 12, 1983: On this day in the distant future/past, sub-orbital passenger flight 612, en route from Los Angeles to London, ran into some very big trouble...
As it happened, I already owned a variation of the same pose on one of my precious Land of the Giants bubble-gum cards.
Land of the Giants listing from TV Times, dated 28th April, 1972.
My nine year-old self was delighted by the publicity picture. Such things were to be treasured back then, and I recall carefully cutting this one out and pasting it into my scrapbook.
Funnily enough, the exact same picture appeared in TV Times the following week. That was fine, though—I could never have too many pictures of Land of the Giants.
I'm constantly posting anniversaries and birthdays, but some are a little more special to me than others. Case in point...
Happy 80th Birthday to Heather Young, alias 'Spindrift' stewardess Betty Hamilton from Land of the Giants, one of my earliest crushes.
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